Testing mSUGRA and Extensions at the LHC and Elsewhere

Speaker: Pran Nath, Northeastern University

When: November 19, 2009 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)
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This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

The minimal supergravity grand unified model mSUGRA provides a natural ex- planation for the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry and with R parity conservation leads to the neutralino as the lightest supersymmetric particle and a candidate for cold dark matter con- sistent with the WMAP data. A car- tography of the sparticle mass hierarchies within mSUGRA will be discussed as such hierarchical patterns lead to distinguishable features in multilepton, multijet and missing energy events at the Large Hadron Collider. Extensions of mSUGRA to ex- plain the results from anti-matter probes and as well as the possibility of discovery of sparticles in early runs at the LHC will also be discussed.