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