The Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics presents the

LHC New Physics Signatures Workshop

January 5th thru 11th, 2008
340 West Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor Michigan

Scientific Program
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Time
Saturday, January 5th
Talk Title
1:00-1:10 Gordon Kane (MCTP Director) Opening Remarks
  Session Chair: Aaron Pierce (Michigan)  
1:10-1:50 Ketevi Assamagan (BNL, ATLAS) Physics with the first 100 inverse picobarns in ATLAS and CMS
1:50-2:30 Christos Leonidopoulos (CERN, CMS) Trigger in ATLAS and CMS
Coffee Break  337 West Hall
  Session Chair: James Wells (Michigan)  
3:00-3:40 Joe Lykken (Fermilab) Missing Energy with 100 inverse picobarns
3:40-4:20 Brent Nelson (Northeastern) Exotic Quarks and Squarks at the LHC
4:20-4:40 Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) Collider Signature of the Supersymmetric Golden Region
5:00-7:00 Reception 337 West Hall
Time
Sunday, January 6th
Talk Title
  Session Chair: David Shih (IAS)  
10:00-10:40 Bruce Knuteson (MIT) Global Search for New Physics
10:40-11:00 Kiwoon Choi (KAIST) Measuring sparticle masses using the transverse mass kink
Lunch
  Session Chair: Jason Kumar (Irvine)  
2:00-2:40 Steven Goldfarb (Michigan, ATLAS) Lepton reconstruction and signatures in ATLAS and CMS
2:40-3:20 Pran Nath (Northeastern) Sparticle Landscape and Signatures at the LHC
Coffee Break 337 West Hall
  Session Chair: David Morrissey (Michigan)  
3:40-4:20 Scott Thomas (Rutgers) Direct and Indirect Searches for New Physics with Diboson Final States
Time
Monday, January 7th
Talk Title
  Session Chair: Jessie Shelton (Rutgers)  
10:00-10:40 Steve King (Southampton) The Constrained E_6 MSSM
10:40-11:00 Michael Graesser (LANL) Correlations in Supersymmetric Cascade Decays
Lunch
  Session Chair: Alexey Petrov (Wayne State)  
1:50-2:10 Steve Martin (NIU) Stoponium at the LHC
2:10-2:30 Corinne Goy (LAPP, Annecy, ATLAS) Toward Precision Measurements of the Standard Model Sector with the ATLAS Detector
2:30-2:50 Joey Huston (MSU) Re-discovering the SM at the LHC
Coffee Break 337 West Hall
3:20-3:40 Phil Grajek (Michigan) Signatures Wiki
4:10-5:00 Kyle Cranmer (NYU) Searching for New Physics: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques (Regular Department HEP/ASTRO SEMINAR)
Time
Tuesday, January 8th
Talk Title
  Session Chair: Herman Verlinde (Princeton)  
10:00-10:40 Paul Langacker (IAS) Z' mediated supersymmetry breaking
10:40-11:00 Albert deRoeck (CERN) Indirect Constraints and the CMSSM
Lunch
  Session Chair: Arjun Menon (Michigan)  
2:00-2:20 Alan Wilson (Michigan) Direct and Indirect Searches for New Physics with Diboson Final States
2:20-2:40 Neil Christensen (Michigan State) LHC Signatures of the Minimal Higgsless Model
Coffee Break 337 West Hall
  Session Chair: Bing Zhou (Michigan)  
3:00-3:20 Piyush Kumar (Berkeley) Connecting the LHC and Underlying Theories
3:20-4:00 Amitabh Lath (Rutgers, CMS) Jet and ETmiss reconstruction and Signatures in ATLAS and CMS
5:00-7:00 Reception 337 West Hall
Time
Wednesday, January 9th
Talk Title
  Session Chair: Can Kilic (Johns Hopkins)  
10:00-10:40 Y. G. Kim (KAIST) Gluino Stransverse Mass
10:40-11:00 Marat Gataullin (Caltech, CMS) Searches for New Physics with Photons at CMS
Lunch
  Session Chair: Maria Spiropulu (CERN)  
2:00-2:20 Adam Everett (Purdue, CMS) Experimental Aspects of the search for new high-mass resonances decaying to muon pairs in the CMS experiment
2:20-2:40 Bobby Acharya (ICTP/Udine, ATLAS) Measurement of Top pair production with the ATLAS detector
Coffee Break 337 West Hall
4:00-5:00 Departmental Colloquium (Lisa Randall—Harvard)
Time
Thursday, January 10th
Talk Title
  Session Chair: Rakhi Mahbubani (FNAL)  
10:00-10:40 Lisa Randall (Harvard) Two Higgs Models for Large Tan Beta and Heavy Second Higgs
10:40-11:00 Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers) Extracting Hadronic Resonances using Jet Ensembles
Lunch
  Session Chair: Dejan Stojkovic (Buffalo)  
2:00-2:20 Joe Conlon (Cambridge) Supersymmetric Flavour Universality in String Theory
2:20-2:40 Bobby Samir Acharya (Trieste) Phenomenology of G2 Manifolds
Coffee Break 337 West Hall
  Session Chair: Patrick Meade (IAS)  
3:00-3:40 A. Delgado (Notre Dame) Dynamical mu Term in Gauge Mediation
3:40-4:00 Brooks Thomas (Arizona) Nonstandard Signature Possibilities in Two Higgs Doublet Models
5:00-7:00 Reception
Time
Friday, January 11th
Talk Title
  Session Chair: Oliver Buchmuller (CERN)  
10:00-10:40 Jesse Thaler (Berkeley) GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation
10:40-11:00 Haijun Yang (Michigan) Search for H-->WW with ATLAS Detector Based on Boosted Decision Trees
Lunch
  Session Chair: Thomas Flacke (Michigan)  
2:00-2:20 J. Shu (Chicago) Top Compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC
2:20-2:40 J. Shao (Michigan) Early Spin Measurements at the LHC
2:40-3:20 Lian-tao Wang (Princeton) Top Rich Signals of New Physics at the LHC
  Wokshop Concludes  
Participants include:  

Bobby Acharya (ICTP, Trieste)
Ketevi Assamagan (Brookhaven)
Ismet Altunkaynak (Northeastern)
Konstantin Bobkov (Michigan)
Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton)
Oliver Buchmuller (CERN)
Jay Chapman (Michigan)
Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)
Neil Christensen (MSU)
Timothy Cohen (Michigan)
Joseph Conlon (Cambridge)
Sera Cremonini (Michigan)
Yanou Cui (Michigan)
James Degenhardt (Pennsylvania)
Eduard De La Cruz Burelo (Michigan)
Antonio Delgado (Notre Dame)
Albert de Roeck (CERN)
Edward Diehl (Michigan)
Brian Dudley
Adam Everett (Purdue)
Daniel Feldman (Northeastern)
Thomas Flacke (Michigan)
Yu Gao (Wisconsin at Madison)
Marat Gataulin (Caltech)
Steven Goldfarb (Michigan)
Corinne Goy (LAPP, IN2P3/CNRS)
Michael Graesser (LANL)
Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers)
Carsten Hensel (Goettingen)
Suen Hou (Taiwan)
Yue Hu (Louisville)
Joey Huston (MSU)
Gordon Kane (Michigan)
Can Kilic (Johns Hopkins)
Yeong-Gyun Kim (KAIST)
Steve King (Southampton)
Bruce Knuteson (MIT)
Eric Kuflik (Michigan)
Jason Kumar (California, Irvine)
Piyush Kumar (Berkeley)


Paul Langacker (IAS)
Amitabh Lath (Rutgers)
Christos Leonidopoulos (CERN)
Tong Li (UW-Madison)
Zuowei Liu (Northeastern)
Joe Lykken (FNAL)
Rakhi Mahbubani (Fermilab)
Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois)
Arjun Menon (Michigan)
David Morrissey (Michigan)
John Mozdzen (Michigan)
Pran Nath (Northeastern)
Brent Nelson (Northeastern)
Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)
Alexey Petrov (Wayne State)
Aaron Pierce (Michigan)
Jianming Qian (Michigan)
Lisa Randall (Harvard)
David Robertson (Otterbein College)
Julia Shelton (Rutgers)
David Shih (IAS)
Jing Shy (U. of Chicago/Argonne)
Maria Spiropulu (CERN)
Dejan Stojkov (SUNY at Buffalo)
Jesse Thaler (Berkeley)
Brooks Thomas (Arizona)
Scott Thomas (Rutgers)
Kai Wang (Wisconsin)
Liantao Wang (Princeton)
Scott Watson (Michigan)
James Wells (Michigan)
Martin White (Cambridge)
Alan Wilson (Michigan)
Atay Yavin (Princeton)
Jingbo Ye (Southern Methodist University)
Bing Zhou (Michigan)