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LHC, NUOVA FISICA E MATERIA OSCURA

PADOVA, 7 Ottobre 2008. LHC, NUOVA FISICA E MATERIA OSCURA. Antonio Masiero Univ. of Padova and INFN, Padova. WHY TO GO BEYOND THE SM. “OBSERVATIONAL” REASONS. THEORETICAL REASONS. INTRINSIC INCONSISTENCY OF SM AS QFT (spont. broken gauge theory without anomalies)

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LHC, NUOVA FISICA E MATERIA OSCURA

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  1. PADOVA, 7 Ottobre 2008 LHC, NUOVA FISICA E MATERIA OSCURA Antonio Masiero Univ. of Padova and INFN, Padova

  2. WHY TO GO BEYOND THE SM “OBSERVATIONAL” REASONS THEORETICAL REASONS • INTRINSIC INCONSISTENCY OF SM AS QFT • (spont. broken gauge theory • without anomalies) • NO ANSWER TO QUESTIONS THAT “WE” CONSIDER “FUNDAMENTAL” QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY “FUNDAMENTAL” THEORY • (hierarchy, unification, flavor) • HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS • (but AFB……) • FCNC, CP • NO (but b sqq penguin …) • HIGH PRECISION LOW-EN. • NO (but (g-2) …) • NEUTRINO PHYSICS • YE m0, 0 • COSMO - PARTICLE PHYSICS • YE (DM, ∆B cosm, INFLAT., DE) Z bb NO NO NO NO YES YES YES

  3. On the Energetic Budget of the Universe

  4. DM: the most impressive evidence at the “quantitative” and “qualitative” levels of New Physics beyond SM • QUANTITATIVE: Taking into account the latest WMAP data which in combination with LSS data provide stringent bounds on DM and BEVIDENCE FOR NON-BARYONIC DM AT MORE THAN 10 STANDARD DEVIATIONS!!THE SM DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY CANDIDATE FOR SUCH NON-BARYONIC DM • QUALITATIVE: it is NOT enough to provide a mass to neutrinos to obtain a valid DM candidate; LSS formation requires DM to be COLD NEW PARTICLES NOT INCLUDED IN THE SPECTRUM OF THE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE SM !

  5. TEN COMMANDMENTS TO BE A “GOOD” DM CANDIDATE BERTONE, A.M., TAOSO • TO MATCH THE APPROPRIATE RELIC DENSITY • TO BE COLD • TO BE NEUTRAL • TO BE CONSISTENT WITH BBN • TO LEAVE STELLAR EVOLUTION UNCHANGED • TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH CONSTRAINTS ON SELF – INTERACTIONS • TO BE CONSISTENT WITH DIRECT DM SEARCHES • TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH GAMMA – RAY CONSTRAINTS • TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH OTHER ASTROPHYSICAL BOUNDS • “TO BE PROBED EXPERIMENTALLY”

  6. WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)  # exp(-m/T) # does not change any more #~# m Tdecoupl. typically ~ m /20    depends on particle physics (annih.) and “cosmological” quantities (H, T0, … 10-3  h2_ ~ <(annih.) V  > TeV2 From T0 MPlanck ~ 2 / M2 h2 in the range 10-2 -10-1 to be cosmologically interesting (for DM) m ~ 102 -103 GeV (weak interaction) h2 ~ 10-2 -10-1 !!! THERMAL RELICS (WIMP in thermodyn.equilibrium with the plasma until Tdecoupl)

  7. ON THE RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS TO THE SCALAR MASSES

  8. DESTABILIZATION OF THE ELW. SYMMETRY BREAKING SCALE SCALAR MASSES ARE “UNPROTECTED” AGAINST LARGE CORRECTIONS WHICH TEND TO PUSH THEM UP TO THE LARGEST ENERGY SCALE PRESENT IN THE FULL THEORY EX:

  9. The Energy Scale from the“Observational” New Physics neutrino masses dark matter baryogenesis inflation NO NEED FOR THE NP SCALE TO BE CLOSE TO THE ELW. SCALE The Energy Scale from the “Theoretical” New Physics Stabilization of the electroweak symmetry breaking at MW calls for an ULTRAVIOLET COMPLETION of the SM already at the TeV scale+ CORRECT GRAND UNIFICATION “CALLS” FOR NEW PARTICLES AT THE ELW. SCALE (?)

  10. IS THE FINE-TUNING A REAL PROBLEM? • WARNING: THERE EXISTS AN EVEN “LARGER” HIERARCHY OR FINE -TUNING OR NATURALNESS PROBLEM: THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM (“ THE MOTHER” OF ALL NATURALNESS PROBLEMS); SO FAR, WE SIMPLY “ACCEPT” SUCH FINE-TUNING! • (OUTRAGEOUS) POSSIBILITY: THE “THEORY OF EVERYTHING” COULD BE UNIQUE, BUT WITH MANY (INFINITE?) VACUA EACH GIVING RISE TO A DIFFERENT UNI-VERSE ( MULTI-VERSE POSSIBILITY).WE CAN LIVE ONLY IN THE VERY RESTRICTED CLASS OF THE “MULTI-VERSE SPACE” WHERE THE “BOUDARY CONDITIONS” ( FOR INSTANCE, THE VALUE OF THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT OR THE SCALE OF THE ELW.SYMMETRY BREAKING AND, HENCE, THE HIGGS MASS) EXHIBIT VALUES ALLOWING FOR THE CORRECT BBN, LSS,… OUR LIFE! ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE

  11. HOW TO COPE WITH THE HIERARCHY PROBLEM • LOW-ENERGY SUSY • LARGE EXTRA DIMENSIONS • DYNAMICAL SYMMETRY BREAKING OF THE ELW. SYMMETRY • LANDSCAPE APPROACH (ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE)

  12. ROADS TO GO BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL (I) 1) THERE EXISTS NO NEW PHYSICAL ENERGY SCALE ABOVE THE ELW. SCALE: gravity is an extremely weak force not because of the enormous value of the Planck scale, but because of the existence of NEW DIMENSIONS beyond the usual 3+1 space-time where (most of) the gravity flux lines get “dispersed” VISIBILITY AT LHC: there exist “excited” states of the ordinary particles ( Kaluza-Klein states) and some of them are accessible at LHC (the lightest KK state may be a stable particle and it can constitute the DM)

  13. ROADS TO GO BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL (II) • 2)NO NEED TO “PROTECT” THE HIGGS MASS AT THE ELW. SCALE: THE HIGGS IS A COMPOSITE OBJECT (for instance, a fermion condensate) WHOSE COMPOSITENESS SCALE IS THE ELW. SCALE (cfr. the pion mass case) VISIBILITY AT LHC: THERE EXIST NEW (STRONG) INTERACTIONS AT THE ELW. SCALE WHICH PRODUCE THE HIGGS CONDENSATE ( new resonances,, new bound states, a new rescaled QCD at 1 TeV)

  14. ROADS TO GO BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL (III) • 3) THE MASS OF THE ELEMENTARY HIGGS BOSON IS “PROTECTED” AT THE ELW. SCALE BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE AT THAT ENERGY OF A NEW SYMMETRY, THE SUPERSYMMETRY (SUSY) VISIBILITY AT LHC: WE’LL SEE (SOME OF) THE SUSY PARTICLES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS. THE LIGHTEST SUSY PARTCILE (LSP) IS LIKELY TO BE STABLE AND PROVIDE THE DM. AT THE SAME TIME, WE COULD DISCOVER SUSY AND THE SOURCE OF 90% OF THE ENTIRE MATTER PRESENT IN THE UNIVERSE.

  15. STABLE ELW. SCALE WIMPs from PARTICLE PHYSICS SUSY EXTRA DIM. LITTLE HIGGS. 1) ENLARGEMENT OF THE SM (x, ) (x, ji) SM part + new part Anticomm. New bosonic to cancel 2 Coord. Coord. at 1-Loop 2) SELECTION RULE DISCRETE SYMM. STABLE NEW PART. R-PARITY LSP KK-PARITY LKP T-PARITY LTP Neutralino spin 1/2 spin1 spin0 mLSP ~100 - 200 GeV * mLKP ~600 - 800 GeV 3) FIND REGION (S) PARAM. SPACE WHERE THE “L” NEW PART. IS NEUTRAL + ΩL h2 OK mLTP ~400 - 800 GeV * But abandoning gaugino-masss unif. Possible to have mLSP down to 7 GeV Bottino, Donato, Fornengo, Scopel

  16. WHICH SUSY HIDDEN SECTOR SUSY BREAKING AT SCALE F F = (105 - 106) GeV F = MW MPl GRAVITY GAUGE INTERACTIONS MESSENGERS Mgravitino ~ F/MPl ~ (102 -103)eV Mgravitino ~ F/MPl ~ (102 -103) GeV OBSERVABLE SECTOR SM + superpartners MSSM : minimal content of superfields

  17. THE FATE OF B AND L IN THE SM AND MSSM • IN THE SM B AND L ARE “AUTOMATIC” SYMMETRIES: NO B or L VIOLATING OPERATOR OF DIM.≤4 INVARIANT UNDER THE GAUGE SIMMETRY SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1) IS ALLOWED ( B AND L ARE CONSERVED AT ANY ORDER IN PERTURBATION THEORY, BUT ARE VIOLATED AT THE QUANTUM LEVEL (ONLY B – L IS EXACTLY PRESERVED ) • IN THE MSSM, THANKS TO THE EXTENDED PARTICLE SPECTRUM WITH NEW SUSY PARTNERS CARRYING B AND L, IT IS POSSIBLE TO WRITE ( RENORMALIZABLE) OPERATORS WHICH VIOLATE EITHER B OR L • IF BOTH B AND L VIOLATING OPERATORS ARE PRESENT, GIVEN THAT SUSY PARTNER MASSES ARE OF O(TEV), THERE IS NO WAY TO PREVENT A TOO FAST PROTON DECAY UNLESS THE YUKAWA COUPLINGS ARE INCREDIBLY SMALL!

  18. ADDITIONAL DISCRETE SYMMETRY IN THE MSSM TO SLOW DOWN P - DECAY • SIMPLEST (and nicest) SOLUTION: ADD A SYMMETRY WHICH FORBIDS ALL B AND L VIOLATING OPERATORS R PARITY • SINCE B AND L 4-DIM. OPERATORS INVOLVE 2 ORDINARY FERMIONS AND A SUSY SCALAR PARTICLE, THE SIMPLEST WAY TO ELIMINATE ALL OF THEM: R = +1 FOR ORDINARY PARTICLES R = - 1 FOR SUSY PARTNERS IMPLICATIONS OF IMPOSING R PARITY: i) The superpartners are created or destroyed in pairs; ii) THE LIGHTEST SUPERPARTNER IS ABSOLUTELY STABLE

  19. WHO IS THE LSP? • SUPERGRAVITY ( transmission of the SUSY breaking from the hidden to the obsevable sector occurring via gravitational interactions): best candidate to play the role of LSP: NEUTRALINO ( i.e., the lightest of the four eigenstates of the 4x4 neutralino mass matrix) In CMSSM: the LSP neutralino is almost entirely a BINO

  20. A.M., PROFUMO, ULLIO

  21. GRAVITINO LSP? • GAUGE MEDIATED SUSY BREAKING (GMSB) : LSP likely to be the GRAVITINO ( it can be so light that it is more a warm DM than a cold DM candidate ) Although we cannot directly detect the gravitino, there could be interesting signatures from the next to the LSP ( NLSP) : for instance the s-tau could decay into tau and gravitino, Possibly with a very long life time, even of the order of days or months

  22. DIFFERENT FROM THE THERMAL HISTORY OF WIMPS SWIMPS(Super Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) • - LSP Gravitino in SUSY • - First excitation of the graviton in UED … They inherit the appropriate relic density through the decay of a more massive thermal species that has earlier decoupled from the thermal bath

  23. HUNTING FOR DARK MATTER INDIRECT DM SEARCHES DIRECT DM SEARCHES

  24. Neutralino-nucleon scattering cross sections along the WMAP-allowed coannihilation strip for tanbeta=10 and coannihilation/funnel strip for tanbeta=50 using the hadronic parameters ELLIS, OLIVE, SAVAGE Ellis, Olive, Sandick LHC Sensitivity

  25. Model Independent Annual Modulation Result DAMA/NaI (7 years) + DAMA/LIBRA (4 years) Total exposure: 300555 kgday = 0.82 tonyr experimental single-hit residualsratevstime and energy ROM2F/2008/07 Acos[w(t-t0)] ; continuous lines: t0 = 152.5 d, T = 1.00 y 2-4 keV A=(0.0215±0.0026) cpd/kg/keV 2/dof = 51.9/66 8.3  C.L. Absence of modulation? No 2/dof=117.7/67  P(A=0) = 1.310-4 2-5 keV A=(0.0176±0.0020) cpd/kg/keV 2/dof = 39.6/66 8.8  C.L. Absence of modulation? No 2/dof=116.1/67  P(A=0) = 1.910-4 2-6 keV A=(0.0129±0.0016) cpd/kg/keV 2/dof = 54.3/66 8.2  C.L. Absence of modulation? No 2/dof=116.4/67  P(A=0) = 1.810-4 The data favor the presence of a modulated behavior with proper features at 8.2s C.L.

  26. INDIRECT SEARCHES OF DM • WIMPs collected inside celestial bodies ( Earth, Sun): their annihilations produce energetic neutrinos • WIMPs in the DM halo: WIMP annihilations can take place ( in particular, their rate can be enhanced with there exists a CLUMPY distribution of DM as computer simulations of the DM distribution in the galaxies seem to suggest. From the WIMP annihilation: -- energetic neutrinos ( under-ice, under-water exps Amanda, Antares, Nemo, Antares,Nestor future IceCube, KM3 …) --photons in tens of GeV range( gamma astronomy on ground Magic, Hess, future ACT , Argo… or in space Agile, Fermi (Glast)…) --antimatter: look for an excess of antimatter w.r.t. what is expected in cosmic rays ( space exps. Pamela, AMS, …)

  27. Cirelli, Kadastik, Raidal, Strumia

  28. WIMPs: proviamo a “fabbricarli” anche noi ! L’IPOTESI “WIMPS” MATERIA OSCURA COSTITUITA DA PARTICELLE “NUOVE” CON MASSA TRA 100 E 1000 GEV CHE INTERAGISCONO SOLO DEBOLMENTE LHC, ILC (LINEAR COLLIDER ) POSSONO PRODURRE WIMPS WIMPS scappano dal rivelatore “FIRMA” DELL’HIGGS: ENERGIA MANCANTE DALLA MISURA DI MATERIA OSCURA POSSO RISALIRE A QUANTO GLI WIMPS INTERAGISCANO CON LA MATERIA ORDINARIA E QUINDI PREDIRE LA QUANTITA’ DI WIMPS CHE PRODURRO’ A LHC O A ILC

  29. THE “WHY NOW” PROBLEM

  30. DM DE DO THEY “KNOW” EACH OTHER? DIRECT INTERACTION  (quintessence) WITH DARK MATTER • DANGER: • Very LIGHT m ~ H0-1 ~ 10-33 eV Threat of violation of the equivalence principle, constancy of the fundamental “constants”, …CARROLL INFLUENCE OF  ON THE NATURE AND THE ABUNDANCE OF CDM SCALAR-TENSOR THEORIES OF GRAVITY, KINATION, RS II EXTRA DIM. Modifications of the standard picture of WIMPs FREEZE - OUT CATENA, FORNENGO, A.M., PIETRONI, ROSATI, SCHELKE CDM CANDIDATES

  31. NEUTRALINO RELIC ABUNDANCE IN GR AND S-T THEORIES OF GRAVITY

  32. TEVATRON LHC I L C DM - FLAVOR for DISCOVERY and/or FUND. TH. RECONSTRUCTION A MAJOR LEAP AHEAD IS NEEDED NEW PHYSICS AT THE ELW SCALE DARK MATTER "LOW ENERGY" PRECISION PHYSICS mn… LINKED TO COSMOLOGICAL EVOLUTION FCNC, CP ≠, (g-2), ()0 LFV Possible interplay with dynamical DE LEPTOGENESIS NEUTRINO PHYSICS

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