Add Physics Beyond the Standard Model

[davidsd]

It might be fun to include some physics beyond the Higgs Boson. The game could randomly decide which physics to uncover, so that the gameplay would be different each time (which might encourage people to play again!). It would certainly make the endgame more interesting.

Since this game has a strong focus on education, speculative ideas should be clearly demarcated from experimentally confirmed ideas. This wouldn't be too hard -- a special color scheme could be used, with a "speculative" badge or something similar. Another way to do this might be to include a date on all the discoveries and have speculative discoveries be in the future.

Some possible new physics to include (both probable and improbable):

• supersymmetry (this could be broken up into many different discoveries: squarks, sleptons, gluinos, etc.)
• dark matter
• Z's
• heavy electroweak doublets
• flavor-changing 4-fermion operators
• Kaluza-Klein excitations (heavy gravitons, photons, etc. indicative of extra dimensions)
• Randall-Sundrum radions
• approximately conformal hidden sectors (unparticle physics)
• string Regge trajectories
• black holes

[ibab]

Thanks for the many suggestions!
We were already thinking about including a random selection of BSM physics, but decided to put the idea aside during the Webfest.
We might revisit it again soon.