Wednesday Colloquia

Mysteries of the Higgs Boson

by Prof. Michael E. Peskin (SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford, USA)

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Lecture Theatre ( AG-66 )
TIFR
Description
The Higgs Boson, postulated 35 years ago and discovered only recently at the CERN Large Hadron collider, is a central ingredient in our understanding of elementary particle physics. It is associated with a field that permeates all of space and gives rise to the masses of all known particles.  Experimental observations now confirm this picture, but neither the data nor the associated theory can explain the origin of this field or why it condenses and fills space.  For this explanation, new particles and interactions are required.  In this colloquium, I will describe what we know about the Higgs boson and what we can learn about its mysteries from future, high-precision, measurements of the Higgs boson's interactions.