Name: Brookhaven Forum 2011: "A First Glimpse of the Tera Scale"
Start: 2011-10-19T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2011-10-21T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Forum 2011: "A First Glimpse of the Tera Scale"

from Wednesday, 19 October 2011 (08:00) to Friday, 21 October 2011 (12:30)

Monday, 17 October 2011
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
09:00 Plenary Program I, Chair: H. Gordon - Welcome - Howard Gordon
Plenary Program I, Chair: H. Gordon - Welcome
- Howard Gordon
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
09:10 Organizer's Welcome - Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL) Amarjit Soni (BNL)
Organizer's Welcome
- Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)
- Amarjit Soni (BNL)
09:10 - 09:15
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
09:15 Tevatron Highlights - Amnon Harel (Rochester/CERN, D0)
Tevatron Highlights
- Amnon Harel (Rochester/CERN, D0)
09:15 - 09:55
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
09:55 Fermi Results - Keith Bechtol (Stanford, Fermi)
Fermi Results
- Keith Bechtol (Stanford, Fermi)
09:55 - 10:35
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Berkner Hall Lobby
11:00 Plenary Program II, Chair: E. Ponton - Direct Dark Matter Searches - Antonio Melgarejo Fernandez (Columbia, Xenon 100)
Plenary Program II, Chair: E. Ponton - Direct Dark Matter Searches
- Antonio Melgarejo Fernandez (Columbia, Xenon 100)
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
11:40 Dark Matter Theory - Kathryn Zurek (Michigan)
Dark Matter Theory
- Kathryn Zurek (Michigan)
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Cafeteria

14:00 Higgs & EWSB (1), Chair: D. Stojkovic
Higgs & EWSB (1), Chair: D. Stojkovic
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium

Parallel Session - SUSY (I), Chair: S. Gori
Parallel Session - SUSY (I), Chair: S. Gori
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A

Particle Cosmology I, Chair: H-S Lee
Particle Cosmology I, Chair: H-S Lee
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C

Top Physics, Chair: I. Lewis
Top Physics, Chair: I. Lewis
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
14:01 Exceptional Grand Unification in the Light of LHC Data - Juergen Reuter (DESY)
Exceptional Grand Unification in the Light of LHC Data
- Juergen Reuter (DESY)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berner Hall: Room A
Finite fermion mass effects in Higgs physics production beyond NLO - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)
Finite fermion mass effects in Higgs physics production beyond NLO
- Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Forward-backward Asymmetry in ttbar Events at D0 - Douglas Orbaker (Rochester)
Forward-backward Asymmetry in ttbar Events at D0
- Douglas Orbaker (Rochester)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Two Models of TeV-scale Decaying Dark Matter - Christopher Carone (William & Mary)
Two Models of TeV-scale Decaying Dark Matter
- Christopher Carone (William & Mary)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
14:20 A Dark Force for Baryons - Ian Shoemaker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
A Dark Force for Baryons
- Ian Shoemaker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Massive Gluons in Top-quark Pair Production - Susanne Westhoff (Jahannes0Gutenberg, Universitat Mainz)
Massive Gluons in Top-quark Pair Production
- Susanne Westhoff (Jahannes0Gutenberg, Universitat Mainz)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Quantum Effects in 5D: A 5D NJL Model - Jay Hubisz (Syracuse University)
Quantum Effects in 5D: A 5D NJL Model
- Jay Hubisz (Syracuse University)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Stealth Supersymmetry - JiJi Fan (Princeton)
Stealth Supersymmetry
- JiJi Fan (Princeton)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkener Hall: Room A
14:40 Discovering Higgs Bosons in SUSY GUT’s with Tau Leptons at the LHC - Kesheng Yang (University of Oklahoma)
Discovering Higgs Bosons in SUSY GUT’s with Tau Leptons at the LHC
- Kesheng Yang (University of Oklahoma)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Flavored Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Colliders - Prateek Agrawal (University of Maryland)
Flavored Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Colliders
- Prateek Agrawal (University of Maryland)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Lattice Exploration of Strong Dynamics at the TeV Scale - Meifeng Lin (Yale University)
Lattice Exploration of Strong Dynamics at the TeV Scale
- Meifeng Lin (Yale University)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Top Pair Forward-backward Asymmetry from Loops of New Strongly Coupled Quarks - Thomas McElmurry (University of Rochester)
Top Pair Forward-backward Asymmetry from Loops of New Strongly Coupled Quarks
- Thomas McElmurry (University of Rochester)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
15:00 An effective Lagrangian Approach to Like Sign Top Pair Production at the LHC - David Atwood (Iowa State University)
An effective Lagrangian Approach to Like Sign Top Pair Production at the LHC
- David Atwood (Iowa State University)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Diboson Production and Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in ATLAS - Shih-Chieh Hsu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Diboson Production and Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in ATLAS
- Shih-Chieh Hsu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Flavored Dark Matter - Jennifer Kile (Northwestern University)
Flavored Dark Matter
- Jennifer Kile (Northwestern University)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Light Stop from b-tau Yukawa Unification - Syed Rizvi (University of Delaware)
Light Stop from b-tau Yukawa Unification
- Syed Rizvi (University of Delaware)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
15:20 Conformal fixed Point of SU(3) Gauge Theory with 12 Fundamental Fermions in the Twisted Polyakov Loop Scheme - Eigo Shintani (BNL)
Conformal fixed Point of SU(3) Gauge Theory with 12 Fundamental Fermions in the Twisted Polyakov Loop Scheme
- Eigo Shintani (BNL)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the DSSM - Piyush Kumar (Columbia)
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the DSSM
- Piyush Kumar (Columbia)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Inelastic Dark Matter in SUSY Inverse Seesaw - Bhupal Dev (University of Maryland)
Inelastic Dark Matter in SUSY Inverse Seesaw
- Bhupal Dev (University of Maryland)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B

15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
16:00 Director's Welcome - Sam Aronson (BNL)
Director's Welcome
- Sam Aronson (BNL)
16:00 - 16:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
16:15 BSA Distinguished Lecture, Hosted by Peter Wanderer - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
BSA Distinguished Lecture, Hosted by Peter Wanderer
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)
16:15 - 17:15
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
17:15 BSA Reception
BSA Reception
17:15 - 18:15
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
Thursday, 20 October 2011
09:00 Plenary Program I, Chair: M. Artuso - CMS Results - Albert de Roeck (CERN, CMS)
Plenary Program I, Chair: M. Artuso - CMS Results
- Albert de Roeck (CERN, CMS)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium, Building 488, Brookhaven National Laboratory
09:40 ATLAS Results - Henri Bachacou (Saclay, ATLAS)
ATLAS Results
- Henri Bachacou (Saclay, ATLAS)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby
10:50 Plenary Program II, Chair: T. Gherghetta - Heavy Flavor Highlights - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse, LHCb)
Plenary Program II, Chair: T. Gherghetta - Heavy Flavor Highlights
- Sheldon Stone (Syracuse, LHCb)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
11:30 Developments in QCD - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)
Developments in QCD
- Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)
11:30 - 12:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 14:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Cafeteria

14:00 Alternative Models, Chair: J. Hubisz
Alternative Models, Chair: J. Hubisz
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium

Flavor & CPV (I), Chair: S. Bar-Shalom
Flavor & CPV (I), Chair: S. Bar-Shalom
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B

Parallel Session I - SUSY (II), Chair: C. Carone
Parallel Session I - SUSY (II), Chair: C. Carone
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A

Particle Cosmology II, Chair: J. Kile
Particle Cosmology II, Chair: J. Kile
14:00 - 14:01
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
14:01 ATLAS Searches for New Physics With an e mu Final State - Daniel Pomeroy (Brandeis University)
ATLAS Searches for New Physics With an e mu Final State
- Daniel Pomeroy (Brandeis University)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Codimension-2 Brane Back Reaction and Cosmology - Leo van Nierop (McMaster University)
Codimension-2 Brane Back Reaction and Cosmology
- Leo van Nierop (McMaster University)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Light Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascades - Oscar Stal (DESY)
Light Higgs Bosons in SUSY Cascades
- Oscar Stal (DESY)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs Physics - Stefania Gori (University of Chicago)
Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs Physics
- Stefania Gori (University of Chicago)
14:01 - 14:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
14:20 CPV Measurement at LHCb - Liming Zhang (Syracuse University)
CPV Measurement at LHCb
- Liming Zhang (Syracuse University)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Goldstini Give the Higgs a Boost - Zachery Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Goldstini Give the Higgs a Boost
- Zachery Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Majorana Neutrino and W' Chiral Couplings at the LHC - Ian Lewis (BNL)
Majorana Neutrino and W' Chiral Couplings at the LHC
- Ian Lewis (BNL)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Status of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment - James Verbus (Brown University)
Status of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
- James Verbus (Brown University)
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
14:40 After LUX: The LZ Program - David Malling (Brown University)
After LUX: The LZ Program
- David Malling (Brown University)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
CMS SUSY Searches - Interpretation in Terms of Simplified Models - Wolfgang Waltenberger (HEPHY Vienna)
CMS SUSY Searches - Interpretation in Terms of Simplified Models
- Wolfgang Waltenberger (HEPHY Vienna)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Flavour Physics of a Generalized Left-right Symmetric Model - Katrin Gemmler (Technical University Muncih)
Flavour Physics of a Generalized Left-right Symmetric Model
- Katrin Gemmler (Technical University Muncih)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Vanishing Dimensions: Theory and Phenomenology - Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY Buffalo)
Vanishing Dimensions: Theory and Phenomenology
- Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY Buffalo)
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
15:00 Collider Bounds on Neutrino Interactions - Luca Vecchi (LANL)
Collider Bounds on Neutrino Interactions
- Luca Vecchi (LANL)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
SQCD Corrections to bg -> bh - Prerit Jaiswal (BNL)
SQCD Corrections to bg -> bh
- Prerit Jaiswal (BNL)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Search for New Physics in B(s,d)->mumu Decays at LHCb - Flavio Archilli (INFN)
Search for New Physics in B(s,d)->mumu Decays at LHCb
- Flavio Archilli (INFN)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
WIMPless Dark Matter in Anomaly Mediation - Zeev Surujon (UC Irvine)
WIMPless Dark Matter in Anomaly Mediation
- Zeev Surujon (UC Irvine)
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
15:20 Search for Heavy Resonances at CMS - George Alverson (Northeastern)
Search for Heavy Resonances at CMS
- George Alverson (Northeastern)
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B

no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C

no talk
no talk
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A

15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: Berkner Hall: Lobby

16:10 Collider Topics, Chair: T. McElmurry
Collider Topics, Chair: T. McElmurry
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium

Flavor and CPV (II), Chair: S. Westhoff
Flavor and CPV (II), Chair: S. Westhoff
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B

Higgs and EWSB (II), Chair: D. Atwood
Higgs and EWSB (II), Chair: D. Atwood
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C

Parallel Session II - SUSY (III), Chair: J. Fan
Parallel Session II - SUSY (III), Chair: J. Fan
16:10 - 16:11
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
16:11 4th Generation Phenomenology with More than One Higgs Doublet - Shaouly Bar-Shalom (Technion)
4th Generation Phenomenology with More than One Higgs Doublet
- Shaouly Bar-Shalom (Technion)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Heavy Flavor Simplified Models at the LHC - Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University)
Heavy Flavor Simplified Models at the LHC
- Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector at the LHC - Yuriy Pakhotin (Texas A & M)
Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector at the LHC
- Yuriy Pakhotin (Texas A & M)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory - Ye Li (Northwestern)
Transverse Momentum Distributions from Effective Field Theory
- Ye Li (Northwestern)
16:11 - 16:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
16:20 "Recent Results from BSM Searches at ATLAS (Including SUSY" - John Stupak (Stony Brook University)
"Recent Results from BSM Searches at ATLAS (Including SUSY"
- John Stupak (Stony Brook University)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Heavy Flavor Production and Decays at the LHC: Selected Highlights - Marina Artuso (CERN)
Heavy Flavor Production and Decays at the LHC: Selected Highlights
- Marina Artuso (CERN)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Search Strategies For 4th Generation Quarks at the LHC; Beyond the SM4 - Michael Geller (Technion)
Search Strategies For 4th Generation Quarks at the LHC; Beyond the SM4
- Michael Geller (Technion)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
Tracking the Identities of Boosted Objects - Zhenyu Han (Harvard)
Tracking the Identities of Boosted Objects
- Zhenyu Han (Harvard)
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
16:40 Belle Results at Y(5S) - Sevda Esen (University of Cincinnati)
Belle Results at Y(5S)
- Sevda Esen (University of Cincinnati)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
Kinectically-Enhanced Anomaly Mediation - Abhishek Kumar (TRIUMF)
Kinectically-Enhanced Anomaly Mediation
- Abhishek Kumar (TRIUMF)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Peering into the UV with Late Decays at the LHC - Daniel Stolarski (Johns Hopkins University, Maryland University)
Peering into the UV with Late Decays at the LHC
- Daniel Stolarski (Johns Hopkins University, Maryland University)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM - Elisabetta Furlan (BNL)
Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM
- Elisabetta Furlan (BNL)
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
17:00 Making the Sneutrino a Higgs with a U(1)R Lepton Number - Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)
Making the Sneutrino a Higgs with a U(1)R Lepton Number
- Claudia Frugiuele (Carleton University)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room A
Search for B_s --> mu+mu- and B_d --> mu+mu- Decays with CDF II - Walter Hopkins (Cornell University)
Search for B_s --> mu+mu- and B_d --> mu+mu- Decays with CDF II
- Walter Hopkins (Cornell University)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B
The Discrete Composite Higgs Model - Giuliano Panico (ETH Zurich)
The Discrete Composite Higgs Model
- Giuliano Panico (ETH Zurich)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
W b bbar Production via Double Parton Scattering at the LHC - Seth Quackenbush (Argonne National Laboratory)
W b bbar Production via Double Parton Scattering at the LHC
- Seth Quackenbush (Argonne National Laboratory)
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
17:20 General Analysis of Decay Chains with Three-body Decays Involving Missing Energy - Chien-Yi Chen (Carnegie Mellon)
General Analysis of Decay Chains with Three-body Decays Involving Missing Energy
- Chien-Yi Chen (Carnegie Mellon)
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Auditorium
Recent Results from Higgs Boson Searches at ATLAS - Tae Min Hong (University of Pennsylvania)
Recent Results from Higgs Boson Searches at ATLAS
- Tae Min Hong (University of Pennsylvania)
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room C
no talk
no talk
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Room: Room A

no talk
no talk
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Berkner Hall: Room B

18:30 Banquet Dinner
Banquet Dinner
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Brookhaven Center, Building 30
Friday, 21 October 2011
09:00 Plenary Program, Chair: F. Paige - Status of SUSY - Scott Thomas (Rutgers)
Plenary Program, Chair: F. Paige - Status of SUSY
- Scott Thomas (Rutgers)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Chemistry, Auditorium, Building 555
09:40 Non-SUSY BSM - Tony Gherghetta (Melbourne)
Non-SUSY BSM
- Tony Gherghetta (Melbourne)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Chemistry: Auditorium
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Chemistry: Lobby
10:50 Plenary Program II, Chair: A. De Roeck - Recent Neutrino Results - Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern)
Plenary Program II, Chair: A. De Roeck - Recent Neutrino Results
- Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern)
10:50 - 11:30
Room: Chemistry: Auditorium
11:30 Overview of Cosmology - Roman Scoccimarro (New York University)
Overview of Cosmology
- Roman Scoccimarro (New York University)
11:30 - 12:10
Room: Chemistry: Auditorium
12:10 **End of Forum**
**End of Forum**
12:10 - 12:30