Wednesday 01 October 2008

Speaker: Sinjini Sengupta   (U Minnesota)

Title: Results of the W and Z Boson Asymmetries at the Tevatron

Abstract: The Tevatron has been actively taking data for several years now and the DZero and CDF collaborations
have had many physics results to show for it.

This talk will cover the basics of the W Asymmetry (e,mu) and the Z Forward - Backward Asymmetry (e) analyses
and present all the results that have been publicly shown by the collaborations. That will be followed by a brief
discussion of the challenges faced by the same analyses at the LHC as the LHC goes into the data taking phase.