Universe Colloquium: The Safest Routes to Islands Beyond the Standard Model

by Francesco Riva (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Wednesday 23 Apr 2014, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room (Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstrasse 2, Garching)

In the absence of direct discoveries, physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) can be parametrized by an effective field theory as an expansion in inverse powers of the New Physics scale. This expansion serves as a guide for precision searches. In fact, the leading term in this expansion coincides with the standard model: its symmetries and relations are well known and are being tested at colliders. In this talk Francesco will discuss the next order in the expansion, that parametrize the largest effects that can be expected from physics BSM. He will show that many relations persist, implying that not all the observables that we experimentally test are independent. For example, deviations in the differential distribution of h->Vff decays, are correlated with deformations of the couplings of vectors to fermions, that are already well measured at LEP at CERN. The Universe Colloquium is followed by a social gathering with wine and cheese.