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The meeting offered the chance to those working within the group to get an overview of the ongoing research activities, find out more about the recent results and exchange ideas in a stimulating environment. Moreover, it helped the members of the…
Read moreWorkshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck
Over the next two weeks, the Theory Unit will host a workshop in "Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck" from 17 to 28 June. During the workshop implications of the first cosmology results from Planck will be discussed following…
Read moreDiscreteness and determinism in superstring theory
Superstring Theory is mathematically equivalent to a completely deterministic automaton,yet the world it describes appears to be quantum mechanical. In his seminar, Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University) discussed how can we reconcile these…
Read moreThe Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six
Frank Close delivered a talk about his book The Infinity Puzzle (http://www.infinitypuzzlebook.com/) that covers the history of 50 years of particle physics, the emergence of the Standard Model realizing the unification of the weak and…
Read moreThe Higgs boson, a History.
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé and John Ellis discuss the history of the Higgs mechanism, indicate its importance for the Standard Model and examine its implications for the scientific community in a paper published in Nature Physics (January 2011). You…
Read moreFirst Planck Results and Cosmological Implications
The ESA satellite Planck has measured CMB anisotropies over the full sky with unprecedented sensitivity. The collaboration has released its first CMB temperature maps on the 21st of March. Julien Lesgourgues presented a summary of these new CMB…
Read moreEyes on a prize particle_unpublished
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé and John Ellis in an article previously published in NATURE PHYSICS (VOL 7 | JANUARY 2011) trace the history of the formulation of the Higgs mechanism and discuss the importance of the long-theorized Higgs-particle. The…
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