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  1. Dr Luca Di Luzio (IPPP, Durham)
    18/04/2017, 09:00
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    A major goal of axion searches is reaching inside the parameter space region of realistic axion models. Currently, the boundaries of this region depend on somewhat arbitrary criteria, and it would be desirable to specify them in terms of precise phenomenological requirements. In this talk I put forth a definition for a phenomenologically preferred axion window as the region encompassing all...

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  2. Dr Jordy de Vries (Nikhef)
    18/04/2017, 09:23
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    The absence of anti-matter in our universe hints towards new sources of CP violation that are not present in the Standard Model. One possible source of such CP violation could hide in the interactions of the Higgs boson. I will discuss the framework of the Standard Model effective field theory in which such anomalous CP-violating Higgs interactions appear naturally. Footprints of Higgs CP...

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  3. Prof. Andrey Katz
    18/04/2017, 09:46
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    I will analyze the general structure of mirror symmetry breaking in the Twin Higgs scenario. A significant gain in fine tuning can be achieved if the symmetry is broken hardly. I will emphasize that weakly coupled UV completions can naturally accommodate this scenario. I will analyze SUSY UV completions and present a simple Twin SUSY model with a tuning of around 10% and colored superpartners...

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  4. Cedric Delaunay (LAPTh, CNRS)
    18/04/2017, 10:09
    Plenary talk
    BSM
  5. paolo gambino (università di torino)
    18/04/2017, 11:05
    Plenary talk

    The determination of Vcb from B->D*l nu is reviewed in the light of a recent Belle analysis, studying the dependence on the form factor parameterisation employed and the residual uncertainty. A long lasting discrepancy between the inclusive and exclusive determinations of |Vcb| has to be thoroughly reconsidered.

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  6. Martin Jung (TUM IAS / Excellence Cluster Universe)
    18/04/2017, 11:28
    Plenary talk

    Measurements of B → D (*) τ ν transistions show presently a sizable
    deviation from the Standard Model (SM). Possible interpretations in
    terms of new physics (NP) are discussed, taking the most recent mea-
    surements from the Belle and LHCb experiments into account. This
    discussion focuses on the differentiation of not only the SM from NP,
    but also between different NP models.

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  7. Marco Gersabeck (University of Manchester (GB))
    18/04/2017, 11:51
    Plenary talk

    Flavour physics has a long track record of providing ground-breaking experimental results. There is a wealth of results based on recent LHC data, most notably from LHCb. In addition, measurements are still being published from the B factory experiments as well as from former and current charm threshold experiments.

    The talk will review the latest set of anlyses as presented at the winter...

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  8. Jacobo Lopez Pavon (CERN)
    18/04/2017, 14:30
    Plenary talk

    I will discuss two remarkable aspects of the minimal Type-I seesaw model phenomenology. I will first show that for an inverted light neutrino ordering and O(GeV) scale heavy Majorana neutrinos, future measurements from SHiP and neutrinoless double beta decay could in principle provide sufficient information to predict the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Then, I will also discuss...

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  9. Asmaa Abada
    18/04/2017, 14:53
    Plenary talk
  10. Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)
    18/04/2017, 15:16
    Plenary talk

    Lepton-flavor violating (LFV) effective Lagrangian at low energies contains over a dozen distinct operator structures. We discuss how to constrain Wilson coefficients of those operators from the data obtained in various LFV leptonic and radiative leptonic transitions of B/D/K mesons, LFV decays of various quarkonia, as well as from high energy LHC data.

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  11. Dr Frank Deppisch (University College London)
    18/04/2017, 15:39
    Plenary talk

    The violation of lepton number is predicted in many new physics scenarios and it is tightly connected to the potential Majorana character of neutrinos; searching for lepton number violation (LNV) therefore constitutes a crucial pathway to physics beyond the Standard Model. In my talk, I will provide a review of the theoretical aspects of LNV and Majorana neutrinos. I will try to illuminate...

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  12. Ilja Doršner (University of Split)
    18/04/2017, 16:30
    Plenary talk
  13. Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (Centro de F\'isica Te\'orica de Part\'iculas -- CFTP and Dept de F\' \i sica Instituto Superior T\'ecnico -- IST, Universidade de Lisboa (UL))
    18/04/2017, 16:53
    Plenary talk

    The talk will summarise work done by the author and collaborators consisting of a detailed study of the possible vacua in models with three Higgs doublets with S3 symmetry and without explicit CP violation. Different vacua require special regions of the parameter space which were analysed in our work. We establish the possibility of spontaneous CP violation in this framework and we also show...

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  14. Dr Ramona Groeber (IPPP Durham)
    18/04/2017, 17:16
    Plenary talk

    A determination of the Higgs self-coupling allows the reconstruction of the Higgs potential. In this talk I will discuss which kind of deviations in the trilinear Higgs self-coupling can be expected taking into account theoretical arguments and indirect constraints.

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  15. Gustavo Branco (Technical University of Lisbon)
    18/04/2017, 17:39
    Plenary talk

    We analyse a class of Two Higgs Doublet Models (2HDM) where there are Flavour Changing
    Neutral Currents ( FCNC ) at tree level, but with their strength under control. We present
    a specific generalisation of BGL models in the context of 2HDM where there are FCNC both in the up and down sectors. Implications for baryogenesis are also analysed.

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  16. Thomas Schwetz
    19/04/2017, 09:00
    Plenary talk

    The old idea that Dark Matter is produced by thermal freeze-out in the early Universe is reviewed. Present advances in direct, indirect and collider searches are more and more constraining this type of Dark Matter. In this talk this statement is made explicit by considering a generic type of a simplified model for WIMP Dark Matter. We argue that the WIMP paradigm is pushed to "special" corners...

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  17. Thomas David Jacques (Scuola Int. Superiore di Studi Avanzati (IT))
    19/04/2017, 09:28
    Plenary talk

    I will discuss a model of Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter. This model proposes a new fermionic state with both Dirac and Majorana mass terms. In the limit where the Dirac mass dominates, a pair of dark particles appears with a small mass splitting, the lighter of which is a dark matter candidate. The dark states have both Dirac-like and Majorana-like features, evading direct detection constraints...

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  18. Fabrizio Nesti (Rudjer Boskovic Institue)
    19/04/2017, 09:51
    Plenary talk

    We reconsider the lower bound on the mass of a fermionic dark matter (DM) candidate resulting from the existence of known small Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies, in the hypothesis that their DM halo is constituted by degenerate fermions. By relaxing the common assumption that the DM halo scale radius is similar to the scale radius of the luminous stellar component and by marginalizing on the effects...

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  19. Prof. Martti Raidal (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))
    19/04/2017, 10:14
    Plenary talk

    I discuss how the observed hierarchy in the Standard Model Yukawa couplings may radiatively originate from the dark sector dynamics. The associated dark photons and the mediator sector that transfers the dark hierarchy to the Standard Model offer distinguishing experimental tests at high and low energy experiments.

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  20. Avelino Vicente Montesinos (IFIC - CSIC / U. Valencia)
    19/04/2017, 11:05
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    I will present DsixTools, a Mathematica package for the handling of
    the dimension six Standard Model Effective Field Theory. Among other
    features, DsixTools allows the user to perform the full 1-loop
    Renormalization Group Equations (RGEs) evolution of the Wilson
    coefficients in the Warsaw basis. This is achieved thanks to the
    SMEFTrunner module, which implements the full 1-loop RGEs...

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  21. Prof. Joern Kersten (University of Bergen)
    19/04/2017, 11:28
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    I will discuss the impact of the measured Higgs mass and of LHC searches on the parameter space of gaugino-mediated supersymmetry breaking. Including non-vanishing trilinear scalar couplings, which were originally thought not to be present in this model, allows to obtain the correct Higgs mass for superparticle masses that are accessible by the LHC. I will also comment on the effects of more...

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  22. Prof. Vicente Pleitez (Instituto de Física Teórica-Universidade Estadual Paulista)
    19/04/2017, 11:51
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    We will review the main features of the 3-3-1 models. These sort of models are interesting proposals for the physics beyond the standard model because they are free of anomalies only if the number of families or generations is three. Usually, the models are classified according a parameter (denoted by β) appearing in the electric charge operator.

    In particular, we show that the β parameter is...

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  23. Lars Hofer (Universitat de Barcelona)
    19/04/2017, 14:30
    Plenary talk

    The measurements of b→sμ+μ− processes at LHCb and BELLE have revealed several tensions at the 2−3σ level. Combined fits to the available data suggest that these tensions might have their common origin in New Physics beyond the SM. In this talk I will discuss the impact of a generic class of models featuring new heavy scalars and fermions that couple to the SM fermions via Yukawa-like...

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  24. Prof. Andrzej Buras (TUM-IAS)
    19/04/2017, 14:53
    Plenary talk

    Z-mediated New Physics as seen from the point of view of Standard Model Effective Theory will be presented. The highlight is the generation of left-right operators
    through renormalisation group effects involving Yukawa couplings. Model independent
    analysis of K-meson and B-meson flavour physics will be presented. These methods
    will be applied to a number of models with Vector-like quarks.

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  25. Luiz Vale Silva (JSI)
    19/04/2017, 15:16
    Plenary talk

    While one of the main motivations for the construction of the next collider facilities is the production of new particles, the debates around the relevant New Physics (NP) cases would be incomplete without low energy flavor studies. In this context, a rich pattern of deviations in B meson decays with respect to the Standard Model (SM) has brought much attention in recent years. Apart from the...

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  26. Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University)
    19/04/2017, 15:39
    Plenary talk

    The semileptonic decays $B\to D^{(\ast)}\tau\nu$ have received lots of attention recently, due to an observed discrepancy between standard-model predictions and measurements. Experimentally, these processes are challenging due the fast decay of the tau lepton, which is indirectly observed through its decay products. From a theory perspective, the tau lepton is exactly what makes $B\to...

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  27. Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))
    19/04/2017, 16:30
    Plenary talk

    I'll review the constraints that can be inferred on Higgs self-coupling from double Higgs production as well as from differential distributions in single Higgs processes. I'll discuss the impact of possible large deviations of the Higgs self-coupling on the determination of the single Higgs couplings

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  28. Andrea Wulzer (CERN)
    19/04/2017, 16:53
    Plenary talk

    The large amount of data collected at the LHC and at its High-Luminosity extension will allow for accurate measurements of TeV-scale scattering processes that display enhanced indirect sensitivity to multi-TeV scale new physics. The power of those ``reasonably accurate and highly energetic’’ processes in probing heavy new physics is illustrated by showing that high-energy neutral and charged...

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  29. Dr Alessio Maiezza (IRB)
    19/04/2017, 17:16
    Plenary talk

    We perform an in-depth analysis of the Higgs sector in the Minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model and compute the scalar mass spectrum and associated mixings in the whole parametric space. A focus on the cubic potential couplings is provided in terms of the physical states and in the light of the (potentially large) quantum corrections. Then the deviations from the Standard Model prediction of the...

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  30. Maria Krawczyk (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University)
    19/04/2017, 17:39
    Plenary talk

    Inert Doublet Model in light of LHC Run I and astrophysical data
    Agnieszka Ilnicka, Maria Krawczyk, Tania Robens, Phys.Rev. D93 (2016) no.5, 055026,
    IDMS: Inert Dark Matter Model with a complex singlet
    Cesar Bonilla, Dorota Sokolowska, Neda Darvishi, J.Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz, Maria Krawczyk, J.Phys. G43 (2016) no.6, 065001

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  31. Tristan Arnoldus Du Pree (CERN)
    20/04/2017, 09:00
    Plenary talk

    This overview will present highlights of searches for high-pT physics at the ATLAS and CMS experiments, using data from the Run II of the LHC. The status of the traditional resonance searches will be discussed, as well as the recent reconstruction developments in searches for boosted topologies, long-lived particles and low-mass objects. Particular attention will be given to the searches for...

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  32. Björn Herrmann (LAPTh Annecy)
    20/04/2017, 09:28
    Plenary talk

    Unification of matter fields implies the existence of accidental permutation symmetries, which potentially remain immune to large quantum corrections up to the TeV scale. In this case, there is hope that they can be tested current colliders such at the LHC.

    In this context, I will discuss the case of supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory, where such a permutation symmetry is present in...

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  33. Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)
    20/04/2017, 09:51
    Plenary talk
  34. Joachim Brod (TU Dortmund)
    20/04/2017, 10:42
    Plenary talk

    The existence of dark matter is one of the few solid hints for physics beyond the standard model. If dark matter has indeed particle nature, then direct detection via scattering on atomic nuclei is one of the most promising discovery channels. In order to connect this nonrelativistic process with astrophysical and collider searches, as well as UV model building, a consistent setup of effective...

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  35. Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
    20/04/2017, 11:05
    Plenary talk

    The direct detection of Dark Matter particles with mass below the GeV-scale is hampered by soft nuclear recoil energies and finite detector thresholds. We propose to bypass the kinematic limitations by considering the inelastic channel of photon emission in the nuclear recoil. Our proposed method allows to set the first limits on Dark Matter below 500 MeV in the plane of Dark Matter mass and...

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  36. Martin Beneke
    20/04/2017, 11:28
    Plenary talk

    For heavy MSSM dark matter with a dominant wino dark matter, resummation of large quantum corrections due to the electroweak force (the "Sommerfeld" effect) is imperative for a reliable calculation of the annihilation cross section. In this talk I first discuss how this is done within a non-relativistic EFT approximation to the full MSSM. It is then investigated whether dominantly wino dark...

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  37. Christian Gross
    20/04/2017, 11:51
    Plenary talk

    Dark gauge groups, coupled to the Standard Model via the Higgs portal, can provide WIMP dark matter in a simple and appealing way. After reviewing the origin of dark matter stability in this framework, I discuss different mechanisms that lead to a natural suppression of direct detection rates below present-day limits, without a fine-tuning of parameters.

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  38. Admir Greljo (University of Zurich)
    20/04/2017, 14:30
    Plenary talk

    I will discuss the implications of the long-standing anomaly in semi-tauonic B meson decays on direct searches for new physics with ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC. Collider signatures at high energies correlated with the anomaly at low energies are identified. Several representative models put forward to explain the anomaly are examined in details: color-neutral vector triplet, 2HDM,...

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  39. Martin Gonzalez Alonso (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
    20/04/2017, 14:53
    Plenary talk

    A global Effective-Field-Theory analysis of $d(s)\to u\ell\nu$ transitions will be presented. The interplay of the various processes (kaon, pion, nuclear and baryon decays) will be discussed, along with the results of a combined fit.
    The framework contains the usual SM analysis as a specific case, and it allows to understand the implications of any given SM test, such as the the well-known...

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  40. Andreas Crivellin
    20/04/2017, 15:16
    Plenary talk

    In this talk I review the various possibilities for explaining the current hints for the violation of lepton flavour universality in b->smumu, h->taumu, b->staunu and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.

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  41. Dr Monika Blanke (KIT)
    20/04/2017, 15:39
    Plenary talk

    We discuss a simplified model of top-flavoured dark matter, where the dark matter-quark coupling constitutes a new source of flavour and CP violation. The setup is experimentally constrained by LHC searches, by neutral D meson mixing data, by the assumption of dark matter being a thermal relic, and the cross-section limits from direct detection experiments. We take a look at the impact of the...

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  42. Andreas Weiler (Technische Universität Muenchen (DE))
    20/04/2017, 16:30
    Plenary talk

    Charged composite dark matter

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  43. Adrian Carmona Bermudez (CERN)
    20/04/2017, 16:53
    Plenary talk

    Models of composite Higgs provide a natural explanation of the hierarchy problem and a beautiful rationale for the flavor puzzle. However, and contrary to what happens in other BSM scenarios, they typically lack a natural dark matter candidate unless non-minimal models with symmetric cosets are considered. Here, we will show an example of a non-symmetric coset which nevertheless provide a...

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  44. Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)
    20/04/2017, 17:16
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    We will present the theory that explains the hierarchy of charged fermion masses through a clockwork mechanism and discuss its phenomenological implications.

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  45. Alex Pomarol
    20/04/2017, 17:39
    Plenary talk
    BSM

    The approximate SM flavor symmetries could have emerged from dynamical scenarios in which the corresponding SM fermions couple to a strong sector, responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, at different dynamical scales. Surprisingly, these scenarios are able to pass all flavor and CP-violating constraints.

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  46. Christopher Smith (LPSC)
    21/04/2017, 09:00
    Plenary talk
    GUT

    The quark and lepton mass patterns upset their naive unification. In this talk, a new approach to solve this problem is presented. Model-independently, we show that a successful unification can be achieved. A mechanism is identified by which the large top quark mass renders its third-generation leptonic partner very light. This state is thus identified with the electron. We then discuss a...

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  47. Timon Mede (University of Zagreb)
    21/04/2017, 09:23
    Plenary talk
    GUT

    We are considering possible UV completions of the scotogenic neutrino model which is a bottom-up attempt to explain both neutrino masses and dark matter with additional weak scalar triplet, charged scalar singlet and 3 generations of vector-like lepton doublets. Neutrino masses are generated radiatively at the one-loop level (variation of the Zee model) while the neutral triplet component can...

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  48. Dr Vasja Susič (University of Basel)
    21/04/2017, 09:46
    Plenary talk
    GUT

    We investigate the Yukawa sector of $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theories by
    using the real representations $45$ and $210$ of $SO(10)$ to construct a class of effective non-renormalizable $SO(10)$ operators of the form $16\times 16\times 10\times 45^n \times 210^m$. The representations $45$ and $210$ acquire 2 and 3 independent VEV components, respectively. Assuming the overall VEVs of the $45$ and...

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  49. Dr Michal Malinský (IPNP Charles University in Prague)
    21/04/2017, 10:09
    Plenary talk
    GUT

    We shall briefly recapitulate the main sources of theoretical uncertainties plaguing proton decay calculations in classical GUTs and advocate a particular GUT scenario in which a reasonably robust proton lifetime estimate may be accessible.

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  50. Dr Thomas Mannel
    21/04/2017, 11:00
    Plenary talk

    A large part of the branching fraction of bottom hadrons is due to decays with more than a single hadron in the final state. I will discuss the theoretical methods to describe semi-leptonic decays with two final-state hadrons as well as non-leptonic B decays with more than two hadrons in the final state. In particular with respect to CP violation such decays may give us additional insights.

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  51. Ulrich Nierste (KIT)
    21/04/2017, 11:23
    Plenary talk

    The measure epsilon' of direct CP violation in K → ππ decays disagrees with the Standard-Model prediction by 2.8 standard deviations. It is possible to explain this discrepancy with supersymmetric contributions involving squarks and gluinos in the multi-TeV range. I discuss the footprint of this scenario on the rare decays K+ → π+ ν ν̄ and KL → π0 ν ν̄.

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  52. Mr Ivan Nisandzic (Technische Universitat Dortmund)
    21/04/2017, 11:46
    Plenary talk

    The rare decay B→K∗(→Kπ)νν¯ is expected to play an important role in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the near future B-physics experiments. We investigate resonant and non-resonant backgrounds that arise beyond the narrow-width approximation for the K∗.

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  53. Sebastian Jaeger (University of Sussex (GB))
    21/04/2017, 12:09
    Plenary talk

    Very recently, LHCb has reported measurements of new lepton-universality-violating (LUV) observables. I will explain the need for a modified, lepton-flavour-specific C10 Wilson coefficient to accommodate the data and propose three further LUV ratios which are precise probes of the ratio
    C10mu/C10e. I then will argue that although the global fit favours, in addition, a sizable BSM effect in...

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  54. Ms Zofia Fabisiewicz (University of Warsaw)

    Lepton Flavor Violation (LFV) is strictly forbidden or extremely suppressed in the Standard Model (SM). Therefore, processes violating lepton flavor can serve as an indirect probe of new physics. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) LFV effects can appear through the diagonalization of the slepton mass matrix or coming from the Higgs-slepton-slepton vertex. I will present our...

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  55. Goran Popara
    Poster

    Left-Right symmetric models, introduced to explain parity violation of
    weak interactions, also offer an appealing solution to the problem of
    neutrino masses by naturally embedding the seesaw mechanism, with the
    right-handed Majorana neutrinos being a crucial ingredient. Since
    current experimental searches set a lower limit on the left-right scale
    in a TeV range, accessible to the colliders...

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  56. Christoph Schwanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

    The Belle II experiment at the asymmetric e+e− SuperKEKB collider is a major upgrade of the Belle experiment, which ran at the KEKB collider at the KEK laboratory in Japan. The design luminosity of SuperKEKB is 8×1035 cm−2 s−1, which is about 40 times higher than that of KEKB. The expected integrated luminosity of Belle II is 50 ab−1 in five years of running. The experiment will focus on...

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  57. Collaboration SHiP (CERN)

    SHIP is a new general purpose fixed target facility, whose Technical Proposal has been recently reviewed by the CERN SPS Committee and by the CERN Research Board. The two boards recommended that the experiment proceeds further to a Comprehensive Design phase in the context of the new CERN Working group "Physics Beyond Colliders", aiming at presenting a CERN strategy for the European Strategy...

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