Partons and Higgs Detection

Mittwoch, 7. März, 11:15 Uhr, HS Chemie

A brief graphical explanation of scaling, and its violation, in high energy particle scattering. Why Bjorken x is the appropriate variable. A survey of the determination of the partonic structure of the proton using all available relevant data, including especially those from the HERA experiments at DESY.
Examples of the use of partons for predictions for the forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. A brief motivation for the existence of a Higgs boson. A discussion of the ways to detect the Higgs boson,emphasizing the potential value of the exclusive signal if proton taggers are installed in the extreme forward directions in the LHC experiments. If supersymmetry exists, then, for some ranges of the SUSY parameters, the exclusive Higgs signal could be the discovery channel.

Alan Martin
Physics Department, University Durham
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