538th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 10/30: Higgs Boson and Fate of the Universe
October 28, 2024
Particle physicists build upon theories and experiments to answer questions everyone asks about our place in the universe: Where did we come from? What are we made from? Where are we going?
The Standard Model is physicists’ theory for describing all known basic particles in the universe and the ways they interact. The Higgs boson is a critical piece of the Standard Model that explains how particles acquire mass.
The long-theorized Higgs was discovered in 2012 yet, more than a decade later, many questions remain unanswered.
All are invited to join Viviana Cavaliere of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory for the 538th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Cavaliere's talk, titled "The Higgs Boson and the Fate of Our Universe," will be held at 4 p.m. Attendees can join in two ways:
- In person in the Physics Large Seminar Room (Bldg. 510)
- Virtually on Zoom. Note: Additional details to connect are available here.
During this Brookhaven Lecture, Cavaliere will give an overview on the Standard Model and Higgs boson. She will describe experimental methods used to detect the Higgs with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. She will then discuss plans for studying the Higgs in the future.
About the speaker
Cavaliere joined the Physics Department at Brookhaven Lab in 2017. DOE’s Office of Science recognized her through the prestigious Early Career Research program in 2019.
Cavaliere was a postdoc with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2011 to 2017 and was "stationed" at CERN from 2012 to 2017. She earned her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Siena in Italy in 2010 and her master’s degree in physics at the University of Rome in 2007.
About the Brookhaven Lecture Series
The Brookhaven Lecture Series began in 1960. In the foreword to the first lectures, Brookhaven physicist Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber wrote, "The Brookhaven Lectures, held by and for the Brookhaven staff, are meant to provide an intellectual meeting ground for all scientists of the Laboratory. In this role they serve a double purpose: they are to acquaint the listeners with new developments and ideas not only in their own field, but also in other important fields of science, and to give them a heightened awareness of the aims and potentialities of Brookhaven National Laboratory."
That tradition continues today.
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