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HEP 2002: HEP 2002: Summary and Summary and
ProspectProspect
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The Standard Model (1)The Standard Model (1) QCD
Triumph of Quantum Field Theory Expanding Frontiers
Matter in Extreme Conditions Explanatory (Quantitative) Power
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Standard Model (2)The Standard Model (2) Electroweak
Triumph of Quantum Field Theory Flavor Sector / CP Violation More to Come …
The Standard Model Is Self-Transcending!
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
Unification and Unification and Supersymmetry (1)Supersymmetry (1)
Unification Quantum Numbers Couplings! Scale
Neutrino Masses Gravity (nearly) Not (yet?) Proton Decay (nor others …)
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
Unification and Unification and Supersymmetry (2)Supersymmetry (2)
Electroweak Indications Radiative Stability of Weak Scale Lightness of Higgs Mass Small Radiative Corrections
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
Unification and Unification and Supersymmetry (3)Supersymmetry (3)
Significance Dark Matter, Perhaps Opening New Windows
Deep Issues in Breaking Sources for Flavor and CP Violation
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Higgs Particle (1)The Higgs Particle (1) Limit from Radiative Corrections Significance of the Limit
Theory Experiment
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
The Higgs Particle (2)The Higgs Particle (2)
Issues Arising Gluon Distributions (To Check Basic Coupling -- Beautiful QFT!)
Diffractive Production
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Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (1) Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (1) Consolidation of the CKM Picture
/ B Physics / Unitarity Triangle
Neutrino Masses and Mixings Atmospheric Solar Future Experiments
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (2) Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (2)
What Does It All Mean? Lots of Things Don’t Happen! Patterns!?
Family Repetition Mass Hierarchy (?) Mixing Hierarchy for Quarks, but Not
Neutrinos Big Phases
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Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (3) Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (3) Hints of Deeper Connections
m Scale mb/m mt!
Unification Textures? LMA Presents a Challenge Lopsided Mass Matrices
• Not-Quite Maximal Mixing for Solar
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Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (4)Flavor: Mass, Mixing, CP (4) Mechanisms?
(Small) Extra Dimensions? Cosmology? Anthropics?
More to Come L Violations B Violation Electric Dipole Moments
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Cosmic Connections (1)Cosmic Connections (1) Dark Matter
LSP? Axion?
Dark Energy Why is it Small? Why is it Taking Over the Universe?
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
Cosmic Connections (2)Cosmic Connections (2) Cosmic Rays
GZK !? Strangelets? (Strange Stars??)
Gravity Waves Cosmological (Inflation) Extreme Collisions (Quark Matter?)
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
An Ultralight Sector? (1)An Ultralight Sector? (1)
Axions Strong CP Problem Dark Matter
Dilatons, Familons, Modulons
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
An Ultralight Sector? (2)An Ultralight Sector? (2) Anthropic Principle
With Inflation, a New Status Anthropics can be Unavoidable! Candidates for Anthropics
“Second” Problem - Vadron? mu-md?
Mis-Anthropics
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An Ultralight Sector? (3)An Ultralight Sector? (3)
Experiments! Search for Axions Forces, Scalar and Pseudoscalar Variation of Constants?
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The Glory of Precision The Glory of Precision Perturbative
Electroweak QCD
Non-Perturbative
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04/22/23 Frank Wilczek, MIT
ConclusionConclusion Brilliant Work by Many People has
Resulted in an Extraordinarily Profound, Precise Description of the Physical World
Because of This We Can Both Ask, and Formulate Plans to Answer, Some Truly Awesome Questions