Research

For a long time, the Higgs boson was one of the missing pieces of the Standard Model (SM). It has been predicted in 1964 as a consequence of a mechanism which explains the masses of the known particles. In July 2012, the discovery of a Higgs-like particle has been announced by the ATLAS and CMS experiment.

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a well motivated extension of the Standard Model (SM), introducing a new fundamental symmetry between fermions and bosons. It provides elegant solutions to a series of shortcomings of the SM, such as the Dark Matter problem.

The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle in the Standard Model. At the LHC, top quarks are copiously produced and their properties (production mechanisms, mass, charge) can therefore be measured with unprecedented accuracy.