Name: LHC Dark Matter WG public meeting
Start: 2015-12-10T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-12-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

LHC Dark Matter WG public meeting

from Thursday, December 10, 2015 (9:00 AM) to Friday, December 11, 2015 (6:00 PM)

Monday, December 7, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015

10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 40/2-A01
10:30 AM Introduction and preliminary talks
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
Contributions

10:30 AM Introduction to the LHC DM Working Group and First Topic - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

10:45 AM Review of ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum Recommendations - Steven Lowette (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

11:05 AM Summary of DM searches in ATLAS - Priscilla Pani (Stockholm University (SE))

11:20 AM Summary of DM searches in CMS - Nicholas Wardle (CERN)

11:35 AM Summary of DM theory - Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB))

11:50 AM Discussion
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
1:30 PM Proposal for presentation of results: detailed discussions
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction to the proposal - Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

2:00 PM Translating collider limits to DD-nucleon xsec plane - Christopher McCabe (University of Amsterdam)

2:20 PM Mass planes and couplings chosen for comparisons - Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)

2:40 PM Discussion

3:10 PM Relic density, MicrOMEGAs - Genevieve Belanger (LAPP Annecy)

3:25 PM Relic density, MadDM - Mihailo Backovic (CP3-UCL) Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute of Science)

3:40 PM Discussion
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
4:30 PM Discussion on presentation of results: mono-V and heavy flavors
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
Contributions

4:30 PM Mono-V and gauge invariance - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

4:45 PM Mono-V: simplified models - Linda Carpenter (UC Irvine) Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)

5:00 PM Discussion

5:15 PM Mono-top - Benjamin Fuks (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

5:30 PM tt/bb + MET - Matthew Buckley (Caltech) Matthew Buckley (Fermilab) Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University)

5:45 PM Discussion
6:00 PM Discussion on presentation of EFT models
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
Contributions

6:00 PM Summary of EFT truncation in ATLAS - Nikola Lazar Whallon (University of Washington (US))

6:15 PM Discussion
Friday, December 11, 2015

9:00 AM Discussion from yesterday: monotop
Discussion from yesterday: monotop
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 40/2-A01
9:15 AM Summary of discussion
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 40/2-A01
Contributions

9:15 AM Summary of Thursday's discussions

9:35 AM Further discussion on way forward
10:15 AM Future directions
10:15 AM - 12:27 PM
Room: 40/2-A01
Contributions

10:15 AM Search for mediators: leptons - Bryan Zaldivar Bryan Zaldívar Montero (IFT UAM/CSIC)

10:30 AM Searches for mediators: jets and heavy flavors - Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

11:15 AM Simplified models in Madgraph - Mathieu Pellen (University Wuerzburg)

11:28 AM The coannihilation codex - Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

11:41 AM Reinterpretation tools - Daniele Barducci (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

11:55 AM Mono-Z' and new directions - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))

12:07 PM Dark sector - Jessie Shelton (Yale University) Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University) Julia Shelton
12:27 PM Summary and closing

12:27 PM - 12:57 PM
Room: 40/2-A01