Topic of the Week
Michael Peskin
February 22nd and 23rd
| Day | Speaker | Topic | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Feb 22nd at 2pm | Michael Peskin (SLAC) | Light Composite Higgs: The Third Way to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Part 1 | WH11 NE (Sunrise) |
| Thursday, Feb 23rd at 3:30pm | Michael Peskin (SLAC) | Light Composite Higgs: The Third Way to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Part 2 | WH11 NE (Sunrise) |
Descriptions / About the scientists
Guest: Michael Peskin
Date: February 22nd and 23
Time: 2pm and 3:30pm respectively
Topic: Light Composite Higgs: The Third Way to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Where: WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Description
All experimenters these days are educated in Supersymmetry, and I understand that, at Fermilab, everyone also is familiar with Technicolor. But there is a third interesting class of models of electroweak symmetry breaking in which the Higgs boson is light and weakly coupled but has composite or other structure at a smaller scale. This class of models includes Little Higgs theories and various types of models with extra space dimensions. If Supersymmetry is being taken down by the LHC results (still a debatable statement), these models should be going up. So, I would like to review such models and their signatures for the LPC experimenters.
About the scientists
Michael Peskin received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978. After postdoctoral appointments at Harvard, CEN Saclay, and Cornell, he joined the faculty of SLAC in 1982. With Daniel Schroeder, he wrote a widely used textbook on quantum field theory. Peskin has worked on the experimental consequences of composite fermions, supersymmetry, technicolor, and other approaches to physics beyond the Standard Model. He served on the Fermilab PAC during the Tevatron era.
