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            General Information 
                 
              
            
          
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             Our
                Objectives 
              
          
          
            - To promote and coordinate research in HEP in Australia.
 
            - To encourage theoretical HEP, and in particular the
              symbiosis between theory and experiment.
 
            - With the consent of the members to act as the
              representative body in Australia in a large number of areas, both
              domestic and international.
 
            - The promotion and coordination of cooperation in the
              sharing of resources.
 
            - The coordination of courses, specialised schools and
              workshops, and the organisation of public lectures. 
 
           
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              ARC Centre of
                Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics 
              
          
          
            The ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics brings together experts from across Australia and
            internationally to unlock the secrets of dark matter and foster the science and engineering leaders of the future. The centre brings together experimental and theoretical physicists across Australia,
            with expertise in particle, nuclear, astro and quantum physics. It will explore the particle nature of dark matter using state-of-the-art experiments based in Australia and overseas
            and create new theories of Nature that contain dark matter particles and describe their interactions.
           
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              ARC Centre of
                Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP)  
              
          
          
            The  ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale
              (CoEPP) was established in 2011 through the award of an
            Australian Research Council grant of around $25 million over seven years.
            The Centre was a collaborative research venture between the University of Melbourne, the University of
            Adelaide, the University of Sydney and Monash University, with the
            University of Melbourne hosting the head office. Bringing together theoretical and
            experimental physicists, CoEPP enabled participation in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron
            Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. Through CoEPP, Australian physicists participated in the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC.
            CoEPP leaves a legacy of an expanded and coordinated effort in theoretical and experimental particle physics research
            across Australia.
           
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             Experimental
                Physics  
                 
              
            Australian high energy physicists
              participate in a number of international collaborative experiments at
              the frontier of science and technology. We play an integral role in
              their construction, maintenance and operation, as well as working
              together with other institutes to interpret the final results. The
              main experiments in which AUSHEP member institutes participate are: 
            
              
            
              
                - ATLAS
                  - situated at CERN (European
                  Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Switzerland and France
 
                - LHCb - also at CERN
 
                - Belle II
                  - situated at KEK (High Energy
                  Accelerator Research Organisation) in Japan
 
                - ADMX - situated at the University of Washington
 
                - SABRE-south
                  
                  - dark matter direct detection experiment situated at SUPL
                  
                  (Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory) in Victoria, Australia
                
 
               
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             Theoretical
                Physics 
              
            
              For more information about theoretical particle physics in
                Australia please visit:  
              
               
              
             
          
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          Medical Physics 
               
            
          
            - CMRP - Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (University of Wollongong)
 
           
           
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             Future 
              
            
              
                Bodies and projects charting the future of the field.
               
                - 
                    ICFA - The International Committee for Future Accelerators
                
 
                - ACFA
                   - The Asian Committee for Future Accelerators
 
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                    ILC - The International Linear Collider
                
 
                - FCC - The Future Circular Collider
 
                - CLIC - The Compact Linear Collider
 
               
               
              
             
          
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          Contact 
            Further information on the program at each institute,
          with contact names and addresses, can be obtained from the associated
          web pages found here, or by contacting: 
           
          
            
              
                Chairperson:  
                    Professor Geoffrey Taylor 
                  School of Physics 
                  The University of Melbourne 
                  Victoria 3010 Australia 
                  Phone: +61 3 8344.5456    
                  Fax: +61 3 9347.4783 
                  Email:
                  
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                    Secretary and Treasurer:  
                    Professor Nicole Bell 
                  School of Physics 
                  The University of Melbourne 
                  Victoria 3010 Australia 
                  Phone: +61 3 8344.3112    
                  Fax: +61 3 9347.4783 
                  Email:
                  
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