Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 1976
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1976-3

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Searches for new physics: Les Houches recommendations for the presentation of LHC results

¹ Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, UJF Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, INPG, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, 38026, Grenoble, France
² DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK
³ Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
⁴ Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
⁵ School of Physics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3800, Australia
⁶ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
⁷ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115, Bonn, Germany
⁸ LAPTH, Université de Savoie, CNRS, B.P. 110, 74941, Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France
⁹ NExT Institute: School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
¹⁰ Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK
¹¹ Physics Department, University of Regina, 3737, Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada
¹² University College London, Gower Street, WC1B 6BT, London, UK
¹³ Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA
¹⁴ Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
¹⁵ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
¹⁶ Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Dep. of Physics, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
¹⁷ Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, 39005, Santander, Spain
¹⁸ Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien/Département Recherches Subatomiques, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS-IN2P3, 23 Rue du Loess, 67037, Strasbourg, France
¹⁹ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Sud, Centre d’Orsay, 91405, Orsay-Cedex, France
²⁰ Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
²¹ National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Tallinn, Estonia
²² Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology, RWTH Aachen University, 52056, Aachen, Germany
²³ 60510, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL, USA
²⁴ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
²⁵ Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA
²⁶ Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
²⁷ IKTP, TU Dresden, Zellescher Weg 19, 01069, Dresden, Germany
²⁸ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Proeftuinstraat 86, 9000, Gent, Belgium
²⁹ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany

^* e-mail: sabine.kraml@lpsc.in2p3.fr

Received: 27 March 2012
Published online: 17 April 2012

Abstract

We present a set of recommendations for the presentation of LHC results on searches for new physics, which are aimed at providing a more efficient flow of scientific information between the experimental collaborations and the rest of the high energy physics community, and at facilitating the interpretation of the results in a wide class of models. Implementing these recommendations would aid the full exploitation of the physics potential of the LHC.