Testing the Standard Model and Beyond

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current status of the Standard Model, discusses motivations for extensions like supersymmetry and grand unification, and explores experimental tests at particle accelerators.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the Standard Model, its limitations, and the experimental strategies to test theories beyond it, such as supersymmetry and grand unification.

Findings

Current experimental tests support the Standard Model

Motivations for beyond Standard Model physics are discussed

Potential collider experiments to test new theories are outlined

Abstract

This paper is based on lectures presented to mathematical physicists and attempts to provide an overview of the present status of the Standard Model, its experimental tests, phenomenological and experimental motivations for going beyond the Standard Model via supersymmetry and grand unification, and ways to test these ideas with particle accelerators.