La Thuile 2012

26 Feb 2012, 17:00 → 3 Mar 2012, 19:30 Europe/Rome

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Giorgio Bellettini, Giorgio Chiarelli, Mario Greco, Gino Isidori

Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste

Results and Perspectives in Particle Physics

This is the twenty-sixth Workshop in Particle Physics being held yearly at the Planibel Hotel of La Thuile, Aosta Valley. La Thuile is a beautiful mountain village located 1450m a.s.l., about 40 km north of the city of Aosta, on the road to the Mont Blanc. The hotel is at the bottom of a vast skiing area connected with the French ski resort La Rosiere and it is an outstanding complex for winter sports and congresses. The Rencontres will bring together about 120 active experimentalists and theorists, as well as a number of young students supported by the Organizers, to review the status and the future prospects in elementary particle physics.

internal page files Preliminary_scientific_programme.pdf

Sunday, 26 February

17:00 → 20:00 Registration

Monday, 27 February

08:30 → 11:30 Cosmology and Astrophysics

08:30 Planck: Results and Cosmological Perspectives

Speaker: Paolo Natoli (INFN - Ferrara)

Paper natoli_lathuile2012.zip

Slides 1-Natoli.pdf

08:55 Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Speaker: Dr Ariel Sanchez (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

09:20 SN 1987 A: the Supernova Which Changed our Views

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

Slides 3-Dar.pdf

09:45 Results from FERMI

Speaker: Francesco De Palma (BA)

Paper fdepalma_proceedings_lathuile_final.tar.gz

Slides 4-DePalma.pdf

10:10 KLOE Searches on Dark Forces

Speaker: Simona Giovannella (LNF)

Paper giovannella.tar.gz

Slides 5-Giovannella.pdf

10:35 Dark Matter Searches: a Theoretical Perspective

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

Paper cirelli.pdf cirelli.zip

Slides 6-Cirelli.pdf

16:30 → 19:00 Neutrino Physics and Lepton Flavour Violation

16:30 Modified Gravity. Problems and Observational Manifestations

Speaker: Mrs Elena Arbuzova (University "Dubna")

Paper arbuzova.tar.gz

Slides 1-Arbuzova.pdf

16:55 OPERA Neutrino Oscillation Results

Speaker: Guler Ali Murat (METU)

Paper guler_opera.tar.gz

Slides 2-Guler.pdf

17:20 Recent Results from T2K Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment

Speaker: Dr Kendall Mahn (TRIUMF)

Slides 3-Mahn.pdf

17:45 Studying Solar Neutrinos with the Borexino Detector

Speaker: Marco Giulio Giammarchi (MI)

Paper Giammarchi.zip

Slides 4-Giammarchi.pdf

18:10 Theoretical Models for Neutrino Masses

Speaker: Dr Luca Merlo (TUM)

Paper merlo.pdf merlo.zip

Slides 5-Merlo.pdf

18:40 Searching for Double Beta Decay with GERDA

Speaker: Sabine Elisabeth Hemmer (PD)

Paper gerda.tar.gz

Slides 6-Hemmer.pdf

Tuesday, 28 February

08:30 → 11:00 Neutrino Physics and Lepton Flavour Violation - Continued

08:30 First Results from the Daya Bay Experiment

Speaker: Dr Debabrata Mohapatra (Virginia Polytechnic Institute &amp; State University)

Slides Dayabay_LaThuile2012.pdf

08:55 Double Chooz Results on Theta_13

Speaker: Bernd Reinhold (MPIK Heidelberg)

Paper reinhold.tar.gz

Slides 3-Reinhold.pdf

09:20 The Quest for LFV. Are We Going to See it?

Speaker: Dr Sacha Davidson (CNRS)

Paper davidson.tar

Slides 4-Davidson.pdf

09:50 LFV and New-Physics Searches from the Beauty Factories

Speaker: Kevin Flood (Caltech)

Slides 5-Flood.pdf

10:15 LFV Searches in Kaon Rare Decays

Speaker: Ms Angela Romano (University of Birmingham)

Slides 6-Romano.pdf

10:40 LFV with MEG

Speaker: Gianluca Cavoto (ROMA1)

Paper cavotoLathuile.zip

Slides 7-Cavoto.pdf

11:20 → 11:45 QCD Physics / Hadronic Interactions

11:20 ALICE Results on Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Luciano Ramello (AL)

Paper ramello_lathuile2012.tar.gz

Slides 0-Ramello.pdf

16:30 → 19:30 QCD Physics / Hadronic Interactions - continued

16:30 Heavy Ion Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Gabor Veres (CERN)

Paper lathuile_vg.pdf lathuile_vg.tgz

Slides 1-Veres.pdf

16:55 Total, Elastic and Diffractive pp Cross Section at 7 TeV

Speaker: Nicola Turini (SI)

Slides 2-Turini.pdf

17:20 QCD and Fwd Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Roberta Arcidiacono (TO)

Paper lathuilearcidiacono.pdf lathuilearcidiacono.tgz

Slides QCDFWDfromCMS.pdf

17:45 QCD Results Using Jets and Photons in ATLAS

Speaker: David Lopez Mateos (Harvard University)

Paper Lopez.zip

Slides ATLASqcdJetsPhotons.pdf

18:10 QCD Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Shulamit Moed Sher (Fermilab)

Paper moedlathuile.tgz

Slides 5-Shulamit.pdf

18:35 Probes of Soft and Hard QCD at LHCb

Speaker: Emanuele Santovetti (ROMA2)

Paper santovetti.gz

Slides 6-Santovetti.pdf

19:00 QCD in Hadron Collision

Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam (CERN/Princeton/Paris)

Paper salam.tar.gz

Slides 7-Salam.pdf

Wednesday, 29 February

08:30 → 12:00 Flavour Physics, CP Violation and Rare Decays

08:30 Study of CPV in B and Charm Systems at LHCB

Speaker: Ms Emilie Maurice (CPPM)

Paper Maurice_Proceedings.zip

Slides 1-Maurice.pdf

08:55 Heavy Flavour at the Tevatron

Speaker: Angelo Di Canto (PI)

Paper dicanto_lathuile.zip

Slides 2-DiCanto.pdf.pdf

09:20 CPV in the Charm System

Speaker: Dr Jernej Kamenik (INFN LNF)

Paper proc.zip

Slides 3-Kamenik.pdf

09:45 Rare B and C Decays at LHCb

Speaker: Dr Olivier Deschamps (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand)

Slides 4-Deschamps.pdf

10:10 Heavy Flavour Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Hideki Miyake (Univ. of Tsukuba)

Paper lathuile_miyake.tgz

Slides 5-Miyake.pdf

10:35 Latest B-Physics Results at ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Julie Kirk (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Paper kirk_atlasbphys.tar.gz

Slides 6-Kirk.pdf

11:00 Heavy Flavor Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Mario Galanti (University of Cyprus)

Paper hf_physics_from_cms.zip

Slides 7-Galanti.pdf

16:30 → 17:50 Flavour Physics, CP Violation and Rare Decays - continued

16:30 Heavy Flavour Spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr WENBIN QIAN (Syracuse University)

Paper LHCb_Wenbin.tar

Slides 1-Qian.pdf

16:55 Bottomomium(-like) States from the B Factories

Speaker: Dr Pavel Krokovny (BINP)

Paper krokovny.tar.gz

Slides 2-Krokovny.pdf

17:20 Searching for New Physics with Flavor-Violating Observables

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Fermilab)

Paper altmannshofer_lathuile.tar.gz

Slides 3-Altmannshofer.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Young Scientist Forum

18:00 Results of Bs -> CP Eigenstates at Belle

Speaker: Ms Felicitas Thorne (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Paper thorne_results_of_B_s_to_CP_eigenstates_at_Belle.zip

Slides 1-Thorne.pdf

18:15 CP Asymmetries, Decay Rates, and Dalitz-Plot Analysis of B->KKK at BaBar

Speaker: Brian Lindquist (SUNY Stony Brook)

Slides 2-Lindquist.pdf

18:30 Studies of CP Violation in the Decay Bs -> Jpsi phi at D0

Speaker: Ricardo Magana-Villalba (Cinvestav)

Paper magana_lathuile2012.tar

Slides 3-Magana.pdf

18:45 Flavour Phenomenology of a Maximally Gauged Flavour Model

Speaker: Mr Emmanuel Stamou (Technical University Munich)

Slides 4-Stamou.pdf

19:00 The Time-Dependent CP Violation in Charm

Speaker: Mr Gianluca Inguglia (Queen Mary University of London)

Paper Inguglia.tar.gz

Slides 5-Inguglia.pdf

Thursday, 1 March

08:30 → 12:05 Electroweak and Top Physics

08:30 Electroweak Physics at the Tevatron (including M_W)

Speaker: Dr Viviana Cavaliere (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Paper cavaliere_lathuile2012.zip

Slides 1-Cavaliere.pdf

08:55 Top Physics Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Alexander Grohsjean (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron)

Paper agrohsje_toptevatron_lathuile2012.tar.gz

Slides 2-Groshjean.pdf

09:25 EWK Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Ilya Kravchenko (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Paper cms_ewk_results.tar

Slides Kravchenko_CMS_EWK_results_LaThuile.pdf

09:50 Latest Electroweak Physics Results at ATLAS

Speaker: sasha glazov (DESY)

Paper glazov.tar.gz

Slides lat12.pdf

10:15 Top Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Maria Aldaya (DESY)

Slides 5-Aldaya.pdf

10:40 Latest Top Physics Results at ATLAS

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)

Paper mijovic_top_atlas.tar.gz

Slides Mijovic_top_ATLAS.pdf

11:05 Recent Progress in Top-Quark Physics

Speaker: Michael Trott (CERN)

11:35 Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF

Speaker: Dr Bodhitha Jayatilaka (Duke University)

Paper jayatilaka-lathuile2012.tgz

Slides 8-Jayatilaka.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Young Scientist Forum

16:30 Search for the SM Higgs Boson in the 2-Photon Decay Channel

Speaker: HAICHEN WANG (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN)

Slides 1-Wang.pdf

16:45 Search SUSY with Jets and Missing Energy

Speaker: Mr Robin van der Leeuw (Nikhef Amsterdam)

Slides 2-vanderLeeuw.pdf

17:00 BSM Higgs Searches in Tau Final States at D0

Speaker: Ms Louise Suter (University of Manchester)

Paper suter.zip

Slides 3-Suter.pdf

17:15 Finding a Z-->2jets Signal in W+3jets Events at CDF

Speaker: Mrs Caterina Vernieri (INFN Pisa)

Paper vernieri_proceeding_lathuile_2.zip

Slides 4-Vernieri.pdf

17:30 Light Dark Matter, Light Higgs and Strong Electroweak Phase Transition

Speaker: Dr Amine Ahriche (Univ. Jijel)

18:00 → 19:30 Physics and Society

18:00 Thorium Reactors

Speaker: Stuart Henderson (Fermilab)

Slides 1-Henderson.pdf

18:35 Physics in Latin America

Speaker: Prof. luciano maiani (dipartimento di fisica universita' di Roma la sapienza)

Slides 2-Maiani.pdf

20:30 → 22:30 Social Dinner

Friday, 2 March

08:30 → 11:55 Higgs Searches, Hot Topics

08:30 WW/WZ-->ln bb at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Yuji Enari (LPNHE Paris Universites VI&amp;VII)

Slides 1-Enari.pdf

08:55 Search for Low Mass Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Satish Desai Desai (Fermilab)

Paper lmhiggs-tev.tgz

Slides 2-Desai.pdf

09:20 Search for High Mass Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Richard StDenis (University of Glasgow)

Paper stdenislathuile2012.tgz

Slides 3-StDenis.pdf

09:45 Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Junichi Tanaka (ICEPP, The University of Tokyo)

Paper tanaka.tar.gz

Slides 4-Junichi.pdf

10:10 Higgs Results from CMS

Speaker: Mr Josh Bendavid (MIT)

Slides 5-Bendavid.pdf

10:35 Implications of LHC Higgs Results

Speaker: Giuseppe Degrassi (ROMA3)

Slides 6-DeGrassi.pdf

11:05 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Beyond the SM

Speaker: Adam Falkowski (LPT Orsay)

Paper falkowski.zip

Slides 7-Falkowski.pdf

11:30 The Search for the Higgs Boson in the Complete Run II Dataset with CDF

Speaker: Dr Homer Wolfe (The Ohio State University [CDF])

Slides Wolfe_Homer_LaThuile_2012_03_02_EXP.pdf

16:30 → 19:30 Searching for New Physics

16:30 Search for the BSM Higgs Bosons at ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Markus Warsinsky (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Paper warsinsky.tar.gz

Slides _warsinsky_BSMHiggs_ATLAS_Lathuile2012.pdf

16:55 SUSY Searches from CMS

Speaker: Dr Markus Stoye Stoye (CERN)

Paper Stoye.tar.gz

Slides SUSY_CMS.pdf

17:20 BSM Searches from CMS

Speaker: Artur Apresyan (California Institute of Technology)

Slides Apresyan_BSM_Results_CMS.pdf apresyan.zip

17:45 Search for Supersymmetry at ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Renaud Bruneliere (Uni. Freiburg)

Paper bruneliere.tar.gz

Slides La_Thuile_2012_Bruneliere.pdf

18:10 Beyond the Standard Model Searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Dominique Fortin (TRIUMF)

Slides 5-Fortin.pdf

18:35 Phonomenology of New Neutral Gauge Bosons in Extended MSSM

Speaker: Simonetta Gentile (ROMA1)

Paper Gentile_Lathuile_2012.tar.gz

Slides Lathuile_05_pdf-fin.pdf

19:00 Light colored scalars as messengers of up-, down-quark and charged lepton flavor dynamics in Grand Unified Theories

Speaker: Prof. Ilja Doršner (University of Sarajevo)

Paper lathuileid.zip

Slides 7-Dorsner.pdf

Saturday, 3 March

09:00 → 11:00 Perspectives

09:00 Galileo, the European GNSS program & LAGEOS

Speaker: Simone Berardi (LNF)

Paper berardi_article.zip

Slides LaThuile2012_berardi.pdf

09:25 The Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Mr Daniel Mazin (IFAE, Spain)

Paper mazin.tgz

Slides CTA_LaThuile_mazin_v2.pdf

09:50 CERN Future Prospects

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (LNF)