[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Colloquium today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2014-02-20 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers)

Title:     Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC with the CMS Experiment

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has had a successful Run I.   It provided the highest energy proton collisions to-date to the experiments, at a center-of-mass energy of 8TeV.  In 2012, the observation of a new Higgs-like boson was announced to the world.   There is also an extensive program at the LHC to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.   I will give an overview of the status of such searches at the LHC, with a special focus on searches for Supersymmetry, a theory that predicts a symmetry between matter and forces and provides a promising candidate for dark matter.



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