2013 US LHC Users Organization Annual Meeting

Nov 6, 2013, 3:00 PM → Nov 8, 2013, 6:00 PM America/Chicago

Harvey Newman (Caltech)

We are looking forward to an exciting meeting, with a vast range of results on the Higgs boson discovery as well as the wide-ranging search for new physics and groundbreaking results on flavor physics and heavy ion physics from LHC Run 1. We will also hear of the preparations and exciting prospects for the next LHC run at higher energies, along with the well-advanced installations and longer term plans and developments for the LHC accelerator and detector upgrades. With the July 2012 discovery, and the fact that we have so far not found the physics beyond the Standard Model that may lie just over the horizon, this is a time of great anticipation in our field. Our annual meeting will provide an excellent opportunity for the members of our community, especially the younger members, to come and present and discuss their work. This will be complemented by status and physics highlights talks from each of the LHC experiments, the LHC accelerator team, and LARP, the view from Washington by representatives of the DOE and NSF, and a review and discussion of this year's trip to Washington together with Fermilab UEC and SLUO. We will also present the status of the transition of US LUO to the US LHC Users Association based in DC, hosted by URA. There will be a review of Snowmass on the Mississippi,a comprehensive study and discussion of the future plans, visions and challenges our field faces. File Upload Key for Indico: USLUO-Madison

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Wednesday, November 6

Executive Committee Meeting

Convener: Prof. Harvey Newman (Caltech)

slides USLUECMeeting_Madison110613Final.pptx

6:00 PM Welcome Reception

Thursday, November 7

1 Welcome to Wisconsin

Speaker: Prof. Wesley Smith (U. Wisconsin)

Slides smith_usluo_nov13.pdf smith_usluo_nov13.pptx

2 USLUO Chair's Report

Speaker: Prof. Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUOAnnualChairReport_hbn110713.pptx

3 Status and Outlook of the LHC

Speaker: Dr Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

Slides USLUO2013_LHC.pptx

4 LARP

Speaker: Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)

Slides LARP_USLUO_Nov2013_Apollinari_final.pptx

10:35 AM Coffee Break

5 ATLAS Highlights and Outlook

Speaker: Prof. Beate Heinemann (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

Slides USLUO2013.pdf USLUO2013.pptx

6 CMS Highlights and Outlook

Speaker: Dr Tiziano Camporesi (CERN)

Slides USLUO.pptx

7 LHCb Highlights and Upgrades

Speaker: Prof. Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)

Slides LHCb-usluo-2013.pptx.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch

8 ALICE Highlights and Upgrades

Speaker: Prof. Soren Sorensen (University of Tennessee)

Slides 2013_11_-_US_LUO_-_ALICE_Highlights_and_Upgrades.pptx

9 CMS Upgrade Program

Speaker: Dr Jeff Spalding (Fermilab)

Slides CMS_upgrades_USLUO_2013.pptx

10 ATLAS Upgrade Program

Speaker: Prof. Sarah Demers (Yale)

Slides USLUO_ATLASUpgrade.pptx

Young Physicists Lightning Round

Convener: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

11 Measurement of the Z(nunu)Gamma cross section and searching for anomalous triple gauge coupling

Speaker: Ben Auerbach (Argonne)

Slides 8minuteZnunuGamma_20131101.pdf

12 Charged particle production in pPb collisions

Speaker: Eric Appelt (Vanderbilt)

Slides LHCUO2013_Madison_Appelt_v3.pdf

13 Search for SUSY with Razor kinematic variable in 0-lepton channel

Speaker: Anton Kravchenko (U. South Carolina)

Slides USLUO_newRazorTalk_ankravch.pdf

14 LHCb Charm Mixing and CPV Measurements

Speaker: Adam Davis (Cincinnati)

Slides USLUO_2013.pdf

15 Search for W' decaying to top and bottom quarks in the hadronic final state

Speaker: Ho Ling Li (University of Chicago)

Slides 2013_11_07HLLi.pdf

16 Search for H-> WW at ATLAS

Speaker: Chris Lester (U. Penn)

Slides hww_usluo_lester.pdf

3:50 PM Afternoon Break

17 US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program

Speaker: Dr Ruediger Voss (CERN)

Slides cern_us_2013.pptx

18 DOE Office of HEP Report

Speaker: Dr Abid Patwa (DOE OHEP)

Slides USLUO_EnergyFrontier_DOE_Nov2013.pdf USLUO_EnergyFrontier_DOE_Nov2013.pptx

19 NSF EPP Office Report

Speaker: Prof. Randy Ruchti (NSF/EPP)

Slides Ruchti_USLUO_Talk_11.7.13.pdf

20 DOE Office of Nuclear Physics Report

Speaker: Dr Jim Sowinski (DOE/NP)

Slides 2013_US_LHC_Users'_Meeting_final.pptx

21 The Physics Horizon

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern)

Slides petriello-LHCUO13.pdf

7:00 PM Conference Dinner (Pyle Center)

Cocktails at 18:15, Dinner at 19:00

Friday, November 8

22 Introduction; 2013 Trip to Washington

Speaker: Prof. Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUODCTripReport_Madison110813.pptx

23 Report on NUFO Activities

Speaker: Stephen Wasserman (NUFO)

Young Physicists Lightning Round

Convener: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

24 Measurement of diboson production in the lnujj channel

Speaker: Brian Lindquist (SUNY-Stonybrook)

Slides Lindquist_USLUO_8Nov2013.pdf

25 Search for heavy neutral higgs boson of MSSM

Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo (University Wisconsin Madison)

Slides ojalvo_MSSM_USLUO.pdf

26 Measuring the Higgs boson property with the Higgs to 4-lepton final state

Speaker: Eleni Mountricha (BNL)

Slides USLUO_13_11_08.pdf

27 Exciting results in Bc decays

Speaker: Nathan Jurik (Syracuse)

Slides Jurik-USLUO13.pdf

28 Search for Higgs to invisible states

Speaker: Hideki Okawa (BNL)

Slides okawa_USLUO_ZHllinv_20131108.pdf

29 Rare Higgs Boson Decay to Muon Pairs

Speaker: Justin Hugon (University of Florida)

Slides hugon-USLUO2013.pdf

10:15 AM Coffee Break

30 Supporting Young Physicists

Speaker: Prof. Usha Mallik (Iowa)

Slides madisontalk.pptx

31 Advisory Committee of CERN Users

Speaker: Darin Acosta (Florida)

Slides ACCU-USLUO-Nov13.pptx

Young Physicists Lightning Round

Convener: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

32 Search for Vector-like Quarks with charge (-1/3 e) in final states with 3 or more leptons

Speaker: Christian Contreras Campana (Rutgers)

Slides B2G-13-003_USLUO13_08Nov2013.pdf

33 Search for W' bosons that decay to top+bottom

Speaker: David Sperka (Boston)

Slides DavidSperka_USLUO.pdf

34 Measurement of spin correlations and top polarization in ttbar production

Speaker: Yanjun Tu (UCSD)

Slides 20131108_USLUO.pdf

35 Search for resonances in the semi-hadronic diboson channel

Speaker: Sam Meehan (Chicago)

Slides meehan_LLQQSearch_USLUO2013.pdf

36 The CP violating semileptonic asymmetry in Bs decays

Speaker: Christos Hadjivasiliou (Syracuse)

Slides USLHCUO2013_chadjiva_v3.pdf

37 A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Harisankar Namasivayam (UT-Dallas)

Slides USLUO-HarisankarNamasivayam.pdf

38 Spin determination of a narrow resonance at 125 GeV with the two-photon decay channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Andrew Hard (Wisconsin)

Slides DiphotonSpin_AHard_USLUO.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch

Young Physicists Lightning Round

Convener: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

39 Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark by CMS

Speaker: Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Brown)

Slides usluo.pdf

40 Search for pair production of new physics resonances decaying to a top quark and jet in the dilepton decay channel

Speaker: Gala Nehameh Nicolas-Kaufman (Cornell)

Slides gala_USLUO2013_LightningRound.pdf

41 Measurement of the differential ttbar cross section in the dilepton channel at 8 TeV

Speaker: Tyler Mc Millan Dorland (DESY)

Slides USLUO-Dorland-Lightning.pdf

42 Observation of Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and W Boson in pp Collisions at 8 TeV

Speaker: Daniel Noonan (Kansas)

Slides Noonan_SingleToptW.pdf

43 Higgs spin and parity measurements from CMS

Speaker: Yi Chen (Caltech)

Slides YiChen_USLUO_v3.pdf

44 Two-particle correlations in pPb collisions with ALICE

Speaker: Saehanseul Oh (Yale)

Slides LHCUO_SOh_v5.pdf

45 Snowmass 2013

Speaker: Chip Brock (Michigan State)

Slides USLUO_3_o.pdf

46 Young Physicists’ View of Snowmass

Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)

Slides USLHC_Users_Meeting_Asaadi.pdf

47 Where we go from here: the P5 Process

Speaker: Steve Ritz (UC Santa Cruz)

Slides http://interactions.org/p5

48 Lightning Round Winners Announcement

Speaker: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

49 AOB and Discussion

4:30 PM Afternoon Break