When:
Friday, March 11, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, L211, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Samantha Westlake
Group: Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Category: Academic
Abstract: The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is one of the great intellectual achievements of the late 20th century, but it is incomplete and contains many poorly understood features. The search for solutions to its shortcomings is being pursued by a broad spectrum of experiments across a wide range of energies. So far no conclusive evidence for new particles or interactions beyond the SM has been found, suggesting that the outstanding issues with the SM may only be resolved at energy scales beyond those directly measured in laboratory experiments. In this talk we discuss the use of a powerful tool, effective field theory, to tie together the numerous searches for imprints of new physics from high scales. We present the current and future experimental program and show how each measurement provides crucial information about possible effective field theory extensions of the SM. We emphasize the role that precision theory calculations play in enabling and assisting these searches.
Speaker: Professor Frank Petriello, Northwestern University
Host: John Joseph Carrasco