The Road Ahead
Abstract
I describe the surrounding landscape on the road to the CERN Large Hadron Collider. I revisit the milestones of hadron-collider physics, and from them draw lessons for the future. I recall the primary motivation for the journey - understanding the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking - and speculate that even greater discoveries may await us. I review the physics that we know beyond the standard model - dark matter, dark energy, and neutrino masses - and discuss the status of grand-unified theories. I list the reasons why the Higgs boson is central to the standard model as well as to physics beyond the standard model.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0307324,
title = {The Road Ahead},
author = {S. Willenbrock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0307324},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages, 13 figures. Opening talk presented at the IV International Symposium on LHC Physics and Detectors, Fermilab, May 1-3, 2003