Lecture at the Globe | "From the Higgs boson to the search for new physics: the prospects for the LHC programme at CERN"

Christmas lecture (in French, with simultaneous interpreting into English): "From the Higgs boson to the search for new physics: the prospects for the LHC programme at CERN", by Philippe Bloch.

 

Globe of Science and Innovation
Route de Meyrin, 1211 Genève
Monday 16 December 2013 at 8:30 p.m.

The discovery of the Higgs boson, which was the subject of this year's Nobel prize for physics, has brought us the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. However, many observations (such as the predominance of matter over antimatter in the Universe, the existence of dark matter observed by cosmologists and even the fact that the Higgs boson has a relatively small mass) underline that our knowledge of the structure of matter and its interactions is incomplete.  

A wide-ranging programme of research spanning several decades to come thus awaits us at the LHC. Philippe Bloch will begin his lecture by giving us the latest news on the Higgs boson, and will then go on to explain how developments at the LHC and its experiments, which will resume in 2015, will explore these fundamental questions about our Universe.

Philippe Bloch is an experimental physicist, a member of the CMS experiment at the LHC, and is currently the Head of CERN's Physics Department.

» Suitable for all audiences - entrance free
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