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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="navy"><b>Old Dominion University</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="navy"><b>Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#31849B"><b>Fall Colloquium Series</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#17365D"><b>Tuesday September 25, 2012</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" 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></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>William & Mary</b></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" 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 face="Times New Roman" size="4">Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Refreshments: Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">More details at <a href="http://sci.odu.edu/physics/"><font color="blue"><u>http://sci.odu.edu/physics/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">All are Welcome!</font></div>
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