West Coast LHC Theory Network - UCSD Meeting: Program

West Coast LHC Theory Network - UCSD Meeting

Date: May 5th, 2006
Location: University of California San Diego
Building/Room: Natural Science Building/Room 1205 (Bird's eye view)
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Friday, May 5th, 2006 : Natural Science Building Room 1205
IP Address for Video (h.323 connection): 132.239.184.113
Time: 9:15 am - 5:30 pm

Program

9:15 - 9:30 : Coffee outside NSB 1205
9:30 - 10:15 : Introduction to CMS, Higgs at LHC - Jim Branson (UCSD)(ppt)
10:15 - 11:00 : CMS Trigger strategy -Sridhara Dasu (U of Wisconsin)(ppt)

11:00 - 11:15 : Coffee break

11:15 - 12:00 : The First 0.1-1 fb-1 at LHC - Ian Hinchliffe (LBNL)(pdf)
12:00 - 12:45 : New Physics Searches at CMS - Claudio Campagnari (UCSB) (ppt)

12:45 - 1:45 : Lunch; discussion with CMS group. Places to eat are the cafeteria at Revelle Commons and The Price Center/Bookstore, see this pdf also shown are sources of espresso.

1:45 - 2:30 : Beyond the Standard Model at LHC - Ann Nelson (U of Washington) (pdf)
2:30 - 2:50 : Discussion

Break into informal talks in Room 3211 in Natural Science Building
This session is not being broadcast, but the talks will be posted on the web.

Short Talks:

Ben Grinstein (UCSD): Falsifying String Theory Through WW Scattering (pdf) (10 min).
Graciela Gelmini (UCLA): Neutralino with the right dark matter density in (almost) any SUSY model (pdf) (15 min).
Matt Strassler (Washington): New signals at the LHC from a 'Hidden Valley' (pdf)(10 min).
Julius Kuti (UCSD): Higgs mass bounds and triviality (pdf) (20 min).
Michael Davenport (SLAC): Simulation of Spin dependence in BSM physics (ppt) (10 min).
Jose A. Ruiz Cembranos (UCI): LHC potential for branon detection. (PPT) (20 min)
Michael Binger (SLAC): Reducing scale ambiguities through a multiscale physical effective charge approach to QCD (PPT) (15 min).
Shufang Su (University of Arizona): Phenomenology of the left-right Twin Higgs model at LHC (PPT) (20 min).

5:30 : adjourn