LIP @ LHCP 2021
"The 9th annual conference on LHC Physics (LHCP 2021) is taking place this week, and LIP researchers presented contributions spanning the areas of heavy flavour, heavy ions and outreach"
The main goal of the LHCP conferences is to create the opportunity for discussions between experimentalists and theorists in research areas including the Standard Model and beyond, the Higgs boson, heavy quark physics, heavy ion physics and much more. This year´s programme is devoted to a detailed review of the latest experimental and theoretical results, in particular those concerning the LHC Run 2, and discussions on further research directions.
LIP researchers from the ATLAS, CMS and Phenomenology groups participate in the conference, which is being held online and not in Paris as initially planned, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, some LIP members presented results to which many people have actively contributed.
Alessio Boletti from the LIP-CMS group presented the plenary talk on rare heavy-flavour decays on behalf of the LHC collaborations, with focus on recent results on lepton flavour (or universality) violation and other observables contributing to the so-called Flavour Anomalies, which show a coherent pattern of deviations from the SM prediction.
Helena Santos, from the ATLAS group, reported at the Joint heavy ions and QCD session on the latest results from the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments on modifications of the jet structure in the quark gluon plasma, the state of matter that existed in the very early universe and is recreated in lead ion collisions at the LHC.
Pedro Abreu, in the role of co-chair of the International Particle Outreach Collaboration (IPPOG), reported on the outreach activities carried out along the year by the IPPOG scientists and educators working across the globe in non-formal science education and outreach for particle physics.
Naturally, the LIP groups in ATLAS and CMS contributed many results presented this time by collaborators from other institutions across the world. We highlight the new ATLAS result on the search for pair-production of vector-like quarks at 13 TeV (with a leptonically-decaying Z boson and a third-generation quark). Tiago Vale, PhD student at LIP-Minho, was the main analyser of this search, done in collaboration with UT Austin and TU Dortmund.
Other links:
Conference agenda
ATLAS results
CERN Courrier