Abstract:
With Higgs boson discovery in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, no "New Physics" has emerged so far at the Energy Frontier, while Yukawa couplings of 3rd generation fermions (top, bottom, tau) were measured recently and found consistent with Standard Model. Surveying the terrain, we present the case for additional Yukawa couplings as a most-likely next New Physics, which may reveal itself in the near future at the LHC experiments, as well as the Belle II experiment that is coming on now. We may be at the dawn of a new "flavor era".
Brief Bio:
George Wei-Shu Hou holds an NTU Chair in the Physics Department since 2015. Receiving his Ph.D. at UCLA, he returned to NTU in 1992, after conducting theoretical research in Pittsburgh, Munich and PSI, Switzerland. He then initiated the NTU High Energy Physics experimental group. Recent significant honors are: Academic Award (2010, MOE), Academic Summit Project (2010-2015, NSC/MOST), National Chair (2012-2015, MOE).