Flavour as a Window to New Physics at the LHC

5 May 2008, 08:00 → 13 Jun 2008, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Robert Fleischer (CERN), Thomas Mannel (University of Siegen), Yosef Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science)

The aim of this CERN Theory Institute is to discuss the various theoretical aspects of the flavour-physics programme at the LHC, to set the stage for the interpretation of the first LHC data, and to address general questions concerning new physics in the flavour sector.

Monday 5 May

16:00 → 18:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics

16:00 Welcome

Tuesday 6 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Morning Session

10:00 Flavour Physics of Leptons and Dipole Moments

Speaker: Martti Raidal

Slides cern.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Afternoon Session

16:30 CERN Joint EP/PP Seminar: Understanding flavour at the LHC

Speaker: Yosef Nir

Slides flavor_cern.pdf

Wednesday 7 May

10:00 → 11:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Morning Session

10:00 Family Symmetries and Neutrino Mixing

Speaker: Ivo Varzielas

Slides Varzielas.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour-GUT SO(10)x(SU(3)xU(1)): large mixing and mass hierarchy in the SM (Informal Talk)

Speaker: Marco Picariello

Thursday 8 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Morning Sesson

10:00 Leptogenesis

Speaker: Isabella Masina

Slides THinstitute-web-1.pdf THinstitute-web-1.ppt

16:00 → 18:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour Coffee

Friday 9 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week I: Lepton Flavour & Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Morning Session

10:00 LFV in SUSY-GUTs and SUSY at the LHC

Speaker: Sudhir Vempati

Slides maycern.pdf

Tuesday 13 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week II: QCD I: Morning Session

10:00 Quark Models

Speaker: Vladimir Galkin

Slides qm-cern.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week II: QCD I: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour Coffee

Wednesday 14 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week II: QCD I: Morning Session

10:00 How reliable are bound-state parameters extracted from QCD sum rules?

Speaker: Dmitri Melikhov

Slides talk_melikhov.pdf

Thursday 15 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week II: QCD I: Morning Session

10:00 QCD Factorization

Speaker: Martin Beneke

Slides cern.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week II: QCD I: Afternoon Session

16:30 CERN Colloquium: Worrying about the LHC, a lesson from astrophysics?

Speaker: Alvaro De Rujula

Friday 16 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week II: QCD I: Morning Session

10:00 The f(Ds) Puzzle

Speaker: Andreas Kronfeld

Slides fDs.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week II: QCD I: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour Coffee

Monday 19 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week III: QCD II: Morning Session

10:00 Heavy Flavour Applications of Lattice QCD

Speaker: Michele Della Morte

Slides TH_Inst.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week III: QCD II: Afternoon Session

16:00 Two related methods for dealing with heavy quarks on the lattice

Speaker: Rainer Sommer

Slides cern08.pdf

Tuesday 20 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week III: QCD II: Morning Session

10:00 Polarization and branching ratios of B -> VV,VA,AA

Speaker: Hai-Yang Cheng

Slides BtoVV1.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week III: QCD II: Afternoon Session

16:00 Applications of QCD Sum Rules to Flavour Physics

Speaker: Alexander Khodjamirian

Slides Khodjamirian.pdf

Wednesday 21 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week III: QCD II: Morning Session

10:00 QCD Effects in Semileptonic B Decays

Speaker: Giulia Ricciardi

Slides talk_ricciardi.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week III: QCD II: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour Coffee

Thursday 22 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week III: QCD II: Morning Session

10:00 Kaon physics with chiral fermions

Speaker: Chris Sachrajda

Slides sachrajda.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week III: QCD II: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour Coffee

Friday 23 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week III: QCD II: Morning Session

10:00 BSM Aspects of Flavour Physics

Speaker: Gustavo Branco

Slides Branco.scans.pdf

Monday 26 May

14:00 → 18:30 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Joint Start-up Session (with HERA-LHC Workshop)

14:00 Joint Welcome

Speakers: Albert De Roeck, Robert Fleischer

Slides Welcome.pdf

14:05 LHC machine status

Speaker: Mike Lamont

Slides LHC-status-HeraLHC-May08.pdf

14:30 LHCb physics programme

Speaker: Marcel Merk

Slides LHCbPhysics.pdf LHCbPhysics.ppt

15:00 ATLAS B-physics programme

Speaker: Sagi Ben-Ami

Slides ATLAS_overview.pdf ATLAS_overview.ppt

15:15 CMS B-physics programme

Speaker: Andrei Starodumov

Slides bcms.pdf

15:30 B-physics theory overview

Speaker: Ikaros Bigi

Slides CERNTHInst08.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Recent Results from HERA

Speaker: Christi Diaconu

Slides diaconu_hera.pdf

17:00 Jet Physics at Colliders

Speaker: Gavin Salam

Slides heralhc-jets.pdf

17:30 ATLAS Luminosity measurements and PDF uncertainty role on the LHC physics

Speaker: Martin Boonekamp

Slides HeraLHC_08.pdf HeraLHC_08.ppt

18:00 Expectations for QCD with first LHC data

Speaker: Klaus Rabbertz

Slides HERA-LHC-Workshop_QCD-Plenary_052008.pdf

Tuesday 27 May

09:30 → 12:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Bs Physics and CP Violation: Bs -> J/psi phi, ...

09:30 Bs Mixing Phase and CP Violation at the Tevatron

Speaker: Marco Rescigno

Slides CERN-TheoryInstitute-upload.pdf CERN-TheoryInstitute-upload.ppt

10:00 New physics search in Bs->JpsiPhi and Bs->PhiPhi at LHCb, including ATLAS and CMS results

Speaker: Olivier Leroy

Slides 20080527-betasTheo.pdf

10:30 Coffe Break

11:00 Bs Mixing (Theory)

Speaker: Alexander Lenz

Slides lenz.pdf

11:30 Discussion

14:00 → 18:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Bs Physics and CP Violation: gamma determinations

14:00 gamma determination at LHCb

Speaker: Angelo Carbone

Slides gamma_carbone.pdf

14:30 Theory Issues in Measuring gamma

Speaker: Luca Silvestrini

Slides gamma_silvestrini.pdf

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Discussion

16:30 Joint PP/EP Tuesday Seminar: Measurements of the Unitarity Triangle angles at the B factories

Speaker: Marcella Bona

Slides cern-seminar.pdf

Wednesday 28 May

09:30 → 13:40 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Rare B Decays

09:30 B0s -> mu+mu- in CMS & ATLAS

Speaker: Christina Eggel

Slides ce_may28_new.pdf

09:40 Studies of Semileptonic Rare B Decays at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Cristina Adorisio

Slides adorisio_focusWeek.pdf adorisio_focusWeek.ppt

09:50 Rare Decays at LHCb

Speaker: Mitesh Patel

Slides theory_institute_may_08.pdf theory_institute_may_08.ppt

10:10 Coffee Break

10:40 Rare B Decays: Theory

Speaker: Mikolaj Misiak

Slides misiak.pdf

11:10 Discussion

14:00 → 16:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week

14:00 TH Colloquium: Old and New Flavour Physics

Speaker: Daniel Wyler

Slides Theor.Physik.pdf

Thursday 29 May

10:00 → 12:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Charm, Tau, New States, ...

10:00 Charm Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Raluca Muresan

Slides Raluca_Muresan_CERN2008_Theory_Institute29May.pdf Raluca_Muresan_CERN2008_Theory_Institute29May.ppt

10:30 Charm Physics (Theory)

Speaker: Alexei Petrov

Slides CERN2008.pdf

11:00 Discussion

14:00 → 18:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Spectroscopy, Lambda_b, |V(xb)|, ...

14:00 Non-CP Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Michael Schmelling

Slides lhcb_nonCP.pdf

14:30 Determination of Vcb and Vub (Theory)

Speaker: Nikolai Uraltsev

Slides uraltsev_lhcb.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffe Break

16:00 Special Seminar: Where to expect New Physics in flavour-violating processes?

Speaker: Andrzej Buras

Friday 30 May

09:00 → 12:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Long-Term Future

09:00 LHCb upgrade

Speaker: Jim Libby

Slides Libby.pdf

09:20 Status and Prospects of sKEKB

Speaker: Yutaka Ushiroda

Slides ushiroda.pdf ushiroda.ppt

09:40 The SuperB Project: an overview

Speaker: Marcello Giorgi

Slides M_Giorgi_MAY_30.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Non-Perturbative QCD Calculations for B Physics (and related topics)

Speaker: Guido Martinelli

Slides martinelli.pdf martinelli.ppt

11:00 Theory Outlook

Speaker: Zoltan Ligeti

Slides cern.pdf

11:30 Final Discussion

16:00 → 18:00 Week IV: B@LHC Focus Week: Long-Term Future

16:00 Discussion Session: Determination of Vcb and Vub

Monday 2 June

10:00 → 12:00 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Morning Session

10:00 Neutrino Mixing in a Grand Unified Model

Speaker: Guido Altarelli

Slides CERNFlInst'08.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Afternoon Session

16:00 Rare Kaon Decays as Probes of BSM Physics

Speaker: Uli Haisch

Slides CERN08.pdf

17:00 Rare Kaon Decays: Experimental Prospects

Speaker: Augusto Ceccucci

Slides Rare_Kaon_Decays_experimental_Prospects.pdf Rare_Kaon_Decays_experimental_Prospects.ppt

Tuesday 3 June

10:00 → 12:00 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Morning Session

10:00 Measuring Flavour Mixing with Minimal Flavour Violation at the LHC

Speaker: Gudrun Hiller

Slides cernflavor08.pdf

16:30 → 18:30 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Afternoon Session

16:30 Joint PP/EP Tuesday Seminar: Constraints on new physics from b→s hadronic decays at Babar

Speaker: Maurizio Pierini

Slides slides_cern.pdf

Wednesday 4 June

10:00 → 12:00 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Morning Session

10:00 Rare B Decays as Probes of BSM Physics

Speaker: Ahmed Ali

Slides Ali-CERN-08.pdf

Thursday 5 June

10:00 → 12:40 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Morning Session

10:00 QCD Challenges in Non-leptonic B Decays I

Speaker: Marco Ciuchini

Slides Ciuchini.pdf

10:20 QCD Challenges in Non-leptonic B Decays II

Speaker: Hsiang-nan Li

Slides cernflavorli.pdf

10:40 QCD Challenges in Non-leptonic B Decays III

Speaker: Iain Stewart

Slides FlavourLHC_Stewart.pdf FlavourLHC_Stewart.ppt

11:00 QCD Challenges in Non-leptonic B Decays IV

Speaker: Cai-Dian Lu

Slides penguins-LU.pdf

11:30 Discussion Session: QCD Challenges in Non-leptonic B Decays

16:15 → 17:45 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Afternoon Session

16:15 Flavour Coffee

16:30 Informal Discussion on U-spin Bs-> DsK, B -> Dpi, ...

Speaker: Vladimir Gligorov

Slides ChatToCERNTheoryGroupAboutUspin_v2.pdf

Friday 6 June

09:30 → 12:00 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Morning Session

09:30 Heavy Quark Masses

Speaker: Andre Hoang

Slides heavy_quark_masses.pdf heavy_quark_masses.ppt

16:00 → 17:30 Week V: Beyond the Standard Model: Afternoon Session

16:00 Flavour Coffee

16:15 MSSM predictions for B_s --> mu mu at low tan(beta)

Speaker: Athanasios Dedes

Slides Bmumu_CERN_TH_Institute.pdf

16:45 Exploiting the width difference DGs in Bs -> phi gamma

Speaker: Roman Zwicky

Slides cern08.pdf

Monday 9 June

14:00 → 18:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: Direct NP Searches @ LHC

14:00 ATLAS New Physics Searches at High pT

Speaker: Tobias Golling

Slides FlavorNP_atLHC_Golling_09062008.pdf

14:30 Early New Physics Reach: CMS

Speaker: Oliver Buchmueller

Slides oliver-cms-NP-09062008-full.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee

Tuesday 10 June

09:30 → 12:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: (MFV) SUSY Models

09:30 Supersymmetric Flavour and Selectron Smuon Splitting

Speaker: Ben Allanach

Slides cern.pdf

10:30 The MSSM with minimal flavour violations and its running

Speaker: Gilberto Colangelo

Slides cern_flavour.pdf

11:00 Discussion

14:00 → 17:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: (MFV) SUSY Models

14:00 Tools and Benchmarks

Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer

Slides lhcfpToolsBench.pdf

14:45 Model-Independent Analyses in Flavour Physics

Speakers: Gudrun Hiller, Ulrich Haisch

Slides MIA_CERN.pdf

15:00 GFitter: A Generic Fitter Project for HEP Model Testing

Speaker: Henning Flaecher

Slides gfitter-lhc-flavour.pdf

15:20 A framework for consistent combination of indirect constraints on the MSSM

Speaker: Frederic Ronga

Slides fronga-flhc-20080229.pdf

15:40 Discussion

16:00 Coffee

Wednesday 11 June

10:00 → 12:30 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: General Scenarios for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

10:00 Non-MFV and Non-SUSY Models

Speaker: Yasuhiro Okada

Slides cernth08-okaday.pdf cernth08-okaday.ppt

11:00 Some implications of a large phase in Bs mixing

Speaker: Marco Ciuchini

Slides Ciuchini2.pdf

11:30 Discussion

14:00 → 18:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week

14:00 TH Colloquium: Warped Extra Dimension at the LHC

Speaker: Amarjit Soni

Slides cern_colloq_june08_wexd.pdf

Thursday 12 June

10:00 → 12:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: Leptonic Sector

10:00 Muon g-2 and Electric Dipole Moments

Speaker: Arkady Vainshtein

Slides MagnElectMoments.pdf

11:00 Discussion

14:00 → 17:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: Leptonic Sector

14:00 Lepton Flavour and Number Violation

Speaker: John Ellis

Slides LFNV.pdf LFNV.ppt

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee

Friday 13 June

10:00 → 12:00 Week VI: Flavour/High-Q2 Interplay Focus Week: Finale Fortissimo ...

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Farewell Coffee