Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics

May 12, 2014, 8:00 AM → May 15, 2014, 6:00 PM US/Central

Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University

Anthony Rose (Texas A & M University (US)), Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University), Ricardo Eusebi (Texas A & M University (US)), Teruki Kamon (Texas A & M University (US)), Yu Gao (U)

The 2014 Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics will be held from 12th - 15th May 2014, at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University. The workshop will focus on recent results from collider experiments and progress in the field of dark matter.

Mon, May 12

8:40 AM → 10:25 AM Collider session: morning

8:40 AM Andrey Korytov - Status of Higgs boson studies with the CMS Detector

Slides Andrey_Korytov_2014.05_12_HiggsCMS_TAMU.pdf

9:15 AM Michel Janus - Review of the current ATLAS SM Higgs results

Slides Mittchell_janus-2014-05-12.pdf

9:50 AM Sunil Somalwar - Recent results from CMS SUSY searches with emphasis on higgs final states

Slides 20140511139986631311405-Mitchell-SUSY-Somalwar.pdf 20140511139986654111405-Mitchell-SUSY-Somalwar.pptx

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Collider session: morning

10:45 AM Hal Evans – ATLAS BSM Higgs

Slides evans-mitchell.pdf

11:20 AM Archana Anandakrishnan - Gluino limits on Triangles: A lesson from SO(10) GUTS

Slides TexasAM.pdf

11:55 AM Xerxes Tata - Naturalness and Supersymmetry: Radiatively Driven Natural SUSY

Slides mitchell.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:15 PM Collider session: afternoon

1:30 PM John Paul Chou - Status of CMS Exotica Results

Slides MitchellWorkshop.pdf

2:05 PM Mansoora Shamim – ATLAS exotic searches

Slides Mitchell_V1.pdf

2:40 PM Ze’ev Surujon - Exotic Higgs Decays

Slides exotichiggs_ZS.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee break

3:35 PM → 5:20 PM Collider session: afternoon

3:35 PM Carmen Garcia – ATLAS Upgrade physics

Slides ATLAS_physics_upgrade.pdf

4:10 PM Chris Hill - The Evolution of LHC (and the CMS experiment)

Slides chill_mitchell_051214.pdf

4:45 PM Yuriy Pakhotin - Exotic Higgs decays to boosted dimuons

Slides 2014-05-12_Pakhotin_TAMU_Dark_Matter_Workshop.pdf

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Reception

MPHY 3rd floor garden

Tue, May 13

8:35 AM → 10:20 AM Collider session: morning

8:35 AM Amir Farbin - SUSY searches at ATLAS

Slides Farbin-Mitchell-2014.pdf

9:10 AM Adrian Perieanu - Searches for BSM Higgs bosons and non-SM Higgs decays at CMS

Slides Mitchell_ap_cinco.pdf

9:45 AM Azar Mustafayev - Collider Signatures of Natural SUSY

Slides mwcdmp14.pdf

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Collider session: morning

10:45 AM Peter McIntyre - 100 TeV Hadron Collider for a New World Laboratory

Slides McIntyre_SUSY.pdf McIntyre_SUSY.pptx

11:20 AM Jianghao Yu - Better Mass Measurement using Many Body Phase Space Boundary in Cascade Decay

Slides Jianghao_yu_phasetamu.pdf

11:55 AM Peisi Huang - What does a higgs tell us about SUSY?

Slides SUSYHiggs_Huang.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:15 PM Collider session: afternoon

1:30 PM Rouzbeh Allahverdi - Light non-thermal dark matter: a minimal model and detection prospects

Slides TAMU14.pdf

2:05 PM Yang Bai - Fermion Portal Dark Matter

Slides FermionPortalDM_YangBai.pdf

2:40 PM Kuver Sinha - Whither Thermal Freezeout

Slides Kuver_Sinha_Mitchell_talk_2014.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee break

3:35 PM → 5:20 PM Collider session: afternoon

3:35 PM Bibhushan Shakya - A New Probe of Neutralino Decays at the LHC

Slides texas_workshop_Bibhushan.pdf

4:10 PM Yu Gao - Probing the nature of neutrinos under the supersymmetric U (1)_B−L

Slides BL_TAMU_gao.pdf

4:45 PM Joel Walker - Enhancing Collider Sensitivity to Stau-Neutralino Co-Annihilation by Application of a Boosted Event Topology Selection

Slides Boosted_Topologies_Walker.pdf

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Banquet dinner

Wed, May 14

8:40 AM → 10:25 AM Dark matter session: morning

8:40 AM Louis Strigari - Dark Matter Searches with Fermi-LAT

Slides strigari_mitchell_2014.pdf

9:15 AM Carter Hall - Results of the first underground run of the LUX dark matter experiment

Slides LUX-results.pdf

9:50 AM Wolfgang Lorenzon - PandaX: Status and Plans

Slides PandaX-MWCDM-TexasA&M-2014.pdf

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Dark matter session: morning

10:45 AM Michele Cicoli - Pre- and Post-inflationary string cosmology

Slides Mitchell.pdf

11:20 AM Veronica Bindi - Recent Results from the AMS-02 experiment

Slides TexasA&M_AMS_Bindi.pdf

11:55 AM Jong-Chul Park - Light dark matter and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray excesses

Slides FermiLAT-TAMU.pdf FermiLAT-TAMU.pptx

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:15 PM Dark matter session: afternoon

1:30 PM Brian Batell - Flavored Dark Matter

Slides mitchell-tamu-batell.pdf

2:05 PM Hai-Bo Yu - Self-interacting Dark Matter

Slides HaiboYU.pdf

2:40 PM Howard Baer - Mixed axion/higgsino dark matter in natural SUSY

Slides tamu14_baer.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee break

3:35 PM → 5:20 PM Dark matter session: afternoon

3:35 PM Sheldon Campbell - Turning Dark Matter Hints into Dark Matter Discoveries

Slides Mitchell_Workshop_2014_Campbell.pdf

4:10 PM Matthias Danninger - Dark Matter searches and High Energy neutrinos in IceCube

Slides Mitchel_workshop_MD.pdf

4:45 PM Farinaldo Da Silva Queiroz - The Effective Hooperon

Slides Texas2.pdf

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM BBQ

Thu, May 15

8:40 AM → 10:25 AM Dark matter session: morning

8:40 AM Scott Watson - Towards a post-Inflationary Universe

Slides TAMU_workshop_watson.pdf

9:15 AM Daniel Chung - Observing Inflationary Quantum Fluctuations of Fermionic Dark Matter

Slides Daniel_Chung_fermionic_isocurvature_Texas_2014.pdf

9:50 AM Ilia Gogoladze - The 3.5 keV X-ray line and Supersymmetry

Slides ilia-texas_AM.pdf

10:25 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Dark matter session: morning

10:45 AM Ray Bunker - Recent results from SuperCDMS

Slides Mitchell_2014_bunker.pdf Mitchell_2014_bunker.pptx

11:20 AM Keith Dienes - Dynamical Dark Matter: A New Framework for Dark-Matter Physics

Slides talk_tamu_workshop.pdf

11:55 AM Brooks Thomas - Dynamical Dark Matter: Phenomenological Implications

Slides Brooks_Thomas_Mitchell_Workshop_Talk.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:15 PM Dark matter session: afternoon

1:30 PM Niayesh Afshordi - Probing Dark Matter Nanostructure

Slides DM_hierarchy_Mitchell_May_14.pdf

2:05 PM Shufang Su - Unveiling Light Neutralino Dark Matter at Colliders

Slides NMSSM_LDM.pdf

2:40 PM Martin Winkler - Compressed Supersymmetry from the High Scale

Slides winkler.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee break

3:35 PM → 5:20 PM Dark matter session: afternoon

3:35 PM Andrew Sonnenschein - Dark Matter Detection With Superheated Liquids: COUPP and PICO.

Slides Mitchell_SonnenscheinMay15_2014_.pdf

4:10 PM Wei Xue - Higgs portal Dark Matter and cosmic ray constraints

Slides AntiProton_TAMU.pdf

4:45 PM David Sanford - Simplified Models of Mixed Dark Matter