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Weizmann
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Contact Information Tel : 972-8-9342040 Secretariat: |
Current Research Interests
The underlying assumption of scientific thinking is that the behavior of a system
can be understood, to a large extent, by the knowledge of its constituents and the
interaction between them. Consequently, the study of the smallest particle in nature
has a special role - it can 'explain' everything. The tiniest particles known to mankind
are the subject matter of High Energy Physics. During the last 35 years a model which
describes with unprecedented success the world of these miniscule entities and their
relation was built. The model was put to numerous tests and survived all of them
without revealing a hint of a problem. Yet, some of the model's predictions are
not yet experimentally confirmed (e.g. the existence of the Higgs boson) and some
theoretical considerations indicate that something completely new must be
'just around the corner' (e.g. supersymmetry). The search for the missing
Higgs boson and the search for the expected deviations from the model predictions have
been the subject of my work in the last few years.
This work will reach a crucial stage in 2007 when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
will start operating and the ATLAS detector will initiate its data collection stage.
The Higgs boson should be discovered by ATLAS in a few years. If not we will have
to reexamine the whole theory of the field. Supersymmetry is likely to be discovered
and maybe a solution to the dark matter puzzle will also emerge.
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