David Wardrope
(Imperial College London)
10/03/2009 19:20
Measurements of the inclusive cross-sections of W and Z in the electron decay modes will be among the first results from the LHC. An overview of the motivation and plans for such measurements with CMS will be presented, with emphasis on describing the use of data-driven methods for efficiency and background determination.
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Roberto Di Nardo
(University & INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
10/03/2009 19:36
One of the first measurements at the LHC will be th Z boson production cross section
in proton proton collisions. The different decay channels of the Z boson
will also used in the initial data taking period as benchmark process
for the calibration of detectors and performance measurements.
The overall cross section pp→Z→mu+mu- measurement with first data in ATLAS is
discussed.
Dr
Swarup Kumar Majee
(CP3-UCL)
10/03/2009 19:44
In this talk, I will briefly describe how the characteristics of gauge,
Yukawa and quartic coupling evolution change in the presence
of universal extra dimensions. The gauge coupling unification
scale depends on compactification radius R, and is much lower
in comparison to the four-dimensional case. Later, I will mention
that the supersymmetric extension of this scenario requires...
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Joseph Haley
(Princeton University Princeton - NJ USA)
10/03/2009 19:52
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Marco Nardecchia
(SISSA)
10/03/2009 20:00
We study the framework of hierarchical soft terms, in which the first two generations of squarks and sleptons are heavier than the rest of the supersymmetric spectrum. This scheme gives distinctive predictions for the pattern of flavor violations, which we compare to the case of nearly degenerate squarks. Experiments in flavor physics have started to probe the most interesting parameter...
