José Ramón Espinosa

IFAE

Research Interests

The ultimate goal of my field of research, Particle Physics, is to understand nature at the most fundamental level determining its building blocks and the laws that govern them. In the path (of ever increasing energies) towards that goal, the Standard Model -the theory that describes how all phenomena observed so far can be explained in terms of a small number of particle species interacting according to a well defined mathematical framework- stands as an impressive achievement. In spite of this, it leaves open too many questions to be considered the ultimate theory, and strong reasons lead us to believe in physics beyond this Standard Model. As a theorist, I work at this high energy frontier exploring what theories might supersede the Standard Model and what experimental implications they would have. The Large Hadron Collider now in operation at CERN and a number of other experiments will provide us in coming years with crucial data to guide research in this fundamental field.

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