La Thuile 2009

1 Mar 2009, 17:00 → 7 Mar 2009, 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 Bulletin_1.pdf

Bulletin 2 2009_bollettino_2.pdf

guidelines SHORT_GUIDELINES.pdf

Poster 2009 Poster2009.pdf

Preliminary Scientific Program WEB_Scientific_Programme.pdf

Sunday, 1 March

Registration

Monday, 2 March

COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS

1 Cosmic Rays Studies with PAMELA

Speaker: Roberta Sparvoli (RM2)

Paper sparvoli_lathuile.rar

Slides Sparvoli.pdf

2 Observation of High Energy Gamma Rays with the Fermi Observatory

Speaker: Giglietto Nicola (BA)

Paper fermi_morion_rencontres_v2.zip

Slides giglietto.pdf

3 AGILE

Speaker: Dr Andrew Chen (INAF - IASF Milano)

Slides Chen.pdf

4 Ground-Based Gamma Ray Astronomy

Speaker: Alessandro De Angelis (TS)

Paper deangelislathuile09.zip

Slides DeAngelis.pdf

5 Some Theories of Dark Matter

Speaker: Neal Weiner (New York University)

Slides weiner.pdf

ASTROPARTICLE AND NEUTRINO PHYSICS

6 Study of the High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Auger Experiment

Speaker: Isabelle Lhenry-Yvon (Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay)

Paper lhenry-yvon.zip

Slides Lhenry-Yvon.pdf

7 Measurement of 7Be and 8B solar neutrinos with BOREXINO

Speaker: Sandra Zavatarelli (GE)

Paper 2009LaThuileZavatarelli.zip

Slides Zavatarelli.pdf

8 The Herschel mission

Speaker: Paolo Saraceno (IFSI-INAF)

Slides Saraceno.pdf

9 WIMP Hunting with theCryogenic Dark Matter Search

Speaker: Jeffrey Filippini (California Institute of Technology)

Paper filippini_lathuile09.zip

Slides Filippini.pdf

10 Electromagnetic properties of neutrino and applications in astrophysics

Speaker: Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)

Paper Studenikin_paper.zip

Slides Studenikin.pdf

Tuesday, 3 March

ASTROPARTICLE AND NEUTRINO PHYSICS (continued)

11 Recent Results from the OPERA Experiment

Speaker: Francesco Di Capua (NA)

Paper dicapua.tar.gz

Slides DiCapua.pdf

12 Neutrino Oscillations with MINOS

Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Hartnell (University of Sussex)

Slides hartnell.pdf

13 Results from Miniboone

Speaker: Georgia Karagiorgi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology)

Paper KARAGIORGI_lathuile

Slides Karagiorgi.pdf

14 Recent Results from SciBooNE: Search for Neutrino Charged Current Coherent Pion Production

Speaker: Katsuki Hiraide (Kyoto University)

Paper hiraide_lathuile2009.tar.gz

Slides Hiraide.pdf

15 The GSI Time Anomaly: Facts and Fiction

Speaker: Carlo Giunti (TO)

Paper giunti-lat-pro.tar.gz

Slides giunti.pdf

16 Results and Prospects of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Reactors

Speaker: Mr Karsten Heeger (University of Wisconsin)

Slides Heeger.pdf

17 Models of Neutrino Masses and Mixings

Speaker: Prof. Guido Altarelli (Universita' di Roma Tre & CERN)

Paper Altarelli09.zip

Slides Altarelli.pdf

QCD PHYSICS / HADRONIC INTERACTIONS

18 Studying QCD with ALICE

Speaker: Federico Antinori (PD)

Slides antinori.pdf

19 Soft Physics at the LHC with TOTEM

Speaker: Jan Kaspar (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, Praha, Czech Republic)

Paper kaspar_jan_la_thuile09.tar.gz

Slides Kaspar.pdf

20 Soft QCD Studies at the Tevatron

Speaker: Niccolò Moggi (BO)

Paper proceedings_moggi.tar.gz.gz

Slides moggi.pdf

21 Study of Hard QCD at the Tevatron

Speaker: Michael Begel (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Paper begel.tgz

Slides begel.pdf

22 Hadronic Phyiscs with KLOE

Speaker: Simona Giovannella (LNF)

Paper giovannella_lathuile09.tar.gz

Slides giovannella.pdf

23 Infrared Singularities in QCD Amplitudes

Speaker: Dr Einan Gardi (University of Edinburgh)

Paper lathuile_gardi_final.tar.gz

Slides Gardi.pdf

24 QCD Studies at HERA

Speaker: Daniel Traynor (Queen Mary, University of London)

Paper traynor.tar.gz

Slides Traynor.pdf

25 High-pT physics in the forward region and QCD coherence eects

Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (University of Oxford)

Paper Hautman_lathui_fh

Slides Hautmann.pdf

Wednesday, 4 March

HEAVY FLAVOUR PHYSICS

26 Properties of B hadrons:results from Tevatron

Speaker: Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University)

Slides Borissov.pdf

27 Bs and CPV at the Tevatron

Speaker: Andreas Schmidt (CDF, KIT)

Paper aschmidt_bs_cpv_tev.tar.bz2

Slides Schmidt.pdf

28 B Spectroscopy at B Factories

Speaker: Roberto Mussa (TO)

Slides mussa.pdf

29 Measurements of CKM Parameters at B Factories

Speaker: Gabriella Sciolla (MIT)

Paper sciolla-lathuile.tar.gz

Slides Sciolla.pdf

30 LHCb Status and Early Physics Prospects

Speaker: Monica Pepe Altarelli (CERN)

Paper mop_Lathuile.zip

Slides PepeAltarelli.pdf

31 Status of the CKM Matrix

Speaker: Paolo Gambino (Univ. di Torino)

Slides Gambino.pdf

CP VIOLATION AND RARE DECAYS

32 Vus and rare K decays at KLOE

Speaker: Mario Antonelli (LNF)

Paper antonelli.tgz

Slides antonelli.pdf

33 The NA62 Experiment

Speaker: Francesca Bucci (FI)

Paper bucci.tar.gz

Slides bucci.pdf

34 MEG Status Report

Speaker: Marco Grassi (PI)

Paper grassi.zip

Slides grassi.pdf

35 Rare Decays and CP Violation at B Factories

Speaker: Yuuji Unno (Hanyang university)

Paper UNNO_lathuile09.tar

Slides Unno.pdf

36 Heavy Flavour Physics with CLEO

Speaker: Peter Onyisi (University of Chicago)

Paper onyisi_lathuile.tgz

Slides onyisi.pdf

37 Hot topics at Belle

Speaker: Roman Mizuk (ITEP, Moscow)

Slides mizuk.pdf

38 Charm and Tau Decays at B Factories

Speaker: Carlos Chavez (Unversty of Liverpool)

Slides Chavez.pdf

39 Status of LFV

Speaker: Antonio Masiero (PD)

Paper masiero.zip

Poster masiero.pdf

Thursday, 5 March

ELECTROWEAK AND TOP PHYSICS

40 Electroweak Measurements from the Tevatron

Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers University)

Paper lathuile_ewktev.tar

Slides Halkiadakis.pdf

41 Precision Determination of the Top Mass

Speaker: Luca Brigliadori (BO)

Paper brigliad_lathuile2009.tgz

Slides LaThuile_Brigliad_OK.pdf

42 Top Properties and Cross Section

Speaker: Daniel Wicke (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Paper Proceedings_wicke

Slides Wicke.pdf

43 Single Top Physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Gustavo Otero y Garzon (University of Buenos Aires)

Paper lathuile2009-otero.zip

Slides Otero_y_Garzon.pdf

44 The First LHC Beam in CMS

Speaker: Marco Zanetti (CERN)

Slides Zanetti.pdf

45 Which Top Mass is measured at Hadron Colliders?

Speaker: Dr Andre Hoang (MPI Munich)

Slides hoang.pdf

PHYSICS AND SOCIETY

46 LHC Status and the CERN Plans

Speaker: Lyn Evans (CERN)

Slides evans.pdf

47 Overview and challenges of the ITER Project

Speaker: Dr Norbert Holtkamp (ITER Organization)

Slides holtkamp.pdf

48 Innovative Energy Sources

Speaker: Dr Charles Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Paper Italy_09_Forsberg.doc

Slides Forsberg.pdf

Friday, 6 March

HIGGS SEARCHES

49 Theoretical Aspects of Higgs Searches at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Dr Abdelhak Djouadi (Paris-Sud)

Slides Djouadi.pdf

50 Searches for a Light Higgs Boson at the Tevatron

Speaker: Mr Artur Apresyan (Purdue University)

Paper lathuile09_apresyan.tar

Slides apresyan.pdf

51 Search for High Mass SM Higgs at the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Herbert Greenlee (Fermilab)

Paper greenlee_lathuile2009.tar

Slides greenlee.pdf

52 Discovery Potential for the Standard Model Higgs at ATLAS

Speaker: Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Paper cowan_lathuile_proc.tar

Slides cowan.pdf

53 Search for Light Higgs at BaBar

Speaker: Swagato Banerjee (University of Victoria)

Paper swagato_babarhiggs

Slides Banerjee.pdf

54 H -> BBbar in VBF with an Extra Central Photon

Speaker: Fulvio Piccinini (PV)

Paper piccinini.tar.gz

Slides piccinini.pdf

55 Can LHC Falsify Leptogenesis?

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Marie Frère (Physique Théorique , ULB)

Paper frere.zip

Slides Frere.pdf

SEARCHING FOR NEW PHYSICS

56 Search for SUSY at the Tevatron

Speaker: Miguel Vidal (CIEMAT)

Paper lathuile09_proceedings_vidal.tar.gz

Slides Vidal.pdf

57 Search for SUSY in Dijet Events with Novel Data-Driven Background Estimate

Speaker: Dr Henning Flaecher (CERN)

Paper lathuile.tgz

Slides Flaecher.pdf

58 Search for New Physics at HERA

Speaker: Yongdok Ri (KEK)

Paper lathuile09_YRi

Slides YongdokRi.pdf

59 Search for Physics BSM (non SUSY) at the Tevatron

Speaker: Alan Jonckheere (Fermilab)

Slides Jonckheere.pdf

60 Status of ATLAS and Readiness for BSM Physics

Speaker: Claudia Gemme (GE)

Paper atlas_gemme.pdf atlas_gemme.zip

Slides ATLAS_LaThuile.pdf

61 Study of Multimuons Events at CDF

Speaker: Fabio Happacher (LNF)

Paper lathuile_happacher.tar

Slides happacher.pdf

62 Non-Supersymmetric Extension of the SM

Speaker: Alex Pomarol (IFAE)

Paper pomarol

Poster Pomarol.pdf

Saturday, 7 March

PERSPECTIVES

63 Results of the DAPHNE Upgrade and Prospect for a SuperB

Speaker: Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

Slides Raimondi.pdf

64 The SuperB Project

Speaker: Matteo Rama (LNF)

Paper superb.tar.gz

Slides rama.pdf

65 The Higgs and beyond with the LHC

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (Saclay)

Slides Grojean.pdf