Title: The Adventure of the Discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Guido Tonelli, CERN and University and INFN of Pisa

Host: Prof. CHEN Guoming

Time: 10:30 AM, August 16, 2012

Place: Room 214, IHEP Main Building

Abstract:  

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument currently in operation at CERN (Geneva). It is a particle accelerator designed to look for a solution to some of the most important open questions of modern physics: the origin of mass, the nature of dark matter that keeps together galaxies in the universe, the issue of the unification of the fundamental interactions. The answer to some of these questions could change in depth our current vision of matter and of the origin of the universe. The actual status of the studies at LHC will be presented with a special attention to the most important steps that led to the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson.

About the speaker:

Speaker: Prof. Guido Tonelli, CERN and University and INFN of Pisa.

1975, Ph.D. in Physics in University of Pisa; 1976-1984, work on the NA1/NA7 experiment, the fixed target experiment at the CERN North Area; 1981-1987, work on the CDF experiment, the general-purpose experiment at Fermilab Tevatron Collider; 1985-1999, work on ALEPH experiment, general-purpose experiment for the LEP collider at CERN; 1993 to present: work on CMS experiment, general-purpose experiment at CERN LHC Collider. CMS Deputy Spokesperson from 2007 to 2009. CMS Spokesperson from 2009 to 2011.