Name: Physics at LHC - 2008
Start: 2008-09-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-10-04T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Split, Croatia

Physics at LHC - 2008

from Monday, September 29, 2008 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, October 4, 2008 (3:00 PM)

Monday, September 29, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening ceremony

9:15 AM Status of LHC - Jos Engelen (CERN)

9:45 AM Status of ATLAS - Peter Jenni (CERN)

10:15 AM Status of CMS - Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)
10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM Understanding EW symmetry breaking at the LHC - Christophe Grojean (CERN-PH-TH)

11:45 AM Tevatron Higgs boson results - Jianming Qian (University of Michigan)

12:15 PM Higgs boson at the LHC - Louis Fayard (LAL Orsay)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:05 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Doubly charged higgsinos at LHC - Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki)

2:55 PM The BESS model revisited as an Higgsless Linear Moose @ LHC - Stefania De Curtis (INFN, Florence)

3:20 PM See-saw signals at the LHC - Borut Bajc (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)

3:45 PM Searches for SUSY with lepton, jets, and missing ET - Carsten Hof (AACHEN)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Higgs production at the LHC: selected results - Massimiliano Grazzini (INFN, Florence)

2:55 PM Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC - Francesco Sannino (Syddansk University)

3:20 PM Search for the SM Higgs Boson in the H-->ZZ* in 4 leptons at CMS - Daniele Trocino (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino)

3:40 PM SM H --> gamma gamma discovery potential with ATLAS - Yaquan Fang (University of Wisconsin)
4:05 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM
4:25 PM
4:25 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:25 PM Measurement of SUSY parameters in events using dileptons in ATLAS - Umberto De Sanctis (University of Milano)

4:45 PM Search for heavy stable charged particles in CMS - Krzysztof Nawrocki (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies)

5:05 PM Vector Boson Scattering at high mass - Peter Sherwood (Departm.of Physics and Astronomy Univ.Coll.London - University C)

5:25 PM The discovery reach for mini-black holes with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Michiru Kaneda (Faculty of Science)

5:45 PM Prospects for discoveries of final states with dileptons, jets and no missing energy with ATLAS - Shanti Sue Wendler (University of Pittsburgh)

6:05 PM D0 SUSY/BSM searches - S. Muanza (CPPM Marseille)
4:25 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:25 PM Discovery potential for the SM Higgs Boson in the H->WW*->2l2nu channel at CMS - Fabian Stoeckli (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik - ETH Eidgenossische Technische Hoc)

4:45 PM VBF SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS - Stefania Xella (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics - Uni)

5:05 PM Vector Boson Fusion Production of the SM Higgs Boson at the LHC - Monica Vazquez Acosta (Imperial College London)

5:25 PM Associated SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS - Inga Ludwig (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)

5:45 PM Low mass Higgs boson at the Tevatron - Andrew Mehta (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool)

6:05 PM Higgs boson at 160 GeV at the Tevatron - Marc Buehler (University of Virginia)
7:00 PM Reception by Mayor of Split
Reception by Mayor of Split
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM LHC Commissioning - Lyn Evans (CERN)

9:25 AM ATLAS Commissioning - Manuella Vincter (Carleton University)

9:50 AM CMS Commissioning - Ivan Mikulec (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

10:45 AM Search for new physics at HERA - Peter Schleper (Hamburg University, Institute for Experimental Physics)

11:10 AM Tevatron SUSY+BSM Results - David Toback (Texas A&M University)

11:40 AM SUSY at the LHC - Gheorghe Lungu (Rockefeller University)

12:10 PM LHC and the origin of neutrino mass - Goran Senjanovic (ICTP Trieste)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Triggers for early physics at CMS - Pedrame Bargassa (Nuclear and Particle Physics Department)

2:50 PM Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - Regina Moles Valls (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC)-Universitat de Valencia)

3:10 PM CMS Tracker Alignment and Implications on Physics Performance - Nhan Viet Tran (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

3:30 PM First physics with hadrons and the Underlying Event at CMS - Ferenc Sikler (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)

3:50 PM Jet reconstruction with first data in ATLAS - Damir Lelas (University of Victoria)
4:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 6:20 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Reconstruction with CMS - Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)

5:00 PM Electron and Photon Reconstruction and Identification with the ATLAS Detector - Emmanuel Turlay (LAL Orsay)

5:20 PM Inclusive W and Z production at LHC startup - Georgios Daskalakis (NCSR "Demokritos")

5:40 PM ATLAS Electroweak Measurements with early data - Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)

6:00 PM Measurement of diboson production in early LHC data - Vuko Brigljevic (Institute Ruder Boskovic, Zagreb)
8:00 PM LHC public lecture and round table discussion
LHC public lecture and round table discussion
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM HERA structure functions - Claude Vallee (CPPM/DESY)

9:25 AM Tevatron QCD physics - Bob Hirosky (University of Viginia)

9:50 AM Tevatron top physics - Jeannine Wagner (CDF)
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
10:35 AM
10:35 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

10:35 AM QCD and top at LHC - Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)

11:00 AM Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (theory) - Frank Krauss (Durham University)

11:25 AM Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (comparison with data) - Sabine Lammers (Columbia University)

11:50 AM Higher order corrections in view of LHC - Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Excursion to the town of Trogir with reception by Mayor of Trogir
Thursday, October 2, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Tevatron EWK physics - Thomas Nunnemann (Fakultat fur Physik)

8:55 AM Electroweak physics at the LHC - Lucia Di Ciaccio (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))

9:20 AM First physics with ATLAS - Dirk Zerwas (LAL Orsay)

9:40 AM First physics with CMS - Martijn Mulders (CERN)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM First physics with ALICE - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

11:00 AM First physics with LHCb - Andreas Schopper (CERN)

11:20 AM Diffractive Physics at the LHC: a theoretical overview - A. D. Martin (Durham Univ.)

11:50 AM Open issues in diffractive physics: what answers do we expect from the LHC - MARIO DEILE (CERN, PH-TOT)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:25 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM TOTEM status - Karsten Eggert (Penn State University)

2:55 PM Status of the LHCf experiment - Alessia Tricomi (Dipartimento di Fisica)

3:15 PM Neutrinoless double beta decays of the top quark and other effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos. - Gad Eilam (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

3:40 PM Single top production and Vtb determination at LHC: a complete one-loop MSSM calculation - Claudio Verzegnassi (Univ. + INFN)

4:05 PM Forward physics with CMS - Monika Grothe (U Wisconsin)
4:25 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:25 PM - 4:55 PM
4:55 PM
4:55 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

4:55 PM b-tagging algorithm and performance in ATLAS - Laurent Vacavant (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))

5:15 PM Measurement of the Z boson plus two b-jets cross section in CMS with 100 pb^{-1} - Aruna Nayak (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))

5:35 PM Top quark pair cross-section measurement at ATLAS - Wouter Verkerke (NIKHEF)

5:55 PM Top quark mass measurement with ATLAS - Pietro Gregorio Cavalleri (Lab.de Phys.Nucleaire et de Hautes Energie/LPNHE (LPNHE))

6:15 PM Single top cross section measurements in ATLAS - Benoit Clement (CERN)
6:35 PM
6:35 PM - 7:35 PM
Contributions

6:35 PM Prospects for early dicoveries of high mass resonances with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Clement Helsens (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

6:35 PM Search for Wf in Lepton+Missing ET Final State with Early Data at ATLAS - Nenad Vranjes (Institute of Physics)

6:35 PM Hadronic Calibration for the ATLAS Jet Trigger - Nuno Miguel Goncalves Dos Anjos (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)

6:35 PM Transverse momentum spectra of D- and B-mesons in hadron collisons at very high energies - Gennadi Lykasov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)

6:35 PM Atlas trigger for first physics and beyond - Teresa Fonseca Martin (RHUL)

6:35 PM Challenges in the detection of long lived particles with ATLAS: the Hidden valley scenario - Daniel Ventura (University of Washington, Seattle)

6:35 PM Diboson production with ATLAS - Ljiljana Simic (Belgrade)

6:35 PM The reach of the ATLAS experiment in SUSY parameter space - Debra Lumb (Freiburg)

6:35 PM Searching for new physics in events with three leptons with ATLAS - Katarina Pajchel (Oslo)

6:35 PM Direct photons at ATLAS - F Bucci (Universite de Geneve)

6:35 PM Minimum Bias Triggers at ATLAS - Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB) Sebastian Böser (University College London)

6:35 PM Sensitivity to photon polarization in B_s -> \phi \gamma decays at LHCb - Lesya Shchutska (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP))

6:35 PM SM Higgs search in the 4-lepton final state with ATLAS - Alessia D'Orazio (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut-Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Unkno)

6:35 PM Inclusive search for the SM Higgs Boson in the channel H -> gamma gamma at CMS - Federico Ferri (DSM/Irfu CEA/Saclay)

6:35 PM Jet Finding and Reconstruction in CMS using Charged Tracks only - Paolo Azzurri (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))

6:35 PM Search for di-lepton resonances and Wprimes with CMS - Dave Evans (Bristol (UK))

6:35 PM SUSY search with b jets at ATLAS - Dragan Popovic (Institute of Physics) Jelena Krstic (Institute of Physics) Marija Milosavljevic (Institute of Physics)

6:35 PM High-pt Jet Studies at CMS - Joanna Weng (CERN)

6:35 PM Production of jets accompanied by W and Z bosons at LHC startup with CMS - Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)

6:35 PM Constraining parton distribution functions using the W charge asymmetry at the LHC - Jordi Duarte Campderros (IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria-Consejo Sup. de Investig)

6:35 PM MC free calibration of LHCb RICH detectors using the \Lambda \to p \pi - Bogdan Paul Popovici (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)) Sabin Stoica (NIPNE)

6:35 PM SM Higgs properties measurement with ATLAS - Bill Murray (Particle Physics)

6:55 PM Jet Shapes at CMS - Pelin Kurt (Physics Department)

6:55 PM QCD with Weak Bosons and Jets with ATLAS - Guillaume Kirsch (Oxford) Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)
Friday, October 3, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM B Factory Results - Tim Gershon (University of Warwick)

8:55 AM Tevatron B Physics Results - Karen Gibson (University of Pittsburgh)

9:20 AM Status and Potential of LHCb - Andrey GOLUTVIN (ITEP Moscow)

9:50 AM LHCb Commissioning - Olivier Callot (LAL-Orsay)
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:45 AM RHIC overview - Julia Velkovska (julia.velkovska@vanderbilt.edu)

11:10 AM Heavy Ions Physics (Theory) - Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

11:35 AM ALICE Status and Potential - Juergen Schukraft (CERN)

12:05 PM ALICE Commissioning - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Heavy ions with ATLAS and CMS - Olga Kodolova (Institute for Nuclear Physics)

2:50 PM B physics with ATLAS and CMS - Brigitte Epp (University of Innsbruck)
3:10 PM
3:10 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

3:10 PM Measurement of B_s mixing phase beta_s - Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)

3:35 PM Implications of beta_s measurements - Luca Silvestrini (Luca.Silvestrini@roma1.infn.it)

4:00 PM Prospects for beta_s measurement - Alessia Satta (INFN Rome II)
3:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:10 PM First physics with ALICE: from pp to heavy ions - Domenico Elia (INFN Bari)

3:30 PM Heavy flavour in ALICE - Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)

3:50 PM Physics with photons in ALICE - Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))
4:20 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:20 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:25 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Measurement of CKM angle gamma/phi_3 - Anton Poluektov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Novosibirsk)

5:05 PM Prospects for gamma/phi_3 measurement - Valerie Gibson (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

5:25 PM Recent developments in charm physics - John Yelton (University of Florida)

5:45 PM Prospects for B_s -> mumu at CMS - Benedetta Caponeri (INFN Sez. di Perugia c/o Dipt. di Fisica (INFN))

6:05 PM Prospects for K*mumu - William Robert Reece (Imperial College)
4:45 PM - 6:25 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Diffractive and ultraperipheral physics with ALICE - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)

5:05 PM Jet physics in Pb-Pb collisions with ATLAS - Martin Spousta (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics-Charles University-Unknown)

5:25 PM Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions with CMS - Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))

5:45 PM Performance of CMS Tracker in Heavy Ion Collisions - Vasundhara Chetluru (Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)
8:00 PM Conference dinner
Conference dinner
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Saturday, October 4, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Scenarios beyond standard LHC physics - Gian Giudice (CERN)

9:35 AM Super LHC - Walter Scandale (CERN)

10:00 AM Detector upgrades for SLHC - Nigel Hessey (NIKHEF)
10:35 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM
11:05 AM - 1:10 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM Results From Astroparticle Physics - Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (DAPNIA, Saclay)

11:40 AM Thoughts about LHC physics - Edward Witten (Princeton)

12:25 PM Future perspectives in particle physics - Carlo Rubbia (CERN/INFN)
1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 3:00 PM

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