Physics at LHC - 2008

Europe/Zagreb
Split, Croatia

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)
Description
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.
    • Plenary Session
      • 1
        Opening ceremony
      • 2
        Status of LHC
        Speaker: Jos Engelen (CERN)
        Slides
      • 3
        Status of ATLAS
        Speaker: Peter Jenni (CERN)
        Slides
      • 4
        Status of CMS
        Speaker: Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)
        Slides
    • 10:45 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary Session 2
      • 5
        Understanding EW symmetry breaking at the LHC
        Speaker: Christophe Grojean (CERN-PH-TH)
        Slides
      • 6
        Tevatron Higgs boson results
        Speaker: Jianming Qian (University of Michigan)
        Slides
      • 7
        Higgs boson at the LHC
        Speaker: Louis Fayard (LAL Orsay)
        Slides
    • 8
      Lunch
    • Afternoon : Parallel “SUSY+BSM” Working Session
      • 9
        Doubly charged higgsinos at LHC
        Speaker: Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki)
        Slides
      • 10
        The BESS model revisited as an Higgsless Linear Moose @ LHC
        Speaker: Stefania De Curtis (INFN, Florence)
        Slides
      • 11
        See-saw signals at the LHC
        Speaker: Borut Bajc (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)
        Slides
      • 12
        Searches for SUSY with lepton, jets, and missing ET
        Speaker: Carsten Hof (AACHEN)
        Paper
    • Afternoon: Parallel “Higgs” Working Session
      • 13
        Higgs production at the LHC: selected results
        Speaker: Massimiliano Grazzini (INFN, Florence)
        Paper
      • 14
        Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC
        Speaker: Francesco Sannino (Syddansk University)
        Slides
      • 15
        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
      • 16
        SM H --> gamma gamma discovery potential with ATLAS
        Speaker: Yaquan Fang (University of Wisconsin)
        Slides
    • 4:05 PM
      Coffee break
    • Afternoon : Parallel “SUSY+BSM” Working Session
      • 17
        Measurement of SUSY parameters in events using dileptons in ATLAS
        Speaker: Umberto De Sanctis (University of Milano)
        Paper
      • 18
        Search for heavy stable charged particles in CMS
        Speaker: Krzysztof Nawrocki (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies)
        Slides
      • 19
        Vector Boson Scattering at high mass
        Speaker: Peter Sherwood (Departm.of Physics and Astronomy Univ.Coll.London - University C)
        Slides
      • 20
        The discovery reach for mini-black holes with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
        Speaker: Michiru Kaneda (Faculty of Science)
        Slides
      • 21
        Prospects for discoveries of final states with dileptons, jets and no missing energy with ATLAS
        Speaker: Shanti Sue Wendler (University of Pittsburgh)
        Slides
      • 22
        D0 SUSY/BSM searches
        Speaker: S. Muanza (CPPM Marseille)
        Paper
    • Afternoon: Parallel “Higgs” Working Session
      • 23
        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
      • 24
        VBF SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS
        Speaker: Stefania Xella (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics - Uni)
      • 25
        Vector Boson Fusion Production of the SM Higgs Boson at the LHC
        Speaker: Monica Vazquez Acosta (Imperial College London)
        Slides
      • 26
        Associated SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS
        Speaker: Inga Ludwig (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)
        Slides
      • 27
        Low mass Higgs boson at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Andrew Mehta (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool)
        Slides
      • 28
        Higgs boson at 160 GeV at the Tevatron
        Speaker: Marc Buehler (University of Virginia)
        Slides
    • 29
      Reception by Mayor of Split Cellar of the Diocletian's palace

      Cellar of the Diocletian's palace

    • Plenary Session
      • 30
        LHC Commissioning
        Speaker: Lyn Evans (CERN)
        Slides
      • 31
        ATLAS Commissioning
        Speaker: Manuella Vincter (Carleton University)
        Slides
      • 32
        CMS Commissioning
        Speaker: Ivan Mikulec (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))
        Slides
    • 10:15 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary Session 2
      • 33
        Search for new physics at HERA
        Speaker: Peter Schleper (Hamburg University, Institute for Experimental Physics)
        Slides
      • 34
        Tevatron SUSY+BSM Results
        Speaker: David Toback (Texas A&M University)
        Slides
      • 35
        SUSY at the LHC
        Speaker: Gheorghe Lungu (Rockefeller University)
        Slides
      • 36
        LHC and the origin of neutrino mass
        Speaker: Goran Senjanovic (ICTP Trieste)
        Slides
    • 37
      Lunch
    • Afternoon: Detector performance and early physics expectations
      • 38
        Triggers for early physics at CMS
        Speaker: Pedrame Bargassa (Nuclear and Particle Physics Department)
        Paper
      • 39
        Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system
        Speaker: Regina Moles Valls (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC)-Universitat de Valencia)
        Paper
      • 40
        CMS Tracker Alignment and Implications on Physics Performance
        Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
        Slides
      • 41
        First physics with hadrons and the Underlying Event at CMS
        Speaker: Ferenc Sikler (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
        Paper
      • 42
        Jet reconstruction with first data in ATLAS
        Speaker: Damir Lelas (University of Victoria)
        Slides
    • 4:10 PM
      Coffee break
    • Afternoon: Detector performance and early physics expectations 2
      • 43
        Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Reconstruction with CMS
        Speaker: Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)
        Slides
      • 44
        Electron and Photon Reconstruction and Identification with the ATLAS Detector
        Speaker: Emmanuel Turlay (LAL Orsay)
        Slides
      • 45
        Inclusive W and Z production at LHC startup
        Speaker: Georgios Daskalakis (NCSR "Demokritos")
        Slides
      • 46
        ATLAS Electroweak Measurements with early data
        Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 47
        Measurement of diboson production in early LHC data
        Speaker: Vuko Brigljevic (Institute Ruder Boskovic, Zagreb)
        Slides
    • 48
      LHC public lecture and round table discussion
    • Plenary Session
      • 49
        HERA structure functions
        Speaker: Claude Vallee (CPPM/DESY)
        Paper
      • 50
        Tevatron QCD physics
        Speaker: Bob Hirosky (University of Viginia)
        Paper
      • 51
        Tevatron top physics
        Speaker: Jeannine Wagner (CDF)
        Slides
    • 10:15 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary Session 2
      • 52
        QCD and top at LHC
        Speaker: Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 53
        Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (theory)
        Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)
        Paper
      • 54
        Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (comparison with data)
        Speaker: Sabine Lammers (Columbia University)
        Paper
      • 55
        Higher order corrections in view of LHC
        Speaker: Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
        Slides
    • 56
      Lunch
    • Conference excursion
      • 57
        Excursion to the town of Trogir with reception by Mayor of Trogir
    • Plenary Session
      • 58
        Tevatron EWK physics
        Speaker: Thomas Nunnemann (Fakultat fur Physik)
        Slides
      • 59
        Electroweak physics at the LHC
        Speaker: Lucia Di Ciaccio (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))
        Slides
      • 60
        First physics with ATLAS
        Speaker: Dirk Zerwas (LAL Orsay)
        Slides
      • 61
        First physics with CMS
        Speaker: Martijn Mulders (CERN)
        Slides
    • 10:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary Session 2
      • 62
        First physics with ALICE
        Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)
        Slides
      • 63
        First physics with LHCb
        Speaker: Andreas Schopper (CERN)
      • 64
        Diffractive Physics at the LHC: a theoretical overview
        Speaker: A. D. Martin (Durham Univ.)
        Slides
      • 65
        Open issues in diffractive physics: what answers do we expect from the LHC
        Speaker: MARIO DEILE (CERN, PH-TOT)
        Slides
    • 66
      Lunch
    • Afternoon Session
      • 67
        TOTEM status
        Speaker: Karsten Eggert (Penn State University)
        Slides
      • 68
        Status of the LHCf experiment
        Speaker: Alessia Tricomi (Dipartimento di Fisica)
        Slides
      • 69
        Neutrinoless double beta decays of the top quark and other effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos.
        Speaker: Gad Eilam (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 70
        Single top production and Vtb determination at LHC: a complete one-loop MSSM calculation
        Speaker: Claudio Verzegnassi (Univ. + INFN)
        Slides
      • 71
        Forward physics with CMS
        Speaker: Monika Grothe (U Wisconsin)
        Slides
    • 4:25 PM
      Coffee break
    • Afternoon Session 2
      • 72
        b-tagging algorithm and performance in ATLAS
        Speaker: Laurent Vacavant (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))
        Slides
      • 73
        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
      • 74
        Top quark pair cross-section measurement at ATLAS
        Speaker: Wouter Verkerke (NIKHEF)
        Slides
      • 75
        Top quark mass measurement with ATLAS
        Speaker: Pietro Gregorio Cavalleri (Lab.de Phys.Nucleaire et de Hautes Energie/LPNHE (LPNHE))
        Slides
      • 76
        Single top cross section measurements in ATLAS
        Speaker: Benoit Clement (CERN)
        Slides
    • Poster session

      Posters will be displayed during an entire duration of the conference

      • 77
        Atlas trigger for first physics and beyond
        Speaker: Teresa Fonseca Martin (RHUL)
      • 78
        Challenges in the detection of long lived particles with ATLAS: the Hidden valley scenario
        Speaker: Daniel Ventura (University of Washington, Seattle)
      • 79
        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)
      • 80
        Diboson production with ATLAS
        Speaker: Ljiljana Simic (Belgrade)
      • 81
        Direct photons at ATLAS
        Speaker: F Bucci (Universite de Geneve)
      • 82
        Hadronic Calibration for the ATLAS Jet Trigger
        Speaker: Nuno Miguel Goncalves Dos Anjos (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)
        Poster
      • 83
        High-pt Jet Studies at CMS
        Speaker: Joanna Weng (CERN)
      • 84
        Inclusive search for the SM Higgs Boson in the channel H -> gamma gamma at CMS
        Speaker: Federico Ferri (DSM/Irfu CEA/Saclay)
      • 85
        Jet Finding and Reconstruction in CMS using Charged Tracks only
        Speaker: Paolo Azzurri (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))
        Poster
      • 86
        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)
      • 87
        Minimum Bias Triggers at ATLAS
        Speakers: Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB), Sebastian Böser (University College London)
      • 88
        Production of jets accompanied by W and Z bosons at LHC startup with CMS
        Speaker: Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)
      • 89
        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))
      • 90
        Search for di-lepton resonances and Wprimes with CMS
        Speaker: Dave Evans (Bristol (UK))
      • 91
        Search for Wf in Lepton+Missing ET Final State with Early Data at ATLAS
        Speaker: Nenad Vranjes (Institute of Physics)
      • 92
        Searching for new physics in events with three leptons with ATLAS
        Speaker: Katarina Pajchel (Oslo)
      • 93
        Sensitivity to photon polarization in B_s -> \phi \gamma decays at LHCb
        Speaker: Lesya Shchutska (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP))
        Paper
        Poster
      • 94
        SM Higgs properties measurement with ATLAS
        Speaker: Bill Murray (Particle Physics)
      • 95
        SM Higgs search in the 4-lepton final state with ATLAS
        Speaker: Alessia D'Orazio (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut-Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Unkno)
      • 96
        SUSY search with b jets at ATLAS
        Speakers: Dragan Popovic (Institute of Physics), Jelena Krstic (Institute of Physics), Marija Milosavljevic (Institute of Physics)
      • 97
        The reach of the ATLAS experiment in SUSY parameter space
        Speaker: Debra Lumb (Freiburg)
      • 98
        Transverse momentum spectra of D- and B-mesons in hadron collisons at very high energies
        Speaker: Gennadi Lykasov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)
      • 99
        Jet Shapes at CMS
        Speaker: Pelin Kurt (Physics Department)
      • 100
        QCD with Weak Bosons and Jets with ATLAS
        Speakers: Guillaume Kirsch (Oxford), Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)
    • Plenary Session
      • 101
        B Factory Results
        Speaker: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick)
        Paper
      • 102
        Tevatron B Physics Results
        Speaker: Karen Gibson (University of Pittsburgh)
        Slides
      • 103
        Status and Potential of LHCb
        Speaker: Andrey GOLUTVIN (ITEP Moscow)
        Slides
      • 104
        LHCb Commissioning
        Speaker: Olivier Callot (LAL-Orsay)
        Slides
    • 10:15 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary Session 2
      • 105
        RHIC overview
        Speaker: Julia Velkovska (julia.velkovska@vanderbilt.edu)
        Slides
      • 106
        Heavy Ions Physics (Theory)
        Speaker: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)
        Slides
      • 107
        ALICE Status and Potential
        Speaker: Juergen Schukraft (CERN)
        Slides
      • 108
        ALICE Commissioning
        Speaker: Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)
        Paper
    • 109
      Lunch
    • Afternoon Working Session - Plenary
      • 110
        Heavy ions with ATLAS and CMS
        Speaker: Olga Kodolova (Institute for Nuclear Physics)
        Slides
      • 111
        B physics with ATLAS and CMS
        Speaker: Brigitte Epp (University of Innsbruck)
        Paper
    • Afternoon Working Session - Parallel - B physics
      • 112
        Measurement of B_s mixing phase beta_s
        Speaker: Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)
        Slides
      • 113
        Implications of beta_s measurements
        Speaker: Luca Silvestrini (Luca.Silvestrini@roma1.infn.it)
        Paper
      • 114
        Prospects for beta_s measurement
        Speaker: Alessia Satta (INFN Rome II)
        Slides
    • Afternoon Working Session - Parallel - Heavy ions
      • 115
        First physics with ALICE: from pp to heavy ions
        Speaker: Domenico Elia (INFN Bari)
        Slides
      • 116
        Heavy flavour in ALICE
        Speaker: Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)
        Slides
      • 117
        Physics with photons in ALICE
        Speaker: Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))
        Slides
    • 4:20 PM
      Coffee break
    • Afternoon Working Session 2 - Parallel - B physics
      • 118
        Measurement of CKM angle gamma/phi_3
        Speaker: Anton Poluektov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Novosibirsk)
        Paper
      • 119
        Prospects for gamma/phi_3 measurement
        Speaker: Valerie Gibson (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 120
        Recent developments in charm physics
        Speaker: John Yelton (University of Florida)
        Slides
      • 121
        Prospects for B_s -> mumu at CMS
        Speaker: Benedetta Caponeri (INFN Sez. di Perugia c/o Dipt. di Fisica (INFN))
        Paper
      • 122
        Prospects for K*mumu
        Speaker: William Robert Reece (Imperial College)
        Slides
    • Afternoon Working Session 2 - Parallel - Heavy ions
      • 123
        Diffractive and ultraperipheral physics with ALICE
        Speaker: Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)
        Slides
      • 124
        Jet physics in Pb-Pb collisions with ATLAS
        Speaker: Martin Spousta (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics-Charles University-Unknown)
        Slides
      • 125
        Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions with CMS
        Speaker: Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))
        Slides
      • 126
        Performance of CMS Tracker in Heavy Ion Collisions
        Speaker: Vasundhara Chetluru (Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)
        Slides
    • 127
      Conference dinner Marina Frapa

      Marina Frapa

    • Plenary Session
      • 128
        Scenarios beyond standard LHC physics
        Speaker: Gian Giudice (CERN)
        Slides
      • 129
        Super LHC
        Speaker: Walter Scandale (CERN)
        Slides
      • 130
        Detector upgrades for SLHC
        Speaker: Nigel Hessey (NIKHEF)
        Paper
    • 10:35 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary Session 2
      • 131
        Results From Astroparticle Physics
        Speaker: Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (DAPNIA, Saclay)
        Paper
      • 132
        Thoughts about LHC physics
        Speaker: Edward Witten (Princeton)
        Slides
      • 133
        Future perspectives in particle physics
        Speaker: Carlo Rubbia (CERN/INFN)
        Slides
    • 134
      Lunch