LHC Dark Matter WG public meeting

Name: LHC Dark Matter WG public meeting
Start: 2016-09-19T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-09-20T18:05:00+02:00
Location: CERN

19 Sept 2016, 09:00 → 20 Sept 2016, 18:05 Europe/Zurich

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac (CERN)

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac

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Antonio Boveia (CERN), Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE)), Kristian Hahn (Northwestern University (US)), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Tim Tait (University of California, Irvine), Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB))

Description

Discussion meeting of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group, focused on:

1) Review of the EW backgrounds and recommendations for improvements
2) Refinements to the DM Forum menu of models that alter the signals and search design

To join the general WG mailing list (used for communications by the conveners), go to

http://simba3.web.cern.ch/simba3/SelfSubscription.aspx?groupName=lhc-dmwg

To join the contributors mailing list (used for discussions among WG participants) go to

http://simba3.web.cern.ch/simba3/SelfSubscription.aspx?groupName=lhc-dmwg-contributors

WG web page:

http://lpcc.web.cern.ch/LPCC/index.php?page=dm_wg

Registration

Registration Form

Participants

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Monday 19 September
- Mon 19 Sept
- Tue 20 Sept
- Introduction and scope of the meeting: introduction
  
  DMWG2_scope_Uli.pdf
- Dark Matter summary plots: DM Summary plots
  - 1
    
    CMS Summary plot
    
    Speaker: Tristan Arnoldus Du Pree (CERN)
    
    20160919_DMSummaries_LHCDMWG_TristanduPree.pdf
  - 2
    
    ATLAS Summary plot
    
    Speakers: Antonio Boveia (Ohio State University), Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE))
    
    20160919_DMWG_DMSummaryPlots.pdf
  - 3
    
    Discussion
  - 4
    
    Discussion on dilepton constraints on summary plots
    
    Speakers: Mr Bryan Zaldivar (LAPTh, Annecy), Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY), Stefan Vogl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
    
    zaldivar_dileptons.pdf
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- Improvements to simplified models: Proposed improved models
  
  20160920_Summary_SummarySummaryPlots.pdf
  
  20160920_tchannel.pdf
  
  schannel.pdf
  - 5
    
    Dark matter model with two s-channel mediators
    
    Speaker: Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)
    
    Kahlhoefer_2MDM.pdf
  - 6
    
    Q&A
  - 7
    
    Scalar mediators
    
    Speaker: Giorgio Busoni
    
    Scalar Models.pdf
  - 8
    
    Q&A
  - 9
    
    Spin-2 mediators
    
    Speaker: Veronica Sanz Gonzalez
    
    spintwo_med.pdf
  - 10
    
    Q&A
  - 11
    
    Summary of 1607.06680
    
    Speaker: Kristian Hahn (Northwestern University (US))
    
    kristian_1607.06680_discussion.pdf
  - 12
    
    Q&A
  - 13
    
    Gluphilic models
    
    Speakers: Ambresh Shivaji (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India), Ambresh Shivaji (I)
    
    SimplifiedDM.pdf
  - 14
    
    Discussion
- 16:00
  
  Coffee break
- Improvements to simplified models: t-channel mediators
  
  20160920_Summary_SummarySummaryPlots.pdf
  
  20160920_tchannel.pdf
  
  schannel.pdf
  - 15
    
    Theory summary of t-channel models
    
    Speaker: Anthony DiFranzo (UC Irvine / Fermilab)
    
    TchannelSummary.pdf
  - 16
    
    ATLAS generator-level work for t-channel simplified models
    
    Speaker: Maria Giulia Ratti (University of Milan and I.N.F.N. (IT))
    
    tchannel_monoJ_DMWG_2016_09_19.pdf
  - 17
    
    Discussion
Tuesday 20 September
- Mon 19 Sept
- Tue 20 Sept
- New topics (pitch talks)
  - 18
    
    Prompt lepton-jet searches
    
    Speakers: Miriam Deborah Joy Diamond (University of Toronto (CA)), Miriam Diamond (Carleton University)
    
    DMWG slides.pdf
  - 19
    
    Relic density improvements (MadDM 2.0.6)
    
    Tunney_DMWG_MadDM.pdf
  - 20
    
    On the consistent use of mono-Higgs models
    
    Speakers: SHIN-SHAN YU (FERMILAB), Shin-Shan Yu (National Central University (TW))
    
    20160920_LHCDM.pdf
  - 21
    
    Invisible Decays in Higgs Pair Production
    
    Speakers: Shankha Banerjee, Shankha Banerjee (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))
    
    DMWG_Banerjee.pdf
  - 22
    
    Mono-Higgs heavy scalar model
    
    Speakers: Renjie Wang (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR)), Renjie Wang (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR))
    
    monoHiggs_ATLAS.pdf
- 11:00
  
  Coffee
- New topics (pitch talks): Pitch talks
  - 23
    
    Loop-level models
    
    Speaker: Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)
    
    loopDMWG916.pdf
  - 24
    
    Indirect detection and colliders
    
    Speaker: Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)
    
    DMWG916.pdf
- Improvements to simplified models: Wrap up and next steps for simplified models
  
  20160920_Summary_SummarySummaryPlots.pdf
  
  20160920_tchannel.pdf
  
  schannel.pdf
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- ICHEP mini-review: DM+HF
  - 25
    
    Mono-HF: CMS
    
    Speaker: Kevin Kai Hong Sung (Northwestern University (US))
    
    dmwg.pdf
  - 26
    
    Mono-HF: ATLAS
    
    Speakers: Eitan Gozani (Technion (IL)), Johanna Gramling (Universite de Geneve (CH))
    
    DMWGjgramling20092016.pdf
  - 27
    
    Discussion
- 15:15
  
  Coffee
- ICHEP mini-review: Monojets and EW backgrounds
  - 28
    
    Monojet: ATLAS
    
    Speaker: Arely Cortes Gonzalez (CERN)
    
    ATLAS_monojet_arelycg.pdf
  - 29
    
    Monojet: CMS
    
    Speaker: Zeynep Demiragli (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
    
    ewkestimation_dmwg_demiragli.pdf
  - 30
    
    EW Backgrounds : Theory
    
    Speaker: Jonas Lindert
    
    JL_DMWG_CERN_2016.pdf
  - 31
    
    Discussion
  - 32
    
    Collider vs. Direct Detection Limits for Light Mediator
    
    Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))
    
    DMWG-09-20-16.pdf
- Closing: Final remarks