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SUMMARY:So Simple & Unnatural: Implications of this 125 GeV Higgs on the Ph
	ysics of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Maria Spiropulu\, California Institute of Technology\
	nHosted by: Lawrence Sulak\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/posters/2014_Spri
	ng/0325_Spiropulu.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n
	\nAbstract:\n\nThe international physics community witnessed in 2012 what i
	s arguably the biggest discovery in the history of high-energy physics: a H
	iggs boson. Scientists at the CERN Laboratory for Particle Physics presente
	d conclusive evidence for the long-sought fundamental particle that is the 
	first step towards a radically new view of the universe. Individuals workin
	g across decades\, nations\, and scientific disciplines collaborated to inv
	ent and build one of the largest machines ever\, the Large Hadron Collider 
	(LHC) and its giant detectors\, as well as new ways to collect\, share\, an
	d carefully sift through its mountains of data. Although with the discovery
	 of this Higgs we seem to be on the right track toward understanding the so
	urcing of mass of the elementary particles (including its own mass)\, natur
	e persists to puzzle us. I will discuss the cosmological connections and im
	plications given the mass of the first elementary scalar ever observed\, th
	e absence so far  of new sets of particles previously considered essential 
	for the Higgs and the dark matter conundrum.
LOCATION:SCI 109\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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