Laurelle Maria Veloce
(University of Toronto)
05/10/2017, 16:10
The data collected by ATLAS in 2015 and 2016 have been analyzed to study the properties of the Higgs
boson. Improved measurements have been derived using several decay channels and dedicated
categories sensitive to different production modes and kinematic properties of the Higgs boson.
Dr.
Kate Whalen
(University of Oregon)
05/10/2017, 16:35
The presence of a non-baryonic dark matter component in the Universe is inferred from the observation of its gravitational interaction. If dark matter interacts weakly with the Standard Model it would be produced at the LHC, escaping the detector and leaving a large missing transverse momentum as its signature. The ATLAS detector has developed a broad and systematic search program for dark...
Mr.
Daniel Murnane
(University of Adelaide, University of Southern Denmark)
05/10/2017, 17:00
Composite Higgs models (CHMs) are a popular solution to the SM hierarchy problem. However, they typically require an unsatisfying degree of fine tuning to reproduce the observed SM Higgs and top masses. I will present an overview of typical CHMs, including where their sources of fine tuning can be found. To analyse the interdependencies between observables in models such as these, a more...
Dr.
Fabrizio Ferro
(INFN Genova)
05/10/2017, 17:20
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC has measured the elastic, inelastic and total proton-proton cross sections at several center of mass energies and is carrying on a rich program of measurements of diffractive physics together with the CMS collaboration. The talk will review the TOTEM measurements mainly focusing on the newest and most significant ones. The status of the experimental...
Prof.
Vladimir Petrov
(A. A. Logunov Institute for High Energy Physics, NRC KI)
05/10/2017, 17:35
This is a cursory review of recent results on diffraction processes from the LHC and related problems in theory and phenomenology.
Joydeep Roy
(Wayne State University)
05/10/2017, 17:50
Anomalies in recent LHCb and Babar measurements of $R_{D^{(*)}}$, and $R_{K^{(*)}}$ in $B$ decays may indicate the new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The leptoquarks (LQ) that couple to the $3^{\mathrm{rd}}$ generation quarks and leptons have been proposed as a viable new physics (NP) explanation. Such left-handed LQs can couple to both bottom and top quarks. Since top particles decay...
