West-coast ATLAS forum

Wednesday 18 Nov 2009, 12:00 → 13:30 US/Pacific

32-S-C22 / Ballam room (84-B188) (CERN / SLAC)

Andrew Haas (SLAC)

Phone conference: 510-665-5437 code=7714# CERN: 32-S-C22 / SLAC: Ballam room (84-B188) - Meeting URL: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=eueneevlvvanaMavIu - Password: westcoast - Phone Bridge: ID: 43438, Password: 7208 (Note, the EVO meeting starts at 11:30am, but only to give you time to connect before the meeting really starts at 12 noon.) Goals of the forum: a) Learn about others' ATLAS-related work in the west-coast community b) Exchange ideas between theorists and experimenters

12:00 → 13:00 Supermodels for early LHC

e-Print: arXiv:0909.5213 [hep-ph] We investigate what new physics signatures the LHC can discover in the 2009-2010 run, beyond the expected sensitivity of the Tevatron data by 2010. We construct "supermodels", for which the LHC sensitivity even with only 10 inverse picobarn is greater than that of the Tevatron with 10 inverse femtobarn. The simplest supermodels involve s-channel resonances in the quark-antiquark and especially in the quark-quark channels. We concentrate on easily visible final states with small standard model backgrounds, and find that there are simple searches, besides those for Z' states, which could discover new physics in early LHC data. Many of these are well-suited to test searches for "more conventional" models, often discussed for multi-inverse femtobarn data sets.

Speaker: Jesse Thaler

slides Supermodels_SLAC_nobuilds.pdf