Speaker
Gavin Salam (University of Oxford)
Date
20/10/2026 10:00 (CET)
Place
Conference Room
The discovery of the Higgs boson has opened the door to the investigation of new fundamental interactions of nature unlike any studied before.
After a reminder about how key features of the Higgs mechanism matter for the world around us, the talk will examine what we actually know about the Higgs sector of the Standard Model and what remains to be established. It will then explore the question of how we extract information from high-energy collisions and the associated quest to better understand critical strong-interaction dynamics across many orders of magnitude in space and time.
About the speaker
Gavin Salam a researcher in theoretical particle physics at the University of Oxford. His work centres on the question of how to develop and use our understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD, the theory of quarks and gluons) in order facilitate state-of-the-art measurements and discoveries at high-energy particle colliders, notably the LHC, including applications to Higgs physics, searches for new particles and studies of heavy-ion collisions.
