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DECLINE AND FALL OF THE STANDARD MODEL?
JOHN ELLIS Theoretical Physics Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 E-mail: John.Ellis@cern.ch
Motivations for physics beyond the Standard Model are reviewed, with particular emphasis on super- symmetry at the TeV scale. Constraints on the minimal supersyymetric extension of the Standard Model with universal soft supersymmetry-breaking terms (CMSSM) are discussed. These are also combined with the supersymmetric interpretation of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The prospects for observing supersymmetry at accelerators are reviewed using benchmark scenarios to focus the discussion. Prospects for other experiments including the detection of cold dark matter, µ → eγ and related processes, as well as proton decay are also discussed.
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1 Introduction ‘constant’, which recent data suggest is non- zero 2, and may not even be constant. Talk- ing of cosmology, we would need at least one The empire of the Standard Model has re- extra parameter to produce an inflationary sisted all attacks by accelerator data. Never- potential, and at least one other to generate theless, we theorists are driven to overcome the baryon asymmetry, which cannot be ex- our ignorance of the barbarian territory be- plained within the Standard Model. yond its frontiers. In the gauge sector, the Standard Model has three independent gauge Confronted by our ignorance of so much couplings and (potentially) a CP-violating barbarian territory, we legions of theorists or- phase in QCD. In the Yukawa sector, it ganize our explorations on three main fronts: has six random-seeming quark masses, three unification – the quest for a single framework charged-lepton masses, three weak mixing for all gauge interactions, flavour – the quest angles and the Kobayashi-Maskawa phase. for explanations of the proliferation of quark Finally, the symmetry-breaking sector has at and lepton types, their mixings and CP vio- least two free parameters. Moreover, this list lating phases, and mass – the quest for the of 19 parameters in the Standard Model begs origin of particle masses and an explanation the more fundamental questions of the origins why they are so much smaller than the Planck mass m 1019 GeV. Beyond all these be- of the particle quantum numbers. As if this P ∼ were not enough, non-accelerator neutrino yonds, other scouting parties of theorists seek experiments 1 now convince us that we need a Theory of Everything that includes grav- three neutrino mass parameters, three neu- ity, reconciles it with quantum mechanics, ex- trino mixing angles and three CP-violating plains the origin of space-time and why we phases in the neutrino sector: one observ- live in four dimensions (if we do so). able in oscillation experiments and two that Physics beyond the Standard Model is affect ββ0ν experiments, without even talk- therefore a very broad subject. However, ing about the mechanism of neutrino mass many aspects are discussed here by other generation. Moreover, we should not for- speakers: electroweak flavour physics 3, CP get about gravity, with at least two parame- 4 5 6 violation , the Higgs sector , gµ 2 , ters to understand: Newton’s constant G 7 8− N ≡ searches for new particles , neutrinos , dark m−2 (1019 GeV)−2 and the cosmological P ∼
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1 Data dress the prospects for understanding gµ 2 − -5 in supersymmetric models, the prospects for 103ε detecting sparticles directly at present and 1 future colliders, and the prospects for non- Figure 1. Predictions for the radiative corrections ²i collider experiments, including the searches in the Standard Model and a minimal one-generation 14 for dark matter, µ eγ and proton decay. model are compared with the precision electroweak → data 13.
2 The Electroweak Vacuum variant of technicolour might emerge that is The generation of particle masses requires the consistent with the data, but for now we fo- breaking of gauge symmetry in the vacuum: cus on elementary Higgs models.
mW,Z = 0 < 0 XI,I 0 >= 0 (1) Within this framework, the data favour a 6 ⇔ | 3 | 6 relatively light Higgs boson, with m 115 for some field X with isospin I and third com- H ' GeV, just above the exclusion unit provided ponent I3. The measured ratio by direct searches at LEP, being the ‘most- m2 W probable’ 15. This is one reason why many ρ 2 2 1 (2) ≡ mZ cos θW ' theorists were excited by the possible sighting tells us that X mainly has I = 1/2 11, which during the last days of LEP of a Higgs boson, is also what is needed to generate fermion with a preferred mass of 115.6 GeV 7. If this masses. The key question is the nature of were to be confirmed, it would suggest that the field X: is it elementary or compos- the Standard Model breaks down at some rel- ite? A fermion-antifermion condensate v < atively low energy < 103 TeV 16. As seen ≡ 0 X 0 >=< 0 F¯F 0 >= 0 would be anal- in Fig. 2, above this∼scale the effective Higgs | | | | 6 ogous to what we know from QCD, where potential of the Standard Model becomes un- < 0 q¯q 0 >= 0, and conventional supercon- stable as the quartic Higgs self-coupling is | | 6 ductivity, where < 0 e−e− 0 >= 0. How- driven negative by radiative corrections due | | 6 ever, analogous ‘technicolour’ models of elec- to the relatively heavy top quark 17. This is troweak symmetry breaking 12 fail to fit the not necessarily a disaster, and it is possible values of the radiative corrections ²i to ρ and that the present electroweak vacuum might other quantities extracted from the precision be metastable, provided that its lifetime is electroweak data provided by LEP and other longer than the age of the Universe 18. How- experiments, as seen in Fig. 1 13. One cannot ever, we would surely feel more secure if such exclude the possibility that some calculable instability could be avoided.
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