Speaker
Evelyn Jean Thomson
Description
The majority of searches for supersymmetry assume conservation of R-parity, in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is a stable dark matter candidate that escapes detection and produces large missing transverse energy. This talk covers searches for R-parity violating supersymmetry, in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is unstable and can decay to standard model particles. These scenarios would be missed by traditional searches focusing on large missing transverse energy and can produce a wide variety of interesting signatures including possible resonances.
