Aspen 2018 - The Particle Frontier

25 Mar 2018, 16:00 → 31 Mar 2018, 18:00 US/Mountain

Flug Forum (Aspen Center for Physics)

Ann Nelson (University of Washington), Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US)), Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU), Kyle Stuart Cranmer (New York University (US)), Rafael Lang

This Aspen winter conference is one of the major venues for the particle physics community to present new data and discuss novel ideas. Topics will include Higgs physics, dark matter, flavor physics, and physics beyond the Standard Model.  New experimental results will be announced, including from the Large Hadron Collider and dark matter direct detection.  There will be an emphasis on charting new experimental and theoretical directions.  

Application deadline is December 15, 2017

Please complete your application at: http://www.aspenphys.org/physicists/winter/winterapps.html

 

Sunday, 25 March

17:30 → 19:30 Reception and Registration at the Aspen Center for Physics

19:30 → 21:30 No host dinner - Recommendation: Hickory House

Monday, 26 March

08:00 → 10:55 Morning Session

08:00 CMS results on searches for Supersymmetry

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US))

Aspen-SUSY-2018.pdf

08:25 ATLAS results on searches for Supersymmetry

Speaker: Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

2018_03_02_Aspen_SUSY.pdf

08:50 The Muon g-2 Theory Initiative

Speaker: Aida El-Khadra (UIUC)

el-khadra_AspenWinter2018.pdf

09:15 Coffee Break

09:45 Ground-based Gravitational Wave detectors - Results and Plans (LIGO and Virgo)

Speaker: David Shoemaker (MIT LIGO)

Ground-based Gravitational Wave detectors - Results and Plans.pdf

Ground-based Gravitational Wave detectors - Results and Plans.pptx

10:10 Searching for Ultralight Particles with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Masha Baryakhtar (PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA))

Masha_SR_Aspen.pdf

10:35 Bright Axion Stars

Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

AxionStar_YangBai.pdf

16:00 → 19:05 Afternoon Session

16:00 Coffee and Tea

16:30 ATLAS results on searches for long-lived particles

Speaker: Hidetoshi Otono (Kyushu University (JP))

Hide_180326_Aspen.pdf

16:55 CMS results on searches for long-lived particles

Speaker: Ted Ritchie Kolberg (Florida State University (US))

cms_llp_aspen_18_tkolberg.pdf

17:20 Searches for new particles at LHCb

Speaker: J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

Williams_Aspen18.pdf

17:45 Coffee Break

18:15 Search for Light Dark Sector at BaBar

Speaker: Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University (US))

Chunhui_Aspen2018.pdf

18:40 A COmpact DEtector for eXotics at LHCb

Speaker: Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

codex-b.pdf

19:05 → 19:30 Panel: Far Detectors Panel

Convener: Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU)

19:05 Far Detectors Panel

Speakers: Andrew Haas (New York University), Felix Kling (University of California, Irvine), John Paul Chou (Rutgers State Univ. of New Jersey (US)), Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

FarPanel.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 No host dinner - Recommendation: Mezzaluna

Tuesday, 27 March

08:00 → 11:00 Morning Session

08:00 Halometry from Astrometry

Speaker: Neal Weiner (NYU)

aspen winter 2018.pdf

08:25 Dark Matter Annihilation, Decay and Scattering in the Cosmic Dawn

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (Harvard University)

DarkAgesDarkMatter_Slatyer.pdf

08:50 Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter with Polar Materials

Speaker: Tongyan Lin

03_27_2018_Aspen.pdf

09:15 Coffee Break

09:45 CRESST talk: Title TBD

Speaker: Antonio D'Addabbo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

ASPEN_201803_4.pdf

10:10 The PICO Dark Matter Search Experiment

Speaker: Ilan Levine (Indiana University South Bend)

Aspen_2018_Levine_PICO.pdf

10:35 XENON1T talk: Upcoming Results from XENON1T

Speaker: Dr Patrick de Perio (Columbia University)

180327-deperio_xenon1t_aspen_v3.pdf

16:00 → 19:05 Afternoon Session

16:00 Coffee and Tea

16:30 LHC results on Top Quark Physics

Speaker: Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

Aspen2018.pdf

16:55 Current status of the g-2 experiment at Fermilab

Speaker: Tammy Walton

AspenConference_TWalton.pdf

17:20 SENSEI: First Results, Status, and Plans

Speaker: Rouven Essig

Rouven-Essig-Aspen.final.pdf

17:45 Coffee Break

18:15 Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Year 1

Speaker: Aaron Chou

achou_aspen_mar2018v2.pdf

18:40 Status of DAMIC

Speaker: Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)

chavarria_damic.pdf

19:05 → 19:30 Panel: New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection

Convener: Rafael Lang

19:05 New Ideas for Dark Matter Detection

Speakers: Ken Van Tilburg, Rafael Lang, Richard Partridge (Brown / SLAC), Tongyan Lin

20:00 → 22:00 No host dinner - Recommendation: Mi Chola

Wednesday, 28 March

08:00 → 10:30 Morning Session

08:00 Neutron stars as laboratories for particle physics

Speaker: Sanjay Reddy (U)

AspenReddy.pdf

08:25 A viable QCD axion in the MeV mass range

Speaker: Daniele S. M. Alves (NYU / Princeton)

AspenWinter2018.pdf

08:50 New Developments in Small-Scale Axion Cosmology

Speaker: Joshua Eby (University of Cincinnati)

Eby_Aspen_AxionCosmology.pdf

09:15 Coffee Break

09:45 ATLAS results on searches for exotic new particles

Speaker: Sara Alderweireldt (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

ATLAS_Exotics_Aspen2018_SAlderweireldt.pdf

10:10 CMS results on searches for exotic new particles

Speaker: Alice Helene Florent (University of California Los Angeles (US))

AspenCMS.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Panel: Machine Learning in Particle Physics

Speakers: Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US)), Fernanda Psihas (Indiana University), Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Aspen-Panel.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee and Tea

16:30 → 17:30 Public Event at Wheeler Opera House: Physics Cafe

16:30 Physics Cafe at Wheeler Opera House

Speakers: Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Tongyan Lin

17:30 → 18:30 Public Event at Wheeler Opera House: Public Lecture

Convener: Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))

17:30 Public Lecture at Wheeler Opera House

Speaker: Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))

19:00 → 21:00 No host dinner

Thursday, 29 March

08:00 → 11:00 Morning Session

08:00 Looking for the WIMP next door

Speaker: Dr Julia Shelton

180328-Aspen.pdf

08:25 The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter

Speaker: Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Caroline)

ErickcekAspenPP.pdf

08:50 Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in the CMB

Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii)

2018-03-29-Aspen.pdf

09:15 Coffee Break

09:45 B physics anomalies at LHCb

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))

fwilson_aspen.pdf

10:10 Implications of the B physics anomalies

Speaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

talk_Aspen.pdf

10:35 Belle II @ SuperKEKB: a new experiment at intensity frontier

Speakers: Vladimir Savinov, Vladimir Savinov (University of Pittsburgh (US))

savinov_Aspen_The_Particle_Frontier_2018.pdf

16:00 → 19:30 Afternoon Session

16:00 Coffee and Tea

16:30 Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings

Speaker: Yanou Cui (Perimeter Institute)

GWarchaeology_Cui.pdf

16:55 The LDMX experiment

Speaker: Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology (US))

Aspen-20180328.pdf

17:20 MicroBooNE: Status & Recent Results

Speaker: Sowjanya Gollapinni

gollapinni.pdf

17:45 Coffee Break

18:15 CEνNS Detection at the SNS: for the COHERENT collaboration

Speaker: Daniel Salvat (CELLS)

COHERENT_Aspen_upload.pdf

18:40 Neutrinos from beyond the solar system

Speaker: Cecilia Lunardini (Arizona State University)

Aspen_2018.pdf

19:05 Highlights from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Speaker: Ali Kheirandish

aspen_icecube_kheirandish.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Banquet at Aspen Meadows - Doerr-Hosier Center - Barksdale Lobby (main lobby as you first walk in)

Friday, 30 March

08:00 → 11:00 Morning Session

08:00 Combining perturbative calculations with parton showers

Speaker: Christian Bauer

Generators.pdf

08:25 LHC results on Standard Model measurements and limits on EFTs

Speaker: Prof. Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))

Aspen_March2018.pdf

08:50 ATLAS and CMS results on bottom and charm quarks

Speaker: Kevin Stenson (University of Colorado Boulder (US))

AspenHF_pres.pdf

09:15 Coffee Break

09:45 Quantum Black holes: new physics and observational probes

Speaker: Steven Giddings (Univ. of California Santa Barbara)

2018-aspen.pdf

10:10 Unification from Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Clifford Cheung

Amplitudes Talk (Aspen Winter 2018).pdf

10:35 Higgscitement: cosmological dynamics of fine-tuning

Speaker: JiJi Fan (Brown University)

Aspen_winter_2018.pdf

16:00 → 19:30 Afternoon Session

16:00 Coffee and Tea

16:30 Higgs couplings at high scales

The experiments at the LHC have been improving the measurements of the Higgs boson properties, and searches for new physics are being actively conducted. In the absence of deviations from the Standard Model thus far, it would be prudent to seek for other complementary strategies in the experiments at the energy frontier. We propose to study the Higgs couplings at high energy scales. We focus on the energy scale-dependence of the off-shell Higgs propagation and of the top quark Yukawa coupling. We present several representative scenarios relevant to addressing the naturalness problem. We find that certain scenarios are potentially observable at the LHC upgrade to high luminosity or to higher energy.

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

2018-OffShell-short.pdf

16:55 CMS results on exotic Higgs searches

Speaker: Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State University (US))

ExoticHiggs_Abdollah.pdf

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17:20 ATLAS results on exotic Higgs searches

Speaker: Haleh Hadavand (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

BSM-Exotic-Higgs-Aspen2018-rmExotics-upload.pdf

17:45 Coffee Break

18:15 LHC results on couplings and characterization of H(125)

Speaker: Sarah Heim (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

SarahHeim_Higgs_couplings_properties_final.pdf

18:40 ATLAS results on Higgs decays to bbbar and mumu

Speaker: Aidan Robson (University of Glasgow (GB))

aspen18_Hbb_Hmm_robson.pdf

19:05 CMS results on Higgs decays to bbbar and mumu

Speaker: Ye Chen (IHEP)

cms_higgs_20180330.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 No host dinner

Saturday, 31 March

07:55 → 11:00 Morning Session

08:00 Indirect Detection Constraints on DM EFT Model Space (and Maybe Something about Simplified Models)

Speaker: Jessica Goodman (The Ohio State University)

dmtriangles_waspen2018.pdf

08:25 Light dark matter signatures in the NOvA near detector

Speaker: claudia frugiuele (Carleton University)

AspenFrugiuele.pdf

08:50 Summary of the latest neutrino oscillation results from the NOvA experiment

Speaker: Michael Baird

nova_A17_summary_Aspen_2018-03-31.pdf

09:15 Coffee Break

09:45 Theory Summary

Speaker: Liantao Wang (University of Chicago (US))

Aspen2018.pdf

10:20 Experimental Summary

Speaker: Ayana Tamu Arce (Duke University (US))