Workshop on Collider Physics (Argonne & University of Chicago)

8 May 2006, 09:00 → 12 May 2006, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

F108 (Argonne National Laboratory)

The aim of the workshop is to bring together theorists and experimentalists eager to assess, disparage, and push forward our understanding of physics signals at elementary particle colliders, particularly at the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN Large Hadron Collider. The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to signatures of new physics with missing transverse energy; production of Higgs bosons in weak-boson fusion; identification of physics beyond the standard model from future collider data; higher-order QCD corrections and resummations; next-to-leading order Monte-Carlo event generators; phenomenology of strong-coupling models for electroweak symmetry breaking.

Monday 8 May

LHC challenges and opportunities

1 Welcome!

Speaker: Harry Weerts (ANL)

2 Jet measurements in the first few LHC months and new limits on contact interactions

Speaker: Tom LeCompte (ANL)

Slides First_Year.pdf First_Year.ppt

3 The missing heavy flavor backgrounds to Higgs production

Speaker: Zack Sullivan (ANL)

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11:15 Coffee break

4 The missing E_T measurement

Speaker: Ambreesh Gupta (University of Chicago)

Slides susyanl.pdf susyanl.ppt

12:15 Lunch

SUSY and dark matter

5 Little Higgs models with T-parity

Speaker: Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)

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6 Dark Matter at Colliders

Speaker: Csaba Balazs (ANL)

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15:00 Coffee break

7 Supersymmetry and the origin of (dark) matter

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (University of Zurich)

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8 SUSY searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Giulia Manca (University of Liverpool)

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17:00 Picnic with Argonne white deer (weather and deer permitting)

Tuesday 9 May

New physics I

9 LHC multi-particle simulation for the MSSM and beyond

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides jr_argonne.pdf

10 Some new directions in Randall-Sundrum phenomenology

Speaker: Hooman Davoudiasl (University of Wisconsin)

Slides argRS0509.ps

11:00 Coffee break

11 Searches of narrow di-muon resonances at hadron colliders

Speaker: Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

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12:00 Lunch

New physics ||

12 Aspects of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking

Speaker: Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)

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13 Strong dynamics scenarios of new physics at the LHC

Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)

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15:00 Coffee break

14 CMS sensitivity to new physics with dijets

Speaker: Robert Harris (FNAL)

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15 Sterile Neutrinos in Lepton-Number Violating Processes

Speaker: Anupama Atre (University of Wisconsin)

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16 Searching for Majorana neutrinos at hadron colliders

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

Slides han.pdf

Wednesday 10 May

New physics III and HEP division seminar

17 Twin Higgs: Natural EW symmetry breaking

Speaker: Hock Seng Goh (University of Arizona)

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18 Phenomenology of twin Higgs models

Speaker: Shufang Su (University of Arisona)

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19 Reconstructing mass and spin at hadron colliders

Speaker: Bob McElrath (UC, Davis)

Slides mcelrath.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

20 The first inverse femtobarn at the LHC

Argonne HEP division seminar

Speaker: Dan Green (Fermilab)

Slides LHC_First_Femto.pdf LHC_First_Femto.ppt

12:00 Lunch

Standard Model aspects

21 Violations of the narrow width approximation

Speaker: David Rainwater (University of Rochester)

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22 Antenna showers and color annealing

Speaker: Peter Skands (FNAL)

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15:00 Coffee break

23 Semi-numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes

Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides giele.pdf giele.ppt

24 Top physics at D0

Speaker: Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois, Chicago)

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17:30 Ping-pong tournament

Thursday 11 May

Top + QCD

25 Electroweak gauge boson production through O(alpha_s^2)

Speaker: Frank Petriello (University of Wisconsin)

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10:15 Coffee break

26 Single top from t-tbar production

Speaker: Puneet Batra (ANL)

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27 QCD corrections to top spin effects at hadron colliders

Speaker: Zongguo Si (Shangdong University)

Slides wcp-si.pdf

12:00 Lunch

QCD and beyond

28 Unintegrated parton densities: Why do we need them? What are they good for?

Speaker: John Collins (Penn State University)

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29 Photon pair production at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (ANL)

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15:00 Coffee break

30 QCD corrections to Higgs and vector boson production

Speaker: Carlo Oleari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)

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31 Bard: an algorithmic solution to the LHC interpretation problem

Speaker: Bruce Knuteson (MIT)

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18:00 Workshop dinner

Friday 12 May

New physics IV

32 B meson decays involving b -> s transitions in left-right models

Speaker: Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central University)

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10:15 Coffee break

33 Constraints on B and Higgs Physics in the MSSM

Speaker: Arjun Menon (ANL & Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)

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34 Baryon and Lepton number violation at the LHC

Speaker: David Morrissey (University of Michigan)

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12:00 Lunch

New physics V

35 Relating physical superpartner masses to the MSSM Lagrangian

Speaker: Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

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36 Kaluza-Klein resonances and the geography of extra dimensions

Speaker: Ben Lillie (ANL and Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)

Slides anlworkshop.ppt

15:00 Coffee break

37 Resonances from Two Universal Extra dimensions

Speaker: Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL)

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38 String-inspired exotics and their implications for the LHC

Speaker: James Wells (University of Michigan)

Slides wells.pdf