Thursday, October 23, 2014, 16:00
WHGA/Auditorium
R. Contino, EPFL & CERN
Abstract:
According to the Standard Model paradigm, the newly discovered Higgs
boson is predicted to be elementary, and would thus be the first
fundamental scalar field ever observed. But Nature might repeat herself,
and the Higgs boson could be instead a bound state of new
strongly-coupled dynamics at the TeV scale. The problem of stabilizing
the electroweak scale would thus be solved dynamically, similarly to the
QCD scale. In this seminar I will review the idea of Higgs compositeness
and how it confronts with current experimental results.