Second MCTP Spring Symposium on Higgs Boson Physics |
April 16-20, 2012
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Workshop Venue:
West Hall
Lecture Hall: 340 West Hall (3rd Floor)
University of Michigan
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Please Note: There will be a Welcoming Reception for all registered participants Monday evening (4/16) from 5:15-7:30 PM.
| Monday (16 April) | Tuesday (17 April) | Wednedsay (18 April) | Thursday (19 April) | Friday (20 April) | |
| Chair: Haibo Yu | Chair: Sean Tulin | Chair:Tim Cohen | Chair: Dan Amidei | Chair:Aaron Pierce | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome (9:10-9:20) |
Higgs and Precision Electroweak Data | Higgs Mass and other Generic predictions for realistic String/M Theory Vacua | Higgs combination (CMS) | Higgs Search Summary (9-9:45) |
| A.Pierce (Michigan) | Brian Batell | Piyush Kumar (Columbia) | Nhan Viet Tran (FNAL) | Jianming Qian (Michigan) | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Recent issues in Standard Model Higgs predictions for the LHC (9:20-10:00) | Searches for supersymmetry with ATLAS | Search for non-SM Higgs boson with CMS | Combination of Higgs boson searches at ATLAS | |
| Frank Petriello (Argonne/Northwestern) | Michele Bianco (Lecce) | Roberta Volpe (Taiwan) | Gemma Wooden (Michigan) | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Implications of a Modified Diphoton width of the Higgs Boson | Search for supersymmetry with CMS | Search for Higgs Bosons Beyond the Standard Model with ATLAS | LHC Searches from a Heavy Light Higgs | Prospects for Higgs boson searches with ATLAS (9:45--10:30) |
| Carlos Wagner (Chicago) | Niklas Mohr (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) | Christoph Anders (Heidelberg, Germany) | Jesse Shelton (Yale) | Stephen Sekula (SMU) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee | ||||
| Chair: Gordy Kane | Chair: Ratin Akhoury | Chair: Bing Zhou | Chair:Dan Levin | Chair: Aaron Pierce | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Supersymmetry with a Sister Higgs | PDFs, the LHC, and the Higgs | U(1)' and Higgs in supersymmetry | Higgs at 125 and Susy | Higgs Physics as an Indirect BSM Probe |
| Neal Weiner (NYU) | Joey Huston (MSU) | Liantao Wang (Chicago) | Lawrence Hall (Berkeley) | Marcela Carena (FNAL) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Search for SM Higgs boson in H→ZZ→4l with CMS | Search for the SM Higgs boson in H→gg with ATLAS | Search for the SM Higgs boson in H→WW→lvlv with ATLAS | Recent Hot results from the Tevatron | |
| Matthew Snowball (Univ. of Florida) | Heberth Torres (LPNHE-Paris, France) |
Evelyn Schmidt (Freiburg, Germany) | Bo Jayatilaka (Duke) | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Search for SM Higgs boson in H→gg with CMS | Search for SM Higgs boson in H→ZZ→4l with ATLAS | Search for SM Higgs boson in H→WW→lvlv with CMS | Other searches (CMS) | |
| Olivier Bondu (IN2P3-CNRS, France) | Nicolas Morange (Saclay CEA, France) | Jake Anderson (Fermilab, US) | David Mason (FNAL) | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| Chair: Kathryn Zurek | Chair: Dan Feldman | Chair:Junjie Zhu | Chair: Jianming Qian | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Exotic scalars and the Higgs to γγ rate | Status of Naturalness in SUSY theories | A 125 GeV SM-like Higgs in the MSSM and the γγ rate. | A minimally symmetric Higgs boson | |
| Stefania Gori (Chicago) | Michele Papucci (LBNL) | Nausheen Shah (FNAL) | Ian Low (Northwestern/Argonne) | ||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Higgs and Dark Matter Hints of an Oasis in the Desert | Electroweak Baryogenesis and Higgs Signatures. | Search for SM Higgs boson at Tevatron | The Top Pair Forward-Backward Asymmetry in the Full CDF Dataset | |
| Cliff Cheung (Berkeley) | Tim Cohen (SLAC) | Aurelio Juste (ICREA/IFAE, Barcelona) | Dave Mietlicki (Michigan) | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Search for SM Higgs in H→bb at LHC | Search for SM Higgs boson in H→tt at LHC | Higgs Properties at the LHC | Other SM Higgs boson searches at LHC | |
| Song-Ming Wang (Taipei AS, Taiwan) | Michail Bachtis (Wisconsin) | Nhan Tran (FNAL) | Lianliang Ma (Wisconsin) | ||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | ||||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Michigan HEP/Astro Seminar: ATLAS beyond SM searches (16:00-17:00) | Higgs @ 125 in the MSSM and GMSB | Discussions | Higgs-related SM measurements at ATLAS | |
| Thomas Gadfort (BNL) | David Shih (Rutgers) | Junjie Zhu (Michigan) | |||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Discussions | Discussions | |||
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Welcome Reception | ||||
Workshop Organizers: Gordon Kane Jianming Qian Kathryn Zurek
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