How do we create incentives in High Energy Physics to discourage such utterly garbage filled advocacy of discredited dead end speculation?
At present, the Standard Model (SM) agrees with almost all collider data. Yet, three finetuning issues -- the Higgs mass problem, the strong CP problem and the cosmological constant problem -- all call for new physics. The most plausible solutions at present are weak scale SUSY, the PQWW axion and the string landscape. A re-evaluation of EW finetuning in SUSY allows for a higgsino-like LSP and naturalness upper bounds well beyond LHC limits. Rather general arguments from string theory allow for statistical predictions that m_h~ 125 GeV with sparticles beyond present LHC limits. The most lucrative LHC search channel may be for light higgsino pair production. Dark matter turns out to be a SUSY DFSZ axion along with a diminished abundance of higgsino-like WIMPs.
Howard Baer, "Beyond the Standard Model: An overview" arXiv:2405.00872 (May 1, 2024) (contribution to the 2024 QCD session of the 58th Rencontres de Moriond).
string theory is still mainstream hep
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ReplyDeleteHoward Baer
Homer L. Dodge Endowed Chair In High Energy Physics
Professor
High Energy Particle Physics
Bio
I do research in theoretical High Energy Physics (HEP), with an emphasis on physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), especially the experimental consequences of weak sale supersymmetry, and its implications for collider physics (detection of new matter states at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, or LHC), and early universe cosmology, especialy the origin of dark matter and how to detect it. We also work on superstring phenomenology, and consequences of the string theory landscape of vacua for BSM physics searches.
Featured Publications
"Fine-tuned vs. natural supersymmetry: what does the string landscape predict?", H. Baer, V. Barger, D. Martinez, and S. Salam, JHEP09, 125 (2022)
"The cosmological moduli problem and naturalness", H. Baer, K. J. Bae, V. Barger, and R.Wiley Deal, JHEP02, 138 (2022)
"Midi-review: Status of weak scale supersymmetry after LHC Run 2 and ton-scale noble liquid WIMP searches", H. Baer, V. Barger, S. Salam, D. Sengupta, and K. Sinha, Eur. Phys. J.-Spec. Top. 229, 3085-3141, (2020)
Awards & Honors
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
Fellow of American Physical Society
Homer L. Dodge Endowed Chair In High Energy Physics
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ReplyDeleteThere is no legitimate reason to take SUSY seriously any more besides the fact that there are hundreds of theoretical physicists who have specialized in it back when it was a viable possibility.
String theory has proven to be basically a dead end and has no observational support.
Fine tuning and naturalness are meaningless concepts that have merely led the discipline astray. They are just mental masturbation and bear no fruit.
Howard Baer was sloppy enough to leave a glaring misspelling in his biography.
Aaron Wall recently got an academic position at Stanford in string theory.
ReplyDeleteSUSY and string theory is alive and well at major physics departments.
LHC only explores part of the parameter space of weak scale SUSY
The 100 TEV CERN supercollider proposed to explore weak scale SUSY
The fact that SUSY research is alive and well despite the fact that the evidence grossly discredits it, is precisely the problem.
ReplyDeleteyou don't have a phd in Hep
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Howard Baer
Homer L. Dodge Endowed Chair In High Energy Physics
Professor
High Energy Particle Physics
Fellow of American Physical Society
Homer L. Dodge Endowed Chair In High Energy Physics
susy still has research
you have a jd
you are qualified to discuss lawsuits as a jd
evidence grossly discredits it
ReplyDeletethe 100tev cern or China hasn't been built yet
and only weak scale susy