Pheno 07

May 7, 2007, 8:00 AM → May 9, 2007, 12:40 PM America/Chicago

Tripp Commons (Memorial Union)

Monday, May 7

Plenary Ia

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Vernon Barger (UW)

2 First MiniBooNE Oscillation results

Speaker: Prof. Chris Polly (University of Indiana)

Slides Pheno2007_Polly2.pdf Pheno2007_Polly.pdf

3 Evidence for D0-D0bar mixing

Speaker: Prof. Ray Cowan (MIT)

Slides cowan_dmixing_pheno07.pdf.pdf

4 Bread and butter physics at Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Watts (University of Washington)

Slides 2007-05-0x-Pheno07-Watts-Tevatron-BreadAndButter.pdf 2007-05-0x-Pheno07-Watts-Tevatron-BreadAndButter.pptx

5 The race to find the Higgs

Speaker: Prof. Mark Kruse (Duke University)

Slides kruse_pheno07.pdf

10:30 AM coffee

Plenary Ib

6 Neutrino masses and oscillations

Speaker: Prof. Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

Slides degouvea_final.pdf

7 Neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Prof. Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)

Slides Pheno07_Fleming_final.pdf

8 New physics in the Beauty sector

Speaker: Prof. Tobias Hurth (CERN)

Slides Phenohurth.pdf

12:40 PM lunch

B physics

9 Charmless hadronic B decays at BaBar

Speaker: Dr Woochun Park (U. of South Carolina)

Slides charmlessB.wpark.pdf.pdf charmlessB.wpark.prefer.ppt.ppt

10 Measurement of the CKM angle alpha at BaBar

Speaker: Dr Woochun Park (U. of South Carolina)

Slides final_pdf.pdf final_ppt_prefer_this.ppt

11 Recent results on b-physics with CDF at Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Elena Vataga (University of Mexico)

Slides pheno07.pdf

12 Explaining the Muon g-2 anomaly

Speaker: Prof. John Ralston (University of Kansas)

Slides RalstonSchielnew.pdf

13 Jet multiplicity and background extraction in SUSY analyses at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (UW Madison)

Slides PHENO2007_SUSY_ttjets.pdf PHENO2007_SUSY_ttjets.ppt

14 The role of D0** in B- -> Ds+ K- pi-

Speaker: Mr Oleg Antipin (Iowa State University)

Slides Pheno2007talk.pdf

Neutrino Oscillations

15 Testing Lorentz symmetry violating neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Prof. Kerry Whisnant (Iowa State University)

Slides kwhisnant.pdf.pdf

16 Neutrino states in oscillation experiments - are they pure or mix?

Speaker: Prof. Marek Zralek (University of Silesia)

Slides Neutrino_states_in_oscillation_experiments.pdf

17 MiniBooNE and pion production measurements at HARP

Speaker: Dr Linda Coney (Hope College)

Slides ConeyPheno07.ppt

18 Which long baseline neutrino experiment?

Speaker: Prof. Danny Marfatia (University of Kansas)

Slides marfatia.pdf

19 Constraints on non-standard interactions of the neutrino

Speaker: Mr Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)

Slides Kao_Pheno.ppt

20 Constraints on new physics from matter effects on neutrino oscillation

Speaker: Mr Alexey Pronin (Virginia Tech)

Slides Pronin_PHENO-07.ppt

Strings

21 Instantons, brane-worlds, and violations of Lorentz invariance

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Khlebnikov (Purdue University)

Slides khlebnikov_talk.pdf.pdf

22 Gravitating p-branes from higher dimension

Speaker: Dr Chi Xiong (Purdue University)

Slides Pheno_07_Chi.pdf

23 Vector Dynamics in Locally Invariant Brane World Models

Speaker: Prof. Sherwin Love (Purdue University)

Slides PHENO07-52.pdf.pdf

24 Explaining the EW scale in M-theory and the associated phenomenology

Speaker: Mr Jing Shao (University of Michigan)

Slides Mtheory-pheno07.ppt

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 Clark-Pheno07-59-Brane_Oscillations_In_Collider_Physics.pdf

Tevatron results I

27 Vista@CDF: a global view of Tevatron Run II data

Speaker: Mr Georgios Choudalakis (MIT)

Slides choudalakis-pheno07.pdf

28 Model-independent search at the D0 experiment

Speaker: Mr Joel Piper (Michigan State University)

Slides D0_MIS.pdf.pdf

29 First evidence for single top quark production at D0

Speaker: Dr Shabnam Jabeen (Boston University)

Slides SingltopPHENO2007_1.pdf

30 Improved search for single top quark production using Bayesian neural networks

Speaker: Mr Daekwang Kau (Florida State University)

Slides Pheno_1.pdf

31 Measurement of single top quark production at D0 using matrix elements

Speaker: Mr Jovan Mitrevski (Columbia University)

Slides PHENO_07_ME.pdf

32 Sleuth@CDF: searching the high-sumPt tails

Speaker: Dr Conor Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides 20070507_pheno07_conor_sleuth.pdf

Topics in LHC Phenomenology I

33 A signal for a theory of flavor at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Oscar Eboli (Universidad de Sao Paulo)

Slides eboli.pdf

34 Focus point physics at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Gabe Shaughnessy (UW Madison)

Slides shaughnessy.pdf.pdf

35 Identifying new phenomena with high-energy top quarks

Speaker: Dr Ben Lillie (Argonne National Lab)

Slides Lillie-PHENO07.pdf

36 High p_T top quarks at LHC

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

Slides pheno07.pdf

37 Tools for the LHC: little Higgs with T-parity

Speaker: Dr Jay Hubisz (Fermilab)

Slides PHENO07hubisz.pdf

38 Using object correlations to extract new physics from multi-jet signals

Speaker: Mr Rouven Essig (Rutgers University)

Slides RouvenEssigPheno07.pdf

4:00 PM coffee

Dark Matter

39 DD/IDD rates for dark matter searches in models with a well-tempered neutralino

Speaker: Ms Eun-Kyung Park (Florida State University)

Slides eunpark.ppt

40 MeV dark matter with couplings to neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Dan Hooper (Fermilab)

Slides pheno07.ppt

41 Common origin of neutrino mass and dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Ernest Ma (University of California, Riverside)

Slides pheno07.pdf

42 Gravitating p-branes and dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Tonnis Ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Slides wisconsin.pdf

43 Minimal Dirac fermionic dark matter

Speaker: Mr Jae Ho Heo (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides pheno07-1.pdf

Extra dimensions

44 Natural realizations of type I and type II sesaw and mini-warped minimal SO(10)

Speaker: Mr Haibo Yu (University of Maryland)

Slides pheno2007.pdf

45 Gauge-Higgs unification phenomenology in warped dimensions

Speaker: Ms Nausheen Shah (University of Chicago)

Slides Nausheen_Shah.pdf

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 weber-pheno07.pdf

48 Warped space gauge bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Shrihari Gopalakrishna (BNL)

Slides shri_pheno.pdf

49 Soft leptogenesis in warped extra dimensions

Speaker: Mr Anibal Medina (University of Chicago)

Slides softextrapheno.pdf

Higgsless models

50 Electroweak corrections in the three-site model

Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth H. Simmons (Michigan State University)

Slides EHSimmons-7May07.pdf.pdf

51 Phenomenology of three-site model

Speaker: Dr Alexander Belyaev (Michigan State University)

Slides pheno-3site.pdf

52 Unitarity and bounds on the scale of fermion mass generation

Speaker: Dr Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)

Slides unitarity.pdf.pdf

53 One-loop corrections to the S and T parameters in Higgsless models

Speaker: Dr Christopher Jackson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides cbjackson-pheno07.pdf

54 How light can the lightest neutralino be?

Speaker: Dr Olaf Kittel (Bonn University)

Slides kittel_Madison.pdf

SUSY and GUTs

55 Recoil detection of the lightest neutralino in MSSM singlet extensions

Speaker: Mr Ian Lewis (University of Wisconsin)

Slides ianlewis.pdf

56 Higgs-exempt no-scale supersymmetry

Speaker: Dr David Morrissey (University of Michigan)

Slides dmorrisseypheno07.pdf

57 Compressed supersymmetry and natural neutralino dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides talk.pdf

58 Dimension-five operators in grand unified theories

Speaker: Mr Joshua Sayre (UIUC)

Slides pheno7.pdf

59 A SUSY SO(10) GUT model with lopsided structure

Speaker: Mr Yingchuan Li (University of Maryland)

Slides yli_pheno_2007.ppt

60 Proton Stability in SUSY SU(5)

Speaker: Dr Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Madison-May_7.pdf

Topics in LHC Phenomenology II

61 Mass determination in events with missing energy

Speaker: Dr Bob McElrath (University of California, Davis)

Slides mcelrath.pdf.pdf

62 Global analyses at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Knuteson (MIT)

Slides 20070507_knuteson_pheno2007.pdf

63 SFitter: from LHC data back to the MSSM Lagrangian

Speaker: Dr Michael Rauch (University of Edinburgh)

Slides Rauch_Pheno07.pdf

64 Interplay of LHC and ILC in SUSY searches

Speaker: Dr Carola Berger (SLAC)

Slides Berger_LHCILC.pdf.pdf

65 Interplay between B physics and Higgs searches at hadron colliders

Speaker: Mr Arjun Menon (University of Chicago)

Slides am_pheno07.pdf

66 Spin determination in hadron colliders

Speaker: Dr Itay Yavin (Princeton University)

Slides pheno2007.ppt

6:45 PM banquet

Tuesday, May 8

Plenary IIa

67 Search for new physics at HERA

Speaker: Prof. Bob Olivier (MPI Munich)

Slides pheno07.pdf

68 Particle dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Howie Baer (Florida State)

Slides hbaer.pdf.pdf pheno_baer.pdf

69 Neutrino astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

Slides Pheno_07.pdf

70 Cosmology in the LHC era

Speaker: Prof. Michael Turner (University of Chicago)

Slides Cosmology_in_the_LHC_Era_Pheno07.ppt

10:30 AM coffee

Plenary IIb

71 Elektoweak baryogenesis and supersymmetry

Speaker: Prof. Carlos Wagner (ANL)

Slides WAGNER_PHENO07.pdf

72 Topological physics of extra dimensions

Speaker: Prof. Christopher Hill (FNAL)

Slides hill.ppt

73 Test of fundamental symmetries

Speaker: Prof. Alan Kostelecky (University of Indiana)

more information http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~kostelec/faq.html

12:40 PM lunch

BSM Higgs

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 pheno_ethan.pdf pheno_ethan.ppt

76 Anomalies in the little Higgs model

Speaker: Dr Richard Hill (Fermilab)

Slides hill_pheno.pdf

77 SU(4)_L x U(1)_X electroweak gauge group with little Higgs

Speaker: Dr Soo-hyeon Nam (National Central University)

Slides Nam_Pheno07.pdf

78 T-odd gauge boson littlest Higgs model with T-parity at future colliders

Speaker: Mr Chen Chuan-Ren (Michigan State University)

Slides wh_LHT_pheno07.pdf

79 Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron in extended supersymmetric models

Speaker: Dr Soeren Wiesenfeldt (UIUC)

Slides wiesenfeldt_soren.pdf.pdf

Neutrinos

80 3+2 Neutrino phenomenology

Speaker: Ms Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)

Slides 3+2pheno2007_gsk.ppt

81 Lepton EDM's from heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)

Slides takeuchi.pdf

82 Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering at NuTeV

Speaker: Mr Kwangwoo Park (SUNY at Buffalo)

Slides pheno07.pdf

83 Long lived staus in IceCube from atmospheric neutrinos

Speaker: Dr David Rainwater (University of Rochester)

Slides Pheno07.pdf

84 Cross sections, fluxes and neutrino telescopes

Speaker: Mr Doug McKay (University of Kansas)

Slides mckaytalk2.ppt

85 Predictive model of inverted neutrino hierarchy & resonant leptogenesis

Speaker: Mr Abdel Bachri (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Bachri_Inverted_Neutrino.pdf

QCD

86 Dave's ideas on Majorana neutralinos

Speaker: Dr Tilman Plehn (University of Edinburgh)

Slides pheno_07.pdf

87 Choosing the factorization scale in perturbative QCD

Speaker: Mr Robert Putman (University of Illinois)

Slides robputman_pheno2007.ppt

88 Belle results relevant for LHC

Speaker: Prof. Steve Olsen (University of Hawaii)

Slides Olsen_pheno07.ppt

89 Parton shower + NLO: a positive weight hardest emission generator

Speaker: Dr Carlo Oleari (Universita Milano-Bicocca)

Slides oleari.pdf

90 SUSY QCD corrections to Higgs pair production in bottom quark fusion

Speaker: Dr Yili Wang (University of Oklahoma)

Slides pheno07.ppt

91 B0_sbar B0_s mixing parameters with Nf=2+1 sea quarks in lattice QCD

Speaker: Dr Elvira Gamiz (University of Illinois)

Slides gamiz_PHENO07.pdf

SUSY phenomenology

92 Discovery of long-lived sleptons at LHC

Speaker: Mr Bryan Smith (UC-Irvine)

Slides Scalar_Lepton_Measurements_2.ppt

93 Detect nearly degenerate gauginos at LHC

Speaker: Mr Kai Wang (University of Wisconsin)

Slides phenotalk.pdf

94 Phenomenology of gauge messenger models

Speaker: Dr Ian-Woo Kim (Seoul National University)

Slides madisontalk.pdf

95 Dusting for SUSY's fingerprints in precision data

Speaker: Mr Arne Weber (Max-Planck-Institue for Physics - Munich)

Slides ArneWeber_Pheno07.pdf

96 Compressed SUSY at Tevatron: possibility to probe beyond LEP2

Speaker: Mr Azar Mustafayev (University of Kansas)

Slides mustafayev.pdf.pdf

97 Right-handed neutrinos in a supersymmetric world

Speaker: Prof. Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

pdf Slides

Slides pheno07.pdf

Tevatron results II

98 Measurement of the inclusive Z+jet(s) production cross section at CDF

Speaker: Mr Oriol Salto (IFAE - Barcelona)

Slides Oriol_Salto_Z+jets.ppt.ppt

99 Inclusive search for squark/gluino production at CDF

Speaker: Mr Gianluca De Lorenzo (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona)

Slides gluino-squark_pheno07_gdl.ppt.ppt

100 Top quark production cross section measurements at D0

Speaker: Mr Hwidong Yoo (Brown University)

Slides PHENO07_HwidongYoo_topXsection.pdf

101 Measurement of top quark properties at D0

Speaker: Dr Liang Li (University of California - Riverside)

Slides Pheno2007_Top_Properties_D0.pdf.pdf

102 Top quark mass measurement in the dilepton channel

Speaker: Dr Peter Renkel (SMU)

Slides pheno.ppt

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 Pheno_May2007.pdf Pheno_May2007.ppt

4:00 PM coffee

Collider searches

104 Searches for new physics with photons at CDF

Speaker: Dr Aliaksandr Pranko (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides pronko_PHENO07_talk_050807.ppt

105 Transverse momentum distributions of a Higgs boson and a bottom quark

Speaker: Dr Bryan Field (Florida State University)

Slides BryanJField-Pheno2007.pdf

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 pheno07-YC.pdf

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 LLX_Pheno07.pdf

Cosmology

110 United TeV scale picture of dark matter and baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

Slides pheno07_babu.pdf.pdf

111 Non-thermal leptogenesis with strongly hierarchical right handed neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Nefer Senoguz (University of Kansas)

Slides senoguz_pheno.pdf

112 Leptogenesis with quasi-Dirac neutrinos in warped extra dimensions

Speaker: Dr Kenji Kadota (University of Minnesota)

Slides kadota.ppt

113 Space-time propagation of neutrino wave packets in the early universe

Speaker: Mr Chiu Man Ho (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides C.M.Ho_Pheno07.pdf

114 Constraining accelerating cosmologies with distance measures

Speaker: Mr Yu Gao (UW Madison)

Slides Constrain_Acc_Cos_Backup.pdf.pdf Constraining_Accelerating_Cosmologies_with_Distance_Measures.ppt

115 Constraints on leptogenesis from fermion masses in SO(10) GUTs

Speaker: Dr Liliana Velasco-Sevilla (University of Minnesota)

Slides TLept_Mads_07.pdf

Fermions and flavor

116 The role of finite groups as family symmetries for quarks and leptons

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

Slides pheno07-CM.pdf

117 A model independent survey of lepton number violation via effective operators

Speaker: Mr James Jenkins (Northwestern University)

Slides Pheno07.pdf

118 A new mechanism for neutrino mass generation and associated Higgs signals

Speaker: Mr Steven Gabriel (Oklahoma State University)

Slides gabriel.talk.pdf

119 A chiral fourth generation

Speaker: Dr Tim Tait (Argonne National Lab)

Slides tait-pheno07.pdf

120 Lepton masses and mixing without Yukawa hierarchies

Speaker: Dr Wiliam Ponce (Universidad de Antioquia)

Slides Madison.pdf

121 Phenomenology of the singlet extended standard model

Speaker: Mr Mathew McCaskey (UW Madison)

Slides mccaskeypheno07.ppt

Meson physics

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 covarellipheno07.pdf covarellipheno07.ppt

124 Radiative and leptonic decays at the B factories

Speaker: Dr Chris Schilling (University of Texas)

Slides schilling.pdf

125 Exclusive hadron production in e+e- annihilation

Speaker: Dr Yi Kai (SLAC)

Slides yikpheno07.ppt.ppt

126 Measurements of Vub and Vcb at BaBar

Speaker: Dr Kerstin Tackmann (LBNL)

Slides Vqb_BaBar_KerstinTackmann.pdf

127 Searches for lepton-flavor violation at BaBar

Speaker: Dr Jeffrey A. Kolb (University of Oregon)

Slides kolbPheno07.pdf.pdf

Topics in Beyond the Standard Model

128 Solving problems of 4D minimal SO(10) model in a warped extra dimension

Speaker: Dr Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)

Slides Kikuchi.pdf

129 Holographic mixing quantified

Speaker: Mr Brian Batell (University of Minnesota)

Slides pheno.pdf

130 D0-D0 bar mixing in multi-Higgs models

Speaker: Mr Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Wisconsin-May_8_pm.pdf

131 Breakdown of the narrow width approximation in BSM physics

Speaker: Mr Daniel Berdine (University of Rochester)

Slides PHENO07_new.pdf PHENO07_USETHIS.pdf

132 Landscape of little hierarchy

Speaker: Dr Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)

Slides mimura-PHENO.ppt

Wednesday, May 9

Plenary IIIa

133 QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY-Buffalo)

Slides pheno07_wackeroth.pdf

134 Signatures in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector

Speaker: Prof. Shufang Su (University of Arizona)

Slides ewsb_sig.pdf

135 Anticipation of the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Tom LeCompte (ANL)

Slides LeCompteLHC.ppt LecompteLHC_(revised).ppt

10:30 AM coffee

Plenary IIIb

136 Unusual physics signatures at LHC

Speaker: Prof. Matt Strassler (University of Washington)

Slides strassler.ppt

137 Path from the LHC to the new standard model via on-shell effective theories

Speaker: Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard University)

Slides nima.pdf

138 ILC in the LHC era

Speaker: Prof. Jack Gunion (UC-Davis)

Slides pheno07-gunion.pdf.pdf