We perform a first precision calculation of the transverse-momentum (qT ) distribution of slepton pair and slepton-sneutrino associated production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We implement soft-gluon resummation at the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) level and consistently match the obtained result to the pure fixed-order perturbative result at leading order (LO) in the QCD coupli...

We bring you a report from the CSHL Genome Sequencing and Biology Meeting, which has a long and prestigious history. This year there were sessions on large-scale sequencing and analysis, polymorphisms (covering discovery and technologies and mapping and analysis), comparative genomics of mammalian and model organism genomes, functional genomics and bioinformatics.

In TeV-scale gravity scenarios with large extra dimensions, black holes may be produced at future colliders. Good arguments have been made for why general relativistic black holes may be just out of reach of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, in weakly-coupled string theory, highly excited string states – string balls – could be produced at the LHC with high rates and decay thermally, no...

In the last running years, the four Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) experiments collected a combined luminosity of almost 2.5 fb −1 at √ s ≥ 189 GeV. This data was searched for invisibly decaying Higgs bosons produced in association with a Z boson. The channels with electrons, muons and hadrons were investigated. None of the experiments sees hints for the production of such an invisible ...

Detector R&D is advancing on many fronts of experimental particle physics, including efforts to produce massive, highly efficient, costeffective detectors for future neutrino experiments, for experiments requiring high bandwidth and high precision, such as hadron B factories, rare kaon decay experiments, and tau/charm factories, and for linear collider experiments. In recent years, the needs of...

We perform a detailed study of the various one-loop contributions leading to production of the Standard Model Higgs boson in association with a hard jet. This production mode contributes to the current Tevatron exclusion limit of the Standard Model Higgs with 160 GeV ≤ MH ≤ 170 GeV, and will also be important for discovery and interpretation of new scalar bosons at the Large Hadron Collider (LH...

We study the production of (t + ¯ t)˜ g at the hadron colliders in an R-parity (R p) violating supersymmetric model. This process provides us with information not only about R p violation, but may also help us in detecting the supersymmetry itself. It is possible to detect an R p violating signal (with single gluino production) at the future hadron colliders, such as Fermilab Tevatron Run II or...

Impact of LSP Character on Slepton Reach at the LHC Jonathan Eckel1∗, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf2,3†, William Shepherd4,5‡, Shufang Su1§ 1 Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 2 Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions, Department of Physics University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 3 Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasad...

There is hope that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will tell us about the fate of supersymmetry at the TeVscale. Therefore we might try to identify our expectations for the discovery of SUSY, especially in the first years of operation of this machine. In this talk we shall concentrate on the simplest SUSY scheme: the MSSM with SUSY broken in a hidden sector mediated by interactions of g...

ATLAS is a general purpose experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN which began operation in September, 2009. ATLAS has a large muon spectrometer which is designed to measure muon momentum with a resolution ranging from 3% at 100 GeV/c to 10% at 1 TeV for a pseudorapidity range of 0-2.7. In this paper, we describe the derivation and validation of calibration constants for the Monit...