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Exploiting the Higgs breakthrough

22 - 23 January 2014 09:00 - 17:00

Satellite meeting organised by Professor John Ellis CBE FRS, Professor Tejinder Virdee FRS and Professor David Charlton

Event details

Strategies for exploiting the breakthrough in particle physics opened up by the apparent discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC will be discussed. These will include more detailed studies of the Higgs boson at the LHC itself, in both high-luminosity and high-energy incarnations, and other possible future accelerators such as electron-positron colliders, a gamma-gamma collider and a muon collider.

Biographies of the key contributors are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page shortly after the event.

Attending this event

This is a residential conference, which allows for increased discussion and networking. It is free to attend, however participants need to cover their accommodation and catering costs if required.

Places are limited, therefore pre-registration is essential. Please either:

Enquiries: Contact the events team

Participants are also encouraged to attend the related scientific discussion meeting which immediately precedes this event.

Organisers

  • Professor John Ellis CBE FRS, Kings College London, UK

    Jonathan Ellis has made numerous contributions to the theory of elementary particles and especially unified gauge theories. Particularly notable were the first proposal of three jet structure (subsequently seen experimentally) as a gluon signal, and the first precise application of the renormalization group to grand unified theories, with the first precise estimate of sin2 θ W. Works on the theory of CP violation, on the phenomenology of the Higgs boson, and on the implications of grand unified theories for the generation of baryon number in the early Universe, have also attracted much attention. His gift for communication (his summer school lectures and reviews are models of their kind), and his special concern with the experimental implications of topical theories, make him a key figure in the discussion of new high-energy physics projects.

  • Professor Tejinder Virdee FRS, Imperial College London, UK

    Tejinder (Jim) Virdee is Professor of Physics at Imperial College, London. After the UA1 experiment (1990), where W and Z bosons were discovered, Virdee concentrated on the physics and experimentation at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. He is one of the founding members of the Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration (CMS) at the LHC. Virdee has played a major role in all phases of the experiment, from conception and design, through construction to the extraction of science that have already lasted around 25 years. He pioneered some of the techniques used in its calorimeters crucial for the discovery of a Higgs boson announced by the CMS experiment in July 2012, along with the sister experiment ATLAS. Virdee was the Spokesperson of the CMS Collaboration for three years, from 2007, that included the start of collision data taking, and was its Deputy Spokesperson from 1993 to 2006. Virdee’s current work involves studies of the newly found Higgs boson, search for physics beyond the standard model of particle physics and the definition of the upgraded CMS detector for very high luminosity LHC running. Amongst the prizes he has won is the 2013 European Physical Society-HEPP prize co-awarded for his “pioneering and outstanding leadership role in the making of the CMS experiment”. Virdee was made Knight Bachelor in 2014.

  • Professor David Charlton, University of Birmingham, UK

    Biography

    Dave Charlton has been the Spokesperson of the ATLAS Collaboration since March 2013. Before that he was Deputy Spokesperson for four years, and previously Physics Coordinator in 2008-9. He has been Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Birmingham since 2005. During ATLAS construction, he worked on two different pieces of the detector: hybrid readout circuits for the silicon strip sensors of the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector; and on the first-level calorimeter trigger system, responsible for selecting one-in-ten-thousand interesting events within a few microseconds of the proton-proton interactions taking place in ATLAS. From 1989 to 2001, he worked on the OPAL experiment at the LEP electron-positron collider at CERN, on data analysis, components of the trigger and data acquisition systems, muon identification, and more. He was OPAL's Physics Coordinator in 1996-7. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 1994 to 2002. Before 1989 he was a PhD student on the UA1 experiment, searching for – and failing to find – the top quark, which was too massive to be detected there.