Pheno 2008 Symposium

Apr 28, 2008, 7:30 AM → Apr 30, 2008, 12:45 PM America/Chicago

Tripp Commons (Memorial Union)

Monday, April 28

7:30 AM Registration

Plenary 1

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Vernon Barger (Univ. of Wisconsin)

2 SM Tests at the Tevatron Collider

Speaker: Prof. Cecilia Gerber (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago)

Slides gerber.pdf

3 New Physics Searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (Tufts Univ.)

Slides http://ncdf70.fnal.gov:8001/Pheno08/Pheno08_Rolli.pdf Pheno08_Rolli.pdf

4 Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Speaker: Prof. Janet Conrad (Columbia Univ.)

Slides Neutrino_Experiments_.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee Break

5 New Results from MINOS

Speaker: Dr Robert Zwaska (FNAL)

Slides zwaska_minos.pdf

6 Searches from HERA

Speaker: Dr Jolanta Sztuk (Univ. Hamburg)

Slides pheno2008_jsztuk.pdf

7 Neutrino Mass Models

Speaker: Prof. Steve King (Univ. of Southampton)

Slides king_pheno_08.pdf

8 Cosmology in the LHC Era

Speaker: Prof. Max Tegmark (MIT)

12:45 PM Lunch

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

9 Phenomenology of Radion-Higgs Mixing Revisited

Speaker: Dr Manuel Toharia (University of Maryland)

Slides radPheno08.pdf

10 LHC Phenomenology of the 3-Site Higgsless Model

Speaker: Prof. Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)

Slides PHENO-08-Apr-smaller.pdf

11 Heavy Fermions from Higgsless Models at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Baradhwaj Coleppa (Michigan State University)

Slides Pheno_'08.ppt

12 T-Parity in Fermionic UV Completions of Little Higgs Models

Speaker: Mr David Krohn (Princeton University)

Slides pheno2008.pdf

13 T-Anomaly Induced Decays in Little Higgs Model with T-Parity

Speaker: Mr Yu Gao (University of Wisconsin)

Slides pheno08_gao3.pdf

14 Not T-Parity but C-Parity (in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity)

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

Slides Pheno08_talk.pdf

15 Mini Little Higgs

Speaker: Dr Yang Bai (Fermilab)

Slides ALMPheno08.pdf

Flavor

16 Recent Results from BaBar on the CKM Angles

Speaker: Mr Moritz Karbach (TU Dortmund)

Slides mkarbach-28-Apr-2008.pdf

17 Charmonium Production at B-Factories and Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Dr Congfeng Qiao (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Slides charmo.pdf

18 Hadro-Charmonium

Speaker: Mr Sergiy Dubynskiy (University of Minnesota)

Slides Hcharm.pdf

19 Charm Mixing -- an Update

Speaker: Dr Lei Wang (UC Santa Cruz)

Slides pheno_2008_wang.pdf

20 Lifetime Difference of D0-D0bar Mixing within R-parity Violating SUSY

Speaker: Mr Gagik Yeghiyan (Wayne State University)

Slides gagik1.pdf yeghiyan_pheno08-no.ppt

21 Sflavor at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Graham Kribs (University of Oregon)

Slides http://wingate.uoregon.edu/sflavor_pheno.pdf

22 Model-Independent Constraints on Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays of the Top Quark

Speaker: Dr Jennifer Kile (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides pheno.pdf

23 Future Constraints on and from Lepton Universality

Speaker: Prof. Tatsu Takeuchi (Virginia Tech)

Slides Takeuchi-Pheno2008.pdf.pdf

Neutrino Experiments

24 Neutrino Properties from Neutrino Telescopes

Speaker: Ms Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

Slides mocioiu_pheno08.pdf

25 Direct Searches for New Physics at NuSOnG and Other Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Ms Georgia Karagiorgi (Columbia University)

Slides pheno08_georgiak.pdf

26 The Terascale Physics Reach of NuSOnG

Speaker: Prof. William Loinaz (Amherst College)

Slides NuSOnG_Loinaz_Pheno2008_4c.pdf

27 Global Lorentz Violation Model for Neutrino Oscillation with MiniBooNE

Speaker: Mr Teppei Katori (Indiana University)

Slides TK_Pheno08.pdf TK_Pheno08.ppt

28 NC pi0 Production in the MiniBooNE Antineutrino Data

Speaker: Ms Van Nguyen (Columbia University)

Slides van_pheno.pdf

29 Multi-Beam Strategy for Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Cross-Sections

Speaker: Mr Rainer Schiel (University of Kansas)

Slides schiel_mbs.pdf

30 Constraints on Non-Standard Interactions of the Neutrinos using Borexino

Speaker: Mr Yee Kao (Virginia Tech)

Slides Kao_Pheno08.ppt

31 Search for theta13 at the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment

Speaker: Dr Wei Wang (University of Wisconsin)

abstract Dayabay-Pheno08-abs.pdf

Slides Dayabay-Pheno08-slides.pdf

New Physics Searches at LHC/ILC

32 Status of Higgs Feasibility Studies at ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Pheno2008_HiggsATLAS.pdf

33 Heavy Electroweak Resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Shrihari Gopalakrishna (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides pheno08.pdf

34 Searching for t-tbar Resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Baur (SUNY-Buffalo)

Slides pheno08.pdf

35 Collider Constraints on Seesaw Models

Speaker: Mr Guiyu Huang (University of Wisconsin)

Slides t3.pdf

36 Testing Origin of Neutrino Mass at LHC

Speaker: Mr Tong Li (Nankai Univ. / Univ. of Wisconsin)

Slides pheno.pdf

37 Trilepton Production at LHC -- Standard and Beyond Standard Model Sources

Speaker: Prof. Zack Sullivan (Southern Methodist University)

Slides ZS_Pheno08.pdf

38 General Features of Supersymmetric Signals at the ILC

Speaker: Mr James Gainer (SLAC)

Slides talk.pdf

39 Signals for Compressed SUSY at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides spmartin.pdf.pdf

Supersymmetry Breaking

40 Balancing AMSB's Troubles: Lifting the Slepton Masses with a SUSY Seesaw

Speaker: Mr Nicholas Setzer (University of Maryland)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0020

Slides Balancing_AMSB_Troubles-Lifting_the_Slepton_Masses_with_a_SUSY_Seesaw.pdf

41 The Upside of Minimal Seesaw in Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking

Speaker: Mr Sogee Spinner (University of Maryland)

Slides The_up_side_of_SUSY_seesaw.pdf

42 Discovering Sparticles in the CMSSM and GUT-less SUSY-Breaking Scenarios

Speaker: Ms Pearl Sandick (University of Minnesota)

Slides Pheno08Pearl.ppt

43 Z'-Mediated SUSY Breaking

Speaker: Dr Gil Paz (Institute for Advanced Study)

Slides Zprime_pheno2008.pdf

44 Dynamically Solving the mu/Bmu Problem in Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking

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

Slides MuProblem(short).pdf

45 Gravity in Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Speaker: Dr Krzysztof Turzynski (University of Michigan)

Slides Pheno2008_turzynski.pdf

46 Axionic Mirage Mediation

Speaker: Prof. Masahiro Yamaguchi (Tohoku University)

Slides yamaguchi-pheno08.pdf

47 Deflected Mirage Mediation

Speaker: Dr Peter Ouyang (University of Wisconsin)

Slides dmmtalk.pdf

4:00 PM Coffee Break

EW Gauge Bosons at the Tevatron

48 Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Z/gamma*->ee Events at D0

Speaker: Dr Junjie Zhu (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Slides pheno_AFB.pdf

49 Probing Antiquark Distributions in Drell-Yan Scattering at Fermilab

Speaker: Dr John Arrington (Argonne National Lab)

Slides Arrington_PHENO08.ppt

50 Using Drell-Yan to Probe the Underlying Event in Run 2 at CDF

Speaker: Mr Deepak Kar (University of Florida)

Slides dkar_pheno.pdf

51 ZZ->llvv Production with the D0 Detector at Tevatron

Speaker: Mr Gianluca Cerminara (Northeastern Univ. / INFN Torino)

Slides 08-04-28_ZZllvv_PHENO08.pdf

52 CDF Analysis with Photons

Speaker: Dr Ray Culbertson (Fermilab)

Slides culbertson_cdf_photons.pdf http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/~rlc/pheno.pdf

53 Search for New Physics in the gamma+b+j+MET+X Final State

Speaker: Mr Scott Wilbur (University of Chicago)

Slides PHENO.pdf

Measurement Techniques

54 A new method for mass determination at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Zhenyu Han (UC Davis)

Slides Pheno08.pdf

55 Inclusive transverse mass analysis for squark and gluino mass determination

Speaker: Dr Yasuhiro Shimizu (IPMU/KEK)

Slides shimizu.pdf.pdf

56 Polynomials for the determination of masses in events with missing energy

Speaker: Dr Bob McElrath (CERN)

Slides pheno_2008.pdf

57 Generalizing the Method of Kinematical Endpoints

Speaker: Mr Michael Burns (University of Florida)

Slides burns_michael_presentation.pdf.pdf

58 Ambiguities in SUSY mass determination from kinematic endpoints at LHC

Speaker: Mr Myeonghun Park (University of Florida)

PPowerPoint SUSYMassdetermination_from.ppt

Slides SUSYMassdetermination_from.ppt

59 Initial determination of the spin of gluino and squark at LHC

Speaker: Mr Jing Shao (University of Michigan)

Slides spin-madison.ppt

60 Measuring Z' couplings at the LHC

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

Slides Measuring_Z’_Couplings_at_the_LHCv2-1.ppt

61 What Do We Know from Missing pt Signature at LHC?

Speaker: Dr Partha Konar (University of Florida)

Slides konar.pdf

Neutrino Models

62 Interaction of Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos with Weak Gravitational Fields

Speaker: Mr Arun Thalapillil (University of Chicago)

Slides neugrav.pdf

63 Small Neutrino Masses in a TeV Scale Seesaw Model with a Z'

Speaker: Prof. Mu-Chun Chen (UC Irvine)

Slides MCChen-NeutrinoModel.pdf

64 TriMinimal Parametrization of the Neutrino Mixing Matrix

Speaker: Prof. Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

Slides Pheno2008-Weiler.pdf

65 Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND

Speaker: Dr Daniel Dwyer (Caltech)

Slides KamLAND_OscillationAnalysis_PHENO08_Apr2008.pdf

66 Minimal Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Rates from Approximate Flavor Symmetries

Speaker: Mr James Jenkins (Northwestern University)

Slides JenkingPheno08.pdf

67 The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the CUORE Experiment

Speaker: Dr Samuele Sangiorgio (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Sangiorgio_PHENO2008.pdf

68 Implications of Electroweak-Scale Right-Handed Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. P. Q. Hung (University of Virginia)

Slides pheno08.pdf

New Ideas in Field Theory

69 Unparticle physics and Higgs phenomenology

Speaker: Dr Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)

Slides Pheno_2008.pdf

70 Unparticle Self-Interactions and Their Collider Implications

Speaker: Dr Huitzu Tu (UC Irvine)

Slides pheno2008.pdf

71 On vector unparticle constraints from B to K (gamma) + missing energy

Speaker: Mr Mohammad AlFiky (Wayne State University)

Slides AlFikyPheno08.pdf

72 Unitarity Bounds for New Physics from Axial Coupling at LHC

Speaker: Mr Jing Shu (University of Chicago)

Slides unitarity.pdf

73 Anomaly-free discrete symmetries

Speaker: Dr Christoph Luhn (University of Florida)

Slides luhn-pheno08.pdf

74 Electron-positron annihilation into four pions and the a_1-rho-pi Lagrangian

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

Slides lichard.pdf

75 Exploring the Phenomenology of the Noncommutative Standard Model with WW Scattering

Speaker: Mr John Conley (SLAC)

Slides conley.pdf

76 New Parameter Space for Light Higgs Decays in the R-Parity Violating MSSM

Speaker: Dr Linda Carpenter (UC Santa Cruz)

Slides RPV1.pdf

Unification Models

77 Generation Symmetry and E(6) Unification

Speaker: Dr Zurab Tavartkiladze (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Pheno-08-Tavartkiladze.pdf

78 Family Symmetry with SO(10)

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

Slides pheno08_babu.ppt.ppt

79 Quark & Lepton Masses in SO(10) x A4

Speaker: Mr Abdelamid Albaid (Oklahoma State University)

Slides albaid(2).ppt albaid.ppt

80 Nonabelian Discrete Symmetries and the SUSY Flavor Problem

Speaker: Mr Steven Gabriel (Oklahoma State University)

Slides gabrieltalk.pdf sgtalkv2.pdf

81 What SO(10) SUSY GUTs Look Like at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Howie Baer (Florida State University)

Slides pheno08.pdf

82 Gauge-Higgs Unification & EW Symmetry Breaking in Warped Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Ms Nausheen Shah (University of Chicago)

Slides Gauge_Higgs_pheno_08.pdf

83 Collider Phenomenology of Gauge-Higgs Unification Scenarios in RS1 Models

Speaker: Mr Anibal Medina (Univ. of Chicago / Argonne National Lab)

Slides gaugehiggstrue.pdf

84 Neutrinos, Naturalness, and GUTs

Speaker: Mr Joshua Sayre (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides pheno8.pdf

6:45 PM Conference Dinner

Tuesday, April 29

Plenary 2

85 New Physics Searches at B Factories

Speaker: Dr Sanjay Swain (SLAC)

Slides SWAIN.PPT

86 Flavor Physics in the LHC Era

Speaker: Dr Zoltan Ligeti (LBL, Berkeley)

Slides pheno.pdf

87 Astroparticle Physics in the LHC Era

Speaker: Prof. John Beacom (Ohio State Univ.)

Slides Beacom.pdf.pdf Beacom.ppt.ppt

88 The Search for Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Stefano Profumo (UC-Santa Cruz)

Slides Stefano_Profumo_PHENO_080429_PDF.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee Break

89 New Approaches in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Speaker: Prof. Hsin-Chia Cheng (UC-Davis)

Slides cheng_pheno08.pdf.pdf

90 Gauge Mediation of SUSY Breaking

Speaker: Prof. Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

Slides Gauge_Mediation_of_SUSY_Breaking.ppt.ppt

91 AdS/CFT, High Density QCD, and RHIC Physics

Speaker: Prof. Hong Liu (MIT)

Slides Pheno08_hongliu.ppt

12:45 PM Lunch

B Physics

92 Interplay between B Physics and Dark matter searches

Speaker: Dr Arjun Menon (University of Michigan)

Slides pheno08.pdf

93 B_s mixing: Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Mr Andriy Badin (Wayne State University)

Slides Pheno_08.pdf

94 Large Phase of Bs-Bsbar mixing in Supersymmetry Grand Unified Theories

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

Slides mimura.ppt

95 Charmless B->VV decays (on behalf of BaBar Collaboration)

Speaker: Dr Zijin Guo (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides BaBar-BtoVV.pdf

96 Charmless B Decays

Speaker: Dr Pablo del Amo Sanchez (LPNHE (Univ. Paris VI-VII) - CNRS)

Slides Wisconsin-PHENO08-delAmoSanchez.pdf

97 Radiative Penguin Decays at the Babar Experiment

Speaker: Ms Minliang Zhao (MIT)

Slides Pheno08_Zhao.ppt

98 Leptonic B-decays (Babar Collaboration)

Speaker: Mr Miika Klemetti (McGill University)

Slides miika-pheno08.pdf.pdf

99 Recent results on Semileptonic B decays from BaBar

Speaker: Mr Kenji Hamano (University of Victoria)

Slides khamanoPHENO08.pdf.pdf

Dark Matter

100 Bounds on the Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section

Speaker: Dr James Dent (Vanderbilt University)

Slides dmcspheno08.pdf.pdf

101 Solving the LHC Inverse Problem with Dark Matter Observations

Speaker: Prof. Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)

Slides bdnelsondm.pdf

102 Constraints on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter from Earth's Heat Flow

Speaker: Mr Gregory Mack (The Ohio State University)

Slides MackMadison.ppt.ppt

103 Vector Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Tonnis ter Veldhuis (Macalester College)

Slides terveldhuis.pdf.pdf

104 Lightest U-parity Particle (LUP) Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Hye-Sung Lee (University of Florida)

Slides LUP.pdf

105 Dark Matter Candidates in Non-minimal UED

Speaker: Dr Thomas Flacke (University of Michigan)

Slides FlackeMadison.pdf

106 Dark Matter in the Left Right Twin Higgs Model

Speaker: Mr Ethan Dolle (University of Arizona)

Slides Dolle_Pheno08.pdf Dolle_Pheno08.ppt

107 Axino Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Eung Jin Chun (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Slides axinoDM-ejchun.pdf

Extra Dimensions

108 The Little Randall-Sundrum Model at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides davoudiasl_lrs.pdf

109 Realization of Local AdS_5 Isometry

Speaker: Mr Lu-xin Liu (Purdue University)

Slides slide-talk1.pdf

110 Search for Large Extra Dimensions at CDF

Speaker: Dr Max Goncharov (Texas AM)

Slides LED_CDF_PHENO08.pdf

111 Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Monophoton Channel using the D0 Detector

Speaker: Mr Edgar Carrera (Florida State University)

Slides Edgar_Pheno2008.pdf

112 Phenomenology of the Standard Model with two extra dimensions

Speaker: Prof. Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides afreitas.pdf.pdf

113 Higgs Decays and Brane Graviphotons

Speaker: Prof. Sherwin Love (Purdue University)

Slides pheno08LOVE57.pdf

114 Brane Oscillations at the TeVatron and LHC

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Clark (Purdue University)

Slides Pheno_08-_Clark-Brane_Oscillations_at_the_TeVatron_and_LHC.pdf

115 Eikonal contributions to UHE neutrino-nucleon cross sections in LSG models

Speaker: Mr Enrico Maria Sessolo (University of Kansas)

Slides PHENO08.pdf

QCD / Jet physics

116 Using Catani and Seymour's Dipole Method to Calculate NLO QCD Cross-Sections

Speaker: Mr William Link (UIUC)

Slides pheno.pdf

117 QCD factorized cross section for heavy quarkonium in high energy collisions

Speaker: Mr Zhongbo Kang (Iowa State University)

Slides pheno08_kang.pdf

118 QCD corrections to K-Kbar Mixing in R-symmetric Supersymmetric Models

Speaker: Dr Andrew Blechman (University of Toronto)

Slides pheno08.pdf

119 Interactions of stable heavy hadrons and Quark-Gluon String Model

Speaker: Dr Olga Piskunova (Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Slides

• PHENO08.PDF
• PISKOUNO.PDF
• slides

120 The Brand New Physics of Ghosts

Speaker: Prof. John Ralston (University of Kansas)

Slides RalstonGhosts.pdf.pdf

121 Jet Signals for TeV strings at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Haim Goldberg (Northeastern University)

Slides goldberg2008.pdf

Technicolor/ Strong Dynamics in EWSB

122 Walking Technicolor and AdS/CFT

Speaker: Dr Matti Jarvinen (University of Southern Denmark)

Slides 080429_jarvinen.pdf

123 (Minimal) Walking Technicolor : Constraints and Unitarity

Speaker: Dr Roshan Foadi (Southern Denmark University)

Slides MWT.pdf

124 Collider Phenomenology of Minimal Walking Technicolor

Speaker: Mr Mads Toudal Frandsen (Niels Bohr Inst. & Southern Denmark University)

Slides NMWTpheno08.pdf

125 Holography and New Strong Interactions at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Veronica Sanz (Boston University)

Slides pheno08pdf.pdf

126 Hypercharge-Universal Topcolor

Speaker: Mr Stefano Di Chiara (Michigan State University)

Slides HypercUTC2.ppt

127 Parameterizing Technivector Scenarios for the LHC

Speaker: Dr Adam Martin (Yale University)

Slides pheno-aomartin.pdf

128 Dark Matter from Technicolor

Speaker: Dr Chris Kouvaris (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides kouvaris_pheno08.pdf

Tevatron Searches

129 Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Top decays at CDF

Speaker: Mr Alexander Paramonov (University of Chicago)

Slides fcnc_PHENO_Apr_29.pdf

130 Search for Anomalous Wtb copulings with 0.9 fb-1 of D0 data

Speaker: Dr Shabnam Jabeen (Boston University)

Slides WTB_PHENO29Apr08.pdf

131 Global Search for New Physics in 2 fb^-1 of CDF data

Speaker: Mr Si Xie (MIT)

Slides 20080429_sxie_PHENO.pdf

132 Search for Supersymmetry in p pbar collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV using the trilepton signature of Chargino-Neutralino production

Speaker: Mr Sourabh Dube (Rutgers University)

Slides pheno2008_dube.pdf

133 Search for Pair Production of Stop Quarks Mimicking Top Event Signatures in 1.96 TeV p pbar Collisions

Speaker: Dr Andrew Ivanov (UC Davis)

Slides Stop_PHENO_Apr29_2.pdf

134 Search for Sbottom from Gluino Decay at CDF

Speaker: Mr Miguel Vidal (CIEMAT / Fermilab)

Slides Gluino_Pheno2008.pdf

135 Quantum Interference Effects Among Helicities at LEP-II and Tevatron

Speaker: Mr Matthew Buckley (UC Berkeley/IPMU)

Slides buckley.pdf.pdf

4:00 PM Coffee Break

Cosmology

136 Regularization-independent Inflaton Spectrum

Speaker: Mr Matthew Glenz (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Slides 20080429Glenz.pdf.pdf

137 Phase Transition in the Fine Structure Constant

Speaker: Prof. Danny Marfatia (University of Kansas)

Slides Pheno08.pdf

138 LHC Searches for MSSM Electroweak Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr David Morrissey (University of Michigan)

Slides dmorrissey-pheno08.pdf

139 CP Violating Oscillations and BAU

Speaker: Mr Yanzhi Meng (Oklahoma State University)

Slides meng.pdf.pdf

140 Minimal Extra Dimensional Cosmology from Hidden Sector Gauge Theory

Speaker: Dr Jinn-Ouk Gong (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0333

Slides 2008-04-29-Pheno2008.pdf

141 Extra Dimensions and Stellar Evolution

Speaker: Dr Maurizio Giannotti (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Pheno08_MGiannotti.pdf.pdf

142 Transient Pulses from Exploding Black Holes as a Signature of an Extra Dimension

Speaker: Mr Michael Kavic (Virginia Tech)

Slides pheno.pdf

Higgs Physics

143 Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with W bosons at CDF

Speaker: Mr Jason Slaunwhite (The Ohio State University)

Slides slaunwhj_WH_PHENO.pdf

144 Search for a Charged Higgs Boson in Single Top Quark Production at D0

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

Slides Pheno2008_Charged_Higgs.pdf

145 Improving Higgs Sensitivity with Calorimeter Cell Weighting at D0

Speaker: Mr John BackusMayes (University of Washington)

Slides cellWeighting.pdf.pdf

146 Diquark Higgs Bosons at the CERN LHC

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

Slides pheno08.pdf

147 Lone Higgs at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Ken Hsieh (Michigan State University)

Slides Hsieh_Lone_Higgs_Pheno.pdf.pdf

148 Constraining the Private Higgs Model

Speaker: Dr Chris Jackson (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides cb-jackson-pheno08.pdf

149 Phenomenology of a Lepton-Specific Higgs

Speaker: Dr Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)

PDF Pheno2008.pdf

Presentation (odp) Pheno2008.odp

150 Comparing the Higgs Sector of 2HDM with the Scalar Sector of Linear Sigma Model with two Nonets

Speaker: Dr Sherif Moussa (Department of Mathematical Sciences, UAEU)

Slides Sherif_Moussa_28Apr_PHENO2008.pdf

Resonances and New Colored Particles

151 Colored Octet Scalars at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Daniel Phalen (University of Michigan)

Slides Pheno08phalen.pdf

152 Color Octet Scalar Phenomenology at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Ryan Gavin (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Color_Octet_Scalar_Phenomenology_Gavin.pdf

153 e-EDM Induced by Octet-colored Scalars

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

Paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6TVN-4RVG3GK-2-5&_cdi=5539&_user=443835&_orig=search&_coverDate=03%2F27%2F2008&_sk=993389995&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkWb&md5=713935e1e76a31846feedad544189490&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

Slides pheno081.pdf

154 Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron

Speaker: Ms MyPhuong Le (Stanford Linear Acceleration Center)

Slides TevGluinoSearch.ppt

155 Search for W' Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark at D0

Speaker: Dr Tulika Bose (Brown University)

Slides Wprime-Tulika.pdf.pdf

156 Bump Hunting in 2 fb^-1 of CDF data

Speaker: Mr Georgios Choudalakis (MIT)

Slides pheno08-bumpHunter.pdf

157 Colored Resonances at the Tevatron and Discovery Potential in Multijets

Speaker: Dr Can Kilic (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides colorontalk_PHENO.ppt

Simulation / Computation

158 BlackHat, an Automated Program for the Computation of One-loop Amplitudes

Speaker: Dr Harald Ita (UCLA)

Slides pheno08_short.pdf

159 Implementation of New Models With FeynRules

Speaker: Dr Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)

Slides FeynRules.pdf

160 Isajet-M: RGE Analysis of Quark and Neutrino Sectors

Speaker: Mr Ali Soleimani (University of Kansas)

Slides isajet-m.pdf

161 BlackMax: A Black-hole Event Generator

Speaker: Mr De-Chang Dai (Case Western Reserve University)

162 An Efficient Multi-parameter New-physics Event-generator

Speaker: Dr John Strologas (University of New Mexico)

Slides strologas_pheno08.pdf.pdf

163 SFitter: Combining LHC Measurements and this Flavor Stuff

Speaker: Dr Tilman Plehn (Univ. of Edinburgh)

Slides pheno_08.pdf

164 H+ Iterative Discriminant Analysis of Spin Effects at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Dr Andre Sopczak (Lancaster)

Slides Andre_Sopczak_pheno08.pdf

165 Upsetting the Precision of the Fine Structure Constant Without 12,671 Diagrams

Speaker: Mr Mihailo Backovic (University of Kansas)

Slides backovic_pheno08.pdf

Supersymmetry

166 Phenomenology of Relic-density-consistent Models with Neutralino Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Xerxes R Tata (University of Hawaii)

Slides tatatalk.pdf.pdf

167 On a Solution to the Little Hierarchy Problem

Speaker: Mr Benjamin Grossmann (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Grossmann2008April29.pdf

168 Generating Sneutrino LSPs with R-parity Violation at the GUT scale

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Grab (University of Bonn)

Slides Sebastian_Grab.pdf

169 A New Extension of MSSM

Speaker: Prof. Satya Nandi (Oklahoma State University)

Slides PHENO2008_talk_Nandi.pdf

170 Mu-problem and Neutrino Masses in Supersymmetry

Speaker: Dr Raghavendra Hundi (University of Hawaii)

Slides sem-Madison.pdf

171 Higgs Boson Exempt No-scale Supersymmetry with a Neutrino Seesaw

Speaker: Mr Jason Evans (University of Michigan)

Slides JEvansPheno08.pdf

172 Exploring a 4th Generation of Fermions in the MSSM

Speaker: Mr Adam Murdock (Oklahoma State University)

Slides MSSM4.pdf

173 Higher Dimensional Supersymmetry in N=1 Superspace

Speaker: Dr Chi Xiong (Purdue University)

Slides Pheno_08_SUSY.pdf

Tevatron Top Results

174 Top Quark Mass: The Latest CDF Results, Tevatron Combinations and Electroweak Implications

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Margaroli (Purdue University)

Slides margaroli_PHENO08.pdf

175 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton + Jets Channel

Speaker: Dr Gustavo Otero Y Garzon (Fermilab)

Slides Pheno2008.pdf Pheno2008.ppt

176 Measurement of Top Pair Production Cross-section in Lepton + Hadronic Tau Channel

Speaker: Mr Suharyo Sumowidagdo (Florida State University)

Slides Haryo_Pheno08.pdf.pdf

177 Measurement of the Single Top Production Cross Section at CDF

Speaker: Mr Koji Nakamura (Univ. of Tsukuba)

Slides PHENO2008_singletop.ppt

178 Measurement of the Front Back Asymmetry in Top-Antitop Quark pairs in 1.9 fb^-1

Speaker: Dr Thomas Schwarz (UC Davis)

Paper PHENO_2008_AFB_CDF.pdf

Slides PHENO_2008_Afb_CDF_schwarzt.ppt

179 Measurement of Charge Asymmetry in Top Pair Production at D0

Speaker: Dr Isaac Hall (Michigan State University)

Slides AFB.pdf.pdf

180 Search for Heavy Top-like Quarks Using Lepton + Jets Events in 1.96 TeV ppbar Collisions

Speaker: Dr Alison Lister (UC Davis)

Slides Lister_pheno.pdf.pdf Lister_pheno.ppt.ppt

181 Top Quark Properties and Searches for New Physics in Top Event Sample at CDF

Speaker: Dr Charles Plager (UCLA)

Slides charles_plager_pheno080429.pdf.pdf

Wednesday, April 30

Plenary 3

182 LHC in the Early Phase

Speaker: Prof. Kyle Cranmer (NYU/Brookhaven)

Slides a1-Cranmer.pdf

183 From Partons to New Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Pavel Nadolsky (Michigan State Univ.)

Slides nadolsky8430.pdf.pdf

184 New Developments in Perturbative QCD

Speaker: Dr Carlo Oleari (Univ. Milano-Bicocca)

Slides Oleari.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee Break

185 What Can Higgs Bosons Tell Us?

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

Slides Tait-Pheno2008.pdf

186 LHC-ILC Synergy

Speaker: Prof. Heather Logan (Carleton)

Slides logan-lhcilc.pdf

187 Physics at the LHC: A Top-down Approach to Interpreting New Physics Signals

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Kane (Michigan)

Slides b3-Kane.ppt