2018/11/27 by Gavin P. Salam, Salam, Gavin P.
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.11282
13 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2018)
arxiv created 2018/11/27 · openalex publication_date 2018/11/27 · arxiv updated 2018/11/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Particle physics is sometimes described as going through a crisis, notably because of the continued lack of discovery of physics beyond the Standard Model, despite the LHC having operated at close to maximal energy for some years now. Here, I argue that we should not underestimate the significance of recent progress and future prospects in the Higgs sector of the Standard Model. This is especially the case for the Yukawa interactions and the structure of the Higgs potential, both of which are unlike any sector that has been established and stress-tested before in particle physics. Other topics that I touch on include the still substantial scope for increasing the reach of searches at LHC, the increasing role of precision in hadron-collider physics and the rich interplay that is developing between heavy-ion and proton-proton physics.