Archive for August, 2014
Species
The origin and size of the neutrinos masses is one of the unsolved mysteries in High energy physics. Their masses must be very small (< 1eV) in comparison to the other elementary particles: if the neutrino had the weight of a house mite, the top quark would have the mass of a sperm whale! For theorists, this hierarchy in the masses is really unsatisfying, and the question is if there is a mechanism that makes the neutrino mass automatically that small.
Susy edges
Two weeks ago, the SUSY conference took place in Manchester, and we already had a nice report from Mathieu and Jory here in our blog. However, I also want to draw your attention to this talk about an overview of CMS searches for supersymmetric particles at the LHC. Generic searches for supersymmetric particles depend mainly on two possible observations: in most supersymmetric scenarios, one has a lightest stable supersymmetric particle (that can play the role of the dark matter candidate). This particle, if produced at a collider like the LHC, does not decay any more (stable!) and does not leave any trace in the detectors. No trace? No! Read the rest of this entry »