Current Issues in Particle Physics

Dear Colleagues,

The Standard Model of particle physics has been tested and verified with an astounding level of success for nearly 50 years in terms of describing elementary particles and their fundamental interactions. Despite a number of predictive successes, it is widely suspected that the Standard Model is a low energy effective theory. There are a number of aesthetically displeasing and unanswered questions associated with the Standard Model regarding the large number of arbitrary parameters, the origin of CP violation, neutrino masses, the Higgs mass being relatively low, and the replication of particle families, to name but a few. Currently there are a number of avenues being pursued in order to determine new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Experimentally, the search for physics beyond the Standard Model includes, as examples, searches for exotic decays, new particles, high-precision experiments looking for deviations in the Standard Model calculations of observables, and other such anomalies.

Theoretically, the search for new physics includes predictions associated with such topics as unified theories where the aim is to embed the Standard Model into a larger symmetry group exploiting new symmetries such as supersymmetry, the application of effective theories along with numerical calculations and experimental observables, and other such extensions to the Standard Model and beyond.

Another aspect associated with physics beyond the Standard Model is the understanding of the universe at large both observationally and theoretically. Observational cosmology has given particle physics another avenue for applications and constraints. Questions associated with the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter are not answered within the framework of particle physics and thus suggest new physics beyond the Standard Model.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: grand unified theories, effective theories, neutrinoless double beta decay, exotic decays, quark and neutrino mixing parameters, lattice gauge theory, precision measurements in the electroweak sector, neutrino mass measurements, and experimental search for rare decays.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

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Prof. Dr. Jeffery Secrest
Guest Editor

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