Particle Physics in China: Present and Future, Dr Mihajlo Kornicer (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Thursday Oct 22, 2015, 3:15 PM → 5:15 PM Pacific/Honolulu

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Particle physics in China is diverse and vibrant, with BESIII currently spearheading the efforts in the precision sector of High Energy Physics. BESIII is an experiment running since 2009 at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII), delivering center-of-mass energies between 2.0 and 4.6 GeV, and making this a suitable place for studying various topics in particle physics, ranging from tau lepton production, charm and charmonium physics, light-meson spectroscopy, to searches for phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Large data samples collected so far yielded many interesting results, and more is expected in the near future. I will review some of the most exciting recent results reported by BESIII, important for constraining the Standard Model and understanding the hadronic world in the confinement region. To continue on this successful road, the HEP community in China is discussing new experiments to tackle both high precision and high energy frontiers. This talk is intended to be accessible to UH physicists in all subfields.

Slides UH_Kornicer.pdf