[PWC-MEDIA] Uitnodiging voor bijwonen Higgs-webcast op Nikhef: 4 juli 09.00 uur
- From: Vanessa Mexner <vanessam@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: v.mexner@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:03:22 +0200
Nikhef-persinformatie
*Update van Higgs zoektocht op 4 juli 2012*
*/Uitnodiging voor Nikhef-webcast van CERN-seminar en persconferentie/*
Amsterdam, 28 juni 2012. CERN organiseert op woensdag 4 juli 2012 om
9:00 uur een wetenschappelijk seminar en aansluitende persconferentie
met een update van de zoektocht naar het Higgs-boson. Tijdens dit
seminar zullen de LHC-experimenten ATLAS en CMS hun resultaten van de
analyse van de 2012 data presenteren.
Voor het complete CERN persbericht, zie hieronder.
Op Nikhef wordt een webcast van dit evenement getoond. U bent van harte
uitgenodigd om hierbij aanwezig te zijn. Nikhef-wetenschappers zullen
ook aanwezig zijn om u te woord te staan.
Meer informatie over de Nikhef-webcast alsmede achtergrondinformatie
over de Higgs zoektocht en actuele informatie over de Higgs-resultaten
zodra die beschikbaar zijn, vindt u op
www.nikhef.nl/media
Graag horen we van u als u aanwezig wilt zijn.
**
*Meer informatie: *
Afdeling Wetenschapscommunicatie Nikhef (020-592 5075)
Vanessa Mexner: v.mexner@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:v.mexner@xxxxxxxxx>
Melissa van der Sande: m.van.der.sande@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:m.van.der.sande@xxxxxxxxx>
Routebeschrijving naar Nikhef
http://www.nikhef.nl/over-nikhef/contactgegevens/routebeschrijving/
*Over Nikhef*
Het Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) verricht
onderzoek op het gebied van deeltjes- en astrodeeltjesfysica. Nikhef is
een samenwerkingsverband tussen de Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek
der Materie (FOM) en vier universiteiten: de Radboud Universiteit
Nijmegen, de Universiteit van Amsterdam, de Universiteit Utrecht en de
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Nikhef is gevestigd op Science Park Amsterdam.
www.nikhef.nl <http://www.nikhef.nl>
*CERN-persbericht
*Het originele CERN-persbericht is te vinden op:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR16.12E.html
Volg CERN via Twitter: www.twitter.com/CERN
Contactgegevens CERN press office:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/ContactUs.html
Tekst originele persbericht CERN:
CERN to give update on Higgs search as curtain raiser to ICHEP
conference
Geneva, 22 June 2012. CERN^1
<http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR16.12E.html#footnote1>will
hold a scientific seminar at 9:00CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest
update in the search for the Higgs boson. At this seminar, coming on the
eve of this year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP, in
Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will deliver the preliminary
results of their 2012 data analysis.
/"Data taking for ICHEP concluded on Monday 18 June after a very
successful first period of LHC running in 2012,"/said CERN's Director
for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. /"I'm very much looking
forward to seeing what the data reveals." /
The 2012 LHC run schedule was designed to deliver the maximum possible
quantity of data to the experiments before the ICHEP conference, and
with more data delivered between April and June 2012 than in the whole
2011 run, the strategy has been a success. Furthermore, the experiments
have been refining their analysis techniques to improve their efficiency
in picking out Higgs-like events from the millions of collisions
occurring every second. This means that their sensitivity to new
phenomena has significantly increased for both years' data sets. The
crunching of all this data has been done by the Worldwide LHC Computing
Grid, which has exceeded its design specifications to handle the
unprecedented volume of data and computing.
/"We now have more than double the data we had last year,"/said CERN
Director for Research and Computing, Sergio Bertolucci, /"that should be
enough to see whether the trends we were seeing in the 2011 data are
still there, or whether they've gone away. It's a very exciting time."/
If and when a new particle is discovered, ATLAS and CMS will need time
to ascertain whether it is the long sought Higgs boson, the last missing
ingredient of the Standard Model of particle physics, or whether it is a
more exotic form of the boson that could open the door to new physics.
/"It's a bit like spotting a familiar face from afar,"/said CERN
Director General Rolf Heuer, /"sometimes you need closer inspection to
find out whether it's really your best friend, or actually your best
friend's twin."/
The Standard Model gives an extraordinarily precise picture of the
matter that makes up all the visible universe, and the forces that
govern its behaviour, but there are good reasons to believe that this is
not the end of the story. For example, we know from observation that the
visible universe is just 4% of what seems to be out there.
Physicists from around the world gathering in Melbourne for the ICHEP
conference will be able to join the seminar via a live two-way link. The
seminar will be followed by a press conference at CERN. It will be
available via webcast at http://webcast.cern.ch/, accompanied by plain
language interpretations from physicists accessible in blogs and chats
from the webcast site.
Press who wishes to attend the press conference at CERN should register
here:
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=196564
<http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=196564>
*Contact:*
CERN press office, press.office@xxxxxxx<mailto:press.office@xxxxxxx>,
+41 22 767 34 32, +41 22 767 21 41
Follow CERN op:
* www.cern.ch
* http://twitter.com/cern/
* http://www.youtube.com/user/CERNTV
* http://www.quantumdiaries.org/
1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in
Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for
accession. Israel and Serbia are Associate Members in the pre-stage to
Membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of
America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.
--
Vanessa Mexner
Head of Communications
Nikhef, Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31-(0)20 592 5075, v.mexner@xxxxxxxxx, www.nikhef.nl
Usual working days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
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