Experimentalists Take the SUSY Stage

The morning sessions of Day 2 of SUSY 2013 saw experimentalists from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS and ATLAS groups present some of their newest results. Sridhara Dasu, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin (UW) presented the day's first plenary talk on "Recent results on Higgs physics from CMS".

The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment is one of two general-purpose LHC experiments (ATLAS is the other). The goal of the CMS experiment is to investigate a wide range of physics at the terascale, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and particles that could be the constituents of dark matter.

Dasu gave the audience an overview on the work done by the CMS collaboration on understanding the "new boson" (which is most likely the Higgs boson). He is part of the UW High Energy Physics group, which is currently working on the search for Higgs bosons that decay into pairs of tau leptons. "The Higgs [boson] is the portal to physics Beyond the Standard Model," said Dasu in his talk summary.

Jeff Richman, University of California, Santa Barbara, will present more details about the CMS experiment at SUSY 2013 in his talk on 28 August 2013.

The recorded streaming of Dasu's talk will be made available on the Livestream archive.

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