Behind and Beyond the Standard Model: Effective Field Theory Perspectives - Day 1

Explore a comprehensive physics seminar that delves into the fundamental aspects of particle physics and the Standard Model through three distinct segments. Begin with an introduction to modern Effective Field Theory in Quantum Field Theory, examining symmetries, naturalness, and hierarchical mass scale separations. Progress through an analysis of the Standard Model's phenomenological adequacy and its reliance on scale separation, before investigating major extensions including Compositeness and Supersymmetry. Learn how these extensions affect the Standard Model's structural simplicity and require specific model building hypotheses, creating a tension between naturalness and simplicity known as the hierarchy paradox. Examine the role of past, present, and future collider experiments in exploring these concepts, while covering topics such as RG-flow, symmetries, FCNC and CP violation suppression, precision electroweak tests, and the Higgs sector. Delivered by Riccardo Rattazzi from EPFL Lusanne, this physics seminar offers both theoretical foundations and practical applications in modern particle physics.