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The Standard Model: how far can it go and how can we tell?

Butterworth, JM; (2016) The Standard Model: how far can it go and how can we tell? Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 374 (2075) , Article 20150260. 10.1098/rsta.2015.0260. Green open access

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Abstract

The Standard Model of particle physics encapsulates our current best understanding of physics at the smallest distances and highest energies. It incorporates quantum electrodynamics (the quantized version of Maxwell’s electromagnetism) and the weak and strong interactions, and has survived unmodified for decades, save for the inclusion of non-zero neutrino masses after the observation of neutrino oscillations in the late 1990s. It describes a vast array of data over a wide range of energy scales. I review a selection of these successes, including the remarkably successful prediction of a new scalar boson, a qualitatively new kind of object observed in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider. New calculational techniques and experimental advances challenge the Standard Model across an ever-wider range of phenomena, now extending significantly above the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. I will outline some of the consequences of these new challenges, and briefly discuss what is still to be found.

Type: Article
Title: The Standard Model: how far can it go and how can we tell?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0260
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0260
Language: English
Additional information: © The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, quantum chromodynamics, quantum electrodynamics, electroweak, INELASTIC EP SCATTERING, ABELIAN GAUGE-THEORIES, PERTURBATION-THEORY, MASSLESS PARTICLES, BROKEN SYMMETRIES, TOP-QUARK, ANNIHILATION, DETECTOR, PHYSICS, LHC
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1513942
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