An introduction the the UCR particle theory group for first year UCR physics and astronomy graduate students.

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A B O U T T H E U C R PA R T I C L E T H E O R Y G R O U P
Flip Tanedo
9 January 2019 Physics 288
UC Riverside Particle Theory
HOW TO HEP-PH
theory.ucr.edu

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Faculty
Yanou Haibo Flip Jose
Brian (HMC) Ernest (emeritus)

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So you can imagine life is quite difficult
John Mulaney
The Comeback Kid
Netflix

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What we work on

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Astro + Cosmo: Dark Matter Exists
5%
27%
68%
Standard Model is not complete
GALACTIC
ROTATION CURVES
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
Images: Jeff Filippini (Berkeley Cosmology 2005), NASA APOD 2006, NASA WMAP
How do we “do particle physics”
on this stuff?

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Particle Phenomenology
MYSTERY
examples:
Theory: what makes W scattering unitary? (Higgs boson)
Experiment: observed excess in 𝛾-rays … dark matter?

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Particle Phenomenology

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Particle Phenomenology

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Particle Phenomenology
PREDICTION MYSTERY

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Where we earn our stripes
HACK
full theory
predictions
interpretation
consistency

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world
expert
on this
space of ideas
Light Mediators
dark matter
capture
Supersymmetry
you

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space of ideas
Dark
Matter
Theory of Strong Dynamics
Cosmology
Other funny ideas …
Collider Physics
new
searches
still you, but closer to scale

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Hai-Bo’s Catechism
THE KEY TO SUCCESS:
10 hours per day
6 days a week
… REPEAT FOR 10 YEARS
from Hai-Bo Yu