Dr Flavia de Almeida Dias - On the Hunt for New Particles at the Large Hadron Collider

Wednesday 4 Jun 2025, 13:30 → 14:30 UTC

610 (G.O. Jones Bulding)

https://fnal.zoom.us/j/93197574512?pwd=bGlJTHlGTnVtTFFwRnlpYnhrdm5rdz09

About the speaker: 

Dr. de Almeida Dias is an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and at Nikhef - the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics. She was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh. She has been a member of the ATLAS Collaboration since 2013 and has had leading contributions in analyses involving pairs of vector bosons, searches for extra Higgs bosons and dark-matter mediators. She was convener of the ATLAS Exotics physics group, responsible for over 90 searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model, between 2021-2023. Previously she was a convener of both the ATLAS Exotics Dibosons and Multileptons physics group and the ATLAS Fast Calorimeter Simulation software group. She is a former member of the CMS Collaboration (2009-2012), where she worked with searches for new particles decaying into leptons and jets, as well as offline trigger software and Monte Carlo generators. 

On the Hunt for New Particles at the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) experiments are continuously pushing the boundaries of particle physics. One of its aims is to uncover the mysteries of the universe beyond our current understanding of particles and their interactions: the Standard Model. This seminar will provide an overview on how we search for new particles at the LHC, and highlight some of the latest results obtained during the LHC's Runs 2 and 3. Furthermore, I will outline the plans and prospects for searching for new particles in the next years.

Convener: Dr Flavia Dias (Nikhef/ATLAS)

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