From the Higgs boson to the search for new physics: the prospects for the LHC programme at CERN

<!--HTML--><h2> <strong><span>From </span><span lang="EN-GB">the Higgs boson to the search for new physics: the prospects for the LHC programme at CERN</span></strong><br /> <br /> Christmas lecture - in French, with simultaneous interpreting into English</h2> The discovery of the Higgs boson, which was the subject of this year&#39;s Nobel prize for<img alt="PB" height="150" src="http://outreach.web.cern.ch/outreach/evenements/PhB%20Web.jpg" style="float: right;" width="150" /> physics, has brought us the missing piece of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.&nbsp; However, many observations (such as the predominance of matter over antimatter in the Universe, the existence of dark matter observed by the cosmologists and even the fact that the Higgs boson has a relatively small mass) underline that our knowledge of the structure of matter and its interactions is incomplete.&nbsp;&nbsp; A wide-ranging programme of research spanning several decades to come thus awaits us at the LHC.&nbsp; Philippe Bloch will begin his lecture by giving us the latest news on the Higgs boson, and will then go on to explain how developments at the LHC and its experiments, which will resume in 2015, will explore these fundamental questions about our Universe.<br /> <br /> <em>Philippe Bloch is an experimental physicist.&nbsp; A member of the CMS experiment at the LHC, he is currently the Head of CERN&#39;s Physics Department.<br /> <br /> __________<br /> <br /> <span><strong>Du boson de Higgs &agrave; la recherche d&rsquo;une nouvelle physique : les perspectives du programme LHC au CERN</strong></span></em> <h2> Conf&eacute;rence de No&euml;l en fran&ccedil;ais &ndash; traduction simultan&eacute;e en anglais</h2> La d&eacute;couverte du Boson de Higgs, couronn&eacute;e par le prix Nobel cette ann&eacute;e, a apport&eacute; la <img alt="PB" height="150" src="http://outreach.web.cern.ch/outreach/FR/evenements/PhB%20Web.jpg" style="float: right;" width="150" /> brique manquante au Mod&egrave;le&nbsp; Standard de la Physique des particules.&nbsp; Mais de nombreuses observations (par exemple la pr&eacute;&eacute;minence de la mati&egrave;re par rapport &agrave; l&#39;antimati&egrave;re dans l&#39;Univers,&nbsp; l&#39;existence de la mati&egrave;re noire observ&eacute;e en cosmologie ou m&ecirc;me la masse relativement l&eacute;g&egrave;re du Boson de Higgs) prouvent que notre connaissance de la structure de la mati&egrave;re et de ses interactions est&nbsp; incompl&egrave;te.&nbsp;&nbsp; Un important programme d&#39;&eacute;tudes s&rsquo;ouvre donc au LHC pour les d&eacute;cennies &agrave; venir.&nbsp; Apres avoir donn&eacute; les derni&egrave;res nouvelles du Boson de Higgs, Philippe Bloch expliquera comment les d&eacute;veloppements du LHC et de ses exp&eacute;riences, &agrave; partir du red&eacute;marrage en 2015,&nbsp; exploreront ces questions fondamentales sur notre Univers.<br /> <br /> <em>Philippe Bloch est physicien exp&eacute;rimentateur.&nbsp; Il est membre de l&#39;exp&eacute;rience CMS au LHC et dirige actuellement le D&eacute;partement de Physique du CERN </em><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />