Physikalisches Kolloquium: The Higgs boson: status of deciphering its nature

Date

Dec 20, 2016

Time

4:40 PM - 6:10 PM

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Markus Schumacher

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Chemie, Physik, Materialien, Gesellschaft, Philos., Erzieh.

Host

Sebastian Reineke, Fachrichtung Physik

Description

In summer 2012 the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics with a mass of about 125 GeV. Since then significantly more data have been collected at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV until the end of 2012 and also at the new energy frontier of 13 TeV since June 2015. These data sets allow to address questions like: is it a Higgs boson? Are the properties consistent with the expectations in the Standard Model of Particle Physics or do we see hints for „New Physics“? To answer these questions, a precise determination of the mass, the production rates and decay branching ratios are required. In several extensions of the Standard Model a modified or extended Higgs sector is closely linked to explanations used to solve other open questions like the nature of Dark Matter or new sources of CP-violation. The Colloquium will review our current knowledge about the nature of the discovered Higgs boson and discuss examples of the connection between Higgs boson physics and other open questions in particle physics. 

Links

• http://tu-dresden.de/veranstaltungen/termin?id=TUD582c877d5cf49

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