After the Standard Model

by Dr Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia University)

Wednesday 6 Nov 2013, 15:15 → 16:15 Europe/Stockholm

Sal F (K404 (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)

The discovery of a Higgs boson, with properties corresponding to those predicted, completes the Standard Model of particle physics. This is the final building block in our surprisingly accurate description of the structure of the strong and electroweak interactions. The Standard Model doesn't tell us anything about the nature of the matter particles whose interactions it describes, however. We hope that data taken at the LHC now and in the future will allow us to establish the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model, and hopefully develop some understanding of the origin of particle properties. This may be through the observation of new particles, or deviations from the Standard Model predictions when measuring particle properties. This colloquium will review some key aspects of our current knowledge and how it was acquired, followed by some speculations about what future LHC data might bring, and a short discussion of the longer term directions in particle physics. With kind support from the Royal Physiographic Society http://www.fysiografen.se/