Speaker & Supervisor
Prof. YANG Hong-tao
Title: Deciphering the Higgs boson
Abstract:
The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles that make up matter and propagate forces. As its quantum particle, the Higgs boson provides a portal for us to understand the mass generation mechanism, and to discover potential new phenomena that are beyond our current best knowledge of physics. In this talk, I will take you through the great story of the Higgs boson’s discovery by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, which led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. I will also explain what physicists have learned about this fascinating particle so far, and discuss the future plans for better understanding its nature.
Curriculum Vitae：
Education:
Ph.D. in Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison 09/2016
Employment:
University of Science and Technology of China Professor in Department of Physics 2022-Current
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2022
Research interests:
•Higgs boson
Measurements of Higgs boson properties with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) & future colliders, look for CP mixing in Higgs sector
•Silicon pixel detector
Radiation-hard pixel detector R&D for High-Luminosity LHC & future colliders
Selected recent publications:
- “A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions ten years after the discovery” The ATLAS Collaboration Nature 607, 52 (2022).
- “Measurement of the properties of Higgs boson production at √s = 13 TeV in the H→γγ channel using 139 fb-1 of pp collision data with the ATLAS experiment” The ATLAS Collaboration accepted by Journal of High Energy Physics.