La Thuile 2011

27 Feb 2011, 00:00 → 5 Mar 2011, 19:30 Europe/Rome

La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy<!-- ID_UTENTE=804 -->

Giorgio Bellettini, Giorgio Chiarelli, Mario Greco, Gino Isidori

Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste

Results and Perspectives in Particle Physics

Bulletin 1 2011_bollettino1.pdf

Bulletin 2 2011_bollettino2.pdf

Instructions for authors SHORT_GUIDELINES.pdf

pictures IMG_0671.jpg IMG_0672.jpg

Poster locandina_fisica_480x680_2011.pdf

Preliminary scientific program Public_Programme_2011.pdf

Monday, 28 February

08:30 → 11:50 Cosmology and Astrophysics

08:30 25 years of quarks and the cosmos (and beyond)

Speaker: Michael S Turner (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)

Slides turner.pdf

09:00 High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy with the ANTARES Deep-Sea Cherenkov Detector

Speaker: Antonio Capone (Università di Roma / INFN)

Slides capone.pdf

09:20 Review of CMB

Speaker: Ms Dorothea Samtleben (NIKHEF, Amsterdam)

Paper Samtleben_thuile2011.tar

Slides Samtleben.pdf

09:40 Indirect searches for Dark Matter

Speaker: Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

Slides Galbiati.pdf

10:10 Scalar dark matter: a revision of the inert doublet model

Speaker: Laura Lopez Honorez (ULB)

Paper Lopez-LLH.tgz

Slides Lopez.pdf

10:30 Primordial black holes and contemporary gravitational waves

Speaker: Alexander Dolgov (INFN - Ferrara)

Paper Dolgov.zip

Slides Dolgov.pdf

16:00 → 17:50 Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics

16:00 Comments on New Bounds on Neutrino Magnetic Moment

Speaker: Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)

Paper Studenikin.zip

Slides Studenikin.pdf

16:10 Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter searches with Fermi

Speakers: Luca Baldini (INFN - Pisa), Mr Luigi Tibaldo (PD)

Paper baldini_tibaldo.tar.gz

Slides Baldini.pdf

16:30 The Fermi gamma-ray sky: implications for cosmic-ray acceleration and propagation

Speaker: Luigi Tibaldo (INFN - Padova)

Slides Tibaldo.pdf

16:50 Cosmic Rays in the TeV Region with the ARGO-YBJ Detector

Speaker: Paolo Bernardini (INFN - Lecce)

Paper bernardini.tar

Slides Bernardini.pdf

17:10 Highlights from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Martina Bohacova (Institute of Physics, Prague)

Paper Bohocova.tar.gz

Slides Bohacova.pdf

17:30 The Origin of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and their Spectral Break

Speaker: Arnon Dar (Technion, Israel Institute of Tech)

Paper Dar.zip

Slides Dar.pdf

17:50 → 19:10 Special Session: Honoring the 70th Birthday of Mario Greco

18:00 The Early Days of QCD (as seen from Rome)

Speaker: Guido Altarelli (Università di Roma Tre / CERN)

Paper altarellilathuile11.zip

Slides 1-Altarelli.pdf

18:25 From vector mesons to quark-hadron duality

Speaker: Albert Bramon (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Paper Bramon.zip

Slides 2-Bramon.pdf

18:40 Mario @ Frascati

Speaker: Yogendra Srivastava (INFN - Perugia)

Paper Srivastava.zip

Slides yogi.pdf

18:55 Heavy quarks, from discovery to precision

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

Paper cacciari.tgz

Slides cacciari.pdf

Tuesday, 1 March

08:30 → 11:30 Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics - CONTINUED

08:30 Recent Results by Planck

Speaker: Paolo Natoli (INFN - Roma 2)

Paper natoli.tgz

Slides Natoli_La_Thuile_1_march_2011_LowRes.pdf

08:50 The Latest Results From The MINOS Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

Speaker: Ruth Toner (University of Cambridge)

Paper ruthtoner_minos.zip

Slides 6-Toner.pdf

09:10 Search for ν μ → ντ oscillations in appearance mode in the OPERA experiment

Speaker: Umut Kose (INFN - Padova)

Paper umutkose.pdf

Slides 7-Kose.pdf

09:30 The T2K experiment:Status & Future Plan

Speaker: Akihiro Minamino (Kyoto University)

Slides 8-Minamino.pdf

09:50 Commissioning the Double CHOOZ Detector

Speaker: Jaime Dawson (AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris 7)

Paper dawson_lathuile.tar

Slides 9-Dawson.pdf

10:10 Neutrino Physics with the Borexino experiment

Speaker: Barbara Caccianiga (INFN - Milano)

Paper Caccianiga_2011.tar.gz

Slides 10-Caccianiga.pdf

10:35 Recent Progress in Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (INFN - Torino)

Paper giunti.tar.gz

Slides giunti-110301-lathuile.pdf

16:30 → 19:30 Physics of Hadronic Interactions

16:30 Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Guido Tonelli (Università di Pisa / INFN)

Paper guido_tonelli_la_thuile_final.zip

Slides 1-Tonelli.pdf

17:00 Early P-P Physics at ALICE

Speaker: Enrico Scomparin (INFN - Torino)

Paper scomparin-lathuile.tar.gz

Slides 2-Scomparin.pdf

17:20 QCD at the Tevatron

Speaker: Gavin Hesketh (University College London)

Slides 3-Hesketh.pdf

17:40 QCD Physics at ATLAS

Speaker: EVELIN MEONI (IFAE (Barcelona))

Paper meoni_qcd_atlas_la_thuile.tar

Slides 4-Meoni.pdf

18:00 Recent Developements and Open Problems in Parton Distributions

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (INFN - Milano)

Paper rojo.tgz

Slides 5-Rojo.pdf

18:30 Heavy Ion Physics with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Speaker: Peter Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Paper steinberg_lathuile2011.tar.gz

Slides 6-Steinberg.pdf

18:50 First Heavy-Ion Results

Speaker: Andrea Dainese (INFN - Padova)

Paper dainese.tgz

Slides 7-Dainese.pdf

Wednesday, 2 March

08:30 → 11:30 Flavour Physics, CP Violation and Rare Decays

08:30 Recent results from BaBar

Speaker: Vincent Tisserand (LAPP IN2P3 CNRS et Université de Savoie)

Paper TisserandPaper.zip

Slides 1-Tisserand.pdf

08:50 Recent Results from Belle

Speaker: Ming-Chuan Chang (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

Slides 2-Chang.pdf

09:10 CP violation and suppressed Bs decays at CDF

Speaker: Jonathan Lewis (Fermilab)

Paper lewis_2011.tgz

Slides 3-Lewis.pdf

09:30 Status and Results from LHCb

Speaker: Andrey Golutvin (Imperial College/ITEP/CERN)

Slides 4-Golutvin.pdf

09:50 Charmless B Decays

Speaker: Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

Paper chcheng.pdf chcheng.tar.gz

Slides 5-Cheng.pdf

10:10 Chirally enhanced self-energies in the MSSM

Speaker: Andreas Crivellin (TTP Karlsruhe)

Paper Crivellin.zip

Slides 6-Crivellin.pdf

10:35 Comments on CPT

Speaker: Victor Novikov (ITEP)

Paper Novikov.zip

Slides 7-Novikov.pdf

16:30 → 19:30 Rare decays and CP Violation - CONTINUED

16:30 New Physics Searches in Flavour Physics, a Theoretical Overview

Speaker: David Straub (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Paper straub.zip

Slides 1-Straub.pdf

17:00 New Results on K Physics from NA48 and NA62 Experiments

Speaker: Spasimir Balev (CERN)

Paper balev.zip

Slides 2-Balev.pdf

17:20 KLOE-2 project at the DAFNE accelerator upgraded in luminosity

Speaker: Salvatore Fiore (ROMA1)

Paper fiore_lathuile2011.zip

Slides 11_03_02_fiore_lathuile.pdf

17:40 Charmonium results with BESIII

Speaker: Dmitry Dedovich (JINR)

Slides 4-Dedovich.pdf

18:00 Physics at (5s)

Speaker: Roman Mizuk (ITEP, Moscow)

Slides 5-Mizuk.pdf

18:20 CPV and rare Bs decays at the Tevatron

Speaker: Marjorie Corcoran (Rice University)

Paper corcoran_lathuile.tar

Slides 6-Corcoran.pdf

18:40 Prospects for CP violation in B0s ! J= from first LHCb data

Speaker: Olivier Leroy (CPPM CNRS/IN2P3 and Aix-Marseille University, France)

Paper Leroy.zip

Slides 7-Leroy.pdf

Thursday, 3 March

08:30 → 10:40 Electroweak and Top Physics

08:30 Electroweak Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Jadranka Sekaric (University of Kansas)

Paper sekaric.tar.gz

Slides 1-Sekaric.pdf

08:50 Electroweak and Top physics at ATLAS

Speaker: Rikard Sandstrom (NIKHEF)

Paper Sandstrom_LaThuile2011Proc.tgz

Slides 5-Sandstroem.pdf

09:10 Measurement of W, Z and Top properties with CMS

Speaker: Michele De Gruttola (NA)

Paper micheledegruttola.zip

Slides 6-DeGruttola.pdf

09:30 Top Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Hyun Su Lee (University of Chicago)

Paper lee.zip

Slides 2-Lee.pdf

10:40 → 11:30 Physics and Society

10:40 Status of SESAME Project

Speaker: Amor Nadji (SESAME)

Slides 1-Amor.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Physics and Society - CONTINUED

16:30 CERN and the Future of Particle Physics

Speaker: Rolf-Dieter Heuer (CERN)

Paper Heuer.zip

Slides 2-Heuer.pdf

17:00 Quantitative Biology

Speaker: Michele Caselle (TO)

Slides 3-Caselle.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Electroweak and Top Physics - CONTINUED

18:00 A Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production

Speaker: Dante Amidei (Michigan University)

Paper Amidei.tar

Slides 5-Amidei.pdf

18:20 Top-quark physics within and beyond the SM

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)

Slides 6-Frederix.pdf

Friday, 4 March

08:30 → 11:30 Higgs Searches, Hot Topics

08:30 Search for Low Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: WeiMing Yao Yao (LBNL)

Paper LowMassHiggs_lathuile2011.tgz

Slides 1-Yao.pdf

08:50 Search for a High Mass SM Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Marc Buehler (University of Virginia)

Paper Buehler.tar.gz

Slides 2-Buehler.pdf

09:10 Higgs & New Physics in ATLAS

Speaker: Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides 3-Gross.pdf

09:30 Revisiting the constraints on the Higgs sector from the Tevatron

Speaker: Abdelhak Djouadi (Paris-Sud)

Paper djouadi-thuile.tar.gz

Slides 4-Djouadi.pdf

09:50 Ingredients for the Tevatron Higgs Search Limits

Speaker: Marc Buehler (University of Virginia)

Paper Buehler.tar.gz

Slides LaThuile2_Buehler_20110304.pdf

10:10 Higgs physics and alternative mechanisms for EW symmetry breaking

Speaker: Michele Redi (CERN/INFN)

Paper redi.zip

Slides Redi.pdf

10:40 Coulomb law and energy levels in a superstrong magnetic field

Speaker: Mikhail vysotsky (ITEP, Moscow)

Paper Vysotsky.zip

Slides 6-Vysotsky.pdf

16:30 → 19:30 Searching for New Physics

16:30 μ→eγ search with MEG: results and perspectives

Speaker: Luca Galli (INFN - Pisa)

Paper lathuile2011.zip

Slides 1-Galli.pdf

16:50 Search for the rare decays B0 d μ+μ− and BS  μ+μ- with LHCb

Speaker: Gaia Lanfranchi (LNF)

Paper lanfranchi.tar.gz

Slides 2-Lanfranchi.pdf

17:10 LFV in charged leptons: a theory overview

Speaker: Paride Paradisi (Valencia University, IFIC)

Paper paradisi.tar

Slides 3-Paradisi.pdf

17:40 Search for New Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (Tufts University)

Paper Rolli.tar.gz

Slides 4-Rolli.pdf

18:00 Searches for New Physics at CMS

Speaker: Mr Henning Flaecher (CERN)

Paper flaecher_lathuile2011.tgz

Slides 5-Flaecher.pdf

18:20 Working Technicolor at the LHC

Speaker: Marco Nardecchia (CP3-Origins)

Paper nardecchia.zip

Slides 6-Nardecchia.pdf

18:35 New Physics in the LHC Era

Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (SNS - Pisa)

Slides 7-Barbieri.pdf

Saturday, 5 March

09:00 → 11:00 Perspectives

09:00 Icarus and Status of Liquid Argon Technology

Speaker: Angela Fava (INFN - Padova)

Paper proceeding_angela_fava.gz

Slides 1-Fava.pdf

09:20 The (future) Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA

Speaker: Christopher Naumann (LPNHE Paris)

Paper naumann_la-thuile.tar_(2).gz

Slides 2-Naumann.pdf

09:50 Status of SuperB Project

Speaker: Guy wormser (LAL Orsay)

Paper wormser.zip

Slides 3-Wormser.pdf

10:20 Status and Physics Prospects of the SuperKEKB Project

Speaker: Yasuyuki Horii (Tohoku University)

Paper horii.tar

Slides 4-Horii.pdf