ANULADO:The Quest for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ( or The Race for the Higgs Boson)
Dr. Howie Haber
(Universidad de California Santa Cruz)
Sala sotano UVEG (Edf. Institutos de Investigación) Miércoles, 22 de Noviembre de 2006 a las 12:00 PM
Resumen
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.
