Time: 3:30pm
Place: 4N12
Title: Strings, Exotics, and the 750 GeV Diphoton Excess
Abstract:
I first give a general review of the experimental, phenomenological, and theoretical status of
the possible diphoton excess at 750 GeV reported by CMS and ATLAS. I then describe work done in collaboration with Mirjam Cvetic and Jim Halverson (hep-ph/1512.07622 and 1602.06257) attempting to explain the excess in terms of the types of scalar particles and exotic vectorlike particles expected in a class of superstring constructions, taking into account experimental limits, expected Yukawa couplings, and perturbativity up to a large string scale.
Date of event:
Mon, 2016-04-04 (All day)
