High Energy Frontier at the LHC The Road Map for the Discovery of the Higgs(-like) Boson and Beyond

by Prof. Peter Jenni (CERN)

Friday 7 Dec 2012, 10:30 → 11:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Bruno Touschek (LNF INFN)

Since three years experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have started exploring the physics at the high energy frontier. A rich harvest of initial physics results has been obtained that allow one already to test, at highest energies ever reached in a laboratory, the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles, and to make searches Beyond the SM (BSM). Most exciting is the recent discovery of a new particle that may well be the long-awaited Higgs Boson, and which would establish the postulated electro-weak symmetry breaking mechanism in the SM. Other, far-reaching results can be reported for BSM physics searches like Supersymmetry (SUSY) and its implication for Dark Matter in the Universe, Extra Dimensions, and the production of new heavy particles. Besides these physics results, the history and technical challenges of the LHC project will also be covered briefly in this talk.