CERN Academic Training Programme 2008/2009

LECTURE SERIE

21-22-23 January 2009

11:00-12:00 hrs., Main Auditorium, Bldg 500-1-001

The Opposite Ends of Supersymmetry and their Implications for the LHC

James WELLS / CERN-TH

There have been many predictions for the mass patterns of superpartners. In these lectures I discuss two interesting opposite-end approaches to supersymmetry breaking that determine the superpartner masses: zero scalar mass supersymmetry (no scale, gaugino mediation, etc.) and heavy scalar mass supersymmetry (split susy, PeV-scale susy, etc.). We will step through the theory motivations for each scenario, and detail the rich phenomena that each implies for LHC discovery.

26-27-28 January 2009

11:00-12:00 hrs., Main Auditorium, Bldg 500-1-001

Electroweak symmetry breaking: to Higgs or not to Higgs

Christophe Grojean / CERN-PH-TH

How do elementary particles acquire their mass? What is making the photon different from the Z boson? In a word: How is electroweak symmetry broken? This is one of the pressing questions in particle physics that the LHC will answer soon. The aim of this lectures is, after briefly introducing SM physics and the conventional Higgs mechanism, to give a survey of recent attempts to go beyond a simple elementary Higgs. In particular, I will describe composite models (where the Higgs boson emerges from a strongly-interacting sector) and Higsless models. Distinctive signatures at the LHC are expected and will reveal the true nature of the electroweak symmetry sector.

Sponsor: Angel Uranga

by HR Department