Abstract: So the Higgs has been found—but where is new physics? Beyond the discovery of the Higgs boson and the measurements of its properties, the LHC was designed as a discovery machine for TeV-scale physics. Guided by naturalness arguments, there were high hopes in finding new physics “just around the (LEP) corner”, i.e. new particles in the 100–1000 GeV mass range. Unfortunately, after Run I of the LHC no significant excess was observed in the search for new physics in spite of the large variety of analyses performed by the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations. If new physics connected to electroweak symmetry breaking is indeed present, it is either well hidden, somewhat “unnatural” (in the case where the BSM particles are rather heavy), or it has experimental signatures not yet looked for or not yet thought of.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-09-21
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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