ICTP is pleased to announce that the forthcoming ICTP Colloquium
on "The Quest for 30 TeV, the next milestone in elementary
particle physics" by Professor Michael Peskin, SLAC National
Accelerator Lab, Stanford University, USA will take place today,
Wednesday 20 November 2019 at 16:30 hrs, in the Budinich Lecture
Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP.
Biosketch:
Michael Peskin is a theoretical elementary particle physicist. He
received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978. After
postdoctoral appointments at Harvard Unversity and Cornell, he
joined the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at
Stanford University in 1982. A theme that runs through much of his
work is the use of high-precision measurements at the highest
energy lepton and hadron colliders to search for new interactions
beyond the particle physics Standard Model. He is the author of
the textbooks "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory", with
Daniel Schroeder, and, very recently, "Concepts of Elementary
Particle Physics".
Abstract: We have a "Standard Model" of elementary
particle physics which successfully describes the subnuclear
interactions at the energies of our current experiments,
including those at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. However, this
model is manifestly incomplete. It raises questions that can
only be answered if there are additional fundamental
interactions at still higher energies. How far do we need to go?
I will argue that achieving 30 TeV in the quark or lepton center
of mass system is the next important milestone for our particle
accelerators. How will we get there? There is no solution today,
but many lines of research have been opened. I will discuss the
proposed technologies using proton-proton, muon-muon,
electron-positron, and photon-photon colliders.
The information is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/9053/
The Colloquium will be livestreamed at ictp.it/livestream
Light refreshments will be served after the talk.
You are all very warmly invited to attend.
With best regards,
Office of the Director, ICTP