Joint LPC-Theory Seminar

2:30-3:30 p.m.   Meenakshi Narain (Brown University):

Title: Mass Determination using events with charged leptons and
missing transverse momentum from the Tevatron to the LHC

Abstract: Events with multiple leptons and unobserved particles
that give rise to missing transverse momentum can originate from SM
particles and from particles predicted by physics scenarios beyond the
SM. Examples are the decays of the top quark and decays of particles
predicted by supersymmetric models. I will give an overview of the
techniques used to reconstruct the masses of these particles. I will
draw on examples from the current state of the art for reconstructing
the top quark mass at the Tevatron and I will give an overview of
the techniques for determining masses of SUSY particles which have
been studied by the LHC experiments.