Name: Phenomenology 2009 Symposium - PHENO 09
Start: 2009-05-11T07:00:00-05:00
End: 2009-05-13T14:00:00-05:00
Location: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Monday, May 11, 2009

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 8:25 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
8:25 AM
8:25 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
Contributions

8:25 AM Welcome - Vernon Barger (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

8:30 AM Standard Model physics at the Tevatron - Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

9:05 AM New physics searches at the Tevatron - Yurii Maravin (Kansas State University)

9:40 AM Measurements of the proton structure at HERA: Impact for LHC physics - Amita Raval (Penn State University)

10:00 AM New physics searches at B-factories - Elisa Manoni (Università di Perugia)
10:20 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
Contributions

10:45 AM Recent developments in flavor physics - Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)

11:20 AM Neutrino Phenomenology - Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

11:55 AM Signature-based searches at colliders - Henry Frisch (University of Chicago)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 213
Contributions

2:00 PM Mass determination at LHC - Partha Konar (University of Florida)

2:15 PM Generalized MT2 for mass determinations in decay chains with missing PT at LHC - Myeonghun Park (University of Florida)

2:30 PM Randall-Sundrum graviton spin determination using azimuthal angular dependence - Vikram Rentala (University of California, Berkeley)

2:45 PM Azimuthal angular spin determination: Towards the LHC - William Klemm (University of California, Berkeley)

3:00 PM Matrix element analysis for hadron collider data - Igor Volobouev (Texas Tech University)

3:15 PM Jets with variable R - David Krohn (Princeton University)

3:30 PM A study of low pT Z->mumu and Z->ee events using a novel technique - Mika Vesterinen (University of Manchester)

3:45 PM Simulation of spin effects in SUSY decay chains with Pandora - Michael Davenport (SLAC)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 326
Contributions

2:00 PM Can the Higgs boson be the inflaton? - Michael Trott (Perimeter Institute)

2:15 PM Minimal simple de Sitter solutions - Bret Underwood (McGill University)

2:30 PM Implications of SUSY Phenomenology for Baryogenesis - Björn Garbrecht (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

2:45 PM Electroweak baryogenesis in the mu-from-nu SSM - Andrew Long (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

3:00 PM New ways to leptogenesis with gauged B-L symmetry - Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)

3:15 PM On gaugino contributions to soft leptogenesis - Chee Sheng Fong (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)

3:30 PM The WMAP haze from pulsars - Kathryn Zurek (Fermilab)

3:45 PM Quintessence and gravitational wave from phase transition - Peng Zhou (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 325
Contributions

2:00 PM Radion flavor in warped extra dimensions - Manuel Toharia (University of Maryland)

2:15 PM Higgs flavor violation in warped extra dimensions - Lijun Zhu (University of Maryland)

2:30 PM Flavor violation test of warped Standard Model - Aleksandr Azatov (University of Maryland)

2:45 PM Phenomenology of non-minimal universal extra dimensions - Thomas Flacke (University of Michigan)

3:00 PM Kaluza-Klein masses and couplings: radiative corrections to tree-level relations - Sky Bauman (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

3:15 PM The soft-wall Standard Model - Daniel Sword (University of Minnesota)

3:30 PM Neutrino mass from the soft wall - David Diego (University of Notre Dame)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 313
Contributions

2:00 PM Higgs ID at the LHC - Gabe Shaughnessy (Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)

2:15 PM Leptonic Higgs signatures at the LHC - Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)

2:30 PM Discovering the Higgs with low mass muon pairs - Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)

2:45 PM Neutrino LHC connection: new Higgs signals - Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State University)

3:00 PM Search for SM Higgs boson in the WH channel with ME technique - Bárbara Álvarez González (Universidad de Oviedo)

3:15 PM How well can we measure the Higgs self-coupling in e+e- collisions? - Ulrich Baur (State University of New York at Buffalo)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 121
Contributions

2:00 PM MSSM Higgs bosons at the Tevatron - Patrick Draper (University of Chicago)

2:15 PM MSSM Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion - Heidi Rzehak (Universität Karlsruhe)

2:30 PM Searching for MSSM Higgs with 3 b-quarks - Joshua Sayre (University of Oklahoma)

2:45 PM Higgs boson signatures of MSSM electroweak baryogenesis - Arjun Menon (University of Michigan)

3:00 PM Many light Higgs bosons in the NMSSM - Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)

3:15 PM Reach for NMSSM h->aa->4mu with early LHC data - Alexei Safonov (Texas A&M University)

3:30 PM Multi-parameter approach to R-parity violating SUSY couplings - Enrico Maria Sessolo (University of Kansas)

3:45 PM Single slepton production in R-parity violating SUSY models with a stau LSP - Maike Trenkel (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 109
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 325
Contributions

4:30 PM 4th Generation and B-CP Anomalies - Amarjit Soni (Brookhaven National Lab)

4:45 PM LHC Phenomenology of a Strongly Coupled Fourth Generation - Ricardo D'Elia Matheus (Univ. of Sao Paulo)

5:00 PM Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top - Jessie (Julia) Shelton (Rutgers University)

5:15 PM Family Non-universal U(1)' Gauge Symmetries and b to s Transitions - Tao Liu (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)

5:30 PM Determination of B_s^0 and B_d^0 mixing parameters using lattice QCD. - Elvira Gamiz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

5:45 PM Observation of the bottomonium ground state eta_b(1S) at BaBar - Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology)

6:00 PM New charmonium like states at BaBar - Valentina Santoro (University of Ferrara)

6:15 PM Measurement of Branching Fractions in B to K nu nubar Decays - Carl Vuosalo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 313
Contributions

4:30 PM Inflation and singlet scalar dark matter - Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

4:45 PM Indications of DM by astrophysical e+/- and gamma observations - Yu Gao (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

5:00 PM Cosmic rays and dark matter with sub-GeV hidden U(1) - Jong-Chul Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

5:15 PM Phase-space structure of the Milky Way's dark halo - Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

5:30 PM Changes in dark matter properties after freeze-out - Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)

5:45 PM The thermal abundance of semi-relativistic relics - Mitsuru Kakizaki (LAPTH)

6:00 PM Hidden charged dark matter - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Irvine)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 111
Contributions

4:30 PM Beyond the 3-Site Higgsless Model - Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)

4:45 PM Z to b bbar and Chiral Currents in Higgsless Models - Ken Hsieh (Michigan State University)

5:00 PM Emergent Electroweak symmetry breaking with composite W,Z bosons - Yanou Cui (Harvard University)

5:15 PM A Light Scalar as the Messenger of EWSB - Zeke Murdock (Oklahoma State University)

5:30 PM Electroweak symmetry breaking from layered QCD - Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue University)

5:45 PM A Higher-Derivative Lee-Wick Standard Model - Christopher Carone (College of William and Mary)

6:00 PM The Higgs Sector of the Lee-Wick Extension of the Standard Model - Bryan Field (IPPP, Durham University)

6:15 PM Unparticle decays - Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 213
Contributions

4:30 PM Five loop QED contributions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - Christian Sturm (Brookhaven National Lab)

4:45 PM Dynamics of Charged Hadronic Thresholds - Mihailo Backovic (University of Kansas)

5:00 PM Four-quark operator contribution to neutron electric dipole moment - Haipeng An (University of Maryland)

5:15 PM Process-independent determination of two-loop electroweak logarithms - Bernd Jantzen (RWTH Aachen University)

5:30 PM Electroweak corrections to Higgs production via gluon fusion - Stefano Actis (RWTH Aachen University)

5:45 PM Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering - fix NuTeV anomaly? - Kwangwoo Park (Southern Methodist University)

6:00 PM QCD radiative correction to pair-annihilation of spin-1 bosonic Dark Matter. - Jae Ho Heo (Uni. of IL at Chicago)

6:15 PM Renormalization group improved prediction for Higgs production at hadron colliders - Li Lin Yang (Univ. of Mainz)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 121
Contributions

4:30 PM Collider aspects of supersymmetry with non-universal gaugino masses - Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

4:45 PM Testing gaugino mass hypotheses at the LHC - Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)

5:00 PM Studying Gaugino mass unification at the LHC - Michael Holmes (Northeastern University)

5:15 PM A sneutrino NLSP in the nuCMSSM - Kenji Kadota (University of Michigan)

5:30 PM A heavy Higgs and a light sneutrino NLSP in the MSSM with enhanced D-terms - Anibal Medina (University of California, Davis)

5:45 PM Pure leptonic signatures with a sneutrino NLSP at the LHC - Terrance Figy (IPPP, Durham University)

6:00 PM Supersymmetric baryogenesis and EDMs - Yingchuan Li (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

6:15 PM CP Violation and EDMs from Yukawa coupling in a supersymmetry breaking scenario - Jing Shao (University of Michigan)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 326
Contributions

4:30 PM Search for SM Higgs production in the H->WW->lnujj channel at the Tevatron - Marc Buehler (Fermilab, DZero)

4:45 PM Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production with Like-Sign Leptons at DZero - Maiko Takahashi (University of Manchester)

5:00 PM Search for ZH to ee bb in p pbar Collisions at D0 - Satish Desai (Fermilab, DZero)

5:15 PM Search for ZH to mu mu bb in p pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV - John BackusMayes (University of Washington)

5:30 PM Search for the SM Higgs boson in the ZH to nu nu bb channel at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV - Abhinav Dubey (University of Delhi and Fermilab)

5:45 PM Search for a Light NMSSM Higgs Boson at CDF - Scott Wilbur (University of Chicago)

6:00 PM Photon Results from CDF - Ray Culbertson (Fermilab, CDF)

6:15 PM D0 1fb-1 W Boson Mass Measurement - Jun Guo (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
Contributions

8:30 AM New results from Fermi/GLAST - Simona Murgia (SLAC)

9:05 AM Direct searches of dark matter - Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

9:40 AM Indirect searches of dark matter - Dan Hooper (FNAL / U. Chicago)
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
Contributions

10:45 AM Dark energy: addressing the crisis in fundamental physics - Chris Stubbs (Harvard University)

11:20 AM Effects of SUSY breaking - Patrick Meade (IAS)

11:55 AM SUSY phenomenology - Wolfgang Hollik (MPI-Munich)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 313
Contributions

2:00 PM Probing Dark Forces and Light Hidden Sectors at Low-Energy e+e- Colliders - Rouven Essig (SLAC)

2:15 PM Hidden Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments and LHC - Jennifer Kile (BNL)

2:30 PM Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures - Joshua Ruderman (Princeton University)

2:45 PM WIMPless Dark Matter and Meson Decays with Missing Energy - David McKeen (University of Chicago)

3:00 PM Dark Matter Out of Seclusion - Brian Batell (Perimeter Institute)

3:15 PM Leptonic Higgs as a Messenger of Dark Matter - Hock Seng Goh (UC Berkeley)

3:30 PM U(1)_B-L Provides a Dark Matter Explanation for Pamela - Katherine Richardson-McDaniel (University of New Mexico)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 325
Contributions

2:00 PM A Novel Origin of CP Violation - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)

2:15 PM Yukawa unification in SUSY SU(5) and its experimental implications - Enkhbat Tsedenbaljir (Abdus Salam ICTP)

2:30 PM A5 Family Symmetry and the Golden Ratio Prediction for Solar Neutrino Mixing - Alexander Stuart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2:45 PM Minimal SO(10) x A4 SUSY GUT - Abdelhamid Albaid (Oklahoma State university)

3:00 PM Models for Fermion Mass Hierarchy - Benjamin Grossmann (Oklahoma State University)

3:15 PM Flavour violations in supersymmetric SO(10) unification with type II seesaw - Michele Frigerio (Institut de Physique Theorique)

3:30 PM Lepton number violating non-standard interactions and neutrino oscillations - Julio Julio (Oklahoma State University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 121
Contributions

2:00 PM Color Sextet Scalars at the LHC - Kai Wang (IPMU, University of Tokyo)

2:15 PM Prediction of light diquarks observable at LHC from baryogenesis models - Bhupal Dev (University of Maryland)

2:30 PM QCD Corrections to Scalar Diquark Production at Hadron Colliders - Ian Lewis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2:45 PM Heavy quarks above the top at the Tevatron - Anupama Atre (Fermilab)

3:00 PM Threshold resummation for production of coloured heavy particles at the LHC - Pietro Falgari (IPPP, Durham University)

3:15 PM Electroweak effects in b-jet and di-jet production - Andreas Scharf (SUNY at Buffalo)

3:30 PM Constraining new physics with combined low and high energy observables - James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:45 PM Higgs Production and Decay from TeV Scale Black Holes at the LHC - Arif Erkoca (University of Arizona)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 213
Contributions

2:00 PM Sgluons - Tim Tait (Northwestern University / Argonne National Lab)

2:15 PM Vacuum Stability in No-Scale Supersymmetry or Gaugino Mediation - Jason Evans (University of Michigan)

2:30 PM Anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking demystified - Jae Yong Lee (Korea Institute for Advance Study)

2:45 PM Hypercharged Anomaly Mediation - LHC Signatures - Shivakumar Rajagopalan (University of Oklahoma)

3:00 PM The Upside of SUSY Seesaw in Deflected AMSB - Nicholas Setzer (University of Melbourne)

3:15 PM U(1)_R Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking - Hyun Min Lee (McMaster University)

3:30 PM A Pyramid Scheme for Particle Physics - Jean-Francois Fortin (Rutgers University)

3:45 PM Supersymmetry Without Prejudice - James Gainer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 326
Contributions

2:00 PM First Observation of Single Top Quark Production at DZero - Monica Pangilinan (Brown University)

2:15 PM Top quark mass measurement using mT2 in the dilepton channel at CDF - Hyunsu Lee (University of Chicago)

2:30 PM Forward-Backward Asymmetry in t t-bar Production - Leandro G. Almeida (Stony Brook University)

2:45 PM Top Quark Decays in Standard Model Extensions - Martin Wiebusch (RWTH Aachen University)

3:00 PM Model Independent limits on scalar charged boson in top quark decays - Geumbong Yu (University of Rochester)

3:15 PM Manifestations of Top Compositeness at Colliders - Kunal Kumar (Northwestern University)

3:30 PM Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron - Rakhi Mahbubani (Fermilab)

3:45 PM Measuring Scalar Top Mass through Bound State Decays - James Younkin (Northern Illinois University)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Lee Lounge, Pyle Center 109
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 313
Contributions

4:30 PM Why SUSY GUT theories predict the bulk of cold dark matter is axions - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

4:45 PM Yukawa Unification and Neutralino Dark Matter in Pati-Salam Model - Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)

5:00 PM R-Parity Breaking via Type II Seesaw, Gravitino Dark Matter and Positron Excess - Shaolong Chen (University of Maryland)

5:15 PM Neutrino sector impacts SUSY dark matter - Azar Mustafayev (University of Kansas)

5:30 PM Dark Matter Phenomenology in NUHM Models - Pearl Sandick (UT Austin)

5:45 PM WIMPonium - William Shepherd (Northwestern University)

6:00 PM The WIMP Forest - Chris Jackson (Argonne National Laboratory)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 326
Contributions

4:30 PM Left-right symmetry at the LHC - Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)

4:45 PM Neutralino dark matter in an SO(10) model with two-step intermediate scale symmetry breaking - Eun-Kyung Park (Bonn University)

5:00 PM LHC Phenomenology of supersymmetric multi-step GUTs - Jürgen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

5:15 PM Cosmology of a minimal SUSY SO(10) - Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)

5:30 PM Grand anarchy: Unification patterns of random Hamiltonians - John Ralston (University of Kansas)

5:45 PM String phenomenology at the dawn of the LHC era - Luis Anchordoqui (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

6:00 PM Open Strings in Warped Extra Dimensions - Paul McGuirk (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

6:15 PM Detecting String Resonance at LHC - Minxin Huang (CERN)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 121
Contributions

4:30 PM Normalizing VV production at the LHC - Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

4:45 PM Theoretical Uncertainties in Vector Boson Cross Sections at the LHC - Scott Yost (The Citadel)

5:00 PM Jet angular correlation in vector-boson fusion processes at hadron colliders - Kentaro Mawatari (Heidelberg University)

5:15 PM Extracting Z' Couplings from the LHC and low-energy measurements - Seth Quackenbush (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

5:30 PM Identifying new physics with photons at the LHC - Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

5:45 PM Early SUSY searches at LHC without missing Et - Andre Lessa (University of Oklahoma)

6:00 PM Distinguishing between SUSY and Littlest Higgs Model using trileptons at the LHC - Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)

6:15 PM Measuring the dark force at the LHC - Zhenyu Han (UC Davis)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 213
Contributions

4:30 PM Oscillation of Dirac or Majorana neutrinos produced in muon decay - Marek Zralek (Inst. of Physics, University of Silesia)

4:45 PM Dirac neutrinos from a second Higgs doublet - Heather Logan (Carleton University)

5:00 PM The Pseudo-Dirac See-Saw neutrinos - Wei-Chih Huang (Northwestern University)

5:15 PM Neutrino Signals in the Inert Doublet Model - Ethan Dolle (University of Arizona)

5:30 PM Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos Using W-decay Data - Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)

5:45 PM Non-zero electron Electric Dipole Moment from TeV Majorana Neutrinos - Saif Rayyan (Beloit College)

6:00 PM Renormalization group evolution of neutrino masses and mixing in Type-III seesaw - Shamayita Ray (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

6:15 PM Beta-Beam : An Ultimate Probe for Sterile Neutrinos - Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Virginia Tech)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Pyle Center, room 325
Contributions

4:30 PM Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions - Fred Olness (SMU)

4:45 PM The collinear factorization scheme - Rob Putman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

5:00 PM Electroweak and QCD corrections to W+jet production at hadron colliders - Stefan Dittmaier (University of Freiburg)

5:15 PM Z-boson pair + 1-jet production at NLO QCD - Nikolas Kauer (Royal Holloway, University of London)

5:30 PM Graviton production with 1 jet at NLO QCD at the LHC in large extra dimensions - Stefan Karg (RWTH Aachen University)

5:45 PM Precise predictions for hadronic collisions from on-shell methods - BlackHat - Carola F. Berger (MIT, CTP)

6:00 PM W+3 Jet Production: NLO computations with BlackHat + SHERPA - Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA)

6:15 PM Alternative dipole subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper dipoles - Tania Robens (RWTH Aachen University, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik E)
7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
Contributions

8:30 AM Perturbative QCD and the LHC - Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

9:05 AM Theoretical tools for collider physics - Frank Krauss (Durham University)

9:40 AM Higgs boson physics - Dieter Zeppenfeld (Universität Karlsruhe)
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Ebling Symposium Center
Contributions

10:45 AM Physics with extra dimensions - Kaustubh Agashe (University of Maryland)

11:20 AM Exotic theoretical scenarios at the LHC - Markus Luty (UC Davis)

11:55 AM LHC Alive! - Mónica Vázquez Acosta (Imperial College)

12:30 PM Wu-Ki Tung Remembrance - Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University) Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)