Christophe Grojean: The different faces of the Higgs boson

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Seminar (IFAE)

Seminar

IFAE
Jelena Aleksic (IFAE), Joern Lange (IFAE Barcelona), Stefania Bordoni (IFAE)
Description
The Higgs boson discovery in July 2012 has confirmed experimentally the realization of a beautiful theoretical idea proposed 50 years ago according to which the symmetry of the ground state can be different that the symmetry of the fundamental laws of Nature, with the important consequence that some forces get screened at large distances and incidentally the elementary particles of the Standard Model acquire a mass. I'll report on an economic analogy of the Higgs mechanism, recently proposed by Juan Maldacena, in which the electrons are speculators and the positrons have debts. If it doesn't make you richer (sorry!), this analogy might bring you some insights on the meaning associated to the Higgs boson.
Participants
  • Abelardo Moralejo
  • Abril Florez Oscar
  • Alba Fernández Barral
  • Alex Pomarol
  • Bruno Bourguille
  • Daniel Guberman
  • Daniel Moreno
  • David Vázquez Furelos
  • Delfino Manuel
  • Eduard Masso
  • Emanuele Cavallaro
  • Enrique Fernandez
  • Eudald Font
  • Federico Sanchez
  • Giuliano Panico
  • Imma Riu
  • Jelena Aleksic
  • Joan Elias
  • Joaquim Palacio Navarro
  • John E Ward
  • José Ramón Espinosa
  • Juan Cortina
  • Ke Yang
  • Kovacs Andras
  • Lars Hofer
  • Leyre Nogués
  • Lluïsa-Maria Mir
  • Machiel Kolstein
  • Manel Martinez
  • Marc Montull
  • Marc Riembau
  • Martine Bosman
  • Mateo Garcia
  • Oriol Pujolas
  • Oscar Blanch Bigas
  • pauline vielzeuf
  • Raimon Casanova
  • Raquel Castillo Fernandez
  • Raul Viruez Roca
  • Ruben Lopez
  • Sergi Gonzalez-Solis
  • Stefania Bordoni
  • Thibaud Vantalon
  • Thorsten Lux
  • Yuan Zhong