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Teilchentee WS 2017/18
Seminar at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University
on Thursdays, 4 pm
organizers: Stefan Floerchinger, Susanne Westhoff
Before each seminar, the speaker gives an informal Pre-Talk, introducing the MSc and PhD students at the ITP to the broader context of the topic of the seminar.
Pre-Talks start at 3:30 pm
Date: 23.11.2017
Speaker: Matthew McCullough (CERN)
Title: Clockworking and the Power Spectrum of the LHC
Abstract
In the pre-talk I will discuss the hierarchy problem from a known, but less mainstream, direction and I will argue that the hints we have observed for high energy physics may in fact be a smokescreen, with the new physics responsible for these hints lying much closer to accessible energies. In the main talk I will discuss recent progress in clockwork model building, along with the associated linear dilaton continuum limit, including connections to stringy UV-completions. The second half of the talk will focus on LHC phenomenology, including a new search strategy to look for evidence of new physics in Fourier space.
