M. Spannowski: LHC Collider Phenomenology: New Methods, New Results, New Physics

by Michael Spannowski (Durham)

Tuesday 26 Nov 2013, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Berlin

3344 (Physikdepartment)

The LHC’s 2011 and 2012 runs were a huge success, culminating in the discovery of a Higgs boson-like resonance. The discovery of this resonance by both multipurpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS, constitutes a paradigm shift in our understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking. Detailed measurements of its properties and couplings as well as intensified searches for New Physics are primary goals of all experiments in the upcoming LHC runs at 13/14 TeV. In this presentation I will introduce a novel method “Event Deconstruction”, a fully flexible method designed to maximise the experiments’ sensitivity in a large variety of searches and measurements, i.e. Higgs boson properties. I will discuss opportunities novel reconstruction methods provide and will argue for the benefit of a close collaboration between theorists and experimentalists in their development.