Brookhaven Forum 2015: Great Expectations, a New Chapter

7 Oct 2015, 08:45 → 9 Oct 2015, 12:30 US/Eastern

Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488) (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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The "Brookhaven Forum 2015 (BF2015): Great Expectations, a New Chapter" event will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, October 7-9, 2015. The scientific program will be devoted to new developments in high energy physics, with an emphasis on the latest data from the LHC.

Three years after the landmark discovery of the Higgs boson in Run I at the LHC, 2015 marks the start of Run II and we are all eagerly awaiting the findings at 13 TeV LHC, in its ongoing exploration of the Tera scale. Part of the scientific program will be dedicated to topics in cosmology and astrophysics, as well as physics at the intensity frontier. Talks will be arranged in both plenary and parallel sessions.

Wednesday, 7 October

08:45 → 10:30 Plenary Program I

08:45 Welcome

Speaker: David Lissauer (Dep. Assoc. Lab. Dir., BNL)

09:00 Latest Developments from CMS

Speaker: John Paul Chou (Rutgers, CMS)

Slides BrookhavenForum2015.pdf

09:45 ATLAS at the Beginning of Run II

Speaker: Ayana Arce (Duke, ATLAS)

Slides bf2015-ata.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Program II

11:00 Overview of the Latest Developments in Precision QCD

Speaker: Radja Boughezal (Argonne)

Slides Boughezal-BNLForum15.pdf

11:45 Planck Results

Speaker: James Bartlett (JPL, PLANCK)

Slides Bartlett_Planck.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch (on your own)

13:30 → 15:30 Parallel Session

Naturalness, Room A, Chair: Ian Lewis (SLAC)
Top Physics, Room B, Chair: Prerit Jaiswal (BrownU)
Cosmology, Room C, Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya (LANL)
Flavor, Auditorium, Chair: Christoph Lehner (BNL)

13:30 First Top results at 13 TeV, ATLAS

Speaker: Matthias Danninger (UBC)

Slides MD_BNL_13TeVTopATLAS_draft.pdf

13:30 Interplay Between Inclusive and Exclusive b->sll Decays

Speaker: Enrico Lunghi (IndianaU)

Slides t-151007-BNL2015-bsll.pdf

13:30 Naturalness and Supersymmetry

Speaker: Csaba Balazs (Monash)

Slides Naturalness_&_SUSY.pdf

13:30 Non-Abelian Dark Matter and Dark Radiation

Speaker: Manuel Buen-Abad (BostonU)

Slides NADM_-_Manuel_Buen-Abad_--_BF15.pdf

13:50 EFT-Naturalness: Effective Field Theory Analysis of Higgs Naturalness

Speaker: Shaouly Bar-Shalom (Technion)

Slides Naturalnes-BNLForum2015.pdf

13:50 Improved Estimate of Proton Lifetime

Speaker: Eigo Shintani (MainzU)

Slides slide_Ndecay_shintani.pdf

13:50 Recent Results from Belle

Speaker: Xiaolong Wang (VTU)

Slides Forum2015-wxl-v2.pdf

13:50 Using Unitarity to Make Precision Top Measurements

Speaker: Jeff Dror (Cornell)

Slides Brookhaven2015.pdf

14:10 A No-Loose Theorem for Naturalness

Speaker: David Curtin (UMaryland)

Slides davidcurtin_naturalness_nolose_BNLforum_7oct2015_20m_v1.key.pdf

14:10 Associate Production of a Top Pair and a Higgs Boson Beyond NLO by Means of SCET Methods

Speaker: Andrea Ferroglia (NYCCT CUNY)

Slides Ferroglia_BNL_Forum_15.pdf

14:10 Recent Study of B-meson Decays with the BABAR Detector

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (RAL)

Slides fwilson_brookhaven_babar_v1.pdf

14:10 Tight Scrutiny of Baryogenesis

Speaker: Harikrishnan Ramani (SBU)

Slides FORUM15.pdf

14:30 Baryon Number Violation via Majorana Neutrinos from Early Universe to LHC

Speaker: Yue Zhang (CalTech)

Slides BF_2015_Yue.pdf

14:30 First Top Results at 13 TeV, CMS

Speaker: Aran Garcia-Bellido (URochester)

Slides agb_TopCMS13TeV_BF2015.pdf

14:30 Latest Results on R(D*) and Vub from Semileptonic Decays at LHCb

Speaker: William Sutcliffe (Imperial College)

Slides VubRDst.pdf

14:30 Testing Single RPV Squark Production at the LHC

Speaker: Angelo Monteux (Rutgers)

Slides SingleRPV_Monteux.pdf

14:50 Determination of |Vub/Vcb| Using Baryonic Decays

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Meinel (UArizona / RBRC)

Slides BF_2015_Meinel.pdf

14:50 Isocurvature Perturbation of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Small Scale Structure

Speaker: Chang Sub Shin (Rutgers)

Slides Chang_Sub_Shin.pdf

14:50 Lattice Study of Walking Dynamics in Many-flavor QCD

Speaker: Hiroshi Ohki (BNL)

14:50 Top Flavor Changing Interactions with Neutral Higgs Bosons

Speaker: Chung Kao (UOklahoma)

Slides BNL2015_Kao.pdf

15:10 Exotic Quarks in Twin Higgs Models

Speaker: Yuhsin Tsai (UMaryland)

Slides Exoqurk_Tsai_BF2015.pdf

15:10 Mixed Stops and the ATLAS on-Z Excess

Speaker: Jack Collins (Cornell)

Slides Jack_StopsExcess_Brookhaven.pdf

15:10 Physics Prospects at Belle II

Speaker: Carl Rosenfeld (USC)

Slides BF2015_rosenfeld.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 BSA Distinguished Lecture-"Universe or Multiverse?"-Presented by Andrei Linde (Stanford)

Hosted by Peter Wanderer (BNL)

17:00 → 18:00 BSA Welcome Reception

Thursday, 8 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Program I

09:00 Highlights from Flavor Physics

Speaker: Frederic Teubert (CERN, LHCb)

Slides Brookhaven15_Frederic.pdf

09:45 Inflation, SUSY Breaking, and Cosmological Attractors

Speaker: Andrei Linde (Stanford)

Slides Linde_BNL.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break and Event Photo

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Program II

11:00 LBNF/DUNE: An Experimental Program in Neutrino Oscillations, Nucleon Decay and Particle Astrophysics

Speaker: James Strait (Fermilab)

Slides LBNF-DUNE_BrookhavenForum2015.pdf LBNF-DUNE_BrookhavenForum2015.pptx

11:45 Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Speaker: Eric Charles (KIPAC/SLAC, FERMI)

Slides BNLForum_IndirectDM_v3.pdf BNLForum_IndirectDM_v3.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch (on your own)

13:30 → 15:00 Plenary Session III

13:30 The Storage Ring Proton EDM Experiment: Most Sensitive CP-violation Experiment

Speaker: Yannis Semertzidis (CAPP/IBS, KAIST)

Slides YkS_BF15_srEDM_2015_1008.pdf YkS_BF15_srEDM_2015_1008.ppt

14:15 Probing Inflation, Neutrinos, and Dark Energy with the Cosmic Microwave Background: ACTPol and Beyond

Speaker: Jeff McMahon (UMichigan)

Slides MCMahon_Rome_2015.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:50 Parallel Session

Standard Model, Room A, Chair: Aran Garcia-Bellido (URochester)
Higgs and CP, Room B, Chair: Enrico Lunghi (IndianaU)
Dark Matter, Room C, Chair: Csaba Balazs (MonashU)
Diboson Signals, Auditorium, Chair: Chung Kao (OklahomaU)

15:30 First SM Results at 13 TeV, CMS

Speaker: Alberto Belloni (UMaryland)

Slides 151008_bf2015.pdf

15:30 Heavy Diboson Searches from ATLAS

Speaker: Angel Campoverde (SBU)

Slides Diboson_Searches.pdf

15:30 O(1) GeV Dark Matter in SUSY and a Very Light Pseudoscalar at the LHC

Speaker: Doyoun Kim (APCTP)

Slides 15.10.08_BNL.pdf

15:30 Usefulness of Effective Field Theory in Higgs Plus Jet Production

Speaker: Ian Lewis (SLAC)

Slides IL_BF_2015.pdf

15:50 Higgs CP Violation from Vectorlike Quarks

Speaker: Chien-Yi Chen (UV/PI)

Slides Chen_vlq_2.pdf

15:50 Lattice QCD with General Background Electromagnetic Fields: Implementation and Applications

Speaker: Zohreh Davoudi (MIT)

Slides ZDavoudi.pdf

15:50 Search for High-mass Higgs Boson in WW Channel with ATLAS Detector Using LHC run-1 Data

Speaker: Haifeng Li (SBU)

Slides 2015.10.08.BF.HighMassHiggs.pdf

15:50 Wavelets at the Galactic Center

Speaker: Sam McDermott (SBU)

Slides mcdermott-bnl-forum-100815.pdf

16:10 Accurate, Realistic, and Automatic Predictions for Dark Matter Production at the LHC

Speaker: Cen Zhang (BNL)

Slides DMNLO.pdf

16:10 First SM Results at 13 TeV, ATLAS

Speaker: Shima Shimizu (UKobe)

Slides SM_ATLAS_ss.pdf

16:10 Heavy Higgs Searches from CMS

Speaker: Brian Pollack (NorthwesternU)

Slides BF2015_updated.pdf

16:10 Is the Higgs a Composite Scalar?

Speaker: Evan Weinberg (BostonU)

Slides bf2015_weinberg_evan.pdf

16:30 Contributions of Vectorlike Leptons in the Diboson-like Signals

Speaker: Seodong Shin (IndianaU)

Slides BNL2015.pdf

16:30 Gravothermal Evolution of Galactic Dark Matter Halos with Velocity-dependent Self-interactions

Speaker: Yiming Zhong (SBU)

Slides yzhong.pdf

16:30 Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to Muon g-2 From Lattice QCD

Speaker: Christoph Lehner (BNL)

Slides talk.pdf

16:30 The Composite Twin Higgs

Speaker: Michael Geller (Technion)

Slides A_Holographic_Twin_Higgs_bnlforum.pdf

16:50 Calculating nEDM using Lattice QCD

Speaker: Tanmoy Bhattacharya (LANL)

Slides Bhattacharya.pdf

16:50 Energy Peak: Back to the Galactic Center GeV Gamma-ray Excess

Speaker: Doojin Kim (UFlorida)

Slides Presentation_DoojinKim_BF2015.pdf

16:50 J_{E_T}^{\rm II}: A Two-Prong Jet Algorithm

Speaker: Ran Lu (UWisconsin)

Slides ranlu.pdf

16:50 Searches for Disboson Resonances at CMS

Speaker: Nhan Tran (FNAL)

Slides cms-dibosons-ntran.pdf

17:10 Probing the Standard Model with B->K(*)l+l- decays at LHCb

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (RAL)

Slides fwilson_brookhaven_lhcb_v2.pdf

17:10 Resummation Predictions for WW Production at the LHC

Speaker: Prerit Jaiswal (Syracuse University)

Slides Prerit_BNL15.pdf

17:10 Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP-violation in Kaon Decays

Speaker: Christopher Kelly (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides talk_v1.pdf

17:10 Stealth Dark Matter

Speaker: Graham Kribs (University of Oregon)

Slides kribs_stealth_brookhaven_Oct_2015.pdf

18:00 → 22:00 Banquet Dinner (included in reg. fee)

Transportation will be provided to attendees - Please arrive ten minutes early since the bus will depart Berkner Hall promptly at 6:00pm and depart Majestic Gardens at 9:30pm.

Friday, 9 October

09:15 → 10:45 Plenary Program I

09:15 Direct Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Laura Baudis (UZurich)

Slides baudis_brookhaven15.pdf

10:00 Searching for New Paradigms after the Higgs

Speaker: Alex Pomarol (CERN/UAB)

Slides Brookhaven_15.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:00 Plenary Program II

11:15 Physics at Future Colliders

Speaker: Tao Han (UPittsburgh)

Slides BNLForum-Han.pdf

12:00 → 12:15 Closing Remarks

12:00 Closing Remarks

Speakers: Amarjit Soni (BNL), Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)