Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

12/17/14: Pier Monni (Oxford) will discuss the claimed excess in the WW cross section measurement, and subsequent developments. Pier’s slides can be found at the following link.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 12/17/14

Pier Monni (Oxford) will tell us about the original claim of an excess in the WW cross section measurement, and subsequent developments.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 11/12/14

Alex’s slides can be found here.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

11/12/14: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab, and member of Fermi LAT) will discuss recent results from the Fermi search for DM annihilation in dwarf spheroidals. Alex’s slides can be found on the forum website.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 11/12/14

Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab, member of Fermi LAT) will tell us about the recent results of the Fermi search for DM annihilation in dwarf spheroidals.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 10/29/14

Admir’s slides can be found here.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

10/29/14: Admir Greljo (University of Zurich) will talk about the recent CMS search for lepton flavor violating decays of the Higgs boson in the mu-tau channel. References relevant for Admir’s talk and his slides can be found on the forum website.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 10/29/14

Admir Greljo (University of Zurich) will tell us about the recent CMS observation of a small excess in the search for lepton flavor violating decays of the Higgs boson (in the mu-tau channel).

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

10/8/14: Gudrun Hiller will discuss lepton universality in b->s transitions. The experimental paper and her talk slides can found at this link

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 10/8/14

Gudrun’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 10/8/14

Another nice review by our speaker on this topic. We thank Michael Peskin for letting us know about this review.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 10/8/14

Gudrun Hiller (TU Dortmund) will tell us about the recent LHCb measurement of R_K probing lepton non-universality in b->s l+ l- decays. For theoretical background on the observable R_K, see this reference. For interpretations of the LHCb observation, see the following references:

http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.054014

http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1408.1627

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

9/24/14: Sebastian Jaeger will cover the $K^* \mu^+ \mu^-$ anomaly. Talk slides are at the following link.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

9/8/14: Joshua Berger will discuss some recent CMS searches for W’ and leptoquarks. For related materials, see the following link.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 9/24/14

Sebastian’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 9/24/14

Sebastian Jaeger (University of Sussex) will give a talk on the $K^{*}\,\mu^{+}\,\mu^{-}$ anomaly

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 9/18/14

Josh’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 9/18/14

Joshua Berger (SLAC) will give a talk on the (e e jj) and (e nu jj) excesses reported by CMS.

References relevant for Josh’s talk are:

CMS leptoquark search

CMS W-R search

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 5/9/14

Joachim’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 5/9/14

Joachim Kopp (U. Heidelberg / Max-Planck Inst.) will tell us about existing ATLAS and CMS constraints on flavor violating top couplings as well as future prospects using traditional and jet substructure based analyses to improve the sensitivity for such couplings and to distinguish between t-u-h and t-c-h couplings.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

5/2/14: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC) will tell us about the electroweak production of dijets in association with vector bosons. Stefan’s slides are posted on the forum website.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 5/2/14

Stefan’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 5/2/14

Stefan Hoeche (SLAC) will tell us about the electroweak production of dijets in association with vector bosons. Stefan’s talk will focus on this reference.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

4/11/14: Felix Yu (Fermilab) will discuss the recent CMS constraint on the Higgs width, and a short update on Higgs coupling measurements. Felix’s slides are posted on the forum website.

Forum: LHC - photons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 4/11/14

Felix’s slides can be found here.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

4/4/14: Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will give a talk about the recent observation of B-mode polarization by BICEP2 and its implications on inflation. His slides are available here.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

3/28/14: Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) will discuss the response of noble liquid detectors to dark matter scattering events. Hugh’s slides are available at the following link.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

3/21/14: Stephen Portillo (Harvard) and Tracy Slatyer (MIT) discuss their recent analysis of Fermi-LAT’s gamma ray data and the interpretation of the continuum gamma ray excess in terms of dark matter. For the slides, see link.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

3/7/14: Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine) will talk about the gamma-ray line in XMM data that could be due to sterile neutrino dark matter.

References can be found at link.

Forum: LHC - photons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 4/11/14

Felix Yu (Fermilab) will tell us about the recent CMS constraint on the Higgs width, and also about any recent updates on Higgs coupling measurements.