Speaker
Matt Gonderinger
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Description
Though the discovery of a 125 GeV candidate Higgs boson resolves the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking, questions remain regarding physics beyond the Standard Model, the energy scale associated with new physics, and the nature of dark matter. I will discuss several extensions of the Standard Model that address these questions. The question arises whether or not the very minimum of the scalar potential responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking is stable up to the fundamental Planck energy scale. My research into the vacuum stability of these models provides insight into the new physics, the energy scale, and the composition of dark matter.
Primary author
Matt Gonderinger
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
