Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar: Jesse Thaler, MIT, “Towards Systematic Jet Dissection”

Friday Dec 1, 2017, 1:00 PM → 2:00 PM US/Eastern

WL 216

Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are dominated by jets, collimated sprays of particles that arise from quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at high energies.  With the remarkable performance of the LHC detectors, jets can now be characterized not just by their overall direction and energy but also by their substructure.  At the same time, there has been substantial progress in predicting the properties of jets from first principles.  In this talk, I highlight how these theoretical studies have pointed the way towards a systematic decomposition of jets into their substructure components, relevant not only for searches for new physics at the LHC but also for understanding the dynamics of QCD.

Lunch will be served in WLC-108 from noon to 1 pm. RSVP required.

RSVP for lunch here: https://goo.gl/forms/4Y3XBLtxFxH6t6w83

Sponsored By: 

The Flint Fund, Yale Wright Lab, Yale Physics Department, and Yale University

Host: 

eliane.epple@yale.edu

Thaler_NPA_12012017.pdf