TASI Lectures on Non-Supersymmetric BSM Models

Understand

These lectures provide a self-contained introduction to the essential aspects of non-supersymmetric beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics for beginning graduate students who are already familiar with quantum field theory.

• After a detailed review of the physical meaning of the hierarchy problem, we introduce the key ingredients of the physics of Goldstone bosons necessary for many non-supersymmetric new physics models.
• Next we discuss the concept of collective symmetry breaking and present the main elements leading to little Higgs/composite Higgs models.
• We then turn to extra dimensional theories.