The electroweak symmetry breaking riddle

✍ Scribed by G. Altarelli

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 366 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.201000063

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

I present a concise review of the Higgs problem which plays a central role in particle physics today. The Higgs of the minimal Standard Model is so far just a conjecture that needs to be verified or discarded at the LHC. Probably the reality is more complicated. I will summarize the motivation for New Physics that should accompany or even replace the Higgs discovery and a number of its possible forms that could be revealed by the LHC.