From CERN to SUSY

ATLAS and CMS, the two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, might be engaged in a healthy competition to analyse LHC data, but there was no sign of competition when representatives from both collaborations shared the platform and presented their latest results at SUSY 2013.

Day three of the conference's plenary sessions began with experimentalists James Boyd (CERN) from the ATLAS collaboration, and Jeff Richman (University of California, Santa Barbara) from CMS, giving the audience an update on the SUSY-related data analysed by their respective collaborations.  The parallel sessions held in the afternoon also featured talks by physicists representing the ATLAS and CMS experiments.

Work done by the collaborations has contributed to the discovery of a new boson that is most likely to be the Higgs boson. However, the discovery has led to questions that cannot be addressed by the Standard Model and physicists are trying to test if SUSY can be the framework that answers these questions. And, the physicists working with ATLAS and CMS are now looking for clues to SUSY signatures in LHC data, among other things.

The recorded presentations will soon be available on the SUSY 2013 Website.

This story is part of the Focus Feature on SUSY 2013. Go to the Focus Feature webpage for the complete coverage.