Talk Title: “Innovating Triggers and Triggering Innovation: Illuminating New Physics at the Energy Frontier”
Abstract: Although no new fundamental particles have been observed since the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, many compelling theories beyond the Standard Model (BSM) predict new physics at the electroweak or TeV scales accessible to the LHC. The absence of significant excesses underscores the imperative to expand sensitivity to uncovered and unexplored regions of phase space. This talk will focus on leveraging novel trigger techniques and creative reconstruction methods — both present and future — to maximize the discovery potential of long-lived particles and other anomalous BSM physics signatures at the ATLAS and CMS experiments. These efforts will be examined in the context of the LHC, the High-Luminosity LHC, and long-term planning for the future of collider-driven science.
Host: Nikhil Padmanabhan