Manne Siegbahn Memorial Lectures

Higgs boson: foundations and implications of a very special discovery

Name: Higgs boson: foundations and implications of a very special discovery
Start: 2013-10-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-10-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

by Fabiola Gianotti (CERN (FG) and University of California, Santa Barbara/CERN (JI)), Joseph Incandela (CERN (FG) and University of California, Santa Barbara/CERN (JI))

Thursday 17 Oct 2013, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

Description

On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments operating at the CERN Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson, which is a crucial piece for our understanding of fundamental physics and thus the structure and evolution of the universe.

This Lecture describes the unprecedented instruments and challenges that have allowed such an accomplishment, the physics meaning and relevance of this discovery, and the present understanding of the properties of this very special particle.