Jure Zupan (U. Cincinnati)

What does the discovery of the Higgs boson mean?

A new particle with a mass of 125 GeV was recently discovered by ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC. The properties of this new particle look very similar to the

Higgs boson of the Standard Model. In the colloquium I will discuss the implications

of this discovery - what the Higgs boson is, why it plays a special role in the structure

of the Standard Model, how well do we know that the discovered particle resembles

the Higgs boson and the future directions of the research.

Oct 25 at 4pm in Braunstein 301

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