25 July 2007 to 1 August 2007
Karlsruhe University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Hidden Valley Phenomenology

30 Jul 2007, 14:00
20m
Small Auditorium B (Karlsruhe University)

Small Auditorium B

Karlsruhe University

Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
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Speaker

Kathryn Zurek (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Description

We describe a class of models called ``hidden valleys'', which consist of low mass hidden sector quarks charged under a new confining gauge group. Such sectors arise often in string theories and elsewhere. The phenomenology of these sectors is often qualitatively different from other beyond the standard model physics, giving rise to long lived hidden sector hadrons, high invariant mass jets, and multiple isolated leptons in the final state. We discuss search methods for hidden valleys at hadron colliders.

Author

Kathryn Zurek (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

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