On Monday, November 11, 2024, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our physics colloquium will take place this winter semester.
The speaker is Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT) on the topic "CERN - 70 YEARS. FUNDAMENTAL DISCOVERIES WHICH LED TO OUR PRESENT UNDERSTANDING OF NATURE - A PERSONAL ACCOUNT".
The foundation of CERN in 1954, planned as a project promoting peaceful research in
war-torn Europe, created the prerequisites of obtaining our modern picture of nature and
its fundamental processes. Many important discoveries made in the ensuing decades -
at CERN and in other labs worldwide - only led to collect more elements of the puzzle
of particle physics. To finally solve this puzzle and to prove (or disprove) the theory
which claimed to describe the fundamental forces and interactions, research at energy
scales beyond 100 GeV, or equivalently at distance scales of less than 10-18mwas
mandatory. This could only be achieved with utilizing a novel concept of a particle
accelerator: the hadron collider which was introduced at CERN about 50 years ago.
This colloquium highlights three discoveries made at hadron colliders in the last forty
years which finally established the Standard Model.
Image above: First Z0 Candidate found by UA1 at CERN in 1984 © CERN
Abstract of the lecture by Prof. Müller.
The introduction will be given by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wiedner.
The faculty cordially invites all interested parties. The event will take place in lecture hall HZO 20.
All dates of the Physics Colloquium can be found here.