Wednesday 22 October 2014 

Speaker: Ian Tomalin (RAL/PPD)


Title: "Searches for long-lived exotic particles at the LHC" 

Abstract: Long-lived exotic particles feature in many extensions of the standard 
model, such as supersymmetry and `hidden valley’ models. Finding such particles 
at in the LHC can be a real challenge, as they would give highly unusual 
signatures in the detectors. If they do exist, they can hide supersymmetry 
from conventional searches. — Perhaps that is why no-one has seen it yet!? 
I will review the searches for long-lived exotic particles at the LHC, 
examining how well we are exploring the theoretical phase space, and asking 
where we should strive to make improvements.