Institute of Physics of the AS CR invites you to the 5th Dvořák Lecture by Professor Peter Jenni from the University of Freiburg, Germany and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland on June 12, 2013 at 3:00 pm in the Lecture Hall of the Institute of Physics, Na Slovance 2, Prague 8. Since three years the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in particular ATLAS, investigate particle physics at the highest collision energies ever achieved in a laboratory. Following a rich harvest of results for Standard Model (SM) Physics came in 2012 the first spectacular discovery of a new, heavy particle, most likely the long-awaited Higgs boson. The latest results with the full data set accumulated over the first three-years running period of the LHC will be presented.
Other, far-reaching results can already be reported for
exploratory new physics searches like Supersymmetry (SUSY) and its implication for Dark Matter in
the Universe, Extra Dimensions, and the production of new heavy particles. However, with the recent
discovery of a new boson the exciting journey into unexplored physics territory, within and beyond
the SM, has only just begun at the LHC, in particular also in view of the increased collision
energy expected for the next running period starting in 2015. Besides the first results and the
future prospects, the talk will also cover briefly the history and the challenges of the whole LHC
project, as well as the fruitful collaboration with the Czech groups since the very beginning of
this large scientific adventure.
Vladimír Dvořák (1934–2007) was the solid
state physicist, the most prominent Czech scientist in the theory of ferroelectricity and
structural phase transitions. For the whole productive life affiliated with the Institute of
Physics in Prague, its director in 1993–2 001, member of the Learned Society since 1995. The main
protagonist of the revolutionary reforms in the Institute of Physics after 1989. To commemorate his
work and personality, the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
decided to organize an annual festive Dvořák lecture, given by prominent internationally renowned
scientists in the field related to the research pursued at the Institute of Physics.
29 May 2013