Wednesday 3 February 2010

Speaker:   Daniel Whiteson   (Univ. of California, Irvine)

Title:   CDF in its prime: searches for b', nu', Z' and friends

Abstract:

I will argue that new physics search strategies should be built from generalized effective Lagrangians, rather
than scans of higher-scale parameters of a full theory or pure model-independent searches.  I'll present recent
CDF results on a search for a 4th generation down-type quark (b'), including the strongest direct limits on this
particle. I will also show work on search for a 4th generation neutrino, and a search for Z' using a newly
developed statistical approach, and prospects for supersymmetric searches using generalized effective Lagrangians.