Supersymmetry at the LHC, an ambitious target

by Mihoko M. Nojiri (YITP, Kyoto University)

Friday 27 Feb 2004, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

In this talk, I will show what the LHC can do for the study of supersymmetry. The SUSY signal is complicated because of the LSP's escape from detections, therefore event kinematics cannot be determined for most cases. Recently, it was realized that a sparticle cascade decay chain can be reconstructed completely if the decay chain contains sufficient steps. We describe a new technique, called the "mass relation method" -- the applications of this method will be described in the talk. The new technique might open up an opportunity to study new channels, and in addition to that, a possibility to study decay distributions at the LHC. The relation to the LC physics will also be discussed.