La Thuile 2010

28 Feb 2010, 00:00 → 6 Mar 2010, 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 2010_bollettino1.pdf

Bulletin 2 2010_bollettino2.pdf

guidelines SHORT_GUIDELINES.pdf

List of Participants Lista_partecipanti_finale.pdf

Poster locandina_fisica_480x680_2010.pdf

Preliminary Scientific Program WEB_Scientific_Programme.pdf

Monday, 1 March

Cosmology and Astrophysics

1 Understanding Cosmic Rays and Searching for Dark Matter with PAMELA

Speaker: Roberta Sparvoli (RM2)

Paper sparvoli_lathuile_2010.zip

Slides 1-Sparvoli.pdf

2 Studies of Cosmic Ray Electrons with the Fermi-LAT

Speaker: Luca Latronico (PI)

Paper latronico.zip

Slides 2-Latronico.pdf

3 Studies of Gamma Rays Sources with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Speaker: Jürgen Knödlseder (Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements)

Paper knodlseder-fermi.tar.gz

Slides 3-Knodlseder.pdf

4 LUCIFER: a New Technique for Double Beta Decay

Speaker: Fernando Ferroni (RM1)

Paper lucifer-ferroni.zip

Slides 4-Ferroni.pdf

10:10 Coffe Break

5 Recent Developments in Theory and Phenomenology of Dark Matter

Speaker: Mr Marco CIRELLI (CERN &amp; IPhT CEA/Saclay)

Proceedings proceedingsCirelli.zip

Slides 5-Cirelli.pdf

Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics

6 Recent Results from The Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Dr Ioana C. Maris (LPNHE, Paris)

Paper ioanaMaris_Auger.tar.gz

Slides 1-Maris.pdf

7 The Missing Cosmic Baryons Found?

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

Paper dar.zip

Slides 2-Dar.pdf

8 The ANTARES Deep‐Sea Neutrino Telescope: Status and First Results

Speaker: Mr Nicolas Picot Clemente (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))

Paper Picot-Clemente.tar

Slides 3-Picot.pdf

9 Low Energy Threshold Analysis of SNO Data

Speaker: Prof. Steven Biller (Oxford University)

Slides 4-Biller.pdf

10 Neutrino Physics and LFV: a Theoretical Overview

Speaker: Prof. Alejandro Ibarra (Technical University of Munich)

Paper ibarra.tar.gz

Slides 5-Ibarra.pdf

Tuesday, 2 March

Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics (continued)

11 Neutrino Oscillations Studies with the OPERA Experiment at CNGS Beam

Speaker: Dr Elisabetta Pennacchio (IPN Lyon-France)

Paper pennacchio_lathuile2010.tar

Slides 6-Pennacchio.pdf

12 Results and Strategy of Borexino

Speaker: Dr Yury Suvorov (LNGS/ RC Kurciatov Inst.)

Paper Suvorov.tar

Slides 7-Suvorov.pdf

13 Status J-PARC Neutrino Program: T2K

Speaker: Dr Takeshi Nakadaira (HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KEK)

Slides 8-Nakadaira.pdf

09:45 Coffee break

14 J-PARC Kaon and Muon Program

Speaker: Prof. Satoshi Mihara (KEK)

Paper mihara.tar

Slides 9-Mihara.pdf

15 Double Chooz

Speaker: Mr Daniel Greiner (University of Tübingen)

Paper greiner.zip

Slides 10-Greiner.pdf

16 Recent Results and Future Prospects from MINOS

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Paley (Indiana University)

Paper lathuile_minos_paley.tgz

Slides 11-Paley.pdf

Special Session

17 Turning on the LHC: Commissioning with Beam and the Outlook for 2010

Speaker: Mike Lamont (CERN)

Paper lamont_lhc-commissioning.zip

Slides 1-Lamont.pdf

QCD Physics / Hadronic Interactions

18 Early Physics at ALICE

Speaker: Francesco Prino (TO)

Paper fprino-LaThuile.tgz

Slides 1-Prino.pdf

19 QCD Studies at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (Tufts University)

Paper lathuile2010_rolli.tar

Slides 2-Rolli.pdf

20 Heavy Flavour Spectroscopy at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Kai Yi (University of Iowa)

Paper Yi.pdf

Slides 3-Yi.pdf

17:45 Coffe Break

21 Low Energy QCD and ChPT Studies with Kloe

Speaker: Marek Jacewicz (LNF)

Paper proceedings_jacewicz.tgz

Slides 4-Jacewicz.pdf

22 Recent Results from BESIII

Speaker: Dr Jiaxu Zuo (the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Paper zuojx_LaThuile_proceeding_v3.rar

Slides 5-Zuo.pdf

23 Recent Developments in QCD

Speaker: Vittorio Del Duca (INFN - LNF)

Slides 6-DelDuca.pdf

Wednesday, 3 March

Flavour Physics, CP Violation and Rare Decays

24 Flavour Physics with the BELLE Detector

Speaker: Prof. Ryosuke ITOH (KEK)

Slides 1-Itoh.pdf

25 Flavour Physics at BaBar

Speaker: Jose Benitez (SLAC)

Paper benitez.tar

Slides 2-Benitez.pdf

26 Rare Decays at B-Factories

Speaker: Mr Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Paper nishimura_lathuile_proceedings.tar.gz

Slides Nishimura_LaThuile2010.pdf

09:45 Coffe Break

27 QCD and Hadronic Interactions with Initial-State-Radiation at B-Factories

Speaker: Dr Denis Bernard (LLR Ecole Polytechnique)

Paper DenisBernard.tar.gz

Slides 4-Bernard.pdf

28 Rare Decays/Bs CPV: Updates from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Derek Strom (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides 5-Strom.pdf

29 Flavour Physics within and beyond the SM

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Nierste (Institut fuer Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Univ. Karlsruhe))

Paper lathuile10_nierste.tar

Slides 6-Nierste.pdf

30 Early Data at LHCB

Speaker: Dr Ulrich Kerzel Kerzel (University of Cambridge)

Paper kerzel_proceedings_lathuile2010.tgz

Slides Kerzel_LHCb_LaThuile2010.pdf

Round Table - The Role of the Tevatron in the LHC Era

slides 5-Kim.pdf

31 Tevatron Era - Status and Future Prospects

Speaker: Dr Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab)

Slides 1-Denisov.pdf

32 Status of ATLAS and CMS and Prospects for the 2010-2011 Run

Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)

Slides LaThuile_Fabiola.ppt

33 Status of LHCb & Expected Physics Production in Next Several Years

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

Slides 3-Golutvyn.pdf

34 LHC: Short and Long(er) Term Plans

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (LNF)

Slides 4-Bertolucci.pdf

35 Status of the Tevatron and Expected Future Performances

Speaker: Young-Kee Kim (Fermilab)

Slides 5-Kim.pdf

36 The LHC in the Tevatron Era

Speaker: Prof. Jacobo Konigsberg (University of Florida)

Slides 6-Konigsberg.pdf

37 Comparative Physics Outcome of Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

Slides 7-Quigg.pdf

Thursday, 4 March

Electroweak and Top Physics

38 Startup and First Physics with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Dr Andreas Wildauer (IFIC Valencia)

Paper awildauer_atlas.tar.gz

Slides AWildauer.ATLAS.pdf

39 Electroweak Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Pierluigi Catastini (Fermilab)

Paper catastini_lathuile.tgz

Slides 2-Catastini.pdf

40 W Mass and Width Measurements at the Tevatron

Speaker: Alex Melnitchouk (University of Mississippi)

Paper Melnitchouk.tar

Slides v5_AM_LaThuille2010.pdf

09:50 Coffe Break

41 Top Production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Daniel Wicke (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

Paper WickeProceedings.tgz

Slides 4-Wicke.pdf

42 Top Quark Properties at the Tevatron

Speaker: Gabriele Compostella (CNAF)

Paper compostella_top_properties.zip

Slides 5-Compostella.pdf

43 Top-Quark and Electroweak Physics: Theory Perspective

Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)

Slides 6-Stewart.pdf

44 CMS Startup and First Physics

Speaker: Paolo Meridiani (CERN)

Slides 7-Meridiani.pdf

K and Charm Physics

45 K Rare Decays with NA62

Speaker: Evelina M. Marinova (PG)

Paper marinova_proceedings_lathuile.zip

Slides 1-Marinova.pdf

46 Kaon Physics with KLOE

Speaker: Dr Barbara Sciascia (LNF - INFN, Frascati)

Paper sciascia.tar.gz

Slides 2-Sciascia.pdf

47 Recent Charmonium Results from CLEO-c

Speaker: Dr Claire Tarbert (Indiana University)

Paper tarbert_lathuile_proceedings.tar.gz

Slides 3-Tarbert.pdf

Physics and Society

48 Global Energy Observatory: A One-Stop Site for Information on Global Energy Systems

Speaker: Dr Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)

Paper Gupta_(2).zip

Slides 1-Gupta.pdf

49 The Energy Problem: a Cost/Financial Approach

Speaker: Alberto De Min (MIB)

Slides 2-DeMin.pdf

Friday, 5 March

Higgs Searches, Hot Topics

50 Search for Low Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Song-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Paper wang_lathuile2010.tar

Slides lathuile_2010_smwang.pdf

51 Search for High Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Maiko Takahashi (University of Manchester)

Slides LaThuile2010_TevatronHighMassHiggs.pdf

52 Search for Higgs Bosons with Early Data in ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Michael Duehrssen (CERN)

Slides LaThuileDuehrssen.pdf

09:45 Coffe Break

53 Hot Topics from CMS

Speaker: Ms Stephanie Beauceron (VUB)

Slides LaThuileHotTopics2010.pdf LaThuileHotTopics2010.pptx

54 Status and Prospects of SUSY for the First Year of LHC

Speaker: Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble)

Slides Kraml-SUSY-LaThuile.pdf

55 Higgs Impostors at the LHC

Speaker: Alvaro De Rujula (CERN)

Paper derujula.tar.gz

Slides 6-DeRujula.pdf

Searching for New Physics

56 New Physics Searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Patrice Verdier (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon)

Slides 100305_nplathuile.ppt

57 New Physics with Earliest LHC data

Speaker: Martin Schmaltz (Boston University)

Paper lathuile_schmaltz.tar

Slides 2-Schmaltz.pdf

58 First Results from MEG Experiment at PSI

Speaker: Giancarlo Piredda (RM1)

Paper PIREDDA.zip

Slides 3-Piredda.pdf

59 SuperKeKB/Belle II Project

Speaker: Prof. Bostjan Golob (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Paper golob_superkekb.tar

Slides LaThuile_ppt.ppt

60 Learning to See at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

Paper quiggl2c.tar.gz

Slides 5-Quigg.pdf

61 Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons Decaying into 4 Tau Leptons at LEP2

Speaker: Paolo Spagnolo (PI)

Paper spagnolo.tgz

Slides 6-Spagnolo.pdf

62 Anomalously Interacting Z' Bosons

Speaker: Dr Mihail Chizhov (JINR & Sofia University)

Paper Chizhov.tar

Slides 7-Chizhov.pdf

Saturday, 6 March

Perspectives

63 Muon Collider

Speaker: Dr Michael Zisman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Paper zisman-muon-collider.tgz

Slides Muon_Collider-Zisman.ppt

64 The Beginning of a Terrestrial Search for Dark Energy Using Atom Interferometry

Speaker: Prof. Martin Perl (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Paper perl.zip

Slides LaThuile_Perl-2-28-108.pdf

65 Space, Time, Matter: 90 Years After

Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Veneziano (Collège de France and CERN)

Slides LaThuile'10.GV.pdf