SAIP 2025
Plenary SPEaker
Speaker: PROFESSOR SVEN HEINEMEYER
Title: Indications for new physics at the LHC
Abstract
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides a very good description of nearly all available experimental data. Notable exceptions are Dark Matter (DM) and the Baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU, the question why we only see matter, but not antimatter). These questions point towards physics beyond the SM (BSM). While DM points towards some new so far undiscovered symmetry, the BAU leads to models with extended Higgs sectors.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is searching for BSM physics. However, no clear signal of BSM physics was discovered so far. While the need for BSM is firmly established, the LHC data nevertheless exhibits some interesting anomalies that could point towards BSM theories with new symmetries and/or extended Higgs sectors. I will review the status of the BSM searches at the LHC and discuss some promising excesses in the data. I will demonstrate how this kind of excesses can be analysed with future (High Luminosity-) LHC data, or at a future e+e- collider. The confirmation of any of the many excesses and anomalies in the LHC data would pave the way for future experimental and theoretical explorations.
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Biography
Professor Sven Heinemeyer graduated in 1998 at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in the field of precision predictions in supersymmetric theories. Postdoctoral Fellows at DESY (Hamburg, Germany), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), LMU Munich (Germany) and CERN, then moved to Spain. Since 2017, currently a Research Professor (highest level) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) in Madrid (Spain).
The Higgs boson at 125 GeV as a probe of SM and BSM physics; phenomenological predictions and analyses for the LHC and future e+e- colliders in the SM and BSM models; indications for BSM physics in current experimental data and their implications for the (HL-)LHC and future e+e- colliders; implications for BSM models from cosmology and gravitational waves; low-energy and electroweak precision observables as a test of the SM and BSM. Professor Heinemeyer has published more than 200 journal articles with an average citation of 250+ and an h-index of 89. He is a member of the LEP Higgs working group (until 2000); leader of the LHC Higgs working group 2012-2014 (at the Higgs discovery); member of the Particle Data Group; convenor for various working groups for FCCee and ILC physics; editor for European Physics Journal C; main organizer of the annual workshop “Higgs Days at Santander”.
Author of the codes HiggsTools (HiggsBounds, HiggsSignals), FeynHiggs, MasterCode and 2hdmtools