Topic of the Week
Sanjay Padhi
October 5th
| Day | Speaker | Topic | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday Oct. 5th at 2pm | Sanjay Padhi | Is SUSY still alive? A CMS perspective | WH11 NE (Sunrise) |
Descriptions / About the scientists
Guest: Sanjay Padhi
Date: Wednesday Oct. 5th at 2pm
Time: 2pm
Topic: Is SUSY still alive? A CMS perspective
Where: WH11 NE (Sunrise)
Description
After decades of preparation, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are taking the first steps toward resolving many long-standing puzzles about fundamental physics at the weak scale. There were high expectations for early discovery of Supersymmetry (SUSY) at the beginning of the LHC search program. This talk summarizes the current experimental status and strategies used by the CMS Collaboration in the search for SUSY involving jets and missing energy in fully hadronic and leptonic final states. SUSY mass scales in the TeV range are excluded by these preliminary results. This poses the questions: Is SUSY still alive? And is it still accessible within the LHC reach for 7 TeV pp collisions?
About the scientists
Sanjay Padhi earned his Ph.D. in physics from McGill in 2004, providing the first direct evidence for the existence of charm originating from the photon. He spent four years as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, including time as a Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship at Wisconsin-Madison, before becoming a scientist with UCSD in 2008. He has been preparing for enhancements leading to new physics such as supersymmetry for the past several years. Currently he is the CMS representative (SUSY) and the co-organizer for LHC Physics Centre at CERN (LPCC) workshops on the characterization of new physics at the LHC. His recent search for the same-sign di-lepton final state presently provides the most stringent limits on SUSY particle production in CMSSM among the various di-lepton analyses by both ATLAS and CMS.
