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Klaus Mönig
ATLAS experiment at the LHC
Klaus Mönig is Lead Scientist at DESY in Zeuthen and Associate Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His main area of specialisation is the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where he heads the DESY group.
The Standard Model of particle physics still leaves many questions unanswered, such as the nature of dark matter or the origin of the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Despite the discovery of the Higgs boson by the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS in 2012, the origin of matter is still not fully understood. A promising approach to find answers to these questions through experiments is the analysis of particle collisions with the highest possible energies. As the most powerful accelerator in the world, the LHC collides protons at centre-of-mass energies of up to 14 TeV. The Higgs boson was found in an initial phase at 7–8 TeV. Scientists hope that further operation of the LHC experiments will bring new groundbreaking discoveries.
Academic career
| 2016-2030 | Research stay at CERN |
| 2011-2012 | Research stay at CERN |
| Since 2010 | Associate Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 2005 | Research stay at LAL Orsay, France |
| 2000 | Habilitation at the University of Hamburg |
| since 1998 | Lead Scientist at DESY |
| 1991-1998 | Scientist at CERN |
| 1986-1990 | PhD at the University of Wuppertal |
| 1981-1986 | Studies of Physics at the University of Wuppertal |
Memberships
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Member of various national and international committees
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Various functions within the ATLAS experiment, including publications coordinator, coordinator for the search for new particles, physics coordinator
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