Title：The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC

Speaker：Prof. Dr. Peter Jenni

Former ATLAS Collaboration Spokesperson

(Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and CERN)

Moderator: Prof.JIN Shan

Time: 10:00, September 8

Place: Room A214, IHEP Main Building

Abstract:

The discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July 2012 was a culminating point for a very long journey in the realization of the LHC project. Building up the experimental programme with this unique high-energy collider, and developing the very sophisticated detectors built and operated by world-wide collaborations, meant an incredible scientific and human adventure spanning more than three decades.

This talk will highlight the initial motivation for the project, tracing its history, as well as illustrate some of the many milestones that finally led to the reach harvest of physics so far. The talk will focus on ATLAS results, including also new, very recent results from the ongoing 13 TeV Run-2 of LHC. And this is only the beginning of this fantastic journey into unchartered physics territory with the LHC.

About the speaker:

Peter Jenni, Swiss, born in 1948, is best known as one of the "founding fathers" of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In 1995, after formal approval of the ATLAS project, he was elected Spokesperson (project leader) of the experiment, which today comprises some 3000 scientists representing 182 Institutions from 39 countries. He was re-elected several times and retired from this duty in February 2009. Peter Jenni was directly involved in the experimental work leading to the discoveries of the W and Z bosons in the 1980s and the Higgs boson in 2012. Since his retirement as a CERN Senior Research Staff end of April 2013, Peter Jenni is a Guest Scientist and Honorary Professor with the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, keeping his full engagement with the ATLAS experiment.