Matthias Schott

Bread and Butter Physics - W Boson Mass and Beyond

Abstract:

No new elementary particles have been discovered at the LHC since more than ten years. Does this imply, that collider physics becomes boring in the next decades? My clear answer is no! There are many open questions within the Standard Modell which can only be addressed at the LHC in the coming years, potentially opening the door to new physics. However, there will be a clear shift from direct searches towards precision measurements. Prominent examples are the recent measurements of the W boson mass but the long-standing discrepancy of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of selected and highly exciting results which are expected to be finalized in the coming years, focussing on the properties of the W boson, but also touch on the search for weakly interacting particles at the LHC at smaller experiments.