Supersymmetry: from Theory to LHC Signatures (FWOTM762)

My research proposal is at the forefront of fundamental research in high energy particle physics. At the moment the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides a very successful description of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions as quantum field theories with gauge symmetries. The recent discovery of the Brout Englert Higgs (BEH) boson marks a further extraordinary achievement of the SM and is a milestone success of fundamental science. However, even though the SM is very successful, there are still fundamental questions to be solved, such as force unification with gravity, the hierarchy problem, and the origin of the dark matter. This motivates the investigation of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), and suggests the existence of new matter states, or forces, at high energy. Among the BSM proposals, supersymmetry still plays a prominent role, since it can address many of the questions which are unanswered in the SM. My research project focus on theoretical and phenomenological aspects of supersymmetry as BSM physics. Theoretical aspects includes the conception of well motivated models to address some of the unsolved issues, and their embedding in unified theory. The phenomenological study deduces from these theoretical formulations simplified models to extract the resulting experimental signatures and propose new searches. My project is very timely, since supersymmetry will be further probed at the second run of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Keywords:Physics

Disciplines:Physical sciences