Softened Gravity and the Extension of the Standard Model up to Infinite Energy
by
Gian Francesco Giudice(CERN)
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Europe/Stockholm
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Description
The main reason to expect new discoveries in the upcoming high-energy run of the LHC is based on the naturalness principle, which states that new phenomena must occur below the TeV scale, taming the quantum corrections related to the Higgs field. Is it possible to construct consistent theories that evade the consequences of the naturalness principle? Is approximate scale-invariance a valid justification for the absence of any new physics around the TeV? In this talk, I explore these questions finding some surprisingly concrete results from speculative hypotheses on the behaviour of nature at infinitely small distances.
