Title: Putting the Higgs Boson in it's place: the quest to excite the empty universe
Abstract:
In this talk Professor Franklin will explain how we search for new particles, like the Higgs boson, at the Large Hadron Collider, and specifically what we found at a mass of 126 GeV that we call the Higgs. She will discuss the accelerator, the ATLAS experiment, the evidence for the Higgs and prospects for new discoveries in 2015.
Introduction of Speaker:
Professor Melissa Franklin is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. She is an experimental particle physicist who is working on studies of hadron collisions produced by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Collider Detector Facility (CDF) and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). She works in a collaboration of over 600 international physicists who discovered the top quark at CDF, and 3000 physicists at ATLAS where she studies particle interactions and symmetries at the highest energies now available worldwide when the accelerator turns on this fall.
Professor Franklin, born and raised in Canada, received her B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and her Doctorate from Stanford University. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Champagne/Urbana and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, before joining the Harvard faculty in 1989 and becoming the first female tenured faculty member in the department of physics in 1992. In 1993, Franklin was elected a fellow of the American Society of Physics.
Melissa Franklin是美国哈佛大学物理系Mallinckrodt讲座教授，实验粒子物理学家，专注于美国费米国家加速器实验室的CDF探测器研究和大型强子对撞机的ATLAS实验。
Franklin教授在斯坦福大学获得博士学位，后在劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室做博士后研究员。Franklin教授于1989年进入哈佛工作，并于1992年成为哈佛大学第一位物理系终身女教授。1993，Franklin教授当选为美国物理学会会员。
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