Berkeley Workshop on Physics Opportunities with Early LHC Data

from Wednesday, May 6, 2009 (8:00 AM) to Friday, May 8, 2009 (6:00 PM)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Perseverance Hall)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 6, 2009
May 7, 2009
May 8, 2009
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8:50 AM Welcome to Berkeley! - James Siegrist  
8:55 AM Logistical Information - Beate, Christian, Zoltan  
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9:00 AM ATLAS Detector Performance for 09/10 - Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester)  
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9:45 AM CMS Detector Performance for 09/10 - Nicola Bacchetta (INFN Padova)  
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10:30 AM --- coffee break ---
11:00 AM Physics of Minimum Bias and the Underlying Event - Rick Field (University of Florida)  
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11:45 AM J/Psi and Upsilon Production Physics - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)  
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9:00 AM Trigger Strategy and Early Physics at CMS - Christoph Paus (MIT)  
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9:45 AM Jet Cross Sections and Properties - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)  
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10:30 AM --- coffee break ---
11:00 AM ATLAS Trigger Strategies and Early Physics Perspectives - Tom LeCompte (Argonne National Lab)  
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11:45 AM Soft Gluons and Gaps - Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)  
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9:00 AM Precision Measurements and Parton Distribution Functions - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)  
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9:45 AM Vector Bosons and Jets Early On - Lance Dixon (SLAC)  
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10:30 AM --- coffee break ---
11:00 AM Top quark pair production in di-leptonic decay channels at CMS - Julien Caudron (UC Louvain)  
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11:20 AM Top quark pair to dilepton cross-section using template fits to jet inclusive dilepton data (ATLAS) - Karl Gellerstedt (Stockholm University)  
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11:40 AM The impact of ttbar cross-section measurement with the first LHC data (ATLAS) - Akira Shibata (New York University)  
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12:30 PM --- lunch break ---
2:00 PM Early minbias physics at Atlas - Prafulla Behera (University of Iowa)  
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2:20 PM B tagging performance in ATLAS - Remi Zaidan (CPPM)  
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2:40 PM Commissioning of the ATLAS calorimeters with perspective on early physics - Dmitris Varouchas (L.A.L Orsay)  
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3:00 PM --- coffee break ---
3:30 PM Early physics in LHCb - Tomasz Skwarnicki (Syracuse University)  
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4:00 PM Feasibility Study of the Measurement of the Differential Production Cross Section of JPsi to mu mu with the CMS detector in Early LHC Data - Zoltan Gecse (Purdue University)  
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4:20 PM J/Psi and Upsilon Production in ATLAS - Darren Price (Indiana University)  
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5:30 PM --- Welcome Reception ---
12:30 PM --- lunch break ---
2:00 PM Heavy Flavor Physics - Tom Mehen (Duke University)  
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2:45 PM b production studies with early data at CMS - David Lopez Pegna (Princeton University)  
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3:05 PM Cross Section Measurement of pp --> Z(e+e-) + X with First Data from the ATLAS Experiment - Markus Bendel (University of Mainz)  
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3:20 PM --- coffee break ---
3:50 PM W cross section with early CMS data - Philip Harris (MIT)  
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4:10 PM Leptonic fake rates from jets at ATLAS - Gemma Wooden (Oxford University)  
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4:30 PM Estimating Fake EWK Background in Early Data with kNN - Kristian Hahn (MIT)  
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4:50 PM Azimuthal angular spin determination with early LHC data - William Klemm (UC Berkeley)  
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5:30 PM --- BBQ ---
12:00 PM --- lunch break ---
1:30 PM Supermodels - New Physics with the first LHC run - Martin Schmaltz (Boston University and UC Berkeley)  
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2:15 PM Seeing Light Dark Sectors With Early Data - Lian-Tao Wang (Princeton)  
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3:00 PM Searches in the Dilepton Final States with ATLAS - Samir Ferrag (University of Toronto)  
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3:20 PM Discovery Potential of R-hadrons with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Christian Ohm (Stockholm University)  
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3:40 PM --- coffee break ---
4:00 PM Searches for Supersymmetry without Requiring Missing Et - Jeffrey Haas (Florida State University)  
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4:20 PM Prospects for inclusive searches for supersymmetry in ATLAS - Florian Ahles (Freiburg University)  
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4:40 PM Prospects for Higss boson searches with first LHC data with the CMS detector (focusing on the H to WW channel) - Joanna Weng (ETH Zuerich)  
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