SuperB Physics Workshop

13 Apr 2009, 16:15 → 17 Apr 2009, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Physics Department of the University of Warwick

Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS), Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary), David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Marcello Giorgi (PI), Marco Ciuchini (RM3), Paul Harrison (University of warwick)

The purpose of the Workshop is to bring together experimentalists and theorists to: * Stimulate new work towards the SuperB Technical Design Report * Develop the strategies to test new physics models * Clarify the areas where SuperB has the best physics reach The meeting web page (including registration information) can be found via the following URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/epp/meetings/superb2009/

Tuesday 14 April

11:30 → 12:45 Registration and Coffee

Registration and Coffee

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Plenary Session 1: Welcome and Overview

14:00 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Paul Harrison (University of warwick)

14:10 Status Report on the SuperB Project

Speaker: Marcello Giorgi (PI)

Slides Giorgi-4,14,2009.pdf Giorgi-4,14,2009.pptx

14:55 Goals and organisation of the workshop

Speaker: Prof. Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)

Slides Plenary-Physics-Warwick.pdf Plenary-Physics-Warwick.ppt

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:45 WG1: New Physics in Mixing and CP Violation

Parallel Session 1

16:15 Sin(2beta) in penguin modes: reivew of experimental situation

Speaker: Alfio Lazzaro (MI)

Slides lazzaro.ppt lazzaroSuperB.pdf

16:45 Sin(2beta) in penguin modes: reivew of theoretical situation

Speaker: Martin Jung

Slides NPinbtos.pdf

17:15 Sin(2beta) in penguin modes: limiting factors in time-dependent Dalitz plot analyses

Speaker: Mr Alejandro Perez (LPNHEP)

Slides Sin2Beta_eff_in_penguins_SuperB_Workshop_Warkwick.pdf

16:15 → 17:45 WG2: Rare, Radiative and semi-leptonic decays

Parallel Session 1

16:15 Semileptonic Decays (theory)

Speaker: T. Mannel

Slides WarwickSL.pdf

16:45 Semileptonic Decays (theory)

Speaker: F. Tackmann

Slides 2009-04_vubsuperb.pdf

17:15 Semileptonic Decays (Experiment)

Speaker: M. Rotondo

Slides rotondo_semilep.pdf

16:15 → 17:45 WG3: Lepton Flavour Violation and New Physics Models + WG4: CP and T Violation with Polarized Taus

Parallel Session 1

16:15 LFV in tau -> l f0(980) in constrained MSSM

Speaker: Dr Ana María Rodríguez Sánchez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

Slides charla_superB.pdf

16:45 SUSY CP phases at colliders (summary on behalf of the Bartl group)

Speaker: Oscar Vives (University of Valencia)

Slides olaf_kittel.pdf

16:15 → 17:45 WG5: Charm Mixing and CP Violation in D decays

Parallel Session 1
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16:15 The Charm of the Littlest Higgs with T-Parity - CP-Violation in D - anti-D Oscillations

Speaker: Ms Monika Blanke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Slides Warwick09.pdf

16:40 Mixing and CPV in the D0 System - Current Situation and Prospects for Super B

Speaker: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

Slides tues_pm_charm.pdf tues_pm_charm.ppt

17:05 T-odd correlations

Speaker: Antimo Palano (INFN, Bari University)

Slides antimo_todd.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Reception on Physics Concourse

Wednesday 15 April

09:00 → 10:30 WGA: Phenomenology

09:00 Flavour physics in the Littlest Higgs with T-parity

Speaker: Björn Duling (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Slides Duling-SuperB-Warwick.pdf.pdf

09:30 Flavour Physics in a Randall-Sundrum Model with Custodial Protection

Speaker: Katrin Gemmler (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Slides ww.pdf

10:00 Generalized MFV

Speaker: Jure Zupan (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

Slides Zupan_GMFV_warwick.pdf

09:00 → 10:30 WG2: Rare, Radiative and semi-leptonic decays

09:00 Gamma angle determination

Speaker: J. Zupan

Slides Gamma_warwick.pdf

09:30 Incluseive b--> s l l (theory)

Speaker: T. Huber

Slides huber-warwick09.pdf

10:00 inclusive+exclusive b--> s l l (experiment)

Speaker: G. Eigen

Slides GE-warwick.pdf GE-warwick.ppt

09:00 → 11:00 WGC: Tools: Simulation overview

This session will be devoted to an overview of the SuperB simulation tools relevant for physics studies, in particular the fast simulation.

09:00 SuperB simulation overview, svt + tracking

Speaker: Dr David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Slides FastSim_overview,_tracking.pdf

09:10 Dch and dE/dx in fastsim

Speaker: Matteo Rama (LNF)

Slides dch_dedx.pdf

09:20 Dirc in Fastsim

Speaker: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

Slides fastdirc.ppt Warwick09.pdf

09:30 Forward PID in FastSim

Speaker: Dr NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

Slides forwardPID_arnaud.pdf

09:40 Calorimetry in FastSim

Speaker: Dr Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

Slides emc_fastsim_superBwarwick_090415.pdf

09:50 IFR in FastSim

Speaker: Dr marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)

Slides fastifr_hadshow.pdf

10:00 Background mixing and Beta interface of FastSim

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Simi (UMD)

Slides 2009-Warwick-FSInput.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:45 WG1: New Physics in Mixing and CP Violation

11:00 Theoretical motivation for DeltaGamma_d and DeltaGamma_s

Speaker: Alexander Lenz

Slides lenz2.pdf

11:30 Sin(2beta) in the golden modes: review of theoretical situation

Speaker: Dr Thomas Mannel (Siegen University)

Slides WarwickGOLD.pdf

11:00 → 12:45 WG2: Rare, Radiative and semi-leptonic decays

11:00 Bd--> mu mu (theory)

Speaker: M. Gorbahn

Slides Gorbahn_mumu.pdf

11:30 b--> s gamma (theory)

Speaker: T. Hurth

Slides SuperBWarwick.pdf

12:00 b--> s gamma (experiment)

Speaker: J. Walsh

Slides b_to_s_gamma.pdf

11:00 → 12:45 WG3: Lepton Flavour Violation and New Physics Models + WG4: CP and T Violation with Polarized Taus

11:00 Flavour and CP in general MSSM: implications for tau physics

Speaker: Oscar Vives (University of Valencia)

Slides SBFlavCP.pdf

11:30 Tau LFV in SUSY see-saw models and SUSY GUTs

Speaker: P. Paradisi

Slides p-paradisi-superb-warwick-apr09.pdf.pdf

11:00 → 12:45 WG5: Charm Mixing and CP Violation in D decays

11:00 Opening remarks

Speaker: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

11:10 Some comments

Speakers: Prof. Ikaros Bigi (U. Notre Dame), Monika Blanke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Slides WarwickInputSlides.pdf

11:20 Draft proceedings from Valencia

Speaker: Group

document Valencia_proceedings.pdf

Slides valencia_summary.ppt

11:00 → 12:45 WG6: Spectroscopy, Exotica and Other Physics

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 WGA: Phenomenology

14:00 TDR outline

14:10 The scale of new physics from the unitarity triangle fit

Speaker: Marcella Bona (CERN)

Slides superBworkshop-bona.pdf.pdf

14:40 taus and Bs vs mus and Ks: where to look for new physics?

Speaker: Oscar Vives (University of Valencia)

Slides SBLFV.pdf

15:10 Correlations B/Bs/tau - informal discussion

14:00 → 15:30 WGB: Theoretical Uncertainties

Parallel Session 2

14:00 → 15:30 WGC: Tools: Fast Simulation Tutorial

This session will be an interactive tutorial describing how to use the SuperB fast simulation. For further details, please see http://mailman.fe.infn.it/superbwiki/index.php/FastSimDoc/Tutorial2#SuperB_Physics_Workshop_Fastsim_Tutorial

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Plenary Session 2: Theory Talk and Discussion

16:00 New Physics in the flavour sector

Speaker: Luca Silvestrini (INFN - Rome)

Thursday 16 April

09:00 → 10:30 WG2: Rare, Radiative and semi-leptonic decays

09:00 B--> k nu nu (Theory)

Speaker: Straub

09:30 B--> k nu nu (experiment)

Speaker: F. Renga

Slides renga_warwick_2.pdf

09:00 → 10:30 WG6: Spectroscopy, Exotica and Other Physics

09:00 Spectroscopy at Panda

Speaker: Diego Bettoni (Univ. and INFN Ferrara)

Slides BettoniPANDASpectroscopy.pdf BettoniPANDASpectroscopy.pptx

09:45 New Spectroscopy@B-Factories: status and perspectives

Speakers: Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE), Dr Gianluigi Cibinetto (infn Ferrara)

Slides cibinetto-warwick.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:45 WG1: New Physics in Mixing and CP Violation

11:00 SuperB precision on DGd and DGs

Speaker: Francesco Renga (RM1)

Slides renga_DG.pdf

11:30 Possible SuperB precision on Dmd

Speaker: Mr David Asgeirsson (University of British Columbia)

Slides asgeirsson-april16.pdf

12:00 Sin(2beta) in the golden modes: review of experimental situation

Speaker: Dr Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

Slides sin2bexpstatus.pdf

11:00 → 12:45 WG2: Rare, Radiative and semi-leptonic decays

11:00 b-->s l l exclusive (theory)

Speaker: Q. Matias

11:30 B --> l nu (theory)

Speaker: P. Paradisi

12:00 B --> l nu + B --> mu mu (experiment)

Speaker: S. Robertson

11:00 → 12:45 WG6: Spectroscopy, Exotica and Other Physics

11:00 Effects of chiral symmetry breaking in B

Speaker: Prof. David Bugg (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Slides bugg.pdf

11:25 discussion

11:55 Upsilon radiative decays, spectroscopy and a light pseudoscalar Higgs in the NMSSM

Speaker: Migu Angel Sanchis-Lozano

Slides http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rfaccini/public/SuperB_Miguel.ppt SuperB_Miguel.pdf

12:20 Search for decoherence and CPT violation effects in the B meson system at a B-factory

Speaker: Antonio Di Domenico

Slides didomenico_superb_warwick2009_web.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 WGA: Phenomenology

14:00 CP Violation in B(s) Mixing in the SUSY SU(5) GUT with Right-handed Neutrinos

Speaker: Yasuhiro Shimizu (Tokyo University)

14:20 Hierarchical Squarks and B Physics

Speaker: Marco Nardecchia (SISSA/ISAS, Trieste)

Slides nardec.pdf

14:40 SUSY breaking models

Speaker: Sebastian Jager (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

15:00 discussion

14:00 → 15:50 WGC: Tools

14:00 status of tagging

Speaker: Dr Vincenzo Lombardo (INFN Milano)

Slides lombardo_superB.pdf

14:15 PID selectors

Speaker: Dr NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

Slides pidSelectors_arnaud.pdf

14:25 Progress on tau physics tools for SuperB

Speaker: Dr Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

Slides warwick-apr09-fastsim.pdf

14:35 Multiple vertex study

Slides suzuki.pdf

14:55 DGWG

Speaker: Prof. Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)

Slides DGWG-Warwick-achille.pdf DGWG-Warwick-achille.ppt

15:05 Simulation needs of Physics groups

Slides Computing_issues.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 WGB: Theoretical Uncertainties

16:00 → 17:00 WG1: New Physics in Mixing and CP Violation

16:00 Is the Unitarity Triangle Right?

Speaker: Prof. Paul Harrison (University of warwick)

Slides talk.pdf

16:20 Potential precision in alpha at SuperB

Speakers: Dr Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary), Dr Tim Gershon (University of Warwick)

Slides warwick_meeting.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 WG3: Lepton Flavour Violation and New Physics Models + WG4: CP and T Violation with Polarized Taus

16:00 SuperB tau physics studies: status and plans

Speaker: Dr Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

Slides a-lusiani-superb-warwick-apr09-tau-exp-status.pdf

16:30 Tau EDM and g-2 observables for tau pairs produced with polarized beams

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Gonzalez-Sprinberg (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)

pdf warwick.pdf

17:00 → 17:45 Plenary 3: Lattice QCD

17:00 Charm and Bottom Physics from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Prof. Christine Davies (Univ. of Glasgow)

Slides superBtalk.pdf

18:30 → 22:00 Workshop Dinner

Friday 17 April

09:00 → 10:40 Plenary Session 4: Progress Reports From Vertical Working Groups

Progress reports from all of the vertical groups in this session.

09:00 WG1 Report

Speaker: Dr Thomas Mannel (Siegen University)

Slides WG1Rep.pdf

09:20 WG2 Report

Speaker: Mr Tobias Hurth Hurth (CERN)

Slides summaryWG2.pdf

09:40 WG3/WG4 Report

Speaker: Dr Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

Slides a-lusiani-tau-summary-3.pdf

10:00 WG5 Report

Speaker: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

Slides fri_am_wg5.pdf fri_am_wg5.ppt

10:20 WG6 Report

Speaker: Riccardo Faccini (RM1)

Slides WG6.pdf WG6.pptx

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:35 Plenary Session 5: Progress Reports from Horizontal Working Groups and Closeout

This session will include progress reports from all horizontal groups.

11:10 WGA Report

Speaker: Dr Emi Kou Kou (LAL/IN2P3)

Slides summary_kou_WGA.pdf

11:30 WGB Report

Speaker: Dr Ulrich Haisch (University of Zuerich)

Slides warwick_09.pdf

11:50 WGC Report

Speaker: Dr David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Slides WGC_Summary.pdf

12:10 Workshop Close-out

Speakers: Prof. Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS), Dr Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary), Dr David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Marco Ciuchini (RM3)

Slides closeout-warwick.pdf closeout-warwick.ppt

12:30 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Paul Harrison (University of warwick)

Slides thanks.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch