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Particle Physics and Cosmology Intertwined
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: Received: 5 January 2024 / Approved: 8 January 2024 / Online: 8 January 2024 (11:16:02 CET)
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Nath, P. Particle Physics and Cosmology Intertwined. Entropy 2024, 26, 110. Nath, P. Particle Physics and Cosmology Intertwined. Entropy 2024, 26, 110.
Abstract
While the standard model accurately describes data at the electroweak scale without inclusion of gravity, beyond the standard model physics is increasingly intertwined with gravitational phenomena and cosmology. Thus gravity mediated breaking of supersymmetry in supergravity models lead to sparticles masses, which are gravitational in origin, observable at TeV scales and testable at the LHC, and supergravity also provides candidate for dark matter, a possible framework for inflationary models and for models of dark energy. Further, extended supergravity models, and string and D-brane models contain hidden sectors some of which may be feebly coupled to the visible sector resulting in heat exchange between the visible and hidden sectors. Because of the couplings between the sectors both particle physics and cosmology are effected. The above implies that particle physics and cosmology are intrinsically intertwined in the resolution of essentially all of the cosmological phenomena such as dark matter and dark energy and in the resolution of cosmological puzzles such as Hubble tension and EDGES anomaly. Here we give a brief overview of the intertwining and implications for the discovery of sparticles, and the resolution of the cosmological anomalies and identification of dark matter and dark energy as major challenges for the coming decades.
Keywords
particle physics; cosmology
Subject
Physical Sciences, Particle and Field Physics
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