When:
Monday, April 27, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Public
Contact:
Liz Lwanga
(847) 491-3645
Group: Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Category: Academic
Title: Recent Results from LHC Dilepton+Jets+ETmiss SUSY Searches
Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Hooberman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract: The discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC has answered critical open questions in the standard model. Despite strong evidence that the standard model is incomplete, no compelling evidence for beyond-the-standard model physics has been observed. However, two recent searches from CMS and ATLAS in the dilepton + jets + ETmiss final state have uncovered moderate excesses with respect to standard model predictions, at the level of ~2.5-3.0sigma. This talk will discuss the strategy, background estimation, and results of these searches, as well as possible signal interpretations in supersymmetric models.