Orateur
Prof.
Howard Baer
(University of Oklahoma)
Description
Dark matter candidates emerge naturally in many theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model.
In the case of supersymmetry, several compelling candidates emerge: the neutralino, the gravitino,
the axion/axino multiplet and others. While dark matter won't be directly observable at LHC, the host of new
particles associated with the new physics giving rise to dark matter should be.
For supersymmetric theories, we expect large rates for multi-jet plus multi-lepton plus missing E_T events
(depending on sparticle masses). I detail what LHC can be expected to accomplish during Run 1 for
supersymmetry and dark matter. In the case of Yukawa-unified SUSY, as expected from SO(10) SUSY GUTs,
LHC should be able to either discover or exclude this compelling class of theories.
Author
Prof.
Howard Baer
(University of Oklahoma)
