Research Seminars @ Illinois

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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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High Energy Physics Seminar - The Higgs, Flavor and the Path to New Physics

Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor: Physics Department
Location: Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Date: Feb 7, 2025 11:00 am
Speaker: Sam Homiller (Cornell University)
Contact: Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail: bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Physics - High Energy Physics Seminar; Despite its incredible success, culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, the Standard Model leaves much to be desired: aside from missing ingredients crucial for our cosmological history, it cannot be extended to arbitrarily short distances and contains a number of patterns and hierarchies that lack a deeper, physical explanation. Fortunately, its rich structure provides us with a number of avenues to search for new physics.

In this talk, I will review the intimate connection between the complexities of the flavor sector of the Standard Model and the Higgs. I will then describe how this connection can be leveraged to search for new physics at a variety of scales, ranging from laboratory-scale tests for electric dipole moments of the electron to novel measurements at the LHC and future colliders.

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