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Next Colloquium Event 6th June: ‘The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at 30’

2 June 2023

An invitation to attend an extra special edition of our Physics Colloquium series, with Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Prof. Maxwell Chertok (University of California, Davis).

Venue: Berry Lecture Theatre, HH Wills Physics Labs Building, Tyndall Ave, 3pm - 5pm.

We would like to invite you to attend the Physics Colloquium, which will be held on Monday from 3:00PM - 5:00PM in the Berry Lecture Theatre. The colloquia will be followed by tea and coffee in the staff coffee room. We hope to see you there!

The most imminent event in the series, on the 6th June, will be hosted by Prof. Maxwell Chertok (University of California, Davis: Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor). Click here for a PDF of the abstract: Colloquium Poster 6th June 2023 (PDF, 513kB)

Abstract:

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the largest machine ever built, sits at the energy frontier accelerating and focusing intense beams of protons at a Lorentz factor of up to 7500, resulting in head-on collisions at the center of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. Thus the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012, hiding in enormous data sets that have subsequently grown by an order of magnitude in recent years. In this talk, I present the status of particle physics and how the LHC collider and CMS experiment have provided major advances to its understanding. Along with overviews of the detector systems and planned state-of-the-art upgrades, I will provide descriptions of some major results (including the Higgs discovery) so far, as well as covering current themes of this research, such as the search for exotic Higgs boson partners.

 

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