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MARKUS KLUTE: Welcome
to this short recording

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of our 8.701 lecture.

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With this short
discussion, I want

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to introduce the teaching staff
to this course, the instructor,

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which is myself, Markus
Klute, and our TA Justin.

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So I am faculty in the
physics department since 2009.

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I received my diploma, which
is my undergraduate study,

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in Germany and also my PhD
from the University in Bonn.

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I-- with research on the
OPAL experiment, which

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is an experiment on the large
electron positron collider

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at CERN, on the ATLAS
experiment, which

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is in the Large Hadron
Collider, also at CERN, and also

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on the D0 experiment, which
was one of the experiments

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at the Tevatron in
Chicago at Fermilab.

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So after my PhD, I joined
MIT as a postdoc, and later

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as a research scientist.

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And I worked on
the CDF experiment

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at the Tevatron and
the CMS experiment

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at the Large Hadron Collider.

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In 2007, I accepted a
faculty position in Germany,

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where I spent about a year,
before coming back to MIT.

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It's not a surprise--
this is CV--

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that I-- my interest
is in particle physics

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at the energy frontier.

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I work on design,
the construction,

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the commissioning of detectors.

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We made major contribution
to the hydronic calorimeter

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in CMS and also the
data acquisition system.

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Most recently, I was leading the
software and computing project

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within the CMS experiment.

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Most exciting-- the physics.

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And in 2012, we were able
to discover the Higgs

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boson with the CMS experiment.

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And so ATLAS had a
similar experience.

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And since then, we were able to
look more deeply, more closely

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into how the Higgs boson--

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case.

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We were able to show
couplings to W and Z bosons,

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to photons via loops of
top quarks and W bosons.

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But then we looked
into whether or not

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Higgs bosons couple of
fermions like electrons.

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So we were able to show
couplings to taus--

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those are the heaviest
brothers of the electrons--

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and most recently,
couplings of Higgs

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bosons to muons, which are
second-generation particles.

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So this exploitation and
exploration of the Higgs boson

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is really at the center
of my research portfolio.

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We don't just spend our
time analyzing the data

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from the LHC, but we
also look whether or not

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new machines can teach
us important information

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about the Higgs boson.

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When I'm not doing research,
I have a little family

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who I like to spend time with.

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I used to play soccer quite
a bit, and also tennis.

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But when you get older, those
kind of contact interactions

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are not very useful
for you anymore.

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You get injured quite a bit.

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So I left it to the running
part of those activities.

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And I picked up
running quite a bit.

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In a couple of weeks
into the semester,

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everyone, my and the first
virtual Boston Marathon--

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so some of those videos might
have a little bit of a fighting

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face in front of you.

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But I hope everything
is going well.

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Our teaching TA is Justin.

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Justin is a graduate
student in my group.

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He's in the second year.

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He took this very class with
Mike Williams last fall.

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So he should be well-prepared
to guide you and answer

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your questions.

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He received his
undergraduate degree

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from the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor,

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where he was working
on the g-2 experiment.

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We'll probably talk about
those kind of experiments

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later in the class as well.

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Recently, he has been
taking up running as well.

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But he spends, also, time
on rowing and hiking.

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So we, both of us, look
forward to meeting you

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in this first class
on Tuesday and hope

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that we have a good time
together with 8.701.