Name: Kruger 2010: Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC
Start: 2010-12-05T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-12-10T19:10:00+02:00
Location: Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

Kruger 2010: Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC

from Sunday 5 December 2010 (16:00) to Friday 10 December 2010 (19:10)

Monday 29 November 2010
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Thursday 2 December 2010
Friday 3 December 2010
Saturday 4 December 2010
Sunday 5 December 2010

16:00 Registration of Participants
Registration of Participants
16:00 - 17:00
17:00 Welcome Address - Zeblon VILAKAZI (iThemba LABS)
Welcome Address
- Zeblon VILAKAZI (iThemba LABS)
17:00 - 17:25
Room: Hubya
17:25 Overview of Physics in South Africa - Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)
Overview of Physics in South Africa
- Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)
17:25 - 17:55
Room: Hubya
17:55 Experimental particle physics in the LHC area and possible implications for development in Africa - Ketevi ASSAMAGAN
Experimental particle physics in the LHC area and possible implications for development in Africa
- Ketevi ASSAMAGAN
17:55 - 18:45
Room: Hubya

Monday 6 December 2010
08:10 LHC Status, Performance and Plans - Lyn Evans (CERN)
LHC Status, Performance and Plans
- Lyn Evans (CERN)
08:10 - 09:00
Room: Hubya
09:00 LHC Physics Overview - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)
LHC Physics Overview
- Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Hubya
09:50 Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the LHC - Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton, IAS)
Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the LHC
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton, IAS)
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Hubya
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 10:55
10:55 Overview of the ALICE results - Paul Kuijer (NIKHEF)
Overview of the ALICE results
- Paul Kuijer (NIKHEF)
10:55 - 11:45
Room: Hubya
11:45 ATLAS Overview - Daniel Dobos (Fachbereich Physik)
ATLAS Overview
- Daniel Dobos (Fachbereich Physik)
11:45 - 12:35
Room: Hubya
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Detector I
Detector I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Hubya
Contributions

14:00 The ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter EMCAL: its Status and its Physics Capabilities - Alessandra Fantoni (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)-Istituto Nazionale Fisica)

14:30 Performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker - Salvador Marti i Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV-CSIC))
QCD I
QCD I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Ghama
Contributions

14:00 Measurement of Transverse Momentum Spectra of identified Hadrons from pp Collisions with the ALICE Experiment - Alexander Philipp Kalweit (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

14:30 Quarkonium and Heavy Flavour Physics with ALICE at the LHC - Martino Gagliardi (Universita degli Studi di Torino)
Standard Model I
Standard Model I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

14:00 Production of W, Z in ATLAS - Zofia Czyczula (Yale University)

14:30 Top Quark Studies in ATLAS - Aras Papadelis (Stockholm University)
Student Tutorials I
Student Tutorials I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

14:00 From Operators and Lorentz Invariance to Quantum Fields and Gauge Symmetry - Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)
15:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Detector I
Detector I
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Hubya
Contributions

15:30 Performance of the ATLAS Calorimeters - Claudio Santoni (Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand II)

16:00 Performance of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Marcello Bindi (Universita & INFN, Bologna)

16:30 Setting of the ATLAS Jet Energy Scale - Michele Petteni (Simon Fraser University)

17:00 Room available for open discussion
QCD I
QCD I
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Ghama
Contributions

15:30 Particle Production Studies at LHCb - Andrea Contu (CERN)

16:00 Inclusive production of jets and dijets at LHCb - Giulio Auriemma (Universita di Roma I "La Sapienza")

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Standard Model I
Standard Model I
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

15:30 Hard QCD Measurements in ATLAS - Rainer Stamen (Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik/Heidelberg)

16:00 Soft QCD Measurements in ATLAS - Paul James Laycock (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Theory I
Theory I
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

15:30 QFT Discussion - Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:00 Standard Model Discussion - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Tuesday 7 December 2010
09:00 Latest results from the CMS Experiment - Ivan Kresimir Furic (Department of Physics - University of Florida)
Latest results from the CMS Experiment
- Ivan Kresimir Furic (Department of Physics - University of Florida)
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Hubya
09:50 LHCb Status, First Physics and Discovery Potential - Olaf Steinkamp (Physik-Institut-Universitaet Zuerich-Unknown)
LHCb Status, First Physics and Discovery Potential
- Olaf Steinkamp (Physik-Institut-Universitaet Zuerich-Unknown)
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Hubya
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 10:55
10:55 SUSY Predictions for the LHC - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN)
SUSY Predictions for the LHC
- Sven Heinemeyer (CERN)
10:55 - 11:45
Room: Hubya
11:45 Phenomenology in the LHC Era - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
Phenomenology in the LHC Era
- Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)
11:45 - 12:35
Room: Hubya
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 B-physics I
B-physics I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Ghama
Contributions

14:00 Heavy Flavour Production in ATLAS - Francesco Conventi (Univ. + INFN)

14:30 Study of hadronic b-decays at LHCb - Aurelien Martens (Lab. de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (IN2P3) (LAL)-Universite de Pari)
Detector II
Detector II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

14:00 Operation, Calibration and Performance of the CMS Silicon Tracker - Ettore Focardi (University/INFN Florence)

14:30 Operation and Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Martina Malberti (Univ. Milano Bicocca & INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca)
Exotics and BSM Physics I
Exotics and BSM Physics I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Hubya
Contributions

14:00 Searches for new physics with jets at ATLAS - Lorraine Courneyea (University of Victoria)

14:30 CMS searches for new physics - Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (CIE)
Student Tutorials II
Student Tutorials II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

14:00 General Relativity Primer for Graduate Students - Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand)
15:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 B-physics I
B-physics I
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Ghama
Contributions

15:30 Prompt Jpsi and b->Jpsi X production in pp collisions - Patrick Robbe

16:00 Prospects of CPV in Bs->JpsiPhi with first LHCb data - Basem Khanji (CPPM-Marseille)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Detector II
Detector II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

15:30 Operation and Performance of the LHCb Experiment - Federico Alessio (CERN)

16:00 Performance of Track and Vertex Reconstruction and B-tagging Studies with CMS in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7TeV - Alexander Schmidt (Universität Zürich)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Exotics and BSM Physics I
Exotics and BSM Physics I
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Hubya
Contributions

15:30 Searches for new physics in Heavy Flavour Rare b decays at LHCb - Antonio Pellegrino (NIKHEF)

16:00 Searches for new physics with leptons in ATLAS - Xin Chen (University of Wisconsin)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Student Tutorials II
Student Tutorials II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

15:30 General Relativity Discussion - Kevin Goldstein (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:00 Correlators of Operators With Large R-Charge in the ABJM Theory - Tanay Dey (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Wednesday 8 December 2010
09:50 Search for New Physics Beyond SM at the Tevatron - Jianrong Deng
Search for New Physics Beyond SM at the Tevatron
- Jianrong Deng
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Hubya
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 10:55
10:55 Challenging the Standard Model at the Tevatron Collider - Frank Filthaut (Radboud University Nijmegen / Nikhef)
Challenging the Standard Model at the Tevatron Collider
- Frank Filthaut (Radboud University Nijmegen / Nikhef)
10:55 - 11:45
Room: Hubya
11:45 Antimatter Production in p-p and Heavy Ion Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies - Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics-University of Cape Town)
Antimatter Production in p-p and Heavy Ion Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies
- Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics-University of Cape Town)
11:45 - 12:35
Room: Hubya
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 B-physics II
B-physics II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Ghama
Contributions

14:00 B->X_s/d gamma and B->X_s/d l+l- - Martino Margoni (Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei)

14:30 Leptonic decays - Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia)
Exotics and BSM Physics II
Exotics and BSM Physics II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Hubya
Contributions

14:00 Early Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS - Xuai Zhuang (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)

14:30 Searches for Stopped Gluinos during Beam-off Periods at CMS - Amita Raval (Penn State University)
Standard Model II
Standard Model II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

14:00 CMS Results in Electroweak Physics - Ilaria Segoni (CERN)

14:30 W and Z Production in the forward region at LHCb - David Hutchcroft (University of Liverpool)
Theory II
Theory II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

14:00 Stau relic density at the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis era consistent with the abundance of light element nuclei in the co-annihilation scenario - Joe Sato

14:30 The properties of CKM Evolution in the UED Model - Lu-Xin Liu (University of the Witwatersrand)
15:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 B-physics II
B-physics II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Ghama
Contributions

15:30 Direct searches for light new physics with BaBar - Neus Lopez-March

16:00 B-physics Discussion - All
Exotics and BMS Physics II
Exotics and BMS Physics II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Hubya
Contributions

15:30 Higgs sensitivity in ATLAS - Jana Novakova

16:00 Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in CMS - Norbert Neumeister (Purdue University)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Standard Model II
Standard Model II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

15:30 SM Discussion - All
Theory II
Theory II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

15:30 SUSY Discussion - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN)

16:00 Phenomenology discussion - Tao Han (University of Wisconsin)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
Thursday 9 December 2010
09:50 New Physics Constraints from B Factories - Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia)
New Physics Constraints from B Factories
- Thomas Mattison (University of British Columbia)
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Hubya
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 10:55
10:55 LHC physics beyond the Standard Model - Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL))
LHC physics beyond the Standard Model
- Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL))
10:55 - 11:45
Room: Hubya
11:45 Neutrinos: from Pauli to the LHC - Heather Ray (University of Florida)
Neutrinos: from Pauli to the LHC
- Heather Ray (University of Florida)
11:45 - 12:35
Room: Hubya
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Exotics and BSM Physics III
Exotics and BSM Physics III
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Hubya
Contributions

14:00 Search for Pair Production of Leptoquarks in the CMS Experiment - Paolo Rumerio (University of Maryland)

14:30 Search for New Physics in the Dijet Mass Spectrum in CMS - Lorenzo Agostino (Cornell University)
QCD II
QCD II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Ghama
Contributions

14:00 Results and Prospects for charm physics at LHCb - Philip John Hunt (Particle Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown)

14:30 Suppression of Charged Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central Pb–Pb Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV - Jochen Thaeder (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS))
Student Discussion
Student Discussion
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

14:00 Discussion I - All
Theory III
Theory III
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

14:00 Supergroups and generally extended supersymmetry - Peter Roenne (University of the Witwatersrand)

14:30 Semiclassical strings in toric AdS/CFT and its marginal deformations - Dimitrios Giataganas (University of the Witwatersrand)
15:00 Tea Break
Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Exotics and BSM Physics III
Exotics and BSM Physics III
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Hubya
Contributions

15:30 Search for New Physics in the Dijet Centrality Ratio in CMS - Amita Raval (DESY)

16:00 Two early Exotic searches with dijet events at ATLAS - Reyhaneh Rezvani (Department of Physics-University of Toronto)

16:30 Room available for open discussion
QCD II
QCD II
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Ghama
Contributions

15:30 QCD Discussion - All
Student Discussion
Student Discussion
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla II
Contributions

15:30 Discussion II - All
Theory III
Theory III
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Bandla I
Contributions

15:30 Qualitative and Quantitative Jet Physics in Pb + Pb at LHC - Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)

16:00 Discussion session I - Aldo Deandrea (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL)) Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics)

17:00 Room available for open discussion
18:00 Gala Dinner
Gala Dinner
18:00 - 22:00
Friday 10 December 2010
10:25 The physics case for the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) - Bruce Mellado Garcia (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)
The physics case for the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC)
- Bruce Mellado Garcia (High Energy Physics-Department of Physics-University of Wisconsi)
10:25 - 11:15
Room: Hubya
11:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 Overview of CLIC - Anne Dabrowski (CERN)
Overview of CLIC
- Anne Dabrowski (CERN)
11:30 - 12:20
Room: Hubya
12:20 Goodbye
Goodbye
12:20 - 12:35
Room: Hubya

12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 14:00

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