Physics Colloquium

Prof. Peter Onyisi, UT-Austin

"Studies and Searches with the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider"

4:00pm, The John A. Wheeler Lecture Hall (RLM 4.102). Coffee and cookies will be served at 3:45pm in RLM 4.102

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is accumulating its first large dataset near its design energy. After the discovery of the Higgs boson, attention is turning to other new features of nature the LHC may be able to shed light on. These include searches for new types of matter (including dark matter) and new forces, leading to tests of grand organizing principles that guide theoretical progress in the field. I will review the problems with our current models that lead us to pursue these searches for new particles and interactions and some of the diverse studies that have been performed with the latest LHC data.