HIGH ENERGY THEORY / RELATIVITY / COSMOLOGY SEMINARS
Fall 2006
Friday October 20 Seminar :
Michael Peskin (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Title : Observing Dark Matter and Its Heavy Partners at the CERN Large Hadron Colllider
Abstract:
| Supersymmetry and other models
of new physics explain cosmic dark matter as a weakly interacting massive particle with a mass of a few hundred GeV. Such theories present a great opportunity for particle physicists. In 2007, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will begin operation and will give us a chance to discover and study this particle. But how can we use a high energy particle accelerator to observe an invisible particle? In this lecture, I will discuss the search for new particles at the LHC, the challenges of observing invisible particle even when they are produced in complex and characteristic events, and the possibilities for nevertheless obtaining precise information about their nature. |
Host : Agashe