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<div align="center"><font color="navy"><b>Old Dominion University</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="navy"><b>Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#31849B"><b>Fall Colloquium Series</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="5" color="#17365D"><b>Tuesday September 25, 2012</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="5" color="#31849B"><b>"Higgs boson"</b></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>Dr. Marc Sher</b></font></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>William & Mary</b></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font size="3">The Standard Model of particle physics describes the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions of all known fundamental particles with high precision. There remains,
however, a crucial question: how do fundamental particles acquire their masses, since the symmetries of the Standard Model forbid them? The preferred explanation requires the existence of an additional particle, the Higgs boson. Discovery of the Higgs boson
has been the major goal of experimental high energy physics for decades, and discovery of a Higgs boson at a mass of 125 GeV was announced at the LHC this summer. In this talk, I will introduce the Standard Model and discuss the importance of the Higgs and
describe its properties. I will then talk about how it is detected, discuss the search for it over the past 25 years, and then describe the recent experimental results from the LHC and talk about expectations over the next few months and the implications for
the future of elementary particle physics.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="4">Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="4">Refreshments: Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="5">More details at <a href="http://sci.odu.edu/physics/">http://sci.odu.edu/physics/</a></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">All are Welcome!</font></div>
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