Beyond The Standard ModelMarcela Carena, FNAL, Batavia, USA1) Why to go beyond the Standard Model (SM) ? i) The SM of Electroweak and Strong Interactions ii) Scale Dependence of the Gauge Couplings -- the standard model  low energy effective theory-- hypercharge assignment and unification iii) Higgs--Yukawa Sector -- top--quark Yukawa coupling behaviour -- Higgs quartic coupling behaviour: bounds on  Vs
 -- the hierarchy problem 2) Solutions to the SM Hierarchy Problem i) Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Technicolor Models ii) Supersymmetry 3) Properties of Supersymmetric Theories i) The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) ii) Particle/Sparticle Interactions iii) Soft Supersymmetry Breaking 4) Unification of Couplings and Supersymmetry i) Gauge Coupling Unification ii) Yukawa Sector -- bottom--tau Yukawa coupling unification -- top--quark mass quasi--infrared fixed point solution -- large  and unification5) SM Higgs Boson Phenomenology i) Decay Channels and Production Mechanisms (LEP/Tevatron) -- the situation after LEP2 -- the reach of the upgraded Tevatron 6) MSSM Higgs Boson Phenomenology i) Mass Bounds and Couplings <radiative corrections> ii) Decay Processes and Production Mechanisms (LEP/Tevatron) --dependence on the MSSM parameter space -- supersymmetric radiative corrections: modified Higgs boson couplings to bottom--quarks iii) The Reach of LEP2: Test of the Top--Quark Mass Infrared Fixed Point Solution iv) The Reach of the Upgraded Tevatron v) Complemmentarity of LEP, the Tevatron and LHC in Detecting the Higgs Associated with Electroweak Symmetry Breaking. vi) The MSSM Higgs Sector with Explicit CP Violation 7) Supersymmetry Breaking i) Supergravity Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking ii) Gauge Mediated Low--Energy Supersymmetry Breaking iii) Anomaly-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking iv) The Flavour Problem v) Renormalization Group Evolution of the Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Parameters 8) Supersymmetric Phenomenology i) Super--Particle Masses ii) Decay Patterns of Super-Particles iii) SUSY Production Processes and Signatures at  -- and Hadron Colliders-- supergravity models -- comments on: gauge mediated and anomaly mediated SUSY breaking models, and R-parity violation scenarios 9) Extra Dimensions i) Introduction -- motivation -- how to see extra dimensions in our 4--D world? -- what is a Kaluza-Klein mode? -- lowering the Planck scale ii) Phenomenology -- real graviton emmission processes at lepton and hadron colliders -- emmission of virtual Kaluza-Klein graviton modes -- supernova constraints iii) Complemmentary Scenario: Not So Large Extra Dimensions -- matter fields propagating in extra dimensions -- a new possible scenario for supersymmetry breaking -- unification of gauge forces at low scale See, please, section "Bibliography" |