Speaker
Hubert Kroha
(MPP)
Description
Searches for inclusive signatures of the production of supersymmetric particles are among the first physics studies to be performed by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The large backgrounds from Standard Model processes have to be strongly suppressed and well understood before the discovery of new physics can be claimed. Since both the knowledge of the detector performance and the theoretical predictions are considered not reliable enough, much of the recent
efforts of LHC data analysis preparation is devoted to the development of methods for the estimation of the background contributions directly from the data.