PDG Advisory Comm. Meeting

7 Nov 2014, 09:00 → 8 Nov 2014, 12:00 America/Los_Angeles

5th floor of Bldg. 50A - Room 5132 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Friday 7 November

09:00 → 09:30 Executive Session (Advisory Committee and Natalie Roe)

09:30 → 09:55 Introduction, Survey and Procedures

Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides barnett_intro14.pdf

09:55 → 10:30 Collaboration

09:55 CERN PDG Collaboration

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)

Slides PDG_CERN_contribution_2014.pdf

10:05 Japanese PDG Collaboration

Speaker: Ken-ichi Hikasa

Slides PDGJapan2014.pptx

10:10 BREAK

10:30 → 11:30 Particle Listings and Reviews -- Searches

10:30 LHC searches, limits, anomalies, discoveries

Speaker: Simone Pagan Griso (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides spagan_searches.pdf

11:00 Higgs, Heavy Bosons, WIMPs, etc.

Speaker: Ken-ichi Hikasa

Slides HiggsWIMPOther2014.pdf

11:15 Higgs Review

Speakers: Marcela Carena, Prof. Vivek Sharma (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

Slides PDG-AdvisoryCommitteeMeeting_2014.pdf

11:30 → 13:45 Particle Listings -- Non-Searches

11:30 B's, CP, Charm, Top, and Heavy Flavor Avg. Group

Speakers: Alex Cerri (University of Sussex (GB)), Wei-Ming Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides pdg_collaboration2014_Yao.pdf

11:55 Tau

Speakers: Jurg Beringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Klaus Monig (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides pdg_taufit.pdf

12:00 Meson Team

Speakers: Alberto Masoni (Universita e INFN (IT)), Claudia Patrignani (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides MESON_TEAM_LBL2014.pdf

12:15 LUNCH in cafeteria (not provided)

13:00 Gauge Bosons (W,Z)

Speaker: Atul Gurtu (Formerly Tata Inst of Fundamental Research (India))

Slides gurtu_WZ-pdg-adv-com_2014.pdf gurtu_WZ-pdg-adv-com_2014.ppt

13:10 K Mesons

Speakers: Cheng-Ju Stephen Lin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Giancarlo D'Ambrosio (Univ. + INFN)

Slides Adv_copy_2.pdf

13:25 Neutrinos

Speaker: Maury Goodman (Argonne)

Slides Neutrinoissues14.pdf Neutrinoissues14.pptx

13:40 Baryon resonances

Speaker: Ron Workman

Slides PDG14b.pdf

13:45 → 15:50 Reviews, Tables, Plots

13:45 Introduction

Speaker: Piotr Zyla

Slides zyla-advisory-reviews.pdf

13:55 Electroweak Model Review

Speaker: Dr Ayres Freitas (University of Zurich)

Slides Freitas_EW_pdg_adv.pdf

14:10 SUSY Review

Speakers: Howard Haber (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)), Paul De Jong (NIKHEF (NL))

Experimental review slides exp_susy_pdj_nov2014.pdf

Theory review slides Haber_pdg14.pdf

14:20 DESB Review

Speakers: John Terning (UC Davis), Prof. Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University)

Slides chivukula_revised-rpp-dewsb.pptx

14:30 CKM Review

Speaker: Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides talk14b.pdf

14:35 Neutrino Review

Speaker: Cheng-Ju Stephen Lin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides Advisory_NeutrinoReview_LIN.pdf

14:45 Astrophysics Reviews

Speaker: Keith Alison Olive (University of Minnesota (US))

Slides olivepdg14.pdf

15:05 Accel. & Non-accelerator Detectors Reviews

Speaker: Dan Dwyer

Slides DDwyer_PDGDetReviews_07Nov2014.pdf

15:30 BREAK

15:50 → 17:15 Other Projects & Administrative Reports

15:50 Production

Speaker: Piotr Zyla

Slides zyla-advisory-production.pdf

16:00 Computing

Speaker: Jurg Beringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides Computing-Advisory-2014.pdf

16:15 Budget, Personnel and Summary

Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides barnett_summ14.pdf

16:30 Other items, including future of Book, Booklet and App

Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides barnett_survey14.pdf

17:00 Discussion

17:15 → 18:15 Executive Session

19:00 → 21:30 Dinner -- Faculty Club, UC Berkeley campus

Saturday 8 November

09:00 → 12:00 Executive Session