BSMEXPEDITION_Paving the way to a Beyond the Standard Model Theory

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Andrzej Jerzy Buras; Professor Dr. Andreas Weiler, since 3/2021
• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: from 2017 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 378905682

The Standard Model (SM) cannot be the final theory of elementary interactions because there exist fundamental open problems, such as the identification of dark matter, gaining insight into the hierarchy between the electroweak and Planck scales, or understanding the origin of flavor. There must exist a deeper theory, an extension of the SM and finding it is now the main challenge and the main goal of particle physics.The LHC has opened a new era in the exploration of the fundamental laws of Nature, but there is some confusion at the lack of confirmed discoveries of physics beyond the SM. This joint TUM-Warsaw project is a natural reaction to the results from the LHC, which after its first period of operation found, that the New Physics scale is not in the ballpark of a few hundred of GeV for most models as initially expected but rather shifted into the TeV range or higher. Its main objective is to push the systematic search for the extension of the SM one step further, to theories that are consistent with the present data but can be tested in the experiments of the next decade. Our research program is centered at the interface of collider phenomenology and low-energy precision physics and it aims at the synthesis of theoretical lessons learned from both. Our understanding of the TeV scale is evolving: motivated by new ideas using the frameworks of a pseudo-Goldstone Higgs and supersymmetry, we will pursue models which explain the absence of new particles in the data until now. In the course of the phenomenological exploration, we will develop general tools which allow a broad and precise recasting of LHC results, the interpretation of flavor and CP measurements, and their correlated implications. As a consequence we will be able to probe in the broadest range of ways and with the best tools that we can design. Ultimately we will be in a position to make whatever discoveries Nature places within our reach.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Poland
• Partner Organisation: Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN)
• Cooperation Partners: Professor Dr. Marek Olechowski; Professor Dr. Stefan Pokorski; Privatdozent Dr. Krzysztof Rolbiecki; Privatdozent Dr. Janusz Rosiek; Privatdozent Dr. Kazuki Sakurai
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. David Straub, until 3/2021