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The Hierarchy Problem and Physics Beyond the Standard Model

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XXII DAE High Energy Physics Symposium

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The ‘hierarchy problem’ of the Standard Model stems from our inability to answer the question: why the Higgs boson mass is so low compared to the GUT scale? I shall provide a very brief description as to how ‘supersymmetry’ and ‘composite Higgs’ approach this problem.

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Bhattacharyya, G. (2018). The Hierarchy Problem and Physics Beyond the Standard Model. In: Naimuddin, M. (eds) XXII DAE High Energy Physics Symposium . Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73171-1_4

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