Pheno 07
May 7, 2007, 8:00 AM
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May 9, 2007, 12:40 PM
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Monday, May 7
Mon, May 7
Tue, May 8
Wed, May 9
Plenary Ia
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1
Welcome
Speaker
:
Prof.
Vernon Barger
(UW)
2
First MiniBooNE Oscillation results
Speaker
:
Prof.
Chris Polly
(University of Indiana)
Slides
3
Evidence for D0-D0bar mixing
Speaker
:
Prof.
Ray Cowan
(MIT)
Slides
4
Bread and butter physics at Tevatron
Speaker
:
Prof.
Gordon Watts
(University of Washington)
Slides
5
The race to find the Higgs
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mark Kruse
(Duke University)
Slides
10:30 AM
coffee
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Plenary Ib
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6
Neutrino masses and oscillations
Speaker
:
Prof.
Andre de Gouvea
(Northwestern University)
Slides
7
Neutrino oscillations
Speaker
:
Prof.
Bonnie Fleming
(Yale University)
Slides
8
New physics in the Beauty sector
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tobias Hurth
(CERN)
Slides
12:40 PM
lunch
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B physics
225 (Pyle Center)
225
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9
Charmless hadronic B decays at BaBar
Speaker
:
Dr
Woochun Park
(U. of South Carolina)
Slides
10
Measurement of the CKM angle alpha at BaBar
Speaker
:
Dr
Woochun Park
(U. of South Carolina)
Slides
11
Recent results on b-physics with CDF at Tevatron
Speaker
:
Dr
Elena Vataga
(University of Mexico)
Slides
12
Explaining the Muon g-2 anomaly
Speaker
:
Prof.
John Ralston
(University of Kansas)
Slides
13
Jet multiplicity and background extraction in SUSY analyses at the LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Bruce Mellado
(UW Madison)
Slides
14
The role of D0** in B- -> Ds+ K- pi-
Speaker
:
Mr
Oleg Antipin
(Iowa State University)
Slides
Neutrino Oscillations
332 (Pyle Center)
332
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15
Testing Lorentz symmetry violating neutrino oscillations
Speaker
:
Prof.
Kerry Whisnant
(Iowa State University)
Slides
16
Neutrino states in oscillation experiments - are they pure or mix?
Speaker
:
Prof.
Marek Zralek
(University of Silesia)
Slides
17
MiniBooNE and pion production measurements at HARP
Speaker
:
Dr
Linda Coney
(Hope College)
Slides
18
Which long baseline neutrino experiment?
Speaker
:
Prof.
Danny Marfatia
(University of Kansas)
Slides
19
Constraints on non-standard interactions of the neutrino
Speaker
:
Mr
Yee Kao
(Virginia Tech)
Slides
20
Constraints on new physics from matter effects on neutrino oscillation
Speaker
:
Mr
Alexey Pronin
(Virginia Tech)
Slides
Strings
112 (Pyle Center)
112
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21
Instantons, brane-worlds, and violations of Lorentz invariance
Speaker
:
Prof.
Sergei Khlebnikov
(Purdue University)
Slides
22
Gravitating p-branes from higher dimension
Speaker
:
Dr
Chi Xiong
(Purdue University)
Slides
23
Vector Dynamics in Locally Invariant Brane World Models
Speaker
:
Prof.
Sherwin Love
(Purdue University)
Slides
24
Explaining the EW scale in M-theory and the associated phenomenology
Speaker
:
Mr
Jing Shao
(University of Michigan)
Slides
25
Predictions and Signatures of the Landscape
Speaker
:
Prof.
Laura Mersini-Houghton
(UNC)
26
Gravitating p-branes and collider physics
Speaker
:
Prof.
Thomas Clark
(Purdue University)
Slides
Tevatron results I
213 (Pyle Center)
213
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27
Vista@CDF: a global view of Tevatron Run II data
Speaker
:
Mr
Georgios Choudalakis
(MIT)
Slides
28
Model-independent search at the D0 experiment
Speaker
:
Mr
Joel Piper
(Michigan State University)
Slides
29
First evidence for single top quark production at D0
Speaker
:
Dr
Shabnam Jabeen
(Boston University)
Slides
30
Improved search for single top quark production using Bayesian neural networks
Speaker
:
Mr
Daekwang Kau
(Florida State University)
Slides
31
Measurement of single top quark production at D0 using matrix elements
Speaker
:
Mr
Jovan Mitrevski
(Columbia University)
Slides
32
Sleuth@CDF: searching the high-sumPt tails
Speaker
:
Dr
Conor Henderson
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Slides
Topics in LHC Phenomenology I
121 (Pyle Center)
121
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33
A signal for a theory of flavor at the LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Oscar Eboli
(Universidad de Sao Paulo)
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34
Focus point physics at the LHC
Speaker
:
Mr
Gabe Shaughnessy
(UW Madison)
Slides
35
Identifying new phenomena with high-energy top quarks
Speaker
:
Dr
Ben Lillie
(Argonne National Lab)
Slides
36
High p_T top quarks at LHC
Speaker
:
Dr
Ulrich Baur
(State University of New York at Buffalo)
Slides
37
Tools for the LHC: little Higgs with T-parity
Speaker
:
Dr
Jay Hubisz
(Fermilab)
Slides
38
Using object correlations to extract new physics from multi-jet signals
Speaker
:
Mr
Rouven Essig
(Rutgers University)
Slides
4:00 PM
coffee
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Dark Matter
225 (Pyle Center)
225
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39
DD/IDD rates for dark matter searches in models with a well-tempered neutralino
Speaker
:
Ms
Eun-Kyung Park
(Florida State University)
Slides
40
MeV dark matter with couplings to neutrinos
Speaker
:
Dr
Dan Hooper
(Fermilab)
Slides
41
Common origin of neutrino mass and dark matter
Speaker
:
Prof.
Ernest Ma
(University of California, Riverside)
Slides
42
Gravitating p-branes and dark matter
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tonnis Ter Veldhuis
(Macalester College)
Slides
43
Minimal Dirac fermionic dark matter
Speaker
:
Mr
Jae Ho Heo
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Slides
Extra dimensions
112 (Pyle Center)
112
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44
Natural realizations of type I and type II sesaw and mini-warped minimal SO(10)
Speaker
:
Mr
Haibo Yu
(University of Maryland)
Slides
45
Gauge-Higgs unification phenomenology in warped dimensions
Speaker
:
Ms
Nausheen Shah
(University of Chicago)
Slides
46
Studying the structure of RS model by studying G1 phenomenology
Speaker
:
Mr
Jing Shu
(University of Chicago)
47
Precise predictions for H->4 fermion decays with PROPHECY4f
Speaker
:
Dr
Marcus Weber
(University of Buffalo)
Slides
48
Warped space gauge bosons at the LHC
Speaker
:
Dr
Shrihari Gopalakrishna
(BNL)
Slides
49
Soft leptogenesis in warped extra dimensions
Speaker
:
Mr
Anibal Medina
(University of Chicago)
Slides
Higgsless models
332
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50
Electroweak corrections in the three-site model
Speaker
:
Prof.
Elizabeth H. Simmons
(Michigan State University)
Slides
51
Phenomenology of three-site model
Speaker
:
Dr
Alexander Belyaev
(Michigan State University)
Slides
52
Unitarity and bounds on the scale of fermion mass generation
Speaker
:
Dr
Neil Christensen
(Michigan State University)
Slides
53
One-loop corrections to the S and T parameters in Higgsless models
Speaker
:
Dr
Christopher Jackson
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Slides
54
How light can the lightest neutralino be?
Speaker
:
Dr
Olaf Kittel
(Bonn University)
Slides
SUSY and GUTs
213 (Pyle Center)
213
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55
Recoil detection of the lightest neutralino in MSSM singlet extensions
Speaker
:
Mr
Ian Lewis
(University of Wisconsin)
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56
Higgs-exempt no-scale supersymmetry
Speaker
:
Dr
David Morrissey
(University of Michigan)
Slides
57
Compressed supersymmetry and natural neutralino dark matter
Speaker
:
Prof.
Stephen Martin
(Northern Illinois University)
Slides
58
Dimension-five operators in grand unified theories
Speaker
:
Mr
Joshua Sayre
(UIUC)
Slides
59
A SUSY SO(10) GUT model with lopsided structure
Speaker
:
Mr
Yingchuan Li
(University of Maryland)
Slides
60
Proton Stability in SUSY SU(5)
Speaker
:
Dr
Zurab Tavartkiladze
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
Topics in LHC Phenomenology II
121 (Pyle Center)
121
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61
Mass determination in events with missing energy
Speaker
:
Dr
Bob McElrath
(University of California, Davis)
Slides
62
Global analyses at the Tevatron and LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Bruce Knuteson
(MIT)
Slides
63
SFitter: from LHC data back to the MSSM Lagrangian
Speaker
:
Dr
Michael Rauch
(University of Edinburgh)
Slides
64
Interplay of LHC and ILC in SUSY searches
Speaker
:
Dr
Carola Berger
(SLAC)
Slides
65
Interplay between B physics and Higgs searches at hadron colliders
Speaker
:
Mr
Arjun Menon
(University of Chicago)
Slides
66
Spin determination in hadron colliders
Speaker
:
Dr
Itay Yavin
(Princeton University)
Slides
6:45 PM
banquet
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Tue, May 8
Wed, May 9
Plenary IIa
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67
Search for new physics at HERA
Speaker
:
Prof.
Bob Olivier
(MPI Munich)
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68
Particle dark matter
Speaker
:
Prof.
Howie Baer
(Florida State)
Slides
69
Neutrino astrophysics
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tom Weiler
(Vanderbilt University)
Slides
70
Cosmology in the LHC era
Speaker
:
Prof.
Michael Turner
(University of Chicago)
Slides
10:30 AM
coffee
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Plenary IIb
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71
Elektoweak baryogenesis and supersymmetry
Speaker
:
Prof.
Carlos Wagner
(ANL)
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72
Topological physics of extra dimensions
Speaker
:
Prof.
Christopher Hill
(FNAL)
Slides
73
Test of fundamental symmetries
Speaker
:
Prof.
Alan Kostelecky
(University of Indiana)
more information
12:40 PM
lunch
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BSM Higgs
225 (Pyle Center)
225
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74
Discover the heavy top partner of the twin Higgs model
Speaker
:
Mr
Xinyu Miao
(University of Arizona)
Slides
Pheno07.pdf
Pheno07.ppt
slides
75
Dark matter in the left-right twin Higgs model
Speaker
:
Mr
Ethan Dolle
(University of Arizona)
Slides
76
Anomalies in the little Higgs model
Speaker
:
Dr
Richard Hill
(Fermilab)
Slides
77
SU(4)_L x U(1)_X electroweak gauge group with little Higgs
Speaker
:
Dr
Soo-hyeon Nam
(National Central University)
Slides
78
T-odd gauge boson littlest Higgs model with T-parity at future colliders
Speaker
:
Mr
Chen Chuan-Ren
(Michigan State University)
Slides
79
Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron in extended supersymmetric models
Speaker
:
Dr
Soeren Wiesenfeldt
(UIUC)
Slides
Neutrinos
332 (Pyle Center)
332
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80
3+2 Neutrino phenomenology
Speaker
:
Ms
Georgia Karagiorgi
(Columbia University)
Slides
81
Lepton EDM's from heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos
Speaker
:
Dr
Tatsu Takeuchi
(Virginia Tech)
Slides
82
Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering at NuTeV
Speaker
:
Mr
Kwangwoo Park
(SUNY at Buffalo)
Slides
83
Long lived staus in IceCube from atmospheric neutrinos
Speaker
:
Dr
David Rainwater
(University of Rochester)
Slides
84
Cross sections, fluxes and neutrino telescopes
Speaker
:
Mr
Doug McKay
(University of Kansas)
Slides
85
Predictive model of inverted neutrino hierarchy & resonant leptogenesis
Speaker
:
Mr
Abdel Bachri
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
QCD
112 (Pyle Center)
112
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86
Dave's ideas on Majorana neutralinos
Speaker
:
Dr
Tilman Plehn
(University of Edinburgh)
Slides
87
Choosing the factorization scale in perturbative QCD
Speaker
:
Mr
Robert Putman
(University of Illinois)
Slides
88
Belle results relevant for LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Steve Olsen
(University of Hawaii)
Slides
89
Parton shower + NLO: a positive weight hardest emission generator
Speaker
:
Dr
Carlo Oleari
(Universita Milano-Bicocca)
Slides
90
SUSY QCD corrections to Higgs pair production in bottom quark fusion
Speaker
:
Dr
Yili Wang
(University of Oklahoma)
Slides
91
B0_sbar B0_s mixing parameters with Nf=2+1 sea quarks in lattice QCD
Speaker
:
Dr
Elvira Gamiz
(University of Illinois)
Slides
SUSY phenomenology
121 (Pyle Center)
121
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92
Discovery of long-lived sleptons at LHC
Speaker
:
Mr
Bryan Smith
(UC-Irvine)
Slides
93
Detect nearly degenerate gauginos at LHC
Speaker
:
Mr
Kai Wang
(University of Wisconsin)
Slides
94
Phenomenology of gauge messenger models
Speaker
:
Dr
Ian-Woo Kim
(Seoul National University)
Slides
95
Dusting for SUSY's fingerprints in precision data
Speaker
:
Mr
Arne Weber
(Max-Planck-Institue for Physics - Munich)
Slides
96
Compressed SUSY at Tevatron: possibility to probe beyond LEP2
Speaker
:
Mr
Azar Mustafayev
(University of Kansas)
Slides
97
Right-handed neutrinos in a supersymmetric world
Speaker
:
Prof.
Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
pdf
Slides
Tevatron results II
213 (Pyle Center)
213
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98
Measurement of the inclusive Z+jet(s) production cross section at CDF
Speaker
:
Mr
Oriol Salto
(IFAE - Barcelona)
Slides
99
Inclusive search for squark/gluino production at CDF
Speaker
:
Mr
Gianluca De Lorenzo
(Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona)
Slides
100
Top quark production cross section measurements at D0
Speaker
:
Mr
Hwidong Yoo
(Brown University)
Slides
101
Measurement of top quark properties at D0
Speaker
:
Dr
Liang Li
(University of California - Riverside)
Slides
102
Top quark mass measurement in the dilepton channel
Speaker
:
Dr
Peter Renkel
(SMU)
Slides
103
Measurement of the top quark mass at D0 using lepton + jets events
Speaker
:
Mr
Gustavo Otero y Garzon
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Slides
4:00 PM
coffee
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Collider searches
121 (Pyle Center)
121
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104
Searches for new physics with photons at CDF
Speaker
:
Dr
Aliaksandr Pranko
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Slides
105
Transverse momentum distributions of a Higgs boson and a bottom quark
Speaker
:
Dr
Bryan Field
(Florida State University)
Slides
106
Collider implications of a non-universal Higgs
Speaker
:
Prof.
Satya Nandi
(Oklahoma State University)
107
Searching for a hidden sector Higgs boson at the LHC
Speaker
:
Ms
Yanou Cui
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Slides
108
The effect of two-photon-decay suppression on light Higgs detection prospects
Speaker
:
Mr
Brooks Thomas
(University of Michigan)
Slides
Higgs_Decay_Suppression_to_Photons.ppt
HiggsToTwoPhotons.pdf
slides
109
Across the time dimension in search of dark matter at CDF
Speaker
:
Dr
Max Goncharov
(Texas A&M University)
Slides
Cosmology
213 (Pyle Center)
213
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110
United TeV scale picture of dark matter and baryogenesis
Speaker
:
Dr
K.S. Babu
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
111
Non-thermal leptogenesis with strongly hierarchical right handed neutrinos
Speaker
:
Dr
Nefer Senoguz
(University of Kansas)
Slides
112
Leptogenesis with quasi-Dirac neutrinos in warped extra dimensions
Speaker
:
Dr
Kenji Kadota
(University of Minnesota)
Slides
113
Space-time propagation of neutrino wave packets in the early universe
Speaker
:
Mr
Chiu Man Ho
(University of Pittsburgh)
Slides
114
Constraining accelerating cosmologies with distance measures
Speaker
:
Mr
Yu Gao
(UW Madison)
Slides
115
Constraints on leptogenesis from fermion masses in SO(10) GUTs
Speaker
:
Dr
Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
(University of Minnesota)
Slides
Fermions and flavor
112 (Pyle Center)
112
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116
The role of finite groups as family symmetries for quarks and leptons
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mu-Chun Chen
(University of California at Irvine)
Slides
117
A model independent survey of lepton number violation via effective operators
Speaker
:
Mr
James Jenkins
(Northwestern University)
Slides
118
A new mechanism for neutrino mass generation and associated Higgs signals
Speaker
:
Mr
Steven Gabriel
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
119
A chiral fourth generation
Speaker
:
Dr
Tim Tait
(Argonne National Lab)
Slides
120
Lepton masses and mixing without Yukawa hierarchies
Speaker
:
Dr
Wiliam Ponce
(Universidad de Antioquia)
Slides
121
Phenomenology of the singlet extended standard model
Speaker
:
Mr
Mathew McCaskey
(UW Madison)
Slides
Meson physics
225 (Pyle Center)
225
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122
New precision measurements of Ke2 and LFV lepton universality
Speaker
:
Prof.
Mayda Velasco
(Northwestern University)
123
Measurements of the CKM angle beta at BaBar
Speaker
:
Dr
Roberto Covarelli
(University of Perugia)
Slides
124
Radiative and leptonic decays at the B factories
Speaker
:
Dr
Chris Schilling
(University of Texas)
Slides
125
Exclusive hadron production in e+e- annihilation
Speaker
:
Dr
Yi Kai
(SLAC)
Slides
126
Measurements of Vub and Vcb at BaBar
Speaker
:
Dr
Kerstin Tackmann
(LBNL)
Slides
127
Searches for lepton-flavor violation at BaBar
Speaker
:
Dr
Jeffrey A. Kolb
(University of Oregon)
Slides
Topics in Beyond the Standard Model
332 (Pyle Center)
332
Pyle Center
128
Solving problems of 4D minimal SO(10) model in a warped extra dimension
Speaker
:
Dr
Tatsuru Kikuchi
(KEK)
Slides
129
Holographic mixing quantified
Speaker
:
Mr
Brian Batell
(University of Minnesota)
Slides
130
D0-D0 bar mixing in multi-Higgs models
Speaker
:
Mr
Yanzhi Meng
(Oklahoma State University)
Slides
131
Breakdown of the narrow width approximation in BSM physics
Speaker
:
Mr
Daniel Berdine
(University of Rochester)
Slides
132
Landscape of little hierarchy
Speaker
:
Dr
Yukihiro Mimura
(Texas A&M University)
Slides
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Tue, May 8
Wed, May 9
Plenary IIIa
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133
QCD at the LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Doreen Wackeroth
(SUNY-Buffalo)
Slides
134
Signatures in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector
Speaker
:
Prof.
Shufang Su
(University of Arizona)
Slides
135
Anticipation of the LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Tom LeCompte
(ANL)
Slides
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Plenary IIIb
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136
Unusual physics signatures at LHC
Speaker
:
Prof.
Matt Strassler
(University of Washington)
Slides
137
Path from the LHC to the new standard model via on-shell effective theories
Speaker
:
Prof.
Nima Arkani-Hamed
(Harvard University)
Slides
138
ILC in the LHC era
Speaker
:
Prof.
Jack Gunion
(UC-Davis)
Slides