Physikalisches Kolloquium
Jan. 10, 2017 at 4 p.m. c.t. in HS KPHProf. Dr. Hans Jockers
Institut für Physik
jockers@uni-mainz.de
Prof. Dr. Concettina Sfienti
Institut für Kernphysik
sfienti@uni-mainz.de
Thanks to the outstanding performances of the LHC, ATLAS and CMS have already recorded about five times more data in 2016 than in 2015, in just a few months of operations. The wealth of new data allows one to perform the most precise tests of the Standard Model, heralding a new era in the explorations of the Higgs sector. In this talk, I will review the remarkable progress that precision calculations have made in the last years and I will discuss their impact in the LHC context. I will also illustrate the conceptual bottlenecks of high-precision QCD calculations and the challenges that such computations will have to face in the coming years.