scholarly journals Basic Research Needs for Dark-Matter Small Projects New Initiatives: Report of the Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Workshop on Dark Matter

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocky Kolb ◽  
Harry Weerts ◽  
Natalia Toro ◽  
Richard Van de Water ◽  
Rouven Essig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Energy Physics

scholarly journals High energy physics and cosmology at the unification frontier: Opportunities and challenges in the coming years

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (20) ◽  
pp. 1830017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pran Nath
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Boson Mass ◽  
Higgs Boson Mass ◽  
Energy Physics

We give here an overview of recent developments in high energy physics and cosmology and their interconnections that relate to unification, and discuss prospects for the future. Thus there are currently three empirical data that point to supersymmetry as an underlying symmetry of particle physics: the unification of gauge couplings within supersymmetry, the fact that nature respects the supersymmetry prediction that the Higgs boson mass lie below 130 GeV, and vacuum stability up to the Planck scale with a Higgs boson mass at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]125 GeV while the Standard Model does not do that. Coupled with the fact that supersymmetry solves the big hierarchy problem related to the quadratic divergence to the Higgs boson mass square along with the fact that there is no alternative paradigm that allows us to extrapolate physics from the electroweak scale to the grand unification scale consistent with experiment, supersymmetry remains a compelling framework for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The large loop correction to the Higgs boson mass in supersymmetry to lift the tree mass to the experimentally observable value, indicates a larger value of the scale of weak scale supersymmetry, making the observation of sparticles more challenging but still within reach at the LHC for the lightest ones. Recent analyses show that a high energy LHC (HE-LHC) operating at 27 TeV running at its optimal luminosity of [Formula: see text] can reduce the discovery period by several years relative to HL-LHC and significantly extend the reach in parameter space of models. In the coming years several experiments related to neutrino physics, searches for supersymmetry, on dark matter and dark energy will have direct impact on the unification frontier. Thus the discovery of sparticles will establish supersymmetry as a fundamental symmetry of nature and also lend direct support for strings. Further, discovery of sparticles associated with missing energy will constitute discovery of dark matter with LSP being the dark matter. On the cosmology front more accurate measurement of the equation of state, i.e. [Formula: see text], will shed light on the nature of dark energy. Specifically, [Formula: see text] will likely indicate the existence of a dynamical field, possibly quintessence, responsible for dark energy and [Formula: see text] would indicate an entirely new sector of physics. Further, more precise measurements of the ratio [Formula: see text] of tensor to scalar power spectrum, of the scalar and tensor spectral indices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and of non-Gaussianity will hopefully allow us to realize a Standard Model of inflation. These results will be a guide to further model building that incorporates unification of particle physics and cosmology.

Cognitive/organizational blocks: Promethean, territorial and porous regimes

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Terry Shinn ◽  
Anne Marcovich
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Present Article ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
High Energy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Nanoscience And Nanotechnology ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Energy Physics

The present article seeks to deploy a classical taxonomy for description of the features and dynamics of the organizational frameworks that accompany the research endeavors which have arisen in some very spectacular, expensive or intellectually promising science research fields in recent decades, such as high-energy physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST), and cryogenic-driven exploration of dark matter and associated events. Such a taxonomy will associate or combine classical concepts and vocabularies in a way that effectively and fairly precisely captures the novel forms of learning and organizational structures contained in these cognitively and organizationally innovative domains.

scholarly journals SHEDDING LIGHT ON DARK MATTER AT COLLIDERS

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (31) ◽  
pp. 1330052 ◽  
Author(s):  
VASILIKI A. MITSOU
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Energy Physics

Dark matter remains one of the most puzzling mysteries in Fundamental Physics of our times. Experiments at high-energy physics colliders are expected to shed light to its nature and determine its properties. This review focuses on recent searches for dark matter signatures at the Large Hadron Collider, also discussing related prospects in future e+e- colliders.

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