Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

The Standard Model is in good shape, apart possibly from g_μ- 2 and some niggling doubts about the electroweak data. Something like a Higgs boson is required to provide particle masses, but theorists are actively considering alternatives. The problems of flavour, unification and quantum gravity will require physics beyond the Standard Model, and astrophysics and cosmology also provide reasons to expect physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular to provide the dark matter and explain the origin of the matter in the Universe. Personally, I find supersymmetry to be the most attractive option for new physics at the TeV scale. The LHC should establish the origin of particle masses has good prospects for discovering dark matter, and might also cast light on unification and even quantum gravity. Important roles may also be played by lower-energy experiments, astrophysics and cosmology in the searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

12 pages, 5 figures, summary talk at the 2008 PANIC conference

References in corpus (16)

• Search for Neutral MSSM Higgs Bosons at LEP
• Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics
• Hadronic Uncertainties in the Elastic Scattering of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• Revisiting the Global Electroweak Fit of the Standard Model and Beyond with Gfitter
• The Baryogenesis Window in the MSSM
• Electric Dipole Moments in the MSSM Reloaded
• The muon g-2 and the bounds on the Higgs boson mass
• Low-Scale Technicolor at the Tevatron and LHC
• Astrophysical implications of hypothetical stable TeV-scale black holes
• B-Meson Observables in the Maximally CP-Violating MSSM with Minimal Flavour Violation
• Predictions for Supersymmetric Particle Masses in the CMSSM using Indirect Experimental and Cosmological Constraints
• Review of the Safety of LHC Collisions
• Sparticle Discovery Potentials in the CMSSM and GUT-less Supersymmetry-Breaking Scenarios
• Possibility of Catastrophic Black Hole Growth in the Warped Brane-World Scenario at the LHC
• Comments on claimed risk from metastable black holes
• Physics opportunities with future proton accelerators at CERN

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• Neutrino capture on tritium as a probe of flavor vacuum condensate and dark matter
• Adjoint quarks and fermionic boundary conditions
• Muon $g-2$ anomaly and non-locality
• Matter Parity Violating Dark Matter Decay in Minimal SO(10), Unification, Vacuum Stability and Verifiable Proton Decay
• Forward-backward Asymmetry and Branching Ratio of $B \rar K_1 \ell^+ \ell^-$ Transition in Supersymmetric Models
• Supersymmetric SU(5) Grand Unification for a Post Higgs Boson Era
• Testing the Ampère-Maxwell law on the photon mass and Lorentz-Poincaré symmetry violation with MMS multi-spacecraft data
• $\mu \to e\gamma$ in a supersymmetric radiative neutrino mass model
• Neutrino masses and mixing angles in a model with six Higgs triplets and $A_4$ symmetry
• A comparative study on $B \rar K^\ast \ell^+ \ell^-$ and $B \rar K_0^\ast (1430) \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays in the Supersymmetric Models
• Some implications of lepton flavor violating processes in a supersymmetric Type II seesaw model at TeV scale
• Study on the global minimum and $H\to \gamma \gamma$ in the Dirac scotogenic model
• Lorentz Symmetry Violation in Neutrinos in Curved Spacetime and its Consequences
• Axion like particles, fifth force and neutron interferometry
• Dynamics of Neutrino Wave Packet in the Tachyon-like Dirac Equation