Monday, April 24, 2017
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Lauritsen 469
High Energy Physics Seminar
Nnaturalness
Tim Cohen,
University of Oregon,
We present a new mechanism to stabilize the electroweak hierarchy. We introduce N copies of the Standard Model with varying values of the Higgs mass parameter. This generically yields a sector whose weak scale is parametrically removed from the cutoff by a factor of 1√N. Ensuring that reheating deposits a majority of the total energy density into this lightest sector requires a modification of the standard cosmological history, providing a powerful probe of the mechanism. Current and near-future experiments will explore much of the natural parameter space. Furthermore, supersymmetric completions which preserve grand unification predict superpartners with mass below mW x Mpl/MGUT ~ 10 TeV.
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