The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a general purpose high energy particle detector which was installed on the International Space Station (ISS) on May 19, 2011 to conduct a unique long term mission of fundamental physics research in space. To date, AMS has collected more than 130 billion charged cosmic rays with energies up to multi TeV…

Abstract: "With the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012, the fundamental question “Does the Higgs boson exist?” was replaced by “Is it really the Higgs boson of the standard model?”. In 2017, the observation of Higgs boson decays to tau leptons with a rate compatible with that expected in the standard model…

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The B factory experiment Belle at the KEKB collider at KEK (Tsukuba, Japan) was built to experimentally investigate CP violation in the B system. Belle and BaBar ultimately confirmed large mixing induced CP violation, leading to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for Kobayashi and Maskawa.
The upgrade of the accelerator and…

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the experimental program at the LHC has started to explore previously unreachable kinematical regimes, where potentially new heavy particles can be produced. The ATLAS and CMS ex- periments can search for new physics in a wide range of final states with the highest sensitivity to date. Among all…

During its second run of operation, the LHC delivered proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with a peak  instantaneous luminosity of 151034cm−2s−1, almost double the peak luminosity reached during LHC Run1 and far larger than the design value.  The upgraded CMS Level-1 trigger is designed to improve the performance at…

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a well-motivated theory beyond the standard model (SM)which provides solutions to several open questions in particle physics, e.g. the cancellation of quadratically divergent loop corrections to the mass of the Higgs boson.
In R-Parity conserving SUSY, the lightest SUSY particle (LSP) is stable and can be a viable…

Searches for dark matter and supersymmetry are part of an ambitious and well motivated quest to discover new physics at the LHC. In the first part of this seminar I will be presenting two novel searches for new physics using the data collected by the CMS experiment. The first is a search for dark matter in multijet events using the razor…