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October 07, 2013
Monday, October 07
Noncommutative Geometry
Time: 14:30
Speaker: Masoud Khalkhali (Western)
Title: "Habemus Higgs!"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: On 4 July 2012 at a conference in CERN, Geneva, the latest findings of the LHC experiment were unveiled: ``We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage", said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti.

It is now believed beyond any doubts that the long sought after Higgs particle, the last missing part of the Standard Model of elementary particles, has been detected. In this talk I shall sketch the so called Higgs mechanism (due independently to Englert-Brout; Kibble-Guralnik-Hagen; and Higgs) and will show how symmetry breaking creates the much needed massive gauge bosons of the standard model. In a follow up talk I shall explain what noncommutative geometry adds to this picture.

Note: The 2013 Nobel prizes in physics will be announced tomorrow, Oct. 8. The odds for a prize going to a Higgs related work is quite high. We shall see!