What is the Standard Model of Elementary Particles and Why We Have to Modify It
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We introduce the standard model of elementary particles and discuss the reasons why we have to modify it. Emphasis is put on the indications from the neutrinos and on the role of the Higgs particle; some promising theoretical ideas, like quark-lepton symmetry, existence of super-heavy ``right-handed'' neutrinos, grand unification and supersymmetry at the weak scale, are introduced and shortly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0007040,
title = {What is the Standard Model of Elementary Particles and Why We Have to Modify It},
author = {Francesco Vissani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0007040},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 23 pages, 9 eps figures. Presented at the Vulcano 2000 Workshop ``Frontier Objects in Astroparticle and Particle Physics'', May 22-27, Vulcano, Italy