C.A.P. ANNUAL LECTURE
Seeing Beyond the Standard Model with the LHC
Dr. Thomas Grégoire
Carleton University
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
1:30 - 2:30 pm
NICOLLS 8
The Standard Model of particle physics is in exquisite agreement with available data. However, for various reasons it is thought to be incomplete. One of the missing ingredients is the physics responsible for the phenomena known as electroweak symmetry breaking which has many similarities with BCS superconductivity and without which most particles in the Standard Model would be massless. Many models have been proposed: supersymmetry, extra-dimensions of space, technicolor, and they will soon be put to the test at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), now in operation in Geneva. In this talk I will present the strengths and weakness of these models, discuss whether or not the LHC has good chance of discovering them and how they could change our understanding of particle physics and of our universe.
THIS TALK IS GENERAL IN NATURE AND IS INTENDED FOR
UNIVERSITY OR CEGEP STUDENTS
