b-jet Trigger Optimization for New Particle Searches 

Contact: Ariel Schwartzman

The SLAC group is developing new particle search analyses in events containing 
large missing transverse energy (ETmiss) and multiple b-jets.
The requirement of b-jets in events with large ETmiss and multi-jets is well 
motivated both theoretically and experimentally and could be one of the keys 
to the early discovery of Super-symmetry at the LHC.

One of the challenges to b-jet+ETmiss searches is the selection of events at the 
trigger level. Our group has developed one of the high level trigger b-tagging
algorithms in ATLAS, and is currently working on the proposal of trigger signatures 
optimized for these new physics searches.

The proposed project consists of the study of b-jet and combined b-jet+ETmiss 
trigger signatures for super-symmetric new particle searches decaying into
multiple b-jets and the Lithest Super-symmetric Particle (LSP).