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HEP@VUB meetings

Thursday 17 May 2018, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Brussels

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003) (Universe)

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003)

Universe

Description

External Speaker: Filippo Sala (DESY)

Participants

Alberto Mariotti
Charles Rabideau
Chris Blair
Daniele Teresi
Emil Bols
Jarne De Clercq
Julian Heeck
Ken Mimasu
Laura
Leonidas Kalousis
Matthias Vereecken
Raghuveer Garani
Seth Moortgat
Shimaa Abu Zeid
Sibylle Driezen

- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Proposal of new LHC searches for low-mass resonances¶ 1h
  
  Several motivated extensions of the Standard Model feature new scalar bosons below the Higgs mass. A primary example is constituted by pseudo-Goldstone bosons (often referred to as axion-like particles) from an approximate global symmetry. In this talk I will i) review the models that predict these particles to be within experimental reach, and ii) discuss some most promising ways to look for them at colliders. I will present recent advances both on i), discussing the supersymmetric R-axion, and on ii), presenting a new LHC bound on diphoton resonances down to 10 GeV of mass, and proposing new searches along these lines.
  
  Speaker: Filippo Sala