46th SLAC Summer Institute

30 Jul 2018, 01:00 → 10 Aug 2018, 21:45 US/Pacific

Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Thomas Rizzo (SLAC), Dong Su (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Mark Convery (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Lisa Kaufman, Grzegorz Madejski (SLAC), Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US)), Charlie Young (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

The SLAC Summer Institute (SSI) is an annual event held at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the summer. The Institute is a two-week-long Summer School. Lectures are given Monday through Friday each morning. The afternoons contain a mixture of special lectures, topical conference talks, discussion sessions, student projects and tours. In the evenings, there are social activities and student poster sessions. The attendance is typically a mixture from graduate students to postdocs, as well as senior researchers.

The 2018 SLAC Summer Institute celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Standard Model with a broad overview of the multiple successes and the various challenges that the SM still faces. In addition to a survey of the historical development of the different components of the SM, the contemporary theoretical and experimental framework of the SM will be reviewed with prospects of new horizon beyond it.

All lectures and Topical Conference sessions will be held in the Kavli Auditorium. For other locations of events, please check the Indico Time Table room assignment.  

SSI-2018 Home Page

SSI_2018_poster_small.jpg

Monday 30 July

08:30 → 09:00 Registration and Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

SSI18-Welcome.pdf

09:05 Origin of the Standard Model

Speaker: Steven Weinberg (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Video

10:05 Morning Break

10:30 Precision Electroweak Theory

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

freitas_ssi18.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 SM Probes in Atoms, Molecules and Nuclei (I)

Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SSI-cirigliano-1.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

On your own

14:00 → 17:20 Lectures: Speicial History Session

14:00 Evolution of Electroweak Theory

Speaker: William Marciano (BNL)

03_SLAC2 ppt.pdf3.pdf

15:00 Evolution of Accelrators & Technology

Speaker: Lyn Evans (Imperial College (GB))

Lyn_Evans_SLAC2018.pdf

Lyn_Evans_SLAC2018.ppt

16:00 Afternoon Break

16:20 Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Early SLAC

Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)

DIS.pptx

18:00 → 19:00 Reception

Tuesday 31 July

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 SM Probes in Atoms, Molecules and Nuclei (II)

Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SSI-cirigliano-2.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Precision Electroweak Measurements at Colliders

Speaker: Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US))

SSI18-EWKTopPhysics-Colliders-Erbacher.key.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Low Energy Probes of the SM (I)

Speaker: Krishna Kumar (Stony Brook Univ.)

kumar_lowenergybsmprobes_nobackup_final.pdf

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A Session

15:45 → 16:05 Afternoon Break

16:05 → 17:30 Projects: Kick off team assignments

List of projects

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday 1 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 The Development of QCD

Speaker: George Sterman (Stony Brook University)

sterman-QCD_SLAC-SI.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Precision QCD and the SM (I)

Speaker: Fabrizio Caola (Durham University)

caola_qcdSMI.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Low Energy Probes of the SM (II)

Speaker: Brendan Kiburg (Fermilab)

SLAC_SSI2018_Kiburg.pdf

SLAC_SSI2018_Kiburg.pdf

SLAC_SSI2018_Kiburg.pptx

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:35 Lectures: Special History Session

14:00 Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Peter Jenni (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

P.Jenni.SSI2018.1Aug2018.pdf

P.Jenni.SSI2018.1Aug2018.ppt

15:00 Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Flavor Physics

Speaker: David Hitlin (Caltech)

Critical_Experiments_Flavor_Hitlin.pdf

Critical_Experiments_Flavor_Hitlin.pptx

16:00 Afternoon Break

16:20 Critical Experiments Establishing the SM: Neutrinos

Speaker: Edward Kearns (Boston University)

Kearns-Neutrino-Experiments-Standard-Model.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Poster Social

Thursday 2 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 QCD at the LHC (I)

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

qcdlhc-L1.pdf

qcdlhc-L1.pptx

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Precision QCD in the SM (II)

Speaker: Fabrizio Caola (CERN)

caola_qcdSMIIb.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Astro/Cosmo Window on the SM (I)

Speaker: scott dodelson (Carnegie Mellon University)

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sd_Answers.pdf

sd_Answers.pptx

ssi18.pdf

ssi18.pptx

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Klystron Gallery Tour

Gather at Kavli Patio to walk to Klystron Gallery

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A Session

15:45 → 16:05 Afternoon Break

16:05 → 17:05 Projects

List of projects

16:30 → 17:00 Kavli Visualization Lab Tour

Friday 3 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 QCD at the LHC (II)

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

qcdlhc-L2.pdf

qcdlhc-L2.pptx

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 QCD on the Lattice

Speaker: Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)

ask4ssi.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Astro/Cosmo Window on the SM (II)

Speaker: Keith Alison Olive (Univ. of Minnesota)

olivessi18.pdf

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Topical Conference

14:45 CMB and Constraints on Particle Physics

Speaker: Zeeshan Ahmed (Stanford University)

20180803SSIAhmed_lowres.pdf

15:15 New Results from Ice Cube

Speaker: Sally Robertson (LBNL)

SLAC_2018.pdf

15:45 → 16:05 Afternoon Break

16:05 → 17:00 Projects

List of projects

Monday 6 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Higgs History

Speaker: Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz)

HiggsHistory.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 The Higgs in the SM

Speaker: Sara Lynn Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

dawson_ssi_2018.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Properties of the Higgs at the LHC

Speaker: John Conway (University of California Davis (US))

Conway-SSI18.pdf

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 17:50 Topical Conference

14:45 New Higgs Results from LHC

Speaker: Caterina Vernieri (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

cv-higgs-lhc-ssi2018.pdf

15:15 New Physics Searches at LHC

Speaker: Masahiro Morii (Harvard University (US))

SSI 2018 Morii.key

SSI 2018 Morii.pdf

15:45 Afternoon Break

16:05 New Results from MiniBooNE

Speaker: Alejandro Diaz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

SSI-MiniBooNE.pdf

16:35 Gravitational Waves and Multi-messenger Astronomy

Speaker: Jessica McIver (Caltech; LIGO Lab)

McIver_GWsMMA_SSI18.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 7 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 Physics of Neutrinos (I)

Speaker: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

SSI_2018.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 Physics of Neutrinos (II)

Speaker: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

11:30 Break

11:45 Neutrinos: What Will We Learn in the next Decade ?

Speaker: Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester (GB))

SLAC_SSI_Soldner_2018.pdf

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Klystron Gallery Tour

Meet at Kavli Patio to walk to Klystron Gallery

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A Session

15:45 → 16:05 Afternoon Break

16:05 → 17:35 Projects

List of projects

16:30 → 17:00 Kavli Visualization Lab Tour

Wednesday 8 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 The Mysteries of Flavor (I)

Speaker: Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)

Flavor_Lecture_SLAC_print.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 The Mysteries of Flavor (II)

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

fwilson_SSI_v3.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Why More Baryons than Anti-baryons ?

Speaker: Ann Nelson (University of Washington)

SSI2018Nelson_Baryo.pdf

12:45 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 15:45 Q & A Session

15:45 → 16:05 Afternoon Break

16:05 → 16:35 Topical Conference

16:05 New Results from Belle-II

Speaker: Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)

18-08-SSI.pdf

16:35 → 17:00 Projects

List of projects

17:00 → 17:45 IR2 Tour: LZ test platform and LSST construction clean room

17:45 → 19:15 SSI vs SLAC soccer game

Thursday 9 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 12:45 Lectures

09:00 What/Where is Dark Matter (I) ?

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (MIT)

DarkMatterTheoryOverview_Slatyer

DarkMatterTheoryOverview_Slatyer.key

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 What/Where is Dark Matter (II) ?

Speaker: Tom Shutt (SLAC)

SSIShuttDM.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 The Hierarchy & Fine-Tuning Problems

Speaker: Ann Nelson (University of Washington)

SSIHierarchy2018_Nelson.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:20 Projects: Presentations

List of projects

14:00 Gravitational Radiation from pp Collider

Speakers: Team 4, Giulia Gonella (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

SSI2018-Gravitational_waves_from_pp_collisions.pdf

14:25 Family of Dark Matter Particles

Speakers: Team 5, Jad Zahreddine (LPNHE)

Family_of_Dark_Matter_Particles.pdf

14:50 Synchrotron Loss due to Dark Photon

Speakers: Team 6, Julien-Christopher Beyer (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

Project6_DarkPhoton_SSI2018.pdf

15:15 Supernovae Neutrino Detection

Speakers: Team 7, Matthew Glenn Kurth (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

Supernovae Neutrino Detection.pdf

15:40 Afternoon Break

16:10 What can CMB tell us about Dark Matter ?

Speakers: Team 13, Saurabh Bansal (University of Notre Dame)

Team13_SSI.pdf

Team13_SSI.pdf

16:35 Tau g-2

Speakers: Team 15, Luis Zazueta

g-2-measurement.pdf

17:00 Precision Timing and Long-lived Particles

Speakers: Team 18, Sanha Cheong (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Precision Timing and LLP.pdf

Precision Timing and LLP.pptx

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday 10 August

08:30 → 09:00 Light Refreshments

09:00 → 13:00 Lectures

09:00 Is There a No-lose Theorem for Future Colliders ?

Speaker: LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)

SSI_2018.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

10:30 What Future Higgs Measurements Will Tell Us ?

Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC)

HiggsatSSI2018.pdf

11:30 Break

11:45 Project and Contest Awards

Speaker: Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

SSI18-Contest.pdf

SSI18-Contest.pptx

12:00 View Ahead

Speaker: Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US))

2018-08-10 SLAC SI YKK.pdf

2018-08-10 SLAC SI YKK.pptx