Chicago 2012 workshop on LHC physics

from Wednesday, 2 May 2012 (08:30) to Friday, 4 May 2012 (17:30)
Gleacher Center - University of Chicago (300)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 May 2012
3 May 2012
4 May 2012
AM
08:30
Welcome - Edward Blucher (Enrico Fermi Institute) (until 08:40) (300)
08:40
Jets - Richard Hill John Campbell Sabine Lammers (until 12:00) (300)
08:50 Theoretical uncertainty on cross-sections in jet bins, including new matched NLO+PS and SCET-based techniques - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)   (300)
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09:10 Double parton scattering - Dmitry Bandurin (Florida State University (US))   (300)
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09:25 Double parton scattering - Dr Ed Berger (Argonne National Laboratory (US))   (300)
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09:40 Background rejection techniques in measurements with jets - Alexander Paramonov (High Energy Physics Division)   (300)
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10:00 --- Coffee Breack ---
10:30 QCD analyses for MC tuning and interesting observables - Thomas Le Compte (High Energy Physics Division)   (300)
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10:50 Status of MC event generators - Stefan Hoeche (University of Zurich)   (300)
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11:10 Interplay between EW and QCD corrections - Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)   (300)
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11:30 Jet uncertainties and measurements - Ricardo Eusebi (Texas A & M University)   (300)
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11:50 Discussion   (300)
08:30
EWK measurements - Paul Langacker Cecilia Gerber Heidi Schellman (until 10:00) (300)
08:30 The current status of EW - including W mass, Z(AFB), possibly dibosons, and production mechanisms. - Mark Lancaster (University College London (UK)) Mark Lancaster (UCL)   (300)
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09:15 Future of electroweak physics at the LHC - Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)   (300)
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10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Top - Mel Shochet Aaron Pierce Cecilia Gerber (until 12:00) (300)
10:30 Studies of Top Quark Production at the LHC - Christopher Neu (Department of Physics)   (300)
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11:00 Studies of Top Quark Decay at the LHC - Kevin Black (Boston University)   (300)
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11:30 New physics in top production and decay - Jure Zupan (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))   (300)
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08:30
Higgs - El Carlos Wagner Mark Oreglia Ben Kilminster (until 10:00) (208)
08:30 H->bb searches - Kyle Knoepfel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)   (208)
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08:50 H->gamgam searches - Vladimir Rekovic (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))   (208)
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09:10 H->WW, H->ZZ searches - Antonio Boveia (University of Chicago)   (208)
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09:30 Higgs Identity - Ian Low (Argonne National Lab/Northwestern Univ)   (208)
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10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Tau - Tao Han Sarah Demers (until 12:00) (208)
10:30 It's All About Tau's - Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)   (208)
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11:00 CMS Physics Results with Tau Final States - Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin (US))   (208)
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11:30 ATLAS physics results with tau final states - Zofia Czyczula Rudjord (Yale University (US))   (208)
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PM
12:00
Lunch (until 13:00) (300)
13:00
New physics with heavy flavor - Liantao Wang Jim Pilcher (until 15:00) (300)
13:00 SUSY searches in final states with heavy flavor - CMS - Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))   (300)
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13:30 ATLAS searches for new phenomena with heavy flavor - Tobias Golling (Yale University (US))   (300)
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14:00 Top signals at the LHC - LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)   (300)
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14:30 Stop Signs at the LHC - Matthew Reece (Harvard University)   (300)
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15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Jet substructure - Liantao Wang Jim Pilcher (until 17:00) (300)
15:30 ATLAS measurements of jet substructure and application to searches for boosted top quarks and new particles - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))   (300)
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16:00 CMS studies and application of jet substructure - Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (300)
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16:30 New jet tools - David Krohn (Harvard University)   (300)
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12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Multi-leptons - Beate Heinemann Bogdan Dobrescu (until 15:00) (300)
13:00 Multilepton Searches at CMS - Sunil Somalwar (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)   (300)
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13:30 Multilepton Searches at ATLAS - Anadi Canepa (TRIUMF)   (300)
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14:00 Implications for supersymmetry - Daniele Alves   (300)
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14:30 Non-supersymmetric signals - K.C. Kong   (300)
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15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Flavor - Enrico Lunghi Jon Rosner Tomasz Skwarnicki (until 17:00) (300)
15:30 Theoretical issues and techniques in bottom and charm physics - Enrico Lunghi (Indiana University)   (300)
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16:00 LHCb determinations of phi_s - Liming Zhang (Department of Physics)   (300)
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16:15 Studies of rare B decays at LHCb - Tomasz Skwarnicki (Department of Physics)   (300)
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16:30 B-physics at the Tevatron - Rob Harr   (300)
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16:45 B-physics from ATLAS and CMS - Joel Butler (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)   (300)
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12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
MET - Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)) Joe Lykken (until 15:00) (300)
13:00 Experiment: Light stops - Ximo Poveda Torres (Physics Department)   (300)
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13:20 Theory: Light stops - Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)   (300)
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13:40 Experiment: Direct EWK-ino - Sanjay Padhi (Department of Physics)   (300)
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14:00 Theory: Direct neutralino, other light stuff - Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida (US))   (300)
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14:20 Experiment: Presentation of scientific results - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)   (300)
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14:40 Theory: Presentation of scientific results - Scott David Thomas (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))   (300)
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Photons/W/Z - Paddy Fox Adam Yurkewicz (Northern Illinois University (US)) (until 17:00) (300)
15:30 SUSY/exotics with Photons - Prof. John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))   (300)
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16:05 Matrix Element Calculations - Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)   (300)
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