Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 4/1/15

Andrey’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 4/1/15

Andrey Katz (CERN & Universite de Geneve) will tell us about the status of searches for stops in the stealth region.

Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 3/18/15

Cora’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 3/18/15

Cora Dvorkin (CFA, Harvard) will tell us about the recent update on the values of cosmological parameters by the PLANCK collaboration.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/11/15

Matt’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/11/15

Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University) will tell us about searching for gamma-ray emission from dark matter annihilation in the Large Magellanic Cloud with the Fermi Large Area Telescope.

Forum: LHC - Exotics – Topic: Discussion Session 2/15/15

Brian’s slides can be found here

Forum: LHC - Exotics – Topic: Discussion Session 2/15/15

Brian Shuve (Perimeter Institute) will give us an overview of the status of searches for displaced objects at the LHC.

Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 2/11/15

Tom’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 2/11/15

Tom Crawford (senior research associate at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, visitor at the Texas Cosmology Center at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the South Pole Telescope Experiment) will tell us about the recent joint analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck data.

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

Pier’s slides can be found here.

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

Felix’s slides can be found here.

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.

Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 4/4/14

Peter’s slides can be found here.