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Phenomenology Tim M.P . Tait
Snowmass July 29, 2013 University of California, Irvine
Phenomenology Formal Theory
Phenomenology Tim M.P . Tait University of California, Irvine - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Phenomenology Tim M.P . Tait University of California, Irvine - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Phenomenology Tim M.P . Tait University of California, Irvine Snowmass July 29, 2013 Phenomenology Formal Theory Particle Theory Phenomenology QCD Formal Theory Particle Theory Phenomenology Lattice QCD Formal Theory Particle
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Phenomenology Formal Theory
QCD
Particle Theory
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Phenomenology Formal Theory
QCD Lattice
Particle Theory
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Phenomenology Formal Theory
QCD Lattice Neutrinos
Particle Theory
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Phenomenology Formal Theory
QCD Lattice Neutrinos Cosmology (and DM)
Particle Theory
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Phenomenology Formal Theory
QCD Lattice Neutrinos Cosmology (and DM) Model Building
Particle Theory
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Working Definition
Phenomenology
Lattice Neutrinos Cosmology (and DM) Model Building QCD
- As a working definition for this
presentation, I’m going to consider phenomenology the parts of theory which interact directly with experiments.
- This could be either something like:
- A suggestion for how to search
for some kind of fundamental physics [including improving on existing searches].
- Taking a feature in data and
providing the “theory support” needed to put it in context. Experimental Data
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Connections
Lattice Neutrinos Cosmology (and DM) Model Building
Phenomenology
Formal Theory QCD
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(Random) Examples
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Jet Substructure
RS Extra Dimension KK Gluon Search Boosted Top Quarks Jet Substructure Resummed Substructure predictions Hadronization Optimized Algorithms Boosted W’s Lepton Jets Photon Jets Q-Jets SCET Suppressed Couplings
Phenomenology QCD Model Building
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DAMA “Signal”
DAMA Signal
σSI
CDMS Xenon (etc) Exothermic Scattering Iso-spin Violation IVDM Models Inelastic DM Recoil Spectra Collider Signals Exciting DM Velocity Distributions MiDM Sommerfeld γ-lines
Phenomenology Experimental Results Model Building Dark Matter
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Outlook
- Phenomenology is the glue that holds many areas of particle theory
together and interfaces it with experimental data.
- The last decades have illustrated this point very well. We saw a couple of
specific (but randomly chosen) examples. Many, many more exist.
- The next decade is hard to predict with any accuracy; but the essential
role is established, and the importance of phenomenology in interpreting and guiding the current “data rich” era is very easy to appreciate. A few
- ne could easily imagine in the next ten years:
- Taking experimental discoveries of dark matter and distilling them into
a particle physics Lagrangian.
- Measuring the parameters of the (N)MSSM(++) from collider
measurements.
- Contrasting our newest and greatest theories attempting to explain
flavor with measurements to indicate hints that they are (in)correct.
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Theories of Dark Matter
mSUGRA R-parity Conserving
Supersymmetry
pMSSM R-parity violating Gravitino DM
MSSM
NMSSM
Dirac DM
Extra Dimensions
UED DM
Warped Extra Dimensions
Little Higgs
T
- odd DM
5d 6d
Axion-like Particles QCD Axions
Axion DM
Sterile Neutrinos
Light Force Carriers
Dark Photon
Asymmetric DM
RS DM
Warm DM
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Hidden Sector DM WIMPless DM
Littlest Higgs
Self-Interacting DM Q-balls
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Soliton DM
Quark Nuggets Techni- baryons