CrossTalk Workshop: The Fate of Naturalness

Europe/Brussels
Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003) (Universe)

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003)

Universe

Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussels
Description
Naturalness is a central motivation for the study of physics beyond the Standard Model and it is one of the main open issue associated to electroweak symmetry breaking and to the nature of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson. After the null results of LHC in finding new physics, it is crucial to assess if Naturalness is still a valid guiding principle and what are the most recent developments and proposals to address this outstanding open puzzle.
Please register timely to the event since the number of participants is limited.
The workshop will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels) in the Jean Sacton seminar room at the IIHE (1G003)
List of speakers:
Alessandro Strumia (Pisa University & CERN)
Steven Abel (Durham IPPP)
Christoph Englert (Glasgow University)
Diego Redigolo (Weizmann University)
Daniele Teresi (Universite Libre de Brussels)
Michael Spannowsky (Durham IPPP)

The workshop is supported by the Strategic Research Program HEP@VUB.
The workshop is part of a series HEP@VUB Crosstalk Workshops whose objective is to promote interdisciplinary activities across research groups in theoretical and experimental aspects of particle physics, astro-particle physics and high-energy astrophysics

Local Organizers: Alberto Mariotti and Alexander Sevrin
For any additional information please contact Alberto Mariotti
Participants
  • Alberto Mariotti
  • Alessandro Strumia
  • Alexander Sevrin
  • Ambresh Shivaji
  • Armando di Matteo
  • Barbara Clerbaux
  • Ben Craps
  • Chris Blair
  • Christoph Englert
  • Daniele Teresi
  • Diego Redigolo
  • Dries Coone
  • Fabio Maltoni
  • Freya Blekman
  • Jesse van Muiden
  • Julian Heeck
  • Ken Mimasu
  • Kévin Nguyen
  • Manoj Kumar Mandal
  • Marco Fazzi
  • Matthias Vereecken
  • Michael Spannowsky
  • mihailo backovic
  • Nicolas Postiau
  • Riccardo Argurio
  • Seth Moortgat
  • Sibylle Driezen
  • Steven Abel
  • Steven Lowette
  • Thomas Hambye
  • Thomas Van Riet
  • Xiaoran Zhao
  • Yongchao Zhang
    • 09:30 10:00
      Welcome 30m
    • 10:00 11:00
      Alessandro Strumia -- Nature natural again 1h
      LHC data are contradicting theoretical ideas that lead to expect new physics able of keeping the Higgs mass naturally small, such as supersymmetry. I will discuss the possibility that we might have over-interpreted quantum field theory, and present alternative views about what is going on.
      Slides
    • 11:00 12:00
      Steve Abel -- Towards an asymptotically safe Standard Model 1h
      I discuss recent and ongoing work which aims to embed the Standard Model within an asymptotically safe framework of known gauge Yukawa theories. It is shown that radiative symmetry breaking generically occurs in these models in much the same way as it does in the MSSM. I discuss how a natural assignment of SM matter fields points towards an extended Pati-Salam like structure.
      Slides
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 13:30 14:30
      Christoph Englert -- Compositeness, LHC and lattice 1h
      Slides
    • 14:30 15:30
      Michael Spannowsky -- Higgsplosion 1h
      Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:00 17:00
      Daniele Teresi -- A clockwork tale 1h
      Slides
    • 17:00 18:00
      Diego Redigolo -- On neutral naturalness 1h
      Slides
    • 18:00 19:30
      Reception (Beer & Cheese) 1h 30m