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Panofsky Fellowship Seminar
Multiscale evolution for precision physics
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America/Los_Angeles
48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D (SLAC)
48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
SLAC
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Description
In the years to come, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will explore the energy frontier in particle physics. Its programme is mainly based on three pillars: the study of the newly discovered Higgs boson, the search for new physics, and the precision tests of the theory that describes our current understanding of fundamental interactions, the Standard Model. Besides the great complexity of the measurements, this plan requires an unprecedented level of precision in the theoretical predictions, and the accurate calculation of physical observables is thus paramount. I will introduce an important class of such observables, that of multiscale problems. I will discuss its fundamental connection with each of the above pillars, and argue that an optimal interpretation of the future LHC data requires considerable advances in the current approaches to such problems, known as resummations and parton showers.
