PIRSA:13030095

The Higgs confronts 3 universes at the LHC

APA

Luty, M. (2013). The Higgs confronts 3 universes at the LHC. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/13030095

MLA

Luty, Markus. The Higgs confronts 3 universes at the LHC. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mar. 13, 2013, https://pirsa.org/13030095

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:13030095,
            doi = {10.48660/13030095},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/13030095},
            author = {Luty, Markus},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Higgs confronts 3 universes at the LHC},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2013},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:13030095 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/13030095}}
          }
          

Markus Luty University of California, Davis

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Abstract

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson is a fundamental advance in particle physics. This talk gives a theorist's perspective of the significance of this discovery. The Higgs boson was proposed in the 1960s, but it is best understood in the context of the quest to understand the weak interactions, which began with Fermi's theory of weak interactions almost 80 years ago. This has led to three very different paradigms for the structure of fundamental interactions at the TeV scale: supersymmetry, compositeness/extra dimensions, and anthropic selection. The Large Hadron Collider is the experimentum crucis for deciding between these different possible universes, and the discovery of the Higgs is a crucial clue. This talk will describe these paradigms, the implications of the Higgs discovery for them, and the outlook for further discoveries that would decide between them.