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SUMMARY:Physics with photons in ATLAS: Standard Model and beyond - Dr Migu
 el Villaplana\, University of Milan 
DTSTART:20171010T140000Z
DTEND:20171010T150000Z
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CONTACT:Lorena Escudero
DESCRIPTION:The production of prompt isolated photons at hadron colliders 
 provides a stringent test of perturbative QCD and can be used to probe the
  proton structure with a hard colourless probe less affected by hadronisat
 ion effects than jet production. Furthermore\, searches for new physics in
  final states involving photons\, despite the relatively small cross-secti
 on compared to hadronic signatures\, provide a powerful handle in the sign
 al over background discrimination. Such searches find their motivation in 
 a wide panorama of theoretical models such as minimal extensions of the St
 andard Model\, extra dimensions and dark matter. Over the past years the A
 TLAS collaboration has developed and optimised a set of photon reconstruct
 ion and identification techniques in order to reach the detectors design p
 erformance. Such techniques are described in this talk. A summary of recen
 t Standard Model measurements is shown and promising results on searches f
 or new physics involving photons are presented. 
LOCATION:Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) 
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