Speaker
Emily Thompson
(University of Massachusetts)
Description
The Standard Model has been successful in describing many fundamental aspects of particle physics. However, there are some remaining puzzles which are not explained within the context of its present framework. We discuss the possibility to discover new physics in the ATLAS Detector via a four-fermion contact interaction, much in the same way Fermi first described Weak interactions. Using a simple ratio method, we find that we can set a 95% C.L. lower limit on the effective scale Lambda = 7.5 TeV (8.7 TeV) for the constructive Left-left Isoscalar Model of quark compositeness with 100 pb^-1 (200 pb^-1) of data at sqrt(s) = 10 TeV in the dimuon final state.
Author
Emily Thompson
(University of Massachusetts)
Co-authors
Kevin Black
(Harvard University)
Stephane Willocq
(University of Massachusetts)
