Arnowitt Symposium and Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics

18 May 2015, 08:00 → 22 May 2015, 18:00 US/Central

Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Anthony Rose (Texas A & M University (US)), Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University), Ghosh Tathagata (University of Texas A&M), Louis Strigari (Stanford University), Mei-Yu Wang (Texas A&M University), Mykhailo Dalchenko (Texas A & M University (US)), Teruki Kamon (Texas A & M University (US)), Yu Gao (U)

The 2015 Mitchell Workshop on Collider and Dark Matter Physics will be held from May 18 – May 22, 2015, 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. The second and third days of the workshop will concentrate on the work being done on collider experiments. There will also be discussion of the implications of recent results, and related topics in particle phenomenology. The final two days of the workshop will focus on a discussion of dark matter, with talks highlighting recent results from various direct and indirect experimental searches and also related topics in astrophysics and cosmology. In order to honor the passing of our esteemed colleague, Dr. Richard Arnowitt, the first day of this year’s workshop will be dedicated to him. The Arnowitt Symposium will be held on May 18, 2015. Dr. Richard Arnowitt was a pillar of his field, and well known for his research on general relativity and the development of the ADM formalism with Dr. Stanley Deser and Dr. Charles Misner.

Monday, 18 May

08:50 → 09:00 Welcome - George Welch (TAMU)

09:00 → 09:25 Pran Nath (Northeastern)- Perspectives on Particle Theory from Pion Physics to Sparticles

Slides Nath_May_18_2015.pdf

09:25 → 09:50 Teruki Kamon (TAMU) - Arnowitt: Hunt for Dark Matter

Slides 150518_Kamon_Arnowitt_v2.pdf

09:50 → 10:15 Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)

Slides Arnowitt_mem_final_Rabi.pdf

10:15 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:15 Thomas Kehpart (Vanderbilt)

Slides A&M18May2015Final.pdf

11:15 → 11:40 James Dent (Louisiana) - A General Analysis of Direct Detection: from Microphysics to Observational Signatures

Slides Dent-James-A&M_May_2015.pdf

11:40 → 12:05 Howie Baer (Oklahoma) - Supergravity gauge theories strike back: There is no crisis for SUSY but a new collider may be required for discovery

Slides Arnofest2015_baer.pdf

12:05 → 13:35 Lunch

13:35 → 14:00 Xerxes Tata (Hawaii) - Aspirations and Prospects in the LHC Era

Slides arnowitt_xerxes.pdf

14:00 → 14:25 Rajan Gupta (LANL) - Exploring Novel Physics at the TeV Scale through Lattice QCD Simulations of the Nucleon

Slides Gupta_LQCD_Arnowitt.pdf

14:25 → 14:50 Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State) - Proton decay in SUSY and non-SUSY GUTs

Slides TAMU_Babu.ppt

14:50 → 15:15 Kelly Stelle (Imperial) - Supersymmetry, Gravity and Branes: Remembering Dick Arnowitt

Slides Stelle_Arnowitt_mem.pdf

15:15 → 15:55 Coffee break

15:55 → 16:20 Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt)

Slides ArnowittFest_May2015.pdf

16:20 → 16:45 Chris Pope (TAMU)

Slides arnowitt2015.pdf

16:45 → 17:10 Peter McIntyre (TAMU) - Signals for new symmetries: Arnowitt’s forte, my passion

Slides 150518_McIntyre_DickFest_2015.pdf

17:10 → 17:35 Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU)

Slides dickmemorial-dutta.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Reception speakers - Valery Pokrovsky (TAMU), David Toback (TAMU)

Tuesday, 19 May

08:50 → 09:30 Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) - Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC

Slides Buchmueller_Mitchell_Institute_Texas_May_2015.pdf

09:30 → 10:10 Rafael Lang (Purdue) - Direct Dark Matter Detection: Status and Outlook

Slides 20150519_texas_rafael.pdf

10:10 → 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 → 11:20 Mike Boylan-Kolchin (Maryland) - Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Physics in Numerical Simulations

Slides tamu_mitchell_workshop_mbk.pdf

11:20 → 12:00 Regina Caputo (UCSC) - Indirect Detection: Dark Matter in the Cosmos

Slides Caputo-MitchellWorkshop.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) - Beyond the DM EFT: Higgs portal DM as examples

14:30 → 15:00 Azar Mustafayev (Hawaii) - Detecting Higgsino Dark Matter at Colliders

Slides mustafayev_mitchell15.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Jason Kumar (Hawaii) - Searching for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising From Dark Matter Annihilation

Slides KumarTAMU2015.pdf KumarTAMU2015.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Kuver Sinha (Syracuse) - Supersymmetry, Exotics, and Intriguing Hints of New Physics

Slides Kuver_SinhaTAMU2015.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Can Kilic (UT Austin) - Aspects of Lepton Flavored Dark Matter

Slides FDM_Mitchell_Kilic.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Rouzbeh Allahverdi (New Mexico) - Probing the neutrino sector with dark matter indirect detection searches

Slides TAMU15_Rouzbeh.pdf

Wednesday, 20 May

09:00 → 09:30 Basil Schneider (TRIUMF) - SUSY Searches in ATLAS

Slides BasilSchneider_20150520_SUSY-in-ATLAS.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Andres Florez (Universidad de los Andes) - CMS Dark Matter

Slides TEXAS_DM_WORKSHOP_CMS_DM.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 John Paul Chou (Rutgers) - CMS Hints from Run 1 and Prospects for Run 2

Slides JPCMitchellWorkshop2015.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Alex Drlica-Wagner (FNAL) - Searching for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies: from Optical to Gamma Rays

Slides ADW_Mitchell2015_v0.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Savvas Koushiappas (Brown) - Reticulum II: Evidence for gamma-ray emission, its dark matter content and implications for dark matter physics

Slides TexasA&M15.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Ilias Cholis (FNAL) - The Fermi Galactic Center Excess: Background Model Systematics and the Dark Matter Interpretation

Slides Cholis_Mitchell.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Prateek Agrawal (FNAL) - WIMPs at the Galactic Center

Slides prateekagrawal-mitchell.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Hai-bo Yu (UC Riverside) - Self-interacting Dark Matter -some recent progress

Slides 2015TAMU_HBY.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Jiang-hao Yu (UT Austin) - Vector Fermion Portal Dark Matter

Slides vfdm_tamu.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Yu Gao (TAMU) - Low μ NMSSM at the LHC & Discerning a Hidden `Higgs' Boson

Slides hz_nmssm_gao_TAMU2015.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Keith Dienes (Arizona) - Dynamical Dark Matter A Status Report

Slides Dienes_TAMU_workshop.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Brooks Thomas (Reed) - A Non-Minimal Talk about Non-Minimal Dark Sectors

Slides Brooks_Thomas_Mitchell_Workshop_2015_Talk.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Banquet

Thursday, 21 May

09:00 → 09:30 Peter Redl (Stanford) - CDMS

Slides Redl.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Robert Webb (TAMU) - LUX/LZ

Slides Webb_mitchell_052015.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Paolo Zuccon (MIT) - Latest results of the AMS experiment

Slides PZ_MIT_MDMW2015.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) - Dark Matter in the Milky Way

Slides iocco-Mitchell-DMinMW.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Scott Watson (Syracuse) - Revisiting Dark Matter in the Aftermath of LHC and FERMI

Slides watson_TAMU.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Adrienne Erickcek (UNC) - The Dark Matter Annihilation Boost from Low-Temperature Reheating

Slides ErickcekMitchellDM.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Mei-Yu Wang (TAMU) - Impacts of Alternative Dark Matter Models on Milky Way Satellite Kinematics

Slides TAMU_mitchell-meiyu.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Yao-Yuan Mao (Stanford)- Modeling Dark Matter Distributions

Slides Mao_Modeling-DM-Distributions_TAMU.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Sheldon Campbell (Ohio State) - Determining Sensitivity of Astrophysical Anisotropy Signals to Dark Matter Annihilation

Slides TAMU2015_Campbell.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware) - Dark matter, Neutrino mass and Gauge Coupling Unification

Slides texas-2015-ilia.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Yue Zhang (Caltech) - Yukawa Bound States and Application to Dark Matter

Slides TAMU_2015_Yue.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Michele Cicoli (ICTP) - Non-thermal dark matter and dark radiation from strings

Slides CicoliTalk.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 BBQ

Friday, 22 May

09:00 → 09:30 Kaushik De (UT Arlington) - Dark Matter Searches in ATLAS

Slides mitchell-dm-may15-kd-v3.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Luis Aparicio (ICTP) - Sequestering SUSY breaking and non-thermal dark matter

Slides texas_Aparicio.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke) - Future Circular Colliders

Slides Kotwal-TexasAM-DMWorkshop2015.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Yang Bai (Wisconsin-Madison) - Boosting Dark Matter Discovery @ LHC

Slides YangBai_DMLHC.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Tianjun Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - The Supersymmetric Standard Models with a Pseudo-Dirac Gluino from Hybrid F- and D-Term Supersymmetry Breakings

Slides TAMU-ASMW-2015.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Daniel Chung (Wisconsin-Madison) - Blue Isocurvature Perturbations

Slides texas_mitchell_2015_v2.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Marco De Mattia (TAMU) - Search for long-lived particles in dilepton final states

Slides DeMattia_TAMU_DarkMatterWorkshop.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Yuriy Pakhotin (TAMU) - Search for Pair Production of New Light Bosons Decaying into Boosted Dimuons

Slides 2015-05-22_Pakhotin_TAMU_Workshop_v2.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Joel Walker (Sam Houston State) - Probing the Goldstone Equivalence Theorem in Neutralino Decays via Z/Higgs

Slides NMSSM.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Mykhailo Dalchenko (TAMU) - Light Nonthermal Dark Matter and the Collider Monotop Chirality

Slides MIWorkshop_Dalchenko.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Vannia Gonzalez - (UC Riverside) - Effective Interactions of DM and the Neutrino Portal

Slides Vannia_MitchellW_v2.pdf