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The Standard Model: Alchemy and Astrology
Joseph D. Lykken
An brief unconventional review of Standard Model physics, containing no plots.
Moriond Electroweak 2006: Theory Summary
Joseph D. Lykken
A concise look at the big picture of particle physics, including the status of the Standard Model, neutrinos, supersymmetry, extra dimensions and cosmology. Based upon the theoreti…
Phenomenology Beyond the Standard Model
Joseph D. Lykken
An elementary review of models and phenomenology for physics beyond the Standard Model (excluding supersymmetry). The emphasis is on LHC physics. Based upon a talk given at the Phy…
Visible Sector Supersymmetry Breaking Revisited
Piyush Kumar, Joseph D. Lykken
We revisit the possibility of "visible sector" SUSY models: models which are straightforward renormalizable extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), where SU…
Four-Dimensional Superstring Models
Joseph D. Lykken
These lectures from the 1995 Trieste Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology give an elementary introduction to perturbative superstring theory, superstring phenomenolog…