Name: Workshop on Collider Physics (Argonne & University of Chicago)
Start: 2006-05-08T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2006-05-12T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Argonne National Laboratory

Workshop on Collider Physics (Argonne & University of Chicago)

from Monday, 8 May 2006 (09:00) to Friday, 12 May 2006 (18:00)

Monday, 8 May 2006
09:30 LHC challenges and opportunities
09:30 - 12:15
Room: F108
Contributions

09:30 Welcome! - Harry Weerts (ANL)

09:45 Jet measurements in the first few LHC months and new limits on contact interactions - Tom LeCompte (ANL)

10:30 The missing heavy flavor backgrounds to Higgs production - Zack Sullivan (ANL)

11:30 The missing E_T measurement - Ambreesh Gupta (University of Chicago)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Argonne cafeteria
13:30 SUSY and dark matter
13:30 - 17:00
Room: F108
Contributions

13:30 Little Higgs models with T-parity - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)

14:15 Dark Matter at Colliders - Csaba Balazs (ANL)

15:15 Supersymmetry and the origin of (dark) matter - Ayres Freitas (University of Zurich)

16:00 SUSY searches at the Tevatron - Giulia Manca (University of Liverpool)
17:00 Picnic with Argonne white deer (weather and deer permitting)
Picnic with Argonne white deer (weather and deer permitting)
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Argonne park (http://www.hep.anl.gov/theorygroup/workshop_06/picnic_map.jpg))
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
09:30 New physics I
09:30 - 12:00
Room: F108
Contributions

09:30 LHC multi-particle simulation for the MSSM and beyond - Juergen Reuter (DESY)

10:15 Some new directions in Randall-Sundrum phenomenology - Hooman Davoudiasl (University of Wisconsin)

11:15 Searches of narrow di-muon resonances at hadron colliders - Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Argonne cafeteria
13:30 New physics ||
13:30 - 17:30
Room: F108
Contributions

13:30 Aspects of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking - Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)

14:15 Strong dynamics scenarios of new physics at the LHC - Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)

15:15 CMS sensitivity to new physics with dijets - Robert Harris (FNAL)

16:00 Sterile Neutrinos in Lepton-Number Violating Processes - Anupama Atre (University of Wisconsin)

16:30 Searching for Majorana neutrinos at hadron colliders - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
09:00 New physics III and HEP division seminar
09:00 - 12:00
Room: F108
Contributions

09:00 Twin Higgs: Natural EW symmetry breaking - Hock Seng Goh (University of Arizona)

09:30 Phenomenology of twin Higgs models - Shufang Su (University of Arisona)

10:00 Reconstructing mass and spin at hadron colliders - Bob McElrath (UC, Davis)

11:00 The first inverse femtobarn at the LHC - Dan Green (Fermilab)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Argonne cafeteria
13:30 Standard Model aspects
13:30 - 17:00
Room: F108
Contributions

13:30 Violations of the narrow width approximation - David Rainwater (University of Rochester)

14:15 Antenna showers and color annealing - Peter Skands (FNAL)

15:15 Semi-numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes - Walter Giele (Fermilab)

16:00 Top physics at D0 - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois, Chicago)
17:30 Ping-pong tournament
Ping-pong tournament
17:30 - 18:30
Room: F108
Thursday, 11 May 2006
09:30 Top + QCD
09:30 - 12:00
Room: F108
Contributions

09:30 Electroweak gauge boson production through O(alpha_s^2) - Frank Petriello (University of Wisconsin)

10:30 Single top from t-tbar production - Puneet Batra (ANL)

11:00 QCD corrections to top spin effects at hadron colliders - Zongguo Si (Shangdong University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Argonne cafeteria
13:30 QCD and beyond
13:30 - 16:45
Room: F108
Contributions

13:30 Unintegrated parton densities: Why do we need them? What are they good for? - John Collins (Penn State University)

14:15 Photon pair production at the Tevatron and LHC - Pavel Nadolsky (ANL)

15:15 QCD corrections to Higgs and vector boson production - Carlo Oleari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)

16:00 Bard: an algorithmic solution to the LHC interpretation problem - Bruce Knuteson (MIT)
18:00 Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Giordano's pizza
Friday, 12 May 2006
09:00 New physics IV
09:00 - 12:00
Room: L119, Bldg. 360
Contributions

09:00 B meson decays involving b -> s transitions in left-right models - Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central University)

10:30 Constraints on B and Higgs Physics in the MSSM - Arjun Menon (ANL & Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)

11:15 Baryon and Lepton number violation at the LHC - David Morrissey (University of Michigan)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Argonne cafeteria
13:30 New physics V
13:30 - 16:45
Room: L119, Bldg. 360
Contributions

13:30 Relating physical superpartner masses to the MSSM Lagrangian - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

14:15 Kaluza-Klein resonances and the geography of extra dimensions - Ben Lillie (ANL and Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)

15:15 Resonances from Two Universal Extra dimensions - Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL)

16:00 String-inspired exotics and their implications for the LHC - James Wells (University of Michigan)

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