Physics Beyond Colliders - Charting the Unknown

WEDNESDAY, 6th March 2024
11:40 am
Paraninfo. Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología

As a large particle physics laboratory, CERN offers a wide range of  facilities and expertise. This provides significant opportunities for new experiments complementary to the Large Hadron Collider and future  colliders. Physics Beyond Colliders is a CERN study group dedicated to  
explore these intriguing options. In this talk, we will look at a  range of experiments under discussion and explore their complementary sensitivity to so-called feebly interacting particles. Special  attention will be given to axion-like particles (ALPs), which are candidates for particles that could explain various existing hints for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Prof. Joerg Jaeckel studied physics and received his doctoral degree at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Subsequent positions brought him to DESY (Hamburg, Germany) and Durham University (UK) before becoming full professor back at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Heidelberg in 2012. His principle area of  investigation is in theoretical physics, more specifically particle  phenomenology & cosmology, and the search for light hidden particles  as signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model. In 2016, Prof.  Jaeckel joined the newly created Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) Study  Group at CERN, an exploratory study which aims at exploiting the full  scientific potential of CERN's accelerator complex and technical  infrastructure, as well as CERNs know-how in accelerator and detector  science and technology, and providing essential input for the European  Strategy for Particle Physics Update 2020.