Exploring LHC data in the di-lepton final state

Note: Special High Energy Experiment Seminar, 3:30 PM
Speaker: Dmytro Kovalskyi, University of California at Santa Barbara

When: April 8, 2010 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)

This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has received a lot of press over the last few years. We successfully recovered from the accident that occurred in 2008, recording our first collisions at the end of 2009, with the first papers on 900 GeV and 2.4 TeV data now published. We currently expect to collect up to 1/fb of data at 7 TeV during 2010-2011. By now we know the physics at the energies accessible to the current generation of colliders very well. To complete the picture we are missing just one piece, the Higgs boson. It may well be the end of the story, but there is a strong indication that we are at a turning point of high-energy physics. The energies accessible to the new collider enter the territory where our models become contradictory and self-inconsistent. In my talk I will show you discovery prospects with the CMS detector at the LHC using the di-lepton final state.