FPCP 2009

27 May 2009, 14:00 → 1 Jun 2009, 18:00 US/Eastern

The Sky Room (Crowne Plaza Hotel)

Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)

Flavor Physics and CP Violation 2009

Wednesday, 27 May

14:00 → 20:00 Registration

Thursday, 28 May

08:15 → 08:30 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Mr Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)

Slides Welcome-FPCP.pdf Welcome-FPCP.ppt

08:30 → 10:35 Towards the CKM Triangles: Angles

08:30 Measurement Of Beta

Speaker: Yosuke Yusa (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.)

Slides FPCP09_beta.pdf

08:55 Measurement of Alpha

Speaker: Bill Gary (Department of Physics)

Slides gary-fpcp-2009.pdf

09:20 Measurement of Gamma

Speaker: Dr Matteo Rama (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Slides fpcp09_gamma.pdf

09:45 Measurement of phi_s & Delta Gamma_s

Speaker: Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)

Slides fpcp09_phis_dgs.pdf fpcp09_phis_dgs.ppt

10:10 Theory errors on "Golden" Modes; DCSD Penguin Contributions etc

Speaker: Thomas Mannel (Siegen U)

Slides Fpcp09_Mannel.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:40 Towards the CKM Triangles: Sides

11:00 Vcb Measurements & Interpretation

Speaker: Christoph Schwanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Slides schwanda.pdf

11:25 Vub Measurements & Interpretation

Speaker: Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne)

Slides Fpcp09_Barberio.pdf

11:50 Bs mixing & Interpretation

Speaker: Amarjit Soni (BNL)

Slides Fpcp09_Soni.pdf

12:15 Vud & Vus from K & pi decays

Speaker: Mario Antonelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides Fpcp09_Antonelli.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Rare Decays (I)

14:00 |Vub| and |Vcb| from Inclusive B Decays

Speaker: Dr Frank Tackmann (MIT)

Slides tackmann_fpcp09.pdf

14:30 B ->s/d ell+ ell- & q gamma

Speaker: Mr Emmanuele Salvati (UMass Amherst)

Slides SalvatiFPCP09.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:30 Rare Decays (II)

15:30 B -> s/d ell+ ell- & s/d gamma

Speaker: Enrico Lunghi (Indiana University)

Slides lunghi-bsg-bsll.pdf

16:00 B-> mu+ mu- , B-> tau nu

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Scuri (INFN - Pisa)

Slides Fpcp09_Scuri.pdf

16:30 → 20:00 Camp Majano Barbeque

Friday, 29 May

08:30 → 10:30 Lepton Decays

08:30 D semileptonic decays

Speaker: Mr Bo Xin (Purdue University)

Slides Xin_FPCP09.pdf

09:00 D leptonic decays

Speaker: Prof. Roy Briere (CMU)

Slides Briere_FPCP09_Leptonic.pdf

09:30 Lattice on Leptonic & Semileptonic D Decays

Speaker: Prof. Christine Davies Davies (University of Glasgow)

Slides davies-fpcp09.pdf.pdf

10:00 Lepton asymmetry in Bs & Bd decays

Speaker: Mr Steven Beale (York University)

Slides FPCP_Beale.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

11:00 → 12:30 Hadron Collider Topics

11:00 Flavor Physics Techniques at D0 & CDF

Speaker: Dr Simone Donati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa)

Slides FPCP2009_Donati.pdf

11:30 Flavor Physics Techniques & Sensitivities at ATLAS & CMS

Speaker: David Lopes-Pegna (Department of Physics-Princeton University-Unknown)

Slides FPCP09.pdf

12:00 Flavor Physics Techniques and Sensitivities at LHCb

Speaker: Olivier Deschamps (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))

Slides OD-LHCb_FPCP09.pdf OD-LHCb_FPCP09.ppt

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:10 New Facilities

14:30 Super B Factories

Speaker: Yoshihide Sakai (KEK)

Slides 0905fpcp.pdf 0905fpcp.ppt

14:55 BES Status

Speaker: Prof. Roy Briere (CMU)

Slides Briere_FPCP09_BESIII.pdf

15:20 Proposed Flavor experiments at FNAL & CERN

Speaker: Bob Tschirhart (-)

Slides Future_Kaons_Tschirhart.pdf Future_Kaons_Tschirhart.ppt

15:45 The LHCb Upgrade

Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

Slides Campana-FPCP09.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session

16:30 → 19:00 Hadronic B Decays

16:30 Charmless B decays [excluding alpha]

Speaker: Prof. James Smith (University of Colorado)

Slides smith.pdf.pdf

17:00 General Theoretical Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Hsiang-nan Li (Academia Sinica, Inst. Phys.)

Slides fpcp09li.pdf fpcp09li.pdf

17:30 Comparison of PQCD, QCDF & SCET

Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)

Slides Fpcp09_Stewart.pdf

18:00 Charmless B Decays

Speaker: Dr Emi Kou (LAL-IN2P3/CNRS Universite Paris-Sud)

Slides Fpcp09_Kou.pdf

18:30 CKM from B Physics on the Lattice

Speaker: Dr Ruth Van de Water (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides VandeWater_FPCP_09.pdf.pdf

19:00 → 19:20 Poster Session

19:00 A critical look at hadronic b -> s penguin modes

Speaker: Dr Rupak Dutta (University of Kentucky)

19:00 Absolute Br Measurements for Exclusive Ds Semileptonic Decays

Speaker: Dr Koloina Randrianarivony (Carleton University)

19:00 ATLAS Preparations for precise measurements of rare muonic B-decays

Speaker: Ioannis Nomidis (Department of Nuclear Physics-Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki-Un)

19:00 B-> K eta(') decays & NLO contibutions in the pQCD approach

Speaker: Prof. Zhenjun Xiao (Nanjing Normal University)

19:00 B-Physics results with first ATLAS data

Speaker: Kai Grybel (Universitat Siegen)

19:00 B-tagging algorithms for CMS Physics

Speaker: Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)

Slides fpcp09_b_tagging.pdf fpcp09_b_tagging.ppt

19:00 beta_s measurement at LHCb

Speaker: Mrs Geraldine Conti (EPFL)

Poster GConti_FPCP2009.pdf

19:00 Ds->f0 e+ nu Decays & Implications for Bs->J/psi f0

Speaker: Liming Zhang (Syracuse University)

Slides poster_f0.pdf poster_f0.ppt

19:00 Leptonic Decays of D Mesons & Measurement of Pseudoscalar form factors

Speaker: Sadia Khalil (Syracuse University-Unknown-Unknown)

Poster fdPoster.pdf fdPoster.ppt

19:00 Leptonic pion decays

Speaker: Chloe Malbrunot (Unknown)

19:00 LHCb V0 decays with first data

Speaker: Bogdan Paul Popovici (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))

19:00 Strategies for b-tagging calibration using data at CMS

Speaker: Gennadiy Kukartsev (Unknown)

Poster btag-calibration-cms.pdf

19:00 The LHCb analysis for Bs -> mu+ mu-

Speaker: Marc-Olivier Bettler (Laboratoire de Physique des Hautes Energies (LPHE-IPEP))

19:00 The vital role of CLEO-c in the precision measurement of gamma

Speaker: Sean Brisbane (CERN)

19:20 → 21:20 Dinner

Saturday, 30 May

08:30 → 10:30 Neutrinos and Kaons

08:30 Recent results from Neutrino experiments

Speaker: Prof. Sacha Kopp (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides Fpcp09_Kopp.pdf Fpcp09_Kopp.ppt

09:00 K+ -> pi+ nu nubar & other Semileptonic kaon decays

Speaker: Zhe Wang

Slides rarek_semileptonic.pdf rarek_semileptonic.ppt

09:30 Neutrino physics

Speaker: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

Slides fpcp2009_adg.pdf

10:00 Future Neutrino Exp.

Speaker: Peter Dornan (Imperial College)

Slides Future_Neutrino_Expts.pdf Future_Neutrino_Expts.ppt

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 19:00 Excursion

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Sunday, 31 May

08:30 → 10:30 Quarkonium and Hadronic Decays (I)

08:30 b anti b states

Speaker: Dr Gerard Bonneaud (LPNHE Paris 6/7)

Slides Gerard-Bonneaud-FPCP09.pdf

09:00 c anti c states

Speaker: Prof. Riccardo Faccini (University La Sapienza and INFN Rome)

Slides Fpcp09_Faccini.pdf Fpcp09_Faccini.ppt

09:30 Theory - new states & others

Speaker: Dr Estia Eichten (Fermilab)

Slides eichten.pdf

10:00 B spectroscopy at the Tevatron

Speaker: Eduard De La Cruz Burelo (CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico)

Slides FPCP2009.pdf FPCP2009.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:25 Quarkonium and Hadronic Decays (II)

11:00 Bs decay and Charmed Hadronic B decay

Speaker: Dr Jin Li (University of Hawaii)

Slides FPCP09-Bs-lijin-v4.pdf

11:30 Hadronic Charm Decays

Speaker: Dr Jonas Rademacker (Bristol)

Slides JonasRademacker_HadronicCharm_FPCP09.pdf

12:00 New CDF Omega_b Result

Speaker: Giovanni Punzi (Pisa University and INFN)

Slides Punzi_Omegab_FPCP.pdf Punzi_Omegab_FPCP.ppt

12:25 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:30 Beyond the Standard Model (I)

14:30 Charm Mixing and CP Violation

Speaker: Bostjan Golob (University of Ljubljana)

Slides Fpcp09_Golob.pdf Fpcp09_Golob.ppt

15:00 Lepton Flavor violation in Tau & Muon decays

Speaker: Prof. E. Craig Dukes (University of Virginia)

Slides Fpcp09_Dukes.pdf Fpcp09_Dukes.ppt

15:30 Testing New Indirect CP Violation

Speaker: Yuval Grossman

Slides Fpcp09_Grossman.pdf

16:00 Effects of Extra Dimensions on B decays

Speaker: Prof. Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)

Slides Fpcp_Neubert.pdf

16:30 → 16:55 Coffee Break

16:55 → 18:00 Beyond the Standard Model (II)

16:55 FPCP 2010 at Torino

Speaker: Fabrizio Bianchi (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

Slides FPCP2010.pdf FPCP2010.ppt

16:57 FPCP 2011

Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Appel (Fermi Lab)

Slides FPCP2011.pdf FPCP2011.ppt

17:00 Effects of SUSY, Little Higgs, etc on B decay

Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Grinstein (University of California San Diego)

Slides Fpcp09_Grinstein.pdf

17:30 Rare Leptonic decays (tau, mu etc…)

Speaker: Mr Cristoforo Simonetto (TU Muenchen)

Slides SimonettoRareLepton.pdf

18:30 → 21:30 Reception at Golf Club followed by Dinner

Monday, 1 June

08:30 → 10:00 Concluding Session (I)

08:30 Lecture about the Recent Nobel Prize

Speaker: George Wei-Shu Hou (National Taiwan University (NTU))

Slides Fpcp09_Hou.pdf Fpcp09_Hou.ppt

09:00 DAQ systems and technologies for Flavor Physics

Speaker: Beat Jost (CERN)

Slides Fpcp09_Jost.pdf Fpcp09_Jost.pptx

09:30 CKM fits

Speaker: Valentin Niess (Unknown)

Slides vniess-FPCP-2009.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Concluding Session (II)

10:30 Neutrino versus quarks MNS versus CKM

Speaker: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)

Slides fpcp09-MCC.pdf

11:00 Flavor Physics Questions for the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Rosner (University of Chicago)

Slides rosner.pdf

11:30 Lessons from the Conference

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)

Slides fpcp_wilkinson.pdf