Naturalness Under Stress
Abstract
Naturalness has for many years been a guiding principle in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model, particularly for understanding the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking. However, the discovery of the Higgs particle at 125 GeV, accompanied by exclusion of many types of new physics expected in natural models has called the principle into question. In addition, apart from the scale of weak interactions, there are other quantities in nature which appear unnaturally small and for which we have no proposal for a natural explanation.We first review the principle, and then discuss some of the conjectures which it has spawned. We then turn to some of the challenges to the naturalness idea and consider alternatives.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1501.01035,
title = {Naturalness Under Stress},
author = {Michael Dine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01035},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Prepared for Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 34 pages. Some comments added on effective field theories, alternative hierarch solutions