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Highlights of the EPS 2011 conference (Grenoble, July 2011). Evgueni Goudzovski ( University of Birmingham). A personal selection of new results: Higgs & new physics searches at hadron colliders; Flavour physics at the LHC; Lepton flavour violation: MEG; Neutrino oscillation measurements.
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Highlights of theEPS 2011 conference(Grenoble, July 2011) Evgueni Goudzovski (University of Birmingham) • A personal selection of new results: • Higgs & new physics searches at hadron colliders; • Flavour physics at the LHC; • Lepton flavour violation: MEG; • Neutrino oscillation measurements. Birmingham PP seminar 5 October 2011
Tevatron Higgs limits ~8fb–1 • Tevatron prospects: • large improvements in sensitivity; • Next spring: results basedon the full 10fb–1 sample. Presented by Eric James
SM Higgs cross-sections SM Higgs at LHC Sensitivities (ATLAS) BR Low mass: Hbb, , . Intermediate mass: HWWll. High mass: HZZll, llqq, llll.
H Examples (ATLAS) Presented by Dave Charlton HZZ4l
Presented by William Murray The LHC limits: July 2011 ? ? ATLAS+CMS combination is complex, and was not presented at EPS 2011. ~(155-206; 270-450) GeV excluded. Limits improved/revised at LP11!
LHCb data taking (by end of July) Luminosity levelling delivers constant operation at L~3x1032/cm2/s
B0K*+– (FCNC: bs) BR~10–6 B-factories hinted apositive AFB for all q2…
LHCb analysis K*K J/ World’slargest sample (2S)
Forward-backward asymmetry A textbook confirmation of the SM prediction… …presented by M.Patel (Imperial College)
Bs+– Presented by Guy Wilkinson
Bs+– Presented by Guy Wilkinson
LHCb analysis 300 pb–1 Boosted decision tree analysis (similar to PLB 699(2011)330)
LHCb preliminary limit 300 pb–1
CMS analysis 1.14 fb–1 (at least one ||>1.4) (both ||<1.4)
BR(Bs+–) combination 27 July 2011 90%CL 95%CL Presented by Guy Wilkinson
Presented by Toshinori Mori-san The MEG experiment • World’s most intensivemuon beam @ PSI; • Thin stoppingtarget (polyethylene); • Spectrometer+ LXe calirimeter. Signal: e (back-to-back). Background: e (the Michel decay). Accidental BKG is dominant.
Presented by Toshinori Mori-san 2010 data analysis
Presented by Toshinori Mori-san Updated MEG results Likelihood profiles The hint for new physicsseen in 2009 datahas disappeared ~10–13 sensitivityexpected with the2011+12 data set
First T2K appearance results Electron neutrino appearance in beam: P(e) = sin2(213)sin223sin2(m2atmL/4E) (with 2% of the T2K expected flux) First indicationof non-zero 13
eappearance @ MINOS Electron neutrino appearance in beam: P(e) = sin2(213)sin223sin2(m2atmL/4E)
Three-flavour global analysis Presented by S.Schoenert Double Choozexpected sensitivity Reactor e (~1MeV) disappearanceexperiment Near-detectoroperational • 3 indication of non-zero 13; • T2K to continue data acquisition soon; • New generation of reactor experiments with near&far detectors starting (Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO)
Disappearance: T2K & MINOS Muon neutrino disappearance:P() = 1 – sin2(213)sin2(m232L/4E) MINOS@Fermilab (8x1020 POT) MINOS: