Speaker
Mr
Georgios Choudalakis
(MIT)
Description
Lacking precise theoretical direction for where to look for the first sign of physics
beyond the Standard Model, it seems prudent to look in as many places as possible.
Sleuth is a quasi-model-independent search strategy for new electroweak scale
physics, appropriate for frontier energy hadron colliders. Assuming the new physics
appears in the form of structure with characteristic energy scale at or above the
masses of the electroweak gauge bosons, and assuming these new produced resonances
decay back to Standard Model objects, it holds generically that the signal will
appear as an excess of data in a particular exclusive final state at large summed
scalar transverse momentum relative to Standard Model and instrumental backgrounds.
Using a background estimate obtained from Vista@CDF, the first global
quasi-model-independent search at a frontier energy hadron-hadron collider has been
obtained on 1 fb^-1 of Tevatron Run II data with Sleuth@CDF. This
quasi-model-independent search represents one of the most encompassing tests of the
Standard Model at the energy frontier to date.
Author
Mr
Georgios Choudalakis
(MIT)
