Boosted objects: proof of principle

by Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia)

Friday 15 Jun 2012, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

At the LHC even heavy particles like W and Z bosons, Higgs bosons, top quarks or new particles at the electroweak scale can be produced with a large Lorentz boost. In this seminar I discuss the deployment of novel techniques developed specifically for such topologies in ATLAS and CMS. I start with a brief overview of the lessons learned during the first two years of data taking, the experimental challenges that were encountered and how experiments were able to deal with them. To evaluate the power of this new approach results of several recent applications in searches are compared to those of more classical analyses. In the final minutes of the seminar I'll speculate on the future of these techniques

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