highlights

Our upcoming highlights talk is the culmination of the two-part series pertaining to one of the most significant discoveries in the past decade, the Higgs particle --- aka the God particle --- at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). 

The discovery of the Higgs boson was one of the most important milestone in particle physics. Not only did it establish the mass generation mechanism within the standard model of particle physics, but also gave physics its first fundamental scalar particle. In this seminar, the speaker will continue where he left in the first part of the series and will discuss the theoretical background as well as the experimental searches that led to this discovery. 

Specifically, in the 1st part of the talk, the focus was on the experimental aspects, especially  the working of  the detectors, etc at LHC.  In the 2nd part of the talk, the focus will be on a briefly discussion on the physics of the God particle, and the data-driven learning and analysis of the experimental data. Just to provide a scale of data handled by CERN experiments, approximately 1 PB (petabytes) of data is handled per year, making the CERN team a clear expert in advanced learning algorithms, deep neural networks, etc.  He will also briefly touch upon what this discovery implies for possible new physics beyond the standard model.

The speaker, Dr RK Dewanjee, a newly joined faculty at the department with experience with the CMS team at LHC was an active member of the team. 

See you on February 08, 2024, 4.30 PM at Room No. 218, Main building, BIT Mesra.