Prof.
James Valles
(Chair Physics Department - Brown University)
8/9/11, 8:30 AM
Prof.
Clyde Briant
(Vice President for Research (Brown University))
8/9/11, 8:35 AM
Michael Henry Schmitt
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-Northwesten University)
8/9/11, 8:45 AM
Konstantin Matchev
(Department of Physics-University of Florida)
8/9/11, 9:15 AM
George Redlinger
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
8/9/11, 9:45 AM
Prof.
Lisa Everett Everett
(University of Wisconsin)
8/9/11, 10:45 AM
Jennifer Raaf
(FNAL)
8/9/11, 11:15 AM
Krishna Kumar
(Physics Department University of Massachusetts Amherst)
8/9/11, 11:45 AM
G. Bruce Mainland
(The Ohio State University at Newark)
8/9/11, 12:30 PM
Because the existence of families of elements and hadrons was ultimately understood by the realization that atoms and hadrons are composite, in the 1970's many physicists thought that the existence of the four families of leptons and quarks could be understood if leptons and quarks were composite. By the early 1980's, however, the physics community had given up on the idea because it had not...
Mr
Alexander Chigodaev
(York University)
8/9/11, 12:31 PM
We study the interparticle potentials for few-particle systems in a scalar theory with a non-linear mediating field of the Higgs type. We use the variational method, in a reformulated Hamiltonian formalism of QFT, to derive relativistic three and four particle wave equations for stationary states of these systems. We show that the cubic and quartic non-linear terms modify the attractive Yukawa...
Dr
Daniel Ferrante
(Brown University)
8/9/11, 12:32 PM
Lately, it is becoming increasingly clear that extending the
Feynman Path Integral into the Complex domain yields desirable
properties. A first hint in support of such construction can be
seen from the connection between SUSY Quantum Mechanics and the
Langevin dynamics: analytically continuing the Langevin leads into
different SUSY Quantum Mechanical systems (which share the same...
Catherine Whiting
(University of Iowa)
8/9/11, 12:33 PM
The AdS/CFT correspondence provides a powerful tool to attack very important questions of strong coupling dynamics using gravitational duals. The Klebanov-Stassler prototype has a large family of duals that contain ${\cal N}=1$ SYM. A new and distinct family of supergravity solutions containing a sector dual to ${\cal N}=1$ SYM might be related to the resolved cone over Einstein-Sasaki...
Dr
john brandenburg
(Orbital Technologies Corporation)
8/9/11, 12:34 PM
A model of Sakharov (1967) baryo-genesis where the 5th , compactified, dimension of Kaluza-Klein (1926) theory does ‘double duty’ as the creator of lepton-baryon numbers and creator of separate EM and gravity equations is proposed. The appearance of the compactified dimension breaks the symmetry of the Planckian vacuum, allowing the vacuum quantities hbar, G, and c to generate the particle...
Adrian Cho,
Lisa Van Pay,
Michael Henry Schmitt
(Department of Physics and Astronomy)
8/9/11, 12:35 PM
Chair - Ken Bloom (Nebraska), Gordon Watts (UW Seattle)
Bing An Li
(University of Kentucky)
8/9/11, 12:35 PM
A new theory of the EW interactions without spontaneous symmetry breaking, Higgs, and Fadeev-Popov procedure is presented
in this talk. It consists of three parts: $SU(2)_L\times U(1)$ gauge fields, massive fermion fields, and their interactions.
New mechanism of $SU(2)_L\times U(1)$ symmetry breaking caused by the fermion masses are found. Nonperturbative solutions are found.
The vacuum...
Dr
Roman Nevzorov
(University of Hawaii)
8/9/11, 12:36 PM
It is well known that in no--scale supergravity global symmetries
protect local supersymmetry (SUSY) and a zero value for the cosmological constant. The breakdown of these symmetries that ensures the vanishing of the vacuum energy density near the physical vacuum leads to the natural realization of the multiple point principle (MPP) assumption, i.e. results in the set of degenerate vacua with...
Prof.
Alexey Petrov
(Wayne State University)
8/9/11, 12:37 PM
There is experimental evidence that Dark Matter (DM) makes up about 25\% of the Universe mass and is most likely nonrelativistic. We explore possibility of creation and existence of bound states of Dark Matter and standard model (SM) particles. Such bound states can be potentially created and detected during direct DM search experiments (DAMA, CDMS, XENON etc.). We work in model-independent...
Prof.
Mohamed Assad Abdel-Raouf
(United Arab Emirates Un iversity, College of Science)
8/9/11, 12:38 PM
The creation of antihydrogens at CERN (1995) and Fermilab (1997) and the very recent synthesizing of antiheliums at CERN (2011) have invigorated the fascinating idea about the existence of separate universe and antiuniverse as a resultant of the big bang. Particularly, the production of exotic atoms composed of particles and antiparticles (e.g. positroniums, Ps, protoniums, Pn, true muoniums,...
Dr
Haiyan Tang
(Department of Mathematics and Physics, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, China)
8/9/11, 12:39 PM
Employing the electroweak standard model(SM), we analyzed and discussed the framework form of electron mixing-loop chain propagator and its renormalization in detail; then achieved the analytic count. Based on it we acquired the analytic solution of electron mixing-loop chain propagator which composed of serious of different physical loops. This study would offer certain academic reference to...
Dr
Dayong Wang
(Department of Physics-University of Florida)
8/9/11, 12:40 PM
The missing transverse energy (MET) plays a fundamental role in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC. We present an event-by-event assessment, the MET significance, of whether the observed MET is consistent with arising solely from detector-related limitations, such as measurement resolution and detection or reconstruction efficiency. We will introduce the formal...
Kazuyoshi Kitazawa
(Mitsui Chemicals)
8/9/11, 12:41 PM
In preceding paper 1) the mass and the basic structure of SM Higgs boson (H0) were discussed by obtaining asymptotic solution for the Euler-Lagrange equation of nonlinear Klein-Gordon type, in Higgs field with newly developed mass triangle method.
In this paper we at first see that the ground state mass of glueball (GB) is calculated at 502.55 MeV/c2 which is expected as f0(600) meson’s mass....
Muhammad Shahid
(Syracuse University)
8/9/11, 12:42 PM
The unusual multiplet structures associated with the light spin zero mesons have recently attracted a good deal of theoretical attention. Here we present some aspects associated with the possibility of getting new experimental information on this topic from semi-leptonic decays of heavy charged mesons into an isosinglet scalar or pseudoscalar plus leptons.
Dr
Jaret Heise
(Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake)
8/9/11, 12:43 PM
The status of the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake in Lead, South Dakota will be presented. Excavation of new underground facilities at 4850 feet (about 1480 m) has been completed. Outfitting of the excavated space to house and support the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector searching for dark matter and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment is...
Kirill Melnikov
(Johns Hopkins University)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
I will present a theoretical overview of the top quark physics.
I will discuss the status of theoretical description of various processes at hadron colliders that are used to extract the information about dynamics of top quarks, and their quantum numbers such mass, spin and charge.
Dr
Saba Zuberi
(UC Berkeley)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
Jets play an important role in a broad range of collider studies and there have been many recent developments in understanding them. Unravelling their structure enhances our ability to interpret data, search for new physics and develop our understanding of Monte Carlos. This talk reviews some theoretical developments in jet physics and their connection to recent experimental results.
Kevin Black
(Department of Physics-Boston University)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
Over the last 30 to 40 years the Standard Model has had remarkable agreement with a large variety of experimental tests. With the large accumulated datasets at the Tevatron and the LHC the TeV scale is now being probed in detail. In this talk we will review the state of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, we will focus on the recent results from the LHC which...
Frank Petriello
(Northwestern University)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
Experiments at the Tevatron and the LHC have recently studied the electroweak gauge sector of the Standard Model with impressive breadth and precision. In this talk we discuss several new experimental results, and the theoretical progress they have spurred.
Dr
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
At the new ultracold neutron source at the Paul Scherrer Institut(PSI) a collaboration of 15 European institutions is setting up an experiment to search for the nEDM with improved sensitivity. The same apparatus which provided the present best limit on the nEDM (d < 2.9 x 10-26 ecm 90% CL, Baker et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 131801), was moved from the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in...
G Carrillo Montoya
(Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
The SM Higgs boson in the medium and high mass ranges has a large
branching ratio for decays to a pair of neutral weak bosons. Three
decay modes of the Z boson pair have been explored by ATLAS. One Z is typically produced on-shell, which can be tagged using leptonic decay products. The decay of the second Z(*) leads to three independent search channels: llqq, llvv and llll. Background...
Roger Wendell
(Duke University)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
We present neutrino oscillation results based on data samples from all four phases of the experiment (SK-1 through SK-4) over a 15 year running period. Atmospheric neutrino data spanning 5 orders of magnitude in neutrino energy and 4 orders of magnitude in baseline are used to constrain the mixing parameters of neutrino oscillation as well as search for non-standard effects. Solar neutrino...
Luigi Li Gioi
(Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC)-Inst. Nat. Phys. Nucl. et)
8/9/11, 2:00 PM
LHCb results will be presented of studies made of the production
of $c\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ states in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$~TeV.
The range and precision of these measurements will be invaluable in
discriminating between theoretical models. Results and prospects will also be
shown for so-called exotics, such as the X(3872).
Prof.
Paul Huffman
(North Carolina State University)
8/9/11, 2:20 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
The experimental search for a neutron electric dipole moment could reveal new sources of time-reversal (T) and charge-conservation-and-parity (CP) violation and challenge proposed extensions to the Standard Model. The goal of the present experiment is to improve the measurement sensitivity of the neutron EDM by two orders of magnitude.
The physics goals of this experiment remain timely and...
Dr
Michael Smy
(UCI)
8/9/11, 2:20 PM
Super-Kamiokande is sensitive to neutrino interactions
between 4 and 100MeV via elastic scattering and inverse
beta decay. I will present Super-Kamiokande's ongoing
measurements of solar neutrinos and its searches for
supernova neutrinos.
Yu Zheng
(Purdue University)
8/9/11, 2:22 PM
The measurement of J/psi and Υ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV is presented using a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. We also report the measurement of the ratio of X(3872) and psi(2S) signal yields.
Savanna Shaw
(MIchigan State University)
8/9/11, 2:23 PM
We present a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced via the H->WW*->lvjj and H->ZZ*->4l processes at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using up to 8.5 fb-1 of data collected with the D0 and CDF detectors at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We search in events with either four charged leptons, or two jets, one charged lepton, and missing transverse energy. The four lepton channel...
David Miller
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
8/9/11, 2:30 PM
We present results on the measurement of hadronic jet event shapes and jet substructure in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. These measurements constitute the first dedicated study of hadronic event shapes at high Q^2 in ATLAS. New results are also presented on the measurement of the substructure of these jets and in commissioning the tools for distinguishing...
Liang Li
(University of California Riverside)
8/9/11, 2:30 PM
We present measurements of the inclusive top quark pair production cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV utilizing data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.3 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We both final states with one charged lepton, at least two jets and missing transverse energy, or final states with two charged leptons, at...
Mr
Samuel Meehan
(University of Chicago)
8/9/11, 2:30 PM
We perform a search for vector-like quarks more massive than the top quark coupling to lighter generations using data collected with the ATLAS detector. The W and Z bosons are reconstructed in the $W\rightarrow l^{\pm}\nu$ and $Z\rightarrow l^{+}l^{-}$ where $l=e,\mu$. The vector-like quark is reconstructed from the W or Z and the highest $p_{T}$ jet.
Venetios Polychronakos
(Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
8/9/11, 2:35 PM
Overview of plans for ATLAS detector upgrades up to 2022.
Dr
Yingchuan Li
(Brookhaven National Lab)
8/9/11, 2:40 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
The Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) provide an unique way of probing CP violations. The search for neutron and atom EDMs has reached very high precision after many decades of effort. I will discuss the implications of the EDM search on the theory of SM, SUSY, as well as the Baryogenesis scenarios. In particular, based on the study of the interplay of EDMs and electroweak Baryogenesis in MSSM,...
Joseph Anthony Gartner
(University of Florida)
8/9/11, 2:40 PM
In 2010 the CMS experiment collected about 35 pb-1 of data during the first physics run of the LHC accelerator. We present the first measurements of the differential cross section as a function of boson rapidity and transverse momentum for Z bosons produced at 7 TeV and decaying to pairs of electrons and muons. The data are unfolded and corrected for efficiencies, allowing a direct comparison...
Dr
Xiaobo Huang
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/9/11, 2:40 PM
MINOS is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment which started commissioning in 2005. MINOS has provided many physics opportunities in the past few years. It has made best measurement of $\Delta m^{2}_{32}$ and made the first measurement of $\Delta \bar{m}^{2}_{32}$. MINOS also set the most stringent limit to the fraction of active neutrinos transition to sterile neutrinos. MINOS made...
Niharika Ranjan
(Purdue University)
8/9/11, 2:44 PM
We present a new measurement of the Upsilon(1S), (2S), and (3S) polarization in dimuon events from
p-pbar collisions at 1.96 TeV, using the CDF detector at the Tevatron. The measurement is conducted
exploiting the full 3-dimensional angular distributions over a pT range of 2-40 GeV/c, based on data comprising an integrated luminosity of 6.0 fb-1. We also report the first measurement of...
Ashish Kumar
(Department of Physics-Physics Faculty-State University of New Y)
8/9/11, 2:46 PM
We report on a search for SM Higgs Boson in the mode H --> ZZ--> 2l 2jet conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
Herbert Fried
(Brown University)
8/9/11, 2:50 PM
A simple and previously overlooked choice of one parameter allows the Schwinger/Symanzik Generating Functional of QCD to be re-written in a manifestly gauge-invariant fashion, without the need of Fadeev-Popov insertions. When combined with Fradkin functional representations for the Green's function, G[A], of a quark in an effective color potential A, and the vacuum loop functional L[A], all...
Michael Luk
(Brown University)
8/9/11, 2:50 PM
The Standard Model with three generations of quarks describes remarkably well all particle phenomena observed to date. Although adding a fourth generation of massive fermions is an obvious extension of the model, it became less popular ever since the limit on light neutrino flavors, and the precise measurements on the electroweak parameters, seem to disfavor such a possibility. However,...
Prof.
Karl Ecklund
(Rice University)
8/9/11, 2:50 PM
We give an overview of the most recent results on top quark properties and interactions, obtained using data collected with the CMS experiment during the years 2010-2011 at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. Measurements are presented for both the inclusive top pair production cross section, using the dilepton, lepton+jets, hadronic and tau channels, as well as for various differential cross...
Dr
lokesh kumar
(Kent State University)
8/9/11, 2:55 PM
The current focus at RHIC is the Beam Energy Scan (BES)
program to study the QCD phase diagram --- temperature
($T$) vs. baryon chemical potential ($\mu_B$). The BES
program aims to verify some predictions from QCD: that
a cross-over occurs at $\mu_B$ = 0, and that there exists
a first-order phase transition at large $\mu_B$ and a
critical point at an intermediate $\mu_B$. The...
Mr
Mhair Orchanian
(Caltech)
8/9/11, 2:55 PM
The MINOS Collaboration continues its search for electron neutrino appearance in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. Neutrinos in the beam interact in the Near Detector, located 1 km from the beam source, allowing us to characterize the backgrounds present in our analysis. In particular, we can estimate the number of electron neutrino candidate events we expect to see in the Far Detector (735 km away,...
Dr
Yannis Semertzidis
(BNL)
8/9/11, 3:00 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
High intensity polarized proton beams in storage rings make possible the development of an experiment to probe the proton electric dipole moment (EDM) with sensitivity of 10^-29 e-cm. At this level it will be sensitive to new physics at the 3000 TeV and if new physics exists at the LHC scale, it will be sensitive at the sub-micro-radian level of CP-violating phases. The method utilizes an...
Stoyan Emilov Stoynev
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-Northwesten University)
8/9/11, 3:00 PM
We present a measurement of the Drell-Yan differential cross section in pp collisions as a function of the dilepton invariant mass (dsigma/dm). The data sample was collected by the CMS detector at the LHC operating at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV during 2010 and 2011. The results are compared to predictions of the Standard Model.
Mario Pelliccioni
(Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita e INFN)
8/9/11, 3:09 PM
We report on a search for SM Higgs Boson in the mode H --> ZZ--> 4l conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
Mark Neubauer
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
8/9/11, 3:10 PM
In hadron collider experiments, triggering the detector to store interesting events for offline analysis is a challenge due to the high rates and multiplicities of particles produced. The LHC will soon operate at a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and at high instantaneous luminosities of the order of 10^34 to 10^35 / cm^2 / second. A multi-level trigger strategy is used in ATLAS, with the...
Dr
M Saleem
(University of Oklahoma, USA)
8/9/11, 3:10 PM
We present measurements of the top-quark pair-production cross section
in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross sections are measured in the lepton+jets channels.
Dr
Peter Renkel
(postdoc)
8/9/11, 3:10 PM
We present a model independent search for physics beyond the standard model in lepton final states. We examine data in 120 unique final states from 1.07 fb-1 of at ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV collected with the D0 detector. We conclude that all discrepancies seen can be attributed to modeling issues and do not claim evidence of new physics.
Dr
Jui-Yu Chiu
(Carnegie Mellon University)
8/9/11, 3:10 PM
We introduce a systematic approach for the resummation of perturbative series which involve large logarithms not only due to large invariant mass ratios but large rapidities as well. Series of this form can appear in a variety of gauge theory observables. The formalism is utilized to calculate the jet broadening event shape and and transverse momentum ($p_T$) distributions in a systematic...
Mr
Adam Schreckenberger
(University of Minnesota)
8/9/11, 3:15 PM
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that utilizes Fermilab’s NuMI beam and two steel-scintillator calorimeters. Designed to search for νµ disappearance, MINOS provides an opportunity to study νe appearance as well. Analysis methods developed by the MINOS νe group have facilitated the placement of limits upon the mixing angle associated...
Dr
Terence John Tarnowsky
(Michigan State University)
8/9/11, 3:15 PM
Enhanced fluctuations and correlations have been observed in the phase transitions of many systems. Their appearance at the predicted QCD phase transition (especially near the expected critical point) may provide insight into the nature of the phase transition. Recent results from the QCD Critical Point Search at RHIC will be presented, with a focus on particle ratio (K/$\pi$, p/$\pi$, and...
Jonathan Anderson
(Universitaet Zuerich)
8/9/11, 3:20 PM
Results are presented of W and Z boson production in pp collisions at $\sqrt(s)=7$ TeV
by the LHCb experiment.
These studies are of particular interest due to LHCb's unique forward acceptance in pseudo-rapidity
($\eta$) of 2 $< \eta <$ 5. The results may either be interpreted as a test of Standard Model
predictions,
or may be used to constrain better parton density functions in this...
Daryl Hare
(Rutgers University)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
We present a measurement of the ttbar cross section as well as the first measurement of the top quark mass in hadronic tau + jets events from 1.96 TeV ppbar collisions at CDF. Events require a single lepton identified as a hadronic tau, missing Et, and 4 jets of which at least one must be tagged as a b jet. Both the cross section and the mass are extracted from unbinned likelihood functions....
Daniele Trocino
(Department of Physics-Northeastern University)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
We report on a search for SM Higgs Boson in the mode H --> ZZ--> 2l 2nu conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
Zeynep Isvan
(University of Pittsburgh)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
MINOS searches for neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos between two detectors, over a baseline of 735 km. We recently reported the most precise measurement of neutrino oscillations in the atmospheric sector and the first tagged measurement of antineutrino oscillations. The neutrino mass splitting and mixing angle are measured to be $|\Delta m^{2}| =...
Dr
Marco Cavaglia
(University of Mississippi)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
Gravitational waves are produced by some of the most energetic and dramatic phenomena in the Universe: Black holes, neutron stars and supernovae. As powerful as they are are at their sources, gravitational waves are incredibly elusive by the time they reach the Earth. Although gravitational waves were predicted almost a century ago (as a consequence of General Relativity), they still have not...
Charles Felix Maguire
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-Vanderbilt University)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
Azimuthal angle correlations of charged hadrons were measured in $\sqrt s_{NN}$ = 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions by the CMS experiment. The distributions exhibit anisotropies that are correlated with the event-by-event orientation of the reaction plane. Several methods were employed to extract the strength of the signal: the event-plane, cumulant and Lee-Yang Zeros methods. These methods have...
Eric Charles Brownson
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-Vanderbilt University)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
Identification of jets originating from b quarks (b-tagging) will likely continue to be a key element of many physics analyses at the upgraded HL-LHC where much higher pileup can significantly reduce the performance. An upgrade of the CMS pixel detector proposed for the Phase 1 HL-LHC should enable CMS to maintain the current level of b-tagging performance even in the presence of very high...
Sudarshan Paramesvaran
(University of California Riverside)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
We present the results of searches for Supersymmetry in all-hadronic final states with jets and missing transverse energy, including the cases of jets identified as b-jets, the decay products of top quarks and hadronically decaying tau leptons. The searches are performed using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp-collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Various...
Jiyeon Han
(University of Rochester)
8/9/11, 4:00 PM
We report on the first measurement of the angular distribution of final state lepton and also the forward and backward asymmetry (Afb) which is sensitive to Weinberg angle in $p\bar{p} \to \gamma^{*}/Z \to \ell^{+}\ell^{-} + X$ events produced at $\sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV$. The data sample collected by the CDF II detector.
The angular distributions are studied as a function of the transverse...
Dr
James Madsen
(University of Wisconsin River Falls)
8/9/11, 4:15 PM
The combination of cutting-edge discovery science with the exotic Antarctic environment provides an ideal vehicle to excite and engage a wide audience. Examples of how the International IceCube Collaboration has brought the Universe to the classroom and the general public via the South Pole will be presented.
James Fast
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
8/9/11, 4:20 PM
Over the course of the last decade, the Belle detector at the KEKB collider has collected over 1 ab^{-1} of integrated luminosity, allowing for a number of precision measurements of the Standard Model, including confirmation of the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation. In June of 2010, KEKB and Belle were shut down to begin upgrading both the accelerator and detector. The increased...
Allison McCarn
(Department of Physics-Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
8/9/11, 4:20 PM
The top quark can be used as a probe of new physics, particularly when it decays into non-SM particles. One promising example is the decay of a top quark into a charged Higgs boson and b-quark. Charged Higgs bosons occur naturally in extended Higgs sectors and for a wide range of models can decay nearly exclusively into a tau lepton and a neutrino. In this talk, we summarize the searches for...
Glenn Lopez
(Stony Brook University)
8/9/11, 4:20 PM
The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to directly measure $\nu_{e}$ appearance, thereby providing a measurement of $\theta_{13}$, the last unknown neutrino mixing angle. In addition, T2K will make precision measurements of $\Delta m_{23}^2 $ and $\sin ^2\left( {2\theta _{23} } \right)$ via measurement of $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance. To achieve these...
Tapas Sarangi
(University of Wisconsin)
8/9/11, 4:20 PM
We report on searches for supersymmetry in events with one, two or multi-lepton final states with the 2011 data from the ATLAS experiment. In case of no excess observed a 95% CL upper limit is set for squark and gluino masses for different signal models. A 95% CL limit on the cross section times branching ratios times efficiency is set for
different final states under study.
Rafael Lopes de Sa
(Stony Brook University)
8/9/11, 4:20 PM
We use up to 7.3 fb-1 of ppbar collisions collected with the D0 detector study different differential distributions for Z/gamma* produced in ppbar collisions at the Tevatron collider. In one study we investigate the transverse momentum distribution of the Z/gamma* boson by using a novel observable that has reduced sensitivity to the effects of experimental resolution and efficiency, allowing...
Karen Bland
(Baylor University)
8/9/11, 4:23 PM
Recent searches conducted at the Fermilab Tevatron for the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel are reported using 7.0/fb and 8.2/fb of data collected at the CDF and D0 experiments respectively. Although the standard model (SM) branching fraction is small, the diphoton final state is appealing due to better diphoton mass resolution compared with dijet final states. In addition, other...
Amos Yarom
(Princeton University)
8/9/11, 4:25 PM
I will show how to generate non-trivial analytic solutions to the conformally invariant, relativistic fluid dynamic equations by appealing to the Weyl covariance of the stress tensor. The technique I will present recasts the relativistic conformally invariant Navier-Stokes equations in four-dimensional Minkowski space as a static flow in three-dimensional de Sitter space times a line. The...
Margaret Norris
(Sanford Underground Laboratory)
8/9/11, 4:30 PM
The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) – proposed for the site of the former Homestake Goldmine in Lead, SD – will provide the facility and infrastructure for scientists to study some of the most compelling questions about the history and fate of our universe through its major experiments searching for direct evidence of dark matter and exploring the nature of...
Bruce Hoeneisen
(Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
8/9/11, 4:40 PM
We present an improved measurement of the charge asymmetry $A$ of like-sign
dimuon events in 9 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\overline{p}$ collisions recorded with the
D0 detector at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV at the
Fermilab Tevatron collider. From $A$, we extract the like-sign dimuon
charge asymmetry in semileptonic $b$-hadron decays. We also study the
dependence of charge asymmetry...
Mauricio Garcia-Sciveres
(LBNL)
8/9/11, 4:40 PM
The ATLAS experiment is building an "Insertable B-Layer" (IBL) pixel detector to be installed on a replacement beam pipe in 2013. This detector is using the new FE-I4 pixel readout chip recently developed. The IBL will fit inside and not alter the existing ATLAS pixel detector. However, the possibility is being studied to replace the pixel whole detector in 2017 with a lower mass, higher...
Dr
Gavin Davies
(Iowa State University)
8/9/11, 4:40 PM
NOvA is a next generation neutrino oscillation experiment designed to search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations by comparing electron neutrino event rates in a Near Detector at Fermilab with the rates observed in a large Far Detector at Ash River, Minnesota, 810 km from Fermilab. The detectors are totally active, segmented, liquid scintillator and the Near Detector is located...
Benjamin Henry Hooberman
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
8/9/11, 4:40 PM
We present the results of searches for Supersymmetry in various topologies that lead to one or more isolated leptons, jets, and missing transverse energy in the final state. The searches are performed using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp-collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Various data-driven techniques used to measure the Standard Model backgrounds are...
Prof.
Nikolaos Kidonakis
(Kennesaw State University)
8/9/11, 4:40 PM
I present theoretical results for the top quark pair total cross section, and for the top quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions at Tevatron and LHC energies. I also present results for single top quark production in the t- and s-channels and also via associated production with a W boson. The calculations include approximate NNLO corrections that are derived from NNLL soft-gluon...
Prof.
Gregory Snow
(University of Nebraska)
8/9/11, 4:45 PM
The scale and scope of the physics studied at the Auger Observatory offer significant opportunities for original outreach work. Education, outreach and public relations of the Auger collaboration are coordinated in a separate task whose goals are to encourage and support a wide range of education and outreach efforts that link schools and the public with the Auger scientists and the science of...
Haichen Wang
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8/9/11, 4:46 PM
Diphoton final state is one of the most sensitive channels to a Higgs search in the low mass region (115GeV-140GeV). The analysis is optimized to search for a Standard Model (SM) Higgs and dominates the SM Higgs combination in the mass range lower than 120GeV. Nevertheless, an inclusive search strategy adopted is also sensitive to find a low mass diphoton resonance that could be predicted by...
Mr
Soumya Mohapatra
(Department of Physics-State University of New York (SUNY))
8/9/11, 4:50 PM
The flow harmonics $v_n$ are important bulk observables in heavy ion collisions. They contain information about the initial geometry as well as the transport properties of the medium produced in heavy ion collisions. We present the measurements of flow harmonics $v_2$-$v_6$ using the EP method and two particle correlations method in broad $p_T$, $\eta$ and centrality ranges using the ATLAS...
Dr
Zhe Wang
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
The discovery of neutrino oscillation, as a breakthrough in particle physics, motivated the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, which is designed to make a precise measurement of the last unknown neutrino mixing angle theta13, with a sensitivity 0.01 for sin^2(2*theta13), using reactor anti-neutrino from 17.4GW Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant located in Shenzhen, China. This talk will introduce the...
Dr
Charles Timmermans
(Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
The HiSPARC project is a high school cosmic ray project that originated in the Netherlands. The aim of this project is to have high school students participate in building and running a scientific project, thereby increasing their enthusiasm for science in general. We are experimenting with different detector configurations, performing a calibration on the KASCADE site, and exploring the...
Ji Yeon Han
(University of Rochester)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
We report the measurements of the rates and asymmetries of inclusive and differential production of W and Z vector bosons in pp collisions at 7 TeV c.m. energy at the CMS detector.
Sadia Khalil
(Kansas State University)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
We present several measurements of the top-pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. We use data collected with the CMS experiment during the year 2011. Measurements are presented in the lepton+jets final state, where events are selected by requiring exactly one isolated and highly energetic muon or electron, and at least four...
Giulio Stancari
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
The hollow electron beam collimator is a novel concept of controlled halo removal for intense high-energy beams in storage rings and colliders. It is based on the interaction of the circulating beam with a 5-keV, magnetically confined, pulsed hollow electron beam in a 2-m-long section of the ring. The electrons enclose the circulating beam, kicking halo particles transversely and leaving the...
Derek Michael Barge
(Physics Department-Univ. of California Santa Barbara)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
The results of searches for Supersymmetry in events with two opposite-sign isolated leptons, hadronic jets, and missing transverse energy in the final state are presented. The searches use pp collisions at 7 TeV collected in 2011 by the CMS experiment.
gemma Tinti
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas)
8/9/11, 5:00 PM
Hybrid silicon pixel detectors are currently used in the innermost tracking system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. Radiation tolerance up to fluences expected for a few years of running of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has already been proved, although some degradation of the part of the silicon detector closer to the interaction point is expected. During the LHC upgrade phases,...
Dr
Sudhir Gupta
(Iowa State University)
8/9/11, 5:08 PM
In this talk, I will discuss T-odd correlations induced by CP violating anomalous top-quark couplings at both production and decay level in the context of the Tevatron and the Large hadron collider. We will also show that by simply making use of four momenta of the top decay products it is possible to isolate such effects. With specific examples of top decay modes the experimental...
Dr
Helio Takai
(Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
8/9/11, 5:15 PM
The MARIACHI initiative involves a community with diverse academic backgrounds to explore forefront science. We focus on the study of cosmic rays. Our flagship theme has been the development of a new technology for the detection of cosmic rays, namely forward scattering radar. Over the years many other research subjects have been added to the list of our interests and they are now in various...
li Yan
(Stony Brook University)
8/9/11, 5:15 PM
We introduce a cummulant expansion to parameterize possible initial conditions
in heavy ion collisions. We show that the cummulant expansion converges and can
systematically reporduce the results of the Glauber type initial conditions.
At third order in the gradient expansion, the cummulants are described with the
triangularity $\llangle r^3 \cos3(\phi - \psi_{1,3} ) \rrangle$, and a...
Prof.
Zack Sullivan
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
8/9/11, 5:20 PM
The observation of a peak in the dijet invariant mass of the Wjj signal by the CDF Collaboration has caused great excitement. We demonstrate that this peak can be explained as the same upward fluctuations CDF observes in both t-channel and s-channel single-top-quark production. A peak in the dijet spectrum is expected, because CDF used a Monte Carlo simulation to subtract the single-top...
Prof.
Charles Baltay
(Yale University)
8/9/11, 5:20 PM
Studies carried out in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, have demonstrated the power of a pixel vertex detector in physics investigations at a future high energy linear collider. At one time, silicon CCD’s (Charged Coupled Devices) seemed like the detector elements of choice for vertex detectors for future Linear e+ e- Colliders. However, with the decision for a cold TESLA-like superconducting...
Kira Suzanne Grogg
(Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)
8/9/11, 5:20 PM
We present a study of jets produced in association with vector bosons production in pp collisions at center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the full CMS 2010 data set, corresponding to 36 pb−1. The transverse energy distribution of the reconstructed leading jets is measured and compared to theoretical expectations. The jet multiplicity distributions are efficiency corrected and unfolded . The...
Prof.
Alice Bean
(Department of Physics and Astronomy)
8/9/11, 5:30 PM
Can exposure to fundamental ideas about the nature of matter help motivate children in math and science and support the development of their understanding of these ideas later? Physicists, designers, and museum educators at the University of Kansas created the Quarked!™ Adventures in the subatomic Universe project to provide an opportunity for youth to explore the subatomic world in a fun and...
Prerit Jaiswal
(YITP, Stony Brook University)
8/9/11, 5:32 PM
The dominant production mechanism for Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson is gg->h. However, in certain beyond the SM scenarios, Higgs production with bottom quarks can become dominant due to enhanced bottom quark Yukawa coupling. One such model is the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where the bottom Yukawa coupling to Higgs bosons, including the SM-like Higgs, gets significantly...
Hannah Petersen
(Duke University)
8/9/11, 5:35 PM
Triangular flow has been shown to be an interesting new observable to gain insights about the properties of hot and dense strongly interacting matter as it is produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We will present triangular flow results for Au+Au collisions at the highest RHIC energy calculated in a hybrid approach that includes a non-equilibrium initial evolution and an ideal...
Mr
Andrew Robert Meade
(University of Massachusetts)
8/9/11, 5:40 PM
The measurement of hadronic activity recoiling against W and Z vector bosons provides an important test of perturbative QCD, as well as a method of searching for new physics in a model independent fashion. We present a study of the cross-section ratio for the production of W and Z gauge bosons in association with exactly one jet R-jets= (W+1jet)/(Z+1jet), in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV....
Jon Urheim
(Indiana University)
8/9/11, 5:40 PM
LBNE is an experiment being designed to probe the parameters of neutrino mixing accessible through nu_mu to nu_e oscillation measurements at the atmospheric L/E scale. It will consist of a new neutrino beam line and Near Detector complex at Fermilab, and one or more very large Far Detector modules, nominally to be sited underground in the Homestake Mine in South Dakota. In addition to the...
Michael Barnett
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
8/9/11, 5:45 PM
Press releases are issued by labs when a major result
such as a discovery is announced. More commonly, we write
papers that are not worthy of a press release. Nonetheless,
many in the public are quite interested to see progress in
our experiments. Tevatron experiments have pioneered plain
English summaries of experimental papers, and the concept is
spreading to the LHC experiments. ...
Christopher Herzog
(Princeton University)
8/10/11, 8:30 AM
Prof.
Joey Huston
(Michigan State University)
8/10/11, 9:00 AM
Prof.
Christian Bauer
(UC Berkeley)
8/10/11, 9:30 AM
Adam Szczepaniak
(Indiana University)
8/10/11, 10:30 AM
KRISHNA Rajagopal
(MIT)
8/10/11, 11:00 AM
Barbara Jacak
(Stony Brook University)
8/10/11, 11:30 AM
Michael Barnett
(Physics Division-Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
8/10/11, 12:00 PM
Dr
Pier Oddone
(Fermilab)
8/10/11, 12:35 PM
Brendan Casey
(Fermilab),
Stephen Holmes
(Fermilab)
8/10/11, 12:45 PM
Dr
Michael Procario
(DOE, Office of Science)
8/10/11, 1:15 PM
Gavril Giurgiu
(Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University (JH)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
The identification of b-jets is an important ingredient in characterizing top quark events and many new physics scenarios. The b-tagging algorithms developed within the CMS experiment are mainly based on the large lifetime of b-hadrons. The discriminators and variables defined by the various algorithms which characterize b-jets (e.g. track impact parameter, vertex properties) have been studied...
Dr
Thomas Speer
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
We present a measurement of the inclusive single top production cross section in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, using data collected with the CMS experiment during the year 2011. The analysis considers decay channels where the W from the top decays into electron-neutrino or muon-neutrino, and makes use of kinematic characteristics of electroweak single...
Lee Sawyer
(College of Engineering and Science-Louisiana Technical Universi)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
We present the first measurement of the inclusive three-jet differential
cross section as a function of the invariant mass of the three jets
with the largest transverse momenta in an event in
$p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\, \mathrm{TeV}$.
The measurement is made in different rapidity regions
and for different jet transverse momentum requirements
and is based on a data set...
Dr
Rex Tayloe
(Dept of Physics, Indiana University)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
A thorough understanding of the physics of neutrino nucleus scattering continues to evade us even after 50 years of experimental work. This is mainly caused by the challenges of these experiments that include beams with large energy uncertainty, low event rates, and large backgrounds. Progress has been made in recent years with new results from improved experiments. It is important to...
Marcus Spradlin
(Brown University)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
Scattering amplitudes have played a central role in quantum field theory since its inception. Recent years have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of their previously hidden mathematical simplicity, and in our ability to compute previously intractable scattering amplitudes, both for theoretical and phenomenological purposes. In this talk I will review several of the latest advances...
Dr
Hua Pei
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
The high energy nucleus-nucleus collision at RHIC has produced the
quark matter where quarks and gluons are believed to be deconfined.
Single particle spectra has shown that parton lose significant amount
of energy in such medium. It’s therefore important to further explore
the medium properties using multi-particle correlations and jets.
In this contribution, we present recent...
Bob Tschirhart
(-Fermilab)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
Fermilab is leading an international consortium to develop the design of “Project-X” which is an accelerator complex based on a new H- linac that will drive a broad range of experiments at the Intensity Frontier. Project X will provide multi-MW beams from the Main Injector over the energy range 60-120 GeV, simultaneous with mult-MW beams at 3 GeV. The Project-X research program includes...
Dr
Georgios Choudalakis
(University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
I present the latest result from the ATLAS search for resonant production of new particles decaying in two jets, using data taken in 2011.
Prof.
Gerald Guralnik
(Brown University, Providence RI 02912, USA)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
I will give a theoretical perspective on the topic of symmetry and symmetry breaking, particularly as the basis of the electroweak theory at the time of the initial formulation and development of the Standard Model. I will also briefly discuss some of these ideas restated in more modern terms.
Prof.
Nikolaos Kidonakis
(Kennesaw State University)
8/10/11, 2:00 PM
I present new results for the complete two-loop corrections in the
soft approximation for W and Z boson production at large transverse momentum. Analytical expressions for the NNLO approximate transverse momentum distributions are derived. Results for W boson production at Tevatron and LHC energies are presented.
Saptaparna Bhattacharya
(Brown University)
8/10/11, 2:20 PM
Identification of jets originating from b quarks (b-tagging) is a key element of many physics analyses at the LHC. Various algorithms for b-tagging have been developed by the CMS experiment to identify b-tagged jets with a typical efficiency between 40% and 70% while keeping the rate of mis-identified light quark jets between 0.1% and 10%. An important step, in order to be able to use these...
Dr
Matthew Cleary Tamsett
(College of Engineering and Science-Louisiana Technical Universit)
8/10/11, 2:20 PM
Inclusive multi-jet production is studied using the ATLAS detector for proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.43 pb^-1, using the first proton-proton data collected by the ATLAS detector in 2010. Results on multi-jet cross sections are presented and compared to both leading-order plus parton-shower Monte...
Mr
Dominick Olivito
(University of Pennsylvania)
8/10/11, 2:20 PM
The ATLAS detector has been used to search for high mass e e or mu mu
resonances, such as new heavy neutral gauge bosons. This talk will
present the latest search results for a high mass state decaying to
dilepton pairs, in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy
of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider using data recorded by the ATLAS
experiment in 2011.
Reinhard Schwienhorst
(Michigan State University)
8/10/11, 2:20 PM
We present measurements of the single top production cross in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using data collected with the D0 detector and corresponding to up to 5.4 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. We obtain both measurements of the inclusive production cross section as well measurements for the separate s- and t-channel production processes. These measurements are used to set constraints...
Dr
Abhishek Agarwal
(American Physical Society)
8/10/11, 2:30 PM
An on-shell formalism for the computation of S-matrices of SYM theories in three spacetime dimensions will be presented. The framework is a generalization of the spinor-helicity formalism in four dimensions. The formalism will be applied to establish the manifest SO(N) covariance of the on-shell superalgebra relevant to N =2,4 and 8 SYM theories in d=3. The results will be used to argue for...
Dr
Jianbei Liu
(University of Michigan)
8/10/11, 2:30 PM
I present a measurement of the Z/gamma* transverse momentum (pTZ) distribution in proton-proton collisions at √s=7TeV using Z/gamma*->e+e− and Z/gamma*->μ+μ− decays in data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 35 pb^−1 and 40 pb^−1 respectively, taken in 2010 with the ATLAS detector. The normalized pTZ distributions are measured separately for electron and muon decay channels as...
Prof.
Takemichi Okui
(Florida State University)
8/10/11, 2:35 PM
I will provide a concise, coherent overview of electroweak symmetry breaking from a modern perspective, focusing on models that contain a naturally light higgs boson. In particular, I will review theories with supersymmetry and those in which the higgs field is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson.
Gordon Watts
(Department of Physics-University of Washington)
8/10/11, 2:40 PM
The ATLAS detector, one of the two general purpose detectors at the LHC, has collected several hundred inverse picobarnes since the start of 2011 running. The large dataset has allowed deeper studies of bottom-quark tagging performance than before possible. Bottom-quark tagging is an important signal/background selection tool used in top analyses, SUSY analyses, Exotics analyses, and Standard...
Dr
Aaron McGowan
(University of Rochester)
8/10/11, 2:40 PM
The MINERvA detector, operating since 2009 in the NuMI beam line at Fermilab, has collected neutrino and antineutrino scattering data on a variety of nuclear targets. The detector is designed to identify events originating in plastic scintillator, lead, carbon, iron, water, and liquid helium. The goals of the experiment are to measure precisely inclusive and exclusive cross sections for...
Zhenbin Wu
(Baylor University)
8/10/11, 2:40 PM
The top quark was discovered at the CDF and D0 experiments in 1995.Its properties within the Standard Model are fully defined. The measurement of the top quark mass and the verification of the expected properties have been an important topic of experimental top quark physics since. We will present the recent measurements of top quark properties in CDF.
Mr
Evan Wulf
(Columbia University)
8/10/11, 2:40 PM
With a substantial increase in luminosity at the LHC, 2011 is an exciting
time for searches for new physics. The Randall-Sundrum model, in which a
warped extra dimension is introduced to resolve the hierarchy problem, predicts a spectrum of massive excited gravitons. There is significant
potential for discovery of the lightest of these gravitons. The latest
results from the ATLAS...
Prof.
Nikolaos Kidonakis
(Kennesaw State University)
8/10/11, 2:40 PM
I present generalized formulas for approximate corrections to QCD hard-scattering cross sections through second order in the
perturbative expansion. The approximate results are based on recent two-loop calculations for soft and collinear emission near threshold and are illustrated by several applications to strong-interaction processes in hadron colliders.
Dr
Thomas Hartman
(Institute for Advanced Study)
8/10/11, 2:50 PM
It was recently conjectured that higher spin gravity in three dimensions is holographically dual to a simple, exactly solveable conformal field theory called the W_N minimal model. This raises the possibility of tackling some difficult questions in holography or quantum gravity by performing exact computations at all values of the coupling. I will describe the motivation for studying...
Dr
Anthony Robert Timmins
(University of Houston)
8/10/11, 2:50 PM
We present measurements of untriggered di-hadron correlations as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb \sNN collisions, for charged hadrons with $p_{T} > 0.15$ GeV$/c$. These measurements provide a map of the bulk correlation structures in heavy-ion collisions. Contributions to these structures may come from jets, initial density fluctuations, elliptic flow, resonances, and/or momentum...
Ms
Susie Bedikian
(Physics Department-Yale University)
8/10/11, 3:00 PM
I will present strategies used to separate electron signatures from tau lepton signatures with the ATLAS detector, one of the general purpose detectors on the LHC ring at CERN. Taus can decay leptonically, to electrons or muons and neutrinos, or hadronically, to a number of neutral and charged hadrons and neutrinos. These decays happen before the taus reach the inner-most layer of the...
Jenny Holzbauer
(Michigan State University)
8/10/11, 3:00 PM
We use 2011 data from the ATLAS detector to isolate the production of single-top quarks. This electroweak top-quark production is expected to be sensitive to new physics such as flavor changing neutral currents or W' production, and can also be an important background for processes like the Higgs boson production. The data for this analysis are collected from collisions occurring at 7 TeV...
Ashish Kumar
(Department of Physics-Physics Faculty-State University of New Y)
8/10/11, 3:00 PM
We present measurements of total and differential cross sections for the production of W or Z bosons in association with jets, including detailed study of the production of heavy flavor jets, using up to 6 fb-1 of ppbar collisions collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We present measurements of the inclusive W+n jets total cross sections (with n=1-4) and also...
Dr
Michael Zisman
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
8/10/11, 3:00 PM
A muon collider would be a powerful tool for exploring the energy-frontier with leptons, and would complement the studies now under way at the LHC. Such a device would offer several important benefits. Muons, like electrons, are point particles so the full center-of-mass energy is available for particle production. Moreover, on account of their higher mass, muons give rise to very little...
Alexey Ferapontov
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/10/11, 3:00 PM
Results of searches for Large Extra Dimensions (LED) in pp collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the CMS detector are presented. Having analyzed the full 2011 dataset, we found no excess of events above the standard model (SM)
expectations. We set stringent limits on the multi dimensional Planck scale as well as masses of exotic objects that are consequences of the LED.
Bari Osmanov
(University of Florida)
8/10/11, 3:00 PM
The MINERvA experiment is aimed at precisely measuring the cross-sections for various neutrino interaction channels. It is located in Fermilab in an underground cavern in front of the MINOS near detector. MINERvA is a finely-grained scintillator with electromagnetic and hadron calorimetry regions. There are various nuclear targets located inside and in front of the detector for studying...
Dr
Jonathan Heckman
(Institute for Advanced Study)
8/10/11, 3:10 PM
We describe a novel regulator of four-dimensional N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory on a four-sphere. The regulator involves a lift of the theory to a large N matrix model on a non-commutative twistor space. As opposed to other known regulators, this regulator naturally retains both gauge invariance, and the symmetries of the spacetime. We present evidence that in the large N limit, the twistor...
Prof.
Al Goshaw
(Duke University)
8/10/11, 3:10 PM
We have used the ATLAS detector to study W and Z bosons produced with high energy photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. We select Wgamma and Zgamma events from the interactions p+p -> l + nu + gamma + X and p+p -> l + l + gamma + X where the lepton is a muon or electron. The photon is required to be isolated and separated from the lepton(s) by dR(l-gamma)>0.7. The measurement is based...
Yuting Bai
(Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)
8/10/11, 3:15 PM
Measurements of charged dihadron correlations from the CMS collaboration are presented for PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair over a broad range of pseudorapidity and the full range of azimuthal angle. With its large pseudorapidity coverage, the CMS tracker is ideally suited for detailed analyses of both short and long-range charged hadron correlations at...
Mr
Brian Kirby
(University of British Columbia)
8/10/11, 3:20 PM
T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to search for electron neutrino appearance. An intense off-axis muon neutrino beam produced at the JPARC facility in Tokai is analyzed at two locations, the first a set of detectors 280 m from the production point (ND280) and the second the Super-Kamiokande detector (SK) 295 km away. The ND280 detectors can...
Carrie McGivern
(University of Kansas)
8/10/11, 3:20 PM
We present a search for flavor changing neutral currents
in decays of top quarks. The analysis is based on a search for
$t\bar{t}\rightarrow\ell'\nu\ell\bar{\ell}$+jets ($\ell, \ell' = e,\mu$) final
states using 4.1~{\rm fb}$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity of $p\bar{p}$
collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$~{\rm TeV}. We extract limits on the branching
ratio $B(t\rightarrow Zq)$ ($q = u, c$...
Rajamani Narayanan
(Florida International University)
8/10/11, 3:30 PM
We will present new results pertaining to large Nc gauge on the lattice.
Two main topics will be
(a) the phases of three dimensional large Nc gauge theories reduced to two dimensions;
(b) single site realization of large Nc gauge theories with adjoint fermions.
Prof.
Scott Yost
(The Citadel)
8/10/11, 3:30 PM
Higher-order diagrams required for radiative corrections to mixed electroweak and QCD processes at the LHC and anticipated future colliders will require numerically stable representations of the associated Feynman diagrams. The hypergeometric representation supplies an analytic framework that is useful for deriving such stable representations. We discuss the reduction of Feynman diagrams to...
Mr
Caleb Lampen
(University of Arizona)
8/10/11, 3:33 PM
In some supersymmetric (SUSY) models, a charged Higgs boson ($\rm H^\pm$) can decay into a chargino-neutralino ($\rm\chi^\pm_i \chi^0_j $) pair producing a final state containing three leptons (electron/muon) and missing transverse energy ($3\ell+E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\mathrm{miss}}$). Such a decay could provide extra sensitivity to the $\rm H^\pm$, especially in the region of SUSY parameter space...
Dmitriy Beznosko
(NN Group SUNYSB)
8/10/11, 3:40 PM
The T2K experiment is an off-axis long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It utilizes the intense nu_mu beam generated at the J-PARC accelerator complex in Tokai, Japan. It has a near detector, ND280, at 280m from the proton target, and Super-Kamiokande as far detector at 295 km. The measurements of the neutral current pi0 and single charged current pi+ (as part of CC inclusive)...
Duong Hai Nguyen
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/10/11, 3:40 PM
We present the results of searches for Supersymmetry in various topologies that lead to final states with jets, missing transverse momentum and one or two photons or a photon and a lepton. These searches are performed using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp-collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Various data-driven techniques used to measure the Standard Model...
Pilar Staig
(Stony Brook University)
8/10/11, 3:40 PM
We study the effect that initial state fluctuations have on final particle correlations in heavy ion collisions. More precisely, we focus on the propagation of initial perturbations on top of the expanding fireball using the conformal solution derived by Gubser and Yarom for central collisions. For small perturbations, the hydrodynamic equations are solved by separation of variables and the...
Christopher Allan Palmer
(Department of Physics-Univ. of California San Diego (UCSD))
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
We report on a search for SM Higgs Boson in the mode H --> gamma gamma conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
Brad Wray
(University of Texas at Austin)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
We present present measurements of B and charm flavor changing neutral current processes, including inclusive and exclusive b->s gamma and B -> K nu nubar. We also present results of BABAR studies of leptonic decays of charged B and Ds mesons, in particular B -> tau nu and Ds->tau/mu nu.
Prof.
Sami Tantawi
(SLAC)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
Research on the basic physics of high-gradient, high frequency accelerator structures and the associated RF/microwave technology are essential for the future of discovery science, medicine and biology, energy and environment, and national security. We will review the state-of-the-art for the development of high gradient linear accelerators.
Ms
Peisi Huang
(Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
The LHC is a top factory: in the SM about 8,000 top pairs should have been produced with more than 47 pb−1 integrated luminosity already taken per detector at 7 TeV. Since the LHC center-of-mass energy is high compared to the top mass, the tops will typically be highly boosted, so that the decay products are close to each other. Thus, in the detector, at first sight, the top decay products may...
Helen Louise Caines
(Physics Department-Yale University)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
I will present an overview of recent results on jets and
jet-like correlation measurements from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Jets are produced in the initial hard scatterings of an event and can therefore be exploited as probes of the hot and dense medium produced in heavy-ion collisions. Previous RHIC results indicate that this medium,...
Kenneth William Cecire
(University of Notre Dame)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
The IPPOG and U.S. particle physics masterclasses took place worldwide in March, 2011. For the first time, all masterclasses used real LHC data. Students in the U.S. masterclasses (that included participants in several countries outside the U.S.) analyzed both ATLAS and CMS data. QuarkNet has been evaluating the U.S. effort since 2008. The design of the LHC masterclasses and the results of...
Marc Gabriel Weinberg
(Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
The results of searches for Supersymmetry in events with two same-sign isolated leptons, hadronic jets, and missing transverse energy in the final state are presented. The searches use pp collisions at 7 TeV collected in 2011 by the CMS experiment.
Dr
Jose Repond
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
Summary of challenges, development, and prospects.
Mark Lancaster
(UCL)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
Dr
Andrew Hime
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
8/10/11, 4:30 PM
The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment exploits a single-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector, instrumented with photomultiplier tubes submerged in the cryogen with nearly 4pi coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The high light yield and unique properties of the scintillation time-profile in LAr provide effective defense against radioactive backgrounds through pulse-shape...
MIke Fetsko
(Goodwin High School, Virginia)
8/10/11, 4:42 PM
The CMS Collaboration has released more than a quarter of a million 7 TeV proton-proton events that contain pairs of muons, electrons or jets with 2-body invariant masses in the range 0 to 100 GeV for student and teacher investigations. QuarkNet and I2U2 have developed software to exploit these data in a manner similar to that of the front-line physicists: a 3-D web-based event display to...
Mr
Robert Forrest
(UC Davis)
8/10/11, 4:50 PM
We present a search for chargino and neutralino supersymmetric particles yielding same signed dilepton final states including one hadronically decaying tau lepton using 6.0 fb^-1 of data collected by the the CDF II detector. This signature is important in SUSY models where, at high \tan{\beta}, the branching ratio of charginos and neutralinos to tau leptons becomes dominant. We study event...
Venkatesh Kaushik
(University Of Arizona)
8/10/11, 4:50 PM
Several Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories predict the
existence of new resonances that decay into ttbar pairs.
We describe a search for such resonances using lepton plus
jet data collected by the ATLAS experiment in pp collisions
at Sqrt(s)=7 TeV. The selection criteria and search method
are presented. In the absence of signal, we produce
95% CL limits on the production cross...
Alex Wright
(Princeton University)
8/10/11, 4:50 PM
DarkSide is a direct detection dark matter program based on two-phase argon time projection chambers using argon from underground sources that is naturally depleted in 39Ar. DarkSide-50, the first physics detector in the DarkSide program, will be deployed within the Borexino CTF tank in Gran Sasso Laboratory, Italy. The unique combination of the CTF muon veto, ultra-low background construction...
Prof.
Craig Group
(University of Virginia)
8/10/11, 4:50 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
The goal of the Mu2e experiment is to improve on the existing experimental limits for the neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron by four orders of magnitude. Such sensitivity means that if low-energy supersymmetry is discovered at the LHC, Mu2e will provide complimentary information. Even in the absence of new physics at the TeV scale, Mu2e could still find evidence for new...
Prof.
Austin Napier
(Tufts University)
8/10/11, 4:50 PM
We present updated measurements of branching fractions, polarization,
and muon forward-backward asymmetry in B-->K mu mu final states using
6.7/fb of data collected by the CDF detector. A search for Lambda_b --> Lambda mu mu decays will also be shown. The results are the most sensitive from a single experiment to date.
Kevin Kai Hong Sung
(Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))
8/10/11, 4:51 PM
We report on a search for the Higgs boson in the decay mode H --> WW based on data collected by the CMS experiment during the 2010+2011 running of the LHC.
Giordano Cerizza
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-College of Arts and Science)
8/10/11, 4:54 PM
The Bs meson is studied with the CMS detector at LHC.
The time-dependent measurements of the Bs decay into
J/Psi Phi and of the rate of the rare decay into mu mu
potentially provide indirect constraints on physics
beyond the Standard Model. This talk presents the first
cross section measurement for Bs->J/Psi phi production
based on data taken in 2010 and discusses prospects of
the...
Thomas Jordan
(University of Florida/Fermilab)
8/10/11, 4:55 PM
Since 1998, QuarkNet has provided over 500 cosmic ray muon detectors to teachers in the project and collaborators on similar projects. The detector relies on GPS accuracy for time-stamping PMT pulses from four scintillation counters. The DAQ is now in its third revision. Students and teachers use the detector to carry out small experiments to measure properties of cosmic ray muons. Other...
Dr
Peter Alan Steinberg
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
8/10/11, 5:00 PM
A broad program of measurements using heavy ion collisions is underway in ATLAS, with the aim of studying the properties of QCD matter at high temperatures and densities. This talk describes measurements performed using up to 9 µb-1 of lead-lead collision data provided at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 2.76 GeV by the Large Hadron Collider and collected by the ATLAS Detector during...
Dr
Alexander Zlobin
(Fermilab)
8/10/11, 5:00 PM
For a fixed size of a circular collider, its energy is limited by the strength of bending dipole magnets. Moreover, for both linear and circular machines, their maximum luminosity is determined (among other factors) by the strength of quadrupole magnets used for the final beam focusing. That is why there has been a permanent interest to higher-field and higher-field gradient accelerator...
Marco Grassi
(Universita di Roma I 'La Sapienza'-Universita e INFN, Roma I)
8/10/11, 5:05 PM
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is a high resolution, fine grained calorimeter devised to measure photons and electrons at the LHC. Built of lead tungstate crystals, it plays a crucial role in the search for new physics as well as in precision measurements of the Standard Model. A pre-shower detector composed of sandwiches of lead and silicon strips improves pi-0/gamma separation in...
Prof.
Reinhard Schwienhorst
(Michigan State University)
8/10/11, 5:10 PM
An outreach effort has started at Michigan State University to bring the physics of the LHC and the ATLAS detector to the Abrams planetarium on the MSU campus. MSU graduate and undergraduate students from Physics as well as from the College of Communication Arts & Sciences are putting together planetarium content on the LHC and its connection to astronomy, the big bang, and dark matter. I will...
Scott Hertel
(Department of Physics)
8/10/11, 5:10 PM
There has been much recent interest in Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) models with masses below 10 GeV/c^2. Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) have been reanalyzed to give increased sensitivity to these models. Using a lowered, 2 keV recoil energy threshold, we have reanalyzed data from eight germanium detectors operated at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, and...
Brock Tweedie
(Boston University)
8/10/11, 5:10 PM
Top-antitop pairs produced in the decay of a new heavy resonance will exhibit spin correlations that contain valuable coupling information. When the tops decay, these correlations imprint themselves on the angular patterns of the final quarks and leptons. I will discuss how to probe the structure of a resonance's couplings to tops by measuring the azimuthal angles of the tops' decay products...
Thomas Blake
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)
8/10/11, 5:10 PM
Promising ways to search for New Physics effects in radiative
penguin decays are in the angular analysis of $B^0 \to K^{*} \mu^+\mu^-$,
in the measurement of direct CP violation in $B^0 \to K^{*} \gamma$
and a time dependent analysis of $B^0_s \to \phi \gamma$.
All of these studies are being pursued at LHCb. First results
will be shown from the 2010 and early 2011 data, with...
Mr
Benjamin Cerio
(Physics Department-Duke University)
8/10/11, 5:10 PM
We present an inclusive search for events with two isolated leptons ($e$ or $\mu$) of the same electric charge in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV. The data are selected from events recorded in the ATLAS detector in 2011. With a small Standard Model background, the same sign dilepton signature is a powerful testing ground for new physics. The distributions of kinematical variables are...
donato nicolo
(pisa university)
8/10/11, 5:10 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
G Carrillo Montoya
(Department of Physics-University of Wisconsin)
8/10/11, 5:12 PM
Results for a Higgs boson search by the ATLAS experiment in the WH->lnubb and H->WW->lnulnu decay modes using a multivariate approach are presented. The results are based on data taken in 2011 at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. No evidence is found for a Standard Model-like Higgs boson in either decay mode. Exclusion limits in terms of the ratio to expected SM rate are reported in Higgs mass...
Marjorie Bardeen
(Fermilab)
8/10/11, 5:25 PM
In 1980 Leon Lederman started Saturday Morning Physics with a handful of volunteer physicists, around 300 students and all the physics teachers who tagged along. Today Fermilab offers over 30 programs annually with help from 250 staff volunteers and 50 educators, and serves around 40,000 students and 2,500 teachers. Find out why we bother. Over the years we have learned to take advantage of...
Elizabeth Hines
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Pennsylvania)
8/10/11, 5:25 PM
The ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) is the outermost of the three sub-systems of the ATLAS Inner Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In addition to its tracking capabilities, the TRT provides particle identification (PID) ability through the detection of transition radiation X-ray photons. The latter functionality provides substantial discriminating power between electrons...
Salvatore Rappoccio
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-Johns Hopkins University (J)
8/10/11, 5:30 PM
We present a measurement of the top-pair mass in tt events by using proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. We use data collected with the CMS experiment during the year 2011. The analysis is performed in all possible final states originating from top-pair production, and the full event reconstruction is performed by using different reconstruction methods...
Jason Mansour
(University of Göttingen)
8/10/11, 5:30 PM
We present a search for universal extra dimensions (UED) and supersymmetry (SUSY) in the two like-sign muons final state. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 fb-1 collected by the D0 detector at a $p\bar{p}$ center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. No evidence for physics beyond the standard model is observed and limits are set on the size of...
Brian Hamilton
(University Of Maryland)
8/10/11, 5:30 PM
We present recent results of studies of semileptonic B and charm
decays from BABAR. In particular, we describe a recent measurement of
the B-> D(*)tau nu branching fraction, and a study of Bs production and semileptonic decays using BABAR data collected above the Upsilon(4S).
We also discuss the determination of |Vub| from exclusive B->pi/rho l nu and and from fully inclusive...
Prof.
Jean Delayen
(Old Dominion University)
8/10/11, 5:30 PM
The superconducting RF (SRF) technology is increasingly becoming the technology of choice for a wide range of particle accelerators. It has found applications in high energy and nuclear physics accelerators, spallation neutron sources, and light sources. The
opportunities offered by the SRF technology, and its challenges, will be presented and reviewed.
george Stephans
(Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)-Massachusetts Inst. of Tec)
8/10/11, 5:30 PM
Jets are an important tool to probe the hot, dense medium which is produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Copious production of hard processes, well above the heavy ion background, occurs at the Large Hadron Collider due to the large increase in collision energy. The multipurpose Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is well designed to measure the hard scattering processes with...
Bradley Lee Roberts
(Boston University)
8/10/11, 5:30 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
Fermilab E989 has the goal to improve on the precision of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, a_mu = (g_mu - 2)/2 by at least a factor of 4 beyond the 0.54~ppm relative precision obtained in E821 at Brookhaven. The precision storage ring will be relocated to Fermilab and installed in a new building. A new 8~GeV/c proton beamline and 3.1~GeV/c muon beamline will be built. The unique...
Dr
Jui-Yu Chiu
(Carnegie Mellon University)
8/10/11, 5:33 PM
In this talk I will present a factorization theorem for the Higgs transverse momentum spectrum using SCET (Soft Collinear Effective Theory). This theorem allows us systematically resum large logarithms of $p_T$ in the regime $m_h \gg p_T \gg \Lambda_{QCD}$. The transverse momentum distributions of Higgs produced via gluon fusion will be presented and compared to previous results derived...
Dr
Avdhesh Chandra
(Rice University)
8/10/11, 5:42 PM
We report a new measurement of the $CP$-violating phase $\phi_s$, of the decay width difference for the two mass eigenstates $\Delta \Gamma_s$, of the mean $B^0_s$ lifetime $\overline{\tau}_s$, and of magnitudes of the decay amplitudes, from the flavor-tagged decay $B^0_s\to J/\psi \phi$. For the first time, we consider possible contributions from the decay $B^0_s \rightarrow J/\psi K^+K^-$,...
Dr
Edward Diehl
(University of Michigan)
8/10/11, 5:45 PM
The ATLAS muon spectrometer is designed to measure muon momenta with a resolution of 4% @ 100 GeV/c rising to 10% @ 1 TeV/c track momentum. The spectrometer consists of precision tracking and trigger chambers embedded in a 2T magnetic field generated by three large air-core superconducting toroids. The precision detectors provide 50 micron tracking resolution to a pseudo-rapidity of 2.7. The...
Debabrata Mohapatra
(Virginia Tech)
8/10/11, 5:50 PM
We report an improved measurement of D^0-D^0bar mixing
using the time dependence of the Dalitz plot of the
decay mode D^0->K_S^0 pi^+ pi^-. In addition,
we report results of searches for CP violation
in the decays D^0->K_S^0 P^0 where P0
denotes a neutral pseudo-scalar meson which is either
a pi^0, eta or eta^'. The result for D^0->K_S pi^0
is the most sensitive search for CP...
Kenneth Bloom
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Nebraska)
8/10/11, 5:50 PM
We measure the correlation between the spin of the top quark and the
spin of the anti-top quark in $t\bar{t} \rightarrow W^{+}bW^{-}\bar{b}$
final states produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at a center of mass energy $\sqrt{s}=1.96$~TeV,
using data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
The correlation is extracted using a double differential angular...
Sho Maruyama
(Department of Physics-University of California Davis (UCD))
8/10/11, 5:50 PM
A search for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) is performed using events with at least three leptons and any number of jets. The search is performed in data collected in 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp-collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV. Numerous leptonic channels have been investigated in an exclusive manner and data-driven techniques are used to quantify the SM...
Juan Collar Colmenero
(University of Chicago)
8/10/11, 5:50 PM
Recent results from CoGeNT and future directions will be discussed.
Timothy Daniels
(University of Massachusetts)
8/10/11, 5:50 PM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) of Xe-136. Observation of 0nbb would determine an absolute mass scale for neutrinos, prove that neutrinos are massive Majorana particles (indistinguishable from their own antiparticles), and constitute physics beyond the Standard Model. The current phase of the...
Dr
Haijun Yang
(University of Michigan)
8/10/11, 6:05 PM
In order to exploit fully the physics potential of future lepton
colliders, highly precise tracking systems will be needed, for which
systematic alignment uncertainties must be small. We describe
ongoing R&D in frequency scanned interferometry (FSI) to be applied
to alignment monitoring of a detector's charged particle tracking
system, in addition to its beam pipe and final-focus...
Dr
gil paz
(The University of Chicago)
8/10/11, 6:06 PM
The CP asymmetry in inclusive b-> s gamma decays is an important probe of new physics. The theoretical prediction was thought to be of a perturbative origin. In the standard model the perturbative prediction for the asymmetry is about 0.5 percent. In a recent work with M. Benzke, S.J. Lee and M. Neubert , we have shown that the asymmetry is in fact dominated by non-perturbative effects. Since...
Mr
David Malling
(Brown University)
8/10/11, 6:10 PM
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search experiment is currently being deployed at the Sanford Laboratory at Homestake in South Dakota (see Rick Gaistkell’s talk), as a precursor to DUSEL. In partnership with more international institutions, we are already thinking about the next (two) experiment(s) that will follow: LZ-S (3 t) and LZ-D (20 t). This talk describes the work...
Silvia Borghi
(University of Glasgow)
8/10/11, 6:10 PM
Precision measurements in charm physics offer a window into a unique sector
of potential New Physics interactions.
LHCb is well equipped to take advantage of the enormous production
cross-section of charm mesons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV.
The measurement of the $D^0 -\bar{D^0}$ mixing parameters
and the search for CP-violation in the charm sector are key
physics goals of the...
Jeremiah Jet Goodson
(Department of Physics - State University of New York (SUNY))
8/10/11, 6:10 PM
The results of a search for supersymmetry in multilepton final states using the ATLAS detector is presented. Such signals require three or more leptons, jets, and missing transverse energy. This channel provides the advantage that the contribution due to standard model backgrounds is expected to be very low. Results from the 2011 data-taking will be reported.
Mark Neubauer
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
8/10/11, 6:15 PM
The study of diboson production at high energy colliders tests the electroweak sector of the standard model (SM) and provides a sensitive probe of new physics beyond the SM. An important example is the production of a Higgs boson with mass greater than 140 GeV/c^2 which decays primarily to W boson pairs. The diboson decay channel where one W boson decays to leptons and the other vector boson...
JUHEE HONG
(Stony Brook University)
8/10/11, 6:25 PM
We present the energy density and flux distribution of a quark moving through the high temperature QCD plasma and compare it with that in strongly coupled N=4 SYM plasma.
The Boltzmann equation is reformulated as a Fokker-Planck equation at leading log approximation and is solved numerically with non-trivial boundary conditions in momentum space. We use the kinetic theory and take the...
Sanjay Ravi Ratan Arora
(Dept. of Physics and Astronomy-Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jers)
8/10/11, 6:30 PM
Anticipating a data sample of the order of hundreds $pb^{-1}$ at a collision energy of 7 TeV by the CMS experiment at LHC in 2011, we probe new physics such as matter symmetry violation in the leptonic sector in theories with partner articles with a signature of three or more leptons in the final state. The search is organized to minimize reliance on specific kinematic variables to reduce SM...
Maxwell Chertok
(Department of Physics-University of California Davis (UCD))
8/10/11, 6:36 PM
We report on a search for a doubly charged Higgs H++ --> l+l+ conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
John Beacom
(Ohio State University)
8/11/11, 8:30 AM
Mark Trodden
(University of Pennsylvania)
8/11/11, 9:00 AM
Jonghee Yoo
(FNAL)
8/11/11, 9:30 AM
Prof.
Sudhir Malik
(University of Nebraska/FNAL)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment is one of the two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In order to meet the challenges of designing and building a detector of the technical complexity of CMS, a globally distributed collaboration has been assembled with different backgrounds, expertise, and...
Dr
Costas Vellidis
(Fermilab)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
The production of prompt photon pairs with large invariant mass in hadron collisions is a large irreducible background in searches for a low mass Higgs boson decaying into a photon pair, as well as in searches for new phenomena, such as new heavy resonances, extra spatial dimensions or cascade decays of heavy new particles. Precise measurements of the diphoton production differential cross...
Douglas Orbaker
(University of Rochester)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
We present measurements of the integrated forward-backward charge asymmetry in $t\bar{t}$ production in $p\bar{p}$ collisions using data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, using both the lepton+jets and dilepton final states. We present the raw measurement as well as results obtained after correcting for acceptance and detector effects and present also...
Dr
Morgan Wascko
(Imperial College London)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
SciBooNE (FNAL E954) is designed to measure precise neutrino cross sections on carbon in the one GeV region. Moreover, SciBooNE can serve as a near detector for MiniBooNE neutrino and antineutrino oscillation searches. I will present SciBooNE's most recent results on neutrino cross section measurements and the search for neutrino disappearance with MiniBooNE.
Radja Boughezal
(Argonne National Lab.)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
The search for the SM Higgs boson is reaching a critical juncture.
Either evidence will be found or an exclusion will be set during the upcoming LHC year of running. We review the recent experimental results and the theoretical progress that has enabled the search for the Higgs.
Alessandro Rossi
(INFN Perugia)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
We present recent BABAR results of searches for rare decays with new physics sensitivity. In particular, we present the results of searches for B -> gammma gamma and the lepton and baryon number violating modes
B->Lambda(c)l and B->K/pi tau l. We also describe recent searches for the charm decays D-> Xl+l-, D0 -> gamma gamma and D0->l+l-.
Sherwin Love
(purdue university)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
The minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) is extended by the inclusion of an addition pair of constrained Higgs doublet superfields through which the electroweak symmetry breaking is nonlinearly realized. The superpotential coupling to the MSSM Higgs doublet then generates its vacuum expectation value. The resultant Higgs scalars and Higgsino-gaugino mass spectrum is presented for...
Mr
Ignacio Sevilla
(CIEMAT)
8/11/11, 10:30 AM
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a project with the goal of building, installing and exploiting a new 70 CCD-camera at the Blanco telescope, in order to study the nature of cosmic acceleration. It will cover 5000 square degrees of the southern hemisphere sky and will record the positions and shapes of 300 million galaxies up to redshift 1.4. The survey will be completed using 525 nights during...
Roman Nevzorov
(University of Hawaii)
8/11/11, 10:50 AM
We consider collider signatures of the exceptional supersymmetric standard model (E6SSM). This model is based on the SM gauge group together with an extra U(1)_{N} gauge symmetry under which
right--handed neutrinos have zero charge. To ensure anomaly cancellation and gauge coupling unification the low energy matter
content of the E6SSM involve three 27 representations of E_6 and a pair of...
Laurent Millischer
(IRFU-CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA))
8/11/11, 10:50 AM
Events with two isolated photons are a useful probe of hard-scattering QCD. Also, uncertainty in sigma(diphoton + X) is a major source of systematic error for Higgs and exotic diphoton searches. We present the first measurement of the isolated differential diphoton cross-section from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN....
Dr
Jaroslaw Nowak
(University of Minnesota)
8/11/11, 10:50 AM
The NuMI Off-Axis electron neutrino Appearance (NOvA) experiment has started taking data with the 209 ton liquid scintillator-filled prototype of the near detector in the end of November 2010. This detector collects data from two sources, the Main Injector complex and from the Booster Neutrino Beam. At the location of the prototype detector due to the off-axis effect the NuMI beam is narrow...
Masao Sako
(University of Pennsylvania)
8/11/11, 10:50 AM
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will use a new massive imaging instrument, the
Dark Energy Camera (DECam), to study the properties of the mysterious,
presently-dominant source of energy that is causing the universe to go through
an accelerating expansion. The camera will be installed on the 4-meter Blanco
telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and commissioning is
expected...
William Wester
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
8/11/11, 10:52 AM
We present new results of CDF measurements of Bc and suppressed Bs decays.
The first measurement of the Bc lifetime in an exclusive fully-reconstructed final state is reported.
An improved measurement of the Bs->DsDs decay is reported along with a measurement of the branching ratio and lifetime for Bs->J/psif0 decays and the first measurement of a CP violating asymmetry in Bs->phiphi decays.
Dr
Romulus Godang
(University of Mississippi)
8/11/11, 10:54 AM
We report on the study of the decay B+ ->D0(D0bar) K+ where the D0 or D0bar decaying to Kpipi0, with the Atwood Dunietz and Soni (ADS) method. We measure the ratios Rads, R+, and R- that, since the processes B+ -> D0barK+ and B+ -> D0K+ are proportional to Vcb and Vub, respectively, are sensitive to rB and to the weak phase gamma. We also report the results of CP violation studies of B->Dcp...
Dr
Sergey Panitkin
(Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
8/11/11, 11:00 AM
In 2010 and 2011 the ATLAS Collaboration at LHC collected a large volume
of data and published a number of ground breaking papers. The Grid-based
ATLAS distributed computing infrastructure played a crucial role in
enabling timely analysis of the data. We will present the architecture
and general features of the ATLAS distributed analysis system, and
discuss the performance of the...
Eric Torrence
(University of Oregon)
8/11/11, 11:00 AM
A precision luminosity measurement is of critical importance for the ATLAS physics program, both for searches for new physics as well as for precision measurements of Standard Model cross-sections. The calibration of the luminosity is based on three so-called van der Meer scans that were performed in 2010. These scans determine the convolved beam sizes in the vertical and horizontal...
Haichen Wang
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8/11/11, 11:05 AM
Upper limits on the cross section of Standard Model Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV are determined, based on the searches performed by the ATLAS Collaboration. Models with a fourth generation of heavy leptons and quarks with Standard Model-like couplings to the Higgs boson are also investigated.
Dr
David Atwood
(Iowa State University)
8/11/11, 11:10 AM
In this talk, I will discuss the production of fourth generation quarks at the LHC. In particular, if such a quark has a mass in the phenomenologically interesting range of 400GeV-600 GeV and decays to a light quark and a W-boson, I will consider a number of possible signals through which it might be detected.
In general, the signals I consider include missing momentum together with jets...
Minerba Betancourt
(University of Minnesota)
8/11/11, 11:10 AM
NOvA is a long baseline neutrino experiment using an off-axis neutrino
beam produced by the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The NOVA experiment will study neutrino oscillations from $\nu_{\mu}$ flavor to $\nu_e$ flavor. A short term goal for the NOvA experiment is to develop a good understanding of the response of the detector. These studies are being carried out with the full Near Detector...
Zhenyu Han
(Harvard University)
8/11/11, 11:10 AM
We explore methods for improving the top quark forward-backward asymmetry measurement at the LHC. We identify variables which distinguish top pairs produced from gluons versus quarks. These variables include the top quark rapidity, mass and rapidity of the top-antitop system, the top quark polarization and the top-antitop spin correlation. We obtain the best axes for measuring the top quark...
Dr
Jiangang Hao
(Fermilab)
8/11/11, 11:10 AM
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a next generation optical survey aimed at understanding the expansion rate of the universe using four complementary methods: weak gravitational lensing, galaxy cluster counts, baryon acoustic oscillations, and Type Ia supernovae. To perform the survey, the DES Collaboration is building the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 3 square degree, 520 Megapixel CCD camera...
Ms
Sevda Esen
(University of Cincinnati)
8/11/11, 11:14 AM
Using fully reconstructed $B_{s}$ mesons, we measure the branching fractions for the decays of $B_s \to D_s^{(*)+}D_s^{(*)-}$ exclusively. Assuming these decay modes saturate decays to CP-even final states, the branching fraction determines the relative width difference between the $CP$-odd and $CP$-even $B_s$ states. The results are based on a data sample collected with the Belle detector at...
Himansu Sahoo
(University of Hawaii)
8/11/11, 11:18 AM
We present the final measurement of time-dependent CP violation in
the neutral B decays into charmonium and a K^0 meson with a large
data sample containing 772 million B \bar{B} pairs collected at the
Upsilon(4S) resonance with with the Belle detector at the KEKB
asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We also reports the first results
on CP violation in the radiative penguin decay B^0->K_S phi...
Kenneth Bloom
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Nebraska)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
After years of development, the CMS distributed computing system is now in full operation. The LHC continues to set records for instantaneous luminosity, recording data at 300 Hz. Because of the intensity of the beams, there are multiple proton-proton interactions per beam crossing, leading to larger and larger event sizes and processing times. The CMS computing system has responded admirably...
Dr
grigory ovanesyan
(LANL)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
We revisit the jet broadening and radiative energy loss problems in heavy ion collisions from effective theory point of view. Soft collinear effective theory (SCET) describes the dynamics of QCD at high energies and is particularly suitable for calculations involving jets. By modifying its Lagrangian to include medium interactions we develop an effective theory for jets in medium. A number of...
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Saptaparna Bhattacharya
(Brown University)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
We explore LHC signatures of vectorlike quarks, which are hypothetical fermions whose left- and right-handed components have the same electroweak quantum numbers. We consider interactions of such a quark, top-prime, with the top quark via a Yukawa coupling and with a bottom quark through a $W$ boson. We look at Higgs production through the decay of the top-prime in a top-prime pair production...
Xinchun Tian
(Univesrity of South Carolina)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
SciNOvA is a proposed experiment to deploy a fine-grained scintillator detector
in front of the NOvA near detector to collect neutrino-nucleus scattering events
in the NUMI, off-axis, narrow-band neutrino beam at Fermilab. This detector
can make unique contributions to the measurement of charged- and neutral-current
quasi-elastic scattering; and neutral-current $\pi^0$ and photon...
Tobias Golling
(Physics Department-Yale University)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
With 7 TeV proton-proton collisions data collected by the ATLAS
detector we present searches for anomalous top-quark production and
decay in several channels , including a search for top-quark pair
production with anomalous missing transverse energy, top-quark pair
resonances, fourth generation quarks decaying to top quarks.
Such phenomena can arise from a number of Standard Model extensions.
Dr
Marat Gataullin
(Charles C. Lauritsen Lab. of HEPhys-California Institute of Tec)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
We report on the various SM and BSM Higgs Boson searches conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
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Stephanie Moyerman
(UCSD)
8/11/11, 11:30 AM
Recent studies of the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lend support to an inflationary origin of the universe, yet no direct evidence verifying inflation exists. Current generation experiments now focus on the polarization anisotropy in the CMB, specifically the curl component of the CMB’s polarization (called the “B-mode”), which is undetected to date. The...
Braden Keim Abbott
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Oklahoma)
8/11/11, 11:37 AM
A measurement of the relative branching fraction of $B^0_s\to J/\psi f_0(980)$, $f_0(980)\to\pi^+\pi^-$ to $B^0_s\to J/\psi \phi$, $\phi\to K^+K^-$ is presented. The decay mode $B^0_s\to J/\psi f_0(980)$ is an interesting mode since it is a CP eigenstate and allows the measurement of the CP-violating phase $\phi_s$. Using approximately 8 fb$^{-1}$ of data recorded with the D0 detector at the...
Benjamin Carls
8/11/11, 11:42 AM
We present world-leading results on CP-violating asymmetries and branching fractions of several decay modes of B0, Bs , and Lambda_b hadrons into charmless two-body
final states using 6/fb of data collected by the CDF experiment.
Mr
Matthew Bishara
(University of Rochester)
8/11/11, 11:50 AM
The Simplest Higgs model is one of several Little Higgs extensions that attempt to address the hierchy problem through expansion of the Standard Model weak sector.
New charged and neutral weak gauge bosons can cancel out the quadratic Higgs divergences in the Higg’s potential through loop diagrams. Production of charged X gauge bosons is studied through gauge boson fusion in pp collisions at...
Prof.
Kerry Whisnant
(Iowa State University)
8/11/11, 11:50 AM
The bicycle model of Lorentz noninvariant neutrino oscillations without neutrino masses naturally predicts maximal mixing and a 1/E dependence of the oscillation argument for muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino
oscillations of atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos, but cannot also simultaneously fit the data for solar neutrinos and KamLAND. We search for other possible structures of the...
Dr
Gil Paz
(The University of Chicago)
8/11/11, 11:50 AM
Recently, the charge radius of the proton was extracted, for the first time, from muonic hydrogen. The value was 5 sigma away from similar measurement of regular hydrogen. The extraction of the charge radius depends on a theoretical input. Together with Richard J. Hill, we are studying the hadronic uncertainty in the theoretical prediction, using the tool of an effective field theory, namely...
Dr
Sudhir Gupta
(Iowa State University)
8/11/11, 11:50 AM
Models with a non-universal Z' exhibit in general flavor changing neutral currents FCNC at tree-level. When the Z' couplings favor the third generation, flavor changing transitions of the form Z'tc and Z'tu could be large enough to be observable at the LHC. In this talk I will discuss some interesting LHC signatures of (a) associated production of a top with the Z', and, (b) the same sign tops...
Richard Edward Hughes
(Ohio State University)
8/11/11, 11:55 AM
The combined results from CDF and D0 on direct searches for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson H in ppbar collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV are presented. Compared to the previous Tevatron Higgs search combination more data have been added, additional new channels have been incorporated, and some previously used channels have been reanalyzed to gain sensitivity. We use...
Prof.
Peter Lichard
(Silesian University in Opava)
8/11/11, 11:58 AM
We show that the a_1-rho-pi Lagrangian is a decisive element for obtaining a good phenomenological description of the three-pion decays of the tau lepton. We choose it in a two-component form with a flexible mixing parameter sin(theta). In addition to the dominant a_1-> rho+pi intermediate states, the a_1-> sigma+pi ones are included. When fitting the three-pion mass spectra, three data sets...
Peter Van Gemmeren
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/11/11, 12:00 PM
The ATLAS detector [1] at CERN has completed its first full year of recording collisions at 7 TeV, resulting in billions of events and petabytes of data. At these scales, physicists must have the capability to read only the data of interest to their analyses, with the importance of efficient selective access increasing as data taking continues.
ATLAS has developed a sophisticated...
Mr
Mindaugas Lekaveckas
(MIT)
8/11/11, 12:00 PM
Jet quenching parameter or, equivalently, transverse momentum broadening distribution function is an important quantity which helps to understand energy losses in heavy ion collisions and get insights into properties of the de-confined quark-gluon plasma. SCET provides framework to calculate jet quenching parameter at weak coupling using expectation value of two space-like separated light-like...
Joshua Berger
(Cornell University)
8/11/11, 12:06 PM
We study a new type of CP violating observable that arises in three body decays. We consider decays that are dominated by an intermediate resonance that can go on shell. In many cases, the decay can occur via two different orderings. The required CP-even phase arises due to the different virtualities of the resonance in the two diagrams corresponding to these orderings. This method can be...
Prof.
Charles Jui
(University of Utah)
8/11/11, 12:10 PM
The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic ray observatory in the northern hemisphere. TA is a hybrid experiment with a unique combination of fluorescence detectors and a stand-alone surface array of scintillation counters. We will present the spectrum measured by the surface array alone, along with those measured by the fluorescence detectors in monocular, hybrid,...
Emanuele Mereghetti
(University of Arizona)
8/11/11, 12:10 PM
We calculate the electric-dipole and magnetic-quadrupole form factors of the deuteron that arise as a low-energy manifestation of parity and time-reversal violation in quark-gluon interactions of effective dimension four and six: the QCD vacuum angle, the quark electric and chromo-electric dipole moments, and the gluon chromo-electric dipole moment. Within the framework of two-flavor chiral...
Jorge S Diaz
(Indiana University)
8/11/11, 12:10 PM
A three-parameter model of neutrino oscillations is presented. It is based on a simple Lorentz- and CPT-violating texture and is consistent with compelling oscillatory signals and null tests involving atmospheric, accelerator, reactor, and solar neutrinos. The solar and atmospheric mixing angles are fixed by the texture at both low and high energies instead of being independent parameters as...
Peter Fisher
(Unknown)
8/11/11, 12:30 PM
Jon Kotcher
(Unknown)
8/11/11, 12:50 PM
Mel Shochet
(Enrico Fermi Institute-University of Chicago)
8/11/11, 1:10 PM
Dr
William Brinkman
(DOE)
8/11/11, 1:30 PM
Prof.
Jonathan Feng
(UC Irvine)
8/11/11, 2:00 PM
Jonathan Bagger
(Johns Hopkins University)
8/11/11, 2:05 PM
Andrew White
(University of Texas at Arlington)
8/11/11, 2:28 PM
Lucie Linssen
(CERN)
8/11/11, 2:51 PM
Prof.
Tao Han
(University of Wisconsin)
8/11/11, 3:14 PM
Dr
Ronald Lipton
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
8/11/11, 3:37 PM
Patricia McBride
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
8/11/11, 4:30 PM
Tatsuya Nakada
(Lab. de Phys. des Hautes Energies (LPHE-IPEP)-Ecole Polytechniq)
8/11/11, 4:40 PM
Prof.
Gregory Snow
(University of Nebraska)
8/11/11, 4:50 PM
Dmitry Bandurin
(Kansas State University)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
Samples of inclusive $\gamma+{\rm 2~jet}$ and $\gamma+{\rm 3~jet}$ events collected by the D0 experiment
with an integrated luminosity of about 1~fb$^{-1}$ in $p\bar{p}$ collisions
at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV are used to measure cross sections
as a function of the angle in the plane transverse to the beam direction
between the transverse momentum ($p_T$)
of the $\gamma+$leading jet system...
Dr
Oleg Kamaev
(Queen's University)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment and its successor, SuperCDMS, use solid-state detectors operated near 40 mK to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The experiment measures the ionization and athermal phonons from particle interactions to discriminate WIMP candidate events (nuclear recoils) from background events (electron recoils) with very high...
Susan Lein
(University of Minnesota)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
The NuMI Off-Axis $\nu_{e}$ Appearance (NO$\nu$A) project is a long-baseline neutrino experiment. It utilizes the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab and consists of two functionally-identical plastic, scintillator-filled detectors placed 14 milliradians off-axis from the beam and 810 km apart. A 209 ton prototype detector, the Near Detector On the Surface(NDOS), was built and began taking initial...
Roman Nevzorov
(University of Hawaii)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
We study the decays of the lightest Higgs boson within the exceptional
supersymmetric (SUSY) standard model (E6SSM). The E6SSM is based on the SM gauge group together with an extra U(1)_{N} gauge symmetry under which right-handed neutrinos have zero charge. The low energy matter content of the E6SSM involves three 27 representations of E_6 and a pair of SU(2) doublets from additional 27 and...
Prof.
Gene Golowich
(U Mass)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
We perform a study of the Standard Model (SM) fit to the mixing quantities Delta M_{B_s} and Delta Gamma_{B_s}/Delta M_{B_s} in
order to bound contributions of New Physics (NP) to B_s mixing.
We then use this to explore the branching fraction of B_s -> mu+mu-
in certain models of NP. In most cases, this constrains NP amplitudes
for B_s -> mu+mu- to lie below the SM component.
Mahsana Ahsan
(Department of Physics-University of Texas at Dallas-Unknown)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
We will present a search on dark matter particles of nearly GeV scale that decay into highly boosted set of electrons. \ These collimated set of leptons produced in the final state are called lepton-jets. \ The search is motivated by recent observations from astrophysical experiments on the anomalous excess of cosmic ray leptons. \ The analysis is performed using the data collected by the...
Dr
Dennis Weygand
(Jefferson National Lab)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
Markus Schulze
(Johns Hopkins University)
8/12/11, 8:00 AM
I would like to present results for hadronic top quark pair production in association with a photon at next-to-leading order accuracy.This process allows a direct measurement of the top quark electromagnetic couplings that, at the moment, are only loosely constraint. Top quark decays are treated in the narrow width approximation and spin correlations of all final state particles are accounted...
Mr
Louis James Antonelli
(Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da)
8/12/11, 8:18 AM
We report on a search for a BSM Higgs Boson in the mode H --> Tau Tau conducted by the CMS experiment with the data accumulated during the 2010 & 2011 running of the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
SARAH MALIK
(UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)
8/12/11, 8:20 AM
A study of events with missing transverse energy plus a single energetic jet using 35 pb$^-1$ of $pp$ collision data at 7 TeV, collected by the CMS detector at LHC is presented. This topolgy is a signature of large extra dimensions in the framework of the ADD model, and the unparticles. The number of observed events is in good agreement with the prediction of the Standard Model. The 95\% CL...
Dr
Rishiraj Pravahan
(University of Texas at Arlington)
8/12/11, 8:20 AM
This talk describes minimum bias measurements using proton proton collisions at the ATLAS detector at the LHC at center of mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV. Studies of charged particle multiplicity distributions and multiparticle correlations which are used to investigate soft QCD processes are presented. The measurements are compared with various theoretical models and Monte Carlo generators.
Dr
Xinchun Tian
(Univesrity of South Carolina)
8/12/11, 8:20 AM
NOvA is an accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment which has a great potential to measure the last unknown mixing angle theta_{13}, the neutrino mass hierarchy, and the CP-violation phase in lepton sector with 1) 700 kW beam, 2) 14 mrad off the beam axis, 3) 810 km baseline.
The Near Detector on the Surface is fully functioning and taking both NuMI and Booster beam data. The far detector...
Dr
Robert Byer
(Stanford University)
8/12/11, 8:30 AM
The dielectric laser acceleration (DLA) concept leverages well-established industrial fabrication capabilities and the commercial availability of tabletop lasers to reduce cost, while offering significantly higher accelerating gradients, and therefore a smaller footprint. In contrast to other novel accelerator schemes, desirable luminosities would be obtained by operating with very low charge...
Kevin Pitts
(University of Illinois)
8/12/11, 8:32 AM
We report the latest results of a CDF search for B->mumu decays using 6.9/fb of data.
Doubled statistics with respect to the previous iteration and several analysis improvement provide results that are the most sensitive from a single-experiment to date.
Elisabetta Pianori
(University of Pennsylvania)
8/12/11, 8:39 AM
Searches conducted at the Fermilab Tevatron for the Higgs boson in final states containing tau leptons are reported using data collected at the CDF and D0 experiments. The branching fraction for H-tau+tau is non-negligible for a low-mass standard model Higgs boson. In addition, in channels such as WH and H-WW, a W boson may decay into a final state including a tau lepton. This talk will...
Prof.
Errol Gotsman
(Tel Aviv University)
8/12/11, 8:40 AM
Monte Carlo generators (Pythia and Phojet) which were tuned for energies up to that of the Tevatron, appear to be found wanting when extended
to LHC energies.
We have constructed a model that satisfies the theoretical
requisites of high energy soft interactions, based on two conjectures:
(i) the results of N =4 SYM, which at present is a unique theory
that allows one to deal with a...
Nicholas Raddatz
(University of Minnesota)
8/12/11, 8:40 AM
The NuMI Off-Axis v Appearance (NOvA) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a neutrino source created from the NuMI Beamline at Fermilab. The experiment will study the oscillations of muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos using two functionally identical plastic, liquid scintillator filled detectors placed 14 milliradians off-axis to the NuMI beam. Charged current...
Aram Avetisyan
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/12/11, 8:40 AM
The mass of the top quark is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model. We present a measurements of the top quark mass in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using data collected by the CMS experiment during the year 2011. Measurements are presented in all possible final states originating from top-pair production, and the different reconstruction...
Tulika Bose
(Boston University)
8/12/11, 8:40 AM
We present the latest results of searches for W' bosons using data collected by the CMS experiment.
Dr
Marilena Loverde
(Institute for Advanced Study)
8/12/11, 8:40 AM
Cosmic inflation provides a mechanism for generating the early density perturbations that seeded the large-scale structures we see today. Primordial non-Gaussianity is among the most promising of few observational tests of physics at this epoch. At present non-Gaussianity is best constrained by the cosmic microwave background, but in the near term large-scale structure data may be competitive...
Dr
David Asner
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
8/12/11, 8:50 AM
We report the observation of the h_b(1P) and h_b(1P)p spin-singlet bottomonium states produced in the reaction e^+e^-\to h_b(1P)n\pi^+\pi^- with significances of 5.5\,\sigma and 11.2\,\sigma, respectively. We find that M[h_b(1P)]=(9898.25\pm 1.06^{+1.03}_{-1.07})\,\mathrm{MeV}/c^2 and M[h_b(1P)p]=(10259.76\pm0.64^{+1.43}_{-1.03})\,\mathrm{MeV}/c^2, which correspond to measurements of the...
Mr
Jose Lazo-Flores
(University of Nebraska)
8/12/11, 8:52 AM
The rare decays B_(s,d) ->mumu provide an excellent test of the flavor sector of the Standard Model and provide sensitivity to models of new physics with extended Higgs boson sectors. We report on a search for these decays with the CMS experiment using data taken until Summer 2011.
Patric Muggli
(University of Southern California)
8/12/11, 9:00 AM
The plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) concept is experiencing renewed interest thanks to the recent experimental results that showed that ultrarelativistic electrons can gain as much as 42GeV in only 85cm of plasmas. In the PWFA a short particle bunch drives large amplitude wakefields in a neutral plasma. The wakefields can have a very large longitudinal component (>10GV/m) that leads to...
Dr
Florian Fränkle
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
8/12/11, 9:00 AM
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is a next generation, model independent, large scale experiment to determine the mass of the electron anti-neutrino by investigating the kinematics of tritium beta-decay with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c2. The measurement setup consists of a high luminosity windowless gaseous molecular tritium source (WGTS), a differential and cryogenic pumped...
Yuriy Ilchenko
(Southern Methodist University (SMU))
8/12/11, 9:00 AM
We present measurments of the top quark mass and width obtained using a data sample corresponding to 5.4 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The top quark mass is obtained via the direct reconstruction of the two t-->Wb decays in ttbar events selected in the dilepton+jets+missing transverse energy and lepton+jets+missing transverse...
Prof.
Andrew Zentner
(University of Pittsburgh)
8/12/11, 9:00 AM
Any program to identify dark matter relies on direct detection of dark matter scattering in low-background experiments, collider signatures, and indirect astrophysical signatures of dark matter. I will review contemporary constraints from indirect searches for dark matter. I will then present several new perspectives on the indirect detection of dark matter. First I will focus on the Sun...
Alessandro Camboni
(Universitat de Barcelona)
8/12/11, 9:00 AM
LHCb presents studies of particle production in minimum bias events in pp collisions at $\sqrt(s)$=7 TeV.
These studies include measurements of strangeness production, particle ratios, baryon-antibaryon
ratios and charged particle production. The forward coverage and low $p_T$ acceptance of the
experiment makes these measurements very complementary to those performed by the central...
Prof.
Keisuke Juge
(University of the Pacific)
8/12/11, 9:10 AM
A new algorithm ("stochastic LapH") for computing hadronic correlation functions in Lattice QCD will be presented. Lattice QCD is a framework in which the nonperturbative, first principles computation of hadronic correlation functions is possible. It requires a lattice regulation of QCD in a finite Euclidean space-time where correlation functions are evaluated numerically via Monte-Carlo...
Marc-Olivier Bettler
(Universita e INFN)
8/12/11, 9:12 AM
With the $\sim 1$~fb$^{-1}$ of data expected in the 2011-12 run, LHCb
will achieve the world's best sensitivity to the very rare decay $B_s to \mu^+\mu^-$,
exploring a regime where many models of New Physics predict a signal, and
reaching down towards the Standard Model value for the branching ratio. Results will
be presented from data collected in 2010, and from the early months of the...
Seth Quackenbush
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/12/11, 9:20 AM
We investigate the potential to observe double parton scattering at the LHC in the W b bbar -> e nu b bbar process. Double parton scatterings occur when two partons inside the same hadron each undergo a high scale interaction with two partons of another hadron. The rate for this process is expected to be approximated by the product of the usual single parton distribution functions with...
Amitabha Das
(University of Arizona)
8/12/11, 9:20 AM
We present a measurement of the helicity of the W boson produced in top quark decays using $t\bar{t}$ ~decays in the $\ell+$jets and dilepton final states selected from a sample of 5.4 fb$^{-1}$ of collisions recorded using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider. We measure the fractions of longitudinal and right-handed $W$ bosons to be $f_0 = 0.669 \pm 0.102 \mbox{ } [...
Nathaniel Reden
(Brandeis University)
8/12/11, 9:20 AM
We revisit multidimensional quantum tunneling, as a model for studying the state of the inflaton after a tunneling transition from a false vacuum. Previous approaches to the subject make some technically incorrect assumptions about the validity of the WKB approximation. I will present a new method that avoids these mistakes, in more carefully treating the separation between the tunneling and...
Prof.
Amir Fariborz
(SUNY Institute of Technology)
8/12/11, 9:30 AM
Scalar mesons play important roles in low-energy QCD and are known to be nontrivial states in hadron spectroscopy. Within the context of a generalized linear sigma model that includes two nonets of scalar mesons (a two-quark nonet and a four-quark nonet) and two nonets of pseudoscalar mesons (a two-quark nonet and a four-quark nonet) a collective description of scalar and pseudoscalar mesons...
Gavril Giurgiu
(Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University (JH)
8/12/11, 9:30 AM
Ms
Nassim Bozorgnia
(UCLA)
8/12/11, 9:40 AM
The channeling effect in crystals refers to the orientation dependence of charged ion penetration in crystals. In direct dark matter crystalline detectors, a channeled ion recoiling after a collision with a WIMP gives all its energy to electrons. Thus channeling increases the ionization or scintillation signal expected from a WIMP. Channeling is a directional effect which depends on the...
Michael Andrew Segala
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/12/11, 9:40 AM
We present a measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-pair production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. We use data collected by the CMS experiment during the year 2011. The analysis uses events with one charged lepton and at least four jets. In order to measure the charge asymmetry in charge-symmetric initial state processes, the difference of...
Andrew Gerhart Brandt
(University of Texas at Arlington)
8/12/11, 9:40 AM
The elastic proton-antiproton scattering process is studied as a function of
the four-momentum transfer squared $|t|$ at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV.
Scattered protons and antiprotons are selected by using forward roman pot
detectors that were installed around the D0 interaction point of the Tevatron.
The data presented correspond to a dedicated period of low luminosity running
of...
Frank Avignone
(University of South Carolina)
8/12/11, 9:40 AM
The Demonstrator will comprise two cryostats containing a total of 70,p-type point-contact Ge detectors. The Collaboration is acquiring
45 -kg of Ge enriched to more than 86% in Ge-76. The goal is to have at least 20-kg of enriched germanium in detectors. The remaining space in the cryostats will be occupied by at least 20-kg of natural abundance Ge detectors. The two detector arrays will be...
Dr
Sonny Mantry
(University of Wisconsin at Madison)
8/12/11, 9:42 AM
Theoretical knowledge of the low transverse momentum (pT) distribution of the Higgs boson, plays an important role in search strategies for the Higgs. In the region of low pT, much smaller than the Higgs mass, large logarithms spoil the perturbative expansion and must be resummed. We apply effective field theory techniques and derive a new factorization and resummation formula for the...
Juliette Alimena
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
We report on a search for charged massive long-lived particles (CMLLPs), based on 5.2 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected
with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider. CMLLPs are predicted in many theories of physics
beyond the Standard Model. We look for events in which one or more particles are reconstructed as muons
but have speed and ionization energy loss $dE/dx$...
Dr
Alexandre Vaniachine
(Argonne)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
ATLAS detector is in the second year of the LHC long run. A starting point for ATLAS physics analysis is data reconstruction. Following the prompt reconstruction, the ATLAS data is reprocessed. The reprocessing allows reconstruction of the data with improved software and updated calibrations, which provides the coherence and improves physics quality of the reconstructed data.
The...
Brian Edward Lindquist
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
We present recent BABAR results on charmless hadronic B decays. In particular, we measure the branching fractions, longitudinal polarization fraction f_L and charge asymmetry in B -> rho(f_0) K* events, and report results of studies of B -> phi phi K and B0->K+pi-pi0. We also present the results of a recent study of the inclusive branching fractions of B-meson decays to charmless final...
Prof.
Neeti Parashar
(Purdue University Calumet)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
The present Compact Muon Solenoid silicon pixel tracking system has been designed for a peak luminosity of $10^{34}~\textrm{cm}^{-2} \textrm{s}^{-1}$ and total dose corresponding to two years of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operation. With the steady increase of the luminosity expected at the LHC, a new pixel detector with four barrel layers and three endcap disks is being designed. We will...
Christopher Hearty
(University of British Columbia)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
We present the results of direct searches for light new physics with BABAR. In particular, we describe studies of narrow Upsilon and B decays with sensitivity to possible light pseudoscalar Higgs bosons and invisibly decaying dark matter candidates. We also present results of searches for hidden sector gauge and Higgs bosons.
Dr
Zarko Pavlovic
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
The MiniBooNE experiment is a short baseline experiment designed to test whether the excess of $\bar{\nu}_e$ events observed in the LSND experiment is due to neutrino oscillations. If the LSND signal is due to neutrino oscillations it would imply Physics Beyond the Standard Model such as the existence of sterile neutrinos. In this talk I will briefly discuss the sterile neutrino oscillation...
Dr
Brian Tiburzi
(MIT CTP)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
The study of QCD at finite baryon density is severely hampered by the so-called fermion sign problem. As a result, we have no known first principles approach to study nuclear matter, or neutron stars from QCD. On the surface, the large Nc limit does not seem to simplify matters. In this limit, however, one can exploit dualities that exist between strongly coupled gauge theories. I will focus...
Dr
Haijun Yang
(University of Michigan)
8/12/11, 10:30 AM
I will report on measurement of the WW production cross section
and associated limits on anomalous couplings using LHC proton-proton
collision data collected by the ATLAS Detector at 7 TeV center-of-mass
energy. The production cross section was measured in the WW leptonic
decay channels. Precise measurement of the triple-gauge-boson couplings
is a stringent test of the Standard Model...
Georgia KARAGIORGI
(Columbia University)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
Recent neutrino oscillation results have provoked renewed interest in sterile neutrino models. This talk will review the data from MiniBooNE, MINOS and reactor neutrinos. We incorporate these results as well as new electron neutrino disappearance data into our fits, and expand the model to address matter effects. We discuss how future experiments will resolve the questions that have been raised.
Carter Hall
(University of Maryland)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
Broad overview of applications outside accelerators
Federico Sforza
(INFN Pisa)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
We present a search for WW/WZ diboson production in the lepton plus neutrino plus heavy flavor dijet channel at the CDFII experiment. After successful observation of WW/WZ in the inclusive lepton plus neutrino plus dijet channel, we now focus on the identification of this process in cases where either a W or Z boson decays into one or more heavy flavor quarks. The search uses events with a...
Prof.
Justin Vazquez-Poritz
(New York City College of Technology)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
We use gauge-gravity duality to study the behavior of strongly-coupled quarks moving on a black hole background. The supergravity background consists of a six-dimensional Schwarzschild-black string AdS soliton, for which the bulk horizon is a string that extends from the AdS boundary down to an infra-red floor. By going to higher energy scales, the regime of validity of the classical...
Prof.
Paul Indelicato
(CNRS)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
We have obtained a very accurate proton charge distribution radius by measuring the 2s-2p Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen[1]. The value we found, 0.84184(67)fm is roughly 10 times more accurate than the ones derived from either hydrogen spectroscopy or electron-proton elastic scattering. It is 5 standard deviations away from the CODATA 2008 value 0.8768(69) fm, which combines both types of...
Dr
Robert W Gardner
(University of Chicago)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
DRAFT
We discuss the US ATLAS experience in deploying, integrating and operating a set of distributed computing centers into a single, logical computing facility suitable to meet the simulation and analysis requirements for the first years of LHC physics. Particular attention is paid to the Tier 2 layer in the LHC computing hierarchy, which is a focal point of activity supporting centrally...
Steve Alkire
(Department of Physics-University of Washington)
8/12/11, 10:50 AM
A number of extensions of the Standard Model result in neutral and weakly-coupled particles that decay to multi hadrons or multi leptons with macroscopic decay lengths. These particles with decay lengths that can be comparable with ATLAS detector dimensions represent, from an experimental point of view, a challenge both for the trigger and for the reconstruction capabilities of the ATLAS...
Paul Douglas Sail
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Glasgow)
8/12/11, 10:52 AM
Studies of charmless hadronic decays of B mesons
have high sensitivity to possible contributions from New Physics.
Precision measurements involving these decays with charged hadrons in
the final state are being performed at LHCb,
notably those of CP-violating asymmetries. These measurements benefit from
a trigger system which is very efficient for hadronic final states and
excellent...
Duncan Brown
(CNRS / LPNHE Paris Universities VI and VII)
8/12/11, 10:53 AM
We present a search for a low mass Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV with the CDF and D0 detectors at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The search is performed in events containing one
lepton (electron, muon or tau), an imbalance in the transverse energy, and one or two b-tagged jets with up to 8.5 fb-1 of data. This channel...
Dr
David Webber
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8/12/11, 11:10 AM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
on behalf of the MuLan Collaboration
The Fermi constant, G_F, describes the strength of the weak force and
is determined most precisely from the mean life of the positive muon,
tau_mu. Advances in theory have reduced the theoretical uncertainty on
G_F as calculated from tau_mu to a few tenths of a part per million
(ppm). Until recently, the remaining uncertainty on G_F was...
Dr
Alden Stradling
(UT Arlington)
8/12/11, 11:10 AM
The PanDA Distributed Analysis system has been used in the ATLAS collaboration and beyond as a resilient and scalable distributed processing and analysis system. Using a central pull and distributed push (pilot job) model for task definition and job tracking, it integrates with many kinds of local batch system, data management software, and security models.
One of the principal challenges...
Vivek Jain
(Indiana University)
8/12/11, 11:10 AM
The discovery of a new type of a heavy long-lived particle (LLP) would be of fundamental significance, since no such particles exist in the Standard Model. LLPs are anticipated in a wide range of physics models which extend the Standard Model, such as supersymmetry (SUSY) and universal extra dimensions. Since LLPs produced in the 7 TeV pp collisions at the CERN LHC can be slow (beta<<1) and...
Dr
Lindley Winslow
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
8/12/11, 11:10 AM
From the discovery of the neutrino to the precision neutrino oscillation measurements in KamLAND, nuclear reactors have proven to be an important source of antineutrinos. As their power and our knowledge of neutrino physics has increased, more sensitive measurements have become possible. The next generation of reactor antineutrino experiments require more detailed simulation of the reactor...
Dr
Ho-Ung Yee
(SUNY, Stony Brook)
8/12/11, 11:10 AM
We consider relativistic QCD plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external magnetic field, e.g a chirally symmetric quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
In the presence of net axial charges, there is an induced electromagnetic current along the magnetic field due to triangle anomaly: this is Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). We discuss CME in several...
Mr
Yusheng Wu
(Univ. of Michigan / Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China)
8/12/11, 11:10 AM
We will report on a recent measurement of WZ production cross section and limits on anomalous WWZ couplings using LHC proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS Detector at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy in 2011. The measurement is carried out on the WZ leptonic decay channels yielding three isolated high-pT leptons and large transverse momentum imbalance in the events. The background...
Prof.
David Norvil Brown
(Department of Physics-University of Louisville)
8/12/11, 11:14 AM
We report on recent results of measurements of hadronic B decay branching fractions from BABAR. These results include B0->D(*)0h0 (where h0 is a neutral hadron), B->D(*)D(*)K, B->D(*)ppbar and B->D(*)0Ks0.
Tim Scanlon
(Imperial College/Fermilab)
8/12/11, 11:16 AM
We present a search for a low mass Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson decaying invisibly into a pair of neutrinos at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV with the CDF and D0 detectors at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The final state is characterised by the presence of two b-tagged jets from the Higgs boson decay and a large imbalance in the transverse energy of...
Itzhak Bars
(Univ. Southern California)
8/12/11, 11:30 AM
Einstein's theory of General Relativity and its couplings to matter in 3+1 dimensions can be slightly enlarged with the requirement of a local scale (conformal) symmetry and the corresponding gauge degrees of freedom. This form of the theory, which is a prediction coming from 2T-gravity in 4+2 dimensions, has no dimensionful constants, not even the gravitational constant, and requires all...
Jean-Francois Rajotte
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)
8/12/11, 11:30 AM
Low Energy Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Parallel contribution
The Qweak experiment at Jefferson Lab measures the parity violating
asymmetry of polarized electrons scattering of a proton target at very
low momentum transfer. In the Standard Model, this asymmetry reveals
the proton’s coupling to the neutral vector current, the weak charge.
This value, measured directly for the first time, provides a precision
test of the Standard Model and constrains...
Josh Cogan
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
8/12/11, 11:30 AM
Massive, long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted in several supersymmetry and beyond the Standard Model scenarios. In some cases these heavy objects, if
produced in 7 TeV pp collisions at the CERN LHC, may lose all of their energy and come to rest within the detector volume. We describe the search for gluino
R-hadrons which have been captured within the ATLAS detector volume, particularly...
Prof.
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano
(MIT)
8/12/11, 11:30 AM
Coherent elastic neutrino- and WIMP-nucleus interaction signatures are expected to be quite similar. Next-generation ton-scale dark matter detectors could discover neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering in an underground laboratory. A high intensity pion- and muon- decay-at-rest neutrino source recently proposed for oscillation physics at underground laboratories would provide the neutrinos for...
Mayly Sanchez
(Argonne National Laboratory)
8/12/11, 11:35 AM
The next generation of neutrino experiments will require massive and/or high resolution detectors to reach the sensitivity needed to measure CP violation in the lepton sector and the neutrino mass hierarchy. Recently the Large Area Picosecond Photo Detectors (LAPPD) Collaboration has begun developing new methods to fabricate a 20cm-square thin planar multichannel plate photosensors. The...
Stefania Ricciardi
(Particle Physics-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science)
8/12/11, 11:36 AM
We present studies from the LHCb experiment of decays of the type $h_b \to h_c X$,
where $h_b$ represents a beauty hadron ($B^\pm$, $B^0$ or $\Lambda_b$)
and $h_c$ a charmed hadron ($D^0$, $D(*)^+$, $D_s$ or $\Lambda_c$).
Such decays are important for the determination of the CKM angle $\gamma$,
a key goal of the LHCb physics programme.
We exploit the data accumulated in 2010, and in...
Michael Kirby
(Northwestern University)
8/12/11, 11:39 AM
Searches for the standard model Higgs boson produced with a Z boson are presented based on data from the CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron. In events consistent with the decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair and the Z boson to electrons or muons, 95% credibility level upper limits are set on the ZH production cross section times the H -> b bbar branching ratio. Improved...
Yu Gao
(University of Oregon)
8/12/11, 11:50 AM
Recent observation of a potential a deficit in the anti-neutrino flux measurement at reactor experiments may suggest the possibility of sterile neutrino species with up to eV^2 mass-square scale. The upward neutrinos at the IceCube/DeepCore observatory provide an ideal test of the sterile neutrinos, as the very long distance through the Earth and matter effect allow the sterile species...
Emanuela Barberis
(Department of Physics-Northeastern University)
8/12/11, 11:50 AM
Leptoquarks are hypothetical particles carrying both lepton and quark flavor. They are predicted by Grand Unified Theories, technicolor and composite models among others. Results from the searches for pair production of first and second generation leptoquarks at the CMS experiment with 7 TeV data are presented.
Kalanand Mishra
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
8/12/11, 11:50 AM
We report on the study the diboson production (WW, WZ, ZZ) at CMS based on the data collected during the 2010+2011 running of the LHC.
Prof.
Rex Tayloe
(Dept of Physics, Indiana University)
8/12/11, 11:55 AM
The SciBath prototype detector consists of 90 liters of liquid scintillator
containing 768 wavelength-shifting fibers aligned in a three dimensional grid.
This unique design allows reconstruction of charged particle tracks
in arbitrary directions. While constructed as a prototype
neutrino detector it is also able to detect neutrons in the 1-100MeV range with
O(30%) efficiency and...
Marina Artuso
(Department of Physics-Syracuse University)
8/12/11, 11:58 AM
Shih-Chieh Hsu
(Physics Division-Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
8/12/11, 12:10 PM
A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrts=7TeV using data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is presented. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.02 ifb, 12 candidate events of purely leptonically decaying Z bosons with electrons and/or muons in the final state were observed. The expected background contribution is...
Lidija Zivkovic
(Brown University)
8/12/11, 12:10 PM
We present the results of three searches for new physics in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using up to 5.4 fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We search for hypothetical vector-like quarks which decay into a W or a Z boson and one additional jet, for first generation leptoquarks using the final state with two jets, one electron and missing...
Ian Shipsey
(Purdue/LPC),
Marcel Demarteau
(ANL)
8/12/11, 2:00 PM
Prof.
Albion Lawrence
(Brandeis University)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
Simple inflation models using a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (PNGB) as the inflaton require an axion decay constant at or above the Planck scale. Models which generate potentially observable gravitational waves also require scalar fields with super-Planckian ranges. These models are hard to justify in UV-complete theories. One way around the problem is the phenomenon of "axion monodromy". ...
Christopher Hearty
(University of British Columbia)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
We present a search for the X(3872) produced in B-->psi pi+pi- K and
B-->psi pi+pi-pi0 K (psi=J/psi or psi(2S)) using 427 fb-1 of BaBar data. We present updated mass and width measurements for the Y(4260)--> J/psi pi+pi- produced in Initial State Radiation events using 454 fb-1 of data. We report the study of the B meson decays B+--> J/psi phi K+ and B0--> J/psi phi K_S, and of charged...
Leo Piilonen
(Virginia Tech)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
We present the first evidence for B->D K, D->K^+ pi^- and
measurements of related observables used in the Atwood-Dunietz-Soni
(ADS) method to determine the CKM parameter phi_3 (also known as
gamma). Measurement of related B->D^* K^- modes are also reported.
We report the first measurement of phi_3 using model-independent
analysis of the Dalitz plot of B->D K, D->K_S^0 pi^+ pi^-.
These...
Ivan Heredia De La Cruz
(Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (CINVESTAV))
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
The $\Lambda_{b}(udb)$ baryon is observed in the decay $\Lambda_{b}\to J/\psi \Lambda$ using 6.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions collected with the D0 detector at
$\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV. The production fraction multiplied by the branching fraction for this decay relative to that for the decay $B^{0}\to J/\psi K^{0}_{s}$ is measured to be $0.345 \pm 0.034 \mbox{ (stat.)} \pm 0.033\mbox{...
Waruna Fernando
(Argonne National Lab)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
New Optical Link Technologies for HEP Experiments
B. Fernando, D. Underwood, R. Stanek, P.M. DeLurgio,
High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
D. Lopez, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
As a concern with the reliability and mass of current optical links in
LHC experiments, we are investigating CW lasers and light modulators
as an...
Nathaniel Joseph Pastika
(School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Minnesota)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
The left-right (LR) symmetric model explains the origin of the parity violation in weak interactions and predicts the existence of additional heavy right-handed W and Z' gauge bosons. In addition, heavy right-handed neutrino states arise naturally within the LR symmetric model. These neutrinos can be partners of light neutrino states, related to their non-zero masses through the see-saw...
Dr
Dayong Wang
(Department of Physics-University of Florida)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
Studies of hadron production in pp collisions, including charged particle transverse momentum, pseudorapidity and event-by-event multiplicity distributions at sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV are shown. Measured spectra of identified strange hadrons, reconstructed based on their decay topology, are also presented. Comparisons to several QCD Monte Carlo models and tunes are discussed. Results on...
Roxanne Guenette
(Yale University)
8/12/11, 4:00 PM
The ArgoNeuT project features a 175 liter Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) that was located upstream of the MINOS near detector in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The project is part of the LAr TPC development program in the US and has helped initiate the development of simulation and reconstruction tools for LAr TPCs. In addition to the development goals, ArgoNeuT will...
Bing An Li
(University of Kentucky)
8/12/11, 4:20 PM
A chiral field theory of $0^{-+}$ glueball is presented. The Lagrangian of this theory is constructed
by adding a $0^{-+}$ glueball field to a
successful Lagrangian of chiral field theory of pseudoscalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons.
The couplings between the pseodoscalar glueball field and
the mesons are via U(1) anomaly revealed.
Quantitative study of the physical processes of the...
Ms
Irene Bredberg
(Harvard University)
8/12/11, 4:20 PM
We discuss a mathematically precise realization of suggestions of a holographic duality relating fluids and spacetime horizons which began with the black hole membrane paradigm in the 70's and resurfaced recently in studies of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our explicit construction shows that every solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation can be related to a solution of the vacuum...
Hans Jozef H Van Haevermaet
(Universiteit Antwerpen Physics Department)
8/12/11, 4:20 PM
We present measurements of the forward (3 < |eta| < 5) energy flow in minimum bias events and in events with either hard jets or W and Z bosons produced at central rapidities. Results are compared to MC models with different parameter tunes for the description of the underlying event.
Prof.
Richard Kass
(Ohio State University)
8/12/11, 4:20 PM
RADIATION-HARD ASICS FOR OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION
K.K. GAN*, P. BUCHHOLZ**, H.P. KAGAN*, R.D. KASS*, J.R. MOORE*,
D.S. SMITH*, A. WIESE**, M. ZIOLKOWSKI**
* Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
** Fachbereich Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
The LHC at CERN has successfully reached energies and luminosities beyond previous...
James David Degenhardt
(Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pennsylvania)
8/12/11, 4:20 PM
The ATLAS detector has been used to search for high-mass states decaying into a single high momentum lepton and missing energy, such as new heavy charged gauge bosons. Based on proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV produced at the Large Hadron Collider, the latest search results for a W' decaying to lepton plus neutrino are presented.
Ryan White
(University of South Carolina)
8/12/11, 4:20 PM
We report recent BABAR results of CP violation studies in D+->Ks0pi+, D+ ->Ks0 h+h+h- and tau -> Ks0pinu.
gemma Tinti
(Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Kansas)
8/12/11, 4:22 PM
Measurements performed by the CMS experiment of the cross section for inclusive b-quark production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are presented. The measurements are based on different methods, such as inclusive jet measurements with secondary vertex tagging or selecting a sample of events containing jets and at least one muon, where the transverse momentum of the muon with...
Gennadiy Kukartsev
(Department of Physics-Brown University)
8/12/11, 4:40 PM
Prof.
Louis Clavelli
(University of Alabama)
8/12/11, 4:40 PM
If the string landscape has any validity, the universe has in the past and should in the future make transitions to
other local (or absolute minima). A prime model for the physics of
a future universe is the zero vacuum energy minimal supersymmetric standard model or one
of its variations with all susy breaking terms put to zero. If we assume that this transition is accelerated in dense...
Prof.
K. K.Gan Gan
(The Ohio State University)
8/12/11, 4:40 PM
STUDY OF THE RADIATION-HARDNESS OF VCSEL/PIN
K.K. GAN, H.P. KAGAN, R.D. KASS, H. MERRITT,
J. MOORE, A. NAGARKAR, D.S. SMITH, M. STRANG
Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Optical links are now widely used in high energy physics experiments for data transmission. The links substantially reduce the volume of metallic signal cables freeing up valuable...
Harrison Prosper
(Florida State University)
8/12/11, 6:00 PM
Plenary contribution
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, is the largest scientific instrument ever built. It may alter our perception of the basic laws of Nature. In this talk, I describe why we think, hope, the Large Hadron Collider will tell us something decisive about the frontier of physics and beyond. Potential discoveries may include new forces of nature, new dimensions of space and time, or new...
Prof.
Sheldon Stone
(Department of Physics-Syracuse University)
8/13/11, 8:45 AM
Hassan Jawahery
(Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics Groups)
8/13/11, 9:15 AM
Bill Foster
8/13/11, 9:45 AM
Kirsten Anne Tollefson
(Michigan State University)
8/13/11, 11:00 AM
Aurelio Juste Rozas
(IFAE - Institut de Física d'Altes Energies-Universitat Autònom)
8/13/11, 11:30 AM
Dr
Steve Myers
(CERN)
8/13/11, 12:00 PM
Paul Grannis
(High Energy Group (HEG))
8/13/11, 2:00 PM
Dr
Stephen Holmes
(Fermilab)
8/13/11, 2:30 PM
For 25 years the Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collider was the highest energy collider in the world. This presentation will trace the origins of the Tevatron, the challenges that were overcome in creating high luminosity collisions of protons and antiprotons, the technological achievements that drove performance a factor of 400 beyond the initial performance goals, and the legacy of the Tevatron...
Dr
Pier Oddone
(Fermilab)
8/13/11, 3:00 PM
Barry Barish
(Caltech)
8/13/11, 3:30 PM
Adrian Pope
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Computing in HEP
Parallel contribution
