Conveners
T3-3 Particle Physics IV (PPD) | Physique des particules IV (PPD)
- Scott Oser
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...
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...
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...
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...
