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Outline. The Standard Model (SM) of Particle PhysicsWhat does the SM fail to explain? The fundamental questions in particle physicsColliders as powerful tools to find new laws of nature . The TeVatron at Fermilab. The Lar
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1. Physics Discovery Potential at the ILC
Marcela Carena
Theoretical Physics Department
Fermilab
ILC Industrial Forums
Fermilab, September 21, 2005
2. Outline The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics
What does the SM fail to explain?
The fundamental questions in particle physics
Colliders as powerful tools to find new laws of nature
6. Discovering the Higgs will put the final piece
of the Standard Model in place
but will present big mysteries of its own!
Data from experiments and quantum effects within the SM yield
From our present understanding the Higgs is expected to have a mass
of order a billion billion times the Tera-electron-Volt (TeV) energy scale
but a TeV Higgs is necessary to solve the mass puzzle of the SM
New Physics at the TeV scale is needed
to stabilize the Higgs mass quantum corrections and
to answer the fundamental questions of particle physics
8. 2. Are there Extra Dimensions (ED) of space?
9. 3. Do all the forces become one?
11. 5. What is Dark Matter (DM)?
13. At the TeV scale we expect discoveries
Precision measurements and astrophysical observations point to it
14. The TeVatron at Fermilab
15. The Large Hadron Collider
17. Exploring the Higgs Sector Unique powerful feature of the ILC
? it can observe the Higgs no matter how it decays !
18. Discovering and Understanding Supersymmetry Important Synergy between LHC and ILC
19. A careful search for DM candidates at the TeV scale is essential
The LHC will probably find evidence of DM particles through
missing momentum and missing energy analyses
The ILC will determine its properties with extreme detail, allowing to
compute which fraction of the total DM density of the universe it makes
20. A Telescope to the Highest Energies
21. New forces of Nature: new gauge bosons LHC has great discovery potential for multiTeV new force carriers ? Z
The ILC can see them as a telescope:
zooming in to see the virtual Z contributions to muons/taus pair production
? using polarized electron-positron beams and measuring angular
distribution of leptons can measure strength of Z couplings to leptons
22. Conclusions
The ILC is a powerful telescope that allows us to explore the highest possible energies of nature.
It is an amazing machine designed to extend the Large Hadron Collider discoveries and help us answer many of the most fundamental questions of science.
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Extras
24. Revealing Extra Dimensions The ILC can produce a photon in association with a graviton which dissapears into the Extra dimension !
26. Strong Interactions
27. Weak Interactions