Thursday, October 7, 2010, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
T. Plehn, University of Heidelberg
Abstract:
As we speak the LHC has started to probe higher energy scales than any
collider experiment before. For the first time, we are now able to
directly study the TeV scale, the energy scale which governs the
mechanism giving mass to elementary particles. If, as suggested by
current observations, there exists a fundamental Higgs boson, theoretical
consistency suggests the existence of additional particles accessible to
the LHC. Such particles could at the same time be responsible for the
dark matter in the universe. A particularly promising model for
physics beyond the Standard Model is supersymmetry. I will illustrate
typical signatures and measurements and describe what insights the into
fundamental theories we can expect from the LHC era.