Symmetry Webinar | Recent Advances in Accelerator and Particle Physics

An MDPI webinar on "Recent Advances in Accelerator and Particle Physics" took place on May 6th, based on some selected articles submitted to the Symmetry Special Issue with the same title. The first talk discussed the use of Higgs bosons (or rather pairs thereof) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to probe the shape of the Higgs potential (and thereby the electroweak vacuum stability) in the Standard Model and to search for new resonance states. In the second talk, top quarks studies at the LHC were reported, both for precision measurements of Standard Model predictions and as a window to new physics. Accelerators are a central tool in experimental particle physics, and an illustration of some recent advances in that research field was presented in the third talk of the webinar, namely results and prospects of the AWAKE experiment, which has an extensive program to demonstrate plasma wakefield-based acceleration of electron beams over long distances, as a first step towards new experimental facilities for particle physics.

The webinar, organized by MDPI and the Journal Symmetry, was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Symmetry, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on "Subscribe" at the top of the page.