PITT PACC Workshop: Digging Deeper at LHC Run II

23 Feb 2017, 08:30 → 25 Feb 2017, 17:45 US/Eastern

University of Pittsburgh

This workshop will bring together experts from theory and experiment to discuss and develop new opportunities at Run II of the LHC.

EXTERNAL ORGANIZERS: James Hirschauer (Fermilab), Marumi Kado (LAL Orsay)

LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Brian Batell, Ben Carlson, Tao Han, Tae Min Hong, Ahmed Ismail, David McKeen, Donna Naples

ADMINISTRATOR: Cindy Cercone

Thursday, 23 February

08:30 Breakfast

SUSY Naturalness

1 Experimental Overview (E)

Speaker: Marumi Kado (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Pittsburgh2016.pdf

2 Natural SUSY Theory (T)

Speaker: David Shih (Rutgers University)

Pitt workshop.pdf

10:30 Coffee

3 SUSY Excesses (E)

Speaker: Benjamin Henry Hooberman (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

PITTPACC_v1.pdf

4 Compressed/Stealth SUSY (T)

Speaker: David Pinner

Stealth_PITT.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Dark Matter and Cosmology

5 Dark Matter Experiment (E)

Speaker: Jim Hirschauer (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

hirschauer_pitt_pacc_23feb2017.pdf

6 Beyond Simplified Dark Matter Models (T)

Speaker: Dorival Gonçalves (University of Pittsburgh)

pitt_dorival.pdf

16:00 Coffee

7 Baryogenesis and the LHC (T)

Speaker: David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

ewbglhc-pitt.pdf

8 Displaced Signatures and Baryogenesis (T)

Speaker: Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)

Pitt_BGLHC2017.pdf

Friday, 24 February

08:30 Breakfast

Jets and Substructure

9 Jet Substructure Experiment (E)

Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York at buffalo (US))

pittpacc_rappoccio_diggingdeeper2017.pdf

10 Jet Substructure Theory (T)

Speaker: Andrew Larkoski

Pitt_2017.pdf

10:30 Coffee

Exotics

11 Data scouting and boosted dijets: searches for low-mass dijet resonances (E)

Speaker: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

PITTPACC_DataScoutingAndDijets_24Feb2016.pdf

12 Soft Bombs (T)

Speaker: Dean Robinson (UC Berkeley)

SBtalk.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Naturalness II

13 RPV SUSY (T)

Speaker: Jared Evans

DiggingDeeperRPVSUSY.pdf

14 Composite Higgs (T)

Speaker: Ann Nelson (University of Washington)

Pittsburgh17.pdf

16:00 Coffee

15 Signatures of Neutral Naturalness (T)

Speaker: Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

neutral_naturalness_overview.pdf

16 Designing triggers for BSM physics (E)

Speaker: Benjamin Taylor Carlson (University of Pittsburgh)

Carlson_BSMTrigger_Feb24_2017_v1.pdf

Saturday, 25 February

08:30 Breakfast

Exotics

17 Exotic Higgs Decays Experimental (E)

Speaker: Rachel Yohay (University of California Davis (US))

PITT_PACC_25-Feb-17.pdf

18 Sterile Neutrinos (T)

Speaker: Brian Shuve (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Pittsburgh_feb2017.pdf

10:30 Coffee

19 Dijets (T)

Speaker: Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)

PITTdijet2017.pdf

20 Quark/Gluon Tagging (E)

Speaker: Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Nachman_qg.pdf

21 Experimental Exotics (E)

Speaker: John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

PittPACC2017.pdf

22 Anti-split supersymmetry

Speaker: Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)

antisplitLHC.pdf