Bibcode
Perl, Martin L.
Referencia bibliográfica
C2CR07: COLLIDERS TO COSMIC RAYS. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 928, pp. 207-214 (2007).
Fecha de publicación:
8
2007
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0
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Descripción
Physics and astronomy are the oldest sciences and the concept of mass is
thus a very old concept. We have quite good understanding of the masses
of composite elementary particles such as protons using quantum
chromodynamics. But we do not understand the nature of the masses of the
elementary particles - quarks, leptons, force carrying particles, dark
matter particles - and we have no quantitative rules for the magnitude
of their masses. In this talk I sketch a number of qualitative questions
such as why is there no rule for even the simplest mass sequences - the
charged leptons, is there a maximum mass elementary particle, and is the
Planck mass idea overrated? I also estimate the upper limits on collider
searches in the next few decades for massive particles. This is a
summary of my talk at Colliders to Cosmic Rays 2007.