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Departmental Seminars
The Breakthrough Prize: Recent results on the Higgs boson at the LHC
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B228 (ΘΕΕ02)
B228
ΘΕΕ02
UCY Department of Physics Lecture Room 1 (Aglantzia Campus)
Description
Abstract: The prize, which honors the world’s top scientists in fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics, was awarded to more than 13,000 physicists who contributed to the four large experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The ATLAS and CMS experiments, two of four major LHC detectors, played a pivotal role in verifying the mechanism by which fundamental particles acquire mass through interaction with the Higgs field. Breakthroughs by the ATLAS and CMS teams include precise measurements of the Higgs boson’s properties, the discovery of rare particle interactions and new insights into symmetry breaking — a fundamental aspect of the standard model of particle physics. An overview of results in Higgs boson physics obtained at the Large Hadron Collider located at CERN, Geneva, is presented. The focus is on measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson. A brief selection of results in searches for Higgs bosons beyond the Standard Model is given, and prospects of future Higgs boson measurements and searches at the LHC are discussed.
Speaker: Prof. Michele Gallinaro is a Coordinating Researcher at LIP Lisbon and an Invited Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon. Prof Gallinaro obtained his PhD from the University of Rome in 1996, and has been a member of the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC since 2006, and the CDF Collaboration at Fermilab Tevatron from 1992 until 2012. Currently, Prof Gallinaro pursues a broad research program at the LHC, involving searches for beyond the standard model physics, top quark studies, photon and tau identification algorithms, as well as developing timing detectors for the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer.
