Chandrasekhar Hall

Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model : Challenges and Prospects

Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay

University of Pittsburgh

Efforts to explore physics beyond the standard model at different experiments give rise to two challenging tasks : (1) how to dig out a tiny signal from a huge background using our understanding of known physics and (2) how to interpret the experimental results from a vast range of probes within an unified theoretical framework. I shall describe progress in addressing the first challenge using examples from the search for strongly interacting new particles at the LHC in difficult to access kinematic regimes. On the second challenge, I shall take up the case-study of classifying and understanding the different probes of particle dark matter, both within the framework of effective field theory as well as in specific simple models.