Infrared phenomenology of ultraviolet physics beyond the standard model
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Supersymmetry and string theory are among the most compelling candidates for describing physics beyond the Standard Model. As much of the physics entailed by string theory and supersymmetry is expected to lie at very high energies, it is therefore instrumental to look for new ways in which the dynamics of inaccessible energies may be made apparent at more accessible ones. This thesis explores ways in which ultraviolet physics motivated by the shortcomings of the Standard Model may give rise to new signatures and phenomena in the infrared. We begin by considering a variety of potentially-observable new degrees of freedom arising from the compactification of higher-dimensional supersymmetric theories. We then turn to the implications of supersymmetry and confining dynamics for Standard Model flavor and supersymmetry breaking. In each case the models under consideration leave an imprint -- sometimes directly, often obliquely -- on observables at lower energies, from which we may extract signals accessible at the LHC and other experiments.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Craig, Nathaniel Jay |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Primary advisor | Dimopoulos, Savas, 1952- |
| Thesis advisor | Dimopoulos, Savas, 1952- |
| Thesis advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Silverstein, Eva, 1970- |
| Advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
| Advisor | Silverstein, Eva, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nathaniel Jay Craig. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Nathaniel Jay Craig
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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