IIHE invited seminar: Observation of the photon-induced production of tau leptons in pp collisions at CMS and constraints on tau g-2 (Cecile Caillol)

Friday 3 May 2024, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Brussels

Abstract:

The photon-induced production of a pair of tau leptons had been observed in proton-proton collisions with data collected in Run-2 by the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Signal events are identified thanks to their low track multiplicity around the di-tau vertex. These events are used to set constraints on the anomalous magnetic moment of the tau lepton, significantly improving previous measurements from the LEP era.  

Short bio:

Dr. Cecile Caillol did her PhD at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and graduated in 2016. She then joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison until July 2021, when she became an LD staff researcher at CERN. During her PhD and after, she worked on Higgs boson decays to tau leptons, including the first observation of H->tautau decays with 2016 data, and other Higgs boson measurements with tau leptons. She also played a leading role in several exotic Higgs searches. More recently, she has worked on the study of photon-induced processes (this seminar), and the lepton-induced production of leptoquarks. She is currently convener of one of the 3 search groups of CMS (SUS ˜= supersymmetry, dark matter, exotic Higgs).