Dr Robin Hayes - Decoding the Higgs Boson: New Clues from the Large Hadron Collider

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:30 → 14:30 UTC

610 (G.O. Jones Bulding)

https://fnal.zoom.us/j/93197574512?pwd=bGlJTHlGTnVtTFFwRnlpYnhrdm5rdz09

About the speaker: 

Robin completed her PhD in particle physics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 2022. She then made the move across the pond to start as a postdoctoral researcher at Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, where she currently works. She is a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where she focuses on investigating the Higgs boson and searching for new heavy particles. 

Decoding the Higgs Boson: New Clues from the Large Hadron Collider

High-energy proton collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recreate conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the universe began. In this talk, we will explore some of the insights that can be gained from studying physics at such energies, focusing on our most recently-discovered fundamental particle: the Higgs boson. While studies of the Higgs boson at the LHC have so far revealed consistency with our governing theory of physics, several recent measurements demonstrate how we can use the existing LHC dataset to study the Higgs boson in new ways, achieving improved precision and performing creative interpretations. We will examine these new results and look at how we might delve still deeper in the future.

Convener: Dr Robin Hayes (Nikhef/ATLAS)