CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

Probing Hidden Sectors at the LHC

31 May 2018, 15:20

20m

North Foyer | Ironwood Room (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

Parallel PHE Physics at High Energies

Speaker

Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

Description

I discuss examples of how the LHC can be sensitive to low-mass hidden sectors. In particular, I show how rare $Z$-boson decays provide a window into the mass-generation mechanism of dark-photon models, motivating searches for displaced vertices and high multiplicities of soft leptons.

Presentation materials

Slides

309-0-Shuve_CIPANP_HE.pdf