[phas-dept] Feb 9 (Thursday) 4 PM - Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

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Spring 2017 Colloquium

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Feb 9, Thursday, 4-5 PM in Science Building 127

(coffee and cookies will be served at 3:50 PM)

High Energy Physics, Astrophysics:

Hunting for Dark Matter at the Large Hadron Collider
Dr. Kenichi Hatakeyama

Baylor University

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Dr. Kenichi Hatakeyama earned BS (1996) and MS (1998) degrees in Physics at Waseda University in Japan, and a Ph.D. degree (2003) in Physics at Rockefeller University. His Ph.D. research topic  was on studies of diffractive dijet production and measurement of the diffractive structure function of the proton in 1.8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. He stayed with the Rockefeller University as a postdoc and worked on precision QCD measurement and new physics searches with high energy jets with the CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) experiment at the Fermilab and the CMS experiment at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. In 2009, Dr. Hatakeyama began his appointment as an Assistant Professor at Baylor University, where he is currently doing research in high energy physics. More information about Dr. Hatakeyama and his/her research can be found at http://hep.baylor.edu/hatake/

Abstract:

Roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of material that we cannot directly observe which we call dark matter. Studies of the motion of galaxies first indicated that the universe contains more matter than we can see in our observation. Support for dark matter has grown over years; however no solid direct evidence of dark matter has been obtained. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s most largest and powerful particle collider, which produce billions of proton-proton collisions per second, and it led to the discovery of the god particle, Higgs boson. If the Large Hadron Collider is powerful enough, we should have a chance to produce new particles that constitute the dark matter. I will discuss research effort to find dark matter particles at the Large Hadron Collider.
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