What is the Hierarchy Problem?
Michael E. Peskin (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA)
Is there a Hierarchy Problem? If so, what, exactly, is the problem? Almost every theorist has a personal answer to these questions. In this article, I give my answer. I will explain that the Hierarchy Problem is not a formal problem but rather our ignorance of a crucial physics explanation – the explanation of the nature of the Higgs boson. Without the solution to this problem, we cannot make progress on the major questions of our field.