HEP 2002: Summary and Prospect

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HEP 2002 Summary and Prospect
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The Standard Model (1)

• QCD
• Triumph of Quantum Field Theory
• Expanding Frontiers
• Matter in Extreme Conditions
• Explanatory (Quantitative) Power

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The Standard Model (2)

• Electroweak
• Triumph of Quantum Field Theory
• Flavor Sector / CP Violation
• More to Come
• The Standard Model Is Self-Transcending!

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Unification and Supersymmetry (1)

• Unification
• Quantum Numbers
• Couplings!
• Scale
• Neutrino Masses
• Gravity (nearly)
• Not (yet?) Proton Decay (nor others )

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Unification and Supersymmetry (2)

• Electroweak Indications
• Radiative Stability of Weak Scale
• Lightness of Higgs Mass
• Small Radiative Corrections

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Unification and Supersymmetry (3)

• Significance
• Dark Matter, Perhaps
• Opening New Windows
• Deep Issues in Breaking
• Sources for Flavor and CP Violation

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The Higgs Particle (1)

• Limit from Radiative Corrections
• Significance of the Limit
• Theory
• Experiment

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The Higgs Particle (2)

• Issues Arising
• Gluon Distributions (To Check Basic Coupling --
  Beautiful QFT!)
• Diffractive Production

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Flavor Mass, Mixing, CP (1)

• Consolidation of the CKM Picture
• ?? / ?
• B Physics / Unitarity Triangle
• Neutrino Masses and Mixings
• Atmospheric
• Solar
• Future Experiments

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Flavor Mass, Mixing, CP (2)

• What Does It All Mean?
• Lots of Things Dont Happen!
• Patterns!?
• Family Repetition
• Mass Hierarchy (?)
• Mixing Hierarchy for Quarks, but Not Neutrinos
• Big Phases

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Flavor Mass, Mixing, CP (3)

• Hints of Deeper Connections
• m? Scale
• mb/m?
• mt!
• Unification Textures?
• LMA Presents a Challenge
• Lopsided Mass Matrices
• Not-Quite Maximal Mixing for Solar ?

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Flavor Mass, Mixing, CP (4)

• Mechanisms?
• (Small) Extra Dimensions?
• Cosmology? Anthropics?
• More to Come
• L Violations
• B Violation
• Electric Dipole Moments

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Cosmic Connections (1)

• Dark Matter
• LSP?
• Axion?
• Dark Energy
• Why is it Small?
• Why is it Taking Over the Universe?

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Cosmic Connections (2)

• Cosmic Rays
• GZK !?
• Strangelets? (Strange Stars??)
• Gravity Waves
• Cosmological (Inflation)
• Extreme Collisions (Quark Matter?)

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An Ultralight Sector? (1)

• Axions
• Strong CP Problem
• Dark Matter
• Dilatons, Familons, Modulons

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An Ultralight Sector? (2)

• Anthropic Principle
• With Inflation, a New Status
• Anthropics can be Unavoidable!
• Candidates for Anthropics
• Second ? Problem - Vadron?
• mu-md?
• Mis-Anthropics

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An Ultralight Sector? (3)

• Experiments!
• Search for Axions
• Forces, Scalar and Pseudoscalar
• Variation of Constants?

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The Glory of Precision

• Perturbative
• Electroweak
• QCD
• Non-Perturbative

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Conclusion

• Brilliant Work by Many People has Resulted in an
  Extraordinarily Profound, Precise Description of
  the Physical World
• Because of This We Can Both Ask,
  and Formulate Plans to Answer,
  Some Truly Awesome Questions