Theoretical Particle Physics and the LHC

Professor Ken Lane and a group of theorists and experimentalists, including Assistant Professor Tulika Bose and incoming Assistant Professor Kevin Black, recently completed a study of the potential of the CMS and ATLAS experiments to discover signals of low-scale technicolor dynamics during the LHC’s initial data-taking run in 2010-11. The signals involve the production of very narrow technivector resonances and their decay to final states involving only photons, electrons and muons – very clean signals comparatively free of troublesome backgrounds. The group showed that in this early run the experiments have sensitivity to the resonances with masses up to 300-400 GeV, a substantial increase over limits established in the past few years by experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron.

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