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Theory Summary
Aspen Winter 2008
Scott Thomas
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The Final Theory Summary
of the Pre-LHC Era
Aspen Winter 2008
Scott Thomas
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The Long Wait is Almost Over – But Let’s Look Back One Last Time
Renomalizable Standard Model
. Neutrino Masses ML À TeV
. Gravity MP À TeV
Dark Matter
Dark Energy
Primoridial Density Fluctuations (Inflation)
Baryon Asymmetry
Laboratory Experiments
Cosmological Observations
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What Good Are Theorists?
• Underlying Framework Explain Hierarchies
• Model Building Implement Framework (Within Constraints)
• Signal Building Suggest Novel Signatures
• Search Strategies Extract Signals from Data
• Measurement Techniques Extract Information from Data
• Calculations Compare Data with Theory
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Technicolor / Walking / Extended
Supersymmetry
Warped Throat
Deconstruction/Little Higgs
Twin Higgs
Emergent / Composite Gauge Symmetry
Other
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Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (Hierarchy)
(Technical) Naturalness
(Mild) Technical Naturalness
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Technicolor / Walking / Extended
Supersymmetry
Warped Throat
Deconstruction/Little Higgs
Twin Higgs
Emergent / Composite Gauge Symmetry
Other
…….
It Doesn’t Solve Anything –
But it Has a Name, Roni Harnik
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (Hierarchy)
(Technical) Naturalness
(Mild) Technical Naturalness
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The most Generic Form of Any of These Frameworks for EWSB is in Conflict with Observation
The Renormalizable Standard Model Works Too Well
(Supplement Only Neutrino Masses + Gravity)
No Evidence for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the TeV Scale
Precision EW Chen
Higgs Sector Grojean, Pomarol
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The most Generic Form of Any of These Frameworks for EWSB is in Conflict with Observation
The Renormalizable Standard Model Works Too Well
(Supplement Only Neutrino Masses + Gravity)
That’s Interesting – We’ve Learned …..
No Evidence for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the TeV Scale
1. There are Mechanisms Within a Framework which Suppress Processes in Conflict with Observation
2. These Frameworks Should be Abandoned
Perhaps the Ideology of Naturalness was Misguided
Precision EW Chen
Higgs Sector Grojean, Pomarol
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Flavor Hierarchies
Large Hierarchies Within the Quark and Lepton Yukawas
+ cij /M2 + f
fH
f
f
f
f
If M Near TeV Scale or Additional State Which Carry Flavor Near the Weak Scale – Potential Conflict With Observation
M À TeV Scale – No Observable Flavor Violating Effects Beyond Renormalizable Standard Model
ij
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Minimal Flavor Violation
cik » ij jk Yukawas Characterize Magnitude of Flavor Violation
cij Bottom Quark Sector Aligned
M » TeV - Almost Enough
Perez
Interesting Levels of Flavor Violation in up-Quark Sector
D-D mixing , t c Z, …..
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Warped Throat Flavor Violation Csaki
Yukawa Hierarchies from fermion-fermion-Higgs Overlap in Bulk
Mild GIM in Bulk Enough
M » TeV
Ingredients Generic in String Theory
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Radiatively Generated Flavor Hierarchies
Generational Hierarchy from Number of Loops
If M not too Large – Interesting Flavor Violation Possible
e Conversion
Dobrescu
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Neutrino Masses Kayser
• Mass Ordering in Spectrum
• 13
• Separating CP Violating and . Matter Effects
We Have Beautiful Flavor Data in the Quark, Lepton, and Neutrino Sectors
Underlying Framework and Model for Origin of Flavor
Knowledge of Physics at the TeV Scale Necessary Ingredient to Extrapolate to Flavor Scale
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New Flavor Horizons at the LHC
If any New States are Discovered with Carry Flavor – Will Open Up a New Arena for Flavor Physics
SUSY: Squarks + Sleptons
Warped Throat: KK Quarks and Leptons
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No Positive Hints for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the TeV Scale in Non-Renormalizable / Irrelevant Interactions
Any Positive Hints in Renormalizable / Relevant Interactions?
Renormalization Scale (GeV)
1-1
2-1
3-1
SUSY: 1. Gauge Coupling Unification
2. Top Quark IR Quasi-Fixed Point
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Signal Building
Leptons Photons Missing Transverse Energy Jets
Objects:
Exotic Objects: New (Long Lived) States
Displaced Vertices - Leptons, Photons, Jets Highly Ionizing Tracks Highly Ionizing to Minimum Ionizing Kinks Highly Ionizing Stopped Track Out of Time Decays Charge Exchange Tracks Charge Changing Tracks Quirks Unparticles High Multiplicity Mush …….
Fully Exploit the Discovery Potential of the LHC !
More General Context In Which to Consider Signals
Long Lived Stops Canepa
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Hidden Valleys Zurek
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Non-Standard Higgs Decays Kaplan
Higgs Branching Ratios can be Drastically Modified Compared with Standard Model Expectation
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HarnikQuirks
Hidden Sector ¿ mQ
Highly Excited Open String States
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UnParticles Fox (1st Place ACP 2008 Ski Race)
(Nearly) Conformal Sector
Introduce Gap
Modified Phase Space : Non-Integer Dimension
Hidden Valley
Free Particle
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Search Strategies
Global Signature Based Search
Mrenna
Large Number of kinematic Variables in Large Number of Final States
Compare with MonteCarlo (Iteratively Tuned)
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Measurement Techniques Kong
(1 / )( d / dx) = f(x) Odd Order Polynomial Degree 4J+1
x = m23/m23max
Spin J
Partner Particles: J = ½ , J = 0
Superficially Similar Signatures
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Note: No Initial state Charge Asymmetry Required
SUSYSame Spin
Even Easier with Other Mass OrderingsBetter Discrimination with non-Degenerate States – O(x5) Polynomial
Determing the Spin of Partner Particles
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More General Spectrum – Same Ordering
Coefficient of x3 term in Invariant Distribution
Additionally x5 term Invariant Distribution
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One-Loop Calculations Forde
i ij ijki ij ijk
b c d
Started as Technological Application of String Theory
This Momentum Routing Based Organization of Diagrams Might be Well Adapted
1. An Effective Field Theory Approach to Resumation
2. Efficient Phase Space Monte Carlo Integration
Cutting Techniques
Rational Terms D = 4-
Recursion Relations, Bootstrap
…….
Numerical Implemetation General One-Loop : Black Hat
Feynman Diagram Techniques Are Rapidly Becoming Outdated
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Dark Matter
• Light Moduli - Axion
• Gapped Dark Sector
• Non-Thermal Relic
• WIMP Thermal Freeze Out Relic DM
SM
SM
DM
WIMP with Electroweak Quantum Numbers
CDM h2 ' 0.1 for m » 1-3 TeV
SUSY with Bino-Like Neutralino LSP R-Parity Conservation
CDM h2 À 0.1 for m » few 100 GeV
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Baer Special Regions of SUSY Parameter Space CDM h2 ' 0.1
• Co-LSP Enhancement m / m < 1/20
Bino-Higgsino Neutralino m1 '
Stau-Neutralino m ' m
• Resonant Enhancement
mA ' 2 m
Bino-Higgsino
Particles Emitted from Bottom of Decay Chain Very Soft
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A priori Calcualtion of CDM h2 from LHC Measurements
SUSY:
Assume Couplings
Use Masses + Mixing Angles
Model Independent:
Very Difficult
ILC – Magnitude of Couplings May be Possible
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CarithersProbe Dark Energy Equation of State / p - . Precision Measurement of Expansion History
Dark Energy
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• Quantum Gravity - Local Quantum Field Theory
Zero Point Energy Of Fields :
Volume Extensive
UV sensitive
States = i | ni i
Quantum Contribution to Dark Energy
• Quantum Gravity – Holographic Ultraviolet-Infrared Mixing
Holographic Screen(FRW - Apparent Horizon )
Redshift
(Very) High Precision Measurement of Expansion History z » 1 - 2 Might Probe Holographic UV-IR Nature of Gravity Through Quantum Dark Energy
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Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity at the TeV Scale
R-1 » TeV MP À R-1 (Tuned)
R-1 » MP » TeV
E/MP > 1 Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity Processes
• Ultraviolet – Infrared / Holographic Properties
Fixed Angle Cross Section Grows with Energy
Space – Time Uncertainty Relation
Inconsistent with Local Quantum Field Theory
Area Extensive Degrees of Freedom (Volume Extensive No Operational Meaning)
Boundary Hologram – Gravitating Space-Time Emergent Concept
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ijRs
• Hoop Conjecture ) If Impact Parameter lP ¿ b · Rs . i,j Fall Through Horizon Form Black Hole . Black Hole Decays by Hawking Evaporation to . High Multiplicity Low Energy Quanta
Very High Energy Scattering Long Distance Low Energy
Einstein Gravity at Long Distances
Very High Energy Scattering
• Holographic UV-IR Properties of Gravity Evident
Cross Section and Multiplicity Grow with Energy
Exclusive Hard Scattering Processes Shut off . (Cloaked Behind Horizon)
Heralds the End of the Experimental Investigation of . Short Distance Physics
!!
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High Energy Scattering Perturbative String Theory
lp ¿ b ¿ ls b À Rs
Higher Energy Scattering Resolves More String Oscillator Mode Zero Point Fluctuations
String Fire Ball
(Susskind, Uglum)
pp ! ij (Meade, Randall)
Current Model Independent Bound: Tevatron Monojet Search MP > 800 GeV
Black Holes / High Entropy Fire Balls Could be Produced at LHC
mij (TeV)
d
/ d
mij
(p
b/G
eV
)
String = 0.3 0.1
Pointlike QCD Exclusive 22 Shuts Off
Inclusive 2 String Fire Ball
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Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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Heavy Slowly Moving Particle
Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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Heavy Slowly Moving Particle
Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Full Simulation (Landsberg)
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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Heavy Slowly Moving Particle
Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Full Simulation (Landsberg)
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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Heavy Slowly Moving Particle
Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Full Simulation (Landsberg)
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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Heavy Slowly Moving Particle
Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Full Simulation (Landsberg)
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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Heavy Slowly Moving Particle
Particle Enters Interaction Region
Hard Scattering Process
Thermalization to High Entropy State and Slow Evaporation
Full Simulation (Landsberg)
Black Hole / High Entropy Object Formation in Collision
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We Are About to Enter a New Era of Discovery in High Energy Physics !
We Should All Look Forward to Future Theoretical Summaries at Aspen Winter Conferences in the LHC Era
The Long Wait is Almost Over ……