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7:30 pm, Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College
Higgs Boson - and Beyond
Colin Gay
UBC
Last year's experimental discovery of the Higgs Boson culminated a search
that spanned almost 50 years since the original theoretical prediction of
Higgs, Brout, and Englert (for which this year's Nobel Prize in Physics
was finally awarded). This talk will discuss the unique role the Higgs
particle plays in our current understanding of the fundamental building
blocks of Nature, why it remained so elusive, and how it was finally
discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. However, the
observed mass of the Higgs Boson presents a very awkward challenge to our
current theory, the 'Standard Model'. Some possible responses to this
challenge would have far-reaching implications, such as the existence of
new forces or new dimensions, and these may also be within reach of the
LHC experiments in the next few years.
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