SEMINAR

Extra Dimensions and Black Holes: Tevatron results and prospects for the LHC

Prof. Greg Landsberg

(Brown University, USA)

Anfiteatro, Complexo Interdisciplinar, IST
Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 04:00 PM

Abstract

The LHC machine that started operating last September will break into a completely new energy domain once it produces first collisions at 10-14 TeV. This opens possibility for surprises even with small data sets to be collected next year. We discuss various searches for new physics with the focus on the CMS experiment and early LHC data. The delay with the LHC commissioning due to the recent incident, which prevented us from seeing first collisions this year presents new challenges for the collaborations, namely commissioning of the detector simultaneously with searches for new physics. We discuss this challenge and strategies for searches with early data.