Phenomenology 2009 Symposium - PHENO 09

11 May 2009, 07:00 → 13 May 2009, 14:00 America/Chicago

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

PHENO 09 will cover the latest topics in particle phenomenology and theory plus related issues in astrophysics and cosmology.

Monday, 11 May

07:30 → 08:25 Registration

08:25 → 10:20 Plenary 1a

08:25 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Vernon Barger (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

08:30 Standard Model physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

Slides kotwal-smTevatron-pheno09.pdf.pdf

09:05 New physics searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Yurii Maravin (Kansas State University)

Slides Pheno09_New_Phenomena_at_Tevatron.pdf Pheno09_New_Phenomena_at_Tevatron.pptx

09:40 Measurements of the proton structure at HERA: Impact for LHC physics

Speaker: Dr Amita Raval (Penn State University)

Slides Pheno_P1_3_Amita.pdf

10:00 New physics searches at B-factories

Speaker: Dr Elisa Manoni (Università di Perugia)

Slides 4-Manoni.pdf

10:20 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:30 Plenary 1b

10:45 Recent developments in flavor physics

Speaker: Dr Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)

Slides kronfeld-pheno09.pdf.pdf

11:20 Neutrino Phenomenology

Speaker: Prof. Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

Slides huber.pdf

11:55 Signature-based searches at colliders

Speaker: Prof. Henry Frisch (University of Chicago)

Slides 3-Frisch.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Collider Kinematics and Measurement Techniques

14:00 Mass determination at LHC

Speaker: Dr Partha Konar (University of Florida)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1042

Slides Smin_short.pdf

14:15 Generalized MT2 for mass determinations in decay chains with missing PT at LHC

Speaker: Mr Myeonghun Park (University of Florida)

Paper http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+Subsystem+MT2/0/1/0/all/0/1

Slides PHENO09_MyeonghunPark.ppt

14:30 Randall-Sundrum graviton spin determination using azimuthal angular dependence

Speaker: Mr Vikram Rentala (University of California, Berkeley)

Paper http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0904/0904.4561v1.pdf

Slides rentalagraviton.pdf

14:45 Azimuthal angular spin determination: Towards the LHC

Speaker: Mr William Klemm (University of California, Berkeley)

Slides KlemmPheno09.pdf

15:00 Matrix element analysis for hadron collider data

Speaker: Dr Igor Volobouev (Texas Tech University)

Slides ME_analysis.pdf

15:15 Jets with variable R

Speaker: Mr David Krohn (Princeton University)

Slides presentation.pdf

15:30 A study of low pT Z->mumu and Z->ee events using a novel technique

Speaker: Mr Mika Vesterinen (University of Manchester)

Slides Pheno09_g2_v8.pdf

15:45 Simulation of spin effects in SUSY decay chains with Pandora

Speaker: Mr Michael Davenport (SLAC)

Slides pandoraspin.pdf.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Cosmology

14:00 Can the Higgs boson be the inflaton?

Speaker: Dr Michael Trott (Perimeter Institute)

Slides HiggsinflatonShrink.pdf

14:15 Minimal simple de Sitter solutions

Speaker: Dr Bret Underwood (McGill University)

Slides dSPheno2009.pdf

14:30 Implications of SUSY Phenomenology for Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr Björn Garbrecht (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides GarbrechtPheno09.odp GarbrechtPheno09.pdf

14:45 Electroweak baryogenesis in the mu-from-nu SSM

Speaker: Mr Andrew Long (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides ALong_Pheno09.pdf

15:00 New ways to leptogenesis with gauged B-L symmetry

Speaker: Mr Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Yanzhi_Meng.pdf

15:15 On gaugino contributions to soft leptogenesis

Speaker: Mr Chee Sheng Fong (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Slides fong_pheno2009.pdf.pdf

15:30 The WMAP haze from pulsars

Speaker: Dr Kathryn Zurek (Fermilab)

Slides 09_Pheno.pdf

15:45 Quintessence and gravitational wave from phase transition

Speaker: Mr Peng Zhou (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides Quintessence_and_Gravitational_Waves.pdf Quintessence_and_Gravitational_Waves.pptx

14:00 → 16:00 Extra Dimensions

14:00 Radion flavor in warped extra dimensions

Speaker: Dr Manuel Toharia (University of Maryland)

Slides radion.pdf

14:15 Higgs flavor violation in warped extra dimensions

Speaker: Mr Lijun Zhu (University of Maryland)

Slides talk_HFV_Lijun_Zhu.pdf

14:30 Flavor violation test of warped Standard Model

Speaker: Mr Aleksandr Azatov (University of Maryland)

Slides presentation1.pdf

14:45 Phenomenology of non-minimal universal extra dimensions

Speaker: Dr Thomas Flacke (University of Michigan)

Slides FlackePheno09.pdf

15:00 Kaluza-Klein masses and couplings: radiative corrections to tree-level relations

Speaker: Dr Sky Bauman (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides pheno_13.pdf

15:15 The soft-wall Standard Model

Speaker: Mr Daniel Sword (University of Minnesota)

Slides DanielSwordPheno2009Talk.ppt

15:30 Neutrino mass from the soft wall

Speaker: Dr David Diego (University of Notre Dame)

Slides diegosofttalk.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Higgs Physics

14:00 Higgs ID at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Gabe Shaughnessy (Northwestern University / Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Pheno09-HiggsID.pdf

14:15 Leptonic Higgs signatures at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)

Slides Pheno2009.odp Pheno2009.pdf

14:30 Discovering the Higgs with low mass muon pairs

Speaker: Ms Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)

Slides Lisanti_Pheno2009.pdf

14:45 Neutrino LHC connection: new Higgs signals

Speaker: Prof. Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State University)

Slides pheno_talk_09_Nandi.pdf

15:00 Search for SM Higgs boson in the WH channel with ME technique

Speaker: Ms Bárbara Álvarez González (Universidad de Oviedo)

Slides Pheno09_barbara_alvarez.pdf

15:15 How well can we measure the Higgs self-coupling in e+e- collisions?

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Baur (State University of New York at Buffalo)

Slides pheno09.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 SUSY Phenomenology 1

14:00 MSSM Higgs bosons at the Tevatron

Speaker: Mr Patrick Draper (University of Chicago)

Slides MSSMHiggsPID.pdf

14:15 MSSM Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion

Speaker: Dr Heidi Rzehak (Universität Karlsruhe)

Slides Pheno09_rzehak.pdf

14:30 Searching for MSSM Higgs with 3 b-quarks

Speaker: Dr Joshua Sayre (University of Oklahoma)

Slides pheno09.pdf

14:45 Higgs boson signatures of MSSM electroweak baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr Arjun Menon (University of Michigan)

Slides pheno09.pdf

15:00 Many light Higgs bosons in the NMSSM

Speaker: Prof. Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)

Slides pheno_05_11_09_dermisek.pdf

15:15 Reach for NMSSM h->aa->4mu with early LHC data

Speaker: Prof. Alexei Safonov (Texas A&M University)

Slides Safonov_nmssm.ppt

15:30 Multi-parameter approach to R-parity violating SUSY couplings

Speaker: Mr Enrico Maria Sessolo (University of Kansas)

Slides PHENO09.pdf

15:45 Single slepton production in R-parity violating SUSY models with a stau LSP

Speaker: Ms Maike Trenkel (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides Trenkel-Pheno09-neu.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 19:00 Bottom, Top, and Heavy Flavor

16:30 4th Generation and B-CP Anomalies

Speaker: Dr Amarjit Soni (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides soni_4th_pheno09.ppt

16:45 LHC Phenomenology of a Strongly Coupled Fourth Generation

Speaker: Dr Ricardo D'Elia Matheus (Univ. of Sao Paulo)

Paper 0812.0368v1.ps

Slides RDMatheus_v1.pdf.pdf

17:00 Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top

Speaker: Dr Jessie (Julia) Shelton (Rutgers University)

Slides shelton.pdf.pdf

17:15 Family Non-universal U(1)' Gauge Symmetries and b to s Transitions

Speaker: Dr Tao Liu (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)

Slides Non-universal_U(1)'_(Pheno,15m).pdf

17:30 Determination of B_s^0 and B_d^0 mixing parameters using lattice QCD.

Speaker: Dr Elvira Gamiz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides gamiz_PHENO09.pdf

17:45 Observation of the bottomonium ground state eta_b(1S) at BaBar

Speaker: Dr Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology)

Slides Pheno2009_echenard.pdf.pdf

18:00 New charmonium like states at BaBar

Speaker: Ms Valentina Santoro (University of Ferrara)

Slides Santoro.pdf

18:15 Measurement of Branching Fractions in B to K nu nubar Decays

Speaker: Mr Carl Vuosalo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Pheno09_knn.ppt

16:30 → 19:00 Dark Matter 1

16:30 Inflation and singlet scalar dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Slides Pheno'09-TerVeldhuis.pdf

16:45 Indications of DM by astrophysical e+/- and gamma observations

Speaker: Mr Yu Gao (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides dm_pheno_09_madison.pdf

17:00 Cosmic rays and dark matter with sub-GeV hidden U(1)

Speaker: Dr Jong-Chul Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Slides Pheno09_JCPark.pdf

17:15 Phase-space structure of the Milky Way's dark halo

Speaker: Dr Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides ldduffy_pheno09.pdf.pdf

17:30 Changes in dark matter properties after freeze-out

Speaker: Mr Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)

Slides Cohen_Changing_DM_Presentation_PHENO_2009.pdf

17:45 The thermal abundance of semi-relativistic relics

Speaker: Dr Mitsuru Kakizaki (LAPTH)

Slides kakizaki.pdf.pdf

18:00 Hidden charged dark matter

Speaker: Dr Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Irvine)

Slides PHENO2009.ppt

16:30 → 19:00 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

16:30 Beyond the 3-Site Higgsless Model

Speaker: Dr Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)

Slides 3-Site.pdf

16:45 Z to b bbar and Chiral Currents in Higgsless Models

Speaker: Dr Ken Hsieh (Michigan State University)

Slides Hsieh_Zbb_Pheno_09.pdf

17:00 Emergent Electroweak symmetry breaking with composite W,Z bosons

Speaker: Dr Yanou Cui (Harvard University)

Slides Pheno09-YC1.pdf

17:15 A Light Scalar as the Messenger of EWSB

Speaker: Mr Zeke Murdock (Oklahoma State University)

Paper http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0812/0812.1826v1.pdf

Slides SingHiggs.pdf.pdf SingHiggs.pdf.pdf

17:30 Electroweak symmetry breaking from layered QCD

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue University)

Slides pheno09.pdf

17:45 A Higher-Derivative Lee-Wick Standard Model

Speaker: Prof. Christopher Carone (College of William and Mary)

Slides ph09carone.pdf

18:00 The Higgs Sector of the Lee-Wick Extension of the Standard Model

Speaker: Dr Bryan Field (IPPP, Durham University)

Slides BryanJField-Pheno09.pdf

18:15 Unparticle decays

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)

Slides pheno_2009.ppt

16:30 → 19:00 Loops and Precision Calculations

16:30 Five loop QED contributions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker: Dr Christian Sturm (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides sturm.pdf

16:45 Dynamics of Charged Hadronic Thresholds

Speaker: Mr Mihailo Backovic (University of Kansas)

Slides backovic_Pheno_2009_updated.pdf

17:00 Four-quark operator contribution to neutron electric dipole moment

Speaker: Mr Haipeng An (University of Maryland)

Slides 4-quark_operator_and_NEDM.ppt

17:15 Process-independent determination of two-loop electroweak logarithms

Speaker: Dr Bernd Jantzen (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides Jantzen-Pheno.pdf

17:30 Electroweak corrections to Higgs production via gluon fusion

Speaker: Dr Stefano Actis (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides actis.pdf

17:45 Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering - fix NuTeV anomaly?

Speaker: Dr Kwangwoo Park (Southern Methodist University)

Slides Pheno09_park.pdf

18:00 QCD radiative correction to pair-annihilation of spin-1 bosonic Dark Matter.

Speaker: Mr Jae Ho Heo (Uni. of IL at Chicago)

Paper jaehoarticle-NLO.pdf

Slides pheno09(nloqcdcorrectionspin1dm).pdf

18:15 Renormalization group improved prediction for Higgs production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Dr Li Lin Yang (Univ. of Mainz)

Slides Pheno09_LLYang.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 SUSY Phenomenology 2

16:30 Collider aspects of supersymmetry with non-universal gaugino masses

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides Martin.pdf

16:45 Testing gaugino mass hypotheses at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)

Slides bdn_gaugino.pdf

17:00 Studying Gaugino mass unification at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Michael Holmes (Northeastern University)

Slides mh_gaugino.pdf

17:15 A sneutrino NLSP in the nuCMSSM

Speaker: Dr Kenji Kadota (University of Michigan)

Slides pheno09Kadota.pdf

17:30 A heavy Higgs and a light sneutrino NLSP in the MSSM with enhanced D-terms

Speaker: Dr Anibal Medina (University of California, Davis)

Slides Medina.pdf

17:45 Pure leptonic signatures with a sneutrino NLSP at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Terrance Figy (IPPP, Durham University)

Slides nlsp_talk09.pdf

18:00 Supersymmetric baryogenesis and EDMs

Speaker: Dr Yingchuan Li (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides yli.ppt

18:15 CP Violation and EDMs from Yukawa coupling in a supersymmetry breaking scenario

Speaker: Mr Jing Shao (University of Michigan)

Slides EDM-JingShao.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 Tevatron

16:30 Search for SM Higgs production in the H->WW->lnujj channel at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Marc Buehler (Fermilab, DZero)

Slides Pheno09_Buehler_20090511.pdf

16:45 Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production with Like-Sign Leptons at DZero

Speaker: Dr Maiko Takahashi (University of Manchester)

Slides WHWWW_PHENO2009_090511.pdf

17:00 Search for ZH to ee bb in p pbar Collisions at D0

Speaker: Dr Satish Desai (Fermilab, DZero)

Slides

• pheno2009-higgs-svd.pdf
• pheno2009-higgs-svd.pdf
• pheno2009-higgs-svd-v3.pdf.pdf

17:15 Search for ZH to mu mu bb in p pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Speaker: Mr John BackusMayes (University of Washington)

Slides pheno2009.pdf

17:30 Search for the SM Higgs boson in the ZH to nu nu bb channel at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Speaker: Mr Abhinav Dubey (University of Delhi and Fermilab)

Slides ZHnunubb_Pheno09.pdf

17:45 Search for a Light NMSSM Higgs Boson at CDF

Speaker: Mr Scott Wilbur (University of Chicago)

Slides ScottWilburPheno.pdf.pdf

18:00 Photon Results from CDF

Speaker: Dr Ray Culbertson (Fermilab, CDF)

Slides CDF_photons.pdf.pdf

18:15 D0 1fb-1 W Boson Mass Measurement

Speaker: Mr Jun Guo (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Slides PHENO_090511.pdf

Tuesday, 12 May

08:30 → 10:15 Plenary 2a

08:30 New results from Fermi/GLAST

Speaker: Dr Simona Murgia (SLAC)

Slides Pheno09-murgia.pdf

09:05 Direct searches of dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Slides Pheno-09-Gelmini.pdf

09:40 Indirect searches of dark matter

Speaker: Dr Dan Hooper (FNAL / U. Chicago)

Slides Pheno2009_Hooper.ppt

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:30 Plenary 2b

10:45 Dark energy: addressing the crisis in fundamental physics

Speaker: Prof. Chris Stubbs (Harvard University)

Slides Pheno2009_Stubbs.ppt

11:20 Effects of SUSY breaking

Speaker: Dr Patrick Meade (IAS)

11:55 SUSY phenomenology

Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Hollik (MPI-Munich)

Slides Pheno2009_Hollik.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Dark Matter 2

14:00 Probing Dark Forces and Light Hidden Sectors at Low-Energy e+e- Colliders

Speaker: Dr Rouven Essig (SLAC)

Slides Pheno-09-Essig.pdf

14:15 Hidden Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments and LHC

Speaker: Dr Jennifer Kile (BNL)

Slides jenkile.pdf.pdf

14:30 Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures

Speaker: Mr Joshua Ruderman (Princeton University)

Slides DarkSectorPheno.pdf

14:45 WIMPless Dark Matter and Meson Decays with Missing Energy

Speaker: Mr David McKeen (University of Chicago)

Slides Pheno_09.pdf

15:00 Dark Matter Out of Seclusion

Speaker: Mr Brian Batell (Perimeter Institute)

Slides batell.pdf

15:15 Leptonic Higgs as a Messenger of Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Hock Seng Goh (UC Berkeley)

Slides leptohiggs.ppt

15:30 U(1)_B-L Provides a Dark Matter Explanation for Pamela

Speaker: Ms Katherine Richardson-McDaniel (University of New Mexico)

Slides RichardsonMcDaniel_BMinusLDM.pdf.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Flavor Physics

14:00 A Novel Origin of CP Violation

Speaker: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (University of California - Irvine)

Slides pheno09.pdf

14:15 Yukawa unification in SUSY SU(5) and its experimental implications

Speaker: Mr Enkhbat Tsedenbaljir (Abdus Salam ICTP)

Slides 3.pdf phenotalk.pdf

14:30 A5 Family Symmetry and the Golden Ratio Prediction for Solar Neutrino Mixing

Speaker: Mr Alexander Stuart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides pheno09talk_alex2.pdf

14:45 Minimal SO(10) x A4 SUSY GUT

Speaker: Mr Abdelhamid Albaid (Oklahoma State university)

Slides Minimal_SO(10)XA4_SUSY_GUT1.pptx

15:00 Models for Fermion Mass Hierarchy

Speaker: Mr Benjamin Grossmann (Oklahoma State University)

15:15 Flavour violations in supersymmetric SO(10) unification with type II seesaw

Speaker: Dr Michele Frigerio (Institut de Physique Theorique)

Slides frigerioPHENO2009.pdf

15:30 Lepton number violating non-standard interactions and neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Mr Julio Julio (Oklahoma State University)

Slides julio.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 LHC 1

14:00 Color Sextet Scalars at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Kai Wang (IPMU, University of Tokyo)

Slides kaiwang_colorsextet.pdf

14:15 Prediction of light diquarks observable at LHC from baryogenesis models

Speaker: Mr Bhupal Dev (University of Maryland)

Slides pheno.pdf

14:30 QCD Corrections to Scalar Diquark Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Mr Ian Lewis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides ianlewispheno09.pdf

14:45 Heavy quarks above the top at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Anupama Atre (Fermilab)

Slides atre-pheno09.pdf.pdf

15:00 Threshold resummation for production of coloured heavy particles at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Pietro Falgari (IPPP, Durham University)

Slides falgari.pdf

15:15 Electroweak effects in b-jet and di-jet production

Speaker: Dr Andreas Scharf (SUNY at Buffalo)

Slides scharfPheno2009.pdf

15:30 Constraining new physics with combined low and high energy observables

Speaker: Dr James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Jenkins_Pheno09.pdf

15:45 Higgs Production and Decay from TeV Scale Black Holes at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Arif Erkoca (University of Arizona)

Slides arif_pheno09.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 SUSY Model Building

14:00 Sgluons

Speaker: Prof. Tim Tait (Northwestern University / Argonne National Lab)

Slides Tait-pheno09.pdf

14:15 Vacuum Stability in No-Scale Supersymmetry or Gaugino Mediation

Speaker: Mr Jason Evans (University of Michigan)

Slides Pheno09.pdf

14:30 Anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking demystified

Speaker: Dr Jae Yong Lee (Korea Institute for Advance Study)

Slides AMSB_pheno09.pdf

14:45 Hypercharged Anomaly Mediation - LHC Signatures

Speaker: Mr Shivakumar Rajagopalan (University of Oklahoma)

Slides hcamsb.pdf

15:00 The Upside of SUSY Seesaw in Deflected AMSB

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Setzer (University of Melbourne)

Slides upside_of_SUSYLR_seesaw_in_DAMSB.pdf

15:15 U(1)_R Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Speaker: Dr Hyun Min Lee (McMaster University)

Slides hmlee_pheno09.pdf

15:30 A Pyramid Scheme for Particle Physics

Speaker: Mr Jean-Francois Fortin (Rutgers University)

Slides PS_Pheno09.pdf

15:45 Supersymmetry Without Prejudice

Speaker: Mr James Gainer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides pheno.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 The Top Sector

14:00 First Observation of Single Top Quark Production at DZero

Speaker: Ms Monica Pangilinan (Brown University)

Slides Pheno_2009.pdf

14:15 Top quark mass measurement using mT2 in the dilepton channel at CDF

Speaker: Dr Hyunsu Lee (University of Chicago)

Slides pheno_hslee.pdf

14:30 Forward-Backward Asymmetry in t t-bar Production

Speaker: Mr Leandro G. Almeida (Stony Brook University)

Slides Almeida.pdf

14:45 Top Quark Decays in Standard Model Extensions

Speaker: Dr Martin Wiebusch (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides tdecay.pdf

15:00 Model Independent limits on scalar charged boson in top quark decays

Speaker: Ms Geumbong Yu (University of Rochester)

Slides pheno_gbyu2.pdf

15:15 Manifestations of Top Compositeness at Colliders

Speaker: Mr Kunal Kumar (Northwestern University)

Slides Pheno_-_Top_Compositeness.pdf

15:30 Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Rakhi Mahbubani (Fermilab)

Paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.0792

Slides Mahbubani_pheno09.pdf.pdf

15:45 Measuring Scalar Top Mass through Bound State Decays

Speaker: Mr James Younkin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides pheno09.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 19:00 Dark Matter 3

16:30 Why SUSY GUT theories predict the bulk of cold dark matter is axions

Speaker: Prof. Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

Slides pheno09.pdf pheno09.pdf

16:45 Yukawa Unification and Neutralino Dark Matter in Pati-Salam Model

Speaker: Dr Ilia Gogoladze (University of Delaware)

Slides ilia_gogoladze.pdf

17:00 R-Parity Breaking via Type II Seesaw, Gravitino Dark Matter and Positron Excess

Speaker: Dr Shaolong Chen (University of Maryland)

Slides slchenpheno.pdf

17:15 Neutrino sector impacts SUSY dark matter

Speaker: Mr Azar Mustafayev (University of Kansas)

Slides mustafayev.pdf.pdf

17:30 Dark Matter Phenomenology in NUHM Models

Speaker: Dr Pearl Sandick (UT Austin)

Slides sandick.pdf

17:45 WIMPonium

Speaker: Mr William Shepherd (Northwestern University)

Slides WIMPonium.pdf.pdf

18:00 The WIMP Forest

Speaker: Dr Chris Jackson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides jackson.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 GUTs and Strings

16:30 Left-right symmetry at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)

Slides pheno09_babu.ppt.ppt

16:45 Neutralino dark matter in an SO(10) model with two-step intermediate scale symmetry breaking

Speaker: Dr Eun-Kyung Park (Bonn University)

Slides pheno09_epark.pdf

17:00 LHC Phenomenology of supersymmetric multi-step GUTs

Speaker: Prof. Jürgen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

Slides pheno09.pdf

17:15 Cosmology of a minimal SUSY SO(10)

Speaker: Dr Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Tavartkiladze-Pheno-09.pdf

17:30 Grand anarchy: Unification patterns of random Hamiltonians

Speaker: Prof. John Ralston (University of Kansas)

Slides RalstonGrandAnarchy.pdf

17:45 String phenomenology at the dawn of the LHC era

Speaker: Prof. Luis Anchordoqui (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Slides Anchordoqui_pheno09.ppt.ppt

18:00 Open Strings in Warped Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Mr Paul McGuirk (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides mcguirk.pdf

18:15 Detecting String Resonance at LHC

Speaker: Dr Minxin Huang (CERN)

Slides Huang.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 LHC 2

16:30 Normalizing VV production at the LHC

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

Slides PHENO2009_VVLHC.pdf

16:45 Theoretical Uncertainties in Vector Boson Cross Sections at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Scott Yost (The Citadel)

Slides PHENO-2009-Yost-v3.pdf

17:00 Jet angular correlation in vector-boson fusion processes at hadron colliders

Speaker: Dr Kentaro Mawatari (Heidelberg University)

Slides 0905pheno_mawatari.pdf

17:15 Extracting Z' Couplings from the LHC and low-energy measurements

Speaker: Dr Seth Quackenbush (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides ZPrimefull15.pdf

17:30 Identifying new physics with photons at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides LHC2_Freitas.pdf

17:45 Early SUSY searches at LHC without missing Et

Speaker: Mr Andre Lessa (University of Oklahoma)

Slides PHENO09.pdf

18:00 Distinguishing between SUSY and Littlest Higgs Model using trileptons at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)

Paper http://arXiv.org/abs/0708.1912

Slides sudhir_pheno09.pdf

18:15 Measuring the dark force at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Zhenyu Han (UC Davis)

Slides pheno_ZhenyuHan.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 Neutrinos

16:30 Oscillation of Dirac or Majorana neutrinos produced in muon decay

Speaker: Prof. Marek Zralek (Inst. of Physics, University of Silesia)

Slides Neutrino_oscillation_from_muon_decay.pdf

16:45 Dirac neutrinos from a second Higgs doublet

Speaker: Prof. Heather Logan (Carleton University)

Slides logan-diracneutrinos.pdf

17:00 The Pseudo-Dirac See-Saw neutrinos

Speaker: Mr Wei-Chih Huang (Northwestern University)

pdf Pseudo-Dirac_neutrinos.pdf

17:15 Neutrino Signals in the Inert Doublet Model

Speaker: Mr Ethan Dolle (University of Arizona)

Slides Dolle.pdf

17:30 Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos Using W-decay Data

Speaker: Mr Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)

Slides Pheno09v1.pdf

17:45 Non-zero electron Electric Dipole Moment from TeV Majorana Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Saif Rayyan (Beloit College)

Slides rayyan.pdf

18:00 Renormalization group evolution of neutrino masses and mixing in Type-III seesaw

Speaker: Ms Shamayita Ray (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Slides Pheno09-sray.pdf.pdf

18:15 Beta-Beam : An Ultimate Probe for Sterile Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Virginia Tech)

Slides pheno09_sanjib.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 QCD

16:30 Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Prof. Fred Olness (SMU)

Slides olness.pdf

16:45 The collinear factorization scheme

Speaker: Mr Rob Putman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Slides

• gg_Pieces.pdf
• The_Collinear_Scheme.pdf
• The_Collinear_Scheme.pptx

17:00 Electroweak and QCD corrections to W+jet production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (University of Freiburg)

Slides dittmaier_pheno09_wjet.pdf

17:15 Z-boson pair + 1-jet production at NLO QCD

Speaker: Dr Nikolas Kauer (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Slides http://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~kauer/talks/kauer_pheno09.pdf

17:30 Graviton production with 1 jet at NLO QCD at the LHC in large extra dimensions

Speaker: Dr Stefan Karg (RWTH Aachen University)

Slides pheno.pdf

17:45 Precise predictions for hadronic collisions from on-shell methods - BlackHat

Speaker: Dr Carola F. Berger (MIT, CTP)

Slides BergerPheno09.pdf.pdf CERN.pdf

18:00 W+3 Jet Production: NLO computations with BlackHat + SHERPA

Speaker: Dr Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA)

Slides Febres_Cordero_W_jets_Pheno_2009.pdf

18:15 Alternative dipole subtraction scheme using Nagy Soper dipoles

Speaker: Dr Tania Robens (RWTH Aachen University, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik E)

Slides robens_pheno09.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Banquet

Wednesday, 13 May

08:30 → 10:15 Plenary 3a

08:30 Perturbative QCD and the LHC

Speaker: Dr Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford University)

Slides Pheno09.pdf

09:05 Theoretical tools for collider physics

Speaker: Prof. Frank Krauss (Durham University)

Slides Pheno09.pdf Pheno09.pdf

09:40 Higgs boson physics

Speaker: Prof. Dieter Zeppenfeld (Universität Karlsruhe)

Slides pheno09_zeppenfeld.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:45 Plenary 3b

10:45 Physics with extra dimensions

Speaker: Prof. Kaustubh Agashe (University of Maryland)

Slides Pheno09.pdf

11:20 Exotic theoretical scenarios at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Markus Luty (UC Davis)

Slides Luty_PHENO_2009.pdf

11:55 LHC Alive!

Speaker: Dr Mónica Vázquez Acosta (Imperial College)

Slides LHCAlive_Pheno09_MVazquezAcosta.pdf

12:30 Wu-Ki Tung Remembrance

Speakers: Prof. Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University) , Prof. Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)