Seminar Details
2017-02-13 (11:00) : Is the search for non trivial new physics phenomena at the LHC an impossible mission ?
At Euler building (room A.002)
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Vincent Lemaître (UCL)
Abstract :
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allows us to probe sub-protonic scales where
new elementary particles and / or new fundamental interactions could appear.
The recent observation of the Higgs particle in 2012 was the smoking gun of
a mechanism suggesting the existence of a dramatic phase transition that
altered the structure of the vacuum around 10 ^ -10 seconds after the Big Bang.
However, several important and fundamental questions remain unanswered and the
discovery of the Higgs has opened a new era in the search for physics beyond
the "Standard Model" of fundamental interactions. In this seminar, we will try
to better define what "observation" means and which data analysis techniques
have been/are being put in place to observe possible new physics phenomena at the LHC in the next decade.