Status after the first LHC run: Looking for new directions in the physics landscape
Antonio Pich
TL;DR
The paper reviews the LHC's first run, confirming the Standard Model's success and highlighting the challenge of discovering new physics beyond current theories due to negative search results.
Contribution
It provides an overview of the LHC's findings and discusses future directions in particle physics research after the initial run.
Findings
Standard Model confirmed at electroweak scale
Higgs boson properties verified
No new phenomena detected in initial LHC data
Abstract
The LHC data have confirmed the Standard Model as the correct theory at the electroweak scale. It successfully explains the experimental results with high precision and all its ingredients, including the Higgs boson, have been finally verified. At the same time, the negative searches for signals of new phenomena challenge our previous theoretical wisdom on new-physics scenarios.
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