Physics Of The Large And The Small : Tasi 09, Proceedings Of The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute In Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, Usa, 1-26 June 2009

PHYSICS LARGE OF THE AND THE 7961 tp.indd 1 SMALL 12/29/10 3:47 PM This page intentionally left blank PHYSICS LARGE OF THE AND THE SMALL Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1 – 26 June 2009 editors Csaba Csaki Cornell University, USA Scott Dodelson Fermilab, USA World Scientific NEW JERSEY 7961 tp.indd 2 • LONDON • SINGAPORE • BEIJING • SHANGHAI • HONG KONG • TA I P E I • CHENNAI 12/29/10 3:47 PM Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. PHYSICS OF THE LARGE AND THE SMALL TASI 2009 Proceedings of the 2009 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics Copyright © 2011 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN-13 978-981-4327-17-6 ISBN-10 981-4327-17-4 Printed in Singapore. Benjamin - Physics of the Large & the Small.pmd 1 12/22/2010, 9:34 AM December 22, 2010 9:24 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9in x 6in tasi2009 v PREFACE The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) in elementary particle physics has been held each summer since 1984. The early institutes were held at Michigan, Yale, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, and Brown. Since 1989 they have been hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Each year typically about sixty of the most promising advanced theory graduate students in the United States, along with a few international graduate students attend TASI. The emphasis of TASI has shifted from year to year, but typically there have been courses of lectures in phenomenology, field theory, string theory, mathematical physics, cosmology and the particle-astrophysics interface, as well as series on experimental topics. TASI has been highly successful in introducing students to a much broader range of ideas and topics than they normally experience in their home institutions while working on their dissertation topics. This book contains write-ups of lectures from the 2009 summer school whose title was “Physics of the large and small”. The idea was to give an introduction to particle physics beyond the standard model and to cosmology. The focus of the particle physics portion was TeV scale and LHC-related physics. The particle physics lectures started with a series by Witold Skiba, who gave an introduction to the methods of effective theories and their uses for electroweak precision measurements. The next series of lectures were focusing on supersymmetry. Patrick Fox gave an introduction to supersymmetry and the MSSM, and Patrick Meade reviewed gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking. David Sh