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Nikolai Tyurin (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))20/11/2012, 09:00
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Luigi Guiducci (Universita e INFN Bologna (IT))20/11/2012, 09:10Status and performance of the experimentsThe CMS experiment at the LHC collected 5.55 /fb of proton proton collisions data at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV in 2011 and almost 20 /fb at 8 TeV energy in 2012, while the LHC run is still ongoing. The CMS detector has shown excellent performance and very good data taking efficiency. The operational experience will be discussed focusing on relevant technical aspects. The performance of...Go to contribution page
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Evgeny Kryshen (B.P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute - PNPI ()20/11/2012, 09:50Status and performance of the experimentsThe ALICE experiment has been running successfully since 2010 and made an impressive progress towards understanding of hot and dense QCD matter produced in heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies. Recent results on identified particle spectra, azimuthal anisotropy, particle correlations, heavy flavour and quarkonia production in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV will be presented. Future...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Mamonov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center (RU))20/11/2012, 10:30Status and performance of the experimentsWe report on the development of a software simulator of the detector control system for the ALICE Photon Spectrometer (PHOS). PHOS is an electromagnetic calorimeter, part of the ALICE experiment installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The simulator was design and developed based on the experience acquired during the first years of operation of the detector, from 2009 to 2012. It...Go to contribution page
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Daria Savrina (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))20/11/2012, 11:20Status and performance of the experimentsThe LHCb experiment is purposed to study the properties of the beauty and charmed particles decays. In such decays the search for the physics beyond the Standard Model is performed in an indirect way, as one expects contribution from non-standard particles and forces to become visible through the branching fractions of the rare decays, CP-asymmetries and many other observables. The LHCb...Go to contribution page
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Oleg Solovyanov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))20/11/2012, 12:00Status and performance of the experimentsAfter the successful data taking year of 2011 at 7 TeV, since March of 2012 the ATLAS experiment at LHC is collecting data with colliding proton beams at the previously unparalleled centre of mass energy of 8 TeV. A challenging task was to cope with the augmented event rates due to the increased luminosity delivered by the collider and large pileup conditions. A status of the ATLAS detector is...Go to contribution page
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Hongbo Zhu (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))20/11/2012, 12:30Status and performance of the experimentsAfter successful LHC operation at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV in 2011, the LHC is scheduled to deliver even more data in 2012 at 8 TeV. Meanwhile, plans are actively advancing for a series of upgrades, culminating roughly 10 years from now in the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project, delivering of order five times the LHC nominal instantaneous luminosity along with luminosity levelling....Go to contribution page
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Vladimir Nikolaenko (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))20/11/2012, 14:00B-physicsStatus of B-physics studies in ATLAS is reviewed, starting from Onia results based on dimuon channel. J/psi->mu+mu- decay also serves as a basis for identification of B-mesons and Lambda_b baryons. Results on cross section and lifetime measurements, CP-violation parameters and rare decay searches are also presented.Go to contribution page
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Bora Akgun (Rice University (US))20/11/2012, 14:30B-physicsThe recent results of the CMS experiment in the field of b-quark production, B hadron spectroscopy and decays are reviewed. The B_{s} lifetime difference is measured and the first observation of a new baryon with beauty, the Xi(b)*0 is presented.Go to contribution page
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Raphaelle Bailhache (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))20/11/2012, 15:00B-physicsIn ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are of particular interest, since they are produced in the early stage of the reaction and coexist with the surrounding medium. Therefore the measurement of open heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC gives access to the mechanisms of heavy-quark transport and energy loss in hot and dense QCD...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Artamonov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))20/11/2012, 15:30Heavy quarkoniaStudies of charm and charmonia production provide important tests of QCD. During 2010 and 2011 the LHCb experiment collected a dataset corresponding to about 1/fb of integrated luminosity in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. We present measurements of the production of J/psi, psi(2S), chi_c1 and chi_c2 as well as their cross-section ratio, and a cross-section ratio of chi_c to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mikhail Vysotsky (ITEP)20/11/2012, 16:30B-physicsSince most probably Standard Model cannot explain large value of CP asymmetries recently observed in D-meson decays we propose the fourth quark-lepton generation explanation of it. As a byproduct weakly mixed leptons of the fourth generation enable to save the baryon number of the Universe from erasure by sphalerons.Go to contribution page
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Olga Kochebina (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))20/11/2012, 17:00B-physicsIn this presentation, rare decays of B and D mesons are discussed. Such decays are sensitive to the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model as they are mediated by loop diagrams. New physics can be probed by measuring unexpectedly high branching ratios, CP, isospin and forward backward asymmetries and other angular observables. The last results of LHCb experiment in this field are presented.Go to contribution page
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Dr Jianguo Bian (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China)20/11/2012, 17:30Heavy quarkoniaUsing large data samples of di-muon events, CMS has performed detailed measurements in the field of quarkonium production. Differential cross-sections of (prompt) J/psi, psi(2S) and Y(nS) states in pT and rapidity will be presented, as well as studies of P-wave charmonia (chi_c), using the decay mode J/psi + gamma where the photon converts in an e+e- pair inside the detector. All our...Go to contribution page
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Yiming Li (Tsinghua University (CN))20/11/2012, 18:00B-physicsWith large production cross-section and its unique rapidity coverage, the LHCb detector brings opportunity for $b\bar{b}$ bottomonia studies, hence tests for QCD models. We present here the results of $\Upsilon$ and $\chi_b(1P)$ production at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV. Also discussed here are studies on the $B_c$ meson, including its production and mass measurement using $B_c^{+} \rightarrow J/\psi...Go to contribution page
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Ivan Polyakov (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))20/11/2012, 18:30B-physicsThe LHCb experiment is a forward arm spectrometer designed to make high precision measurements of b hadron decays at the LHC. During 2011 a total luminosity of 1.0 fb-1 of data was collected at sqrt(s)=7 TeV. LHCb's efficient dimuon trigger allows to perform studies of B mesons decaying to charmonia with high precision. We will present results on B decays into J/psi and light hadrons, together...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Valery Telnov (Budker INP, Novosibirsk, Russia)21/11/2012, 09:00LEP3 Higgs factoryParticle loss due to the emission of single energetic beamstrahlung photons is shown to impose a fundamental limit on storage ring luminosities at energies more than 2E~140 GeV for head-on collisions and 2E~40 GeV for crab-waist collisions. Above these thresholds the suppression factor due to beamstrahlung scales as 1/E^4/3 and for a fixed power of synchrotron radiation L \propto R/E^13/3. ...Go to contribution page
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m Koratzinos (University of Geneva)21/11/2012, 09:30LEP3 Higgs factoryThe discovery of X(125) at CERN, which looks increasingly likely to be the long-awaited Higgs boson, opens the debate of which type of machine would serve best as a Higgs factory. LEP3 is a low-cost, high-luminosity circular e+e- collider operating near the Higgs production optimal centre-of-mass energy of 240GeV. We will briefly discuss what accuracies on Higgs observables are necessary to...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Valery Telnov (Budker INP, Novosibirsk, Russia)21/11/2012, 10:00LEP3 Higgs factoryVarious approaches to Higgs factories are discussed: LC, storage ring, muon collider, photon collider, etc, incl. news from the HF2012, FNAL, Nov. 14-16, 2012.Go to contribution page
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Christoph Mayer (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))21/11/2012, 17:00Heavy Ions CollisionsThe strong electro-magnetic fields produced by ultra-relativistic heavy ions allow for the study of gamma-gamma and gamma-nucleus processes at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Here, we report first results obtained by ALICE on the J/psi photo-production cross section in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV, both at forward rapidities (-3.6 < y < -2.6) in the mu+mu- channel, and at central...Go to contribution page
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Dmitry Blau (National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (RU))21/11/2012, 17:30Heavy Ions CollisionsIdentified hadron spectra are considered to be sensitive to transport properties of strongly interacting matter produced in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. We present measurements of $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ mesons at mid-rapidity in a wide transverse momentum range in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies measured with the ALICE detector. The mesons are reconstructed via their two-photon...Go to contribution page
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Alexandre Shabetai (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associe)21/11/2012, 18:00Heavy Ions CollisionsA cross-over between ordinary nuclear matter and a state of deconfined quarks and gluons, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is predicted by lattice QCD calculations. Experimentally, ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are used to study such a hot and dense medium. Jets are sensitive to early stage of heavy ion collisions. This property allows to probe the QGP. Their strong interaction with the...Go to contribution page
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Rishat Sultanov (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))21/11/2012, 18:30Heavy Ions CollisionsJets are an important tool in testing QCD and probing the hot and dense nuclear matter created in high energy heavy-ion collisions. They can be used to study hard scatterings, fragmentation and hadronisation and how this processes differ from baseline vacuum measurements in case of presence of a partonic medium. Vacuum measurements are obtained from proton-proton collisions. Data taken by...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sergey Ivanov (Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP))22/11/2012, 09:00Status and plans of LHC machineThe report overviews present status of the Accelerator Complex U70 of IHEP-Protvino comprising four machines (2 linear accelerators and 2 synchrotrons). Particular emphasis is put on the recent upgrades aimed at improving quality of proton beam and implementing program to accelerate light ions (carbon).Go to contribution page
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Dr Mirko Pojer (CERN)22/11/2012, 09:30Status and plans of LHC machineIn three years of operation, the LHC has delivered a total of more than 25 fb-1 of integrated luminosity, providing collisions at 7 and 8 TeV c.o.m. The reasons for this tremendous success will be underlined. At the beginning of next year, the machine will be stopped for about 20 months, at the end of which the energy, and therefore the potential for discoveries, will be increased. The...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Anatoly Petrukhin (Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (RU))22/11/2012, 10:00Searches for Phenomena beyond the Standard ModelIn cosmic ray experiments, the particles with energies (10^15 – 10^19) eV are investigated. This interval corresponds to (1.4 – 140) TeV in the center-of-mass system, which is 10 times higher than maximum LHC energy. Many unusual results in cosmic ray experiments in this energy interval were observed, which cannot be explained in frame of existing theoretical models and approaches. For their...Go to contribution page
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Dr Wolfgang Waltenberger (HEPHY Vienna)22/11/2012, 11:00Searches for Phenomena beyond the Standard ModelTo this date CMS has performed a wide range of searches for physics beyond the standard model. The program comprises both broad, inclusive searches as well as exclusive, specialised approaches. In this overview talk, the results with proton-proton collision data both at 7 and 8 TeV will be summarized, with a focus on presenting some highlights of the CMS search program.Go to contribution page
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5. Search for a heavy neutrino and right-handed W of the left-right symmetric model in pp collisionsMikhail Kirsanov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))22/11/2012, 11:30Searches for Phenomena beyond the Standard ModelWe describe the search for signals from the production of right-handed W bosons and heavy neutrinos $N_l (l = e, \mu)$, that arise naturally in the left-right symmetric extension to the standard model, using 5 1/fb of collision data collected by the CMS Experiment at the LHC in 2011 at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV and 3.6 1/fb of 2012 collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV. No excess over expectations from...Go to contribution page
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Nathan Edward Triplett (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))22/11/2012, 12:00Searches for Phenomena beyond the Standard ModelWith the upgrade of LHC center of mass energy to 8 TeV along with high intensity beams, many regions of beyond standard model physics are able to be probed for the first time. This talk will present the current status of the ATLAS SUSY and exotic searches with a focus on the most recent 8 TeV results.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Boris Arbuzov (Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics)22/11/2012, 12:30Higgs Phenomenology and lessons from LHC resultsThe recently discovered resonance at $125.7\, GeV$ in invariant mass distribution of $\gamma\, \gamma$ and of $l^+\,l^+\,l^-\,l^-$ may be tentatively interpreted as a scalar bound state $X$ consisting of two $W$. In the present note we consider this option and show that this interpretation agrees existing experimental data including the last LHC discovery and the $b \bar b$ bump reported by...Go to contribution page
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Saverio D'Auria (University of Glasgow)22/11/2012, 14:00Top quark production and propertiesThis talk will be a review of the recent Atlas experimental results on top-quark Physics.Go to contribution page
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Andrew Ivanov (Kansas State University (US))22/11/2012, 14:30Top quark production and propertiesWe present CMS results on top quark production and properties measurementsGo to contribution page
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Geraldine Conti (Harvard University (US))22/11/2012, 15:00Electroweak phenomenaThe measurement of WW, WZ, ZZ, W$\gamma$ and Z$\gamma$ production cross-sections allow for precision tests of the electroweak (EW) dynamics of the Standard Model (SM). Differences between measured and predicted SM cross-sections could prove evidence for new phenomena. The diboson processes are also an important source of background to Higgs production decaying into vector boson pairs, such as...Go to contribution page
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Matteo Marone (University of Trieste and INFN)22/11/2012, 15:30QCD studiesThe associated production of jets and vector bosons allows for stringent tests of perturbative QCD calculations and is sensitive to the possible presence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Measurements of jet production rates in association with W, Z or photons, in proton-proton collisions at a 7 TeV center-of-mass energy is presented, using data collected with the CMS detector. In...Go to contribution page
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Simone Pagan Griso (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))22/11/2012, 16:30Searches for HiggsDuring July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaboration announced together the observation of a new boson in the Higgs searches, with a mass around 126 GeV. Since then, the Large Hadron Collider has been running steadly, providing proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV; both experiments have now more than doubled the amount of data available since July. I will review the latest results of the...Go to contribution page
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Christian Schmitt (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))22/11/2012, 17:00Searches for HiggsOn July 4th both ATLAS and CMS announced the observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson. The required sensitivity above 5 sigma could only be achieved by combining different search channels and by analysing both the data from 2011 and 2012. Several production and decay modes can shed light on the properties of this new particle, but the full picture can only be obtained by...Go to contribution page
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Mikhail Kirsanov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))22/11/2012, 17:30Searches for HiggsResults are presented from searches for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV in five decay modes: $gamma \gamma$, $bb$, $\tau \tau$, $WW$, and $ZZ$. The analysed data correspond to integrated luminosities of up to 5.1 1/fb at 7 TeV and 5.3 1/fb at 8 TeV. The data exclude the existence of a SM Higgs boson in the ranges 110--122.5 and 127--600...Go to contribution page
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Federica Primavera (Universita e INFN (IT))22/11/2012, 18:00Searches for HiggsIn the minimal super-symmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM), the Higgs sector contains two Higgs boson doublets, including, after electroweak symmetry breaking, the CP-odd neutral scalar A0, the two charged scalars H±, and the two CP-even neutral scalars h and H0. The results in the search for neutral and charged Higgs bosons with the CMS detector at LHC are presented, based on the...Go to contribution page
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Eduard Boos (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))22/11/2012, 18:30Higgs Phenomenology and lessons from LHC resultsRecent discovery of new like a Higgs boson at the LHC stimulated intensive discussions of many arising questions. To which extend the observed resonance corresponds to the SM Higgs, how to extract and measure properties of the resonance such as spin, P and C parities, what are implications to various BSM scenarios assuming not a SM nature of observed boson...? Short review of results of...Go to contribution page
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