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HEP 2002: Summary and Prospect. The Standard Model (1). QCD Triumph of Quantum Field Theory Expanding Frontiers Matter in Extreme Conditions Explanatory (Quantitative) Power. The Standard Model (2). Electroweak Triumph of Quantum Field Theory Flavor Sector / CP Violation
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HEP 2002: Summary and Prospect Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Standard Model (1) • QCD • Triumph of Quantum Field Theory • Expanding Frontiers • Matter in Extreme Conditions • Explanatory (Quantitative) Power Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Standard Model (2) • Electroweak • Triumph of Quantum Field Theory • Flavor Sector / CP Violation • More to Come … • The Standard Model Is Self-Transcending! Frank Wilczek, MIT
Unification and Supersymmetry (1) • Unification • Quantum Numbers • Couplings! • Scale • Neutrino Masses • Gravity (nearly) • Not (yet?) Proton Decay (nor others …) Frank Wilczek, MIT
Unification and Supersymmetry (2) • Electroweak Indications • Radiative Stability of Weak Scale • Lightness of Higgs Mass • Small Radiative Corrections Frank Wilczek, MIT
Unification and Supersymmetry (3) • Significance • Dark Matter, Perhaps • Opening New Windows • Deep Issues in Breaking • Sources for Flavor and CP Violation Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Higgs Particle (1) • Limit from Radiative Corrections • Significance of the Limit • Theory • Experiment Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Higgs Particle (2) • Issues Arising • Gluon Distributions (To Check Basic Coupling -- Beautiful QFT!) • Diffractive Production Frank Wilczek, MIT
Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (1) • Consolidation of the CKM Picture • / • B Physics / Unitarity Triangle • Neutrino Masses and Mixings • Atmospheric • Solar • Future Experiments Frank Wilczek, MIT
Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (2) • What Does It All Mean? • Lots of Things Don’t Happen! • Patterns!? • Family Repetition • Mass Hierarchy (?) • Mixing Hierarchy for Quarks, but Not Neutrinos • Big Phases Frank Wilczek, MIT
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 Frank Wilczek, MIT
Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (4) • Mechanisms? • (Small) Extra Dimensions? • Cosmology? Anthropics? • More to Come • L Violations • B Violation • Electric Dipole Moments Frank Wilczek, MIT
Cosmic Connections (1) • Dark Matter • LSP? • Axion? • Dark Energy • Why is it Small? • Why is it Taking Over the Universe? Frank Wilczek, MIT
Cosmic Connections (2) • Cosmic Rays • GZK !? • Strangelets? (Strange Stars??) • Gravity Waves • Cosmological (Inflation) • Extreme Collisions (Quark Matter?) Frank Wilczek, MIT
An Ultralight Sector? (1) • Axions • Strong CP Problem • Dark Matter • Dilatons, Familons, Modulons Frank Wilczek, MIT
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 Frank Wilczek, MIT
An Ultralight Sector? (3) • Experiments! • Search for Axions • Forces, Scalar and Pseudoscalar • Variation of Constants? Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Glory of Precision • Perturbative • Electroweak • QCD • Non-Perturbative Frank Wilczek, MIT
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 Frank Wilczek, MIT