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SS18 – Abstract
Tao Han
(Pittsburg)
19.7.2018
The Higgs Boson & Beyond (PRETALK for students at 15:30 h)
With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN LHC, high energy physics has entered a new era. The completion of the “Standard Model” (SM) implies, for the first time ever, that we have a relativistic, quantum-mechanical, self-consistent theoretical framework, conceivably valid up to exponentially high energies, even to the Planck scale. Yet, the SM leaves many unanswered questions both from the theoretical and observational aspects. There are thus compelling reasons to believe that new physics beyond the SM is not far from our reach. I discuss the need for new physics, and motivate the future colliders beyond the LHC.
