What does the Large Hadron Collider say about the neutrino mass?
Sunil Somalwar (Rutgers)
Abstract: By colliding ultra-energetic protons, the LHC
recreates
fiery
conditions which existed a mere 10-100 picoseconds after the
big bang.
This
hot universe looked very different from ours, and
understanding it
should
answer outstanding fundamental questions of today such as how
did
the
antimatter disappear, why is the Higgs boson so light, are
there other
Higgs
bosons, why the neutrinos are almost massless, and so on. I
will
discuss
very rare LHC events which contain multiple electrons and
muons. A
thorough
analysis of such multi-lepton events could reveal new physical
phenomena
and
shed light on the early
universe.