Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics

from Monday, May 12, 2014 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, May 15, 2014 (6:00 PM)
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 12, 2014
May 13, 2014
May 14, 2014
May 15, 2014
AM
8:40 AM
Collider session (until 10:25 AM)
8:40 AM Andrey Korytov - Status of Higgs boson studies with the CMS Detector  
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9:15 AM Michel Janus - Review of the current ATLAS SM Higgs results  
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9:50 AM Sunil Somalwar - Recent results from CMS SUSY searches with emphasis on higgs final states  
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10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Collider session (until 12:30 PM) (Hawking Auditorium)
10:45 AM Hal Evans – ATLAS BSM Higgs  
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11:20 AM Archana Anandakrishnan - Gluino limits on Triangles: A lesson from SO(10) GUTS  
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11:55 AM Xerxes Tata - Naturalness and Supersymmetry: Radiatively Driven Natural SUSY  
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8:35 AM
Collider session (until 10:20 AM)
8:35 AM Amir Farbin - SUSY searches at ATLAS  
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9:10 AM Adrian Perieanu - Searches for BSM Higgs bosons and non-SM Higgs decays at CMS  
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9:45 AM Azar Mustafayev - Collider Signatures of Natural SUSY  
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10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Collider session (until 12:30 PM)
10:45 AM Peter McIntyre - 100 TeV Hadron Collider for a New World Laboratory  
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11:20 AM Jianghao Yu - Better Mass Measurement using Many Body Phase Space Boundary in Cascade Decay  
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11:55 AM Peisi Huang - What does a higgs tell us about SUSY?  
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8:40 AM
Dark matter session (until 10:25 AM)
8:40 AM Louis Strigari - Dark Matter Searches with Fermi-LAT  
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9:15 AM Carter Hall - Results of the first underground run of the LUX dark matter experiment  
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9:50 AM Wolfgang Lorenzon - PandaX: Status and Plans  
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10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Dark matter session (until 12:30 PM)
10:45 AM Michele Cicoli - Pre- and Post-inflationary string cosmology  
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11:20 AM Veronica Bindi - Recent Results from the AMS-02 experiment  
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11:55 AM Jong-Chul Park - Light dark matter and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray excesses  
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8:40 AM
Dark matter session (until 10:25 AM)
8:40 AM Scott Watson - Towards a post-Inflationary Universe  
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9:15 AM Daniel Chung - Observing Inflationary Quantum Fluctuations of Fermionic Dark Matter  
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9:50 AM Ilia Gogoladze - The 3.5 keV X-ray line and Supersymmetry  
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10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Dark matter session (until 12:30 PM)
10:45 AM Ray Bunker - Recent results from SuperCDMS  
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11:20 AM Keith Dienes - Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics  
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11:55 AM Brooks Thomas - Dynamical Dark Matter: Phenomenological Implications  
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PM
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Collider session (until 3:15 PM)
1:30 PM John Paul Chou - Status of CMS Exotica Results  
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2:05 PM Mansoora Shamim – ATLAS exotic searches  
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2:40 PM Ze’ev Surujon - Exotic Higgs Decays  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:35 PM
Collider session (until 5:20 PM)
3:35 PM Carmen Garcia – ATLAS Upgrade physics  
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4:10 PM Chris Hill - The Evolution of LHC (and the CMS experiment)  
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4:45 PM Yuriy Pakhotin - Exotic Higgs decays to boosted dimuons  
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6:00 PM --- Reception ---
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Collider session (until 3:15 PM)
1:30 PM Rouzbeh Allahverdi - Light non-thermal dark matter: a minimal model and detection prospects  
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2:05 PM Yang Bai - Fermion Portal Dark Matter  
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2:40 PM Kuver Sinha - Whither Thermal Freezeout  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:35 PM
Collider session (until 5:20 PM)
3:35 PM Bibhushan Shakya - A New Probe of Neutralino Decays at the LHC  
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4:10 PM Yu Gao - Probing the nature of neutrinos under the supersymmetric U (1)_B−L  
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4:45 PM Joel Walker - Enhancing Collider Sensitivity to Stau-Neutralino Co-Annihilation by Application of a Boosted Event Topology Selection  
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6:00 PM --- Banquet dinner ---
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Dark matter session (until 3:15 PM)
1:30 PM Brian Batell - Flavored Dark Matter  
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2:05 PM Hai-Bo Yu - Self-interacting Dark Matter  
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2:40 PM Howard Baer - Mixed axion/higgsino dark matter in natural SUSY  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:35 PM
Dark matter session (until 5:20 PM)
3:35 PM Sheldon Campbell - Turning Dark Matter Hints into Dark Matter Discoveries  
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4:10 PM Matthias Danninger - Dark Matter searches and High Energy neutrinos in IceCube  
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4:45 PM Farinaldo Da Silva Queiroz - The Effective Hooperon  
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6:30 PM --- BBQ ---
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Dark matter session (until 3:15 PM)
1:30 PM Niayesh Afshordi - Probing Dark Matter Nanostructure  
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2:05 PM Shufang Su - Unveiling Light Neutralino Dark Matter at Colliders  
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2:40 PM Martin Winkler - Compressed Supersymmetry from the High Scale  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:35 PM
Dark matter session (until 5:20 PM)
3:35 PM Andrew Sonnenschein - Dark Matter Detection With Superheated Liquids: COUPP and PICO.  
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4:10 PM Wei Xue - Higgs portal Dark Matter and cosmic ray constraints  
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4:45 PM David Sanford - Simplified Models of Mixed Dark Matter