ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Biro Tamas <biro.tamas AT wigner.mta.hu>]

 Tisztelt Kollégák!

 A következő Wigner kollokviumi előadás április 5-én, kedden
 14:00 órakor kezdődik a KFKI campus 1. épület tanácstermében

Cím/Title: Understanding Higgs through Liquid Crystals, and 
Understanding Liquid Crystals through Higgs

Előadó/Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Selinger (Kent State University)

Kivonat/abstract

The Higgs mechanism is famous as a phenomenon in high-energy physics, 
which connects fundamental considerations of order and symmetry with the 
masses of particles. Indeed, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded 
to Peter Higgs and François Englert for their theoretical work on this 
mechanism, which was recently confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs 
boson at CERN. However, the Higgs mechanism does not only occur in 
high-energy physics; it is important in many areas of physics. In this 
talk, we present specific examples of the Higgs mechanism in liquid 
crystals, with visualizations of massless and massive excitations. By 
drawing analogies between different areas of physics, we gain insight 
into the Higgs mechanism for elementary particles, and into the newly 
discovered twist-bend nematic phase of liquid crystals.

Részletek/Details:  https://indico.kfki.hu/event/363/


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