Peter Higgs' 90th Birthday Celebration

Contribution List

5. Welcome

James Dunlop, Peter Mathieson

20/09/2019, 13:30

6. Peter Higgs, Mathematical Physics and all that...

Richard Kenway (The University of Edinburgh)

20/09/2019, 13:40

1. The history of 50 years of the Standard Model from the point of view of a machine builder

Lyn Evans (CERN)

20/09/2019, 14:10

I started building particle accelerators in 1969, the year that the first ground-breaking results on deep inelastic scattering were coming out of SLAC. Since then, I have worked on all the great machines that were needed to crack the Standard Model, including the CERN PS, the SPS proton-antiproton collider, the Tevatron, LEP and of course the Large Hadron Collider. I will describe the...

3. The story of a discovery - how we found the long-sought-after Higgs boson

Chiara Mariotti (Torino)

20/09/2019, 15:45

The search at LEP and at the LHC, and finally the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC will be discussed. The measurements and the future prospects will be presented. The scientific part will be enriched with some anecdotes.

4. Higgs Phenomenology: Opportunities for New Physics

Christoph Englert (Glasgow)

20/09/2019, 16:45

With the Higgs boson’s discovery in 2012, the last missing piece of the Standard Model was found. All pieces of the puzzle seem to fit nicely with our theoretical paradigm (the so-called Standard Model of Particle Physics) that has withstood experimental scrutiny over the past decades. But something is rotten in the state of Particle Physics. The Standard Model while in astounding agreement...