CERN, LHC and the Higgs

University of Iceland, NORDFORSK and NORNDiP invites you to an open lecture

Speaker: Barbro Åsman, professor emerita in physics at Stockholm University.

Abstract:

Twelve countries founded CERN - the European Laboratory for Particle Physics - in 1954. Since then, it has grown into a scientific melting pot where thousands of physicists from all over the world work together to uncover what the universe is made of and how it works.

Ten years ago, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovered the Higgs boson, a central ingredient in the standard model of particle physics.

The LHC has now started its third run after a period of extensive upgrades. The new data will allow the physicists to search for the physics beyond the standard model that is needed to explain for instance the dark matter in the universe and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter.

About Barbro:

Barbro Åsman is a Swedish particle physicist. She received her doctorate in 1985 at Stockholm University, where she later became professor in elementary particle physics in 2001. She is currently professor emerita at Stockholm University.

Barbro led the Swedish consortium participating in experiments at the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab. She has also worked with the ATLAS experiment at CERN.  During her career, she has always been active in many outreach activities.

Since 2007 Barbro is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and in 2021 she received the King's medal in gold of the 8th size with the ribbon of the Seraphim Order for significant efforts in research and research collaboration in physics.

The lecture is a part of the 4. Conference of Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics (NORNDiP), but is open to all while seats are available.