Mötesplats Rydberg: Caterina Doglioni - Discovery strategies for Dark Matter mediators and new phenomena at the ATLAS detector: how to make the most of LHC data
The Large Hadron Collider has recently resumed operation, delivering a higher rate of collisions at an increased collision energy of 13 TeV. The potential for discoveries to the Standard Model's open questions, such as the nature of Dark Matter, is increased considerably in this dataset with respect to the previous LHC run. The first dataset collected by the ATLAS experiment has been analysed, leading to new and interesting results that push the boundaries of our current understanding of nature. In this seminar, I will discuss the discovery strategies employed to seek the decays of new particles, which could be the mediators of the interactions between Dark and Standard Model particles that we pursue here at Lund University. In particular, I will focus on how ATLAS and the other LHC experiments intend to deal with the unprecedented amount of data that will be collected in those searches, overcoming the storage and computing requirements that often limit the sensitivity to new phenomena.