3rd Symmetry Webinar
Recent Advances in Accelerator and Particle Physics
Symmetries are at the core of many aspects of fundamental physics and in particular quantum field theory, on which the Standard Model of particles and interactions builds. For example, the Higgs boson was predicted in 1964 as a result of spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. For a long time, it was the last missing building block of the Standard Model. Its observation by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 is thus one of the most important physics discoveries of the past few decades. Following Run 2 of the LHC in 2015–2018, particle physicists now have an even larger dataset at their disposal in order to measure the properties of the Higgs boson and to probe other Standard Model parameters, and thereby the self-consistency of the theory, with unique precision. However, the Standard Model is known for not being the ultimate description of the universe, and new physics is expected at the energy scale that LHC experiments can now probe. A Special Issue of Symmetry recently reviewed a selection of the latest advances in particle physics as a result of LHC data analyses, in particular Standard Model measurements and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The experimental results gathered at the LHC would not have been achieved without significant advances in the field of accelerator physics. These are indeed crucial in order to reach both high-energy and high-intensity frontiers in the post-LHC era. As such, recent developments in this field of research were also reviewed in the aforementioned Special Issue of Symmetry. This webinar presents some selected highlights from the Special Issue of Symmetry entitled Recent Advances in Accelerator and Particle Physics, which I had the privilege of guest editing, along with Dr. Jan Kieseler (CERN).
Date: 6 May 2022
Time: 10:00 am CEST | 4:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 899 1387 8606
Webinar Secretariat: symmetry.webinar@mdpi.com