The hierarchy problem and physics beyond the Standard Model

par Gautam Bhattacharyya (Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

jeudi 7 juil. 2016, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Paris

Auditorium (Annecy-le-Vieux)

After a brief introduction to the properties of the Standard Model Higgs boson (especially the bounds on its mass from various considerations before the eventual discovery of a standard-like Higgs boson at CERN), I will describe what our community calls `the hierarchy problem'. I will then mention two broad ways to address this problem by associating the Higgs boson with some symmetries; more specifically, the Higgs boson could arise from a supersymmetric theory, or, it could be a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson which arises in a composite Higgs scenario.