Seminar PARTICLE PHYSICS

G.G.Ross (University of Oxford, UK) “Beyond the Standard Model (or not) after LHC-8TeV” Abstract To date, the LHC has not observed indications of structure beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Moreover the measured properties of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson hint at an underlying simplicity of the model without such new physics. This has led to a reevaluation of the hierarchy problem on which much of our faith in Beyond the Standard Model physics rests. In this talk I will review these issues and compare “Just the Standard Model”, including gravity, with models that incorporate a more complete unification of the fundamental forces.