Understanding the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking: The Higgs Boson and Beyond
| Date/Time: | Monday, 02 Mar 2015 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Physics 0003 |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Abstract: With the discovery of a Higgs boson in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider has been extremely successful in elucidating the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism which gives masses to otherwise massless fundamental particles. That discovery, however, makes the problem of the stabilization of the electroweak scale even more pressing, and the lack of signals of new physics so far more surprising. I will discuss precise measurements about the Higgs boson and vector boson scattering processes at ATLAS that could help us find more clues to these problems.
Bio: Junjie Zhu obtained his PhD degree in physics from University of Maryland in 2004 and worked at Stony Brook as a postdoc before he joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor. His research mainly focuses on energy frontier with the ATLAS experiment at CERN and the D0 experiment at Fermilab.
He mainly focused on precise electroweak measurements with single W, Z bosons and dibosons, Higgs searches with ZH final states, and searches for new phenomena with diboson final states. He also works on the design of an ASIC chip for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer frontend electronics.