Christopher Verhaaren (UC Davis), “Phenomenology of Neutral Naturalness”

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Abstract: Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, new particle searches at the Large Hadron Collider appear to make the Standard Model’s hierarchy problem more puzzling. The most powerful searches look for new particles carrying standard model color. However, the particles related to the hierarchy problem’s solution may be color neutral. These realizations of Neutral Naturalness generally have very different phenomenology from Higgs compositeness and Supersymmetry. I will introduce the variety of Neutral Natural extensions of the standard model and explore some of their phenomenology. Understanding these signals allows us to use current and future colliders to experimentally explore Higgs naturalness.