Kevin Stenson Portrait
Professor • Associate Chair - Graduate Studies
Physics

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Office Hours:ÌýBy appointment.

Research Interests:

I perform research with the , which is located inside the (³¢±á°ä)Ìý²¹³Ù Ìýin Geneva, Switzerland.Ìý My main activity is searching for supersymmetry in all-hadronic modes.Ìý Supersymmetry (SUSY) predicts that all of the fundamental particles have supersymmetric partners (sparticles) that have heretofore been unobserved.Ìý SUSY is an attractive theory for three reasons.Ìý First, a sparticle may be the source of dark matter in the universe, explaining a long-running mystery.Ìý Second, SUSY provides a way out of the hierarchy or naturalness problem about why the Higgs mass is 125 GeV when it should naturally be at a much higher energy.Ìý Third, with the presence of SUSY, the gauge couplings are found to converge at a high energy scale, opening the possibility of a grand unified theory.Ìý So far, searches for SUSY have all come back empty but we continue the hunt!