Particle Physics at the Dawn of a New High-Energy Frontier

by Andreas Hoecker

Tuesday 6 Dec 2016, 16:15 → 17:45 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (MPI fuer Physik)

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the Standard Model is complete. While many questions remain unanswered, particle physics has entered a period of theoretical uncertainty making it a data-driven field. Many experiments in particle and astroparticle physics probe the boundaries of our understanding. Their flagship, the LHC, has begun data taking again in 2015, colliding protons with unprecedented centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The high collision energy increases the sensitivity of the data to new physics that would involve yet unknown heavy states, and also to rare Standard Model processes such as Higgs production. The colloquium reviews and comments on selected themes in particle physics with emphasis on latest LHC analysis techniques and results.