Status after the first LHC run: Looking for new directions in the physics landscape

Abstract

The LHC data have confirmed the Standard Model as the correct theory at the electroweak scale. It successfully explains the experimental results with high precision and all its ingredients, including the Higgs boson, have been finally verified. At the same time, the negative searches for signals of new phenomena challenge our previous theoretical wisdom on new-physics scenarios.

Comments: Opening talk at the 13th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors (La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, 24-30 May 2015). 4 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1505.01813