Phenomenology 2010 Symposium

May 10, 2010, 7:30 AM → May 12, 2010, 12:30 PM America/Chicago

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

The 2010 Phenomenology Symposium was held May 10-12, 2010 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PHENO 10 covered the latest topics in particle phenomenology and theory plus related issues in astrophysics and cosmology. Now that the LHC has begun its historic mission, we are all excited about the prospect of new discoveries. PHENO 10 Organizers: Vernon Barger, Neil Christensen, Linda Dolan, Lisa Everett, Francis Halzen, Tao Han (chair), Ian-Woo Kim, Frank Petriello, Sogee Spinner, Xerxes Tata and Maike Trenkel.

Mon, May 10

7:30 AM → 8:25 AM Registration

8:25 AM → 10:15 AM Plenary 1a

8:25 AM Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Vernon Barger (UW Madison)

8:30 AM The Path to Discovery in CMS

Speaker: Prof. John Conway (UC Davis)

Paper CMS-7TeV-BSM.pdf.pdf

Slides Conway-Pheno-2010.pdf

9:05 AM Experimentation at the LHC (ATLAS)

Speaker: Prof. Jianming Qian (Michigan)

Slides JQPheno.pdf

9:40 AM Theoretical Strategies for LHC Physics

Speaker: Prof. Lance Dixon (SLAC)

Slides LDPheno10.pptx

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 1b

10:45 AM SM Physics at the Tevatron (D0)

Speaker: Prof. Shabnam Jabeen (Brown University)

Slides SMPhysicsAtTheTevatronJabeen.pdf

11:20 AM New Physics Searches at the Tevatron (CDF)

Speaker: Prof. Simona Rolli (Tufts University)

Slides http://ncdf70.fnal.gov:8001/presentations/pheno2010-Rolli.pdf

11:55 AM Fermilab: Now and Future

Speaker: Prof. Young-Kee Kim (FNAL)

Slides 3-Kim.pdf 3-Kim.ppt

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 326 Extra Dimensions

2:00 PM Clean Signals of Little Randall-Sundrum Models at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Davoudiasl_par_pheno10.pdf

2:15 PM Revealing RS Hidden Valleys

Speaker: Prof. Jay Hubisz (Syracuse University)

Slides Hubisz_PH10.pdf

2:30 PM Unparticle Solution to the Hierarchy Problem

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Setzer (University of Melbourne)

Slides Unparticle_Solution_to_Hierarchy.pdf

2:45 PM Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at CDF

Speaker: Mr Tingjun Yang (FNAL)

Slides pheno10.pdf

3:00 PM A viable RS Model for Quarks and Leptons with T' Flavor Symmetry

Speaker: Mr Felix Yu (UC Irvine)

Paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.3963v2

Slides Felix_Yu_-_T'_RS.ppt

3:15 PM A Warped Solution to the Strong CP Problem

Speaker: Mr Don Bunk (Syracuse University)

Slides RS_axion_Pheno10__p2.pdf

3:30 PM Warped Penguins

Speaker: Mr Tsai Yuhsin (LEPP Cornell University)

Slides PhenoWarpPenguin.pdf

3:45 PM Asymptotic Safety at the LHC"

Speaker: Mr Erik Gerwick (University of Edinburgh / Universitat Heidelberg)

Slides pheno_ed2.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 121 SUSY 1

2:00 PM Beyond MSSM Higgs sectors

Speaker: Dr Jos Francisco Zurita (University of Zurich)

Slides BMSSM_Higgs_sectors.pdf

2:15 PM Higgs Doublet Extensions to the MSSM

Speaker: Ms Valerie Plaus (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides V.Plaus_Pheno_'10.pdf

2:30 PM Lifting the Higgs Mass in a Generalized NMSSM

Speaker: Ms Johanna Olson (University of Notre Dame)

Slides GMSB_PHENO_2010.pdf

2:45 PM Light Higgs mass in the S-MSSM

Speaker: Mr Alejandro de la Puente (University of Notre Dame)

Slides Mass_of_the_Light_Higgs_in_the_S-MSSM.pdf

3:00 PM The MSSM Higgs Case for Run III.

Speaker: Mr Patrick Draper (University of Chicago)

Slides Higgs_Tevatron_RunIII_PID.pdf

3:15 PM Unusual Higgs Decays in Low-Scale Gauge Mediation

Speaker: Prof. David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

Slides d_morrissey-hgrav.pdf.pdf

3:30 PM Discovering MSSM Higgses with jet substructure

Speaker: Dr Adam Martin (Fermilab)

Slides aomartin_pheno.pdf

3:45 PM Single slepton with polarized tops at LHC

Speaker: Dr Santosh Rai (Oklahoma State University)

Paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4708v1

Slides skrai_talk.pdf.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 313 Dark Matter 1

2:00 PM Current status of the XENON100 dark matter experiment

Speaker: Mr Yuan Mei (Rice University)

Slides Xenon100-Pheno10a.pdf

2:15 PM Fermion WIMPless Dark Matter at DeepCore and IceCube

Speaker: Mr Enrico Maria Sessolo (University of Kansas)

Slides PHENO10.pdf

2:30 PM Complex Scalar Dark Matter and CoGeNT Data

Speaker: Mr Mathew McCaskey (UW Madison)

Slides mccaskey.pdf

2:45 PM Gamma-ray Haze via Dark Matter and Millisecond Pulsars

Speaker: Mr Dmitry Malyshev (NYU CCPP)

Slides MalyshevPheno2010.pdf.pdf

3:00 PM What can diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background tell us about DM?

Speaker: Mr Alexander Belikov (University of Chicago)

Slides BelikovICv2.pdf

3:15 PM Probing dark matter with AGN jets

Speaker: Mr Lorenzo Ubaldi (University of Santa Cruz)

Slides AGNdark.pdf

3:30 PM Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation

Speaker: Mr Mihailo Backovic (University of Kansas)

Slides BackovicPheno2010.pdf

3:45 PM Correlation of Spin-Independent and Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Mr Timothy Cohen (University of Michigan)

Slides Cohen_SIvsSD_Presentation_PHENO_2010.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 235 Cosmology/Astrophysics

2:00 PM Higgs Inflation, Quantum Smearing, and the Lower Bound on r

Speaker: Mr Mansoor Ur Rehmand (University of Delaware)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5915

Slides Mansoor_Pheno_2010.pdf

2:15 PM Cosmological constant and torsion

Speaker: Dr Nikodem Poplawski (Indiana University)

Slides Cosmological_Constant_and_Torsion.pdf

2:30 PM Supersymmetric leptogenesis of B-L gauge theory

Speaker: Mr Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)

Slides 3meng.pdf

2:45 PM Baryogenesis and Late-Decaying Moduli

Speaker: Dr Kuver Sinha (Texas A&M University)

Slides PHENOfinalSinha.pdf

3:00 PM Ratchet Model of Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)

Slides

• takeuchi-figureJ.pdf
• takeuchi-figureJT.pdf
• takeuchi-figureP.pdf
• takeuchi-Pheno2010.pdf

3:15 PM Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves During Preheating

Speaker: Mr Brian Vlcek (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Slides Pheno10_Vlcek.ppt Pheno10_Vlcek_Slides.pdf

3:30 PM Axion luminosity of Active Galactic Nuclei

Speaker: Dr Subhayan Mandal (University of Liege)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3036

Slides S_Mandal-Pheno_X.pdf.pdf

3:45 PM A Gauge Independent Analysis of the Electroweak Phase Transition

Speaker: Mr Hiren Patel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 335 Exotic Particles

2:00 PM Production of Exotic Particles for Experimentation

Speaker: Dr Richard Kriske (University of Minnesota)

2:15 PM Microscopic Quirks at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Dr Guiyu Huang (UC Davis)

Slides quirkmc.pdf

2:30 PM Sextet Scalar Phenomenology at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Dr Qing-Hong Cao (Argonne National Laboratory/ University of Chicago)

Slides CAO_pheno10.pdf

2:45 PM Exclusion of Exotic Top-like Quark with -4/3 Electric Charge using soft lepton tags

Speaker: Dr Andrew Beretvas (Fermilab)

Slides SLT.pdf

3:00 PM Searching for colorons at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Joshua Sayre (University of Oklahoma)

Slides pheno10.pdf

3:15 PM Phenomenology of possible detection of R-hadrons at LHC

Speaker: Dr Olga Piskounova (Lebedev Physics Institute)

Slides olgapiskunova.pdf.PDF

3:30 PM Double quarkonium production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Chaehyun Yu (KIAS)

Slides PHENO2010,yu.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 325 QCD

2:00 PM Progress on PDF analysis and its implications for the LHC physics

Speaker: Prof. Hung-Liang Lai (Taipei Municipal U. of Education / Michigan State U.)

Slides pheno2010HLLai.pdf.pdf

2:15 PM Constraints on gluino-like fermions by the world hadronic data and the LHC

Speaker: Dr Marco Guzzi (Southern Methodist University)

Slides Guzzi_Pheno2010_rev.pdf

2:30 PM Three-pion initial states in the dielectron production below rho(770)

Speaker: Prof. Peter Lichard (Silesian University in Opava)

2:45 PM Limitations on the predictions for pT-balance in events with a Z-boson and jets

Speaker: Dr Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides paramonov_alexander.pdf

3:00 PM Improving the precision of quark masses

Speaker: Dr Christian Sturm (BNL)

Slides talk.pdf

3:15 PM Double Parton Scattering at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Chris Jackson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides DPSpheno2010.pdf

3:30 PM Multi-condensate finite density low temperature holographic systems

Speaker: Prof. Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Slides terveldhuis.pdf.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM 313 Dark Matter 2

4:30 PM One Model Explains COGENT, CDMS, and DAMA/LIBRA

Speaker: John Ralston (Kansas University)

Slides RalstonPheno10V2.pdf

4:45 PM Anti-deuterons as a Probe of Generic Dark Matter Candidates

Speaker: Dr Yanou Cui (Harvard University)

Slides Pheno10-YC.pdf

5:00 PM Thermal relics and galactic dynamics of dark matter with Sommerfeld effects

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

Slides pheno2010.pdf

5:15 PM Prospects for Inelastic Dark Matter

Speaker: Ms Daniele Alves (SLAC)

Slides alvesPHENO2010.pdf

5:30 PM Composite Inelastic Dark Matter

Speaker: Mr Siavosh Rezvan Behbahani (Stanford University / SLAC)

Slides pheno2010SiavoshCIDM.pdf

5:45 PM Dark matter relative velocity effects in the extragalactic gamma-rays

Speaker: Mr Sheldon Campbell (Texas A&M University)

Slides sscampbell_pheno2010.pdf

6:00 PM Nonstandard Dark Matter Interactions and Connections to LHC

Speaker: Dr Jennifer Kile (BNL)

Slides kile.pdf.pdf

6:15 PM Dark Matter: from PAMELA to CDMS

Speaker: Mr Hao Zhang (The University of Chicago Peking University)

Slides Dark_matter_-_from_PAMELA_to_CDMS_and_back.pdf

6:30 PM Holographic Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Chiu Man Ho (Vanderbilt University)

Slides MONDianDM.pdf

6:45 PM W/Z Bremsstrahlung as the Dominant Annihilation Channel for Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr James Dent (Arizona State University)

Slides jbdent_pheno2010.pdf

7:00 PM Light Dark Matter production in heavy meson decays

Speaker: Mr Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)

Slides DM_production_in_meson_decays.pdf

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM 235 Higgs 1

4:30 PM A Novel SM Higgs search channel at LHC

Speaker: Dr Arjun Menon (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides pheno10.pdf

4:45 PM Higgs searches using subjets

Speaker: Dr Michael Spannowsky (ITS University of Oregon)

Slides MSPTalk_Pheno.pdf

5:00 PM Fat jets for ttH Production

Speaker: Mr Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

Slides pheno_10.pdf

5:15 PM Hidden Higgs scenarios: new constraints and prospects at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Radovan Dermisek (Indiana University)

Slides dermisek_pheno_2010.pdf.pdf

5:30 PM Higgs scenario from the Peccei-Quinn mechanism at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Chuan-Ren Chen (University of Tokyo)

Slides pheno10_PQhiggs_chen.pdf

5:45 PM Search for Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson at CDF

Speaker: Dr Yoshikazu Nagai (University of Tsukuba)

Slides Pheno10_nagai.pdf

6:00 PM Higgs Boson Pair Production within the Lee-Wick Standard Model

Speaker: Dr Terrance Figy (CERN)

Slides figytm_Pheno2010.pdf.pdf

6:15 PM Search for High Mass SM Higgs at CDF

Speaker: Prof. Mark Neubauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides

• PHENO2010.pdf
• PHENO2010.ppt
• PHENO2010.pptx

6:30 PM Search for Light Higgs Boson from Top Quark Decays at CDF

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Ivanov (KSU)

Slides nMSSMHiggs_ivanov.pdf

6:45 PM Search for a SM Higgs boson in the diphoton final state at CDF

Speaker: Ms Karen Bland (Baylor University)

Slides Pheno_SMHiggsDiPho_051010.ppt

7:00 PM Search for the SM Higgs production in the ZH to nu, nu, b, b channel at DZero

Speaker: Mr Abhinav Dubey (University of Delhi)

Slides Pheno10.pdf

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM 335 Mass/Spin Measurements

4:30 PM Measuring mass and spin in boosted decay chain

Speaker: Dr Jing Shao (Syracuse University)

4:45 PM New particle mass spectrometry at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Won Sang Cho (Univ. of Tokyo IPMU)

Slides New_particle_mass_spectrometry_at_the_LHC___pheno2010___wscho.pdf

5:00 PM Determination of SUSY masses from MT2 methods

Speaker: Dr Yasuhiro Shimizu (Tohoku University)

Slides pheno2010_shimizu.pdf

5:15 PM Extracting particle mass information at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Partha Konar (University of Florida)

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

Slides Smin_konar.pdf

5:30 PM Determining the masses of semi-invisibly decaying particles at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Myeonghun Park (University of Florida)

Slides PHENO2010.ppt

5:45 PM Spin Measurement in Events w/ ME @ the LHC

Speaker: Dr Zhenyu Han (Harvard University)

Slides zhenyu_han.pdf

6:00 PM Higher Twist Effects in Structure Function Moments"

Speaker: Mr Mike Glatzmaier (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Pheno.pdf

6:15 PM Spin Correlation Effects in Top Quark Pair Production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Gregory Mahlon (Penn State Mont Alto)

Slides LHCspin.ppt

6:30 PM Azimuthal correlation in Higgs or graviton decays to vector-boson pairs

Speaker: Dr Kentarou Mawatari (Heidelberg Univ.)

Slides mawatari_pheno10.pdf

6:45 PM Spin determination of single-produced resonances at hadron colliders

Speaker: Mr Nhan Tran (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides nt100510.pdf

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM 325 Precision Calculations and MC Tools

4:30 PM Single top quark production at NLO at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University)

Slides Pheno2010SingleTopLHC.pdf

4:45 PM NLO QCD corrections to 4b production

Speaker: Mr Nicolas Greiner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides NicolasGreiner_pheno.pdf

5:00 PM EW Radiative Correction to NuTeV anomaly: Finite fermion mass effect

Speaker: Dr Kwangwoo Park (Southern Methodist University)

Slides kwpark.pdf

5:15 PM Precision predictions for Beyond the Standard Model processes

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Fuks (IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides fuks.pdf

5:30 PM NLO electroweak contributions to squark pair production at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Jan Germer (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics Munich)

Slides germer_pheno10.pdf

5:45 PM Rapidity Gap Events for Squark Pair Production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Sascha Bornhauser (University of New Mexico)

Slides Pheno10b.pdf

6:00 PM Automatic event reweighting with matrix element in MadGraph/MadEvent

Speaker: Dr Pierre Artoisenet (The Ohio State University)

Slides PierreArtoisenet_pheno2010.pdf.pdf

6:15 PM WHIZARD 2.0: A universal event generator for LHC

Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Kilian (University of Siegen)

Slides kilian-whizard.pdf.pdf

6:30 PM Tools for Drell-Yan at NNLO

Speaker: Mr Ryan Gavin (UW Madison)

Slides Pheno_10_Gavin.pdf.pdf

6:45 PM (Non-SM) W gamma j production at NLO QCD

Speaker: Mr Christoph Englert (Heidelberg Univ.)

Slides talk.pdf

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM 326 GUTs, Strings and Flavor

4:30 PM The Double Cover of A_5 and the Flavor Problem

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

Slides pheno10talk_alex.pdf

4:45 PM Supersymmetric GUT with Additional Higgs Boson

Speaker: Dr Jason Evans (IPMU University of Tokyo)

Slides EvansPheno10.pdf

5:00 PM Phenomenology of E6 SUSY GUT with SU(2) flavor symmetry

Speaker: Dr Sung-Gi Kim (Indiana University)

Slides S_KIM.pptx

5:15 PM SU(9) Family unification

Speaker: Prof. Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State Unversity)

Slides nandi_talk.pdf.pdf

5:30 PM Family symmetries for fermion masses and mixings and SUSY flavor

Speaker: Prof. Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State Unversity)

Slides babu_pheno10.ppt.ppt

5:45 PM The LHC as a Time Machine

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

Slides LHCtimemachine_May2010.pdf LHCtimemachine_May2010.pdf

6:00 PM Lepton Flavor Violation in the Minimal SO(10) X A4 SUSY GUT

Speaker: Mr Abdelhamid Albaid (Oklahoma State Unversity)

Slides LVF2-1.pdf

6:15 PM P-Adic String Thermodynamics

Speaker: Dr Jose Cembranos (University of Minnesota)

Slides phenopadicf.pdf

6:30 PM A Holographic Perspective on Gauge Mediation

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

Slides mcguirk.pdf.pdf

6:45 PM F-ast Proton Decay

Speaker: Dr Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)

Paper Elements_of_F-ast_Proton_Decay.pdf

Slides F-ast_Talk_W.pptx

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM 121 SUSY 2

4:30 PM Measuring the Light (Dark matter) Neutralino Mass at the ILC

Speaker: Mr Herbi Dreiner (UC Santa Cruz)

Slides dreiner-pheno-10.pdf.pdf dreiner-pheno-10.pdf.pdf

5:00 PM First Row CKM Unitarity Tests and the MSSM

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

Slides CKM.pdf

5:15 PM Comments on the vacuum structure and stability in SUSY theories

Speaker: Dr Jean-Francois Fortin (University of California-San Diego)

Slides dS_Pheno10.pdf

5:30 PM Majorana and Dirac neutralinos at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides freitas.pdf.pdf

5:45 PM SUSY-Yukawa Sum Rule at the LHC

Speaker: Mr David Curtin (Cornell University)

Slides susy_sumrule_phenotalk.pdf

6:00 PM Determination of Non-Universal SUGRA Models at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Mr Abram Krislock (Texas A&M University)

Slides nuSUGRA-PHENOv2.pdf

6:15 PM SUSY Without Prejudice at the LHC

Speaker: Dr James Gainer (Argonne National Laboratory / Northwestern University)

Slides talk.pdf

6:30 PM Testing Yukawa-Unified SUSY at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Mr Andre Lessa (University of Oklahoma)

Slides PHENO10.pdf

6:45 PM Monojets in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Grab (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics)

Slides Pheno10c.pdf

7:00 PM mu to e R-symmetric supersymmetry

Speaker: Mr Ricky Fok (University of Oregon)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0556

Slides rfok.pdf

Tue, May 11

8:30 AM → 10:20 AM Plenary 2a

8:30 AM Physics at the LHCb (talk canceled due to travel delay)

Slides nakada.pdf

8:30 AM The supersymmetric little hierarchy problem and possible solutions

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides Martin.pdf

9:05 AM Flavor Physics in the New Decade

Speaker: Prof. Yuval Grossman (Cornell)

Slides 02_YGrossmann.pdf

9:40 AM New Results from MINOS

Speaker: Prof. Matthew Strait (Minnesota)

Slides MINOS_PHENO2010.pdf.pdf

10:00 AM New Results from SNO

Speaker: Prof. Stanley Seibert (LANL)

Slides Seibert_Pheno10.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 2b

10:45 AM Neutrinos and Lepton Flavors

Speaker: Prof. Rabi Mohapatra (Maryland)

Slides pheno10final.pdf

11:20 AM Higgs Look-alikes at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Joe Lykken (FNAL)

Slides lykken_pheno10.pdf

11:55 AM In Search of Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Prof. Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Davoudiasl_Pheno10_Ple.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 313 Dark Matter 3

2:00 PM Neutralino dark matter annihilation to mono-energetic gamma rays

Speaker: Prof. Haim Goldberg (Northeastern University)

Slides pheno_2010_goldberg.pdf

2:15 PM Non-universal Gaugino Masses and Dark Matter and the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)

Slides phenoBDN.pdf

2:30 PM Leptogenesis as Common Origin for Matter/Dark Matter and Direct Detection

Speaker: Mr Haipeng An (University of Maryland)

Slides leptodark.ppt

2:45 PM MSSM signals for dark matter indirect detection

Speaker: Mr Randel Cotta (Stanford University/SLAC)

Slides RCotta-MSSMCRs.pdf

3:00 PM Light WIMPs: the Largest Detection Scattering Cross Sections in the MSSM

Speaker: Mr Eric Kuflik (University of Michigan)

Slides PHENO.pdf

3:15 PM Vacuum Stability of Singlet Dark Matter Models

Speaker: Mr Matthew Gonderinger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides gonderinger_pheno2010.pdf.pdf

3:30 PM Upsilon Decays into Light Scalar Dark Matter

Speaker: Mr Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)

Slides yeghiyan_pheno2010.pdf

3:45 PM Looking for an Inert Double at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)

Slides IDM_talk_12min.pdf.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 235 Higgs 2

2:00 PM The Identity of the Higgs @ the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Ian Low (Argonne Nat'l Lab/Northwestern U.)

Slides Pheno10_IanLow.pdf

2:15 PM LHC Higgs boson search at 7 TeV

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

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3875

Slides Pheno10-Higgs.pdf

2:30 PM Using Jet Substructure to Probe Exotic Higgs Decays

Speaker: Mr Arun Thalapillil (University of Chicago)

Slides JetSubstructure_Pheno10.pdf

2:45 PM Studies of the general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

Speaker: Dr Markos Maniatis (Heidelberg University Germany)

Slides maniatis.pdf

3:00 PM LHC phenomenology of two-Higgs doublet model for neutrino mass

Speaker: Mr Shain Davidson (Carleton University)

Slides Davidson-PHENO.pdf

3:15 PM Exploring Higgs Triplet Models via Vector Boson Scattering at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Ken Moats (Carleton University)

Slides pheno2010_kmoats.pdf

3:30 PM CDF search for a low mass SM Higgs boson in the di-tau decay channel

Speaker: Mr Pierluigi Totaro (INFN and University of Trieste)

Slides PHENO2010.pdf

3:45 PM An Unusual Two Higgs Doublet Model in Warped Space

Speaker: Mr Andrew Spray (TRIUMF)

Slides Spray.pdf.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 335 Collider Signatures 1

2:00 PM Searching for New Physics in di-jet production at the LHC

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

Slides pheno10.pdf

2:15 PM Measurement of the prompt di-photon production cross section at CDF

Speaker: Dr Costas Vellidis (Fermilab)

Slides Pheno2010.pdf

2:30 PM New Source Descriptions Using y=0 Primary Cross Sections at 1.8 TeV

Speaker: Prof. Albert Erwin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides source_descriptions2.ppt.ppt

2:45 PM Performance of jet reconstruction and calibration in first ATLAS data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV

Speaker: Dr Frank Olaf Berghaus (University of Victoria)

Slides atlas_jet_performance.pdf

3:00 PM Performance of Etmiss reconstruction in first ATLAS data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV

Speaker: Ms Elisabeth Petit (CPPM Marseille)

Slides Pheno10_ETmiss_ATLAS_Petit.pdf

3:15 PM Measurement of Bose-Einstein Correlations in the first LHC-CMS data

Speaker: Dr Massimo Nespolo (Univ. of Padova and INFN)

Slides Nespolo_BEC_Pheno10.pdf

3:30 PM Jet shape at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Zhao Li (Michigan State University)

Slides ZhaoLi_Pheno.pdf

3:45 PM Early Prospects for Electroweak Physics in CMS

Speaker: Dr Ping Tan (Fermilab)

Slides PING_TAN_PHENO10.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 325 Neutrinos 1

2:00 PM Status of the T2K Experiment

Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Wilkes (University of Washington)

2:15 PM Model of leptons from SO(3) to A_4

Speaker: Mr Joshua Berger (Cornell University)

Slides berger-a4.pdf.pdf

2:30 PM The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment

Speaker: Chris White (IIT)

Slides Daya_Bay_PHENO.ppt

2:45 PM Design and Operation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors

Speaker: Mr Bryce Littlejohn (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Littlejohn_DayaBay_Pheno2010.pdf.pdf

3:00 PM Particle Physics with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Speaker: Dr Juande Zornoza (IFIC)

Slides Madison-may10-particle2.ppt

3:15 PM The GERDA experiment, a search for neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Dr Daniel Lenz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Lenz_GERDA.pdf.pdf

3:30 PM Present and future scenario of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments

Speaker: Dr Marisa Pedretti (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Slides PHENO-2010-pedretti.pdf

3:45 PM Ultra precise leptonic measurements of Weinberg angle

Speaker: Dr Sanjib Agarwalla (Virginia Tech)

Slides pheno10_sanjib.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 326 Heavy Flavor

2:00 PM Measurement of BR(K to e nu ) / BR ( K to mu nu )

Speaker: Dr Roberto Piandani (INFN Perugia)

Slides piandani_pheno2010.pdf

2:15 PM Irreducible Uncertainties in b to s gamma

Speaker: Dr Gil Paz (The University of Chicago)

Slides Pheno2010_gilpaz.pdf

2:30 PM New Physics in B_s to J/psi phi and B_s mixing

Speaker: Dr Murugeswaran Duraisamy (The University of Mississippi)

2:45 PM Decay rates and invariant mass spectra for eta ->pi_0 gamma gamma and eta'-> pi_0(eta) gamma gamma

Speaker: Dr Renata Jora (U A Barcelona)

Paper Wisconsin.pdf

3:00 PM Isolated leptons from heavy flavor decays - theory and data

Speaker: Prof. Zack Sullivan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides ZS_Pheno10.pdf

3:15 PM Effective operators in top quark production and decay

Speaker: Mr Cen Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides slides.pdf

3:30 PM Simultaneous Heavy Flavor Fraction and Top Cross Section Measurement at CDF

Speaker: Dr Mark Mathis (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides MathisPHENOMay2010.pdf

3:45 PM Search for a Heavy Top t' to Wq in Top Events

Speaker: Mr David Cox (University of California Davis)

Slides PHENO_dcox.pdf.pdf

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM 121 SUSY 3

2:00 PM Constraining light dark matter models at LHC

Speaker: Dr Masahiro Ibe (UC Irvine)

2:15 PM Single Gravitino Coupling to MSSM

Speaker: Mr Feng Luo (University of Minnesota)

Slides pheno10_(Feng_Luo).pdf

2:30 PM Effective Potential in Minimal Supersymmetric Left-Right model

Speaker: Dr Ayon Patra (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Pheno2010_Ayon.pdf

2:45 PM RG Invariants in the MSSM

Speaker: Dr Nausheen Shah (Fermilab)

Slides NRShah.pdf

3:00 PM Phenomenology of deflected mirage mediation

Speaker: Mr Yongyan Rao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides pheno10.ppt

3:15 PM Gaugino-mediated SUSY breaking in a 5D warped spacetime

Speaker: Mr Toshifumi Yamada (Sokendai and KEK)

Slides Low-scale_Gaugino_Mediation_in_Warped_Spacetime.pptx

3:30 PM Dark matter in models with non-universal gaugino masses

Speaker: Mr James Younkin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides pheno2010_Younkin.pdf

3:45 PM What if Supersymmetry Breaking Unifies beyond the GUT scale?

Speaker: Dr Azar Mustafayev (University of Minnesota)

Slides pheno10_mustafayev.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM 313 Dark Matter 4

4:30 PM Dirac gaugino as leptophilic dark matter

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

Slides PHENO2010_JCPark.pdf

4:45 PM The WIMPless Miracle

Speaker: Dr Jason Kumar (University of Hawaii)

Slides pheno2010c.pdf

5:00 PM Dark Matter, LHC and G2-MSSM

Speaker: Mr Ran Lu (University of Michigan)

Slides ran_lu_pheno10.pdf

5:15 PM Dark Discrete Gauge Symmetries

Speaker: Dr Brian Batell (Perimeter Institute)

Slides batell.pdf

5:30 PM Dark matter from dynamical SUSY breaking

Speaker: Dr JiJi Fan (Princeton University)

Slides pheno10.pdf

5:45 PM Flavor Physics and Dark Matter in SUSY GUT Models

Speaker: Dr Yudi Santoso (University of Kansas, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy)

Slides santoso-pheno10.pdf.pdf

6:00 PM Collider signature in split-UED

Speaker: Dr Michihisa Takeuchi (Heidelberg University)

Slides Pheno2010.pdf

6:15 PM Modifying Dark Matter Freeze Out at Electroweak Scale Phase Transition

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

Slides ALong_222_Pheno10.pdf

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM 235 EW Symmetry Breaking

4:30 PM Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in a Little Higgs Model

Speaker: Dr Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University)

Slides LittleHiggsPHENO10.pdf

4:45 PM Electroweak Symmetry Breaking with Holomorphic Supersymmetric NJL Model

Speaker: Prof. Otto Kong (National Central University)

Slides kong.pdf

5:00 PM A Stable Pion

Speaker: Dr Yang Bai (Fermilab)

Slides StablePion_Pheno10.pdf

5:15 PM Spontaneous CP Violation vs. Collective Symmetry Breaking

Speaker: Dr Ze'ev Surujon (UC San Diego)

Slides LHCPV-pres-short.pdf

5:30 PM Model Independent Bounds on Kinetic Mixing

Speaker: Mr Anson Hook (Stanford University)

Slides AnsonPheno2010.pdf

5:45 PM Little Higgs and T-parity

Speaker: Ms Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)

Slides LittleHiggs&Tparity.pdf

6:00 PM Custodial Isospin Violation in the Lee-Wick Standard Model

Speaker: Mr Arsham Farzinnia (Michigan State University)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0343

Slides Custodial_Isospin_Violation_in_the_Lee-Wick_Standard_Model.pdf

6:15 PM A part-per-million determination of the muon lifetime and Fermi constant

Speaker: Mr David Webber (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides Webber_Pheno_2010_final.pptx

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM 335 Collider Signatures 2

4:30 PM Vanishing Dimension And Planar Events At The LHC

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

Slides pheno_2010.pdf

4:45 PM Broadening the reach for new physics at the LHC with Jets and MET

Speaker: Mr Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC)

Slides IzaguirrePheno10JetsMET.pdf

5:00 PM New Physics Signals in Longitudinal Gauge Boson Scattering at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Wenhan Zhu (Princeton University)

Slides vv_scattering.pdf

5:15 PM Multi-Photon Signals at LHC

Speaker: Mr Pedro Schwaller (University of Zurich)

Slides schwaller_pheno10.key schwaller_pheno10.pdf

5:30 PM Enhanced Tau Lepton Signatures at LHC in Constrained Supersymmetric Seesaw

Speaker: Dr Kenji Kadota (Univ. of Michigan)

Slides kadotapheno10.pdf

5:45 PM Searching for high speed long-lived charged massive particles at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Jie Chen (Florida State University)

Slides highspeedchamp.pdf

6:00 PM Triple-Top Signal of New Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Brian Yencho (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides yencho.pdf

6:15 PM Observable n-nbar oscillations with new physics at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Muhammad Ajaib (University of Delaware)

Slides nnbar-adeel.pdf

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM 325 Neutrinos 2

4:30 PM Neutrino oscillation in the LHC era

Speaker: Prof. Zralek Marek (University of Silesia)

Slides PHENO_2010,_May_10-12.pdf

4:45 PM Neutrino oscillations and Lorentz symmetry breaking

Speaker: Mr Jorge S Diaz (Indiana University)

5:00 PM Neutrino masses, dark matter and B-L symmetry at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Tong Li (Peking University)

Slides pheno2010-tli.pdf

5:15 PM The Origin of Neutrino Mass in the Standard Model

Speaker: Dr Bob McElrath (University of Heidelberg)

Slides pheno_2010_beamer.pdf

5:30 PM Range of Majorana Neutrino Mixing Parameters Including Yukawa Couplings

Speaker: Mr Wei-Chih Huang (Northwestern University)

Slides Range_of_Majorana_Neutrino_Mixing_Parameters_Including_Yukawa.pdf

5:45 PM Right-handed neutrino magnetic moments

Speaker: Mr Kyungwook Kim (University of California, Riverside)

Slides PHENO2010_kyungwook.pdf

6:00 PM Two--loop Neutrino Mass Generation through Leptoquark

Speaker: Mr Julio Julio (Oklahoma State University)

Slides julio.pdf

6:15 PM Neutrino Mass from Fine Tuning

Speaker: Mr Zeke Murdock (Oklahoma State University)

Slides pheno2010zeke.pdf

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM 326 Top Physics

4:30 PM Measurement of top pair spin correlation using CDF Run II lepton+jets data

Speaker: Dr Alexei Varganov (University of Michigan)

Slides Lepton+Jets_TTbar_Spin_Correlations.pdf

4:45 PM Recent CDF Results on the Measurement of W Polarization in Top Decay

Speaker: Dr Mousumi Datta (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides pheno2010-Whelicity.pdf pheno2010-Whelicity.ppt

5:00 PM Top Mass Measurement at CDF

Speaker: Dr Paul Lujan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides plujan-pheno10.pdf

5:15 PM Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the dilepton decay

Speaker: Mr Chang-Seong Moon (Seoul National University)

Slides 10.05.11_PHENO_Chang-Seong_Moon.pdf

5:30 PM Measurements of top quark width and mass in Lepton + Jets channel

Speaker: Mr Jian Tang (the University of Chicago)

Slides PHENO2010_JianTang.pdf

5:45 PM Top quark forward-backward asymmetry from new t-channel physics.

Speaker: Mr Sunghoon Jung (University of Michigan)

Slides Top_asymmetry_PHENO_2010.pdf

6:00 PM Top anomalous coupling at the Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Dr Sudhir Gupta (Iowa State University)

Slides cpxtopLHCSKG.pdf

6:15 PM Search For TTBAR Resonances In Multi-Jets At CDF

Speaker: Mr Yuri Oksuzian (University of Florida)

Slides PHENO_Yuri.pdf

4:30 PM → 7:00 PM 121 Z'

4:30 PM Early Z' Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Seth Quackenbush (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides earlyzppheno10.pdf

4:45 PM LHC study of TeV-scale Z' resonance decaying to Zh/WW via jet substructure

Speaker: Dr Minho Son (Yale University)

Slides Pheno10_mhson_talk.pdf

5:00 PM Determining properties of a Z' at the LHC using third generation fermions.

Speaker: Mr Travis Martin (Carleton University)

Slides TMartin_Pheno2010.pdf

5:15 PM Z' B-L phenomenology at LHC and ILC

Speaker: Ms Elaine Fortes (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Z_B-L_phenomenology_at_LHC_and_ILC_elaine.pdf

5:30 PM Top-quark Polarization and the Chiral Couplings of a W' at the LHC

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

Slides IanLewisPheno2010fin.pdf

5:45 PM The W' Search in SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) models at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Mr Jianghao Yu (Michigan State University)

Slides yu221W.pdf

6:00 PM Muon g-2 and a peculiar extra U(1)

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

Paper jaehoarticle-XtraU(1).pdf

Slides pheno10(muong-2andpeculiaru1).pdf

6:15 PM Hidden U(1) at the Electroweak Scale

Speaker: Mr Benjamin Grossmann (Oklahoma State University)

Slides PHENO2010_Grossmann.pdf

7:15 PM → 9:15 PM Conference Dinner

Wed, May 12

8:30 AM → 10:20 AM Plenary 3a

8:30 AM Astroparticle Physics and Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Frank Krennrich (Iowa State)

Slides 1_FKrennrich-Astroparticle-DM.pptx

9:05 AM Direct Searches for Dark Matter: An Update

Speaker: Prof. Juan Collar (Chicago)

Slides collar_PHENO2010_new.pdf

9:40 AM Local P and CP Violation in Strong Interactions

Speaker: Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (BNL)

Slides pheno_Kharzeev_2010.pdf

10:00 AM New Results from RHIC

Speaker: Prof. Huan Zhong Huang (UCLA)

Slides Huang-Pheno-2010.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 3b

10:45 AM Recent Developments in Dark Matter: Theory Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Feng (UC-Irvine)

11:20 AM String Theory in the LHC Era

Speaker: Prof. Herman Verlinde (Princeton)

11:55 AM LHC and Beyond

Speaker: Prof. Sally Dawson (BNL)

Slides dawson_pheno_10.ppt