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Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP)


LTP Colloquium

How to look for Supersymmetry?

Thursday, May 4, 2006, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium

J. Ellis, CERN

Abstract:
After recalling the phenomenological motivations for supersymmetry at the TeV scale, some of the possible experimental signatures will be reviewed. The signature that is most often discussed is missing energy, but a generic alternative is a massive, metastable charged particle appearing in models where the lightest supersymmetric particle is a gravitino. Benchmark models in both scenarios that are consistent with all our theoretical, experimental and cosmological knowledge will be presented and the prospects they offer for observing supersymmetry will be discussed.