Name: DPF 2013
Start: 2013-08-13T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2013-08-17T18:00:00-07:00
Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

DPF 2013

from Tuesday, 13 August 2013 (08:00) to Saturday, 17 August 2013 (18:00)

Monday, 12 August 2013
Tuesday, 13 August 2013

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
09:00 Recent Results from the Energy Frontier
Recent Results from the Energy Frontier
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

09:00 UCSC Welcome - George Blumenthal (UC Santa Cruz)

09:15 What have we learned at the Energy Frontier? - Michael Peskin (SLAC)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Classroom Unit
10:30 Recent Results from the Intensity Frontier
Recent Results from the Intensity Frontier
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

10:30 What have we learned from Neutrinos? - Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

11:15 What have we learned from Flavor Physics experiments? - Alex Kagan (Univ. of Cincinnati)
12:00
12:00 - 13:45
Room: Stevenson Event Center
Contributions

12:30 Gender Bias in Physics - Sarah Demers (Yale U.)
Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:45
Room: Stevenson Event Center
13:45 News from the Community Summer Study
News from the Community Summer Study
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

13:45 Evolution of the LHC program - Chris S. Hill (The Ohio State University)

14:30 Possibilities for lepton colliders - Paul Grannis (Stony Brook University)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Classroom Unit
15:45
15:45 - 17:15
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

15:45 Possibilities for Neutrino Physics - Bonnie Fleming (Yale)

16:30 Projects in Flavor Physics - R. Bernstein (FNAL)
17:45 Welcome Reception and Dinner
Welcome Reception and Dinner
17:45 - 19:15
Room: Cowell College Courtyard

19:30 Panelists: Chris Hill (OSU), Bonnie Fleming (Yale), Brendan Kiburg (Fermilab), Rob Forrest (Stanford)
Panelists: Chris Hill (OSU), Bonnie Fleming (Yale), Brendan Kiburg (Fermilab), Rob Forrest (Stanford)
19:30 - 21:00
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
08:30 Recent Results from the Cosmic Frontier
Recent Results from the Cosmic Frontier
08:30 - 10:15
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

08:30 Status of Searches for Dark Matter - Frank Calaprice (Princeton)

09:15 Studies for Dark Energy - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

09:45 Results from other areas of the Cosmic Frontier - Jim Buckley (Washington Univ.)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Classroom Unit
10:45 News from the Community Summer Study
News from the Community Summer Study
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

10:45 Possible Dark Matter Projects - Konstantin Matchev (Florida)

11:15 Particle Physics from Cosmic Surveys - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)

11:45 Other Cosmic Frontier Projects - Angela Olinto (Chicago)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:45
Room: Stevenson Event Center
12:15 - 13:45
Room: Stevenson Event Center
Contributions

12:45 Presentation on Outreach Activities - Michael Barnett (LBNL)
13:45 Detectors, Accelerators, and Computing
Detectors, Accelerators, and Computing
13:45 - 15:30
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

13:45 Possible Advances in Detectors - Marcel DeMarteau (Fermilab)

14:30 Novel Accelerators: Building a Physics-Producing Machine - William Barletta (MIT)

15:00 Possible Advances in Computing - Torre Wenaus (BNL)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Classroom Unit
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

16:00 View from Europe - Agnieszka Zalewska (Polish Academy of Sciences)

16:40 View from Asia - Atsuto Suzuki (KEK)

17:20 Agency Discussion of Next Steps - Alan Stone (DOE HEP)
20:00
20:00 - 22:00
Contributions

20:00 The Quantum Universe - Hitoshi Murayama (Berkeley / Tokyo)
Thursday, 15 August 2013
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

09:10 Intensity Frontier Computing at Fermilab - Stephen Wolbers (Fermilab)

09:35 Experience Running an Analysis Cluster in an Academic Cloud - Peter Onyisi (U. Texas Austin)
08:30 - 10:25
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

08:30 Theory of anomalous gauge boson couplings - Celine Degrande (UIUC)

09:00 Search for anomalous gauge couplings in semi-leptonic decays of WW$\gamma$ and WZ$\gamma$ in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV - Patricia Rebello Teles (Brazilian Center for Physics Research (LHC CMS Collaboration))

09:20 Measurements of ZZ, Zγ, and Zγγ production at the LHC with ATLAS - Joshua Moss (Ohio State University)

09:40 Production Cross Section Measurements of Diboson and Triboson Containing W Bosons at ATLAS, LHC - Duong Nguyen (Argonne National Laboratory)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Contributions

08:30 Observation and coupling measurements of Higgs boson in the diphoton decay mode in ATLAS - Hongtao Yang (Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:50 Spin measurement of the Higgs-like resonance observed in the two photon decay channel in ATLAS - Andrew Hard (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:10 Property measurements with Higgs to gamma gamma at ATLAS - James Saxon (University of Pennsylvania)

09:30 Observation Of A Higgs-Like Boson in the Decay H -> ZZ -> 4 lepton - Adish Vartak (University of California San Diego)
08:30 - 10:20
Room: Page Smith Library
Contributions

08:40 Field localization and mass generation in an alternative 5-dimensional brane model - Preston Jones (Cal Poly)

09:00 Holographic entanglement beyond classical gravity - Xi Dong (SLAC)

09:40 Topologically Massive Yang-Mills Theory and Link Invariants - Tuna Yildirim (University of Iowa)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

08:30 New results on Neutrino Magnetic Moments and on Democratic Neutrinos - Dmitry Zhuridov (Wayne State University)

09:00 Tau neutrino as a probe of nonstandard interactions via charged Higgs and W' contribution - Rashed Ahmed (University of Mississippi)

09:30 Transverse Enhancement and Meson Exchange Current Contributions to Quasielastic Neutrino Scattering on Nuclear Targets - Arie Bodek (University of Rochester)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

08:30 Searches for new physics in high-mass ditau events at ATLAS - Ryan Reece (University of Pennsylvania)

08:50 Search for pair production of new heavy quarks that decay to a Z boson and a third generation quark in pp collisions at \sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Joseph Virzi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:10 Search for exotic top-quark partners - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Brown University)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
Contributions

09:00 Theoretical issues in flavor physics - Jonathan Rosner (University of Chicago)

09:30 Flavor Physics and Lattice QCD - Chris Bouchard (The Ohio State University)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Cowell 134
Contributions

08:30 Top quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

09:10 Spin Correlations of Top Quarks at D0 - SungWoo YOUN (Fermilab)
09:10
09:10 - 09:58
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

09:10 Fermi-LAT observations of diffuse gamma-ray emission - Luigi Tibaldo (KIPAC-SLAC, Stanford University)

09:34 Searches for Dark Matter Annihilation in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with the Fermi LAT - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Stanford Universty)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:10
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

10:30 Design considerations for the cosmic-ray-veto system of the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab - Craig Group (U. Virginia and Fermilab)

10:55 Particle identification with the iTOP detector at Belle-II - Matthew Barrett (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

11:20 A Silicon Photomultiplier Camera for Use in the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Caitlin Johnson (UCSC)

11:45 The MicroBooNE LArTPC - Sarah Lockwitz (Fermilab)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

10:30 Prospects for Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - David Williams (UC Santa Cruz)

10:54 Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Matthew Wood (SLAC)

11:18 The VERITAS Dark Matter Program: Status and Prospects - Andrew Smith (University of Utah Physics and Astronomy)

11:42 Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Jets: Results from VERITAS - Reshmi Mukherjee Mukherjee (Barnard College)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

10:30 Measurements of VV Boson Production And Self-Interactions in The Semileptonic Channel at CMS - Ilya Osipenkov (Texas A&amp;M University)

10:50 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section and search for the standard model Higgs boson in the four lepton final state - Diego Menezes (NIU)

11:10 Electro-weak Bound States - David Owen (Ben Gurion University)

11:30 Measurements of the W boson mass with the D0 detector - Mandy Rominsky (Fermilab)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Contributions

10:30 Searching for neutral Higgs bosons in non-standard channels - Arjun Menon (U. Oregon)

11:00 Search for Non-Standard-Model Higgs Boson Decays Using Collimated Muon Pairs at the CMS - Aysen Tatarinov (Texas A&M University)

11:30 ATLAS Searches for BSM Higgs Bosons - Christopher Potter (University of Oregon)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Page Smith Library
Contributions

10:30 Black Hole Firewalls: Flame Suppressants and Burning Questions - James Sully

11:30 A New Motivation for WIMP Dark Matter - James Halverson (KITP)
10:30 - 11:45
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

10:30 Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Scattering at MINERvA - Laza Rakotondravohitra (University of Antananarivo/Fermilab)

10:55 High-Angle NuMu CCQE Measurements at T2K Using the Pi-0 Detector for Low-Energy Events - Damon Hansen (University of Pittsburgh)

11:20 Measurement of Charged-Current $\nu_{e}$ On-Water Interaction Rate with the PiZero Detector at T2K - Jeanine Adam (State University of New York Stony Brook, USA)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

10:30 Search for contact interactions in dilepton production from pp collisions with √s = 8 TeV using the CMS detector - Pramod Lamichhane (Wayne State University)

10:50 ATLAS searches for vector-like quarks in the one-lepton channel and status of global search program - Mark Cooke (LBNL)

11:10 Search for Light- and Heavy-flavor Three-jet Resonances in Multijet Final States - Claudia Seitz (Rutgers University)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
Contributions

10:30 Charming hadronic decays of b hadrons - Mike Williams (MIT)

11:00 Review of charmless three-body decays of b-hadrons - Thomas Latham (University of Warwick)

11:30 |Vub| from semileptonic B decays at BaBar - Biplab Dey (University of California, Riverside)

11:50 Measurements of B → DK decays to constrain the CKM unitarity triangle angle γ at LHCb - Daniel Charles Craik (University of Warwick, UK)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Cowell 134
Contributions

10:30 Search for ttbar resonances in semileptonic ﬁnal states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV - Paul Turner (University of Illinois at Chicago for the CMS Collaboration)

11:10 A Search for $t\bar{t}$ Resonances in Lepton Plus Jets Events with ATLAS using 14 fb$^{-1}$ of Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV - Ruchika Nayyar (University of Arizona)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:30
Room: Stevenson Event Center
13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

13:30 Proton-proton and electron-positron colliders in a 100 km ring at Fermilab - Pushpa Bhat (FERMILAB)

13:55 Experimental progress on staged laser-plasma acceleration - Satomi Shiraishi (University of Chicago, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:20 Results from Step I of MICE and the Physics Plan for Step IV - Daniel Bowring (LBNL)

14:45 A Convenient Method for Real Time Monitoring of Charged Particle Beam Profile and Fluence - Aaron Taylor (University of New Mexico)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

13:30 Kinetic Decoupling of Effective WIMPS - William Shepherd (UC Santa cruz)

13:54 Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies from Diffuse Radio Emission - Storm Emma (UC Santa Cruz)

14:18 Complementarity and Searches for Dark Matter in the pMSSM - Ahmed Ismail (SLAC)

14:42 Non-Thermal Production of Dark Matter as Dark Radiation - Farinaldo Queiroz (University of California Santa Cruz)

15:06 On a singular solution in Higgs field (6) – A long time behavior of the candidate for dark energy - Kazuyoshi KITAZAWA (RISP Japan)
13:30 - 13:50
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

13:30 Measurements of vector boson production in association with jets in ATLAS - Gerhard Brandt (LBNL)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Contributions

13:30 Electroweak Baryogenesis and Higgs Signatures - Tim Cohen (SLAC)

14:00 Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson in ATLAS - Lailin Xu (University of Michigan)

14:30 Searches for low-mass Higgs at BaBar - Rocky So (University of British Columbia)

15:00 Searches for Exotic Higgs decays in CMS - Alfredo Castaneda (Texas A&M University (CMS))
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Page Smith Library
Contributions

13:30 Conformal Field theories in 3.99 dimensions. - Alessandro Vichi

14:10 Bootstrapping the O(N) Vector Models - David Simmons-Duffin

14:50 Flux Compactifications - Alex Dahlen
13:30 - 15:30
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

13:30 Update from the ArgoNeuT Experiment - Andrzej Szelc (Yale University)

13:50 MicroBooNE - Benjamin Carls (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:10 The LArIAT Experiment - Andrzej Szelc (Yale University)

14:30 The CAPTAIN detector and physics program - Christopher Grant (University of California, Davis)

14:50 LBNE Near Detector - Elena Guardincerri (LANL)

15:10 Future Neutrino Oscillation Sensitivities for LBNE - Matthew Bass (Colorado State University)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

13:30 Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS Detector - Steven Farrell (University of California Irvine)

13:50 The search for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in events with two leptons and missing energy at ATLAS - Brett Jackson (University of Pennsylvania)

14:10 Search for anomalous production of events with same-sign dileptons and b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Xiaowen Lei (University of Arizona)

14:30 Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV - Ryan Kelley (University of California, San Diego)

14:50 Natural, R-parity violating supersymmetry and horizontal flavor symmetries - Angelo Monteux (UCSC)

15:10 Model-independent searches for new physics in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector - Michael Hance (LBNL)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
Contributions

13:30 Mixing-induced CP Asymmetry in semileptonic B-meson decays at BaBar - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

13:50 Measurements of charm mixing and CP asymmetries in CDF data - Patrick Lukens

14:10 CP Violation measurements with the D0 experiment - Avdhesh Chandra (Rice U.)

14:30 Studies of charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb - Adam Davis (LHCb)

14:50 Charm mixing and CP Violation at Belle - Alan Schwartz (Cincinnati)

15:10 Studies of hadronic B decays to open charm mesons at LHCb - Steven Blusk (Syracuse University)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Cowell 134
Contributions

13:30 Measurement of s-channel single-top-quark production in lepton+jets at CDF - Craig Group (U. Virginia and Fermilab) Hao Liu (University of Virginia)

14:10 Measurement of s-channel single-top-quark production in MET+jets at CDF - Matteo Cremonesi (Oxford University)
13:50
13:50 - 15:10
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

13:50 Measurements of the associated production of a vector boson with jets at D0 - Ashish Kumar (SUNY Buffalo)

14:10 Observation of associated W and J/psi production at ATLAS - Peter Onyisi (U. Texas Austin)

14:30 Measurement of angular correlations of jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Rajivalochan Subramaniam (Louisiana Tech University)

14:50 New approach to identifying boosted hadronically-decaying particle using jet substructure in its center-of-mass frame - chunhui chen (Iowa State University)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

16:00 Data Driven Triggers for the NOvA Experiment - Jan Zirnstein (University of Minnesota)

16:25 The LHCb trigger system: performance and outlook - Conor Fitzpatrick (CERN)

16:50 The Fast TracKer Upgrade to the ATLAS Detector - Benjamin Auerbach (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:15 Potential Impact of a New GEM-Based Muon Detector on CMS Triggering - Alfredo Castaneda (Texas A&M University (CMS))
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

16:00 The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search: Results and Prospects - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

16:35 After LUX: The LZ Experiment - Monica Pangilinan (Brown University)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Contributions

16:00 Search for invisible Higgs decays at CMS - Matthew Chasco (Northeastern University)

16:30 Search for the SM Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson and Decaying to Bottom Quarks - Michael Mooney (Princeton University)

16:55 Search for associated production WH, ZH with H decaying to b bbar at ATLAS. - Nicolas Morange (University of Iowa)

17:15 Statistical treatment in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to bottom quarks with the ATLAS detector - Yao Ming (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Page Smith Library
Contributions

16:00 Holographic entanglement entropy and higher spin gravity - Nabil Iqbal (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

16:40 Spectral Network and Wall-Crossing of Argyres-Douglas theories - Wenbin Yan

17:20 The covariant, time-dependent Aharonov–Bohm effect - Douglas Singleton (California State University, Fresno)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

16:00 Status and Results from EXO-200 - Jason Chaves (Stanford University)

16:20 Barium Tagging for EXO - Scott Kravitz (Stanford University)

16:40 The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR double-beta decay experiment - Graham Giovanetti (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

17:00 Project 8: Using Radio-Frequency Techniques to Measure Neutrino Mass - Noah Oblath (MIT)

17:20 Electron capture spectroscopy and isotope production: research toward neutrino mass measurement - Gerd J Kunde (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:00 - 17:20
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

16:00 Pulling Out All the Stops: A Jet Substructure Search for Light Stops Decaying via Baryonic RPV - Brock Tweedie (Boston University)

16:20 Search for gluino-mediated bottom- and top-squark production in all hadronic and single lepton multijet final states from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV using the CMS detector - Thomas Danielson (University of California - Santa Barbara)

16:40 Future sensitivity studies for Supersymmetry searches at CMS at 14 TeV - Keith Ulmer (University of Colorado, Boulder)

17:00 Charge and Colour Breaking Constraints in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model - Nikita Blinov (TRIUMF/University of British Columbia)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

16:00 Photon Results from CDF - Ray Culbertson (FNAL)

16:20 Threshold resummation in direct photon production and its implications on large-x gluon PDF. - Nobuo Sato (Florida State University)

16:40 Threshold Resummation and Determinations of Parton Distribution Functions - David Westmark (Florida State University)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: College 9/10 Multipurpose Room
Contributions

16:00 Hadronic B Decays from Belle - Youngjoon Kwon (Yonsei)

16:20 Measurement of phi_s at LHCb - Olivier Leroy (CPPM)

16:40 Studies of asymmetries in semileptonic B decays at LHCb - Michael Sokoloff (Cincinnati)

17:00 CP Violation results from Belle - Matthew Barrett (U Hawaii)

17:20 Recent results on CP and T Violation in hadronic B-meson decays at BaBar - Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Cowell 134
Contributions

16:00 First measurement of single top production in the tW-channel in pp collisions - Philip Baringer (University of Kansas)

16:40 Search for W' production in the single top channel with the ATLAS detector - Patrick True (Michigan State University)
19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Friday, 16 August 2013
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

08:45 The ATLAS Diamond Beam Monitor - Richard Kass (Ohio State)

09:10 The LHCb upgrade - Federico Alessio (CERN)

09:35 Cathode Strip Chamber upgrade for the CMS Endcap at the HL-LHC - Indara Suarez (Texas A&M University)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

08:45 Tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation with Gamma-rays - Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:09 Searching for Q-balls with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Peter Karn (UC Irvine)

09:33 Cerenkov Events Seen by The TALE Air Fluorescence Detector - Tareq AbuZayyad (University of Utah)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

08:30 Observation of High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube - Nathan Whitehorn (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

09:00 The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) - Dawn Williams (University of Alabama)

09:30 Using Fast Photosensors in Water Cherenkov Neutrino Detectors - Ioana Anghel (Iowa State University/Argonne National Lab)
08:30 - 10:10
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

08:30 QCD at Colliders - Radja Boughezal (Argonne)

09:10 Parton Distribution Functions - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

09:40 Matching NLO Calculations and Parton Showers - Simone Alioli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Page Smith Library (Cowell College)
Contributions

08:30 B -> omega omega, omega phi, CP violation in B to three kaons, and other charmless B-meson decays - Justin Albert (University of Victoria)

08:50 Results from Belle's Upsilon(5S) data sample - Dan Santel (Cincinnati)

09:10 Results on New Particles from Belle - Roberto Mussa (Torino)

09:30 Measurements of the properties of bottom baryons at CDF - Patrick Lukens (Fermilab)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Cowell 134
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

09:00 Dark Radiation and Decaying Matter - Jordi Salvado (Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and Department of Physics University of Wisconsin, Madison)

09:20 Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Dark Matter Implications - Andrea Albert (The Ohio State University)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:10
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

10:30 Tracker for the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab - Aseet Mukherjee (Fermilab)

10:55 Alignment of CMS silicon pixel detector - Daniel Noonan (University of Kansas)

11:20 Studies of Beam Loss Effect on Silicon Strip Modules in ATLAS Detector - Alex Grillo (UCSC)

11:45 Silicon strip prototypes for the Phase-II upgrade of the ATLAS tracker for the HL-LHC - Sergio Diez-Cornell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

10:30 New results from SDSS-III BOSS: cosmic expansion and growth of structure - Beth Reid (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:54 Reconstruction of Density field for Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations - Mariana Vargas-Magana (Carnegie Mellon University)

11:18 MS-DESI, a BAO Experiment to Study Dark Energy - Michael Levi (LBNL)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Contributions

10:30 Searches for decays of the Higgs-like boson to tau lepton pairs with the ATLAS detector - Alexander Naip Tuna (University of Pennsylvania)

11:00 Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the Zgamma decay mode with ATLAS - Fuquan Wang (University of Wisconsin Madison)

11:30 Implications of a 125 GeV SM-like Higgs - Patrick Draper (UC Santa Cruz, SCIPP)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

10:30 Latest results from Daya Bay - Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)

10:55 A new measurement of reactor antineutrino disappearance using neutron captures on hydrogen and gadolinium in the Double Chooz far detector - Rachel Carr (Columbia University)

11:20 Multiple Probes of Lorentz Violation with Reactor Antineutrinos - Joshua Spitz (MIT)

11:45 Analysis of $\nu_e$ appearance from an off-axis $\nu_{\mu}$ beam utilizing neutrino energy spectrum - Joshua Hignight (SBU)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

10:30 Update of the same-sign dimuon asymmetry from the D0 experiment - Peter Garbincius (Fermilab)

10:50 B->D(*) tau nu and constraints on charged Higgs models - Daniel Chao (Caltech)

11:10 Study of radiative and electroweak penguin B decays at BaBar - Alan Eisner (U.C. Santa Cruz)

11:30 The PIENU experiment at TRIUMF: a sensitive probe of new physics - Aleksey Sher (TRIUMF)

11:50 Search for lepton number violation in B-meson decays - Eugenia Puccio (Stanford)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Page Smith Library (Cowell College)
Contributions

10:30 Measurements of b hadron lifetimes and effective lifetimes at LHCb - Bilas Pal (Syracuse University)

10:50 Latest D Meson Hadronic Branching Fractions from CLEO - Peter Onyisi (U. Texas Austin)

11:10 The serch for Bs-> mumu at D0 - Marj Corcoran (Rice University)

11:30 Precision measurement of the D0 mass and of the natural line width of the D*+ - Ray Cowan (M.I.T.)

11:50 Use of B->J/psi f0 decays to discern the q anti-q or tetraquark nature of scalar mesons - Sheldon Stone (Syracuse, LHCb)
10:30 - 12:10
Room: Cowell 134
Contributions

10:30 FCNC Top Quark Production Via Anomalous Couplings - Elwin Martin (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11:10 Up Sector of Minimal Flavor Violation: Top Quark Properties and Direct D meson CP violation - Joshua Berger (SLAC)
10:40
10:40 - 12:00
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

10:40 Progress Towards the First Measurement of Direct CP-Violation in K->pi pi Decays From First Principles - Christopher Kelly (Columbia University)

11:00 Bounding the Higgs Boson Width Through Interferometry - Ye Li (SLAC)

11:20 Particle Production Measurements using the MIPP Detector at Fermilab - Sonam Mahajan (Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)

11:40 Measurement of inclusive production of light charged hadrons at BaBar - David Muller (SLAC)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:30
Room: Stevenson Event Center
13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Stevenson Event Center
Contributions

13:00 Readout Control for the Upgraded Readout Architecture of the LHCb experiment at CERN - Federico Alessio (CERN)

13:00 The Fast TracKer Upgrade to the ATLAS Detector - Benjamin Auerbach (Argonne National Laboratory)

13:00 Cathode Strip Chamber upgrade for the CMS Endcap at the HL-LHC - Indara Suarez (Texas A&M University)

13:00 Potential Impact of a New GEM-Based Muon Detector on CMS Triggering - Alfredo Castaneda (Texas A&M University (CMS))

13:00 Why We Need a Terascale Photon Collider to Understand Light - Mehdi Roeinpeikar (PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

13:00 LHCb High Level Trigger design issues for post Long Stop 1 running - Michael Sokoloff (Cincinatti)

13:00 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in ZH(bb) where the Z Boson Decays into a tau Pair and Each tau Decays into Leptons - Rachel Bartek (University of California Riverside)

13:00 The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment: Overview and Results - Matt Kramer (UC Berkeley)

13:00 The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment: Prospects - Henoch Wong (UC Berkeley)

13:00 Experience Running an Analysis Cluster in an Academic Cloud - Peter Onyisi (U. Texas Austin)

13:00 Natural, R-parity violating supersymmetry and horizontal flavor symmetries - Angelo Monteux (UCSC)

13:00 Particle Production Measurements using the MIPP Detector at Fermilab - Sonam Mahajan (Panjab University, Chandigarh)

13:00 MINERvA Charged Current Inclusive Analysis - David Martinez (CBPF Brazil)

13:00 The Heavy Photon Search Experiment at Jefferson Lab - Omar Moreno (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics/University of California, Santa Cruz)

13:00 High Energy Physics instrumentation activities at LBNL for the ATLAS tracker upgrades of the LHC - Sergio Diez-Cornell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

13:00 UltraSiD, a novel 4D Sensor Concept - Colin Parker (cojparke@ucsc.edu)

13:00 Data Driven Triggers for the NOvA Experiment - Jan Zirnstein (University of Minnesota)

13:00 Wireless Power and Data Acquisition System for Large Instrumentation Systems - Himansu Sahoo (Argonne National Laboratory)
14:30
14:30 - 17:50
Room: ISB 102
Contributions

14:30 Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors - Hartmut Sadrozinski (SCIPP- UC Santa Cruz)

14:55 Scribe-Cleave-Passivate (SCP) Slim Edge Technology for Silicon Sensors - Vitaliy Fadeyev (SCIPP, UCSC)

15:20 Electrode Isolation on P-type Silicon Devices with Alumina (Al2O3) Passivation Layer - Zachary Galloway (SCIPP, UCSC)

15:35 Wireless Power and Data Acquisition System for Large Instrumentation Systems - Himansu Sahoo (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:00 Radiation-Hard/High-Speed Parallel Optical Engine - K.K. Gan (The Ohio State University)

16:25 The new radiation-hard optical links for the ATLAS pixel detector - Richard Kass (Ohio State)
14:30 - 17:50
Room: Namaste Lounge
Contributions

14:30 The Dark Energy Survey - Carlos Cunha (Stanford University)

14:54 DES Science Verification - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)

15:18 Photometric Redshift Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)

15:54 Cosmology with galaxy clusters in DES - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

16:18 Mass and light distributions of massive galaxy clusters with DECam - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)

16:42 The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Project - Kyle Barbary (ANL)

17:06 Using galaxies to understand weak lensing - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University)
14:30 - 17:00
Room: Classroom Unit 1
Contributions

14:30 Evidence for a particle decaying to W+W- in the fully leptonic final state in a standard model Higgs boson search - Jae Hyeok Yoo (UC San Diego)

15:00 Higgs to WW production at ATLAS - Doug Schaefer (University of Pennsylvania)

15:20 Vector boson fusion Higgs production in H\rightarrow{WW}\rightarrow{l \nu l \nu} in ATLAS - Benjamin Cerio (Duke)

15:40 Spin measurements of the Higgs-like resonance in the WW->lvlv decay mode in ATLAS - Lashkar Kashif (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:00 Properties of a Higgs-like particle of mass 125 GeV - Savanna Shaw (Michigan State University)

16:30 Higgs property measurements in ATLAS - haoshuang ji (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
14:30 - 17:30
Room: ISB 221
Contributions

14:30 Future Sensitivity of the T2K Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment - Megan Friend (KEK)

14:50 Super-Kamiokande and T2K Joint Fit Studies for Neutrino Oscillation Parameters - James Imber (SUNY at Stony Brook)

15:10 NOvA experiment: overview and status - Jianming Bian (University of Minnesota)

15:30 A data-driven method of background prediction at NOvA - Kanika Sachdev (University of Minnesota)

15:50 Expected Sensitivities from the $\nu_{\mu}$ Disappearance Analysis using the NO$\nu$A Detector. - Michael Baird (Indiana University)

16:30 Measuring Neutrino Oscillations with the MINOS Experiment - Alexander Radovic (University College London)

16:50 A Search for Sterile Neutrinos at MINOS and Prospects for MINOS+ - Adam Aurisano (University of Cincinnati)

17:10 Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and CP Violation: The IsoDAR and Daedalus Experiments - Mike Shaevitz (Columbia University)
14:30 - 17:50
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

14:30 Hadron production in e+e- annihilation at BaBar, and implication for the muon anomalous magnetic moment. - Frank Porter (Caltech)

14:50 Muon g-2 at Fermilab: Probing for BSM Physics - Brendan Kiburg (Fermilab)

15:10 g-2 Bounds on Scalar Dark Matter Annihilation - Keita Fukushima (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

15:30 The Heavy Photon Search Experiment at Jefferson Lab - Omar Moreno (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics/University of California, Santa Cruz)

15:50 Search for dark sector at BaBar - Betrand Echenard (Caltech)

16:10 Correlating Direct and Indirect Detection - David Yaylali (University of Hawaii)

16:30 Predictions of a fundamental statistical picture - Roland Allen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University)
14:30 - 17:10
Room: Cowell 131
Contributions

14:30 Study of baryonic decays of B mesons at BaBar - David Brown (University of Louisville)

14:50 Evidence for a bottom baryon resonance state Lambda_b* with the CDF II detector - Prabhakar Palni (on behalf of the CDF collaboration)

15:10 Measurement of the proton form factor in e+e- annihilation at BaBar - Concetta Cartaro (SLAC)

15:30 Onia production and polarisation at LHCb - Emanuele Santovetti (INFN - Roma Tor Vergata)

16:10 Charmonium and Bottomonium Hybrid States - Wei Chen (University of Saskatchewan)

16:30 How the Z_c(3900) Reveals the Spectra of Quarkonium Hybrid and Tetraquark Mesons - Eric Braaten (Ohio State University)

16:50 A Laplace Sum-Rules Analysis of Exotic $0^{+-}$ and Vector $1^{--}$ Strangeonium Hybrids - Ryan Berg (University of Saskatchewan)
I
I
14:30 - 17:00
Room: Page Smith Library
Contributions

14:30 KOTO experiment: searching for K_{L}->pi^{0} nu bar{nu} - Jia Xu (University of Michigan)

14:50 Searches for rare and forbidden kaon decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN - Matthew Moulson (INFN Frascati)

15:10 ORKA: The Golden Kaon Experiment - Anna Mazzacane (Fermilab)

15:30 Belle II (construction, commissioning and prospects) - Sven Vahsen (U Hawaii)

15:50 The Mu2e Experiment At Fermilab - Rob Kutschke (Fermilab)

16:10 LYSO Crystal Calorimeter in the Mu2e Experiment - Chih-Hsiang Cheng (Caltech)
II
II
14:30 - 17:50
Room: Cowell 134
Contributions

14:50 Measurements of tau hadronic branching fractions and spectra, and search for second class current tau decays - Alexandre Beaulieu (University of Victoria)

15:10 Studies of the electroweak penguin transitions and radiative B decays at LHCb - Espen Eie Bowen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

15:30 Measurements of Electroweak Penguins at Belle - Jared Yamaoka (University of Hawaii)

15:50 Searches for rare decays at LHCb - Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France)

16:30 Leptonic and semileptonic decays at Belle - Kurtis Nishimura (SLAC)

16:50 Lepton Flavour Violation in Extended Higgs Sectors - Emilie Passemar (LANL)

17:10 Production and spectroscopy of hadrons containing b quark at ATLAS - Rui Wang (University of New Mexico)
19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Room: Sentinel Room

20:00 Tickets at http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org
Tickets at http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Festival Glen
Saturday, 17 August 2013
08:30 Plenary Summaries of Parallel Session Contributions
Plenary Summaries of Parallel Session Contributions
08:30 - 09:50
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

08:30 EWSB and the Higgs Sector - Kyle Cranmer (NYU)

09:10 New Physics Searches - Scott Thomas (Rutgers)
09:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:10
Room: Classroom Unit
10:10
10:10 - 12:00
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

10:10 Physics using the 5 Lighter Quarks and Charged Leptons - Marina Artuso (CERN)

10:50 Top Quark and Electroweak Physics - Robin Erbacher (UC Davis)

11:30 Tanaka Award - David Moore (Stanford)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:20
Room: Stevenson Event Center
13:20 Plenary Summaries of Parallel Session Contributions
Plenary Summaries of Parallel Session Contributions
13:20 - 15:30
Room: Classroom Unit 2
Contributions

13:20 Neutrino Physics - Deborah Harris (Fermilab)

14:00 Cosmic Frontier - Harry Nelson (UCSB)

14:40 Summary of Advances in Theoretical Physics - Ann Nelson (Washington)

15:20 Closing Remarks from DPF Chair - Jon Rosner
15:30 Final Coffee
Final Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Classroom Unit

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