Stony Brook University
7:30 pm
ESS Building, Room 001
Friday, April 14, 2023
The discovery of the Higgs Boson, and its exploration today
Prof. Giacinto Piacquadio
Abstract: July 4th, 2012 marked the discovery of the Higgs Boson (also known as the "God Particle") after it was predicted almost 50 years earlier. This talk will focus on how this long hunt eventually turned into one of the most significant discoveries in science, and how particle physicists today use the Higgs boson as a tool to search for new phenomena. But what is the Higgs Boson? Why does it matter? How do we use giant particle colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider to search for it? And what might be next?
Bio: Giacinto Piacquadio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. Before moving to Stony Brook in 2016, he was a Research Fellow at CERN, a Wolfgang Panofsky Fellow at SLAC National Laboratory/Stanford University, and a SLAC Staff Scientist. He earned his PhD at Freiburg University (Germany) in 2010. He is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN, one of the largest collaborations in science, where he recently co-conveened the Higgs physics Working Group, coordinating the work of approximately 500 scientists from around the world.
