The Higgs and Beyond: Brave New Physics
On Dec. Quirks and Quarks' Bob McDonald hosts Pierre Savard and William Trischuk, two University of Toronto professors involved in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, author of The Particle At The End of The Universe , at U of T's Isabel Bader Theatre. Open to the public, Higgs and Beyond: Brave New Physics, is the latest in a series of events organized by Professor Ray Jayawardhana, Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics and the U of'T President's Senior Advisor on Science Engagement. "I feel strongly about the value of scientists reaching out and engaging with the wider community, not only to report on our discoveries but also to share the excitement and challenges of the scientific process, to inspire kids and to encourage innovation," Jayawardhana says. High-energy physicists Savard and Trischuk are part of the U of'T team involved in the LHC project. The group of 30 U of'T researchers, including 16 graduate students, used the SciNet super-computing resources at U of'T to identify collisions containing Higgs boson candidates. Their group is now trying to understand the properties of the new particle and preparing to upgrade their experiment to search for other physics processes beyond the Higgs.
