Wednesday Colloquia

The Standard Model of Particle Physics - what we know and do not know

by Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University, USA)

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at AG-66 and via ZOOM webinar ( Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97963259354?pwd=ZFZsa2xqWGJSZW5pUjZPNkNqeGlEZz09 )
Meeting ID: 979 6325 9354 Pass code: 04072020
Description
The understanding of the sub-atomic world has been a crowning achievement of fundamental physics, culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. The quantum theory of the building blocks of matter and forces called the Standard Model has been one of the most successful theories in science. I will discuss how the building blocks and forces work in the SM. I will also discuss some of the experimental and theoretical issues that the SM does not address, and why we think new laws of nature may be revealed soon.