6–11 Dec 2010
CNR headquarter
Europe/Rome timezone

Hidden valley searches in ATLAS

10 Dec 2010, 15:40
25m
Aula Bisogno, 1st floor (CNR headquarter)

Aula Bisogno, 1st floor

CNR headquarter

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 00185 Roma
Cosmology and astroparticles, dark matter searches Cosmology and astroparticles, dark matter (3)

Speaker

Dr Monica Verducci (Unievrsity of Washington)

Description

A number of extensions of the Standard Model result in neutral and weakly-coupled particles that decay to multi hadrons or multi leptons with macroscopic decay lengths. These particles with decay paths that can be comparable with ATLAS detector dimensions represent, from an experimental point of view, a challenge both for the trigger and for the reconstruction capabilities of the ATLAS detector. We will present a set of signature driven triggers for the ATLAS detector that target such displaced decays and evaluate their performances for some benchmark models. and describe analysis strategies and limits on the production of such long-lived particles that can be achieved with the first 100 pb-1.

Primary author

Dr Monica Verducci (Unievrsity of Washington)

Presentation materials