Keeping the Standard Model Safe

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:18060020,
            doi = {10.48660/18060020},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/18060020},
            author = {Mann, Robert},
            keywords = {Quantum Matter, Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Keeping the Standard Model Safe},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2018},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:18060020 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/18060020}}
          }
          

Abstract

An increasing number of researchers are considering the possibility that the Standard Model, appropriately extended, can attain an interacting ultraviolet fixed point. Such a theory could, in the Wilsonian sense, be regarded as a fundamental theory. I will describe recent work that shows this goal is attainable in principle by adding gauged vector-like fermions to the Standard Model, in the limit of a large number of fermion fields. With this proof-of-principle demonstration, the challenge now to find realistic asymptotically safe extensions of the Standard Model with interesting and falsifiable phenomenological signatures