Warped dimensions and the LHC
Event details
| Date | 10.10.2011 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Raman Sundrum |
| Location |
Auditoire CE 1
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The puzzling pattern of hierarchical mass scales and couplings found in elementary particle physics finds an attractive and unified explanation in terms of general relativistic "redshifts" that occur when the the Standard Model is embedded within "warped" higher-dimensional spacetime. This paradigm can be realized as an alternative to Supersymmetry, or in combination with it. I review the theoretical structure in light of developments in the last decade, ranging from low-energy experiments to string theory, and discuss the implications for the Large Hadron Collider. The deep and magical equivalence between the higher-dimensional structure and strongly-coupled quantum field theory in ordinary spacetime, known as the "AdS/CFT correspondence", will be explained in simple terms.
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