Brookhaven Forum 2013: Exploring Fundamental Interactions in the Higgs Era

1 May 2013, 08:00 → 3 May 2013, 18:00 US/Eastern

Berkner Hall

Amarjit Soni (BNL), Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)

Brookhaven Forum 2013 (BF2013) will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA,
May 1-3, 2013. With the recent discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the LHC, the determination of the last unknown mixing angle in the neutrino sector, and the ongoing exploration of the Tera scale, we look forward to an exciting scientific program.

Special Events

Cosmology Seminar 
Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 2:00PM to 3:00 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
(Presented in conjunction with Stony Brook University)
"Cosmology Beyond Power Spectra" 
Presented by Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University

 BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Berkner Hall Auditorium
"Research at CERN-From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles" 
Presented by Dr. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN
Hosted by: Peter Wanderer

The lecture will be preceded by a brief welcome address by Dr. Doon Gibbs,  Laboratory Director, BNL.  This event is open to the public.  A reception will follow in the lobby of Berkner Hall.

Plenary Speakers

• Gregorio Bernardi (U. Paris, D0, Tevatron)
• Suvadeep Bose (U. Nebraska, CMS)
• Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)
• Tim Gershon (U. Warwick, LHCb)
• Lloyd Knox (UC Davis, Planck)
• Elliot Lipeles (U. Penn, ATLAS)
• Juan Maldacena (IAS)
• Daniel McKinsey (Yale, LUX)
• Philip Schuster (Perimeter, APEX)
• Tracy Slatyer (IAS)
• Alessandro Strumia (INFN)
• Lisa Whitehead (U. Houston, MINOS)

Organizing Committee

• Michael Begel (BNL)
• Mary Bishai (BNL)
• Kyle Cranmer (NYU)
• Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL, Co-chair)
• Rouven Essig (Stony Brook)
• Patrick Meade (Stony Brook)
• Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)
• Erin Sheldon (BNL)
• Anze Slosar (BNL)
• Amarjit Soni (BNL, Co-chair)

A dinner will be held on-site at the Brookhaven Center, South Room on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. The dinner is included in the registration fee.  Please contact the conference coordinator if you have a guest that is not a registered conference participant.

Wednesday, 1 May

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: Howard Gordon (BNL)

Speaker: Howard Gordon (BNL)

Slides 2013_overview_BNL_slides__BNL_Forum.pptx

09:10 → 09:15 Organizer's Introduction

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: Howard Gordon (BNL)

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

09:15 → 09:55 Recent Physics Results from CMS

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: Howard Gordon (BNL)

Speaker: Suvadeep Bose (U. Nebraska, CMS)

Slides BNL_CMSOverview_SuvadeepBose.pdf

09:55 → 10:35 Higgs Studies at ATLAS

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: Howard Gordon (BNL)

Speaker: Elliot Lipeles (U. Penn, ATLAS)

Slides Lipeles-BF2013.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:40 Tevatron RESULTS Overview

Session: Plenary Program II Chair: Sally Dawson (BNL)

Speaker: Gregorio Bernardi (U. Paris, D0 Tevatron)

Slides Bernardi-Tev-physics-BNL.pdf

11:40 → 12:20 Naturalness After LHC Run I

Session: Plenary Program II Chair: Sally Dawson (BNL)

Speaker: Alessandro Strumia (INFN)

Slides StrumiaLHC8-Brookhaven1.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 SBU/BNL Cosmology Seminar-"Cosmology Beyond Power Spectra"

Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)

15:00 → 15:29 Coffee Break

15:29 → 15:30 Session: Cosmology Chair: C. Carone

15:29 → 15:30 Session: Flavor CP Chair: C. Potterat

15:29 → 15:30 Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: S. Bar-Shalom

15:29 → 15:30 Session: SUSY Chair: R. Essig

15:30 → 15:50 Charm Mixing and CP Violation at LHCb

Session: Flavor CP Chair: C. Potterat

Speaker: Paras Naik (University of Bristol)

Slides Naik-CharmMixingCPV-LHCb-Brookhaven13-Final.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 Constraining GeV-Scale Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors

Session: SUSY Chair: R. Essig

Speaker: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence, Melbourne)

Slides spray-bf2013.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 Higgs Results from CMS

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: S. Bar-Shalom

Speaker: Yuriy Pakhotin (Texas A&M)

Slides 2013-05-01_CmsHiggsSearch_Pakhotin_BrookhavenForum_v4.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 The LUX Dark Matter Detector: Status, Preliminary Results, and Outlook

Session: Cosmology Chair: C. Carone

Speaker: Jeremy Chapman (Brown University)

Slides Chapman_2013_BNL_forum.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 CP Violation in Charm Decays at Belle

Session: Flavor CP Chair: C. Potterat

Speaker: Alan Schwartz (University of Cinncinnati)

Slides cpv_belle_schwartz.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Backgrounds and the Impact of Astrophysical Foregrounds

Session: Cosmology Chair: C. Carone

Speaker: Alexander Engelen (Stony Brook University)

Slides Engelen_BF2013.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 The Tuning and the Mass of the Composite Higgs

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: S. Bar-Shalom

Speaker: Giuliano Panico (CERN)

Slides Panico_Brookhaven_Forum_2013.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Very Light Stops at the LHC

Session: SUSY Chair: R. Essig

Speaker: Abishek Kumar (TRIUMF)

Slides AKumar-LightStops-BF2013.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 CP Violation in the B System

Session: Flavor CP Chair: C. Potterat

Speaker: Justin Garafoli (Syracuse University)

Slides Garofoli_CPV.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Constraining Light Dark Matter with Low-Energy

Session: Cosmology Chair: C. Carone

Speaker: Y Zhong (Stony Brook University)

Slides Zhong_Brookhaven_Forum.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Geolocating the Higgs

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: S. Bar-Shalom

Speaker: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Slides Geolocating_the_Higgs.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Gluino-driven Radiative Breaking and Naturalness in Grand Unified SUGRA

Session: SUSY Chair: R. Essig

Speaker: Sujeet Akula (Northeastern University)

Slides http://freeboson.org/bf2013.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 Babar’s T Violation Results

Session: Flavor CP Chair: C. Potterat

Speaker: Chih-Hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

Slides Brookhaven_forum_2013_Tviolation.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 New Light Species and the CMB

Session: Cosmology Chair: C. Carone

Speaker: Christopher Brust (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides New Light Species and the CMB

16:30 → 16:50 New Results for Higgs Production in Association with a Jet

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: S. Bar-Shalom

Speaker: Radja Boughezal (Argonne)

Slides BNLForum2013_boughezal.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 Squark Pair Production at NLO and Parton Shower Effects

Session: SUSY Chair: R. Essig

Speaker: Popenda Eva (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Slides BNLForum13.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 *

Session: SUSY Chair: R. Essig

16:50 → 17:10 *

Session: Flavor CP Chair: C. Potterat

16:50 → 17:10 Introducing Dark Matter to Little Higgs Models Without T-Parity

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: S. Bar-Shalom

Speaker: Alejandro de la Puente (TRIUMF)

Slides BNL2013_ADP.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 Light Inflaton -- phi^4 inflation after Planck and possible search on colliders

Session: Cosmology Chair: C. Carone

Speaker: Fedor Bezrukov (UCONN)

Slides inflaton_2.pdf

17:30 → 17:40 Director's Welcome

Speaker: Doon Gibbs (BNL)

17:40 → 18:40 BSA Distinguished Lecture-Research at CERN – From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles

Hosted by Peter Wanderer

Speaker: Prof. Rolf Heuer (Director General, CERN)

18:40 → 19:30 BSA Reception

Thursday, 2 May

09:00 → 09:40 Overview of Neutrino Physics

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: William Marciano (BNL)

Speaker: Lisa Whitehead (U. Houston, MINOS)

Slides Whitehead_BNLForum2013[1].pdf

09:40 → 10:20 Prospects for Low Energy Searches

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: William Marciano (BNL)

Speaker: Philip Schuster (Perimeter, APEX)

Slides Schuster_Brookhaven_May2013.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:30 Flavor Physics Circa 2013

Session: Plenary Program II Chair: George Sterman (SBU)

Speaker: Tim Gershon (U. Warwick, LHCb)

Slides gershon-BF2013.pdf

11:30 → 12:10 Perturbative QCD for the LHC

Session: Plenary Program II Chair: George Sterman (SBU)

Speaker: Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)

Slides GehrmannBF2013.pdf

12:10 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session: Dynamical EWSB Chair: O. Witzel (Boston University)

13:59 → 14:00 Session: Flavor/CP II Chair: Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

13:59 → 14:00 Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

13:59 → 14:00 Session: Top/EW Chair: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

14:00 → 14:20 Rare Decays (on behalf of LHCb Collaboration)

Session: Flavor/CP II Chair: Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Cedric Potterat (University of Barcelona)

Slides Potterat_RD_LHCb.pdf

14:00 → 14:20 Results on Top from CMS

Session: Top/EW Chair: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

Speaker: Rocio Vilar (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria)

Slides TopAtCMS.pdf

14:00 → 14:20 Soft Triple-real Radiation for Higgs Production at N3LO

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

Speaker: Bernhard Mistlberger (ETH Zurich)

Slides Mistlberger-HiggsN3LOReal-Brookhaven.pdf

14:00 → 14:20 Synthesizing Lattice Results for 12 Flavor QCD

Session: Dynamical EWSB Chair: O. Witzel (Boston University)

Speaker: Robert Mawhinney (Columbia University)

Slides Mawhinney_BNL_Forum_2013.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 ATLAS H->ττ search results

Session: Flavor/CP II Chair: Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Xin Chen (University of Wisc-Mad)

Slides BNL_Chen.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Constraining Models with a Large Scalar Multiplet

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

Speaker: Kathryn Hartling (Carleton University)

14:20 → 14:40 Exploring for the Walking Technicolor on the Lattice

Session: Dynamical EWSB Chair: O. Witzel (Boston University)

Speaker: Yasumichi Aoki (Nagoya University)

Slides slide_yaoki_pub.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Results on electroweak precision measurements from CMS

Session: Top/EW Chair: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

Slides Brookhaven.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 Exploring Two Higgs Doublet Models Through Higgs Production

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

Speaker: Chien-Yi Chen (BNL)

Slides 2hdm_chen.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 Higher-Loop Calculations of UV to IR Evolution of Gauge Theories with Infrared Fixed Points

Session: Dynamical EWSB Chair: O. Witzel (Boston University)

Speaker: Robert Shrock (Stony Brook University)

Slides uvir.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 ORKA: A Proposed Precision Measurement of the K+ -> π+ ν ̅ν Branching Ratio Using the BNL E787/949 S Topped-Kaon Technique

Session: Flavor/CP II Chair: Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Elisabeth Worcester (BNL)

Slides etw_orka_bf.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 Theoretical Motivations for W/Z Ratio at Large Boson Transverse Momentum

Session: Top/EW Chair: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

Speaker: Sarah Malik (Rockefeller University)

Slides smalik_BNLforum.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Belle II and SuperKEKB Status and Propects

Session: Flavor/CP II Chair: Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

Slides BelleII-Piilonen3.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Dynamical Origin for the 125 GeV Higgs

Session: Dynamical EWSB Chair: O. Witzel (Boston University)

Speaker: Shaouly Bar-Shalom (TECHNION)

Slides Hybrid-DEWSB-BNL-Forum2013-V4.ppt

15:00 → 15:20 Event Reconstruction via Dileptonic Tops +Jets and Search for Natural SUSY with RPV

Session: Top/EW Chair: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

Speaker: Myeonghun M. Park (CERN)

15:00 → 15:20 Phenomenology of Two-Higgs-Doublet Models at the LHC

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

Speaker: Alejandro Celis (IFIC,Universitat de Valencia)

Slides Phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDMs) at the LHC.

15:20 → 15:40 *

Session: Flavor CP (I) Chair: Alan Schwartz (university of Cinncinnati)

15:20 → 15:40 *

Session: HIGGS/BSM Chair: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

15:20 → 15:40 Recent Results on Top Physics At ATLAS

Session: Top/EW Chair: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

Speaker: M Saleem (University of Oklahoma)

Slides BNL-Forum2013.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 The 125 GeV Higgs in the Context of Four Generations with 2 Higgs Doublets

Session: Dynamical EWSB Chair: O. Witzel (Boston University)

Speaker: Michael Geller (TECHNION)

Slides bnl_talk_geller.pdf

15:40 → 16:09 Coffee Break

16:09 → 16:10 Session: Flavor/CP (II) Chair: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick/CERN)

16:09 → 16:10 Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

16:09 → 16:10 Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

16:09 → 16:10 Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

16:10 → 16:30 B-->τν; B-->D(*) τν and Charm CP

Session: Flavor/CP (II) Chair: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick/CERN)

Speaker: Daniel Chao (Caltech)

Slides brookhaven_forum_dchao.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Precise Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay and Beyond

Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

Speaker: Jiajie Ling (BNL)

Slides ling_bnl.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Rare Higgs Decays at ATLAS

Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Speaker: Dmitri D. Tsybychev (Stony Brook University)

Slides tsybychev_bnl_forum2013.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Utilizing Color Flow for Discovery at the LHC

Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

Speaker: David Curtin (Stony Brook University)

Slides bnl_forum_2013_colorflow_v2_previewoutput.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 A Simple, Yet Subtle "Invariance" of Two-body Decay Kinematics

Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

Speaker: Doo-Jin Kim (University of Maryland)

Slides Presentation_DoojinKim_BF2013.pptx

16:30 → 16:50 B->τ ν and B->D(*) τ ν

Session: Flavor/CP (II) Chair: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick/CERN)

Speaker: Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)

Slides BNL2013_iijima_final.pdf BNL2013_iijima_final.pptx

16:30 → 16:50 Higgs Production Amidst the LHC Detector

Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Speaker: Prerit Jaiswal: (Florida State University)

Slides PreritJaiswal_BNL.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 The Future of Long-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

Speaker: Zeynep Isvan (BNL)

Slides isvan_oscexpts_bnlforum.key isvan_oscexpts_bnlforum.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 A Model of Lepton-Flavor-nonuniversal Dark Gauge Bosons

Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

Speaker: Christopher Carone (College of William and Mary)

Slides carone2013.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 Determining f_B and f_Bs on the Lattice

Session: Flavor/CP (II) Chair: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick/CERN)

Speaker: Oliver Witzel (Boston University)

Slides witzel_oliver.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 Electroweak Phase Transition, Higgs Diphoton Rate, & New Heavy Fermions

Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Speaker: Ian Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides IL_BF2013.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 Ultra High Energy Neutrinos: Absorption, Thermal Effects and Signatures

Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

Speaker: Eray E. Sabancilar: (Arizona State University)

Slides Eray_Sabancilar_BNL_2013.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 125 GeV Higgs Boson and the Type II Seesaw Model

Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Speaker: Bhupal Dev (University of Manchester)

Slides dev.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 Mirage Models Confront the LHC: Kahler- Stabilized Heterotic String Theory

Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

Speaker: Bryan Kaufman (Northeastern)

Slides Brookhaven2013_NoLogo.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 New Water-based Liquid Scintillator for Large Physics Experiments

Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

Speaker: Chao Zhang (BNL)

Slides WbLS_BF2013_Zhang.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 Strange Content of Nucleon from Lattice & Higgs Couplings

Session: Flavor/CP (II) Chair: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick/CERN)

Speaker: Chulwoo Jung (BNL)

Slides BF13.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 A New Framework for Perturbative Calculations for a Wide Class of Regulators

Speaker: Christoph Lehner (BNL)

Slides lehner.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 Axion Detection with NMR

Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

Speaker: Peter Graham (Stanford University)

Slides Brookhaven.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 Dark Z (in Comparison to Dark Photon)

Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

Speaker: Hye-Sung Lee (William & Mary)

Slides Lee_(Dark_Z).pdf

17:30 → 17:50 The Same-Sign Dilepton Signature of RPV/MFV SUSY

Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Speaker: Michael Saelim (Cornell University)

Slides SaelimBF2013.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 *

Session: Higgs/SUSY Chair: James Gainer (University of Florida)

Slides SaelimBF2013.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 New Ways to TeV Scale Leptogenesis

Session: Neutrinos/Cosmology Chair: Guiliano Panico (CERN)

Speaker: Chee Sheng Fong (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Slides fong_bf2013.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 Nucleon EDM & Decay from the Lattice

Session: Flavor/CP (II) Chair: Tim Gershon (University of Warwick/CERN)

Speaker: Eigo Shintani (BNL)

Slides slide_shintani_130502.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 Sniffing out New Physics from WW Cross Section

Session: New Ideas/BSM Chair: Andrew Spray (Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics, Melbourne)

Speaker: Pin-Ju Tien (Stony Brook University)

Slides pjt_ww_bnl_2013.pptx

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday, 3 May

09:00 → 09:40 Direct Detection of Dark Matter

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: Samuel Aronson (BNL)

Speaker: Daniel McKinsey

Slides McKinsey_Direct_Detection_Overview.pdf

09:40 → 10:20 Dark Matter Phenomenology

Session: Plenary Program I Chair: Samuel Aronson (BNL)

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (IAS)

Slides SlatyerBF2013.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:30 An Overview of Cosmology in the Planck Era

Session: Plenary Program II Chair: Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook University)

Speaker: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis, Planck)

11:30 → 12:10 Recent Advances in Formal Theory

Session: Plenary Program II Chair: Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook University)

Speaker: Juan Maldacena (IAS)

Slides Maldacena.pdf