Title: Beyond the Higgs Boson: Further questions and expectations for the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Prof. Michael Peskin（SLAC）

Moderator: Huang Tao

Time: 15:00, August 8, 2014

Place: Room C305

Abstract:

The biggest recent news from particle physics is the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron Collider of a new particle with many properties of the long-sought Higgs Boson. The Higgs Boson had been predicted by the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions. This discovery thus seems to fill a recognized gap in our understanding. But there are more mysteries about the weak interactions and physics at the 100 GeV - 1 TeV mass scale. About these, the LHC has also given us much information, but all of it negative, exclusions of previously possible solutions. In this lecture, the speaker will give his best understanding of where we are in the search for new particles and forces related to the weak interactions. The speaker will review the questions we are asking about physics in the hundred GeV region. He will discuss the power and also the difficulties of LHC measurements. There are many alternatives for the route forward. He will discuss some of these and their implications for the future program of physics at high-energy colliders.

About the speaker：

Michael Peskin was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell University. He was head of SLAC HEP Theory Group, 2001– 2010. Peskin is fellow of the American Physical Society, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is also Chair, Advisory Board of INSPIRE starting from 2012.

He was divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters, 1990–1993; editorial board member of Physical Review D, 1999–2000.

He wrote a very famous text book: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. (with D. V. Schroeder) (Addison-Welsey, 1995).