1. The Era of Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider
High Energy Experimental and Theoretical Particle Physics at Rutgers

2. CERN – Large Hadron Collider
Proton-Proton Collisions 14 TeV

3. Electroweak Scale Standard Model - Higgs Sector
SU(2) £ U(1) Gauge Symmetries
Quark and Lepton Masses
mW,Z = g v
Spontaneously Broken
m = h v
Higgs Sector
h H i = v = Scalar Order Parameter
v = 174 GeV
No other Positive Information

4. Electroweak Scale Standard Model - Higgs Sector
SU(2) £ U(1) Gauge Symmetries
Quark and Lepton Masses
mW,Z = g v
Spontaneously Broken
m = h v
Higgs Sector
h H i = v = Scalar Order Parameter
v = 174 GeV
No other Positive Information
Excitations – Higgs Boson

5. Physics Associated with the Higgs Sector ??
Supersymmetry (Fermionic Extra Dimensions)
Technicolor
Warped Extra Dimensions
………
Dark Matter
The Era of Discovery:
How will we Discern New Physics in the Data ?
What Signatures will be Important ?
How will we Unravel the New Physics and Discover the Physics Associated with Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ?

6. Hadron Collider :

7. Invariant Kinematic Correlations
Uniform |M|2 on Two Body Resonances
Consistent with Intermediate Scalar
Edges
Three Body Tree (Only feature in D=1 Histogram)
Coincide with Endpoint of Resonant Two Body Correlation
- Arise from “Missing” Lepton
- Anything Else Contributing to Edge is massless
Relative Density of Two Body Resonances, Resonant Two Body Correlation, and Edge Contrast
- Br (  lll) / Br(  llX)
Dalitz (symmetrized) 2
m132 2
m122

8. Invariant Kinematic Correlations
Three Body Resonant Trees
310 GeV · mlll · 330 GeV
Further Enhances S/BCombinatoric Contrast
m123
m132
m122

9. Kinematic Correlations
Nl ¸ 4
No Kinematic Correlation
- Consistent with Arising from Different Parent Particle
m14 = m and m23  m or
m14  m and m23 = m
- Single Resonant Two Body Decay
m14 = m23 = m
- If Density at Intersection \geq Some Events with (At least) Two Resonant Two Body Decays
- Density at Intersection gives Fraction
m14
m23

10. Isolating Top Quarks
Top Quarks Couple Strongly to Higgs Condensate

11. Discerning SUSY in Cascade Decay Correlations
Dilepton Invariant Mass Distributions

12. High Energy Particle Physics at Rutgers – LHC
Experiment Theory
Eva Halkiadakis
Amit Lath
Steve Schnetzer
Sunil Somalwar
…..
Tom Banks
Matt Strassler
Scott Thomas
…..

13. What will You Do in the Era of Discovery ?
This Could Be You !