Seminar will be preceded by lunch at 12:30 pm. The talk is from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. Times are tentative.
Speaker: Petar Maksimovic
Speaker Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Title: Detecting Boosted Top/Higgs/W/Z at Hadron Colliders
Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider is delivering an unprecedented amount of data at the center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, the highest achieved so far. This allows a substantial increase in the sensitivity to beyond-Standard Model (BSM) physics. A variety of BSM models predict existence of new heavy resonances, many of which may dominantly decay to heavy standard model particles: W, Z, or Higgs bosons, and a top quark. If the BSM resonances are heavy, the standard model particles will be very energetic and thus highly Lorentz-boosted. The reconstruction of these particles presents unique challenges and opportunities, both of which I will review in this talk, along with flagship searches from the LHC experiments featuring highly boosted objects.