Invitation to ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Michael Peskin on "The Quest for 30 TeV, the next milestone in elementary particle physics" on 20 November 2019 in Budinich Lecture Hall

[ICTP/director - Makkawi Zina]

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 on Wednesday 20 November 2019 at 16:30 
hrs, in the Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP.
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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".
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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