Desert (particle physics)

In the context of particle physics, "Desert" refers to the concept of a range of energy scales or mass ranges between the electroweak scale (around the mass of the Higgs boson, approximately 125 GeV) and the Planck scale (around \(10^{19}\) GeV). Within this range, there are no known particles or theories that have been confirmed, creating what is metaphorically termed a "desert" in the spectrum of particle masses and interactions.