Physics Colloquium: Probing the Higgs Boson and Beyond--Future Colliders in Particle Physics
| Date/Time: | Monday, 03 Oct 2016 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Phys 0003 |
| Contact: | Gloria Oberender |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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The discovery of a Higgs-like boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 was a major achievement in particle physics. Experimental efforts are ongoing at the LHC to confirm that it is the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. More importantly, physicists wish to build new powerful lepton colliders to fully study this unusual particle, in order to probe nature, and to attempt to discover new physics. The colloquium will focus on initiatives for new, large-scale accelerators designed to study the Higgs boson in detail.
Xinchou Lou is an experimental particle physicist and a full professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He obtained his Ph.D. from State University of New York (Albany) and has worked on several leading edge particle physics experiments in the US, Asia and Europe. On leave from UT Dallas he holds a joint appointment as a senior research fellow and director of the Experimental Physics Division of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lou has been the project director of the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) project since 2013. Under his watch the CEPC group completed the preliminary Conceptual Design Reports of the accelerator and the detector at the CEPC, and obtained initial grants from Chinese funding agencies to begin the R&D of critical technologies and to carry out further design of the CEPC facility.