The Hunt for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Author(s): Pran Nath, Brent Nelson, Hooman Davoudiasl, Bhaskar Dutta, Daniel Feldman, Zuowei Liu, Tao Han, Paul Langacker, Rabi Mohapatra, J W F Valle, Apostolos Pilaftsis, Dirk Zerwas, Shehu AbdusSalam, Claire Adam-Bourdarios, Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra, Benjamin Allanach, Baris Altunkaynak, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Howard Baer, Borut Bajc, Oliver Buchmüller, Marcela Carena, Rick Cavanaugh, Spencer Chang, Kiwoon Choi, Csaba Csaki, Sally Dawson, Fernando de Campos, Albert de Roeck, Michael Dührssen, Oscar J P Eboli, Jonathan R. Ellis, Henning Flächer, Haim Goldberg, Walter Grimus, Ulrich Haisch, Sven Heinemeyer, Martin Hirsch, Michael Holmes, Tarek Ibrahim, Gino Isidori, Gordon Kane, Kyoungchul Kong, Remi Lafaye, Greg Landsberg, Luis Lavoura, Jae Sik Lee, Jae-Seung Lee, Mariangela Lisanti, Dieter Lüst, Mauricio Bernardino Magro, Rakhi Mahbubani, Michal Malinský, Fabio Maltoni, Stefano Morisi, Margarete Mühlleitner, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Matthias Neubert, Keith Olive, Gilad Perez, Pavel Fileviez Perez, Tilman Plehn, Eduardo Ponton, Werner Porod, Fernando Quevedo, Michael Rauch, Diego A. Restrepo, Thomas Gerard Rizzo, Jörge Crispim Romao, Frédéric Ronga, Jose Santiago, Joseph Schechter, Goran Senjanovic, Jing Shao, Michael Spira, Stephan Stieberger, Zack Sullivan, Tim M. P. Tait, Xerxes Tata, Tomasz Robert Taylor, Manuel Toharia, Jay Wacker, Carlos E. M. Wagner, Lian Tao Wang, Georg Weiglein, Dieter Zeppenfeld, Kathryn Zurek
Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider presents an unprecedented opportunity to probe the realm of new physics in the TeV region and shed light on some of the core unresolved issues of particle physics. These include the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking, the origin of mass, the possible constituent of cold dark matter, new sources of CP violation needed to explain the baryon excess in the universe, the possible existence of extra gauge groups and extra matter, and importantly the path Nature chooses to resolve the hierarchy problem – is it supersymmetry or extra dimensions. Many models of new physics beyond the standard model contain a hidden sector which can be probed at the LHC. Additionally, the LHC will be a top factory and accurate measurements of the properties of the top and its rare decays will provide a window to new physics. Further, the LHC could shed light on the origin of neutralino masses if the new physics associated with their generation lies in the TeV region. Finally, the LHC is also a laboratory to test the hypothesis of TeV scale strings and D brane models. An overview of these possibilities is presented in the spirit that it will serve as a companion to the Technical Design Reports (TDRs) by the particle detector groups ATLAS and CMS to facilitate the test of the new theoretical ideas at the LHC. Which of these ideas stands the test of the LHC data will govern the course of particle physics in the subsequent decades.
Organisation(s): Particle Physics
External organisation(s): Northeastern University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Texas A&M University, University of Michigan, State University of New York, Stony Brook, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Princeton University, University of Maryland, College Park, Universitat de València, University of Manchester, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Cambridge, Universidad de Granada, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, University of Oklahoma, Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of California, Davis, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Cornell University, Universidade Estadual Paulista „Júlio de Mesquita Filho“, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Instituto Oceanográfico, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Universidad de Cantabria, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Alexandria University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Brown University, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Scientific Software Center, Columbia University in the City of New York, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Universidad de Antioquia, Instituto Superior Técnico, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Syracuse University, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Paul Scherrer Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of California, Irvine, University of Hawaii, Durham University
Journal: Nuclear Physics, Section B
Volume: 200-202
Pages: 185-417
No. of pages: 233
ISSN: 0550-3213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2010.03.001
Publication date: 2010
Peer reviewed: Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012: 103036 Theoretical physics
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