Thursday, March 4, 2021, 16:00
online only
Jeanette Lorenz, LMU Munich
Abstract:
Supersymmetry is an appealing extension beyond the Standard Model, which
could provide e.g. a particle candidate for Dark Matter or stabilize the
Higgs boson mass at the electroweak scale. The ATLAS experiment at the
Large Hadron Collider, CERN, carries out a comprehensive search program,
addressing several complementary signatures arising from the decay of
supersymmetric particles. Advanced data science techniques have allowed
the searches to reach a very broad sensitivity to a variety of
supersymmetric models. Many of these searches are also applicable to
other scenarios of beyond-the-Standard Model physics, like to
non-supersymmetric Dark Matter scenarios or leptoquarks. This talk will
highlight a few recent results, and will discuss the assumptions made in
their interpretation. Efforts are on-going to connect the different
searches and to understand the gaps of the current search program. This
talk will equally highlight the reinterpretation tools necessary for
this - their development is a big step forward in the direction of open
science.