Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2016; Salt Lake City, Utah
Session E2: DPF Prize Session - J.J. Sakurai Prize; Henry Primakoff Award; and the Standard Model at the LHCInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab Room: Ballroom A |
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
E2.00001: J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics: 40 Years of Lattice QCD Invited Speaker: Peter Lepage Lattice QCD was invented in 1973-74 by Ken Wilson, who passed away in 2013. This talk will describe the evolution of lattice QCD through the past 40 years with particular emphasis on its first years, and on the past decade, when lattice QCD simulations finally came of age. Thanks to theoretical breakthroughs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, lattice QCD simulations now produce the most accurate theoretical calculations in the history of strong-interaction physics. They play an essential role in high-precision experimental studies of physics within and beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The talk will include a non-technical review of the conceptual ideas behind this revolutionary development in (highly) nonlinear quantum physics, together with a survey of its current impact on theoretical and experimental particle physics, and prospects for the future. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
E2.00002: Precision Event Simulation for Hadron Colliders Invited Speaker: Stefan Hoeche Hadron colliders are workhorses of particle physics, enabling scientific breakthroughs such as the discovery of the Higgs boson. Hadron beams reach the highest energies, but they also produce very complex collisions. Studying the underlying dynamics requires involved multi-particle calculations. Over the past decades Monte-Carlo simulation programs were developed to tackle this task. They have by now evolved into precision tools for theorists and experimenters alike. This talk will give an introduction to event generators and discuss the current status of development. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
E2.00003: Standard Model and Top Physics at the LHC Invited Speaker: Sarah Demers All eyes at the energy frontier are on hints and bumps, but also possible direction from probing for cracks in the standard model. CERN's Large Hadron Collider had an extremely successful Run 1 with center of mass energies at 7 and 8 TeV. These datasets have enabled extensive tests of the standard model of particle physics, while simultaneously allowing the experiments to understand their detectors. I will present highlights from this suite of results from LHC experiments, which include new measurements and techniques as well as studies that are central to explicit searches for physics beyond the standard model. I will also show some early Run 2 results using the 13 TeV dataset from 2015, where we benefit from higher cross sections, and a look at what we can expect as the 13 TeV dataset grows. [Preview Abstract] |
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