[News-releases] Canadian Seminar at TRIUMF -- Update on Higgs Boson Search, Dec 13, 2011, 2:30pm PST

[Tim Meyer]

Media Advisory | For Immediate Release | December 6, 2011

PUBLIC INVITATION: CANADIAN SEMINAR AT TRIUMF  -- UPDATE ON THE HIGGS SEARCH
BY EXPERIMENTS AT CERN --

(Vancouver, BC) --- A seminar will be held at TRIUMF on December 13, 2011,
at 2:30 p.m. to share an update on the search for the Standard Model Higgs
boson by two experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).  Canadians
are heavily involved in the ATLAS experiment, and the TRIUMF laboratory made
important contributions to the construction of the LHC.  The seminar is part
of a larger workshop on ATLAS and the LHC being held at TRIUMF. 

These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than
those presented at conferences this past summer---sufficient to make
significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson but not enough to
prove the existence or non-existence of the Higgs.  The Canadian seminar
will closely follow the results presented at a CERN seminar taking place in
the early morning on the same day in Geneva, Switzerland. 

The public seminar will begin at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time in the TRIUMF
auditorium.  The seminar will be led by Robert McPherson, spokesperson of
the ATLAS Canada collaboration, a professor of physics at the University of
Victoria, and Institute of Particle Physics research scientist.  At about
3:30 p.m., representatives from TRIUMF and ATLAS Canada will be available to
take questions.  The results will also be presented and discussed at other
Canadian ATLAS institutions.

The session will complete by 4:00 p.m.  Registration by e-mail to
communications at triumf.ca is requested but not required.  

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