Nature's Greatest Puzzles: Chris Quigg
Nature's Greatest Puzzles: Chris Quigg
Nature's Greatest Puzzles: Chris Quigg
Chris Quigg
Fermilab
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Natural to neglect gravity in particle physics
12
h̄c
GNewton small ⇐⇒ MPlanck = ≈ 1.22 × 1019 GeV large
GNewton
E
G ∼
MPlanck
2
MK
Estimate B(K → πG) ∼ ∼ 10−38
MPlanck
Gravity follows Newtonian force law down to < ∼ 1 mm (few meV)
GNewton ρ(r1 )ρ(r2 )
Z Z
V (r) = − dr1 dr2 [1 + εG exp(−r12 /λG )]
r12
108 Lamoreaux
Relative Strength εG
Stanford
104
Boulder
100
Eöt-Wash
10–4 10 1 0.1
E (meV) Irvine
At the minimum,
2 2 4
µ v |λ|v
V (hϕ† ϕi0 ) = =− < 0.
4 4
2
Identify MH = −2µ2
contributes field-independent vacuum energy density
2 2
MH v
%H ≡
8
But MH >
∼ 114 GeV ⇒
8 4
%H >
∼ 10 GeV
3-2-1
Traditional: Use 4-d force
law to extrapolate gravity to ty
Strength of Forces
LED ravi
l G
higher energies; MPlanck ∼ ti ona
n
nve
scale where Gravity, SM forces Co
dR
Lq uR Le eR
ϕ
Higgs search and study; EWSB / 1-TeV scale [p± p colliders; e+ e− LC]