LHC Dark Matter WG public meeting

Thursday 15 Dec 2016, 09:00 → 19:10 Europe/Zurich

222/R-001 (CERN)

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))

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

1) Refinements to the DM Forum menu of scalar and pseudoscalar models (2HDM)

2) Progress on EW backgrounds discussion for improvement of mono-X searches

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WG web page:

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

09:15 → 09:45 Introduction and scope of the meeting: Introduction

20161215 DM WG Intro.pdf

09:45 → 11:25 Scalar sector: Scalar sector: talks

09:45 2HDMs as UV completions to dark matter interactions

Speaker: Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

DM_WG_ScalarMediator_Bell_2016.pdf

10:10 Pseudoscalar portal to dark matter: beyond simplified models

Speaker: Jose Miguel No Redondo (University of Sussex (GB))

DM@LHC_No.pdf

10:35 TBC

Speaker: Martin Bauer (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

DMF2016_MB.pdf

11:25 → 11:55 Coffee break

11:55 → 12:35 Scalar sector: pitch talks: Morning short talks

11:55 Heavy scalar searches in the tt¯ channel at the LHC

1608.07282

Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)

LHCDMWG_ZhenLiu_ttbar.pdf

12:10 NLO corrections for 2HDM

https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05584

Speaker: Peter Galler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

ttbar_2HDM.pdf

12:25 Heavy scalar model

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03466

Speakers: Stefan Erich Von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)), Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

svb_lhcdmwg_16_12_15.pdf

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:15 EW corrections: EW correction talks

13:30 Status of EW corrections

Speaker: Jonas Lindert

JL_DMWG_CERN_12_2016 .pdf

14:15 → 15:30 Scalar sector: pitch talks: Afternoon short talks

14:15 Inert 2HDM

http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1612.00511

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Belyaev_DM-WG-meeting-CERN-i2HDM-15-12-2016.pdf

14:30 S-Channel Dark Matter Simplified Models and Unitarity

Speaker: Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

DMWG.pdf

14:45 Interference effects of two scalar propagators

1610.03997

Speaker: Jinmian Li (University of Adelaide)

HiggsDM.pdf

15:00 VBF for scalar and pseudoscalar mediators

Speakers: Dr Bjoern Penning (University of Bristol (GB)), Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University)

VBF_DM.pdf

15:30 → 15:45 Break for some air and non-artificial light

15:45 → 16:45 Scalar sector: Scalar sector talks

15:45 Dark Matter and 2HDMs

Speaker: Seyda Ipek (University of Washington)

ipek_HiggsDM_CERN.pdf

16:05 Pseudoscalar Portal Dark Matter

1502.06000

Speaker: Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute/Cincinnati University)

TalkLHCDMMeeting.pdf

16:45 → 17:30 Scalar sector: Scalar sector: discussion