| The “Who Ordered That?” Collider |
| Nathaniel Craig, University of Californa, Santa Barbara |
| Event Type: Physics Dept Colloquium |
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| Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| Location: 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar |
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| Abstract: We plan to construct the next generation of colliders because there is new fundamental knowledge to be gained at the energy frontier — knowledge about both the Standard Model itself and the more fundamental theory that underlies it. I’ll survey the triumphant role of colliders in building the Standard Model, the main open questions now facing particle physics, and the profound motivation these questions provide for successors to the Large Hadron Collider. Among these successors, I’ll devote particular attention to a qualitatively new accelerator complex: a high-energy muon collider. Such a collider, potentially at Fermilab, would powerfully complement experiments across the frontiers of particle physics and chart a convergent path into the future. |