Annual Report 2017 i Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale CoEPP staff and students, 2017 ii ANNUAL REPORT 2017 ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale Centre nodes Monash node School of Physics and Astronomy Clayton Campus Monash University VIC 3800 T +61 3 9902 4981 E
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[email protected] Partner institutions ii Annual Report 2017 Contents Acronyms and abbreviations iv About 1 The Centre 1 Director’s report 2 Chair’s report 4 Structure and governance 6 Personnel 8 Research 15 The Higgs program 16 Higgs theory 20 Dark matter 22 Neutrinos 26 Global statistical fits of beyond the Standard Model physics theories 28 Searching for supersymmetry 30 Precision tests of the Standard Model 33 Research computing 35 Conferences and workshops 41 2017 annual scientific workshop and summer school 41 “Challenging dark matter” – the fourth CoEPP–CAASTRO joint workshop 42 Outreach and communications 45 High schools program 45 Public lectures 47 Media 47 Publications 49 Refereed journal articles 49 ATLAS collaboration 52 Belle