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Speaker: Max Chertok (U of California at Davis, USA)
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Title: "Searches for Exotic physics with tau leptons"
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Abstract:

Tau leptons raise challenges for analysis at hadron colliders but
also hold promise for sensitivity to exotic phenomena.  Higgs and
Supersymmetry models in particular predict enhanced couplings to
the third generation particles due to the heavy top mass and appreciable
slepton mixing.  To escape overwhelming hadronic backgrounds at
the Tevatron and LHC, lepton-based searches for exotics are performed.
Inclusion of tau triggers and dedicated reconstruction of hadronic
tau decays allows extended sensitivity to previously uncovered regions
of exotics parameter space.  In this talk, I present the status and plans for
this analysis program with results and projections from CDF and CMS.
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