ATLAS
Physics Activities at Regina
Contrary to what you may read elsewhere, the Standard Model
of
High
Energy Physics (HEP) is by no means complete. While it works well at
presently
available energies, it is KNOWN to be inadequate at energies that will
soon be available at the Large Hadron collider in Geneva,
Switzerland. The recent discovery that the neutrino has mass opens
new
and exciting avenues for experimentation that can decide among the
various
presently competing theories for an explanation of this phenomenon.
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC will give access to an
unprecedented
range of processes at transverse momentum scales and events rates far
in excess of those generated by earlier colliders. Many rare Standard
Model processes will be studied with high statistques while at the same
time searches will be carried out for paticles predicted to exist by
theories extending the standard Model. The need to stabilise the
mechanism for breaking elecroweak symmetry in the SM requires that at
least some of these new particles have masses at the order of the EW
scale (~100 GeV). Hence there is every reason to believe that these
particles should be seen at the LHC.
The current physics interests of our group include studies of "Beyond
the Standard Model"
physics at the LHC, in particular the superymmetry
and Exotics. Some of
the studies that our
group is pursuing (or will pursue very soon) are described below:
1-
Doubly
Charged Higgs in Left-Right Symmetric models (published)
2- Doubly charged Higgs in little higgs models (published)
3- Randal Sundrum Graviton
4-
New gauge bosons such as Z' and W'
5- Leptoquarks
6- Supersymmetry-connection between particle physics and
cosmology
7- Extra
Dimensions
Our group is also involved in
detector performance
and software studies and
the developement of algorithms for particle indentification, in
particular
electron/photon identifcation and tau
identification. We are also in the
process of joinning the high level trigger effort.
You can inquire about
research opportunities with our group here
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