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Ehrenpräsident | Honorary President #LiNo16 programme announcement: Particle physics Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Graf Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg (†) What comes after the standard model of particle physics? Vorstand | Executive Commitee Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg Particle physics is in a fast-moving phase, and this is also reflected in (Präsidentin | President) th Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lubitz the lectures and discussions at the 66 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. (Vizepräsident | Vice-President) The Higgs particle has been found, the standard model of particle Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny (Vizepräsidentin | Vice-President) physics is complete. It can explain the formation and behaviour of Nikolaus Turner (Schatzmeister | Treasurer) matter in our world – however, the standard model describes only five percent of the universe, meaning our physical view of the world is Stiftung incomplete. Must we therefore extend the standard model or maybe Lindauer Nobelpreisträgertagungen Foundation even replace it completely? Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Ehrenpräsidium | Honorary Presidents This is the question being discussed by particle physicists all over the Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Graf Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg (†) globe. Theoretical physicists have developed supersymmetry (SUSY) Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog among other things. This theory is an extension of the standard model. Bundespräsident a. D. It provides each known particle with a supersymmetric partner whose Vorstand | Board of Directors Jürgen Kluge spin differs by one half from that of the particles in the standard model; (Vorsitzender | Chairman) Bettina Gräfin Bernadotte af Wisborg an experimental proof for the existence of SUSY particles is still lacking, Thomas Ellerbeck Reinhard Pöllath however. The physicists therefore have high hopes for the Large Hadron Nikolaus Turner Collider (LHC), the largest accelerator in the world at CERN. Now that its (Geschäftsführer | Managing Director) power has been increased, they hope to find signals of the SUSY Wolfgang Schürer (Ehrenvorsitzender | Honorary Chairman) particles with the aid of the ATLAS and CMS detectors. The expectation is that it would then be possible to answer, for example, the question Geschäftsstellen | Offices Lennart-Bernadotte-Haus about the nature of dark matter, which possibly makes up 25 per cent of Alfred-Nobel-Platz 1 our universe. 88131 Lindau Deutschland | Germany
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Kuratorium für die Tagungen der Nobelpreisträger in Lindau Council for the Lectures Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Stiftung Mo., 27 June, 9.30-10.00 hrs. Takaaki Kajita: Atmospheric Neutrinos Lindauer Nobelpreisträgertagungen Mo., 27 June, 12.00-12.30 hrs. Martinus Veltmann: After Findng the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Higgs Particle
Mo., 27 June, 12.30-13.00 hrs. Arthur McDonald: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observation of Flavor Change for Solar Neutrinos
Tu., 28 June, 12.30-13.00 hrs. Gerardus 't Hooft: How One Single Elementary Particle Can Make the Difference
We., 29 June, 9.30-10.00 hrs. Samuel Ting: The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station
Panel discussion
Mo., 27 June, 15.00-16.30 hrs. Glimpses Beyond the Standard Model
Panellists:
Steven Chu, David Gross, Takaaki Kajita, Carlo Rubbia
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