Sara Strandberg on Wallenberg Scholar and the Higgs particle
The Wallenberg Scholars program supports and stimulates some of the most successful senior researchers at Swedish universities. The grant is for five years with the possibility of a five-year extension. There are currently 88 active Wallenberg Scholars and Emil Bergholtz was recently appointed. Sara Strandberg received a five-year extension. On April 12, Sara participated in the Swedish Radio program Vetenskapsradion on the topic of the Higgs particle.
Sara Strandberg, Professor at Fysikum. Photo: Gunilla Häggström
Sara Strandberg is Professor of Particle Physics at Fysikum. She recently received a five-year extension of her appointment as a Wallenberg Scholar.
"Yes, I am delighted with the extension of my Scholar grant! Thanks to it, we will be able to step up our efforts to observe pair production of Higgs particles for the first time, and thus obtain a measurement of how strongly the Higgs particle interacts with itself. This in turn gives us important knowledge about the Higgs field and its role in the evolution of the universe."
On April 12, Sara Strandberg participated in the Swedish Radio program Vetenskapsradion on the topic of the Higgs particle. Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for the theory he presented almost 50 years earlier. The existence of the Higgs particle was proven in 2012. Behind it was a new world and enough to research for an almost infinite time to come. Sara answers what can we find using the Higgs particle.
"The radio program is about the Higgs particle and the huge impact it has had, and continues to have, on particle physics. It was recorded to mark the passing of Peter Higgs on Monday."
This project aims at developing a new class of experimental probes for new Higgs-like spin-0 particles with the ATLAS experiment at LHC, and to interpret the experimental results in complete models that predict primordial Gravitational Waves (GW).
In the Standard Model, the mass of the Higgs boson is greatly destabilised by quantum corrections, and free parameters of the model need to be extremely fine-tuned in order to arrive at the measured Higgs mass.
A supersymmetric extension of the standard model can solve the fine-tuning problem of the Higgs mass and explain dark matter. In this project we search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark with data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
The ATLAS experiment detects the particles created when protons or heavy ions collide at very high energies in CERN's largest accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider, LHC. This is where the Higgs particle was discovered in 2012.
