Physics at LHC - 2008

29 Sept 2008, 08:00 → 4 Oct 2008, 15:00 Europe/Zagreb

Split, Croatia

Daniel Denegri (DAPNIA), Guenakh Mitselmakher (University of Florida), Karl Jakobs (Fakultaet fuer Physik), Nikola Godinovic (Technical University of Split FESB), Zeljko Antunovic (University of Split)

This is the fourth conference in the series started in Prague in 2003 and held in Wiena (2004) and Cracow (2006). The conference is dedicated to the physics at LHC.

Monday 29 September

09:00 → 10:45 Plenary Session

09:00 Opening ceremony

09:15 Status of LHC

Speaker: Jos Engelen (CERN)

Slides Jos_Engelen_split.ppt

09:45 Status of ATLAS

Speaker: Peter Jenni (CERN)

Slides ATLAS.Split.29Sep08.V2.ppt

10:15 Status of CMS

Speaker: Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)

Slides Virdee_Split.ppt

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:45 Plenary Session 2

11:10 Understanding EW symmetry breaking at the LHC

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (CERN-PH-TH)

Slides Grojean_Split.pdf

11:45 Tevatron Higgs boson results

Speaker: Jianming Qian (University of Michigan)

Slides JQSplit.pdf JQSplit.ppt

12:15 Higgs boson at the LHC

Speaker: Louis Fayard (LAL Orsay)

Slides Split.pdf Split.ppt

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:05 Afternoon : Parallel “SUSY+BSM” Working Session

14:30 Doubly charged higgsinos at LHC

Speaker: Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki)

Slides huitu_split.pdf huitu_split.ppt

14:55 The BESS model revisited as an Higgsless Linear Moose @ LHC

Speaker: Stefania De Curtis (INFN, Florence)

Slides decurtis_split.pdf.pdf

15:20 See-saw signals at the LHC

Speaker: Borut Bajc (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)

Slides bajc.pdf bajc.pdf

15:45 Searches for SUSY with lepton, jets, and missing ET

Speaker: Carsten Hof (AACHEN)

Paper SUSY-CHof.pdf

14:30 → 16:00 Afternoon: Parallel “Higgs” Working Session

14:30 Higgs production at the LHC: selected results

Speaker: Massimiliano Grazzini (INFN, Florence)

Paper Grazzini_Split08.pdf

14:55 Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC

Speaker: Francesco Sannino (Syddansk University)

Slides Sannino-Split08-red.pdf

15:20 Search for the SM Higgs Boson in the H-->ZZ* in 4 leptons at CMS

Speaker: Daniele Trocino (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino)

Slides Trocino_HtoZZ_Split2008.pdf

15:40 SM H --> gamma gamma discovery potential with ATLAS

Speaker: Yaquan Fang (University of Wisconsin)

Slides atlas_hgg_split_fang.pdf atlas_hgg_split_fang.ppt

16:05 → 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 → 18:30 Afternoon : Parallel “SUSY+BSM” Working Session

16:25 Measurement of SUSY parameters in events using dileptons in ATLAS

Speaker: Umberto De Sanctis (University of Milano)

Paper SPLIT_2008_de_sanctis.pdf

16:45 Search for heavy stable charged particles in CMS

Speaker: Krzysztof Nawrocki (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies)

Slides slides

17:05 Vector Boson Scattering at high mass

Speaker: Peter Sherwood (Departm.of Physics and Astronomy Univ.Coll.London - University C)

Slides Vector_Boson_Scattering_at_High_Mass.pdf

17:25 The discovery reach for mini-black holes with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Speaker: Michiru Kaneda (Faculty of Science)

Slides atlas_split08_kaneda.pdf atlas_split08_kaneda.ppt

17:45 Prospects for discoveries of final states with dileptons, jets and no missing energy with ATLAS

Speaker: Shanti Sue Wendler (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides swendler_split_LHC2008.pdf

18:05 D0 SUSY/BSM searches

Speaker: S. Muanza (CPPM Marseille)

Paper Muanza_Split2008_short.pdf

16:25 → 18:30 Afternoon: Parallel “Higgs” Working Session

16:25 Discovery potential for the SM Higgs Boson in the H->WW*->2l2nu channel at CMS

Speaker: Fabian Stoeckli (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik - ETH Eidgenossische Technische Hoc)

Slides SPLIT08_CMS_HWW.pdf

16:45 VBF SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS

Speaker: Stefania Xella (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics - Uni)

Slides

• split-xella-npbkgr.pdf
• split-xella.pdf
• split-xella.ppt

17:05 Vector Boson Fusion Production of the SM Higgs Boson at the LHC

Speaker: Monica Vazquez Acosta (Imperial College London)

Slides VBFHiggs_Split08_MVazquezAcosta.pdf VBFHiggs_Split08_MVazquezAcosta.ppt

17:25 Associated SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS

Speaker: Inga Ludwig (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)

Slides _iludwig_ATLASassociatedSMhiggs.pdf

17:45 Low mass Higgs boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Andrew Mehta (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool)

Slides Mehta.pLHC.pdf Mehta.pLHC.ppt

18:05 Higgs boson at 160 GeV at the Tevatron

Speaker: Marc Buehler (University of Virginia)

Slides pLHC_buehler_20080929.odp pLHC_buehler_20080929.pdf

19:00 → 20:30 Reception by Mayor of Split

Tuesday 30 September

09:00 → 10:15 Plenary Session

09:00 LHC Commissioning

Speaker: Lyn Evans (CERN)

Slides Split30Sept08_EVANS.ppt

09:25 ATLAS Commissioning

Speaker: Manuella Vincter (Carleton University)

Slides talk_ATLAS_commissioning_split.pdf talk_ATLAS_commissioning_split.ppt

09:50 CMS Commissioning

Speaker: Ivan Mikulec (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))

Slides mikulec-split08_v2.pdf mikulec-split08_v2.ppt

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:40 Plenary Session 2

10:45 Search for new physics at HERA

Speaker: Peter Schleper (Hamburg University, Institute for Experimental Physics)

Slides LHC08_Split_Schleper.pdf LHC08_Split_Schleper.ppt

11:10 Tevatron SUSY+BSM Results

Speaker: David Toback (Texas A&M University)

Slides Split_2008_09_Toback_v4.pdf Split_2008_09_Toback_v4.ppt

11:40 SUSY at the LHC

Speaker: Gheorghe Lungu (Rockefeller University)

Slides JL_split08_v1.pdf

12:10 LHC and the origin of neutrino mass

Speaker: Goran Senjanovic (ICTP Trieste)

Slides lhcsplit_senjanovic.pdf

12:40 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:10 Afternoon: Detector performance and early physics expectations

14:30 Triggers for early physics at CMS

Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (Nuclear and Particle Physics Department)

Paper bargassa_Split08.pdf

14:50 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system

Speaker: Regina Moles Valls (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC)-Universitat de Valencia)

Paper Alignment_ATLASInnerDetector_2008Regina.pdf

15:10 CMS Tracker Alignment and Implications on Physics Performance

Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Slides Split08_nvt.pdf Split08_nvt.ppt

15:30 First physics with hadrons and the Underlying Event at CMS

Speaker: Ferenc Sikler (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)

Paper cms_sikler_split08.pdf

15:50 Jet reconstruction with first data in ATLAS

Speaker: Damir Lelas (University of Victoria)

Slides jets-talk-split.pdf jets-talk-split.ppt

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee break

16:40 → 18:20 Afternoon: Detector performance and early physics expectations 2

16:40 Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Reconstruction with CMS

Speaker: Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)

Slides split-JetMET-modified.pdf

17:00 Electron and Photon Reconstruction and Identification with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Emmanuel Turlay (LAL Orsay)

Slides SplitTurlay.pdf

17:20 Inclusive W and Z production at LHC startup

Speaker: Georgios Daskalakis (NCSR "Demokritos")

Slides EWK-Split08.pdf EWK-Split08.ppt

17:40 ATLAS Electroweak Measurements with early data

Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)

Slides EarlyEWMeasurements_KristinLohwasser_Split.pdf

18:00 Measurement of diboson production in early LHC data

Speaker: Vuko Brigljevic (Institute Ruder Boskovic, Zagreb)

Slides Brigljevic-Dibosons.ppt

20:00 → 21:30 LHC public lecture and round table discussion

Wednesday 1 October

09:00 → 10:15 Plenary Session

09:00 HERA structure functions

Speaker: Claude Vallee (CPPM/DESY)

Paper vallee_lhc08.pdf

09:25 Tevatron QCD physics

Speaker: Bob Hirosky (University of Viginia)

Paper QCDatTeVatron.pdf

09:50 Tevatron top physics

Speaker: Jeannine Wagner (CDF)

Slides LHC08_TopPhysicsTevatron.pdf

10:15 → 10:35 Coffee break

10:35 → 12:15 Plenary Session 2

10:35 QCD and top at LHC

Speaker: Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)

Slides 20081001-lhc08split.pdf

11:00 Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (theory)

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)

Paper Split08_krauss.pdf

11:25 Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (comparison with data)

Speaker: Sabine Lammers (Columbia University)

Paper MEPS_Split.pdf

11:50 Higher order corrections in view of LHC

Speaker: Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides ellis_split.pdf ellis_split.ppt

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 20:00 Conference excursion

14:00 Excursion to the town of Trogir with reception by Mayor of Trogir

Thursday 2 October

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session

08:30 Tevatron EWK physics

Speaker: Thomas Nunnemann (Fakultat fur Physik)

Slides tev_ewk_split08.pdf

08:55 Electroweak physics at the LHC

Speaker: Lucia Di Ciaccio (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))

Slides Draft3_Lucia_Slipt08_.pdf

09:20 First physics with ATLAS

Speaker: Dirk Zerwas (LAL Orsay)

Slides 081002_Split.pdf 081002_Split.ppt

09:40 First physics with CMS

Speaker: Martijn Mulders (CERN)

Slides CMS_First_Physics_Mulders.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:15 Plenary Session 2

10:40 First physics with ALICE

Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides JFGO_FirstPhysicsWithAlice.ppt.pdf JFGO_FirstPhysicsWithAlice.ppt.ppt

11:00 First physics with LHCb

Speaker: Andreas Schopper (CERN)

Slides

• Split_LHCb_1st_physics.pdf
• Split_LHCb_1st_physics.ppt
• Split_LHCb_1st_physics.pptx

11:20 Diffractive Physics at the LHC: a theoretical overview

Speaker: A. D. Martin (Durham Univ.)

Slides split08martin.pdf split08martin.ppt

11:50 Open issues in diffractive physics: what answers do we expect from the LHC

Speaker: MARIO DEILE (CERN, PH-TOT)

Slides deile_split.pdf deile_split.ppt

12:15 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:25 Afternoon Session

14:30 TOTEM status

Speaker: Karsten Eggert (Penn State University)

Slides EGGERT.pdf

14:55 Status of the LHCf experiment

Speaker: Alessia Tricomi (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Slides Tricomi_LHCf_split08.ppt

15:15 Neutrinoless double beta decays of the top quark and other effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos.

Speaker: Gad Eilam (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Slides Gad_Eilam.pdf Gad_Eilam.ps

15:40 Single top production and Vtb determination at LHC: a complete one-loop MSSM calculation

Speaker: Claudio Verzegnassi (Univ. + INFN)

Slides canalet.odp single_top_at_one_loop.pdf

16:05 Forward physics with CMS

Speaker: Monika Grothe (U Wisconsin)

Slides Monika_Split2008.ppt

16:25 → 16:55 Coffee break

16:55 → 18:35 Afternoon Session 2

16:55 b-tagging algorithm and performance in ATLAS

Speaker: Laurent Vacavant (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))

Slides 1_vacavant.ppt

17:15 Measurement of the Z boson plus two b-jets cross section in CMS with 100 pb^{-1}

Speaker: Aruna Nayak (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))

Slides Zbb_Split2.pdf Zbb_Split2.ppt

17:35 Top quark pair cross-section measurement at ATLAS

Speaker: Wouter Verkerke (NIKHEF)

Slides atlas-ttbar-split-300908-v4.pdf atlas-ttbar-split-300908-v4.ppt

17:55 Top quark mass measurement with ATLAS

Speaker: Pietro Gregorio Cavalleri (Lab.de Phys.Nucleaire et de Hautes Energie/LPNHE (LPNHE))

Slides pietro_split02.pdf

18:15 Single top cross section measurements in ATLAS

Speaker: Benoit Clement (CERN)

Slides 5_SingleTopSplit_BClement.ppt

18:35 → 19:35 Poster session

Posters will be displayed during an entire duration of the conference

18:35 Atlas trigger for first physics and beyond

Speaker: Teresa Fonseca Martin (RHUL)

18:35 Challenges in the detection of long lived particles with ATLAS: the Hidden valley scenario

Speaker: Daniel Ventura (University of Washington, Seattle)

18:35 Constraining parton distribution functions using the W charge asymmetry at the LHC

Speaker: Jordi Duarte Campderros (IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria-Consejo Sup. de Investig)

18:35 Diboson production with ATLAS

Speaker: Ljiljana Simic (Belgrade)

18:35 Direct photons at ATLAS

Speaker: F Bucci (Universite de Geneve)

18:35 Hadronic Calibration for the ATLAS Jet Trigger

Speaker: Nuno Miguel Goncalves Dos Anjos (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)

Poster Nuno_Anjos_P@LHC08.pdf

18:35 High-pt Jet Studies at CMS

Speaker: Joanna Weng (CERN)

18:35 Inclusive search for the SM Higgs Boson in the channel H -> gamma gamma at CMS

Speaker: Federico Ferri (DSM/Irfu CEA/Saclay)

18:35 Jet Finding and Reconstruction in CMS using Charged Tracks only

Speaker: Paolo Azzurri (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))

Poster TrackJetPoster.pdf

18:35 MC free calibration of LHCb RICH detectors using the \Lambda \to p \pi

Speakers: Bogdan Paul Popovici (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)), Sabin Stoica (NIPNE)

18:35 Minimum Bias Triggers at ATLAS

Speakers: Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB), Sebastian Böser (University College London)

18:35 Production of jets accompanied by W and Z bosons at LHC startup with CMS

Speaker: Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)

18:35 Prospects for early dicoveries of high mass resonances with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Clement Helsens (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))

18:35 Search for di-lepton resonances and Wprimes with CMS

Speaker: Dave Evans (Bristol (UK))

18:35 Search for Wf in Lepton+Missing ET Final State with Early Data at ATLAS

Speaker: Nenad Vranjes (Institute of Physics)

18:35 Searching for new physics in events with three leptons with ATLAS

Speaker: Katarina Pajchel (Oslo)

18:35 Sensitivity to photon polarization in B_s -> \phi \gamma decays at LHCb

Speaker: Lesya Shchutska (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP))

Paper http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1099116

Poster BsPhiGamma.pdf

18:35 SM Higgs properties measurement with ATLAS

Speaker: Bill Murray (Particle Physics)

18:35 SM Higgs search in the 4-lepton final state with ATLAS

Speaker: Alessia D'Orazio (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut-Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Unkno)

18:35 SUSY search with b jets at ATLAS

Speakers: Dragan Popovic (Institute of Physics), Jelena Krstic (Institute of Physics), Marija Milosavljevic (Institute of Physics)

18:35 The reach of the ATLAS experiment in SUSY parameter space

Speaker: Debra Lumb (Freiburg)

18:35 Transverse momentum spectra of D- and B-mesons in hadron collisons at very high energies

Speaker: Gennadi Lykasov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)

18:55 Jet Shapes at CMS

Speaker: Pelin Kurt (Physics Department)

18:55 QCD with Weak Bosons and Jets with ATLAS

Speakers: Guillaume Kirsch (Oxford), Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 October

08:30 → 10:15 Plenary Session

08:30 B Factory Results

Speaker: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick)

Paper gershonPhysLhc2008.pdf

08:55 Tevatron B Physics Results

Speaker: Karen Gibson (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides krg_physics_lhc_2003comp.pdf krg_physics_lhc_2003comp.ppt

09:20 Status and Potential of LHCb

Speaker: Andrey GOLUTVIN (ITEP Moscow)

Slides Golutvin_LHCb_Split.pdf Golutvin_LHCb_Split.ppt

09:50 LHCb Commissioning

Speaker: Olivier Callot (LAL-Orsay)

Slides 2008-10-03_Split-LHCb_commissioning.pdf 2008-10-03_Split-LHCb_commissioning.ppt

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:30 Plenary Session 2

10:45 RHIC overview

Speaker: Julia Velkovska (julia.velkovska@vanderbilt.edu)

Slides JVelkovska_Split08.ppt

11:10 Heavy Ions Physics (Theory)

Speaker: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

Slides split08uaw.pdf split08uaw.ppt

11:35 ALICE Status and Potential

Speaker: Juergen Schukraft (CERN)

Slides schukraft.pdf schukraft.ppt

12:05 ALICE Commissioning

Speaker: Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)

Paper Alice_Commissionning_v1.2.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:10 Afternoon Working Session - Plenary

14:30 Heavy ions with ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Olga Kodolova (Institute for Nuclear Physics)

Slides kodolova_split08_v2.pdf kodolova_split08_v2.ppt

14:50 B physics with ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Brigitte Epp (University of Innsbruck)

Paper LHC2008_Epp.pdf

15:10 → 16:20 Afternoon Working Session - Parallel - B physics

15:10 Measurement of B_s mixing phase beta_s

Speaker: Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)

Slides physics_at_LHC_beta_s.pdf physics_at_LHC_beta_s.ppt

15:35 Implications of beta_s measurements

Speaker: Luca Silvestrini (Luca.Silvestrini@roma1.infn.it)

Paper silvestrini@LHC08.pdf

16:00 Prospects for beta_s measurement

Speaker: Alessia Satta (INFN Rome II)

Slides beta_s_LHC.pdf beta_s_LHC.ppt

15:10 → 16:30 Afternoon Working Session - Parallel - Heavy ions

15:10 First physics with ALICE: from pp to heavy ions

Speaker: Domenico Elia (INFN Bari)

Slides elia_SplitLHC2008.pdf elia_SplitLHC2008.ppt

15:30 Heavy flavour in ALICE

Speaker: Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)

Slides HeavyFlavours_pillot.pdf HeavyFlavours_pillot.ppt

15:50 Physics with photons in ALICE

Speaker: Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))

Slides ALICE_photon_physics.pdf

16:20 → 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 → 18:25 Afternoon Working Session 2 - Parallel - B physics

16:45 Measurement of CKM angle gamma/phi_3

Speaker: Anton Poluektov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Novosibirsk)

Paper poluektov_gamma.pdf

17:05 Prospects for gamma/phi_3 measurement

Speaker: Valerie Gibson (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Slides Split_gibson.pdf

17:25 Recent developments in charm physics

Speaker: John Yelton (University of Florida)

Slides SPLIT_yelton.pdf SPLIT_yelton.ppt

17:45 Prospects for B_s -> mumu at CMS

Speaker: Benedetta Caponeri (INFN Sez. di Perugia c/o Dipt. di Fisica (INFN))

Paper BCaponeri_split.pdf

18:05 Prospects for K*mumu

Speaker: William Robert Reece (Imperial College)

Slides wreece-split-2008.pdf wreece-split-2008.pptx

16:45 → 18:25 Afternoon Working Session 2 - Parallel - Heavy ions

16:45 Diffractive and ultraperipheral physics with ALICE

Speaker: Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)

Slides schicker_lhc08.pdf

17:05 Jet physics in Pb-Pb collisions with ATLAS

Speaker: Martin Spousta (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics-Charles University-Unknown)

Slides Spousta_LHC2008_20080924.pdf Spousta_LHC2008_20080924.ppt

17:25 Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions with CMS

Speaker: Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))

Slides Yen-Jie_Lee_Split08.pdf.pdf

17:45 Performance of CMS Tracker in Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker: Vasundhara Chetluru (Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides Split08HeavyIonTracking.pdf

20:00 → 00:00 Conference dinner

Saturday 4 October

09:00 → 10:35 Plenary Session

09:00 Scenarios beyond standard LHC physics

Speaker: Gian Giudice (CERN)

Slides Giudice_Split.pdf

09:35 Super LHC

Speaker: Walter Scandale (CERN)

Slides Scandale_08-10-03_sLHC.pdf Scandale_08-10-03_sLHC.pptx

10:00 Detector upgrades for SLHC

Speaker: Nigel Hessey (NIKHEF)

Paper hesseySplit.pdf

10:35 → 11:05 Coffee break

11:05 → 13:10 Plenary Session 2

11:05 Results From Astroparticle Physics

Speaker: Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (DAPNIA, Saclay)

Paper Split08_pt.pdf

11:40 Thoughts about LHC physics

Speaker: Edward Witten (Princeton)

Slides Witten-LHCProspects.pdf Witten-LHCProspects.ppt

12:25 Future perspectives in particle physics

Speaker: Carlo Rubbia (CERN/INFN)

Slides Split_Oct2008.pdf Split_Oct2008.ppt

13:10 → 15:00 Lunch