2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

T3-3 Particle Physics IV (PPD) | Physique des particules IV (PPD)

T3-3

12 Jun 2018, 13:30

Dalhousie University

Conveners

T3-3 Particle Physics IV (PPD) | Physique des particules IV (PPD)

• Scott Oser

2012. High mass Diboson Resonances with the ATLAS Detector (G)*

Robert Les (University of Toronto (CA))

12/06/2018, 13:30

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

Many extensions to the Standard Model predict new particles at the TeV scale which decay to pairs of electro-weak gauge bosons. The ATLAS detector is one the most sensitive probes for these scenarios because it studies the LHC collisions which have unprecedented center of mass energies and luminosity. In conjunction with new experimental techniques for identifying the hadronic decays of weak...

2058. Search for new dark sector particles in Higgs boson decays with the ATLAS detector at the LHC (G)*

Yu Him Justin Chiu (University of Victoria (CA))

12/06/2018, 13:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson (h) is an affirmation of the
Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and concludes several decades of
experimental searches. However, the experimental investigation of its
properties has just begun. Current measurements of h properties permit
the fraction of h decays to Beyond-Standard-Model (BSM) particles to be
as high as approximately 30%. These...

2187. A Novel Approach to Account for the Fano Factor (G)*

Mr Daniel Durnford (Queen's University)

12/06/2018, 14:00

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

As first discussed by U. Fano in the 1940’s, the statistical fluctuation of the number of e-/ion pairs produced in an ionizing interaction is known to be sub-Poissonian, the dispersion being reduced by the so-called “Fano Factor”. Despite this knowledge, the Poisson distribution is commonly used to model the quantization of ionizing processes while the effect of the reduced dispersion is...

1982. *** Moved from M3-6 *** Searches for new physics at ATLAS (I)

Katherine Pachal (Simon Fraser University (CA))

12/06/2018, 14:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Throughout Run II ATLAS has maintained an extensive, varied program of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. Searches for supersymmetry cover strong and electroweak production as well as R-parity violating scenarios, while Exotic analyses search for heavy bosons, dark matter mediators, exotic Higgs production, and much more. This talk will show highlights of the Run II search results...