Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242
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While the Standard Model of Particle Physics has been well tested and verified with high precision within the current energy limits of present day colliders, it is known that the Standard Model is an incomplete theory and there are several reasons to expect that new phenomena should appear at the TeV energy scale. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is in its final stage of commissioning. When it begins operations in late 2009 it will be the largest scientific instrument on the planet and will provide a crucial new capability to answer some of the most fundamental questions in particle physics. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two major experiments at the LHC which will study the phenomenon of electroweak symmetry breaking in order to shed light on the most pressing issue in particle physics: the origin of mass. I will discuss the potential of CMS to observe possible new physics at this new energy frontier and the challenges and strategies for these searches.
