Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Individual

With the start of LHC this fall, a decade of dramatic discoveries in Particle Physics arise on the horizon. If LHC unmasks a strongly interacting sector, Holography would be an essential tool to interpret data. Holography, a relatively new tool, is based on the observation that some strongly interacting systems can be qualitatively described by means of weakly coupled systems in higher dimensions. Nowadays, many examples of this duality are known in various physical systems, among which low-energy QCD, heavy-ion physics, cuprate superconductors, graphene, Fermi gases and superfluidity. Using the holographic approach, one can match scenarios of strong electroweak symmetry breaking with theories in more than 4 dimensions with different geometries. The parameter space of models can be explored systematically, while keeping the number of parameters to its minimum-- a requirement for collider studies. Holography is a useful organizing tool but it will not the last word. Full understanding will come from the interplay of Holographic methods with Lattice for Beyond the Standard Model Physics.