Aspen Particle Physics 2010

17 Jan 2010, 16:00 → 23 Jan 2010, 12:00 US/Mountain

Aspen Center for Physics (Aspen Center for Physics)

Graham Kribs (University of Oregon), John Conway (University of California, Davis), Robin Erbacher (University of California, Davis), Timothy Tait (University of California, Irvine)

Aspen Particle Physics 2010 January 18-23, 2010

Sunday 17 January

Arrival and Registration

Welcome Reception

Monday 18 January

First Results from the LHC

1 Introduction: The Revolution is here, where the heck have YOU been?

Speaker: Neal Weiner (NYU)

Slides Weiner.pdf

2 The LHC Machine

Speaker: Dr Eric Prebys (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides

• aspen_prebys_10100118.pdf
• aspen_prebys_10100118.ppt
• aspen_prebys_10100118.pptx

09:15 break

3 First Results and Performance of ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Guillaume Unal (CERN)

Slides aspen-atlas-unal-18jan10.pdf

4 First Results and Performance of CMS

Speaker: Dr Christos Leonidopoulos (CERN)

Slides CMS-Leonidpoulos.pdf

Lunch/Skiing

Electroweak, QCD, and Higgs Physics

5 Prospects for QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Nikos Varelas (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides QCD-Varelas.pdf

6 QCD Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Kenichi Hatakeyama (Rockefeller University)

Slides Aspen2010_hatakeyama.pdf Aspen2010_hatakeyama.pptx

7 Higgs at the LHC - Evolution vs Revolution

Speaker: Prof. Tilman Plehn (University of Heidelberg)

Slides Plehn.pdf.pdf

17:30 break

8 Electroweak Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Junjie Zhu (SUNY Stony Brook)

Slides aspen_2010_Zhu.pdf

9 Prospects for Electroweak Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Massimiliano Bellomo (INFN Pavia)

Slides EWPhysicsAtLHC.pdf

10 Uplifted Supersymmetry

Speaker: Dr Patrick Fox (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides uplifted2.pdf

11 New NLO Gluon Distributions for the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Marty Block (Northwestern University)

Slides Block.pdf Block.ppt

Dinner

Tuesday 19 January

Top Quark Physics

12 Top Theory

Speaker: Jessie Shelton (Yale)

Slides 100119-AspenA.pdf

13 Top Properties

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Heinz (Brown University)

Slides Heintz.pdf

14 Top Mass

Speaker: Dr Lina Galtieri (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides Galtieri.pdf

09:10 break

15 Top Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Campagnari (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Slides Campagnari.pdf

16 New Physics In Top at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Ivanov (Kansas State University)

Slides Ivanov.pdf

Hadron Collider B Physics

17 B Physics Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool)

Slides aspen_sb20100119b.pdf aspen_sb20100119b.ppt

18 B Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Dr Chris Jones (Cambridge University)

Slides LHCb-Aspen2010.pdf LHCb-Aspen2010.pptx

lunch/skiing

The Higgs Boson

19 Search for the Low Mass Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Bo Jayatilaka (Duke University)

Slides http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/~boj/aspen-jayatilaka.pdf

20 Search for the High Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Marc Buehler (Univ. of Virginia)

Slides Buehler.pdf

21 Searches for Non-SM Higgs Bosons

Speaker: Dr Andy Haas (SLAC)

Slides Haas.pdf

17:30 break

22 Search for the Low Mass Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides Mellado.pdf

23 Search for the Low Mass Higgs Boson in CMS

Speaker: Alexei Safonov (Texas A&M University)

Slides Aspen_2010_safonov.pdf

24 Search for the High Mass Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Chris Potter (McGill University)

Slides aspen_19Jan10.pdf

25 Search for the High Mass Higgs Boson in CMS

Speaker: Dr Alexey Drozdetskiy (University of Florida)

Slides ASPEN2010.AlexeyDrozdetskiy.Higgs.3.pdf

Dinner

Wednesday 20 January

Beyond the Standard Model

26 Casting a Wide Net for New Physics with jets+MET Searches at LHC

Speaker: Jacob Wacker (SLAC)

Slides Wacker.pdf

27 Searches for New Physics in CDF

Speaker: Dr Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool)

Slides Donofrio.pdf

28 Supermodels at the LHC

Speaker: Martin Schmaltz (Boston U)

Slides Schmaltz_Aspen_W2010.pdf

29 Searches for New Physics at D0

Speaker: Prof. Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers University)

Slides d0-np.pdf

09:20 break

30 Boosting BSM Higgs discovery with jet substructure

Speaker: Adam Martin (Fermilab)

Slides boosted_amartin.pdf

31 Searches for New Physics in CMS

Speaker: Prof. Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

Slides Landsberg.pdf

32 The LHC Phenomenology of Vectorlike Confinement

Speaker: Takemichi Okui (Florida State)

Slides Okui.pdf

33 Searches for New Physics in ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia University)

Slides talk.pdf

Lunch/Skiing

Public Lecture

Thursday 21 January

Dark Matter

34 Dark Matter from the Baryon Asymmetry

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

35 New Results from CDMS II

Speaker: Dr Nader Mirabolfathi (University of California, Berkeley)

Slides Mirabolfathi.pdf

36 Large Scale Searches for Relic Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Mani Tripathi (University of California, Davis)

Slides Tripathi.pdf

37 Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi Space Telescope

Speaker: Yvonne Edmonds (Stanford University)

Slides Edmonds.pdf Edmonds.ppt

09:20 break

38 Dark Matter searches with Dwarf Galaxies

Speaker: Dr Rouven Essig (Stanford University)

Slides Essig.pdf

39 New Results from PAMELA

Speaker: Dr Marco Casolino (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Rome)

Slides pamela_aspen_jan2010_.pdf

40 High-Intensity Accelerator Probes of Dark Matter

Speaker: Philip Schuster (SLAC)

Slides Schuster.pdf

41 Dark Matter Searches with Antideuterons

Speaker: Prof. Lisa Randall (Harvard University)

Slides Randall.pdf Randall.pptx

Lunch/Skiing

Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy and Dark Matter

42 Recent Developments String Phenomenology

Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides Cvetic.pdf

43 New Physics Spectroscopy with Dark Matter

Speaker: Gabe Shaughnessy (ANL / Northwestern)

Slides gshaughnessy-aspen-winter2010.pdf

44 LSST

Speaker: Dr Ryan Scranton (University of California, Davis)

Slides Scranton.pdf

17:30 break

45 Dark Energy Survey

Speaker: Prof. Josh Frieman (University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides Frieman.pdf

46 WMAP and Planck

Speaker: Prof. Lloyd Knox (University of California, Davis)

Slides Knox.pdf

47 Astrophysical Constraints on Interacting Dark Matter

Speaker: Matt Buckley (Caltech)

Slides Buckley.pdf.pdf

Conference Banquet

Friday 22 January

Flavor Physics

48 Theory of Flavor Physics

Speaker: Dr Gudrun Hiller (Technical University Dortmund)

Slides Hiller.pdf

49 Results from Belle

Speaker: Prof. Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnatti)

Slides Schwartz.pdf

50 Results from BaBar

Speaker: Dr David Lopes Pegna (Princeton University)

Slides BaBar_Aspen3.pdf

51 Results from CLEO/c

Speaker: Prof. Phil Rubin (George Mason Univ.)

Slides Rubin.pdf

52 Future B Factories

Speaker: Prof. David Hitlin (California Institute of Technology)

Slides Hitlin.pdf Hitlin.pptx

09:40 break

Neutrinos I

53 Neutrino Signals for Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Ina Sarcevic (University of Arizona)

Slides Sarcevic.pdf

54 MiniBooNE

Speaker: Dr William Louis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Louis.pdf

55 Measuring Theta_13

Speaker: Prof. Jim Napolitano (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut)

Slides NapolitanoTheta13FullSlides.pdf NapolitanoTheta13Overlays.pdf

Lunch/Skiing

Neutrinos II

56 MINOS and NOvA

Speaker: Dr Robert Zwaska (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides zwaska_minosnova.pdf

57 Project X: Accelerator and Experiments

Speaker: Dr Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides ProjX_aspen.pdf

58 LBNE - Long Baseline Neutrinos at DUSEL

Speaker: Dr Christopher Mauger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides MaugerAspenLBNE.pdf

17:30 break

59 NEMO-3/SuperNEMO

Speaker: Prof. Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides NEMO-Aspen-Jan-2010.pdf

60 IceCube

Speaker: Dr Patrick Toale (Penn State University)

Slides Toale.pdf

61 ANITA

Speaker: Prof. David Saltzberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

Slides Saltzberg.pdf

Is the Revolution Here?

62 Is the Revolution Here?

Speaker: Prof. Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Wagner.pdf

Dinner