SM and BSM physics at the LHC

from Monday 3 August 2009 (09:00) to Friday 28 August 2009 (18:00)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Aug 2009
5 Aug 2009
6 Aug 2009
7 Aug 2009
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11 Aug 2009
12 Aug 2009
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AM
09:00
PDF4LHC (until 18:00)
10:30 CMS studies on LHC data for PDF determination - ADR for Ping Tang  
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11:00 LHCb: using LHC info to improve PDFs - Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)  
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11:30 Statistical approach to PDFs - Franco Buccella  
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11:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 News from MSTW - James Stirling  
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14:30 News from CTEQ - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)  
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15:00 News from NNPDFs - Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)  
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15:30 HERAPDF data combinations and fits - Mandy Cooper Sarkar  
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16:10 The QCDNUM package - Michiel Botje (NIKHEF)  
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09:00
PDF4LHC (until 18:00)
10:30 PDF uncertainties: HERAPDF study - Mandy Cooper-Sarkar  
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11:00 PDF Errors with Normalization Uncertainties - Richard Ball (Edinburgh University)  
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11:30 Statistical Issues for PDFs - Louis Lyons (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)  
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12:00 Discussion on PDF uncertainties - All  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Heavy Flavors in PDFs - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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14:40 Discussion on HFs in PDFs - All  
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15:00 --- Cofee break ---
15:30 PDF issues for Monte Carlo generators - Peter Richardson (Durham University)  
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16:10 issues with LO*? - Zoltan Nagy  
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16:30 LO* PDF tuning, performance and validation - Liza Mijovic (Jozef Stefan Institute-Unknown-Unknown)  
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16:50 Discussion on LO* PDFs and MC issues - All  
11:00 TH Institute Discussion Session  
10:00
4th generation (until 13:00)
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 4th generation in models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking - Gustavo Burdman (USP)  
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10:55 Naturalness of the fourth generation - Saleh Sultansoy (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)  
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11:15 Predictions for EW production of single top and fourth generation quarks at NLO QCD - Rikkert Frederix (U. C. Louvain)  
Paper
11:35 Fourth generation leptons at the LHC - Erkcan Ozcan (University College London)  
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11:55 Single and anomalous productions of fourth family up type quarks at the LHC - Orhan Cakir (University of Ankara)  
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12:15 Searching for 4th Generation Quarks at CMS - Kai-Feng Chen (Physics Department - National Taiwan University (NTU))  
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11:00 Axiverse - John March-Russell (Oxford University)  
11:00
Dark Matter (until 12:00)
11:00 Probing the hidden sector - Tomer Volansky (IAS, Princeton)  
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11:30 Conventional non-thermal wino LSP and satellite dark matter data -- current and forthcoming satellite and LHC tests - Gordy Kane (Michigan University)  
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PM
14:00
Kickoff session (until 18:00)
14:00 Welcome and Introduction  
14:05 SM LHC processes in SANC at NLO level - Dmitri Bardin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
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14:17 All-order anomalous dimension; small x resummation - Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)  
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14:29 NNLO corrections for Drell-Yan and more - Daniel De Florian (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica Departamento de Fisica)  
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14:41 Processes with HQ in the initial state: trick or treat? - Fabio Maltoni  
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14:53 A combined analysis of vector boson scattering in the W+4j, Z+4j and ZW+2j channels for EWSB studies at the LHC - Ezio Maina (Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica)  
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15:05 PDF - Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)  
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15:17 Higgs pseudo-observables & second Riemann sheet - Giampiero Passarino  
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15:29 Using jet substructure in searches at the LHC - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)  
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15:41 Coloured SUSY particle production at the LHC - Wolfgang Hollik  
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15:53 Early SUSY prospects at LHC with multi-muon +jets events - Howard Baer  
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16:05 Signatures of spin-1, new resonance production - Mihail Chizhov Mihail Chizhov (Faculty of Physics)  
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14:00 Parton Distribution Functions - Robert Thorne (University College London)  
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15:30
Les Houches event files format (until 16:30)
more information
14:00
Kickoff meeting (until 18:00)
14:00 Numerical evaluation of high multiplicity one-loop amplitudes - Walter Giele (Fermilab)  
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14:12 Computation of QCD cross sections of large multiplicity final states at NLO - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (Institute of Experimental Physics-University of Debrecen)  
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14:24 New developments in FEHiP - Charalampos Anastasiou (Unknown)  
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14:36 Colour-dressed one-loop amplitudes from generalized unitarity - Jan Winter (Fermilab)  
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14:48 Pade approximations and nonsinglet QCD analysis up to N3LO - Alinaghi Khorramian (Unknown)  
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15:00 Wt production and next-to-eikonal resummation - Christopher David White  
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15:12 The POWHEG BOX - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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15:24 --- Coffee break ---
15:40 WINHAC/ZINHAC: Monte Carlo generators for Drell-Yan processes - Wiesiek Placzek (Jagiellonian University)  
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15:52 Asymptotically free four-fermion interactions and electroweak symmetry breaking - Christoph Wetterich (Heidelberg)  
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16:04 (1) Z' -> ZZ; (2) iQuarkonium - Wai-Yee Keung (UIC)  
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16:16 MAOS momentum: a new kinematic variable for mass and spin measurement - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)  
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16:28 Neutrino-LHC connection and triply charged Higgs boson - Prof. Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University)  
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14:00
Matrix element / parton showering matching (until 17:00)
14:00 Merging matrix elements with parton showers - Frank Krauss (IPPP, Durham)  
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14:30 CKKW and MLM matching: can they be related? - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 All-order corrections to multi-jet rates - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)  
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15:42 NLO parton showers: dreamland or reality? - Maciej Skrzypek  
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15:54 Extending CKKW-merging to one-loop matrix elements - Leif Lonnblad (Lund)  
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16:06 Discussion - All  
14:00
Jets (until 18:00)
14:00 Jet algorithms - Gavin Salam (LPTHE, Paris)  
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Jet substructure - Prof. Matthew Strassler (Rutgers University)  
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15:37 NLL jet rates - Bryan Webber (Cambridge)  
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15:44 Jet discussion  
14:00
Underlying event & initial-state radiation (until 18:00)
14:00 New physics reconstruction with ISR - Mihoko Nojiri (KEK)  
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14:30 Predicting "min-bias" and the "underlying event" at the LHC - Rick Field (University of Florida)  
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15:00 Multiple parton interactions in W,Z+4j production at the LHC - Ezio Maina (Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica)  
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15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Discussion - All  
14:00
Kickoff meeting (until 18:00)
14:00 SUSY: Spectra and Phenomenology - Ben Allanach (DAMTP, Cambridge University)  
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14:10 Sparticle masses in deflected mirage mediation - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)  
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14:20 Soft-wall models - Joan Antoni Cabrer (IFAE, Barcelona)  
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14:30 Many Light Higgses in the NMSSM - Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)  
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14:40 Theory and Phenomenology of the Lee-Wick Standard Model - Terrance Figy (Durham University)  
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15:00 --- break ---
15:30 (1) Unified Coupling From Casimir Energy (2) Gauge-Higgs Unification. - Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)  
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15:40 Introduction to low-scale technicolor - Ken Lane (Boston University)  
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15:50 Inert Higgs Doublet Model: Dark Matter Implication and Collider Phenomenology - Shufang Su (University of Arizona)  
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16:00 Minimal Z' models: present bounds and early LHC reach - Fabio Zwirner (Padova University)  
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16:10 Physics with four generations - Gokhan Unel (U.C. Irvine)  
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14:00 SUSY breaking - Martin Schmaltz (Boston University)  
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14:00
Dark Matter (until 18:00)
14:00 Cosmic Signals from the Hidden Sector - Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)  
15:00 --- break ---
15:30 Form Factor Dark Matter - Ami Katz (Boston University)  
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14:00
Kickoff meeting (until 18:00)
14:00 Decaying Dark Matter as a Probe of Unification - Asimina Arvanitaki (LBL, Berkeley)  
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14:10 Buried Higgs - Brando Bellazzini (Cornell University)  
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14:20 Fourth Generation Leptons in Ads5 - Gustavo Burdman (Sao Paulo University)  
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14:30 T' as a Family Symmetry at the GUT and EW Scales - Mu-Chun Chen (UC Irvine)  
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14:40 Discoverying Dark Matter in Neutrino Telescopes - Adam Falkowski (Rutgers)  
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14:50 Emergent EWSB - Tony Gherghetta (University of Melbourne)  
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15:00 --- break ---
15:30 Note on the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Boson of Meta-stable SUSY Violation - Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz)  
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15:40 Early gluino spin, LHC gaugino masses, 4-top signatures - Gordy Kane (Michigan University)  
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15:50 Exceptional Supersymmetric Standard Model - Steve King (University of Southampton)  
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16:00 Determination of BSM parameters at the LHC - Michael Kraemer (RWTH Aachen University)  
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16:10 Bayesian Statistics and Supersymmetry - Leszek Roszkowski  
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16:20 The Bestest Little Higgs - Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)  
14:00 New state of matter in white dwarfs - Gregory Gabadadze (New York University)  
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