Workshop on Collider Physics (Argonne & University of Chicago)

from Monday, 8 May 2006 (09:00) to Friday, 12 May 2006 (18:00)
Argonne National Laboratory (F108)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 May 2006
9 May 2006
10 May 2006
11 May 2006
12 May 2006
AM
09:30
LHC challenges and opportunities (until 12:15)
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)  
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10:30 The missing heavy flavor backgrounds to Higgs production - Zack Sullivan (ANL)  
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11:15 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 The missing E_T measurement - Ambreesh Gupta (University of Chicago)  
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09:30
New physics I (until 12:00)
09:30 LHC multi-particle simulation for the MSSM and beyond - Juergen Reuter (DESY)  
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10:15 Some new directions in Randall-Sundrum phenomenology - Hooman Davoudiasl (University of Wisconsin)  
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 Searches of narrow di-muon resonances at hadron colliders - Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)  
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09:00
New physics III and HEP division seminar (until 12:00)
09:00 Twin Higgs: Natural EW symmetry breaking - Hock Seng Goh (University of Arizona)  
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09:30 Phenomenology of twin Higgs models - Shufang Su (University of Arisona)  
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10:00 Reconstructing mass and spin at hadron colliders - Bob McElrath (UC, Davis)  
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10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 The first inverse femtobarn at the LHC - Dan Green (Fermilab)  
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09:30
Top + QCD (until 12:00)
09:30 Electroweak gauge boson production through O(alpha_s^2) - Frank Petriello (University of Wisconsin)  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Single top from t-tbar production - Puneet Batra (ANL)  
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11:00 QCD corrections to top spin effects at hadron colliders - Zongguo Si (Shangdong University)  
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09:00
New physics IV (until 12:00) (L119, Bldg. 360)
09:00 B meson decays involving b -> s transitions in left-right models - Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central University)  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Constraints on B and Higgs Physics in the MSSM - Arjun Menon (ANL & Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)  
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11:15 Baryon and Lepton number violation at the LHC - David Morrissey (University of Michigan)  
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PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
SUSY and dark matter (until 17:00)
13:30 Little Higgs models with T-parity - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)  
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14:15 Dark Matter at Colliders - Csaba Balazs (ANL)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:15 Supersymmetry and the origin of (dark) matter - Ayres Freitas (University of Zurich)  
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16:00 SUSY searches at the Tevatron - Giulia Manca (University of Liverpool)  
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17:00 --- Picnic with Argonne white deer (weather and deer permitting) ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
New physics || (until 17:30)
13:30 Aspects of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking - Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)  
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14:15 Strong dynamics scenarios of new physics at the LHC - Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:15 CMS sensitivity to new physics with dijets - Robert Harris (FNAL)  
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16:00 Sterile Neutrinos in Lepton-Number Violating Processes - Anupama Atre (University of Wisconsin)  
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16:30 Searching for Majorana neutrinos at hadron colliders - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)  
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12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Standard Model aspects (until 17:00)
13:30 Violations of the narrow width approximation - David Rainwater (University of Rochester)  
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14:15 Antenna showers and color annealing - Peter Skands (FNAL)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:15 Semi-numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes - Walter Giele (Fermilab)  
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16:00 Top physics at D0 - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois, Chicago)  
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17:30 --- Ping-pong tournament ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
QCD and beyond (until 16:45)
13:30 Unintegrated parton densities: Why do we need them? What are they good for? - John Collins (Penn State University)  
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14:15 Photon pair production at the Tevatron and LHC - Pavel Nadolsky (ANL)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:15 QCD corrections to Higgs and vector boson production - Carlo Oleari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)  
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16:00 Bard: an algorithmic solution to the LHC interpretation problem - Bruce Knuteson (MIT)  
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18:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
New physics V (until 16:45) (L119, Bldg. 360)
13:30 Relating physical superpartner masses to the MSSM Lagrangian - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)  
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14:15 Kaluza-Klein resonances and the geography of extra dimensions - Ben Lillie (ANL and Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:15 Resonances from Two Universal Extra dimensions - Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL)  
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16:00 String-inspired exotics and their implications for the LHC - James Wells (University of Michigan)  
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