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SUMMARY:Rare particle decays: stress-test of the Standard Model and a wind
 ow to the unknown
DTSTART:20231127T161500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Radoslav Marchevski\, High Energy Physics Laboratory RM
 \, EPFL\nThe facilities at CERN offer a unique opportunity to study the fu
 ndamental properties of particles and their      interactions. The St
 andard Model of particle physics has proven incredibly successful in descr
 ibing microscopic phenomena and outlines the limits of our knowledge today
 . To push beyond these limits\, we continue our exploration by testing the
  predictions of the Standard Model with greater and greater precision usin
 g intense particle beams and state-of-the-art experimental techniques.\n\n
 In this lecture\, I will show how we can use rare processes to precisely t
 est the predictions of our best particle physics theory and greatly constr
 ain the space for possible physics beyond the Standard Model.\n\nBio\nBorn
  in Svishtov\, Bulgaria\, in 1990\, Radoslav received his BSc degree in As
 trophysics from Sofia University in 2013. He decided to pursue research in
  particle physics and in Mainz\, Germany where he was accepted as a fast-t
 rack fellow. He completed his PhD studies in 2019 as a part of the NA62 ex
 perimental group led by Dr. Rainer Wanke\, sharing his time between Mainz 
 and CERN. Radoslav was actively involved in the construction\, commissioni
 ng and operation of the NA62 hadron calorimeter and had a leading role in 
 the measurement of the ultra-rare kaon decay K+→π+νν\, which is the f
 lagship measurement of NA62. He continued his research as a postdoctoral r
 esearch fellow at CERN and the University of Florence. In 2022 he joined t
 he ATLAS group at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel\, working on
  novel techniques to search for particles beyond the Standard Model.\n\nRa
 doslav’s main research interest is oriented towards the study of extreme
 ly rare processes\, in particular in the kaon sector. Rare kaon processes 
 are among the most suppressed in the Standard Model and have high potentia
 l of uncovering physics beyond the Standard Model.\n\nJoining EPFL in Janu
 ary 2023\, Radoslav is expanding the scope of particle physics research at
  EPFL and Switzerland by adding kaon physics and participation in the NA62
  experiment to its list. He is also part of the LHCb experiment\, involved
  in physics analyses and detector development.\n 
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