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New Physics at the LHC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The most well-known missing piece of the Standard Model is the Higgs Boson. The LHC has been built to discover this state which can be produced by gluon-gluon fusion or quark-antiquark annihilation. If the Higgs exists, then it must have siblings (more Higgs bosons) or we must live in a very finely-tuned (unlikely) universe. In either case, the hunt for the Higgs and the determination of its properties will be great fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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One of the most popular alternatives to the Standard Model is a class of models called Supersymmetry. Supersymmetry requires that every spin 1/2 fermion have a spin 0 boson superpartner and every spin 1 boson have a spin 1/2 fermion superpartner. Supersymmetry also has a rich Higgs boson sector. If these ideas are correct, then the production of heavy gluinos (spin 1/2 partners of the gluon) should be produced copiously at the LHC! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Another promising approach is based upon Extra Dimensions which could result in new TeV scale states. |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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