Joint Workshop on |Vub| and |Vcb| (Vxb 2009)

from Thursday, October 29, 2009 (1:00 PM) to Saturday, October 31, 2009 (7:00 PM)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 29, 2009
Oct 30, 2009
Oct 31, 2009
AM
8:30 AM
Inclusive B -> Xclnu (until 10:30 AM) (Kavli Auditorium)
8:30 AM Theory Overview - Thomas Mannel (Siegen U)  
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9:00 AM Heavy Quark Mass Review - Andre Hoang (MPI Munich)  
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10:00 AM B->Xclnu moment measurement - marcello rotondo (INFN and U. Padova)  
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10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM
Inclusive B -> Xclnu (until 12:30 PM) (Kavli Auditorium)
11:00 AM Inclusive b to s gamma measurements – spectrum and moments - Dr Antonio Limosani (University of Melbourne)  
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11:30 AM Global fit Overview - Christoph Schwanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences)  
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12:00 PM Calculations at (alpha_s 1/m_b^2) Order - Enrico Lunghi (Indiana University)  
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8:30 AM
Inclusive B -> Xulnu (until 10:30 AM) (ROB, Building 48)
8:30 AM Overview of inclusive |Vub| Determinations - Frank Tackmann (MIT)  
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9:15 AM Belle Recent Results - Phillip Urquijo (University of Geneva)  
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9:45 AM BaBar Recent Results - Antonio Petrella (INFN and Universita' di Ferrara)  
10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM
Inclusive B -> Xulnu (until 1:00 PM) (ROB, Building 48)
11:00 AM NNLO Corrections to B -> Xu l nu in the Shape-Function Region - Ben Pecjak (DESY)  
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11:30 AM Power corrections for inclusive Xu l nu and Xs gamma decays - gil paz (U. Chicago)  
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12:10 PM Simba -- A global fit approach to |Vub| - Kerstin Tackmann (CERN)  
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PM
1:00 PM --- Registration ---
2:00 PM
Introduction (until 2:30 PM) (Kavli Auditorium)
2:00 PM Welcome and Workshop Goals - Vera Luth (SLAC)  
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2:30 PM
Exclusive B -> Xclnu: B->D(*)lnu (until 4:00 PM) (Kavli Auditorium)
2:30 PM Experimental Status of B ->D(*)lnu - Christoph Schwanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences)  
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3:00 PM Lattice Calculations for B->D(*)lnu - Ruth Van de Water (BNL)  
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3:30 PM New Lattice Methods - Benoit Blossier (Paris sud Orsay)  
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4:00 PM --- break ---
4:30 PM
Exclusive B -> Xclnu: B->D**lnu (until 6:30 PM) (Kavli Auditorium)
4:30 PM Experimental Status of B ->D**/D(*)pilnu - David Lopes-Pegna (Princeton University)  
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5:00 PM Theoretical predictions on B->D**/D(*)pilnu - Bigi Ikaros (U. NotreDame)  
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5:30 PM Radiative corrections to D/D*/pi/rholnu Decays - Florian Bernlochner (Humboldt U. Berlin)  
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6:00 PM Discussion - list of questions - Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab) Bob Kowalewski (Department of Physics and Astronomy)  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Inclusive B -> Xclnu (until 3:30 PM) (Kavli Auditorium)
2:00 PM Calculations at (alpha_s^2) Order - Kirill Melnikov (J. Hopkins U.)  
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2:30 PM Calculations at (1/m_b^n, n>3) and (1/m_b^3 1/m_c^m) Order - Sascha Turczyk (Siegen U.)  
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3:00 PM Discussion - list of questions - Christoph Schwanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Thomas Mannel (Siegen U)  
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3:30 PM --- break ---
4:00 PM
Exclusive B -> Xulnu and D SL decays (until 6:30 PM) (Kavli Auditorium)
4:00 PM Experimental Status of Exclusive B->Xulnu - Jochen Christian Dingfelder (Physikalisches Institut Freiburg)  
4:30 PM Status of lattice Calculations for B->pilnu - Ruth Van de Water (BNL)  
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5:00 PM Summary of Non-lattice Calculations for SL B and D Decays - Alexander Khodjamirian (Siegen University)  
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5:30 PM Informal Summary of B and D(s) leptonic and D(s) semileptonic decays - Lawrence Gibbons (Cornell University)  
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6:00 PM Discussion - list of questions - Lawrence Gibbons (Cornell University) Junko Shigemitsu (Ohio State University)  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Inclusive B -> Xulnu (until 3:00 PM) (ROB, Building 48)
2:00 PM Inclusive vs. Exclusive: A Novel Method for Measuring |Vub| - Massimiliano Procura (MIT)  
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2:30 PM Discussion - list of questions - Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne) Michael Luke (U. Toronto) Vera Luth (SLAC) Concezio Bozzi (INFN Ferrara)  
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3:00 PM
Conclusion and Discussion (until 5:30 PM) (ROB, Building 48)
3:00 PM UTFitter and |Vub|/|Vcb| - Dr Cecilia Tarantino (Technical University Munich)  
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3:15 PM CKM Fitter and |Vub|/|Vcb| - Gerald Eigen (Department of Physics and Technology)  
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3:45 PM --- break ---
4:00 PM Workshop Summary: Discussion - Zoltan Ligeti (LBNL)  
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