Heavy Quarks through the Looking Glass

4 Oct 2018, 09:30 → 5 Oct 2018, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

D-114 (University of Siegen, ENC)

Alexander Khodjamirian (University of Siegen), Arzu Ergüzel (Universität Siegen), Keri Vos (Siegen University), Thorsten Feldmann (University Siegen)

Scientific workshop on the physics of Heavy Quarks on the occasion of Thomas Mannel's 60th birthday

HeavyQuarksPoster.pdf

Thursday, 4 October

09:30 → 10:40 Coffee/Tea and Registration

10:40 → 10:50 Welcome

10:40 Heavy Quarks through the Looking Glass - General Information

Speakers: Keri Vos (Siegen University), Thorsten Feldmann (University Siegen)

introduction.pdf

10:50 → 13:00 Part I

10:50 The 1/mQ Expansion in QCD: Introduction and Overview

Speaker: Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)

Lenz.pdf

11:20 Effective field theories to all orders

Speaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

EFT_All_Orders_October_3_2018.pdf

11:50 The (endless) chase for Vcb

Speaker: paolo gambino (università di torino)

Thomasfest.pdf

12:20 Beauty is back: Belle II status and how we (hopefully) will find new physics

Speaker: Florian Bernlochner (KIT Karlsruhe)

BeautyisBack.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:20 Part II

14:00 Flavour anomalies

Speaker: S Fajfer (Univ. of Ljubljana and Inst. J. Stefan)

Fajfer-Siegen-2018.pdf

14:35 Ɛ'/ Ɛ : 2018

Speaker: Andrzej Buras (Munich)

Siegen1018.pdf

15:10 SIMBA

Speaker: Frank Tackmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

2018-10-04_SIMBA.pdf

15:45 Parton distribution functions at very high energies

Speaker: Christian Bauer (University of California Berkeley (US))

Large EW Logs.pdf

16:20 → 17:00 Coffee/Tea

17:00 → 18:15 Festive Colloquim

17:00 Festive Colloquim Introduction

17:15 The Neutron Decay Anomaly: how it may be a window to new physics

In this talk I will first review a long-standing discrepancy between the neutron lifetime as measured in beam and in bottle experiments. If this discrepancy is not due to a systematic error, it may be due to novel mechanisms for neutron transmutation into new, as yet unknown elementary particles. These particles would be electrically neutral, or so-called "dark". We will explain several scenarios for the possibility of neutron transmutation into dark particles. For example, in one interesting scenario the products of the neutron transmutation include a monochromatic photon with energy in the range 0.782 MeV -- 1.664 MeV and this is predicted to occur in 1% of all neutron decays. We will also describe ongoing experiments looking directly to establish or rule out the "dark decay" hypothesis.

Speaker: Benjamin Grinstein (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

The conference dinner takes place at Brasserie, Untere Schloss 1 in Siegen. We welcome you from 19.00 with a toast.

Friday, 5 October

09:00 → 10:30 Part III

09:00 Tau polarimetry in B decays

Speaker: Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University)

siegen-051018-westhoff.pdf

09:30 Operator product expansions in the gradient-flow formalism

Speaker: Robert Harlander (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

MannelFest-2018.pdf

10:00 CP violation in Charm

Speaker: Ulrich Nierste (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

nierste_siegen18.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Part IV

11:00 LHCb: Precision beauty physics and the emergence of flavour anomalies

Speaker: Johannes Albrecht (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

albrecht.pdf

11:30 The Pursuit of Beautyness

Speaker: Javier Virto (Massachussets Institute of Technology)

12:00 News on $B \to X_s \gamma$ and $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$

Speaker: Mikolaj Misiak (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

12:30 Flavour gives variety to life

Speaker: Claus Grupen (Siegen University)

thomasfestgru.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Part V

14:00 From low to high energies (or: from Bonn to Siegen) -- the pion transition form factor and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker: Bastian Kubis (Bonn University)

14:30 New Physics in semileptonic $b\to c$ transitions

Speaker: Martin Jung (TUM IAS / Excellence Cluster Universe)

NPinbclnu.pdf

15:00 Flavor Violation in quarks and leptons

Speaker: Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University)

Petrov_Siegen2018.pdf

15:30 Closing Remarks