PIRSA:15100035

Naturalness in the Dark

Craig, N. (2015). Naturalness in the Dark. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15100035

Craig, Nathaniel. Naturalness in the Dark. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 20, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15100035 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15100035,
            doi = {10.48660/15100035},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15100035},
            author = {Craig, Nathaniel},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Naturalness in the Dark},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:15100035 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Nathaniel Craig

University of California, Santa Barbara

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The search for physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC is largely oriented towards new particles associated with solutions to the electroweak hierarchy problem. While the precise character of these partner states may vary from model to model, they typically possess large QCD production rates favorable for detection at hadron colliders. Null results in searches for partner particles during Run 1 of the LHC have placed the idea of electroweak naturalness under increasing strain. In this talk I'll discuss a broad class of natural theories where the new degrees of freedom relevant for naturalness lie in hidden sectors and are largely unconstrained by LHC data. Rather than rendering electroweak naturalness untestable, they give rise to entirely new signs of naturalness at the LHC, including displaced decays and other exotic signatures. They also furnish a variety of viable dark matter candidates testable at current and future experiments.