Speaker
Mr
Tevong You
(King's College London)
Description
Particle physics in the last century can be described as a series of effective theories, each
predicting its own range of validity beyond which a more fundamental theory must take over.
This program culminated in the Standard Model (SM), with all its constituent particles
now experimentally established following the 2012 discovery of a Higgs boson. The SM is a
renormalizable theory valid to arbitrarily high scales but there is evidence new degrees of
freedom must exist. If this new physics is decoupled at higher energies, as suggested by null
experimental searches so far, then the SM must also be considered as an effective field theory
with higher-dimensional operators suppressed by a cut-off scale. The sensitivity to this scale
is quantified by the effects of operator coefficients on Higgs physics, triple-gauge couplings,
and electroweak precision tests. Limits on these Wilson coefficients can be translated to a
particular UV theory by integrating out heavy particles. As an example we illustrate this
for a stop in the MSSM using the path integral method to obtain the one-loop effective
Lagrangian. A universality in the result facilitates matching to any other model.
Primary authors
Dr
Drozd Aleksandra
(King's College London)
Prof.
Ellis John
(CERN)
Dr
Quevillon Jeremie
(King's College London)
Mr
Tevong You
(King's College London)
