Probing Metastability at the LHC

Journal Article · Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3327628· OSTI ID:21371530

Clavelli, L ^[1]

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1. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL 35487 (United States)

Current attempts to understand supersymmetry (susy) breaking are focused on the idea that we are not in the ground state of the universe but, instead, in a metastable state that will ultimately decay to an exactly susy ground state. It is interesting to ask how experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will shed light on the properties of this future supersymmetric universe. In particular we ask how we can determine whether this final state has the possibility of supporting atoms and molecules in a susy background.

• OSTI ID: 21371530
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1200, Issue 1; Conference: SUSY09: 17. international conference on supersymmetry and the unification of fundamental interactions, Boston, MA (United States), 5-10 Jun 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3327628; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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