Charting the Unknown: interpreting LHC data from the energy frontier

25 Jul 2016, 08:00 → 12 Aug 2016, 16:45 Europe/Zurich

CERN

The LHC has started its Run2, exploring for the first time the high-energy frontier at 13 TeV. Collected data will give decisive information on the dynamics behind electroweak symmetry breaking, testing weak scale naturalness. Theories with colored top partners, such as SUSY and Composite Higgs paradigms, will either be discovered or pushed to highly-tuned regions of their parameter space. At the same time, the properties of the Higgs boson will be precisely strutinized to unveil its nature and role in the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism.

The TH Institute will be focused on the interpretation of the new data in the context of theories beyond the Standard Model. The aim is to bring world-leading researchers together for an in-depth discussion towards revealing the final clues of the underlying theory of the electroweak scale. The program will also include review talks by the LHC experimental collaborations to report on their latest results and highlight their future projections.

The Institute is funded jointly by CERN and by Korean Government under the CERN-Korea Collaboration agreement.

Registration: The attendance will be limited to around 40 people per week. There is no registration fee.  Applications to attend will be open until April 30, 2016.

Organizers: Adrian Carmona, Seong Youl Choi, Roberto Contino, Andreas Crivellin, Roberto Franceschini, Gian Giudice, Florian Goetz, Deog-Ki Hong, Ji-Haeng Huh, Andrey Katz, Hyung Do Kim, Matthew McCullough, Hyun Min Lee, Francesco Riva, Javi Serra, Florian Staub, Alessandro Strumia, Alfredo Urbano

Monday, 25 July

09:30 → 13:00 1.Chair: R. Contino: Session 1

Convener: Roberto Contino (EPFL Lausanne & CERN (CH))

09:30 Coffee break

10:00 The QCD Axion, Precisely

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))

villadoro.pdf

10:45 Axion searches by way of their coupling to the electron spin

Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

barbieri.pdf

11:30 A visible QCD axion

Speaker: Tony Gherghetta (University of Minnesota (US))

Gherghetta.pdf

Tuesday, 26 July

09:30 → 12:45 2.Chair: A. Carmona: Session 2

Convener: Adrian Carmona Bermudez (CERN)

09:30 Coffee break

10:00 Effective-Field-Theory Approach of the Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings at the LHC

Speaker: Minho Son (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

son.pdf

10:45 On the challenge of estimating diphoton backgrounds at large invariant mass

Speaker: Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute)

perez.pdf

11:30 Small Weak Scale from Small Cosmological Constant

Speaker: Victor Gorbenko (Stanford)

Gorbenko.pdf

Wednesday, 27 July

14:00 → 15:00 Theory Colloquium - Fundamental Physics beyond Colliders

Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

arvanitaki.pdf

Thursday, 28 July

09:30 → 12:45 3.Chair: A. Urbano: Session 3

Convener: Alfredo Leonardo Urbano (CERN)

09:30 Coffee break

10:00 You can hide but you have to run: direct detection with vector mediators

Speaker: Francesco D'Eramo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

DEramo.pdf

10:45 Dark matter beams at proton fixed target experiments

Speaker: claudia frugiuele (Carleton University)

frugiuele.pdf

11:30 Interacting dark matter and dark radiation and cosmic discordance

Speaker: Martin Schmaltz (Boston University)

Schmaltz.pdf

Friday, 29 July

09:30 → 12:15 4. Chair: M. McCullough

Convener: Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

09:30 Coffee break

10:00 A natural quantum critical higgs

Speaker: Seung J. Lee (Korea University)

LEE.pdf

10:45 The lifetime frontier

Speaker: David Curtin (University of Maryland)

curtin.pdf

11:30 Superradiance

Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford)

dimopoulos.pdf

Monday, 1 August

09:30 → 12:45 Session 1

Convener: Deog-Ki Hong (Pusan National University)

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Non-standard resonance searches at the LHC

Speaker: K.C. Kong (University of Kansas)

KCKong.pdf

10:45 ABRACADABRA: A new approach to axion dark-matter direct detection

Speaker: Benjamin Safdi (massachusetts institute of technology)

safdi.pdf

11:30 The Inelastic Frontier of Dark Matter

Speaker: Graham Kribs (University of Oregon)

kribs.pdf

Tuesday, 2 August

09:30 → 13:05 Session 2

Convener: Roberto Franceschini (CERN)

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 New Tools for Relaxion Models

Speaker: David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)

kaplan.pdf

10:45 Relaxation from Particle Production

Speaker: Anson Hook (Stanford)

hook.pdf

11:30 Towards Precision Theoretical Constraints on Additional Higgs Bosons

Speaker: Benjamin Grinstein (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

grinstein.pdf

Wednesday, 3 August

14:00 → 15:00 Theory Colloquium - New ideas in dark matter direct detection

Searches for massive dark matter have largely focused on the WIMP window. This window will become increasingly closed by the unprecedented sensitivity of direct detection experiments in coming years. At the same time, lighter dark matter candidates in a hidden sector are theoretically well-motivated, natural and arise generically in many theories beyond the standard model. New ideas are needed to search for dark matter with mass below a GeV and as light as the warm dark matter limit of a keV. We propose new ideas to search for light dark matter with superconductors, graphene and superfluid helium.

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)

Zurek.pdf

Thursday, 4 August

09:30 → 12:50 Session 3

Convener: Florian Staub (CERN)

09:30 Classification of Effective Operators Using Conformal Group

Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama (University of California Berkeley (US))

murayama.pdf

10:15 Twin Higgs meets SUSY: the soft, the hard and the ugly

Speaker: Diego Redigolo (LPTHE, Paris)

redigolo.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

11:20 Recent progress in Neutral Naturalness

Speaker: Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)

craig.pdf

12:05 Twin Higgs Cosmology

Speaker: Roni Harnik (Fermilab)

harnik.pdf

Friday, 5 August

10:00 → 13:15 Session 4

Convener: Hyung Do Kim (Seoul National University)

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 A monodromy from London

Speaker: Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)

kaloper.pdf

17:00 → 19:30 Session 5

Convener: Riccardo Torre (EPFL, Lausanne)

17:00 Diphoton Searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

carminati_diphoton.pdf

17:30 Diphoton Searches at CMS

Speaker: Josh Bendavid (California Institute of Technology (US))

bendavid_diphoton.pdf

18:00 Discussion

18:30 Aperitif

Monday, 8 August

09:30 → 12:50 Session 1

Convener: Javier Serra Mari (CERN)

09:30 SUSY searches at CMS

Speaker: Filip Moortgat (CERN)

moortgat_SUSY.pdf

09:50 SUSY searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Tommaso Lari (University and INFN, Milano)

lari_SUSY.pdf

10:10 Discussion

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Exotica searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Koji Terashi (University of Tokyo (JP))

terashi_exotica.pdf

11:10 Exotica searches at CMS

Speaker: Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)

harris_exotica.pdf

11:30 Discussion

11:50 Higgs searches at CMS

Speaker: Guillelmo Gomez Ceballos Retuerto (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

ceballos_Higgs.pdf

12:10 Higgs searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Nicolas Berger (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

berger_Higgs.pdf

12:30 Discussion

Tuesday, 9 August

09:30 → 12:50 Session 2

Convener: Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang University)

09:30 Lessons from a flash in the pan

Speaker: Matthew Strassler (Harvard University)

strassler.pdf

10:15 Bounds on Amplitudes and EFTs

Speaker: Brando Bellazzini (CEA-Saclay)

bellazzini.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

11:20 Exact Results in QFT: Asymptotically Safe Quantum Field Theories

Speaker: Francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins)

sannino.pdf

12:05 Landscape dynamics

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

Recording

Wednesday, 10 August

14:00 → 15:00 Theory Colloquium - Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and the LHC

Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

Arkani-Hamed.pdf

Thursday, 11 August

09:30 → 12:50 Session 3

Convener: Florian Goertz (CERN)

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Loop suppressed electroweak symmetry breaking and naturally heavy superpartners

Speaker: Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)

dermisek.pdf

10:45 BSM and GW

Speaker: Alfredo Leonardo Urbano (CERN)

urbano.pdf

11:30 Nnaturalness

Speaker: Timothy Cohen (University of Oregon)

cohen.pdf

Friday, 12 August

09:30 → 12:50 Session 4

Convener: Andrey Katz (CERN)

09:30 Coffee Break

10:00 Non-conventional objects for collider phenomenology: Jet-like objects and their application

Speaker: Myeonghun Park (Institute for Basic Science, CTPU)

park.pdf

10:45 Higgs and Flavor

Speaker: Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)

zupan.pdf

11:30 Physics at future colliders

Speaker: LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)

LT-Wang.pdf