Theory Vision talk at LHCP2018

Abstract

Particle physics is sometimes described as going through a crisis, notably because of the continued lack of discovery of physics beyond the Standard Model, despite the LHC having operated at close to maximal energy for some years now. Here, I argue that we should not underestimate the significance of recent progress and future prospects in the Higgs sector of the Standard Model. This is especially the case for the Yukawa interactions and the structure of the Higgs potential, both of which are unlike any sector that has been established and stress-tested before in particle physics. Other topics that I touch on include the still substantial scope for increasing the reach of searches at LHC, the increasing role of precision in hadron-collider physics and the rich interplay that is developing between heavy-ion and proton-proton physics.

13 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2018)

References in corpus (7)

• Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks
• Observation of $H\to b\bar{b}$ decays and $VH$ production with the ATLAS detector
• Higgs-dependent Yukawa couplings
• Probing the strange Higgs coupling at lepton colliders using light-jet flavor tagging
• Search for resonances in the mass spectrum of muon pairs produced in association with b quark jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 8 and 13 TeV
• Final-state interactions of the Higgs boson in quark-gluon matter
• All-orders behaviour and renormalons in top-mass observables