Presented by: Keith Ulmer, University of Colorado, Boulder

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN currently provides the highest energy particle collisions ever produced in a laboratory. These collisions were reconstructed and analyzed by the CMS and ATLAS experiments to claim the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, thus completing the Standard Model of particle physics. While incredibly successful in describing observed phenomena in elementary particle interactions, the Standard Model is known to be an incomplete theory. This talk explores recent efforts to use the Higgs Boson itself as a tool for discovering new physics beyond the Standard Model with the aim of understanding dark matter and electroweak symmetry breaking. I will conclude with a discussion of the future discovery potential of the LHC and some of the technological advances that will drive the progress forward in the coming decade.

Host: Mike Ritzwoller

Please note all presentations are password protected. Please contact Veronica Lingo to pre-register for this and each colloquium you'd like to attend.

Presented by: Keith Ulmer, University of Colorado, Boulder

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN currently provides the highest energy particle collisions ever produced in a laboratory. These collisions were reconstructed and analyzed by the CMS and ATLAS experiments to claim the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, thus completing the Standard Model of particle physics. While incredibly successful in describing observed phenomena in elementary particle interactions, the Standard Model is known to be an incomplete theory. This talk explores recent efforts to use the Higgs Boson itself as a tool for discovering new physics beyond the Standard Model with the aim of understanding dark matter and electroweak symmetry breaking. I will conclude with a discussion of the future discovery potential of the LHC and some of the technological advances that will drive the progress forward in the coming decade.

Host: Mike Ritzwoller

Please note all presentations are password protected. Please contact Veronica Lingo to pre-register for this and each colloquium you'd like to attend.