Boosting Dark Matter Search via the Higgs Boson
| Date/Time: | Monday, 03 Apr 2017 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Phys 0003 |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Abstract: One of the deepest scientific mysteries in the 21 century is to understand the particle nature of dark matter which contributes a large component of the mass-energy of the universe. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 opened a new window to investigate this puzzle. In this presentation, I will describe alternative probes of dark matter using the Higgs Boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. I'll show the state-of-the-art techniques to reconstruct and to identify the Higgs Boson. Finally, I will discuss the latest results, their implications and new ideas to push the frontier of dark matter search.
Bio: Dr. Shih-Chieh Hsu is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Washington. He obtained Ph.D. from University of California San Diego in 2008 and conducted Postdoctoral Research as a Chamberlain Fellow in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab until 2012. He is awarded ATLAS Scholarship and Department of Energy Early Career Award to study fundamental building blocks of the universe and their interactions using proton-proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS detector. His research interests include unlocking the ultimate mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking through multiboson production, unraveling mysterious of Dark Matter through mono-W/Z/h search, and developing innovative boosted object identification techniques as well as future pixel detector technology.