ANULADO:The Quest for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ( or The Race for the Higgs Boson)

por Prof. Howie Haber (Universidad de California Santa Cruz)

miércoles 22 nov. 2006 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala sotano UVEG (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

The origin of electroweak symmetry breaking (the mechanism responsible for the generation of mass for the fundamental particles) remains the most pressing unsolved question in particle physics today. In the simplest theory of electroweak symmetry breaking, a new scalar state exists called the Higgs boson, which has been the holy grail of experimental searches at particle accelerators for over a decade. In this colloquium, I shall discuss the significance of the terascale---an energy scale that will first be comprehensively studied at the Large Hadron Collider (which begins operations at the end of 2007)---and the connection of the terascale to electroweak symmetry breaking and the search for the Higgs boson.