http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/16/much-food-for-thought-at-major-physics-conference/ Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. Thu, 16 May 2013 16:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/16/much-food-for-thought-at-major-physics-conference/#comment-58323 Ignacio Fernandez Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:47:54 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=21085#comment-58323 Well I find ,in my ignorance , a fantastic , fantastic task , the standar model, to xplain in the schools is genial in his simplicity, anyway thanks a lot you physics monsters , continue please , many are waiting for more.

]]> http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/16/much-food-for-thought-at-major-physics-conference/#comment-57777 gunn Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:23:22 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=21085#comment-57777 You shall not find any new physics ane any higgs because all physical events are interpreted well-known particles (leptons, quarks, gauge bosons) and forces which have long known (electroweak, gravity, strong interactions) http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2322.

]]> http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/16/much-food-for-thought-at-major-physics-conference/#comment-57762 Joel Giedt Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:19:17 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=21085#comment-57762 The hierarchy problem is not about explaining the ratio of the top mass to the electron mass. It is a problem of explaining why the electroweak scale is around 100 GeV. Quantum corrections to the Higgs mass in the Standard Model are quadratic in the cutoff, and so the Higgs mass is naturally of the order of the highest scale in the theory, such as the grand unification scale, 1e16 GeV or the Planck scale 1e19 GeV. This would lead to an electroweak scale of the same order, which is not what we observe. Solutions to the hierarchy problem, such as SUSY, stabilize the electroweak scale by cancelling quadratic corrections.

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