Michael Williams

"Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHCb experiment"


Abstract 
The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has been the world's 
premier laboratory for studying processes in which the quark types (or flavors) change 
since 2011. Such processes are highly sensitive to quantum-mechanical contributions from 
as-yet-unknown particles, e.g. supersymmetric particles, even those that are too massive 
to produce at the LHC. I will discuss the status of these searches, including some intriguing 
anomalies. I will also present searches for the proposed dark matter analogs of the photon and 
the Higgs boson. Planned future upgrades and the resulting physics prospects will also be discussed, 
including our plans to process the full 5 terabytes per second of LHCb data in real time in the next
LHC run.