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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
Mon, 16 Sep 2024
As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily successful, discovering the Higgs boson and measuring multiple features of particle-physics interactions at unprecedented energies. But to theorists, the results have been somewhat frustrating, as we were hoping to find brand-new phenomena beyond the Standard Model. There is nothing to do but to keep looking, recognizing that we have to choose our methods judiciously. I talk with theoretical physicist Cari Cesarotti about what experimental results the modern particle physicist most looks forward to, and how we might eventually get there, especially through the prospect of a muon collider.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/09/16/289-cari-cesarotti-on-the-next-generation-of-particle-experiments/Cari Cesarotti received her Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Her research is on particle phenomenology theory, with an eye toward experimental searches. Among her awards are the Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Physics from the American Physical Society and the Young Scientist Award at the 14th International Conference on the Identification of Dark Matter.Web siteMIT web pagePublications at inSpireSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. In science, when things are going well, there is an interplay between theory and experiment. Experimenters notice something about the world. Theorists rush to offer an explanation or many explanations for those phenomena. The experimenters go out and test the predictions of the theory. They discover even new things.
The theorists are called in again, and it keeps going back and forth. But occasionally, in fact, I would say almost never, but sometimes, one can be the victim of one's own success. And that is the story of modern particle physics. In the 50s, 60s, 70s, we were just splashed with all sorts of experimental results that were very puzzling, very interesting, very intriguing, very hard to explain.
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