High Energy Physics Seminar

Date
Fri, May 12, 2017 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
PSC room 3150

Description

Speaker Name: Yuhsin Tsai

Speaker Institution : University of Maryland

Title : "Probing Dark Showers at LHCb"

Abstract : Dark shower is a generic feature of the Hidden Valley model, which produces bound states with a high multiplicity, low masses, and long lifetimes. The showering process can arise, for example, in Neutral Naturalness models, or in dark matter scenarios that explain the possible signal of gamma-ray excess. A collider search of such signals requires good vertex resolution, low energy threshold, as well as a good particle id to veto the background. I will explain why the LHCb experiment has a great potential in seeing dark showers and compare the estimated sensitivity to that of the future ATLAS/CMS searches.