Professor Klute provides an update on the work at the Large Hadron Collider. He discusses that the Standard Model is incomplete. The projects at the Large Hadron Collider search for the missing information. Markus Klute’s group played a central role in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, and continues the search for subatomic particles that can reveal the origin of the universe and the nature of matter. In this update on the LHC Dr. Klute explains how the LHC experiments probe for unknown particles, and he discusses the recent announcement of the future plans of the LHC. Image: Belmont Media Center
Markus Klute joined MIT in 2009, and in 2020 he was also awarded the prestigious Humboldt Professor of Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Professor Klute’s research in particle physics represents the energy frontier in the design, construction and commissioning of particle detectors, and also in the analysis of the data collected. In 2012 his group played a central role in the discovery of the Higgs boson using the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The discovery of the Higgs boson will help to determine the origin of mass in matter as well as various symmetry mechanisms. Dr. Klute is also involved in the LHC search for physics beyond the Standard Model. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and a member of the scientific advisory board of the PRISMA+ cluster of excellence in Mainz.