PITT PACC Workshop: Higgs and Beyond

3 Dec 2015, 07:50 → 5 Dec 2015, 16:50 US/Eastern

University of Pittsburgh

This workshop will bring together experts from experiment and theory to discuss and develop new opportunities to study the Higgs boson and the mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at LHC Run II, as well as future high energy colliders. Specific topics that will be addressed include Higgs couplings/spin/CP properties, theoretical description of Higgs production and decay, off-shell Higgs measurements, invisible and exotic Higgs decays, and Higgs interplay with flavor, dark matter, and naturalness. 

PROGRAM ORGANIZERS: Marcela Carena (Fermilab & U Chicago), Sally Dawson (BNL), Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Jianming Qian (U Michigan), Michael Spannowsky (Durham)

LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Brian Batell, Tao Han, Tae Min Hong, Brock Tweedie

ADMINISTRATOR: Cindy Cercone

Thursday 3 December

1 Breakfast + registration (WiFi info, etc.)

2 Welcome

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

3 Experimental overview of Higgs couplings/spin/CP - Status and prospects

Speaker: Pierre Savard (University of Toronto (CA))

savard_pittsburgh_2015_v2.pdf

4 The Higgs Legacy of the LHC Run I

Speaker: Dr Juan Gonzalez Fraile (Universitaet Heidelberg)

jgf_pitt.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

5 Theoretical description of Higgs production

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

pitthiggsmelnikov.pdf

6 tth + Other near-term Higgs experiment

Speaker: Peter Onyisi (University of Texas (US))

20151203_pitt.pdf

12:30 Lunch

7 Di-Higgs theory

Speaker: Sara Lynn Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

dawson_pitt_2015.pdf

8 Di-Higgs and other longer-term prospective measurements

Speaker: Michael Aaron Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Kagan_HH_PITTPACC_2015.pdf

9 Off-shell Higgs

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Niels Bohr Institute)

PittHandBeyond.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

10 Exotic Heavy Higgs Decays at the LHC

Speaker: Felix Kling (University of Arizona)

HiggsAndBeyond.pdf

11 Flavour from the weak scale

Speaker: Martin Bauer (J)

MartinBauer_Pittsburgh15.pdf

12 Neutral naturalness

Speaker: David Curtin (University of Maryland)

davidcurtin_neutral_naturalness_PITT-PAC-HIGGS_3dec2015_20m_v1.key.pdf

Friday 4 December

13 Breakfast at the University Club

14 Cosmological relaxation of the electroweak scale

Speaker: David Kaplan

Kaplan - Relaxion.pdf

15 Higgs/flavour interplay theory

Speaker: Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)

Pitt_higgs_FV_Zupan_print.pdf

16 Experimental overview of flavor changing/non-standard flavor diagonal h(125) decays​

Speaker: Aliaksandr Pranko (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Pittsburg_HiggsAndBeyond.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

17 Higgs/dark matter connection

Speaker: Jiji Fan

higgs_dm_fan.pdf

18 Invisible Higgs experiment

Speaker: Elliot Lipeles (University of Pennsylvania (US))

HInvis_PittPacc.pdf

12:30 Lunch

19 Exotic decays of h(125) theory

Speaker: Matthew Strassler (Rutgers University)

StrasslerHiggsPitt.pdf

20 Experimental overview of the exotic h(125) decays

Speaker: Benjamin Eric Kaplan (New York University (US))

Kaplan_HIggBeyond_ExoticsDecays.pdf

15:20 Coffee break

21 Seminar: First results from the LHC at 13 TeV

Abstract: The LHC Run-2 has begun earlier this year after a more than two-year technical stop during which the accelerator was prepared for the increased 13 TeV proton–proton center-of-mass energy. The LHC experiments have used this period to upgrade and consolidate their detectors, to improve the online and offline data processing, and to finalize the analysis of the Run-1 data. The seminar briefly reviews these improvements and the Run-2 experimental performance, and presents first 13 TeV physics results.

Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

UPittSeminar-dec2015.pdf

19:00 Workshop dinner

Saturday 5 December

22 Breakfast at the University Club

23 MSSM +2HDM Higgs theory H+/-, H, A

Speaker: Marcela Carena

Pittsburgh-Carena.pdf

24 BSM Higgs (including charged Higgs, + heavy higgs, displaced) experimental

Speaker: Jianming Qian (University of Michigan (US))

PITT-PACC2015.pdf

10:20 Coffee break

25 Heavy Higgs Bosons: from LHC to 100 TeV pp-collider

Speaker: Ying-Ying Li

PITTPACC_Ying-Ying_Li-2.pdf

26 Composite Higgs theory

Speaker: Andrea Tesi

andrea_tesi_pittpacc.pdf

27 New Directions in Searching for The Dark Universe

Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran