“The Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson”

The physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft, Nobel Laureate in Physics in1999 delivered this conference in November 2011.In his talk, Hooft explores the current and future state of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its crucial role in particle physics. He explains how the search for the Higgs boson has confirmed the mechanism by which particles acquire mass and examines the remaining theoretical and experimental challenges if the Higgs is not sufficient to explain all fundamental physics. He also discusses upcoming scientific milestones at the LHC and the possibilities of extending our understanding beyond the Standard Model.

This lecture is part of the astrophysics lecture series ‘The Science of the Cosmos, the Science in the Cosmos’, which tackles the fundamental questions in contemporary astrophysics. Why, at some point some 13 billion years ago, did a tiny, hot universe begin expanding in a B

The physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft, Nobel Laureate in Physics in1999 delivered this conference in November 2011.In his talk, Hooft explores the current and future state of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its crucial role in particle physics. He explains how the search for the Higgs boson has confirmed the mechanism by which particles acquire mass and examines the remaining theoretical and experimental challenges if the Higgs is not sufficient to explain all fundamental physics. He also discusses upcoming scientific milestones at the LHC and the possibilities of extending our understanding beyond the Standard Model.

This lecture is part of the astrophysics lecture series ‘The Science of the Cosmos, the Science in the Cosmos’, which tackles the fundamental questions in contemporary astrophysics. Why, at some point some 13 billion years ago, did a tiny, hot universe begin expanding in a Big Bang? The birth of the universe, as well as the formation of stars and planets, are explored in the first edition of the series..