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<font color="#000099"><b><font color="#3333ff">Physics Seminar<br>
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CEBAF Center AUD.<br>
Cookies and Coffee 10:45AM<br>
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face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">"The Outcome of the LHC
Search for the Higgs Boson"<br>
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Tom LeCompte</font></b><font face="Times New Roman, Times,
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The idea that the universe might be filled with scalar fields to
explain why fundamental particles are not all massless was born,
and incorporated into the highly successful Standard Model of
fundamental particles and interactions, nearly 50 years ago. Until
this summer there remained one unconfirmed prediction of this
model, the existence of a massive particle with the same quantum
numbers as the vacuum: the Higgs boson. The confirmation or
falsification of this prediction is one of the highlights of the
physics program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. I
discuss the recent experimental evidence for the existence of the
Higgs Boson, concentrating on results from the ATLAS experiment.<big>
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