The future of particle physics | Ben Allanach, John Ellis and Catherine Heymans
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Ben Allanach, John Ellis and Catherine Heymans look at what's missing from our picture of particle theory.
The discovery of the Higgs Boson, dubbed the "God Particle", was celebrated worldwide as an explanation for mass itself. Yet all is not well, and there is now talk of "the nightmare scenario" of no new discoveries to enable an elegant theory to make sesnse of the current information. Should we abandon supersymmetry, string theory, and other attempts to provide a theory of everything? Is the Higgs a key step towards a final theory, or is the theory and particle physics itself in real trouble?
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Ben Allanach is a Theoretical Physics Professor at the University of Cambridge, whose research interests include Large Hadron Collider signals of new physics, b physics anomalies and neutrino masses and mixings.
John Ellis is Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London. Professor Ellis has worked extensively at CERN, and advocates the extension of the particle accelerator programme. His research focuses on phenomenological aspects of particle physics. Professor Ellis coined the term ‘theory of everything’, and in 1976 he coauthored the first paper on how to find the Higgs boson.
Catherine Heymans FRSE is a British astrophysicist and Professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
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