SUSY Breaking ‘11

16 May 2011, 08:00 → 21 May 2011, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Christophe Grojean (CERN), Gian Giudice (CERN), Steven Abel (IPPP Durham)

SUSY Breaking '11
A joint CERN TH -- IPPP Durham workshop

This 6-day meeting is modelled on a previous extremely successful meeting in Durham in 2009 (see here). It will focus on new ideas in the field of supersymmetry breaking with special attention being paid to new and forthcoming LHC results.

Topics to be discussed:

• Models and mechanisms SUSY breaking and mediation

• Phenomenological and experimental consequences

• Dynamical supersymmetry breaking

• Seiberg duality, duality cascades and nonperturbative dynamics

• Fine-tuning and hierarchy problems, including mu and B mu

• String theory realisations of supersymmetry breaking

Format: The meeting will be based around themed talks with long spaces for discussion.

Registration: The attendance will be limited to around 60 people. There is no registration fee. Registration will be open until March 31, 2011.

Local Organization: Steven Abel, Csaba Csaki, Christophe Grojean, Gian Giudice, Valya Khoze, Hitoshi Murayama (to be confirmed), Riccardo Rattazzi.

The meeting will be partly supported by
° the Marie Curie Initial Training Network "UNILHC" PITN-GA-2009-23792,
° the ERC Advanced Grant "MassTeV" 226371,
° and the CERN-TH unit,
° and the IPPP Durham.

tentative schedule Timetable_20May11.pdf

Monday, 16 May

09:30 → 10:00 Goldstini in Gauge Mediation

Speaker: Alberto Mariotti (VUB Brussels)

Slides Mariotti.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Symmetries and the nature of the Higgs

Speaker: Graham Ross (UNiversity of Oxford)

Slides Ross.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Exploring 4D Conformal and Superconformal Field Theories

Speaker: David Poland (Harvard University)

Slides Poland.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Discussion/Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Direct gaugino mediation

Speaker: Andrey Katz (University of Mayland)

Slides Katz.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Single Sector SUSY Breaking in Field Theory and Gravity

Speaker: Sebastian Franco (KITP)

Slides Franco.pdf Franco.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Distorted MSSM Higgses with supersymmetry breaking of the lowest scale

Speaker: Alex Pomarol (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Tuesday, 17 May

09:30 → 10:00 Generating a little hierarchy with accidental SUSY

Speaker: Tony Gherghetta (University of Melbourne)

Slides Gherghetta.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Crossschecks for Grand Unification at the LHC

Speaker: Hans Peter Nilles (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn)

Slides Nilles.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 GGM phenomenology

Speaker: Valya/Joerg Khoze/Jaeckel (IPPP Durham)

Slides Jaeckel.pdf Khoze.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Discussion/Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 The fine-tuning price of the early LHC

Speaker: Alessandro Strumia (Pisa)

Slides Strumia.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Implications of initial searches for supersymmetry

Speaker: Matthew Dolan (IPPP, Durham)

Slides Dolan.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Naturalness and DM predictions for the Higgs mass in MSSM and beyond

Speaker: Dumitru Ghilencea (CERN)

Slides Ghilencea.pdf

Wednesday, 18 May

09:30 → 10:00 Dirac Gauginos, Negative Supertraces and gauge mediation

Speaker: Linda Carpenter (UC Irvine)

Slides Carpenter.pdf Carpenter.ppt

10:00 → 10:30 More natural Dirac gauginos

Speaker: Mark Goodsell (DESY)

Slides Goodsell.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Vector mesons and an interpretation of Seiberg Duality

Speaker: Zohar Komargodski (IAS)

Slides Komargodski.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Discussion/Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 TH-Colloquium - Symmetries and strings in field theoryand gravity

Speaker: Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

Thursday, 19 May

09:30 → 10:00 Susy breaking from monopole condensation

Speaker: Yuri Shirman (University of California, Irvine)

Slides Shirman.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Breaking SUSY with lots of singlets

Speaker: Yael Shadmi (Technion)

Slides shadmi.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Anomalous Dimensions of Non-Chiral Operators from AdS/CFT

Speaker: David Shih (Rutgers University)

Slides Shih.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Discussion/Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Hunting for SUSY Breaking Vacua in Theories that S-Confine

Speaker: John Mason

Slides Mason.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Super OPEs and SUSY breaking mediation

Speaker: Ken Intrilgator (UC San Diego)

Slides Intriligator.pdf

Friday, 20 May

09:30 → 10:00 Supertopcolor

Speaker: Ryuichiro Kitano (Tohoku University)

Slides Kitano.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Cosmological aspects of direct gauge mediation

Speaker: Yutaka Ookouchi (Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)

Slides Ookouchi.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Physical predictions in the Quantum Multiverse

Speaker: Yasunon Nomura (UC Berkeley)

Slides Nomura.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Discussion/Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Viable SUSY breaking models for gauge mediation

Speaker: Stephane Lavignac (IPhT Saclay)

Slides Lavignac.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Aspects of Supersymmetric Duality

Speaker: Matthew Buican (Unknown)

Slides buican.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 GUT-scale Gauge Mediation

Speaker: Felix Brummer (DESY)

Slides Brummer.pdf

Saturday, 21 May

09:30 → 10:00 Sparticle spectrum in gaugino-gauge mediation

Speaker: Roberto Auzzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Racah Institute of Physics)

Slides auzzi.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Goldstone fermion dark matter

Speaker: Csaba Csaki (Cornell University)

Slides Csaki.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Discrete R Symmetries for the MSSM and its singlet extensions

Speaker: Hyun Min Lee

Slides susyb11_hmlee3.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Hidden sectors from SCFTs in F-theory

Speaker: Brian Wecht (Univ. of Michigan)

12:30 → 14:00 Discussion/Lunch