Abstract
A review is presented of searches for Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics at the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with emphasis on most recent results. This includes a summary of Supersymmetry searches covering strong, electroweak, and R-parity violating scenarios, and a range of exotica searches including heavy boson searches, extra dimensions, and long-lived particles. The status of BSM physics after the first data-taking period (Run 1) of the LHC and the prospects for the second data-taking period (Run 2), beginning in 2015, are discussed.
Highlights
The Standard Model (SM) has enjoyed astounding experimental success over the past few decades, most recently with the discovery of a Higgs Boson [1], [2]
Many such new physics models exist, conventionally separated into supersymmetry models, and all other beyond the Standard Model (BSM) models, referred to as exotica. This provides a rich terrain to probe experimentally, and both ATLAS [4] and CMS [5] experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [3] have run extensive physics programs to cover as many scenarios as possible. These proceedings will review results from some of the many analyses using the LHC Run 1 dataset from 2012, with L =20.3 f b−1 of proton-proton(pp) data recorded by ATLAS and L =19.√5 f b−1 recorded by CMS, at a centre of mass energy of s =8 TeV
The selected analyses represent those which have become public most recently, and a variety of searches from ATLAS and CMS have been presented in order to demonstrate the diversity of BSM work, rather than due to differences in signatures or searches covered by the two experiments
Summary
The Standard Model (SM) has enjoyed astounding experimental success over the past few decades, most recently with the discovery of a Higgs Boson [1], [2]. Unexplained phenomena and problems, for example dark matter, the difficulty of incorporating gravity, and the hierarchy problem [6], suggest that beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics are required to accurately describe the universe we observe Many such new physics models exist, conventionally separated into supersymmetry models, and all other BSM models, referred to as exotica. This provides a rich terrain to probe experimentally, and both ATLAS [4] and CMS [5] experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [3] have run extensive physics programs to cover as many scenarios as possible. The selected analyses represent those which have become public most recently, and a variety of searches from ATLAS and CMS have been presented in order to demonstrate the diversity of BSM work, rather than due to differences in signatures or searches covered by the two experiments
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