Nikos Varelas
Department of Physics, University of Illinois, USA
Date
3 December 2009
Host
Guenther Dissertori
Talk title
Standard Model and Beyond – From Tevatron to LHC
Abstract
Particle physics is going through exciting times. The Fermilab Tevatron Collider has been at the frontier of experimental High Energy Physics for the last 25 years. It has produced remarkable results ranging from the discovery of the top quark and precision tests of the Standard Model to constraints on the mass of the Higgs boson and searches for new physics signals. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is getting ready to start and will surpass the energy of the Tevatron. A key ingredient of the Standard Model is the Higgs boson which is believed to be responsible for the mechanism that breaks the symmetry between the electromagnetic and weak interactions, but its mass is not predicted by the theory. The search for the Higgs boson is the highest priority in particle physics today; the hunt is closing in at the Tevatron and will soon be starting at LHC. In this talk, I will highlight the recent achievements at the Tevatron and the search for the Higgs boson, and discuss the ways in which the results from the Tevatron are essential to the physics that will emerge from the LHC in the near future.