Wednesday 23 July 2008

Speaker: Hong-Mo Chan   (RAL)

Title: A Model Behind the Standard Model

Abstract: Tries to understand some of the mysteries behind the Standard Model; e.g. why Higgs, why
symmetry-breaking, why fermion generations, why hierarchical masses, and why quark mixings and neutrino
oscillations.  Gives also some predictions at high energies, including possibly a new field of
spectroscopy potentially as rich as that for hadrons. The approach is theoretical, but my aim in the
talk is to make it understandable and entertaining to all my experimental colleagues.