| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Madrone |
| Abstract: | In LHC analyses, as in the rest of life, we are inevitably faced with the problem of how to deal with less than perfect knowledge. Our experimental searches force us to deal with uncertainty from e.g. the PDFs in the initial state, imperfect experimental reconstruction, and from undetected particles. A variety of techniques have been developed for dealing with uncertain and incomplete information. In this seminar we will examine some more (and less) motivated methods that have been developed for dealing with imperfect knowledge, with illustrative highlights from recent ATLAS SUSY and Higgs analyses. |
| Speaker: | Alan Barr - Oxford
 Alan Barr started his high-energy physics career soldering cables for a CMS silicon beam test as a CERN summer student. He rapidly changed teams to ATLAS, where much of his research was in the development, construction and commissioning of that experiment’s semiconductor tracker. He has published a variety of papers on LHC phenomenology, particularly in examining prospects for searching for and understanding supersymmetric models at the LHC. More recently he led the ATLAS experiment’s SUSY Etmiss group during the early LHC SUSY searches.
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| Presentation: | Presentation on 3/26/2013 |