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Departmental Seminars
Axion-like particle searches at the LHC
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B228 (ΘΕΕ02)
B228
ΘΕΕ02
UCY Department of Physics Lecture Room 1 (Aglantzia Campus)
Description
Abstract: Searching for axion-like particles (ALPs) is a very active field, as they are a potential candidate for dark matter. The LHC proves to be a versatile tool to search for axion-like particles in a wide mass range using a variety of production and decay modes, which are exploited using modern analysis techniques. An overview of the employed analysis strategies is presented together with a selected set of analyses from the LHC experiments covering the mass range from 0.5 GeV to 600 GeV.
About the speaker: Prof. Michele Gallinaro is a Coordinating Researcher at LIP Lisbon and an Invited Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon. Prof Gallinaro obtained his PhD from the University of Rome in 1996, and has been a member of the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC since 2006, and the CDF Collaboration at Fermilab Tevatron from 1992 until 2012. Currently, Prof Gallinaro pursues a broad research program at the LHC, involving searches for beyond the standard model physics, top quark studies, photon and tau identification algorithms, as well as developing timing detectors for the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer.
