Microscopic Origins of the Weak Scale and the Power Spectrum of the LHC

by Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

Wednesday 5 Sept 2018, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

I will discuss mass and scale hierarchies from a general perspective and argue that the hints we have observed for new physics at very high energy scales may in fact be a smokescreen, with the new physics lying much closer to accessible energies.  I will then discuss recent progress in model building, focussing on clockwork models, along with their associated linear dilaton continuum limit, including some comments on connections with string-motivated scenarios.  The last part of the talk will focus on the LHC phenomenology of this class of models, including a new LHC search strategy to look for evidence of new physics in Fourier space.