Status and Phenomenology of the Standard Model

The New Standard Model (NSM)) is the original SM (SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)× classical general relativity), supplemented with neutrino mass, which can be Dirac or Majorana. The focus of this talk will be on the electroweak (SU(2)×U(1)) sector. The NSM is a mathematically consistent field theory of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions and classical gravity that is the correct description of nature to first approximation down to ∼ 10 cm. However, it is a complicated theory with many free parameters and fine tunings, strongly suggesting that there must be new physics beyond the standard model (BSM) at shorter distance scales, and in fact most particle physicists are involved in one way or another in the search for that new physics. The standard model has many special features that are usually not maintained in BSM, leading both to a challenge for theorists in constructing new models and an opportunity for experimentalists searching for hints of new physics. These include: