What is the Hierarchy Problem?
Is there a Hierarchy Problem? If so, what, exactly, is the problem? Almost every theorist has a personal answer to these questions. In this article, I give my answers. I will explain that the Hierarchy Problem is not a formal problem but rather our ignorance of a crucial physics explanation -- the explanation of the nature of the Higgs boson. Without the solution to this problem, we cannot make progress on the major questions of our field.
Institutions
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ArXiv.org
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- Primary Topic
- Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Strong
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara