Searches for New Physics at the Tevatron and LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews the status of searches for new physics beyond the standard model at the Tevatron and LHC, emphasizing the potential of large data samples to reveal new phenomena.

Contribution

It provides an overview of experimental efforts and prospects for discovering new physics at the Tevatron and LHC during a pivotal period.

Findings

Large data samples enable sensitive searches for new physics.

Current tests of the standard model are extremely precise.

Future data may reveal physics beyond the standard model.

Abstract

This is an auspicious moment in experimental particle physics -there are large data samples at the Tevatron and a new energy regime being explored at the Large Hadron Collider with ever larger data samples. The coincidence of these two events suggests that we will soon be able to address the question, what lies beyond the standard model? Particle physics's current understanding of the universe is embodied in it. The model has been tested to extreme precision - better than a part in ten thousand - but we suspect that it is only an approximation, and that physics beyond this standard model will appear in the data of the Tevatron and LHC in the near future. This brief review touches on the status of searches for new physics at the time of the conference.