Particle physics beyond the Standard Model Students conference

Europe/Zurich
4/S-030 (CERN)

4/S-030

CERN

30
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Elina Fuchs (CERN)
Description

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is incomplete because it cannot account e.g. for the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe, it does not provide a Dark Matter candidate and does not explain the hierarchy of scales between the Higgs mass and the Planck scale of gravity. Therefore we will study extensions of the SM that address these shortcomings, as well as search strategies for the manifestations of such models. This lecture prepares the students to start research in particle physics.

  • Block lecture and exercises for one week with 1.5 LVS.
  • The lecture will take place at CERN, Geneva.
  • The lecture will be given an English. Questions can also be asked in German.
  • This lecture covers several models and methods of particle physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), such as extended Higgs sectors, Dark Matter, naturalness, and experimental searches.
  • The program also contains a guided tour and visits to the CERN exhibition (tour, Microcosm and Universe of Particles im Globe).
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Participants
  • Aaron Lehnert
  • Agnese Mariotti
  • Alexander Müller
  • Althea Cappelli
  • Avital Sievers
  • Binh Tran
  • Bjarne Herrmann
  • Finn Eric Feuerstake
  • Fiona Kirk
  • Gina Kleinsteinberg
  • Ioannis Polychronakos Magkafas
  • Jan Richter
  • Johanna Lohmann
  • Luka Petersen
  • Magdalena Misslisch
  • Mahir Ertürk
  • Marco Menen
  • Noah Leon Göb
  • Oleksandr Naumenko
  • Prithvi Raj Timalsina
  • Sulabh Shrestha
  • Vivian Sattler
    • Introduction and SM: Welcome, motivation and practical information
    • Introduction and SM: Review of the SM
    • 10:40
      Coffee break
    • Introduction and SM: Review of the SM
      Convener: Elina Fuchs (CERN)
    • 12:15
      Lunch break and group picture at blue accelerator parts at R1
    • 13:30
      Pick up your CERN card from building 55
    • Exercises: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Mechanism in the SM
    • Visit: Workshop: Build your own cloud chamber
    • Visit: Guided tour to the Synchrocyclotron (SC) and ATLAS: meet at SC (building 300)
      Convener: Elina Fuchs (CERN)
    • Exercises: Homework/ read literature
    • 12:00
      Lunch break
    • Introduction and SM: Shortcomings of the Standard Model II
    • 14:30
      Coffee break
    • Extended Higgs sectors: General aspects and SM+singlet
    • 15:55
      Coffee break
    • Exercises
    • Extended Higgs sectors: Two Higgs Doublet Models
    • Composite Higgs
    • Visit: Microcosm
    • Supersymmetry
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Extra Dimensions
    • New approaches to the hierarchy problem
    • 14:45
      Coffee break
    • Exercises
    • Dark Matter models
    • Visit: Universe of Particles in the Globe
    • Experimental searches: Direct searches and precision tests at colliders
    • Experimental searches: 10 years with the Higgs boson
    • Experimental searches: Future Colliders
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Exercises
    • Experimental searches: Low-energy, high-precision searches for New Physics
    • Conclusion: Hostel/ time for questions (seminar room not available)
    • Experimental searches: Collider II and summary of models
    • Conclusion: Course evaluation
    • Conclusion: Organization (signature, follow-up online sessions, homework)
    • 12:00
      Lunch (optional)