Blois2013: 25th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"

26 May 2013, 15:00 → 31 May 2013, 16:00 Europe/Paris

Gaston d'Orléans

Boaz Klima (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)), Jacques Dumarchez (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))

This will be the 25th meeting in this series of annual international multidisciplinary meetings, created in 1989 by Jean Tran Thân Van and which has in the past covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place in the Château of Blois, a beautiful renaissance castle which has housed many French kings, and notably François 1st. The 25th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology" (Blois2013) will emphasize the increasing interplay between high energy accelerator based physics and cosmology. The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited in-depth oral presentations (review talks) and contributed papers, in the form of relatively short oral papers. We will aim to achieve a balance between review talks, provocative talks given by recognized specialists, and shorter contributions. Special emphasis is being placed on active participation by younger researchers and post-docs. Parallel sessions are foreseen, and are being organised as the need arises.

Sunday 26 May

Registration

Reception

Dinner

Monday 27 May

Opening

1 Welcome

Speaker: Jean Tran Thanh Van (LPT, Univ. Orsay)

2 Welcome

Speaker: Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois) (Mayor of Blois)

09:45 Coffee Break

First Session

3 Introduction

Speaker: Boaz Klima (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

Slides Klima.pdf

4 Astroparticle Physics: Today and Tomorrow

Speaker: Stavros KATSANEVAS (CNRS/IN2P3)

Slides Kastanevas.pdf Kastanevas.pptx

5 The LHC: Past, Present, and Future

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

Slides Landsberg.pdf

6 The Neutrino Program: Today and Tomorrow

Speaker: Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)

Slides McFarland-Exptl-PathForward.pdf

12:30 Lunch

The Higgs Boson

7 The Higgs boson: Search for the bosonic decays

Speaker: Yves Sirois (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides Sirois.pdf

8 The Higgs boson: Search for the fermionic decays

Speaker: Aliaksandr Pranko (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides Blois2013_H2ff_talk_final_052413.pdf

9 Higgs property measurements

Speaker: Andre Tinoco Mendes (CERN and LIP)

Slides Mendes.pdf Mendes.pptx

15:45 Coffee Break

The Higgs Boson

10 Theoretical progress in computing of the Higgs rates in the SM

Speaker: Kiril Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Melnikov.pdf

17:15 Conference Photograph

18:00 Visit of the Chateau de Blois

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 28 May

QCD+EW+Top+HI Physics

11 Experimental Test of QCD

Speaker: Konstantinos Kousouris (CERN)

Slides Kousouris.pdf

12 Higher order corrections: status and perspectives

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford)

Slides Zanderighi.pdf

13 Heavy Ion Physics: experimental status

Speaker: Dr Silvia Masciocchi (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Slides Masciocchi.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

QCD+EW+Top+HI Physics

14 Status of electroweak precision measurements

Speaker: Maarten Boonekamp (CEA/Saclay)

Slides Boonekamp.pdf

15 Status of Top Quark Physics

Speaker: Wouter Verkerke (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides Verkerke.pdf Verkerke.pptx

Beyond the Standard Model Physics

16 Top: a SM particle to probe BSM physics

Speaker: Jernej Kamenik (Ljubljana)

Slides Kamenik.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Beyond the Standard Model Physics

17 Non-SUSY Searches

Speaker: Tobias Golling (Yale)

Slides Golling.pdf

18 Implication of observation of the 126 GeV particle for BSM physics

Speaker: Shufang Su (Arizona)

Slides Su.pdf

19 SUSY searches

Speaker: David Stuart (UC Santa Barbara)

Slides Stuart.pdf

20 BSM physics after the LHC first run and expectations for the next run

Speaker: Gilad Perez (CERN)

Slides Perez.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

BSM + DM: Parallel Session

21 SUSY after LHC8

Speaker: Francesco Riva (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Slides FrancescoRiva_Blois.pdf

22 SUSY Searches for Inclusive Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC

Speaker: Lukas Fritz Marti (Universitaet Bern (CH))

Slides lmarti_2805.pdf

23 Third Generation SUSY Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Riccardo Bellan (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))

Slides Bellan.pdf

24 SUSY Searches for EWK Production of Gauginos and Sleptons at the LHC

Speaker: Steven Andrew Farrell (University of California Irvine (US))

Slides Farrell.pdf

25 Searches for Heavy Resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Aram Avetisyan (Boston University (US))

Slides Blois2013_HeavyResonances_AAvetisyan.pdf

26 Searches for Extra Dimensions, LeptoQuarks, and Technicolor at the LHC

Speaker: Sergio Grancagnolo (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))

Slides Grancagnolo.pdf

27 A portal extension of the standard model with an unbroken local dark U(1)

Speaker: Wan-Il Park (K)

Slides Park.pdf

28 Ultra-highenergy photons and the tests of Lorentz-invariance

Speaker: Grisha Rubtsov (INR, Moscow)

Slides rubtsov_blois13.pdf

29 False vacuum as an unstable state: possible cosmological implications

Speaker: Krzysztof Urbanowski (Zielona Gora)

Slides Urbanowski-talk-Blois-2013-2a.pdf

Neutrinos: Parallel Session

30 Results from T2K

Speaker: Steve Boyd (University of Warwick)

Slides Boyd.pdf

31 Measurement of the neutrino mixing angle 13 with the Double Chooz detector

Speaker: Stefano Perasso (APC - Université Paris 7 Diderot)

Slides Perasso.pdf

32 Results of the Daya Bay experiment

Speaker: Viktor Pec (Charles University – Prague)

Slides Pec.pdf

33 New developments on the theory of leptonic flavour

Speaker: Daniel Hernandez Diaz (ICTP)

Slides Hernandez.pdf

34 Results of Borexino

Speaker: Alessandra Re (INFN Milano)

Slides Re.pdf

35 Latest results of OPERA

Speaker: Anselmo Meregaglia (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

Slides Meregaglia.pdf

36 Attempts of explaining the neutrino masses and mixing

Speaker: Marek Zralek (University of Silesia Katowice, Poland)

Slides Zralek.pdf

37 The GERDA experiment for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay: status and perspectives

Speaker: Matteo Agostini (Munich Technical University (TUM))

Slides Agostini.pdf

38 Latest result from the NEMO-3 experiment and status of the construction of SuperNEMO

Speaker: Stefano Torre (University College London)

Slides Torre.pdf

39 Supernova Neutrinos: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Sovan Chakraborty (DESY)

Slides Sovan.pdf

QCD + HF + EW: Parallel Session

40 b-physics with ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Kendall Reeves (Texas)

Slides Reeves.pdf

41 Heavy flavour production and spectroscopy at LHCb

Speaker: Edwige Tournefier (Annecy)

Slides Tournefier.pdf

42 Hadronic B decays at LHCb

Speaker: Rafael Silva Coutinho (Coventry-Warwick)

Slides Coutinho.pdf

43 CP violation in the B system at LHCb

Speaker: Roberta Cardinale (Genova)

Slides Cardinale.pdf

44 Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb

Speaker: Jordi Garra Tico (Cambridge)

Slides Tico.pdf

45 Rare decays at LHCb

Speaker: Fatima Soomro (Frascati)

Slides Soomro.pdf

46 Study of rare B meson decays at B factories

Speaker: Racha Cheaib (McGill)

Slides Cheaib.pdf

47 New SM Measurements at the Tevatron

Speaker: Jenny Lyn Holzbauer (Mississippi University (US))

Slides Holzbauer.pdf

Top + Higgs: Parallel Session

48 Top quark physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Petr Vokac (Czech Technical University (CZ))

Slides Vokac.pdf

49 Top quark production at Ecm=8 TeV

Speaker: Susana Cabrera Urban (Universidad de Valencia (ES))

Slides Cabrera-Urban.pdf

50 Measurements of top quark properties at the LHC

Speaker: Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

Slides Giammanco.pdf

51 Top partners

Speaker: Oleksii Matsedonskyi (Padova)

Slides Matsedonskyi.pdf

52 The same-sign top probe for baryon number violation at the LHC

Speaker: Gauthier Durieux (CP3 - UCLouvain)

Slides Durieux.pdf

53 Top B physics at the LHC

Speaker: Yotam Soreq (WIS)

Slides Soreq.pdf

54 Hadron production measurements for long baseline neutrino experiments NA61/SHINE

Speaker: Laura Amelie Zambelli (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))

Slides Zambelli.pdf

55 Search for rare top quark decays and resonances for new physics models

Speaker: Marco Cardaci (National Central University (TW))

Slides Cardaci.pdf

20:00 Dinner

Wednesday 29 May

08:00 Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé

12:30 Lunch

Astro + Cosmo I: Parallel Session

56 Search for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube

Speaker: Keiichi Mase (Chiba Univ.)

Slides Mase.pdf

57 The High Energy Neutrino Sky as seen by ANTARES

Speaker: Dorothea Samtleben (Nikhef)

Slides Samtleben.pdf Samtleben.pptx

58 Cosmic rays from Gamma Ray Bursts

Speaker: Markus Ahlers (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Ahlers.pdf

59 Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Haris Lyberis (Univ. Federal de Rio de Janeiro)

Slides Lyberis.pdf

60 MAGIC results on the W51 complex

Speaker: Rebecca Gozzini (DESY)

Slides Gozzini.pdf

61 Pulsar observations with VERITAS

Speaker: Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Tech)

Slides Otte.pdf

BSM + DM: Parallel Session

62 Bs->mumu and new physics

Speaker: Diego Guadagnoli (LAPTH)

Slides Guadalogni.pdf

63 Flavour physics from an approximate U(2)^3

Speaker: Dario Buttazzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Slides Buttazzo.pdf

64 Belle: Charged Higgs contrsaints from flavor physics

Speaker: Prof. Ryosuke ITOH (KEK)

Slides Itoh.pdf

65 MEG: Latest Results and Upgrades

Speaker: Dr Hajime Nishiguchi (KEK)

Slides Nishiguchi.pdf

66 WIMP and axion searches with EDELWEISS

Speaker: Thibault Main de Boissière (Saclay)

Slides Boissiere.pdf

67 Electromagnetic interactions of neutrinos

Speaker: Alexander Studenikin

Slides Studenikin.pdf

QCD + HF + EW: Parallel Session

68 Recent results of light hadron spectroscopy from BESII

Speaker: Jianping Dai (Beijing)

Slides Dai.pdf

69 Recent charmonium results from BESIII

Speaker: Zhiyong Wang (Beijing)

Slides Wang.pdf

70 Study of Charmonium and Exotics above D _D threshold in an antiproton-proton annihilation

Speaker: M.Yu. Barabanov (Dubna)

Slides Barabanov.pdf

71 QCD and EW measurements in the forward region at LHCb

Speaker: Dmytro Volyanskyy (Heidelberg-MPI)

Slides Volyanskyy.pdf

72 W/Z + jet production (incl. Heavy flavours) at the LHC

Speaker: Marco Vanadia (Munich)

Slides Vanadia.pdf

73 Di-Boson production and anomalous couplings at the LHC

Speaker: Jonatan Piedra Gomez (Oviedo)

Top + Higgs: Parallel Session

74 Study of Higgs production in bosonic decay channels at ATLAS

Speaker: Pai-Hsien Hsu (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Slides Hsu.pdf

75 Study of Higgs production in bosonic decay channels at CMS

Speaker: Douglas Ryan Berry (University of Notre Dame (US))

Slides Berry.pdf

76 Study of Higgs production in fermionic decay channels at CMS

Speaker: Andrew Gilbert (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides Gilbert.pdf

77 Study of Higgs production in fermionic decay channels at ATLAS

Speaker: Goetz Gaycken (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

Slides Gaycken.pdf

78 Studies of Higgs boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Koji Sato (University of Tsukuba (JP))

Slides Sato.pdf

79 SusHi: A program for the calculation of Higgs production in gluon fusion and bottom-quark annihilation in the Standard Model and the MSSM

Speaker: Mr Hendrik Mantler (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides Mantler.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

Astro + Cosmo II: Parallel Session

80 Probing the extragalactic background light with H.E.S.S.

Speaker: Jonathan Biteau (LLR, Palaiseau)

81 Results from Planck

Speaker: Olivier Perdereau (LAL, Orsay)

Slides Perdereau.pdf

82 Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Speaker: Thibaut Louis (Oxford)

Slides Louis.pdf

83 Inflation and primordial non-gaussianities

Speaker: Nicola Bartolo (Padua)

Slides Bartolo.pdf

84 Conversion of gravitons into photons in primordial magnetic fields

Speaker: Damian Ejlli (Ferrara)

Slides Ejlli.pdf

85 Results from SN-factory

Speaker: Nicolas Chotard (IPNL)

Slides Chotard.pdf

86 Final type Ia supernova spectroscopic sample of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)

Speaker: Flora Cellier-Holzem (LPNHE Paris)

Slides Cellier-Holzem_Blois2013.pdf

87 Cosmological Constraints from SNLS/SDSS: Pushing down the Systematics

Speaker: Marc Betoule (LPNHE)

Slides Betoule.pdf

88 First results from The Dark Energy Survey

Speaker: Jörg Dietrich (LMU Munich)

Slides Dietrich.pdf

89 Cosmology with galaxy clusters

Speaker: Thomas Reiprich (Univ. Bonn)

BSM + DM: Parallel Session

90 Dark matter searches with H.E.S.S. experiment

Speaker: Agnieszka Jacholkowska (LPNHE)

Slides Jacholkowska.pdf

91 Gamma rays from DM

Speaker: Stefan Vogl (TUM)

Slides Vogl.pdf

92 Decaying vs Annihilating DM

Speaker: Mathias Garny (DESY)

Slides Garny.pdf

93 Effective operators for DM annihilations

Speaker: Andrea Thamm (EPFL and CERN)

Slides Thamm.pdf

94 Massive gravity

Speaker: Enrico Trincherini (Pisa)

Slides Trincherini.pdf

95 Indirect dark matter searches with MAGIC

Speaker: Konstancja Satalecka (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Slides Satalecka.pdf

96 Dark Matter searches with Xenon100

Speaker: Alfredo Davide Ferella (LNGS & L' Aquila University)

Slides Ferella.pdf

97 Hunting Dark Matter with SuperCDMS

Speaker: Bradford Welliver (University of Florida)

Slides Welliver.pdf

98 Experimental constraints on the uncoupled Galileon model from cosmological observations

Speaker: Jeremy Neveu (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides neveu_galileon.pdf

QCD + HF + EW: Parallel Session

99 Direct Photon production at the LHC

Speaker: Andrew Warren Askew (Florida State)

Slides Askew.pdf

100 Results on QCD jet production at the LHC incl. Heavy flavours

Speaker: Lene Bryngemark (Lund)

Slides Bryngemark.pdf

101 Tuning of PYTHIA6

Speaker: Nameeqa Firdous (Innsbruck)

Slides Firdous.pdf

102 Power corrections to event-shape distributions at e+e- colliders

Speaker: Anurag Tripathi (Wuppertal)

Slides Tripathi.pdf

103 Precision QCD and alpha_s measurements at HERA

Speaker: Guenter Grindhammer (Munich)

Slides Grindhammer.pdf

104 NA48 and NA62 recent results

Speaker: Paolo Valente (Rome)

Slides Valente.pdf

105 ATLAS results on Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Martin Rybar (Prague)

Slides Rybar.pdf

106 Recent HI results with CMS

Speaker: Matthew Nguyen (Paleiseau)

Slides Nguyen.pdf

Top + Higgs: Parallel Session

107 Measurements of Higgs boson properties in ATLAS

Speaker: Valerio Ippolito (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

Slides Ippolito.pdf

108 Measurement of Higgs boson properties in CMS

Speaker: Silvia Tentindo (Florida State University (US))

Slides Tentindo.pdf

109 A fast track towards the Higgs spin and parity

Speaker: Tevong You (King's College)

Slides You.pdf

110 Higgs couplings beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Guillaume Drieu La Rochelle (Universite de Savoie Chambery- Annecy (FR))

Slides Drieu.pdf

111 Higgs boson self-coupling measurements using ratios of cross sections

Speaker: José Francisco Zurita (University of Zurich)

Slides Zurita.pdf

112 Search for BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Mia Tosi (Universita' degli Studi di Padova e INFN (IT))

113 SUSY faces its Higgs couplings

Speaker: Sandeepan Gupta (University of Michigan (US))

Slides Gupta.pdf

114 Dark matter and 125 GeV Higgs for Inert Doublet Model

Speaker: Dorota Sokolowska (University of Warsaw)

Slides Sokolowska.pdf

20:00 Dinner

Thursday 30 May

Neutrino Physics

115 Oscillations with 3, 4, or 5 neutrino generations

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz (Max-Planck-Institut Heidelberg)

Slides Schwetz.pdf

116 Long term neutrino prospects

Speaker: Brajesh Choudhary (University of Delhi)

Slides Choudhary.pdf

117 BSM neutrino physics confronted to the LHC

Speaker: Asmaa Abada (Orsay)

Slides Abada.pdf

118 Neutrinos and cosmology (including sterile neutrino searches)

Speaker: Pasquale Serpico (LAPTH, Annecy-le-vieux)

Slides serpico.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Heavy Flavour Physics

119 Heavy Flavour Physics and New Phenomena at hadron colliders

Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (Frascatti)

Slides Campana.pdf

120 Flavour Physics at e+e- colliders

Speaker: Hisaki Hayashii (Nara)

Slides Hayashii.pdf

121 Indirect search for New Physics, complementarity to direct searches

Speaker: Nazila Mahmoudi (CERN, Clermnot-Ferrand)

Slides Mahmoudi.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Cosmic Messengers

122 Neutrino Astronomy

Speaker: Doug Cowen

Slides Cowen.pdf

123 Results from AMS

Speaker: Bruna Bertucci (Univ. di Perugia)

Slides Bertucci.pdf

124 Cosmic rays and air shower physics

Speaker: Ralph Engel

Slides Engel.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Discussion about Physics in Vietnam

20:00 Cocktail and Conference Dinner

Friday 31 May

Cosmology

125 Cosmic microwave background

Speaker: Francois Bouchet

Slides Bouchet2.pdf

126 Cosmology with current and future wide field imagers

Speaker: Anne Ealet

Slides Ealet2.pdf

127 Cosmology (theory)

Speaker: Philippe Brax

Slides Brax.pptx

10:30 Coffee Break

The Dark Universe

128 Direct searches for dark matter

Speaker: Jodi Cooley

Slides Cooley.pdf

129 Indirect dark matter searches

Speaker: Martti Raidal (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))

Slides Raidal.pdf

130 Light particle dark matter

Speaker: Andreas Ringwald

Slides Ringwald.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Summary and Conclusion

131 Summary Talk

Speaker: Wilfried Buchmuller (DESY)

Slides Buchmuller.pdf

132 Concluding Remarks

Speaker: Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT/Orsay)