SEMINAR

LHC Seminar: Polarization measurements at the Large Hadron Collider

Dr. Pietro Faccioli

(LIP Lisboa)

Sala V1.27, IST, Pavilhão de Civil
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 03:00 PM

Abstract

Polarization measurements at the LHC will have a central role in the solution of long-standing physics puzzles (quarkonium production) and in the improvement of our knowledge of fundamental interactions within the Standard Model and beyond (decay distributions of Z, W and new resonances). Referring to some specific examples, I will show that stronger physical indications can be obtained from the decay angular distributions by taking into account usually neglected degrees of freedom and, also, by using a new method based on the existence of rotation-invariant observables.