The Conformal Window and Walking Technicolor

Abstract

I discuss recent progress in the uncovering of the phase diagram of non-supersymmetric gauge theories. The nature of the conformal window for higher dimensional representations suggests a possible way to construct realistic technicolor models. I then explicitly provide two such theories. One of these models also has a natural cold Dark Matter candidate.

Comments: Prepared for Cargese Summer School on Theory and Particle Physics: The LHC Perspective and Beyond, Cargese, France, 16 June - 28 June 2008