Exploring all possible regions of Supersymmetry with ATLAS

by Dr Sascha Caron

Friday 1 Mar 2013, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Brussels

Large seminar room (IIHE (ULB-VUB))

abstract: We present first results of a comprehensive search for new physics in data taken with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The search is motivated by the idea that a signal of new physics might not look like vanilla Supersymmetric signals and might have slipped through conventional search strategies. The analyzed data set, recorded by the ATLAS experiment during 2011, correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1. Event topologies involving isolated electrons, photons, muons, jets, b-jets and missing transverse momentum are investigated. The events are subdivided according to their final states into 655 exclusive analysis channels. For each channel, a search algorithm tests the compatibility of the effective mass distribution in data against the distribution in the Monte Carlo simulated background."