Phenomenology 2012 Symposium

7 May 2012, 00:15 → 9 May 2012, 18:20 US/Eastern

University of Pittsburgh

LHC Lights the Way to New Physics

The 2012 Phenomenology Symposium will be held May 7-9, 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh.
It will cover the latest topics in particle phenomenology and theory plus related issues in astrophysics and cosmology. Now that the LHC has begun its historic mission, we are all excited about the prospect of new discoveries!

Symposium registration closes April 29.

The plenary program is available now (click here).

PHENO 12 ORGANIZERS: Vernon Barger, Cindy Cercone, Neil Christensen, Lisa Everett, Ayres Freitas, Tao Han (chair), Keith Lee, and Adam Leibovich.

Monday 7 May

07:30 Registration/Breakfast

Plenary I

Convener: Sally Dawson (BNL)

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. David Turnshek (University of Pittsburgh)

2 SM Results from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Corrinne Mills (Harvard University (US))

Slides cmills_SMsummary_PHENO2012.ppt

3 Searches for new physics at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Rahmat Rahmat (University of Mississippi (US))

Slides NewPhysics_Pheno12.pdf

4 Higgs boson searches at CMS

Speaker: Mia Tosi (Universita' degli Studi di Padova e INFN (IT))

Slides 120507_miatosi_CMShiggs.pdf

5 Searches for the Higgs Boson with ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University of Victoria (CA))

Slides PHENO2012-ATLAS_Higgs.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Plenary II

Convener: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

6 Higgs physics at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Dieter Zeppenfeld (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides 6-Zeppenfeld.pdf

7 Where could SUSY be hiding?

Speaker: Csaba Csaki (Cornell University)

Slides Pheno2012Csaki.pdf

8 Strong dynamics in electroweak physics

Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth H. Simmons (Michigan State University)

Slides 8-Simmons.pdf

12:45 Lunch

On your own.

BSM I

Convener: Vladimir Savinov (University of Pittsburgh)

9 Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles at CMS

Speaker: Venkatesh Veeraraghavan (Florida State University (US))

Slides HSCPPheno12.pdf

10 Quark lepton unification in higher dimensions

Speaker: Prof. Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University)

Slides pheno_2012_nandi.pdf

11 Heavy Gauge Boson Decays at the LHC in the Simplest Higgs

Speaker: Matthew Bishara (University of Rochester)

Slides PhenoMay2012.pdf PhenoMay2012.ppt

12 Left-right models and flavor

Speaker: Dr Monika Blanke (Cornell University)

Slides Blanke-Pheno2012.pdf

13 Lepton Number Violation and W' Chiral Couplings at the LHC

Speaker: Richard Ruiz (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides rruiz_2012_Pheno_BMSI.pdf

14 Determination of Spin and Present Bounds on New Resonances in Electroweak Gauge Boson Pair Production at the LHC.

Speaker: J. Gonzalez-Fraile (Universitat de Barcelona)

Slides pheno_gonzalez_fraile.pdf

15 Kinematic Edges with flavor oscillation and non-zero widths

Speaker: Mario Martone

Slides KinematicEdge.pdf

Cosmology

Convener: Jennifer Kile (N)

16 Dark Matter, Infinite Statistics and Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Prof. Djordje Minic (Virginia Tech)

Slides DMatter-IS-SG.pdf

17 Dark Matter as the Trigger of Strong Electroweak Phase Transition

Speaker: Dr Yue Zhang (ICTP, Trieste)

Slides yuezhang_Pheno2012.pdf

18 CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter.

Speaker: Aravind Natarajan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides natarajan_pheno.pdf

19 Dark energy from a renormalization group flow

Speaker: Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

Slides pheno12.pdf

20 Probing alternative theories of gravity with gravitational wave detection from pulsar timing arrays

Speaker: Ms Sydney Chamberlin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Slides Pheno2012Chamberlin.pdf

21 Neutrino Cosmology Redux

Speaker: Prof. Luis Anchordoqui (UWM)

Slides pheno2012-Anchordoqui.pdf

22 Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation as a Test of General Relativity

Speaker: Madeline Wade (U)

Slides Madeline_Wade_Pheno2012.pdf

Flavor I

Convener: Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (University of CHicago)

23 Model Independent Constraints on New Physics in b-->s Transitions

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Fermilab)

Slides altmannshofer_Pheno.pdf

24 Hadronic charmless B decays

Speaker: David Alasdair Dossett (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides Pheno2012-Charmless-DavidDossett.pdf

25 CP Conserving and Violating Observables in the Charmless Three Body B Meson Decays $B \to V P_1 P_2$

Speaker: Murugeswaran Duraisamy (University of Mississippi)

26 Measurement of phi_s

Speaker: Bilas Pal (Syracuse University (US))

Slides phis_bilas.pdf

27 Search for New Physics with exclusive electroweak FCNC decays of B(s) mesons.

Speaker: Gregory Max Ciezarek (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides FCNCb.pdf

28 The Z' contribution in the Bs meson mixing and the recent LHCb result

Speaker: Dr Seodong Shin (Seoul National University)

Slides pheno2012_shin.pdf

29 Soft Photon Contributions to $B_s \rightarrow \mu \bar{\mu}$

Speaker: Kristopher Healey (Wayne State University)

Slides Pheno_KJHealey_Final.pdf

Higgs I

Convener: Tong Li

30 Pseudo-Higgs signals at LHC

Speaker: Dr Linda Carpenter (UC Irvine)

31 A 125 GeV Higgs Boson in the MSSM from Strongly Coupled Spectators

Speaker: Jason Evans (IPMU, The University of Tokyo)

Slides Pheno2012.pdf

32 Can the scale-invariant NMSSM naturally give higgs mass of 125 GeV?

Speaker: Yanou Cui (University of Maryland)

Slides nmssmh_PHENO12.pdf

33 Dark Z implications for Parity Violation, Rare Meson Decays, and Higgs Physics

Speaker: Dr Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)

Slides Davoudiasl_DarkZ_Pheno12.pdf

34 Enhanced SU(2) D-term and Higgs Diphoton Decay Branching Ratio

Speaker: Ran Huo (University of Chicago)

Slides huor_SU(2).pdf

35 LHC Discovery Potential for Non-Standard Higgs Bosons in the 3b Channel

Speaker: Dr Arjun Menon (University of Oregon)

Slides pheno12.pdf

36 The Dark Side of the Higgs

Speaker: Dr Gabe Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Pheno_2012.pdf

37 Top Decays with Flavor Changing Neutral Higgs Interactions at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Chung Kao (University of Oklahoma)

Slides Pheno12_Kao.pdf

SM/EW

Convener: Stefano Di Chiara (CP3-Origins, Southern Denmark University)

38 Jet Production Measurements with ATLAS

Speaker: Trisha Farooque (University of Toronto (CA))

Slides Jet_Production_at_ATLAS.pdf Jet_Production_at_ATLAS.pptx

39 Study of the di-jet mass spectrum in association with a W boson

Speaker: Dr Jake Anderson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)

Slides Pheno2012JacobAnderson.pdf

40 W/Z production and properties

Speaker: Mr Anton Kapliy (University of Chicago (US))

Slides W_and_Z_physics_at_ATLAS.pdf

41 Physics with electroweak gauge bosons at LHCb

Speaker: Philip James Ilten (University College Dublin (IE))

Slides presentation.pdf

42 Diboson production and TGCs from ATLAS

Speaker: Laura Jeanty (Harvard University (US))

Slides jeanty_dibosonsATLAS_Pheno2012.pdf

43 Diboson physics at CMS

Speaker: Irakli Svintradze (Kansas State University (US))

Slides Svintradze_Pheno_2012.pdf

44 Measurement of Drell-Yan Cross Section

Speaker: Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Purdue University (US))

Slides PHENO2012_asvyatko_v2.pdf

45 Direct Photons at ATLAS

Speaker: Regina Caputo (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Slides

• Caputo-DirectPhoton.pdf
• Caputo-DirectPhoton.pptx
• Caputo-Pheno2012-DirectPhotons.pdf

SUSY I

Convener: Felix Yu (Fermilab)

46 Inclusive searches for supersymmetric signatures with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Devin Harper (University of Michigan (US))

Slides harper_pheno2012.pdf

47 A Search for New Physics in Events with Jets and Missing Energy in pp Collisions at 7 TeV

Speaker: Hongxuan Liu (Baylor University (US))

Slides PHENO_2012_talk_final.pdf

48 Searches for third generation squarks with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Bart Butler (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides 5-7-2012_PHENO2012_third-generation_squark_searches.pdf

49 Search for long-lived massive particles with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Christopher Marino (University of Victoria (CA))

Slides Pheno_2012.pdf

50 Search for Supersymmetry in Events with Photons and Missing Transverse Energy

Speaker: Yueh-Feng Liu (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Slides Pheno_2012_Yueh-Feng_Liu.pdf

51 Measuring Particle Masses From Missing Energy Signatures without Using Missing Energy

Speaker: Michael Park (Rutgers)

52 Boosted Tops from Gluino Decays

Speaker: Michael Saelim (Cornell University)

Slides SaelimPheno2012.pdf

53 Finding Light Stops with Fat Jets

Speaker: Dr Stolarski Daniel (Maryland and Johns Hopkins)

Slides pheno2012.pdf

Top I

Convener: Brian Yencho (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

54 Top quark pair production cross‐section with ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Dustin Henry Urbaniec (Columbia University (US))

Slides talk.pdf

55 Squeezed new physics in top-quark pair production

Speaker: Dr Susanne Westhoff (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

Slides westhoff.pdf

56 The Forward-Backward Top Asymmetry in a Singlet Extension of the MSSM

Speaker: Alejandro de la Puente (University of Notre Dame)

Slides PHENO2012_v1.pdf

57 Tevatron Top A_FB versus LHC Top Physics

Speaker: Dr Ian-Woo Kim (University of Michigan)

Slides IWKIM_PHENO2012.pdf

58 Parity violation constraints on top forward-backward asymmetry

Speaker: Sean Tulin (U)

Slides pheno12.pdf

59 Top Pair Forward-Backward Asymmetry from Loops of New Strongly Coupled Quarks

Speaker: Thomas McElmurry (University of Rochester)

Slides McElmurry.pdf

60 On W+4 jets background to the top-quark asymmetry at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Yoshitaro Takaesu (KEK)

Slides yoshitaro_takaesu_pdf.pdf yoshitaro_takaesu.ppt

61 MSSM loop effects to top-quark pair observables at Hadron colliders

Speaker: Stefan Berge (J)

Slides berge_07.05.2012.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

BSM II

Convener: Stefania Gori

62 Limits on the pions of strong dynamics models from LHC Higgs searches

Speaker: Ms Jing Ren (Michigan State University)

Slides StrongDynamicsScalarSearch_JingRenMay7.pdf

63 Technicolor Assisted Leptogenesis with an Ultra-Heavy Higgs Doublet

Speaker: Ian Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides ILpheno2012.pdf

64 Z1 production via Vector Boson Fusion at the LHC in the four-site Higgsless Model

Speaker: Andrew Stump (University of Rochester)

Slides stumppheno12.pdf stumppheno12.ppt

65 Search for contact interactions in the dimuon final state at CMS

Speaker: sowjanya gollapinni (wayne state university)

Slides PHENO2012.pdf

66 Higgs and ttbarh productions as a probe of effective operators involving the top or the Higgs boson

Speaker: Dr Celine Degrande (UIUC/UCL)

Slides htthpres.pdf

67 Searching for New Physics with Electroweak Effective Operators

Speaker: Harrison Mebane (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Slides pheno12.pdf

68 Low-energy imprints of extended gauge symmetries

Speaker: Michal Malinsky (IFIC/CSIC and University of Valencia)

Slides Malinsky-Pittsburgh.pdf

DM I

69 Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics

Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Hawaii)

Slides Pheno-2012-DDM1.pdf

70 Dark matter in 3D

Speaker: sonia el hedri (SLAC)

Slides talkPheno.pdf

71 KeV Warm Dark Matter and Composite Neutrinos

Speaker: Dean Robinson (Cornell University)

Slides WDM_Neutrinos.pdf

72 Novel Astrophysical Constraint on Axion-Photon Coupling

Speaker: Maurizio Giannotti (Barry University)

Slides MGiannotti_Pheno_2012.pdf

73 Dark Matter Direct Search Rates in Simulations of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Stream

Speaker: Chris Purcell (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides purcell_pheno2012.pdf

74 Millicharged Atomic Dark Matter

Speaker: Zuowei Liu (McGill)

Slides pheno.pdf

75 Dark Matter Considerations in the E(6)SSM

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Hall (University of Southampton)

Slides hall.pdf

76 WIMPless dark matter in Anomaly Mediated SUSY breaking

Speaker: Vikram Rentala (U)

Slides rentala_PHENO.pdf

Extra Dimensions

Convener: Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)

77 Quantum Corrections in the 5D (Supersymmetric) Space

Speaker: Dr Lu-Xin Liu (National Institute for Theoretical Physics/University of the Witwatersrand)

Slides Quantum_Corrections7.pdf

78 Chiral Symmetry in Holographic QCD

Speaker: Dylan Albrecht

Slides chisym_hqcd.pdf

79 The Birds and the Bs in RS: the b to s gamma penguin in a warped extra dimension

Speaker: Philip Tanedo (Cornell University)

Slides The b to s gamma penguin in Randall Sundrum models.

80 Constraining Fermion Bulk Mass in Flat Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Guiyu Huang (U)

Slides SUEDmuPheno.old.pdf SUEDmuPheno.pdf

81 Phenomenology of the Soft Wall

Speaker: Mr Bryan Ostdiek (University of Notre Dame)

Slides PhenomenologyOfTheSoftWall.pdf

82 An Explicit Model of Dynamical Dark Matter from Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Hawaii)

Slides Pheno-2012-DDM2.pdf

83 TeV scale gravity at the LHC

Speaker: Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)

Slides Pheno_2012.pdf

84 It is a Graviton! or maybe not

Speaker: Dr Ricky Fok (York University)

Slides graviton_Pheno2012.pdf

Flavor II

Convener: Ms Susanne Westhoff (Universitaet Karlsruhe)

85 Charm mixing and CPV

Speaker: Artur Ukleja (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

Slides 20120507_AU_Pittsburgh_CharmMixingAndCPVatLHCb.pdf

86 New Physics Models of Direct CP Violation in Charm Decays

Speaker: Reinard Primulando (College of William and Mary)

Slides Primulando_Pheno2012.pdf

87 Direct CP-violation in charmed meson decays

Speaker: Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

Slides Pheno2012.pdf

88 CP asymmetries in $D^0 \to 2$ Pseudoscalar decays

Speaker: Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (University of CHicago)

Slides Pheno.2012.pdf

89 Hadronic B decays to Open Charm

Speaker: michael williams

Slides talk-1.pdf

90 Search for New Physics with rare leptonic decays of B(s), D and K mesons.

Speaker: Xabier Cid Vidal (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Slides xabier_cid_rare_leptonic_decays_pheno12.pdf

91 Flavor SU(3) Analysis of D-meson Decays

Speaker: Patipan Uttayarat

Slides talk_pheno.pdf

92 Heavy Flavour Production and Spectroscopy

Speaker: Jianchun Wang (Syracuse University (US))

Slides wang_pheno2012.pdf

Higgs II

Convener: Mr Gabe Shaughnessy Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin)

93 Characterization of a single-produced Resonance at the LHC: Prospects for 2012 and Beyond

Speaker: Andrew James Whitbeck (Johns Hopkins University (US))

Slides PHENOworkshopTalk_August2011.pdf

94 Can we see a light Higgs in WW* ?

Speaker: Joshua Sayre (University of Oklahoma)

Slides pheno2012.pdf pheno2012.ps

95 Higgs Hunting with Boosted Jets

Speaker: Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides BoostedHiggs.pdf

96 Physics with Tau Lepton Final States in ATLAS

Speaker: Marcus Matthias Morgenstern (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

Slides Talk.pdf

97 Higgs and Precision Electroweak Data

Speaker: Brian Batell

Slides batell.pdf

98 Measuring Higgs Couplings

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

Slides pheno_12.pdf

99 Jet scaling for vetos in Higgs searches

Speaker: Dr Erik Gerwick (Universität Göttingen)

Slides talk_eg.pdf

100 Higgs Hunting with Minimal Prejudice

Speaker: Jamison Galloway (Rome La Sapienza)

Slides Pheno.pdf

SUSY II

Convener: Sogee Spinner

101 pMSSM SUSY Without Prejudice at LHC-7 & -8

Speaker: Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

Slides PHENO-5-12.pdf

102 More pMSSM SUSY Without Prejudice at LHC-7 and -8

Speaker: Ahmed Ismail (SLAC/Stanford)

Slides pheno12.pdf

103 Phenomenology of Natural SUSY

Speaker: Prof. Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)

Slides pheno12.pdf

104 Natural Supersymmetry Constraints from Dark Matter

Speaker: Bibhushan Shakya

Slides Bibhushan_Shakya_Pheno12.pdf

105 Constraints on Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors

Speaker: Dr Andrew Spray (TRIUMF)

Slides spray-pheno.pdf

106 LHC Implications for NMSSM

Speaker: Zhen Liu

Slides zlPheno12.pdf

107 The CMSSM and the NUHM in Light of new LHC Limits

Speaker: Enrico Maria Sessolo (NCBJ, Warsaw)

Slides PHENO12_07may12.pdf

Top II

Convener: Thomas McElmurry (University of Rochester)

108 Top Quark Pair Properties with ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Venkat Kaushik (University of Arizona (US))

CDS record https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1444887

Slides ATL-COM-PHYS-2012-465.pdf

109 Azimuthal Correlations in Top Pair Decays and the Effects of New Heavy Scalars

Speaker: Brian Yencho (Universitat de Barcelona)

Slides yencho.pdf

110 Massive Spin-2 States as the Origin of the Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry

Speaker: Christopher W. Murphy (University of California, San Diego)

Slides ChristopherWMurphy_pheno2012.pdf

111 One-loop Helicity Amplitudes for Top Quark Pair Production in Randall-Sundrum Model

Speaker: Mr Liang Dai (self)

Paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.2243v2.pdf

Slides Pheno2012Dai.pdf

112 The Top Quark Forward Backward Asymmetry, Right Handed Charge Currents, and Vub

Speaker: Mr Peter Winslow (UBC/TRIUMF)

Slides Pheno2012Talk_Version4.pdf

113 GUT-Inspired Scalar Models and the ttbar Forward-Backward Asymmetry

Speaker: David Stone (UCSD)

Slides phenoTalk.pdf

Tuesday 8 May

07:30 Breakfast

Plenary III

Convener: Prof. Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)

114 Physics results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Victor Eduardo Bazterra (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

Slides TevatronPheno2012V3.pdf

115 Higgs searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Wei-Ming Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides SMH_Tevatron_Pheno2012.pdf

116 Recent LHCb Results

Speaker: Sajan Easo (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides LHCb-Results-Pheno-2012.pdf LHCb-Results-Pheno-2012.pptx

117 Flavor physics in the LHC era

Speaker: David London (U)

Slides PHENO.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Plenary IV

Convener: Prof. Kaoru Hagiwara

118 An experimental overview of neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Prof. Eric D. Zimmerman (University of Colorado)

Slides pheno12zimmerman.pdf

119 Measurement of theta13 with reactor electron-antineutrino disappearance

Speaker: Wei Wang (College of William and Mary)

Slides 5-Wei.pdf

120 Probing new physics in neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Pheno12_Babu.pdf Pheno12_Babu.ppt

121 Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Speaker: Prof. JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)

Slides 7-Hewett.pdf

12:50 Lunch

On your own.

DM II

Convener: Prof. Arthur Kosowsky (University of Pittsburgh)

122 Recent results from a search for Dark Matter production in the CMS experiment

Speaker: Shruti Shrestha (Kansas State University)

Slides DM_Talk_phenom_v1.pdf

123 Taking a Razor to Dark Matter Parameter Space at the LHC

Speaker: Ms Chiu-Tien Yu (UW-Madison/Fermilab)

Slides pheno12_razor.ppt

124 Using M_T2 to Distinguish Dark Matter Stabilization Symmetries

Speaker: Mr Doojin Kim (University of Maryland)

Slides DoojinKim_PHENO2012.pdf

125 Cracking the dark matter code at the LHC

Speaker: Won Sang Cho (University of Tokyo, IPMU)

Slides Pheno_2012___wonsangcho.pdf

126 Kinematic Cusps to determine the slepton and LSP masses at the ILC

Speaker: Stefanus Stefanus

Slides 5_-_Stef.pdf

127 Iso-spin violating dark matter at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Toshifumi Yamada (University of Tokyo)

128 Searching for super-WIMPs in leptonic heavy meson decays

Speaker: Aditya Yechan Gunja (W)

Slides YGAdityaPHENO2012.pdf

129 Inelastic Dark Matter and Small Majorana Neutrino Mass

Speaker: Bhupal Dev (U)

Slides dev_pheno12.pdf

GUT/String

Convener: Ian-Woo Kim (University of Michigan)

130 Some curious consequences of the minimal length uncertainty relation

Speaker: Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)

Slides 20120508Pheno-takeuchi.pdf 20120508Pheno-takeuchi.ppt

131 String Theory Predictions for The Higgs Boson Mass and Dark Matter

Speaker: Ran Lu (University of Michigan (US))

Slides pheno2012.svg

132 Insensitive Unification of Gauge Couplings

Speaker: Radovan Dermisek

Slides Pheno_2012_talk.pdf

133 Symmetry breaking in 5D SU(6) GUT

Speaker: Dr L.T. Handoko (Group for Theoretical and Computational Physics LIPI)

134 SU(6) GUT breaking on a Projective Plane

Speaker: Archana Anandakrishnan (The Ohio state University)

Slides pheno_talk.pdf

135 Astronomical Searches for Warped Extra Spatial Dimensions

Speaker: Prof. Michael Kavic (Long Island University)

Slides pheno.pdf pheno.pptx

136 Holographic walking technicolor and stability of technibranes

Speaker: Prof. Tonnis Ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Slides pheno12.pdf

Higgs III

Convener: Dr Andreas Ross (Carnegie Mellon University)

137 Associated Higgs plus vector boson test of a fermiophobic Higgs boson

Speaker: Prof. Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides ZS_Pheno12.pdf

138 Light top partners for a light composite Higgs

Speaker: Giuliano Panico (ETH Zurich)

Slides Panico_Pheno2012.pdf

139 Discovering the composite Higgs through the decay of a heavy fermion

Speaker: natascia vignaroli (i)

Slides vignaroli.pdf

140 A composite Higgs at high q^2

Speaker: Prof. Heather Logan (Carleton U.)

Slides mchm.pdf

141 Structure of derivarive interactions in N pseudo Nambu Goldstone Higgs doublet models

Speaker: Dr Yasuhiro Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo)

Slides 1205pheno.pdf

142 The other Higgses, at resonance, in the Lee-Wick extension of the Standard Model

Speaker: Dr Terrance Figy (The University of Manchester)

Slides Pheno2012_TerranceFigy.pdf

143 Higgs and Collider Phenomenology of Models with Additional Lepton Generations

Speaker: Dr Pedro Schwaller (Argonne/UIC)

Slides 2012-pheno_leptons-higgs.pdf

QCD/Tools

Convener: Ryan Gavin (University of Wisconsin)

144 Update on MG5

Speaker: olivier mattelaer (ucl)

Slides 12_05_09_PHENO12_MG5.pdf

145 FEWZ: A Fully Exclusive Numerical Code for QCD and EW Correction to Drell-Yan Process

Speaker: Ye Li (Northwestern University)

Slides Pheno2012.pdf

146 Weak boson production via vector-boson fusion @ NLO matched with POWHEG

Speaker: Franziska Schissler (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides pheno.pdf

147 Correlations in Double Parton Scattering

Speaker: Wouter Waalewijn (UCSD)

Slides dps_pheno.pdf

148 Strange Quark PDFs and Implications for W/Z Boson Production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Aleksander Kusina (Southern Methodist University)

Slides kusina_Pheno2012.pdf

149 MadGolem: Automating NLO calculations for New Physics

Speaker: Dr David Lopez-Val (Heidelberg University)

Slides lopezval.pdf

150 Automatic Lagrangian Generation

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Setzer (University of Granada)

Slides model_builder.pdf

SUSY III

Convener: James Gainer (ANL/ Northwestern)

151 Collider signatures of goldstini in gauge mediation

Speaker: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Slides pheno12_mawatari.pdf

152 LHC Signatures of Light Gauginos in String Motivated Models

Speaker: Mr Bob Zheng (University of Michigan)

Slides Pheno_2012-Bob_Zheng.pdf

153 Higgs and Sparticle Spectroscopy in Yukawa Unified Models

Speaker: Shabbar Raza (U)

Slides shabbar_pheno12.pdf

154 125 GeV Higgs Boson from t-b-tau Yukawa Unification

Speaker: Dr Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)

Slides pheno-12.pdf

155 The Higgs to gamma-gamma rate as a probe of Susy

Speaker: Dr Stefania Gori (The University of Chicago)

Slides TalkPheno.pdf

156 MSSM Higgs Signals in Pair Production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Tong Li (University of Delaware)

Slides pheno2012-tli.pdf (Protected)

157 Stoponia and Higgs Bosons

Speaker: Andrew Blechman

Slides PHENO2012-blechman.pdf

158 BEST: Bi-Event Subtraction Technique, SUSY Mediation Schemes, and Stop/Top/W Masses at the LHC

Speaker: Kuver Sinha (Texas A&M University)

Slides KuverSinhaPHENO2012.pdf

SUSY V

Convener: Andrew Spray (TRIUMF)

159 A Naturally Attractive Supermodel

Speaker: Dr Timothy Cohen (SLAC)

Slides Cohen_ANaturallyAttractiveSupermodel_PHENO2012.pdf

160 Displaced Supersymmetry

Speaker: Prashant Saraswat (Stanford University)

Slides Displaced_SUSY_(Pheno).pdf Displaced_SUSY_(Pheno).pptx

161 Excluding Electroweak Baryogenesis in the MSSM

Speaker: Prerit Jaiswal (Stony Brook University)

Slides Prerit_Pheno2012.pdf

162 Supersymmetric Non-Linear Sigma Model in 5 Dimensional Anti-de Sitter Space

Speaker: Jingsheng Li (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides JLi_Pheno2012.pdf JLi_Pheno2012.pptx

163 Vectorlike quarks in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides Martin.pdf

164 The Focus Point for Non-Zero A

Speaker: David Sanford (UCI)

Slides Pheno-2012-Sanford.pdf

165 SUSY Breaking in S-Confining Theories

Speaker: John Mason (Western State College of Colorado)

Slides PHENO2012_Mason.pdf

166 TBA

Speaker: Azar Mustafayev (University of Minnesota)

Slides pheno12.pdf

Top III

Convener: Chuan-Ren Chen (University of Tokyo)

167 Search for Fourth Generation Top-Like Quarks in the Lepton-plus-Jets Channel at CMS

Speaker: Michael Luk

Slides pheno-mmhl.pdf

168 Single- vs multiple-Higgs production: a portal on heavy top-partners

Speaker: Dr Elisabetta Furlan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides 02_Furlan.pdf

169 Studying hadronically decaying particles using photons and leptons

Speaker: Yevgeny Kats (Rutgers University)

Slides colored-particles-Pheno-2012.pdf

170 Multi-lepton signals from the top-prime quark at the LHC

Speaker: Mathew McCaskey

Slides McCaskey_Pheno2012.pdf

171 Diquark effect on single top production at LHC

Speaker: Santosh Rai

Slides skrai_pheno2012.pdf

172 Measuring Coloron Couplings Through Associated Production with W Bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Pawin Ittisamai (Michigan State University)

Slides Pheno12-Pawin_Ittisamai-May8.pdf

173 Effects of an Extended Color Sector on gg -> h

Speaker: Roberto Vega-Morales (Northwestern University)

Slides Pheno.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

DM III

Convener: Vikram Rentala (U. Arizona)

174 Vector Boson dark matter at the LHC

Speaker: Subhaditya Bhattacharya (UCR)

Slides vbdm-pheno-final.pdf

175 Dark Matter From Weak Polyplets

Speaker: Dr Jennifer Kile (Northwestern University)

Slides pheno12.pdf

176 Multipurpose Monojets: Dark Matter and Neutrinos at the LHC

Speaker: Ian Shoemaker (L)

177 A model-independent analysis of dark matter direct detections

Speaker: Yiming Xu (Boston University)

Slides DM-EFT-presentation.pdf

178 New Phenomenology from Dark Sectors

Speaker: Felix Yu (Fermilab)

Slides Mixed_DM_FY.pdf

179 Oscillating Asymmetric Dark Matter.

Speaker: Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)

Slides 2012Pheno.pdf

180 Asymmetric Dark Matter in a Stueckelberg Extension

Speaker: Gregory Peim (Northeastern University)

Slides peim_pheno_2012.pdf

181 Singlet-Doublet Dark Matter

Speaker: Jack Kearney (Harvard University (US))

Slides jkearney_singletdoubletdm_pheno2012.pdf

Neutrino

Convener: Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

182 Phenomenology of Two Sterile Neutrinos with Widely Separated Masses

Speaker: Samuel McDermott

Slides s_d_mcdermott.pdf

183 Model independent determination of the axial mass in quasielastic neutrino-nucleon scattering

Speaker: Prof. Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

Slides Pheno_2012_Gil_Paz.pdf

184 A "Grand" Delta(96) Flavor Symmetry and a Large Prediction for the Reactor Neutrino Mixing Angle

Speaker: Dr Alexander Stuart (University of Southampton)

Slides Pheno12_Alex_Stuart.pdf

185 Lepton Private Higgs and the discrete group \Sigma(81)

Speaker: Yoni BenTov (U)

Slides sig81_talk.pdf

186 Corrections to the atmospheric neutrino mixing from charged Higgs and $W'$ contribution to $ν_τ$-nucleon scattering

Speaker: Mr Ahmed Rashed (University of Mississippi)

Paper Pheno2012.pdf

187 Measurement of theta13 via antineutrino disappearance using two theories

Speaker: Leonard S Kisslinger (Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides Pheno2012-5-1-12.pdf

Open

QCD II

Convener: Wouter Waalewijn (UCSD)

188 NLO+PS predictions for Wjj production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix

Slides frederix.pdf

189 NLO QCD corrections to pp/ppbar -> WWbb with leptonic W decays

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

Slides wwbb_pheno12.pdf

190 NLO predictions for a Z boson + photons final states at hadron colliders

Speaker: Heribertus Hartanto (Florida State University)

Slides bayu_talk.pdf

191 NLO QCD effects on quark compositeness search at LHC

Speaker: Dr Jun Gao (Southern Methodist University)

Slides compositeness_JunGao.pdf

192 Combination of Electroweak and QCD Effects to Charged and Neutral Current Drell Yan

Speaker: Dr Cathy Bernaciak (Universitat Heidelberg)

Slides pheno12.pdf

193 Discovering Technicolor

Speaker: Stefano Di Chiara (CP3-Origins, Southern Denmark University)

Slides DiChiara_-_Discovering_TC.pdf

194 Tracking the Identities of Boosted Particles

Speaker: Zhenyu Han (Harvard University)

Slides pheno2012_zhenyu_han.pdf

SUSY IV

Convener: Linda Carpenter (UC Irvine)

195 Direct stau production at the LHC

Speaker: Jonas Lindert

Slides JL_Pheno12.pdf

196 Significance of a Possible 125 GeV Higgs on the Light Stop Sector

Speaker: Jonathan Eckel (University of Arizona)

Slides stop_talk_final.pdf

197 Improved search of light third-generation squarks

Speaker: Sunghoon Jung (University of Chicago)

Slides light-third_Sunghoon.pdf

198 Impact of LHC Searches on a Light Top Squark: Model-Independent Analysis

Speaker: Bin He (University of Delaware)

Slides hb.pdf

199 Trilepton Signatures in the General MSSM

Speaker: Dr James Gainer (ANL/ Northwestern)

Slides pheno-talk-gainer.pdf

200 Sqrt(shat) resurrected

Speaker: Tania Robens (TU Dresden)

Slides trobens_pheno12.pdf

201 Lepton Flavor Violation at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Abram Krislock

Slides lfvAtPheno.pdf

SUSY VI

Convener: Timothy Cohen (SLAC)

202 Searches for direct supersymmetric gaugino production and R-parity violation in final states with leptons with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Hideki Okawa (University of California Irvine (US))

Slides okawa_pheno2012.pdf

203 SUSY with Broken Baryon Number: Higgs and the LHC

Speaker: Dr Sogee Spinner (SISSA)

Slides Broken_B_and_SUSY.pdf

204 R symmetry as lepton number

Speaker: Ms Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)

Slides claudia.frugiuele.pdf

205 Spontaneous R-symmetry Breaking with Multiple Pseudomoduli

Speaker: Yuhsin Tsai (LEPP, Cornell University)

Slides MultiPM_Pheno.pdf

206 Automated sgluon pair production to NLO

Speaker: Dorival Goncalves Netto (Heidelberg University)

Slides dori_pheno12.pdf

207 NLL soft and Coulomb resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC.

Speaker: Christopher Wever (ITF, Utrecht University)

Slides ChrisPheno2012.pdf ChrisPheno2012.pptx

208 SCET improved SUSY search

Speaker: xiaohui liu (ANL and NORTHWESTERN UNIV.)

Slides pheno2012_x_liu.pdf

Top IV

Convener: Mathew McCaskey

209 Top Quark Properties with ATLAS

Speaker: Arely Cortes Gonzalez (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

Slides PHENO2012_Arely.pdf

210 Search of new physics in the top quark sector at CMS

Speaker: Victor Eduardo Bazterra (Physics Department)

Slides CMSPheno2012v3.pdf

211 Measurements of single top quark production with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Mr Robert Calkins (Northern Illinois University (US))

Slides calkinsPheno2012.pdf

212 Top quark forward-backward asymmetry and single-top

Speaker: Chuan-Ren Chen (Argonne National Lab)

Slides AFB_ST_pheno12.pdf

213 New Physics from the Top at the LHC

Speaker: Chien-Yi Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides 5_chen.pdf

214 Boosted tops as a window to new physics

Speaker: Dr Michihisa TAKEUCHI (Uni Heidelberg)

Slides Pheno_20120508.pdf

215 Reach for W' Production through Single Top Decay at LHC

Speaker: Daniel Duffty (I)

Slides Wp_Presentation.pdf

216 Top quark forward-backward asymmetry and W^prime bosons

Speaker: HAO ZHANG (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides pheno2012.key

Banquet

Wednesday 9 May

08:00 Breakfast

Plenary V

Convener: Prof. Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)

217 Physics from ALICE

Speaker: Jorn Henning Putschke (Yale University (US))

Slides putschke_alice_pheno12.key putschke_alice_pheno12.pdf

218 Perturbative QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Zvi Bern (Univ. of California Los Angeles (US))

Slides pheno12.pdf

219 Physics results from Fermi-GLAST

Speaker: Steve Ritz (UC Santa Cruz)

Slides 3-Ritz.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Plenary VI

Convener: Prof. Xerxes Tata (University of Hawaii)

220 Astroparticle Physics in the New Era

Speaker: Suzanne Staggs (Princeton)

Slides 4-Staggs.pdf

221 Theory and Phenomenology of Dark Matter

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

Slides 5-Zurek.key

222 Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics

Speaker: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)

Slides phenomenology_2012.pdf phenomenology_2012.pptx

12:45 Symposium sponsored visit to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Art

End of Conference.