James Alexander, Cornell University
Professor
Ithaca, New York
pa6@cornell.edu
Office:
(607) 255-5259
Expert In
Bio/Research
Why does the Standard Model work? What is beyond the Standard Model? We already know there must be physics beyond the SM because we see that there is dark matter in the universe, that neutrinos have masses, that there is far more matter than anti-matter, and so forth.
These issues have l...
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These issues have l...
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Bio/Research
Why does the Standard Model work? What is beyond the Standard Model? We already know there must be physics beyond the SM because we see that there is dark matter in the universe, that neutrinos have masses, that there is far more matter than anti-matter, and so forth.
These issues have led physicists to invent countless scenarios for New Physics, scenarios which sometimes require additional spatial dimensions, sometimes new "fermionic" dimensions of spacetime, and invariably predict new particles and new interactions. But until we get real data from very high energy collisions, we can't know what the right scenario is. Even then we will have to work very hard to figure out what the data are telling us!
We are doing that now. Working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Cornell particle physics group is focusing heavily on the search for New Physics.
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These issues have led physicists to invent countless scenarios for New Physics, scenarios which sometimes require additional spatial dimensions, sometimes new "fermionic" dimensions of spacetime, and invariably predict new particles and new interactions. But until we get real data from very high energy collisions, we can't know what the right scenario is. Even then we will have to work very hard to figure out what the data are telling us!
We are doing that now. Working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Cornell particle physics group is focusing heavily on the search for New Physics.
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