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ABSTRACT
Over the last five decades, many outstanding questions in particle physics have been answered, leading to the Standard Model (SM) and its spectacular confirmation with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, which would supply the heart to this theory. Now the hunt is on for a deeper theory of reality. To answer this question, Europe, Japan, the US and China have proposed plans for building new particle colliders focused on studying the Higgs boson. Higgs’ legacy will be the experimental particle physics programme of the 21st century. The open questions of today are just as profound as they were a century ago. However, there appears to be many more of them. Recent discoveries of the Higgs boson and Gravitational waves required increasingly sophisticated instrumentation and have created an exceptionally positive environment in society. Thus, we have a “virtuous cycle” which must remain strong and un-broken – laws of nature enable novel detector and accelerator concepts, which in turn lead to a greater physics discoveries and better understanding of our Universe.
BIO
Maxim Titov is a Director of Research at CEA Saclay, France. A nuclear and particle physics researcher during his more than 30-years scientific carrier, Dr. Titov worked in both the development of advanced detector concepts and analyses of physics data from collider experiments, inevitably within the large international collaborations: HERA-B Experiment at DESY Hamburg; D0 Experiment at FERMILAB; ATLAS, CMS Experiments and RD51 Collaboration at CERN, International Linear Collider Project (ILC) in Japan. Dr. Titov was a founding member and served as the Spokesperson of the CERN-RD51 collaboration “Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector Technologies” (2007-2015, 2023) and is the Spokesperson of the CERN-DRD1 Collaboration “Gaseous Detectors Technologies” (since 2024). Recently, he was also appointed by the European Laboratory Directors Group (LDG) as the Chair of the Panel on “Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators”.
