Speaker:
Stefania Gori
Institution:
Univ. of Chicago
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Date:
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Time:
3:00 pm
Location:
FRH 4135
ABSTRACT:
We analyze the implications for New Physics theories of an enhanced higgs to di-photon rate. We show how models predicting a sizable enhancement have generically an electroweak vacuum that is not absolutely stable. In particular we discuss the only viable scenario that can predict sizable new physics effects in the di-photon rate in the framework of the MSSM: a scenario with light and heavily mixed staus. We conclude with the phenomenology of this model and with the prospects of probing it at the LHC, through a multilepton signature.
Host:
Tim Tait