Berkeley Workshop on Physics Opportunities with Early LHC Data

from Wednesday, 6 May 2009 (08:00) to Friday, 8 May 2009 (18:00)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Perseverance Hall)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 May 2009
7 May 2009
8 May 2009
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08:50 Welcome to Berkeley! - James Siegrist   (Perseverance Hall)
08:55 Logistical Information - Beate, Christian, Zoltan   (Perseverance Hall)
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09:00 ATLAS Detector Performance for 09/10 - Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester)   (Perseverance Hall)
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09:45 CMS Detector Performance for 09/10 - Nicola Bacchetta (INFN Padova)   (Perseverance Hall)
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Physics of Minimum Bias and the Underlying Event - Rick Field (University of Florida)   (Perseverance Hall)
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11:45 J/Psi and Upsilon Production Physics - Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)   (Perseverance Hall)
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09:00 Trigger Strategy and Early Physics at CMS - Christoph Paus (MIT)   (Perseverance Hall)
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09:45 Jet Cross Sections and Properties - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)   (Perseverance Hall)
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 ATLAS Trigger Strategies and Early Physics Perspectives - Tom LeCompte (Argonne National Lab)   (Perseverance Hall)
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11:45 Soft Gluons and Gaps - Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)   (Perseverance Hall)
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09:00 Precision Measurements and Parton Distribution Functions - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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09:45 Vector Bosons and Jets Early On - Lance Dixon (SLAC)   (Perseverance Hall)
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00 Top quark pair production in di-leptonic decay channels at CMS - Julien Caudron (UC Louvain)   (Perseverance Hall)
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11:20 Top quark pair to dilepton cross-section using template fits to jet inclusive dilepton data (ATLAS) - Karl Gellerstedt (Stockholm University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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11:40 The impact of ttbar cross-section measurement with the first LHC data (ATLAS) - Akira Shibata (New York University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:00 Early minbias physics at Atlas - Prafulla Behera (University of Iowa)   (Perseverance Hall)
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14:20 B tagging performance in ATLAS - Remi Zaidan (CPPM)   (Perseverance Hall)
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14:40 Commissioning of the ATLAS calorimeters with perspective on early physics - Dmitris Varouchas (L.A.L Orsay)   (Perseverance Hall)
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15:00 --- coffee break ---
15:30 Early physics in LHCb - Tomasz Skwarnicki (Syracuse University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:00 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)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:20 J/Psi and Upsilon Production in ATLAS - Darren Price (Indiana University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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17:30 --- Welcome Reception ---
12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:00 Heavy Flavor Physics - Tom Mehen (Duke University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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14:45 b production studies with early data at CMS - David Lopez Pegna (Princeton University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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15:05 Cross Section Measurement of pp --> Z(e+e-) + X with First Data from the ATLAS Experiment - Markus Bendel (University of Mainz)   (Perseverance Hall)
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15:20 --- coffee break ---
15:50 W cross section with early CMS data - Philip Harris (MIT)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:10 Leptonic fake rates from jets at ATLAS - Gemma Wooden (Oxford University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:30 Estimating Fake EWK Background in Early Data with kNN - Kristian Hahn (MIT)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:50 Azimuthal angular spin determination with early LHC data - William Klemm (UC Berkeley)   (Perseverance Hall)
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17:30 --- BBQ ---
12:00 --- lunch break ---
13:30 Supermodels - New Physics with the first LHC run - Martin Schmaltz (Boston University and UC Berkeley)   (Perseverance Hall)
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14:15 Seeing Light Dark Sectors With Early Data - Lian-Tao Wang (Princeton)   (Perseverance Hall)
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15:00 Searches in the Dilepton Final States with ATLAS - Samir Ferrag (University of Toronto)   (Perseverance Hall)
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15:20 Discovery Potential of R-hadrons with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Christian Ohm (Stockholm University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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15:40 --- coffee break ---
16:00 Searches for Supersymmetry without Requiring Missing Et - Jeffrey Haas (Florida State University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:20 Prospects for inclusive searches for supersymmetry in ATLAS - Florian Ahles (Freiburg University)   (Perseverance Hall)
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16:40 Prospects for Higss boson searches with first LHC data with the CMS detector (focusing on the H to WW channel) - Joanna Weng (ETH Zuerich)   (Perseverance Hall)
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