Nima Arkani-Hamed is a theorist with wide-ranging interests in fundamental physics.  He is concerned with the relation between theory and experiment, with a special focus on current and future particle accelerators as well as cosmological observations.

Articles and Talks for a general audience:

The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist, Public Lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, October 26, 2012.

2010 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University, October 4 - 8, 2010

• Setting the Stage:Space-Time and Quantum Mechanics
• Our "Standard Models" of Particle Physics and Cosmology
• Space-Time is Doomed: What Replaces It?
• Why Is There a Macroscopic Universe?
• A New Golden Age of Experiments: What We Might Know By 2020?

Selected Publications:

• N. Arkani-Hamed, T. Han, M. Mangano and L.-T. Wang, "Physics Opportunities of a 100 TeV Proton-Proton Collider", hep-th/1511.06595 (2015). 

• N. Arkani-Hamed and J. Trnka, "The Amplituhedron", JHEP:1401:030 (2014).

• N. Arkani-Hamed, J.L. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, A.B. Goncharov, A. Postnikov and J. Trnka, "Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian", hep-th/1212.5605.

• N. Arkani-Hamed, J. L. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, S. Caron-Huot and J. Trnka, "The All-Loop Integrand for Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N=4 SYM", JHEP:1101,:041, (2011).

• N. Arkani-Hamed, F. Chachazo, Cheung and J. Kaplan, "A Duality for the S Matrix", JHEP:03:020, (2010).

• N. Arkani-Hamed, D. Finkbiner, T. Slatyer and N. Weiner, "A Theory of Dark Matter", Phys. Rev. D79:015014, (2009).

• N. Arkani-Hamed and S. Dimopoulos, "Supersymmetric Unification Without Low Energy Supersymmetry and Signatures for Fine-Tuning at the LHC", JHEP:0506:073, (2005).

• N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, and H. Georgi, "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Dimensional Deconstruction", Phys. Lett. B 513, 232 (2002).

• N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, and G. Dvali, "The Hierarchy Problem and New Dimensions at a Millimeter," Phys. Lett. B 429, 263 (1998).