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Departmental Seminars
The search for new physics at the energy and lifetime frontiers
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B228 (ΘΕΕ02)
B228
ΘΕΕ02
UCY Department of Physics Lecture Room 1 (Aglantzia Campus)
Description
Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC has had a successful and highly productive Run 2 from 2015-2018, colliding protons with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and collecting data at unprecedented rates. A third run is underway at even higher energies, and preparations are being made for a high-luminosity upgrade that will see the data sample size grow by another order of magnitude. The central focus of the LHC program is the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Although its motivations remain as strong as ever, this elusive new physics could have distinct signatures that nevertheless have evaded conventional searches. In this talk I will highlight some recent results from the CMS experiment, one of the two general-purpose detectors located along the LHC ring. I will also discuss methods for how we might extend dramatically the scope of the LHC program into the lifetime frontier.
About the speaker: Prof. John Paul Chou is a faculty member at Rutgers University and a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. His research activities are focused on searches for beyond the Standard Model physics at the energy frontier, probing models ranging from large extra dimensions to supersymmetric models and microscopic black holes. He is an expert on calorimetry with numerous contributions to the CMS Hadron Calorimeter, and also one of the founding proponents of the long-lived particle detector MATHUSLA.
