Recent measurements in hadron-hadron collisions at RHIC and LHC involving heavy quarks will be presented. The results are related to the production of c and b quarks and the study of quarkonium. Also measurements involving the search and study of exotic final states, such as tetraquark and pentaquark candidates, are presented and discussed.
Detailed measurements of the properties of the 125 GeV Higgs boson are fundamental for the understanding of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. The LHC Run-2 dataset has made it possible to probe a wide range of Higgs boson properties in a variety of decay channels. This talk will summarize recent results from both the ATLAS and CMS experiments.
Recent highlights from experiments involving target and/or beam polarization at BNL, CERN, DESY, Fermilab, and Jefferson Lab are presented. These measurements aim at unraveling proton spin in terms of the contributions from its quarks and gluons; how proton spin is correlated with parton motion inside the proton; and how the proton spin influences the spatial distributions of partons, thus...
I will discuss recent progress in the theoretical and phenomenological investigation of the spin structure of the nucleon. In particular, I will report on the status of the verification of the spin sum rule for the proton. I will focus on the possibility to access information on the quark orbital angular momentum from different types of parton distributions, such as transverse momentum...
An impressive amount of data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is allowing searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with remarkable reach. Uncovering the mysteries potentially hiding in this data requires a precision understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) both for signal and background processes. In this talk I review recent theoretical progress in our ability to understand...
Ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC and RHIC offer the highest currently available energy for photon-nucleon and photon-nucleus collisions. Thus they are a valuable tool for studying the gluonic structure of hadrons and nuclei at small x. This talk will discuss experimental results in ultraperipheral collisions, most prominently exclusive vector meson production. We will also discuss recent...
To date, LHC experiments are remarkably consistent with Standard Model predictions. Theorists, however, remain convinced of the need for new physics beyond the Standard Model. I will discuss the motivations for beyond the Standard Model physics and speculate as to where cracks in the Standard Model framework are most likely to emerge.
