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Unearthing New Physics in Early LHC Data

Note: High Energy Seminar
Speaker: Kevin Black, Harvard University
When: January 31, 2008 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM
Location: PRB 595

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will produce its first proton-proton collisions later this year. Because of the unprecedented center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV, it will extend the mass reach for the discovery of new particles dramatically and allow the first broad-band survey of new physics at the TeV energy scale. The ATLAS detector is one of four experiments at the LHC and is in its end phase of construction and initial stages of commissioning. I will discuss the potential of discovering physics beyond the Standard Model physics in early LHC data detailing some of the experimental challenges in understanding the detector and early data. Finally, I will present new results from the ATLAS collaboration involving a few particularly promising final states involving multiple leptons and top quarks.