Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of November 3rd through November 9th, 2013
Monday, November 4th, 2013
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
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Thursday, November 7th, 2013
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Friday, November 8th, 2013
- Higgs Boson Discovery: What's Next?
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Speaker: Marcela Carena, Fermilab & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
- Abstract: The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have recently discovered a new particle, that has properties consistent with those of a Higgs boson associated with the mechanism that generates the mass of all the fundamental particles in nature. Such a discovery poses questions that may point towards new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, and may shed light to some of the most fundamental questions of science: The unication of all the forces; the explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe; and the nature and origin of dark matter. I will discuss the interpretation of the latest experimental results relevant for Higgs physics both within the Standard Model and in its extension through an enhanced symmetry of nature, called "Supersymmetry".
- Host: Bai