Thursday, May 08, 2008, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
G. Weiglein, University of Durham
Abstract:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to go into operation later this
year, will open up the new territory of TeV-scale physics, where
ground-breaking discoveries and fundamental new insights into the fabric of
matter, space and time are expected. Present experimental results
from electroweak precision data and measurements in the flavour sector show
a
sensitivity to TeV-scale physics via quantum effects. Possible implications
for physics at the LHC and a future Linear Collider will be analysed.
Furthermore, different scenarios of physics of electroweak symmetry breaking
will be discussed, and the importance of precise theoretical predictions for
identifying the nature of TeV-scale physics will be emphasized.