Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Dark Matter to the LHC and Beyond

18 Jan 2014, 08:00 → 24 Jan 2014, 10:55 US/Mountain

Flug Forum (Aspen Center for Physics)

Kalanand Mishra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Kyle Stuart Cranmer (New York University (US)), Michele Papucci (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))

With the recent discovery of the Higgs particle, this conference will be devoted to the status of our understanding of the Electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism and related topics. Particular emphasis will be given to the many relevant theories that may be realized in nature, and how these can be tested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The conference will provide a broad overview of the latest results in particle physics, bringing together experimental and theoretical physicists. Additional topics will include: indirect and direct dark matter searches, SUSY searches, top quark physics, exotic phenomena, flavor physics and improved understanding of standard model processes. An important aspect of the conference is to provide a glimpse into the future from the experimental viewpoint, as well as the theoretical one.

Registration is from Aspen Center for Physics website (link here).

Saturday, 18 January

17:00 → 19:00 Arrival and Evening Reception

Sunday, 19 January

08:00 → 09:25 Present and Future - overview of theory and experiments: Chair: J. Zupan

08:00 Theory Overview

Speaker: Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides lykken_Aspen_2014.pdf

08:40 Experiment overview

Speaker: Andrew James Lankford (University of California Irvine (US))

Slides 140119_Aspen_Lankford.pdf 140119_Aspen_Lankford.pptx

09:25 → 09:40 break

09:40 → 11:10 Top physics: Chair: A. Weiler

09:40 Theoretical predictions for top-pair and single-top production

Speaker: Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

Slides Kidonakis.pdf

10:05 Top BSM - boosted and resonances

Speaker: Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US))

Slides Erbacher-Aspen14-TopBSM.key Erbacher-Aspen14-TopBSM.pdf

10:30 Top cross section, asymmetry and single top

Speaker: Prof. Karl Ecklund (Rice University (US))

Slides Ecklund_Top_Cross_Sections_Asymmetries.pdf

16:00 → 17:15 Top physics: +EWK: Chair: A. Kagan

16:00 Top BSM theory

Speaker: Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)

Slides Gilad_Perez_Aspen_Winter_14.pdf

16:25 Measurements of top quark mass (to cover ATLAS+CMS+Tevatron)

Speaker: Karl-Johan Grahn (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides topmass_grahn_20140119_v3.pdf

16:50 Electroweak Theory

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides Han_Aspen-EW.pdf Han_Aspen-EW.pptx

17:15 → 17:40 break

17:40 → 18:55 Electroweak Physics: Chair: K. Mishra

17:40 Electroweak Experiment

Speaker: Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides berryhill_aspen_20140119.pdf berryhill_aspen_20140119.pptx

18:05 Mu2e Experiment

Speaker: Robert Kutschke (Femilab)

Slides Mu2e_kutschke_Apsen2014.pdf Mu2e_kutschke_Apsen2014.pptx

18:30 Taking the Muon for a Spin

Speaker: Thomas Gadfort (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Slides g_minus_2_fewbuildins.pdf

Monday, 20 January

08:00 → 09:15 Higgs Physics: Chair: T. Han

08:00 Constraints on CP violating Higgs couplings

Speaker: Joachim Brod (TU Munich)

Slides Brod_HiggsCP.pdf

08:25 Measuring CP violation in Higgs to tau+ tau- at Colliders

Speaker: Reinard Primulando (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Primulando_-_Aspen_2014_Talk.pdf

08:50 Higgs Bosons: present and future

Speaker: Jack Gunion (University of California Davis (US))

Slides aspenwinter2014.pdf

09:15 → 09:40 break

09:40 → 10:55 Higgs Physics: Chair: M. Papucci

09:40 Higgs production with a jet veto

Speaker: Prof. Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)

Slides neubert.pdf

10:05 Matching NNLO Calculations and Parton Showers

Speaker: Simone Alioli (LBNL & UC Berkeley)

Slides Aspen_2014.pdf

10:30 Higgs EFT

Speaker: Jamison Galloway (Rome La Sapienza)

Slides ACP_Galloway.pdf

16:30 → 17:45 Higgs Physics: Chair: K. Cranmer

16:30 Measurements of Higgs boson couplings

Speaker: Dr Michela Biglietti (INFN Roma Tre)

Slides biglietti-aspen-v5.pdf biglietti-aspen-v5.pptx

16:55 Higgs spin parity determination

Speaker: Mr Giacomo Ortona (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides ortona_Aspen.pdf

17:20 Search for exotic Higgs

Speaker: Justin Griffiths (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

Slides ASPEN_DM_January_2014_final.pdf

17:45 → 18:10 break

18:10 → 19:25 Higgs Physics: Chair: G. Perez

18:10 Higgs flavor physics

Speaker: Yonit Hochberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides YH_aspen.pdf

18:35 Experimental details of fermionic final states in Higgs decays

Speaker: John Conway (University of California Davis (US))

Slides Conway-Hff.pdf

19:00 Future prospects for Higgs measurements at LHC Run-2

Speaker: Hubert Kroha (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

Slides Aspen_2014_Kroha.pdf

Tuesday, 21 January

08:00 → 09:15 Astrophysics and Cosmology: Chair: K. Zurek

08:00 A Possible Dark Matter Signal in Gamma Rays from the Inner Galaxy

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)

Slides AspenWinter2014_Slatyer.pdf

08:25 Gamma-ray dark matter searches

Speaker: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins

Slides Siegal-Gaskins.pdf

08:50 HESS Results

Speaker: Wilfried Domainko

Slides hess_highlights.pdf

09:15 → 09:40 break

09:40 → 11:20 Dark Matter: Chair: T. Volansky

09:40 TBD

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

Slides Zurek_14_Aspen.pdf

10:05 New Dark Matter Detectors using DNA for Nanometer Tracking

Speaker: Katherine Freese

Slides DM_DNA_aspen_final2.pdf

10:30 SolarAxion Searches with IAXO: The Dark Side of the Sun

Speaker: Julia Katharina Vogel (CERN - PH/UGC)

Slides Aspen2014_IAXO_jvogel.pdf

16:30 → 17:45 QCD: Chair: S. Jager

16:30 QCD Theory

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

Slides petriello-aspen14.pdf

16:55 Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

Slides huston_PDF_Higgs_aspen.pdf

17:20 QCD Experiment

Speaker: Stephen Paul Bieniek (University College London)

Slides Aspen_QCD_summary.pdf

17:45 → 18:05 break

18:05 → 19:20 Heavy Flavor: Chair: K. Kinoshita

18:05 BSM and flavor

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (F)

Slides altmannshofer_Aspen.pdf

18:30 Rare heavy flavor decays at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Alexander Shires (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

Slides AlexShiresAspen13.pdf

18:55 CP violation in B and D mesons

Speaker: Daniel Johnson (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides 14-01Jan-21_DJohnson.pdf

Wednesday, 22 January

08:00 → 09:15 Heavy Flavor: Chair: M. Neubert

08:00 B->K^*mumu Theory

Speakers: Sebastian Jager, Sebastian Jager

Slides aspen2014_jaeger_v2.pdf

08:25 Bs->mumu Theory

Speaker: Emmanuel Stamou (TUM)

Slides stamou_aspen.pdf

08:50 Heavy flavor at lepton colliders

Speaker: Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)

Slides Kinoshita_14-01-Aspen.pdf Kinoshita_14-01-Aspen.pptx

09:15 → 09:25 break

09:25 → 10:40 Neutrinos: Chair: Seung J. Lee

09:25 Towards the measurements of mass hierarchy and CP violation in neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Walter Winter (Wurzburg University)

Slides Aspen_WinterW.pdf Aspen_WinterW.ppt

09:50 Model Building for Lepton Mixing and Neutrino Masses

Speaker: Claudia Hagedorn (INFN, Section of Padua)

Slides Hagedorn_aspenwinter2014.pdf

10:15 Dark matter or neutrino recoil: interpretation of recent experimental results

Speaker: Josef Pradler (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Slides Pradler_2014Aspen.pdf

10:40 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 11:35 Neutrinos: Chair: Seung J. Lee

10:45 Current experimental situation in neutrino physics

Speaker: Ryan Patterson (Caltech)

Slides patterson_current_nu_expt.pdf

11:10 Planning for Future Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Dr Alexandre Sousa (Harvard University)

Slides Sousa_FutureNeutrinoExpts_Aspen2014.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Physics Cafe

17:30 → 18:45 Public Lecture

Thursday, 23 January

08:00 → 09:15 Dark Matter: Chair: J. Vogel

08:00 SuperCDMS

Speaker: Nader mirabolfathi (UC-Berkeley)

Slides SuperCDMS_Aspen2014.pdf

08:25 First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Karen Gibson (Case Western Reserve University)

Slides krg_Aspen_20140123.key krg_Aspen_20140123.pdf

08:50 Self-interacting dark matter

Speaker: Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)

Slides 2014AspenYU.pdf

09:15 → 09:40 break

09:40 → 10:55 Astrophysics and Cosmology: Chair: M. Buckley

09:40 Fundamental physics from current and future cosmological probes

Speaker: Anze Slosar

Slides slosar.pdf

10:05 Dark Mediator Dark Matter

Speaker: David Curtin (Cornell)

Slides davidcurtin_dmDM_aspen_23jan2014.pdf

10:30 The Effect of Gravitational Focusing on Annual Modulation

Speaker: Ms Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)

Slides Lisanti_Aspen_2014.pdf

16:00 → 17:15 SUSY and Exotica

16:00 Flavored BSM vs. the LHC

Speaker: Andreas Weiler (CERN)

Slides weiler_aspen_final.pdf

16:25 New strong interactons and the top pair forward-backward asymmetry

Speaker: Alexander Kagan (university of cincinnati)

Slides Kagan_StrIntnsAspentalk.pdf

16:50 Dynamical R-Parity Violation

Speaker: Eric Kuflik

Slides Aspen_EKuflik.pdf

17:15 → 17:40 break

17:40 → 18:55 SUSY and Exotica

Convener: John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

17:40 SUSY after the Higgs Discovery

Speaker: Marcela Carena

Slides Carena_Aspen-2014-final.pdf Carena_Aspen-2014-final.pptx

18:05 SUSY and Exotica at CMS

Speaker: Jim Hirschauer (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides hirschauer_aspen.pdf

18:30 SUSY and exotica at ATLAS

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

Slides Aspen2014ExoticsSUSYHBachacou_v1.0.pdf

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner at Aspen Meadows

Friday, 24 January

08:00 → 09:15 SUSY and Exotica

08:00 Forward Lepton- Photon-Jet Systems for SLHC Experiments

Speaker: David Winn (Fairfield University (US))

Slides Snowmass14a.pdf

08:25 Using the Razor to unravel difficult LHC signatures

Speaker: Matthew Buckley (F)

Slides buckley.pdf

08:50 Light non-degenerate composite partners at the LHC

Speaker: Seung Lee (KAIST)

Slides Seung_Lee1.pdf

09:15 → 09:40 break

09:40 → 10:55 Summaries

Convener: Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:40 Theory Summary

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano_summary.pdf

10:17 Experimental Summary

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

Slides Aspen-Summary.pdf