The LHC and the Physics of the Standard Model

Scott Society Talk

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, sitting in a tunnel 100 metres underground at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, and was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories across more than 100 countries.

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is the model that underpins all of modern Particle Physics. But the Standard Model is incomplete, leaving many questions open, which the LHC will help to answer.

Physicist Eddie Brendan Shields will introduce us to CERN’s mission, explain how the Large Hadron Collider works and what the Standard Model predicts, where it falls short, what open questions we have about it, and what the future could hold.

After a degree in Physics at Oxford, Dr Shields continued working for his PhD at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science under Prof. Eilam Gross on Machine Learning for Particle Physics in the ATLAS experiment, and returned to work for the Institute at CERN conducting research on novel Machine Learning techniques and studies of the properties of the Higgs Boson in the ATLAS experiment.