New Physics and the LHC

13 Aug 2007, 08:00 → 7 Sept 2007, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

The CERN Theory Institute has been launched with focused programs in High Energy Physics. A session devoted to Beyond the Standard Model is organized in August-September 2007, it will be mostly targeted to model-builders, with the participation of string theorists and collider phenomenologists.

Monday 13 August

14:00 → 14:30 Light scalar at LHC: the Higgs or the dilaton?

Speaker: Prof. Witold Skiba (Yale University)

Slides Skiba.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Lattice Chirality and the Decoupling of Mirror Fermions

Speaker: Prof. Erich Poppitz (University of Toronto)

Slides Poppitz.pdf

Tuesday 14 August

11:30 → 12:00 Natural Scalar Dark Matter from an Unnatural Higgs

Speaker: Prof. Aaron Pierce (Michigan University)

Slides Pierce.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 The $M$-MSSM at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Bobby Acharya (ICTP Trieste)

Slides Acharya.pdf

Wednesday 15 August

14:00 → 15:00 Physics with Cold Atoms

Weekly TH Colloquium. Abstract: Atomic physics has made rapid progress recently, yielding many high precision techniques and experiments. Atom interferometry in particular has become a sensitive tool, used successfully for a variety of applications including clocks, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. In light of this, it is interesting to consider the possibilities for using atom interferometry to study fundamental physics. It could be applied to study gravity and astrophysics by observing low frequency gravitational waves, or by allowing laboratory tests of general relativity. Further, atom interferometry can make significant improvements to searches for new short-distance forces and tests of atom neutrality. It could even potentially provide novel tests of quantum mechanics.

Speaker: Dr Peter Graham (Stanford University)

Slides Graham.pdf

Thursday 16 August

14:00 → 14:30 Four Generations and Higgs Physics

Speaker: Prof. Graham Kribs (University of Oregon)

Slides Kribs.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 A GIM Mechanism from Extra Dimensions

Blackboard talk. No slide available.

Speaker: Prof. Csaba Csaki (Cornell University)

Monday 20 August

14:00 → 14:30 Relating LHC Signatures and Underlying (String) Theories Directly

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Kane (Michigan University)

Slides Kane.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Gauge-Higgs Unification

Speaker: Prof. Yutaka Hosotani (Osaka University)

Slides hosotani.pdf

Tuesday 21 August

14:00 → 15:00 Minimal Completions of Gauge Mediation

Weekly TH Seminar

Speaker: Dr David Shih (Harvard University)

Slides Shih.pdf

Wednesday 22 August

14:00 → 15:00 On the Ubiquity of Meta-Stable Vacua

Weekly TH Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech University)

Slides Ooguri.pdf

Thursday 23 August

14:00 → 14:45 ATLAS status and plans for physics with first data

Speaker: Dr Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)

Slides CERN-TH.pdf Gianotti.pdf

14:45 → 15:30 CMS status and plans for physics with first data

Speaker: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Dasu.pdf

Friday 24 August

14:00 → 14:30 Gluinos at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Jay Wacker (SLAC)

Slides Wacker.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Modifying missing energy signatures

Speaker: Prof. Neal Weiner (New-York University)

Slides Weiner.pdf

Monday 27 August

14:00 → 14:30 An informal discussion on SO(5)/SO(4) and the EWPT

Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Slides Barbieri.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Black holes and many species solution to the hierarchy problem (at LHC)

Speaker: Gia Dvali (CERN-TH and New-York University)

Slides Dvali.pdf

Tuesday 28 August

11:30 → 12:00 TeV-scale Gravity in Horava-Witten Theory on a Compact Complex Hyperbolic Threefold

Speaker: Mr Chris Austin

Slides Austin.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Signatures of gravitational fixed points at the LHC

Speaker: Daniel Litim (Unknown)

Slides Litim.pdf

Wednesday 29 August

14:00 → 15:00 Black Holes and Quantum Gravity at the LHC

Weekly TH Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Lisa Randall (Harvard University)

Slides Randall.pdf

Friday 31 August

11:30 → 12:00 Mass Determination in SUSY-like Events with Missing Energy

Speaker: Prof. Hsin-Chia Cheng (UC Davis)

Slides Cheng.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 String Signatures for the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Hans-Peter Nilles (Bonn University)

Slides Nilles.pdf

Monday 3 September

14:00 → 14:30 The LHC: More Symmetries or More Universes?

Speaker: Prof. Lawrence Hall (UC Berkeley)

Slides Hall.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Signs of analyticity in effective theories

Speaker: Dr Alejandro Jenkins (MIT)

Slides Jenkins.pdf

Tuesday 4 September

11:30 → 12:00 Moduli stabilization, pattern of sparticle spectra and the gluino stransverse mass at LHC

Speaker: Prof. Kiwoon Choi (KAIST, Daejeon)

Slides Choi.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Some aspects of supersymmetry breaking metastable vacua

Speaker: Dr Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique)

Slides Dudas.pdf

Wednesday 5 September

14:00 → 15:00 Peeking Into a Hidden Valley: A First Look at Exotic Phenomenology

Weekly TH Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Matthew Strassler (Rutgers University)

Slides Strassler.pdf