Western Kentucky University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Colloquium
Dr. Swagato Banerjee
Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Louisville
"Beyond the discovery of the Higgs Boson"
January 28, 2019 @ 4:00 pm in EST 260
Abstract
One of the most anticipated and important scientific discoveries of the 21st century was that of the Higgs Boson particle.
I review the basic premises which necessitate the presence of a Higgs field in the standard model of particle physics.
Then I discuss the bosonic decay modes through which the Higgs was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Moving beyond the discovery, I present the first evidence of fermionic decay modes of the Higgs Boson, and
discuss the recent excitement about its lepton flavor violating decay modes.
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