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Feb
27
2023

HEP Seminar: Kevin Pedro: "Searching where the Light isn't: Discovery Potential in LHC Anomalies"

When: Monday, February 27, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Joan West  

Group: Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Category: Academic

Description:

Searches for new physics in the LHC Run 2 datasets have produced a number of excesses above standard model expectations. Three examples are particularly intriguing: paired dijet resonances, leptoquarks, and heavy long-lived charged particles. We discuss the details of the searches for these signatures and the prospects for further investigation, including the ongoing LHC Run 3. Notably, each excess has characteristics that differ from the model of new physics that inspired the respective search. This motivates the introduction of a more general strategy, anomaly detection, to search for unknown signal models.

Dr. Kevin Pedro, Associate Scientist, Fermilab

Host: Michael Schmitt

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