Events on Monday, September 27th, 2010
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- Plasma Confinement on Shaped Open Field Lines: Results from the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 2535 Engineering Hall
- Speaker: Adil Hassam, University of Maryland/Dept of Physics
- High Energy Seminar
- A New Way to Measure Spin at Hadron Colliders
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Speaker: Matthew Buckley, Fermilab
- Abstract: I propose a new technique for determining the spin of new massive particles
that might be discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. The method relies on
pair-production of the new particles in a kinematic regime where the vector
boson fusion production mechanism is enhanced. For this regime, I show that
the distribution of the leading jets as a function of their relative
azimuthal angle can be used to distinguish spin-0 from spin-1/2 particles. I
illustrate this effect by considering the particular cases of (i)
strongly-interacting, stable particles and (ii) supersymmetric particles
carrying color charge. I argue that this method should be applicable in a
wide range of new physics scenarios. - Host: Michael Ramsey-Musolf
- Plasma Theory Seminar
- Kinetic Shielding of Magnetic Islands in 3-D Equilibria
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 514 ERB
- Speaker: Chris Hegna, UW-Madison Engineering Physics