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Alessandro Strumia (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))16/09/2013, 09:00The naturalness principle motivated the theoretical expectation that light scalars cannot exist unless they come together with new physics that protects their lightness, such as supersymmetry. But LHC run I discovered the Higgs scalar without any sign of new physics. I review and reconsider the issue of naturalness, proposing a possible modification.Go to contribution page
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Petra Van Mulders (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))16/09/2013, 09:45A review of Higgs at the LHC.Go to contribution page
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Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia (State University of New York (US))16/09/2013, 11:00I will summarize the status of the present determination of the leptonic flavour parameters and some of the implications for theory.Go to contribution page
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Masashi Yokoyama (University of Tokyo)16/09/2013, 11:45Latest results from neutrino experiments will be summarized.Go to contribution page
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Monika Blanke (CERN)16/09/2013, 15:00I present an overview of the theoretical status of flavour and CP violation. Emphasis is put on the route towards the discovery and identivication of BSM flavour structures by 1. determining the CKM elements from tree level decays 2. identifying benchmark observables with large BSM sensitivity 3. linking observations in various weak meson decays with each other as well as with high-p_T data...Go to contribution page
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Frederic Teubert (CERN)16/09/2013, 15:45The lack of evidence for NP in direct searches at the TeV scale, has increased the relevance of the indirect searches able to test much larger energy scales. In this talk I will review the status of the indirect searches in Charm and B-mesons decays and briefly discuss Lepton Flavour Violation decays.Go to contribution page
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Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)16/09/2013, 17:00I will review recent developments in the theory of particle dark matter, with special attention to the distinction between cold, warm and self-interacting dark matter, the potential signals of ``Light WIMPs" in direct dark matter detection experiments, the significance of some hints of dark matter in indirect detection and LHC limits on dark matter particles.Go to contribution page
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Silvia Galli16/09/2013, 17:45The universe as pictured by the recent data release of the Planck satellite is remarkably “simple”, well described by a LCDM model. However, few anomalies are present in the data, that might hint towards interesting developments. I will present the constraints on cosmological parameters as obtained from the recent data release of the Planck collaboration, focusing on the most interesting results.Go to contribution page
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Diego Guadagnoli (LAPTh Annecy)17/09/2013, 09:00I present an overview of the (major) progress recently made by experiment on various Bd- and Bs-meson decays, long awaited by theory. I also provide an outlook after LHC's LS1 and LS2 of the perspectives on these decays, as well as on novel related observables that will become accessible.Go to contribution page
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Michael Smy (UCI)17/09/2013, 09:00We present a strong indication that the elastic scattering rate of solar $^8$B neutrinos with electrons in the Super-Kamiokande detector is larger when the neutrinos pass through the earth during night time. We determine the day/night asymmetry to be -3.2$\pm$1.1(stat)$\pm$0.5(syst)\% which deviates from zero by 2.7$\sigma$. A non-zero Super-Kamiokande day/night asymmetry implies that...Go to contribution page
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Dr Hernan Pablo Wahlberg (Universidad Nacional de La Plata (AR))17/09/2013, 09:00The Pierre Auger Observatory is a unique instrument that combines a surface array of water cherenkov detectors and fluorescence telescopes. Both techniques allow to search and discriminate between photons, neutrinos and nuclear elements. Recent measurements and searches on the different species will be presented.Go to contribution page
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Edivaldo Moura Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)17/09/2013, 09:20The Pierre Auger Observatory has measured the proton-air cross section for particle production at the CM energy per nucleon of 57 TeV using the extensive air showers produced when ultra-high energy (E > 1018:5 eV) protons smash Nitrogen and Oxygen nuclei at the top of Earth's atmosphere. We describe here the details of this measurement, with special attention to the systematics affecting it. A...Go to contribution page
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Dr Takatomi Yano (Okayama University)17/09/2013, 09:22GADZOOKS! is a upgrade project for Super-Kamiokande with a new neutrino detection method using gadolinium-loaded water. In this method, events due to anti-neutrino charged-current interactions on protons (i.e., inverse beta decay) are identified by the coincident detection of a prompt positron signal and a delayed gamma-ray signal from neutron capture on gadolinium which is dissolved in the...Go to contribution page
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Martino Margoni (Universita e INFN (IT))17/09/2013, 09:30We present the observation of Time-reversal asymmetry as well as a selection of recent results on CP violation effects in B-meson decays using a data set of about 430 fb-1 collected at the peak of the Y(4S), with the BABAR detector at SLAC. They include the measurements of processes sensitive to the angles of the Unitarity Triangle; studies of direct CP violation, and ...Go to contribution page
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Esteban Roulet (C)17/09/2013, 09:40I will review the main results on UHECRs, including the observed suppression at the highest energies, the different spectral breaks observed, the inferred trends on the composition, bounds on photons and neutrinos and the different hints on anisotropies to discuss the possible astrophysical scenarios they could be suggesting and the strategies to further test them.Go to contribution page
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Sovan chakraborty (M)17/09/2013, 09:44Supernovae (SN) are one of the highest energetic astrophysical events. Almost all the enormous energy (10^(53) ergs) released during such an event is emitted in terms of neutrinos. These neutrinos while free streaming out of the SN will undergo flavor oscillations. Apart from the usual MSW oscillations the SN neutrinos will have nonlinear flavor evolution due to neutrino-neutrino interactions....Go to contribution page
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Francesca Dordei (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))17/09/2013, 10:00The study of CP violation in Bs oscillations is one of the key goals of the LHCb experiment. Effects are predicted to be very small in the Standard Model but can be significantly enhanced in many models of new physics. We present the world’s best measurement of the CP-violating phase φs using B0s → J/ψφ and B0s → J/ψππ decays, and a first study of mixing-induced CP violation in the decay B0s → φφ.Go to contribution page
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Livia Ludhova (INFN Milano)17/09/2013, 10:06Borexino is a solar neutrino and geoneutrino detector currently running at the Laboratori del Gran Sasso in Italy. The first phase of the experiment has been completed in 2010 and, after a successful purification campaign which have brought down the background further, a second phase is now in progress. The talk will report on the Phase I final results and on the first results of the Phase...Go to contribution page
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Esteban Roulet (C)17/09/2013, 10:10
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Michele Weber (Universitaet Bern (CH))17/09/2013, 11:00n this talk we will present an overview of the searches for Dark Matter performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Several models for new physics beyond the Standard Model which are probed at the LHC also include a Dark Matter candidate. Additionally, searches for direct production of WIMP candidates will be shown, which look for events containing only a single object and large missing...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Michael Bird (University of Manchester (GB))17/09/2013, 11:00LHCb has recorded large samples of semileptonic B decays. These provide potential to study CP violation effects in the B0 and Bs0 systems. Decay time-integrated or time-dependent asymmetries between charge-conjugate final states probe CP violation in B(s)0 mixing through the measurement of the parameter Afs (sometimes referred to as Asl). These measurements rely on data-driven techniques...Go to contribution page
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Stefano Casasso (Universita e INFN (IT))17/09/2013, 11:00The measurements of the couplings of the 126 GeV resonance performed by CMS are presented, together with the perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.Go to contribution page
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Xuai Zhuang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))17/09/2013, 11:30The existence of significant amount of dark matter in the Universe is one of the strongest motivations to have new physics beyond the Standard Model. Dark Matter search at LHC with a focus on conventional candidates and techniques (e.g. SUSY) in ATLAS and CMS experiments using data from 2011 and 2012 will be reviewed in the talk.Go to contribution page
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Stefan Gadatsch (NIKHEF (NL))17/09/2013, 11:30The combined measurements of the coupling properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the ATLAS detector and up to 25 fb-1 of 7 TeV and 8 TeV pp collision data collected in 2011 and 2012 are presented.Go to contribution page
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Martin Sevior (University of Melbourne (AU))17/09/2013, 11:30After completing data taking in 2010, Belle has entered an intensive data analysis phase to complete the physics program for the experiment. This presentation will report preliminary results for the Branching Ratio and Direct CP violation for B--> pi0 pi0 together with final results for Belle's measurements of Direct and Indirect CP violation for B--> pi+ pi-. Taken together these results...Go to contribution page
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James Douglas Pearce (University of Victoria (CA))17/09/2013, 12:00The quest to understand the nature of Dark Matter has never been so exciting. Vast improvements in direct detection sensitivity combined with tantalizing hints from astrophysical data have lead some to dub the 2010's as the "Dark Matter Decade". Today collider based experiments, such as ATLAS and CMS, offer a new vantage point in the search for non-gravitational dark matter interactions. If...Go to contribution page
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Valdir Salustino Guimaraes (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))17/09/2013, 12:00The LHCb detector is a forward single arm spectrometer designed primarily for the study of CP-violation and other rare phenomena in the decays of beauty and charm particles. LHCb is very powerful in probing New Physics by performing indirect searches. Nevertheless, a program of direct searches for Higgs and Higgs-like particles also exists. Here we present some recent results and perspectives.Go to contribution page
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Adlene Hicheur (CBPF - Brazilian Center for Physics Research (BR))17/09/2013, 12:00Decays of B hadrons without charmed particles in the final state offer rich opportunities to test the Standard Model. For example, CP violation in charmless charged two-body and three-body B decays provides ways to measure the CKM angle γ and to search for New Physics. The angular distributions of decays to vector-vector final states provide additional interesting observables. We present the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Enrico Bertuzzo (CEA-Saclay)17/09/2013, 15:00After a brief introduction on the physical motivation for Composite Higgs models, I will discuss cosets leading to Composite Two Higgs Doublet Models. I will analyze in detail the problem of tree level custodial symmetry breaking and how this problem can be solved, as well as the specific embedding for fermion fields that allow to avoid Higgs mediated Flavor Changing Neutral Currents.Go to contribution page
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Dr Eduardo Medinaceli (Padova University & INFN)17/09/2013, 15:00OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) was built to prove muon to tau neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, through the direct observation of tau neutrinos coming from a pure muon neutrino beam produced at CERN. OPERA is a modular hybrid detector with a high target mass, instrumented with electronic sensors to identify the interaction type and position inside the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Alexis Dumas (ANTARES / LPC Clermont-Ferrand)17/09/2013, 15:00ANTARES Neutrino Telescope is a 0.1 km3 instrumented volume installed in the french coast of Mediterranean Sea. It consists in 885 photo-multiplier tubes arranged in a 3D-array of 12 lines and oriented for up-going neutrino detection, having a complementary coverage to that of IceCube, with a full coverage of our galaxy centre. Physics analysis performed in ANTARES collaboration will be...Go to contribution page
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Benjamin Still (Queen Mary, University of London)17/09/2013, 15:22The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment situated in Japan. A high intensity neutrino beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, in Tokai, Japan. A near detector complex, situated 280 m from the neutrino production target, and the far detector at 295 km, are used to detect the neutrinos from this beam. This talk will...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Kappes (Humboldt University / DESY)17/09/2013, 15:30The determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy is among the most fundamental questions in particle physics. The recent measurement of a large mixing angle theta_13 and the first observation of atmospheric neutrino oscillations at tens of GeV with neutrino telescopes opens the intriguing new possibility to exploit matter effects in neutrino oscillation to determine the mass hierarchy in the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ana Machado (UFABC)17/09/2013, 15:40We propose a new mechanism to suppress the flavor changing neutral currents in a three-Higgs doublet extension of the standard electroweak model. This mechanism has three ingredients: i) The three SU(2) Higgs scalar doublets transform as the reducible representation triplet of the discrete S3 symmetry that breaks to the irreducible representations, a doublet and a singlet; ii) an appropriate...Go to contribution page
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Samuel Robert Childress (Unknown)17/09/2013, 15:44Neutrino oscillation is studied in the MINOS experiment with the NuMI beam line by measuring neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions with magnetized near and far detectors. We report on results obtained with our complete beam exposure of 1.56 x 10^21 POT from 2005 to 2012, and also 37.88 kton-years of atmospheric neutrinos. Presented are the most precise measurements to date of mass...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carlo Gustavino (INFN)17/09/2013, 16:00Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) theory describes the formation of light isotopes such as D, 3He, 4He, 6Li and 7Li in the first minutes of cosmic time. Their abundance only depends on the baryonic density, on particle physics and on nuclear astrophysics, through the competition between the universal expansion rate and the yields of relevant nuclear reactions. As the expansion rate depends on the...Go to contribution page
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Denis Perevalov (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)17/09/2013, 16:06NOvA is an off-axis long baseline neutrino experiment searching for $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ oscillations using an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab, Batavia, IL. The main physics goal is a measurement of the CP violation and establishing the neutrino masses hierarchy. A large 14 kton Far detector, comprised of liquid scintillator contained in extruded PVC cells, will also provide an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carla Biggio (Università di Genova, Italy)17/09/2013, 16:20The scalar particle recently discovered at the LHC has the same gauge quantum numbers as the neutrino, so that one can ask if they can be one the superpartner of the other. In this talk I will discuss such a possibility, discussing a model where this is realised. This model has an interesting phenomenology at the LHC.Go to contribution page
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Juan-Pablo Yanez (DESY)17/09/2013, 16:28We present preliminary results on neutrino oscillations with the first year of data of the completed IceCube detector. IceCube is a cubic kilometer ice Cherenkov high-energy neutrino detector. DeepCore, a region of denser instrumentation in the lower center of IceCube, permits the detection of atmospheric neutrinos with energies as low as 10 GeV. The disappearance pattern of muon neutrinos...Go to contribution page
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Silvia Galli17/09/2013, 16:30
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Garoe Gonzalez Parra (IFAE - Barcelona (ES))17/09/2013, 17:30Since the discovery of a Higgs-like boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC, the emphasis has shifted towards measurements of its properties and the search for the search in the less sensitive channels in order to determine whether the new particle is the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson. Of particular importance is the direct observation of the coupling of the Higgs boson to...Go to contribution page
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Denis Derkach (University of Oxford (GB))17/09/2013, 17:30We present the summer 2013 update of the Unitarity Triangle (UT) analysis performed by the UTfit Collaboration within the Standard Model (SM) and beyond. We include as input for our analysis all the measurements available by August 2013. We also present the generalisation of the UT analysis to investigate new physics (NP) effects, updating the constraints on NP contributions to DeltaF = 2...Go to contribution page
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Pilar Coloma (Virginia Tech University)17/09/2013, 17:30With the large value of $\theta_{13}$ recently discovered, the measurement of the neutrino mass ordering (hierarchy) may be accesible at non-beam experiments. Moreover, the present generation of long baseline experiments is expected to see at least a hint for this parameter, while phase I of the LBNE project is expected to obtain a significance between 3 and 5$\sigma$. However, the neutrino...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Hisakazu Minakata (PUC-Rio)17/09/2013, 17:52In precision measurement era the uncertainty of the leptonic CP violating phase \delta will be dominated by error of \theta_23. We argue that the right strategy is to determine \theta_23 and \delta at the same time by using \nu_e appearance channels. We discuss the nature of such measurement including new degeneracy, the \theta_23 intrinsic degeneracy. A detailed simulation with a few...Go to contribution page
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Dr Benoit Blossier (CNRS/Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay)17/09/2013, 18:00Physics beyond the Standard Model can be tracked from direct measurements at the electroweak scale, for instance by searching new particles (Kaluza-Klein modes, supersymmetric particles, ...). Low energy processes and rare events can also be highly sensitive probes of New Physics: they are either mediated by virtual loops in which exotic particles can circulate or they occur at tree...Go to contribution page
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Manuela Venturi (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))17/09/2013, 18:10The spin and parity of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the ATLAS detector and up to 25 fb-1 of 7 TeV and 8 TeV pp collision data collected in 2011 and 2012, was probed in the diboson (γγ, WW and ZZ) channels. These results and their combinations are presented.Go to contribution page
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Christopher Mauger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)17/09/2013, 18:14The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment is a broad scientific program being developed in the United States as an international partnership. LBNE consists of an intense neutrino beam produced at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a highly capable set of neutrino detectors on the Fermilab campus, and a large underground liquid argon time-projection chamber (TPC) at Sanford...Go to contribution page
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Stefania Ricciardi (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))17/09/2013, 18:30The angle γ of the CKM unitarity triangle remains the least precisely measured parameter of the CKM mixing matrix. The precision measurement of this parameter is one of the main goals of the LHCb experiment. We present a wide range of measurements of CP violation and partial rates in B→DK decays, as well as the latest LHCb measurement of γ combining all the individual inputs.Go to contribution page
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Dr Elena Wildner (CERN)17/09/2013, 18:36The European Spallation Source (ESS) linac with 5 MW proton-power has the potential to become the proton driver of - in addition to the world’s most intense pulsed spallation neutron source - the world’s most intense neutrino beam. The physics performance of that neutrino Super Beam in conjunction with a megaton Water Cherenkov neutrino detector installed 1000 m down in a mine at a distance of...Go to contribution page
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Kalanand Mishra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))17/09/2013, 18:50The spin and parity measurements of the 126 GeV resonance performed by CMS are presented, together with the future perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Vittorio Palladino (Universita e INFN (IT))17/09/2013, 18:58Multi flavour neutrino beams from a muon storage ring have been established to be the most far reaching option to measure leptonic CPV and completely map the PNMS matrix and its unitarity properties. Their intensities and purity being far superior and better known than those of conventional facilities, that can not promise instead the ultimate necessary precision. It is also clear however...Go to contribution page
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Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne)19/09/2013, 09:00After briefly reviewing current LHC bounds on the type II and III see-saw models of neutrino mass, I shall discuss a systematic approach to radiative Majorana neutrino mass models based on effective, gauge-invariant standard model operators that violate lepton number by two units. The exotic particles that occur in these models can be searched for at the LHC.Go to contribution page
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Ben Loer (Fermilab)19/09/2013, 09:00The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment employs ultra-cold germanium and silicon crystals to search for interactions with Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, and has recently published an analysis of data from silicon detectors that found three events that could be interpreted as arising from a low-mass WIMP. I will present an overview of semiconductor WIMP searches, with emphasis on the...Go to contribution page
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Michele Frigerio (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb)19/09/2013, 09:22Lepton flavour observables provide precise pieces of information about physics beyond the Standard Model. I will briefly review our present knowledge of lepton masses and mixing angles, and investigate to what extent we can explain the data in terms of an underlying flavour symmetry. I will show that viable flavour models exist, that are sufficiently minimal to provide sharp predictions for...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Dominguez Vazquez (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)19/09/2013, 09:30Searches for additional Higgs-like resonances, besides the 126 GeV, performed by CMS are presented, together with the perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.Go to contribution page
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Marco Selvi (INFN)19/09/2013, 09:30Astronomical and cosmological observations indicate that a large amount of the energy content of the Universe is made of dark matter. Particle candidates under the generic name of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) arise naturally in many theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, such as supersymmetry, universal extra dimensions, or little Higgs models. The search for...Go to contribution page
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Mr David Vanegas Forero (Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa)19/09/2013, 09:44The measurement of the non-zero reactor mixing angle has established a new challenge for the theoretical understanding of the lepton mixing. The use of discrete symmetries to successfully explain that mixing is still possible. As an example, we have modified the so called Babu-Ma-Valle model in such a way that we account for the current neutrino mixing values at 3 sigma. In particular, we...Go to contribution page
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Ernesto Arganda (IFLP-CONICET)19/09/2013, 10:00The recent discovery of a SM-like Higgs boson at the LHC, with a mass around 125-126 GeV, together with the absence of results in the direct searches for supersymmetry, is pushing the SUSY scale ($m_\text{SUSY}$) into the multi-TeV range. This discouraging situation from a low-energy SUSY point of view has its counterpart in indirect SUSY observables which present a non-decoupling behavior...Go to contribution page
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Markus Horn (Yale University)19/09/2013, 10:00The LUX (Large Underground Xenon) experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter particles via their collisions with xenon nuclei. The 350 kg two-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber measures simultaneously the scintillation and ionization from interactions in the target. The ratio of these two signals provides very good discrimination between potential nuclear recoil signals and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maximiliano A. Rivera (Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile)19/09/2013, 10:06We present an extension of the standard model that naturally generate small neutrino masses and provide a dark matter candidate. The dark matter particle is part of a new scalar doublet field that plays a crucial role in radiatively generating neutrino masses. The symmetry that stabilizes the dark matter also suppresses neutrino masses to appear first at three-loop level. Without the need...Go to contribution page
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Joachim Brod (University of Cincinnati)19/09/2013, 11:00K and D decays provide important observables which allow for indirect searches for new particles. In this talk, I will review the status of the standard-model predictions and discuss new-physics contributions with a focus on rare decays and CP violation.Go to contribution page
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Dr Marco Taoso (IPhT Saclay Paris)19/09/2013, 11:00Annihilations of Dark Matter in the form of WIMPs produce photon fluxes ranging from radio wavelengths to gamma-rays. In particular, low energy emissions are associated with the interactions of the WIMPs annihilation products with the intergalactic medium. I will present constraints on the WIMPs properties from current radio surveys and I will discuss the prospects for detection with future...Go to contribution page
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Jorge Morfin (FNAL)19/09/2013, 11:00The interplay of neutrino cross sections on nucleons within a nucleus and the nuclear effects starting with the initial interaction followed by final state interactions are difficult to separate. A survey of recent neutrino nucleus experimental results and models attempting to perform this separation will be presented.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Arie Bodek (University of Rochester (US))19/09/2013, 11:22We use quasielastic electron scattering data on nuclear target to update our parametrization of the enhancement to the transverse response functions in nuclear targets. This enhancement has been attributed to meson exchange currents in nuclei. We parametrize both the overall magnitude of the enhancement and the contribution to the width of the quasielastic peak. The model is in good agreement...Go to contribution page
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Arman Esmaili Taklimi19/09/2013, 11:30Recent observations by IceCube, notably two PeV cascades accompanied by events at energies ~ (30-400) TeV, are clearly in excess over atmospheric background fluxes and beg for an astroparticle physics explanation. In this talk I will discuss the possibility to interpret the IceCube data by PeV mass scale decaying Dark Matter. I discuss generic signatures of this scenario, including its unique...Go to contribution page
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Mark Elliot Smith (University of Manchester (GB))19/09/2013, 11:30LHCb has collected the world's largest sample of charmed hadrons. This sample is used to search for direct and indirect CP violation in charm, and to measure D0 mixing parameters. Preliminary measurements from several decay modes are presented, with complementary time-dependent and time-integrated analysesGo to contribution page
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Dr Diego Gratieri (UFPel)19/09/2013, 11:39The high parton density present at high energies and large nuclei is expected to modify the lepton- hadron cross section and the associated observables. In this paper we analyse the impact of the high density effects in the average inelasticity and the neutrino - nucleus cross section at ultra high energies. We compare the predictions associated to the linear DGLAP dynamics with those...Go to contribution page
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Joel Mousseau19/09/2013, 11:56Neutrino beams provide a unique exposure of solely weakly interacting particles. The MINERvA experiment sits in the high intensity NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. MINERvA is equipped with neutrino targets of plastic, graphite, lead and iron which allow precise comparisons of neutrino interactions on a variety of nuclei. This talk will summarize the efforts of multiple charged-current analyses...Go to contribution page
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Pedro Podesta Lerma (Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (MX))19/09/2013, 12:00Belle II, a next-generation B-factory experiment, will search for new physics effects in a data sample about 50 times larger than the one collected by its predecessor, the Belle experiment. The upgraded accelerator, SuperKEKB, is designed to have the maximum luminosity of 8 × 10^35 cm^−2s^−1, a factor 40 higher than the current world record. The status of the collider SuperKEKB and the...Go to contribution page
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osvaldo civitarese (U)19/09/2013, 12:00The ANDES project aims at the construction of an underground laboratory in the Agua Negra tunnel between Argentina and Chile. The laboratory will consists of a series of halls, each of them able to accommodate state of the art experimental arrays dedicated to dark matter, double beta decay and neutrino oscillation measurements, as well as to other devices oriented to geological and...Go to contribution page
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Tatsuya Kikawa (Kyoto University)19/09/2013, 12:13The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment situated in Japan. A high intensity neutrino beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, in Tokai, Japan. The near detector of the T2K experiment is designed to provide a good knowledge of the neutrino beam before the neutrinos oscillate, including measuring the backgrounds and...Go to contribution page
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Gero Gersdorff (ICTP-SAIFR)19/09/2013, 15:00With the aim of linking natural supersymmetry to flavour physics, a model is proposed based on a family symmetry G × U(1), where G is a discrete nonabelian subgroup of SU(2), with both F-term and (abelian) D-term supersymmetry breaking. A good fit to the fermion masses and mixing is obtained with the same U(1) charges for the left- and right- handed quarks of the first two families and the...Go to contribution page
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Juan Helo (USM)19/09/2013, 15:00Lepton number violation (LNV) mediated by short range operators can manifest itself in both neutrinoless double beta decay and in processes with same sign dilepton final states at the LHC. We derive limits from existing LHC data at 8 TeV and compare the discovery potential of the forthcoming 14 TeV phase of the LHC with the sensitivity of current and future doble beta decay experiments,...Go to contribution page
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Jose Angel Hernando Morata (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))19/09/2013, 15:00Rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons and lepton flavour/number violating decays of tau leptons test the flavour structure of the underlying theory at the level of quantum corrections. They provide information on the couplings and masses of heavy virtual particles appearing as intermediate states. A review of recent results obtained by LHCb on these topics will be presented.Go to contribution page
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Estanislao Aguayo (P)19/09/2013, 15:22The Majorana collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using 76Ge, which has been shown to have a number of advantages in terms of sensitivities and backgrounds. The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would show that lepton number is violated and that neutrinos are Majorana particles and would simultaneously provide information on neutrino mass. Attaining...Go to contribution page
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Maddalena Frosini (Universita & INFN, Firenze-Unknown-Unknown)19/09/2013, 15:30The latest years have seen a resurrection of interest in searches for exotic states motivated by tantalising observations by Belle and CDF. Using the data collected at pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV by the LHCb experiment we present studies of the X(3872) properties as well as preliminary studies and prospects for studies of putative states such as the Z(4430)+Go to contribution page
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Dr Gianni Masetti (Universita e INFN Bologna (IT))19/09/2013, 15:40Searches for signatures of beyond-the-standard-model higgs-like processes (eg charged higgs, double Higgs, A->Zh, ttbar, mumu), performed by CMS are presented, together with the perspectives at the LHC and future colliders.Go to contribution page
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David Moore (EXO Collaboration)19/09/2013, 15:41The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using Xe-136. Observation of this lepton number violating decay would demonstrate that neutrinos are Majorana particles and allow determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale. The first stage of the experiment, EXO-200, consists of an extremely low background time projection...Go to contribution page
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Denis Derkach (University of Oxford (GB))19/09/2013, 16:00We present the measurement of the B -> D(*) tau nu decay, which is sensitive at tree level to New Physics in the form of a charged Higgs boson. The measured branching fraction is 3.4 sigma larger than the SM predictions, and excludes the 2HDM of type 2 at 99.88% confidence for all tan(beta)/mHiggs values. Additional studies of the momentum transferred to the lepton system show...Go to contribution page
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Sergio Di Domizio (INFN and Universita' di Genova)19/09/2013, 16:00CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO$_2$ bolometers for the search of neurinoless double beta decay in Te-130. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2014. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV kg y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity of about 10$^{26}$...Go to contribution page
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nasim fatemighomi (Queen's University)19/09/2013, 16:19SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment in the final phase of construction at SNOLAB. It is the successor to the SNO experiment that replaces heavy water with liquid scintillator in the detector. Its main scientific goal is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. In addition, SNO+ will detect and study low energy solar neutrinos, anti-neutrinos from nearby reactors and from the...Go to contribution page
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Jose Angel Hernando Morata (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))19/09/2013, 16:38NEXT is an experimental program to search for neutrino double beta decay events using a High Pressure Gas Xenon Chamber with electroluminescence readout. The first phase of the experiment will use 100 kg of Xenon gas enriched to 91% in the 136Xe isotope. NEXT-100 is currently under construction at Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain). The detector is an asymmetric time projection chamber...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sylvain Fichet (IIP, Natal, Brasil)19/09/2013, 17:30We review and develop consistent treatments of theoretical uncertainty (TU) in Higgs couplings fits, going beyond the current approximation of uncorrelated Gaussian TU. We emphasize two different conceptual lines in the treatment of TU either as a nuisance or as a bias. These two treatments are considered within both frequentist and Bayesian frameworks. We develop the bias approach in the...Go to contribution page
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PIERRE SALATI (LAPTh & Université de Savoie)19/09/2013, 17:30The discovery in 2008 of a cosmic ray (CR) lepton anomaly has raised the tremendous hope that WIMPs were not just a fantasy. The astronomical dark matter is believed to be made of these weakly interacting and massive species whose annihilations would produce an excess of positrons in the cosmic radiation. Alas, the dust has now settled down. Local pulsars are suggested as the probable...Go to contribution page
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Mr Luis Fernando Gomez Gonzalez (IFGW-Unicamp / APC)19/09/2013, 17:30The Double Chooz experiment is one of the new generation reactor antineutrino disappearance experiments built to measure more precisely the mixing angle Theta 13. For this, two identical liquid scintillator detectors located at two different baselines of the Chooz Power Plant reactor cores will be installed to make high accuracy measurements of the antineutrino flux and energy. The value of...Go to contribution page
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Hyunkwan Seo (Sungkyunkwan University (KR))19/09/2013, 17:52Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation(RENO) started data-taking from August, 2011 and has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos, consistent with neutrino oscillations. The experiment has made unprecedentedly accurate measurement of reactor neutrino flux, and performed a definitive measurement of the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta_13 based on the...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Gaëlle Giesen (IPhT- CEA Saclay)19/09/2013, 18:00The current antiproton data from PAMELA imposes constraints on annihilating and decaying DM which are similar to (or even slightly stronger than) the most stringent bounds coming from Fermi gamma rays, for hadronic channels and with fiducial choices for the astrophysical parameters. The implications of the most recent data by AMS-02 will be discussed. In fact, these constraints can be improved...Go to contribution page
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Qiang Li (Peking University (CN))19/09/2013, 18:10We present studies of multiple boson production in pp collisions at 7 TeV and 8 TeV center-of-mass energy based on data recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC in 2011 and 2012. These include precision cross section measurements and investigation of kinematic distributions. The results are interpreted in terms of constraints on anomalous triple and quartic gauge couplings, together with future...Go to contribution page
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Dr J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux (Berkeley)19/09/2013, 18:14The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was designed to measure θ13, the smallest mixing angle in the three-neutrino mixing framework, with unprecedented precision. The experiment consists of multiple identical detectors placed underground at different baselines from three pairs of reactors, a unique configuration that minimizes systematic uncertainties and cosmogenic backgrounds. In 2012...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christian Farnier (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)19/09/2013, 18:30The H.E.S.S. experiment of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) operational since 2004, has discovered many new sources of cosmic-ray acceleration and searched for fundamental physics. In September 2012, a fifth and larger telescope was inaugurated, lowering the energy threshold and starting the second phase of the experiment. In the coming years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)...Go to contribution page
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Joao Anjos (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas)19/09/2013, 18:36We present the status of the simulation of the Angra Neutrino Project. The project aims at measuring neutrinos from the Angra power plant. The detector is being built at CBPF and will be installed in Angra later this year. After a short review of the motivation, design and construction of the apparatus, the simulation is discussed. The foreseen rates of the neutrino signal and of the major...Go to contribution page
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Stephen Grahame Cole (Northern Illinois University (US))19/09/2013, 18:50ATLAS measurements of multi-boson production involving combinations of W, Z and isolated photons are summarized. Measurements using data at 7 TeV as well as new results using data at 8 TeV are presented. The measurements are performed using leptonic decay modes, including the invisible decay Z--> nunu, as well as semileptonic channels. Differential and total visible cross sections are...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Thuemmler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)19/09/2013, 18:58Neutrino properties and especially the determination of the neutrino mass play an important role at the intersections of cosmology, particle physics and astroparticle physics. The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) investigates single beta decay electrons close to their kinematic endpoint in order to determine the neutrino mass by a model-independent method. Applying an...Go to contribution page
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Laura Lopez Honorez (V)20/09/2013, 09:00Dark matter candidates are getting surrounded by direct, indirect detection searches and collider experiments. As of today, none of these experiments have obtained an indisputable proof of the existence of the dark matter particle and they are dreadfully digging into their viable parameter space. One could thus ask if there is still room for new ideas in the dark matter sector. There has...Go to contribution page
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Oscar M. Vives (IFIC and U: Valencia)20/09/2013, 09:00We review the role of LFV experiments in the search of new physics after the first LHC results. We highlight the importance of charged lepton flavour violation to look for new physics and improve our understanding on the physics of flavour. New sources of LFV are generally present in new physics beyond the Standard Model and because of the high sensitivity of LFV processes, LFV experiments...Go to contribution page
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Pedro A N Machado (Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))20/09/2013, 09:00Neutrino oscillations involving eV-scale neutrino mass states are investigated in the context of global neutrino oscillation data including short and long-baseline accelerator, reactor, and radioactive source experiments, as well as atmospheric and solar neutrinos. We consider sterile neutrino mass schemes involving one or two mass-squared differences at the eV^2 scale denoted by 3+1, 3+2, and...Go to contribution page
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Mateus Carneiro (Estate University of Campinas)20/09/2013, 09:22Mass Varying Neutrinos mechanisms were proposed to link the neutrino mass scale with the dark energy density, addressing the coincidence problem. In some scenarios this mass can present a dependence on the baryonic density felt by neutrinos, creating an effective neutrino mass that depends both on the neutrino and baryonic densities. In this work we study the phenomenological consequence of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Simeone Dussoni (INFN Pisa)20/09/2013, 09:30The MEG experiment has been searching for the SM-supressed decay mu->e gamma with unprecedented sensitivity and recently improved down to 5.7*10**-13 the upper limit on the branching ratio of the mu->e gamma decay. This can help in putting severe constraints on proposed SM extensions. Aiming to further improve this limit we are planning an upgrade to reach a sensitivity of 5*10**-14.Go to contribution page
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Michele Frigerio (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb)20/09/2013, 09:30I will argue that, besides the axion, there are other pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons that are suitable candidates for the dark matter. Their mass and interactions can be connected to the electroweak scale, and in this case the dark matter properties are interlaced with the properties of the Higgs boson. In particular, I will discuss the possibility that both the Higgs and the dark matter are...Go to contribution page
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Dr Arman Esmaili (UNICAMP)20/09/2013, 09:44Atmospheric neutrino data collected by huge neutrino detectors, such as IceCube, provide the opportunity to probe new physics unprecedentedly, both due to high statistics and also to the high energy range. In this talk we discuss various new physics scenarios that can be probed by these data including: active-sterile neutrino mixing, non-standard neutrino interactions and violation of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jean Racker (IFIC)20/09/2013, 10:00Leptogenesis from the decay of very heavy neutrinos (M > 10^8 GeV) is arguably the most attractive explanation to the origin of the cosmological baryon asymmetry. However this scenario cannot be proved in foreseeable experiments. Therefore we will give an overview of leptogenesis with emphasis on testability vs. plausibility of different models. In connection with this, we will present some...Go to contribution page
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Dr Aurore Savoy Navarro (Sezione di Pisa (IT) and CNRS/IN2P3)20/09/2013, 10:00As the heaviest particle of the Standard Model, the top has the largest coupling to the Higgs and is expected to play a special role in the theory of the electroweak breaking. For instance, the forward-backward asymmetry in t-tbar events recently observed at the Tevatron might be a signal of New Physics. A review of the many ways to look for New Physics through high precision measurements of...Go to contribution page
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Michael Shaevitz (Columbia University)20/09/2013, 10:06The IsoDAR experiment uses a novel isotope decay-at-rest (DAR) source of electron antineutrinos using protons from a 60 MeV cyclotron. Paired with KamLAND, the experiment can observe over 800 thousand inverse beta-decay events in five years and do a decisive test of the current hints for sterile neutrino. Daedalus is a phased program leading to a high-sensitivity search for CP violation. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Claudia Frugiuele (FNAL)20/09/2013, 11:00I will talk about SUSY extension of SM with Dirac gauginos discussing the main advantages respect to the MSSM focusing in particular on R symmetric models. I will summarise the LHC phenomenology and how to obtain a 125 GeV Higgs in this framework.Go to contribution page
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Murilo Santana Rangel (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))20/09/2013, 11:00We report measurements of electroweak boson production in the forward region, using data collected at the LHCb experiment with a centre of mass energy of √s=7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of up to 1.0 fb–1. W and Z bosons are reconstructed in leptonic decay channels, and their cross-sections determined using data-driven techniques. All results are compared to NNLO predictions.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jan Kisiel (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)20/09/2013, 11:00ICARUS-T600 is the first large-scale realization of the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detection technology for neutrino physics and nucleon decay searches. It has been running in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory for three years (from May 2010 to June 2013) detecting both neutrinos from the CNGS beam and cosmics. The results obtained so far will be presented with special emphasis...Go to contribution page
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Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse University)20/09/2013, 11:22Liquid argon time projection chambers provide an extraordinary level of information about the interactions of neutrinos. The Argon Neutrino Teststand, or ArgoNeuT, experiment deployed a relatively small detector in the NuMI neutrino beamline at Fermilab, and the data collected during that endeavor is now being used to measure neutrino and antineutrino interaction cross-sections. This talk...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Arie Bodek (University of Rochester)20/09/2013, 11:30We report on precision measurement of the electroweak mixing angle and an indirect measurement of the W mass extracted from the forward-backward asymmetry of e+e- and mu+mu- Drell-Yan events at CDF.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Yuri Shirman (University of California, Irvine)20/09/2013, 11:40After I presenting an analysis of the operators in supersoft SUSY breaking, I will discuss the requirements that must be satisfied by successful UV completions and the modifications of minimal supersoft mechanism needed to avoid negative mass squareds for adjoint scalars. I will then present a complete model of dynamical supersymmetry breaking resulting in realistic superpartner spectrum with...Go to contribution page
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Andrzej Szelc (Yale University)20/09/2013, 11:44Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers are quickly becoming one of the most promising detector technologies in neutrino physics. They offer very good 3D and calorimetric resolution and allow relatively straight forward construction of large mass detectors making them a great candidate for current and future precision neutrino measurements. A prime example is the MicroBooNE experiment set to...Go to contribution page
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Jane Theresa Cummings (Yale University (US))20/09/2013, 12:00Neutral and charged current Drell-Yan processes at the LHC provide unique tool to study various QCD and EW effects. Measurements differential in invariant mass of the lepton pair and lepton or pair rapidity are sensitive to the parton density functions. Measurements of the transverse momentum of the Z boson study QCD radiation effects. Lepton forward-backward asymmetry in the NC process...Go to contribution page
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Christopher Mauger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)20/09/2013, 12:06The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutrino physics and physics topics that will be explored by large underground detectors. CAPTAIN began as part of a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project and...Go to contribution page
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Sylvie Rosier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))20/09/2013, 15:00The AMS-02 detector is a wide acceptance high-energy physics experiment operating since May 2011 onboard of the International Space Station. It consists of six complementary sub-detectors providing measurement on the energy, the mass and the charge leading to an unambiguous identification of the cosmic rays. To date, 40 billion cosmic ray events have been collected. Performance of AMS in...Go to contribution page
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Gustavo Burdman (University of Sao Paulo)20/09/2013, 15:45I reflect on the need for physics beyond the standard model in light of the discovery of a Higgs particle that appears to be consistent with the standard model predictions.Go to contribution page
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Dr Stephen Parke (Fermilab)20/09/2013, 17:00The future prospects of Neutrino Physics will be discussed.Go to contribution page
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Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)20/09/2013, 17:45We review some of the open questions in the Flavour Sector of the Standard Model and analyse the present and future Search for New Physics.Go to contribution page
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Eduardo Pontón (Columbia University)21/09/2013, 09:00
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Pietro Govoni (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))21/09/2013, 09:20
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Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))21/09/2013, 09:45
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Kate Scholberg (Duke University)21/09/2013, 10:05
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Cecilia tarantino (University Roma Tre)21/09/2013, 11:00
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Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))21/09/2013, 11:20
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Heidi Sandaker (University of Bergen (NO))21/09/2013, 11:45
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Marco Cirelli (CEA/Saclay)21/09/2013, 12:00
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Rogerio Rosenfeld (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))21/09/2013, 12:15
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Pamela Ferrari (NIKHEF (NL))Working Group 1talkThe discovery of a Higgs-like boson with a mass of about 125 GeV has prompted the question of whether or not this particle is part of a much larger and more complex Higgs sector than that envisioned in the Standard Model. In this talk, searches for the charged Higgs and additional Higgs bosons in the MSSM and the NMSSM are presented.Go to contribution page
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Mr Alexander Quiroga (PUC-Rio)Working Group 2posterWe assume that in the near future, the positive results of three mass observables, namely, non-zero value of sum of neutrino masses from cosmological data, efective masses from neutrinoless double beta decay, and tritium beta decay experiments, will be obtained. We further assume that these results are in conflict with the standard three flavor neutrino framework which implies the presence of...Go to contribution page
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Sylvie Rosier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Victor Basto-Gonzalez (IFGW-UNICAMP)Working Group 2posterWe consider a model with large extra dimensions where 3 right-hand neutrino can propagate in more than four dimensions, this full space-time is called bulk. These neutrinos have Yukawa couplings to the 3 active neutrinos in the 4-dimensional subspace, called brane. The role of large extra dimensions is provide a small Dirac neutrino mass. This mass is test in the forthcoming experiment KATRIN,...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Thamys Abrahão (PUC-Rio)Working Group 2posterThe Angra II nuclear reactor, which has the 4 GW of thermal power, is located in the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant in the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The large fission rate of $\sim 10^{20}$ per second produces about 5000 antineutrino interactions per day in a water Cherenkov detector with only 1 m$^3$ of fiducial volume at the distance of 25 m from the reactor core. As the flux...Go to contribution page
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Pedro Holanda (U)Working Group 2posterMass Varying Neutrinos (MaVaN's) mechanisms were proposed to link the neutrino mass scale with the dark energy density, addressing the coincidence problem. In some scenarios this mass can present a dependence on the baryonic density felt by neutrinos, creating an effective neutrino mass that depends both on the neutrino and baryonic densities. In this work we study the phenomenological...Go to contribution page
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Dr Roberto Leandro Neves de Oliveria (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)Working Group 2posterIn this work, we apply quantum dissipation to analyze the MINOS data. We perform this analysis considering neutrino and antineutrino beam and the global hypothesis where neutrinos are equivalents to antineutrinos. In the analysis, we use two different quantum dissipation models, where the first take into account only decoherence effects and second considers more general dissipative effects. In...Go to contribution page
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Ms Simone Rupp (Institute of Experimental Nuclear Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)Working Group 2posterUsing high-precision spectroscopy of tritium beta decay electrons close to their kinematic endpoint, the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is targeted to measure the neutrino mass in a model-independent way with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c^2 (90% C.L.). For this purpose, ~ 10^11 electrons per second are generated in a windowless gaseous tritium source (WGTS) and adiabatically...Go to contribution page
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Pamela Ferrari (NIKHEF (NL))Working Group 1talkThe discovery of a Higgs-like boson with a mass of about 125 GeV has prompted the question of whether or not this particle is part of a much larger and more complex Higgs sector than that envisioned in the Standard Model. In this talk, the searches for additional Higgs bosons at high mass in the WW and ZZ and interpretations in 2HDM models are presented.Go to contribution page
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Collaboration Borexino (LNGS)Working Group 2talkThe Borexino is a an excellent and well understood detector for both low energy sub-MeV neutrinos (as proven by the solar neutrino results) and anti-neutrinos. The European Community has recently approved a project for the construction of a neutrino or an anti-neutrino source which will allow to confirm or unambiguously reject the long standing neutrino anomalies suggested by the LSND...Go to contribution page
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Marcelo M. Guzzo (UNICAMP)Working Group 2posterWe propose a mechanism which provides an explanation of the Gallium and antineutrino reactor anomalies. Differently from original Pontecorvo's hypothesis, this mechanism is based on the phenomenological assumption in which the admixture of neutrino mass eigenstates in the moments of neutrino creation and detection can assume different configurations around the admixture parametrized by the...Go to contribution page
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Eduardo Zavanin (Unicamp)Working Group 2posterUsing the phenomenological hypothesis that flavor states are not composed by a single mixing of mass states, we developed a mechanism that supports an possible explanation to the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly and the Gallium Anomaly. Noticing a possible dependence of the free parameter demanded by the mechanism, we also identified a way to explain the appearance phenomena observed in LSDN and...Go to contribution page
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Leonardo Tavares (I)Working Group 2posterWe propose a method of inference to resolve the Earth's internal distribution of heat producing elements, known sources of geo-neutrinos. It incorporates experimental information given by multiple detectors around the globe via the Bayes' Theorem and uses a multigrid approach to iteratively reconstruct the Earth. We present some test results of the algorithm and questions we would like to...Go to contribution page
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