IIHE invited seminar: Searches for New Physics with long-lived particles at ATLAS (note NON-standard time!!!)

by Dr Nick Barlow (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

Friday 10 Apr 2015, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Brussels

Jean Sacton Seminar Room (1G003) (IIHE (VUB))

abstract: Several new physics models predict the existence of massive, long-lived particles (where "long-lived" implies average lifetimes of order picoseconds or longer). Such particles may be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and could give rise to unusual and distinctive experimental signatures, such as displaced vertices, kinked or disappearing tracks, delayed or non-pointing photons, or highly-ionizing charged particle tracks. This seminar describes how the various detector technologies in the ATLAS detector can be exploited to identify such signatures, and summarises a selection of long-lived particle searches performed by the ATLAS collaboration on data from Run 1 of the LHC.

Slides Brussels.pdf