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

Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will tell us about the recent observation of primordial B-modes by the BICEP2 collaboration.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/21/14

Tracy’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/21/14

Stephen’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/21/14

Stephen Portillo (Harvard) and Tracy Slatyer (MIT) will tell us about the recent claim of a gamma ray excess from the galactic center in the Fermi data. The relevant reference can be found here.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/14/14

Hugh’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/14/14

Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) will tell us about the response of noble liquid gases to nuclear recoils and the implications for dark matter searches.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/7/14

Kev’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 3/7/14

Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine) will tell us about the claimed observation of a gamma-ray line in the XMM data. Relevant references for Kev’s talk are the original claim, as well as a similar analysis by a separate group and this reference as background.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 2/21/14

Stefania’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 2/21/14

Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute) will give us an overview on exotic decays of the Higgs boson. Stefania’s talk will focus mostly on this reference.

Forum: LHC - jets – Topic: Discussion Session 7/2/14

Jared’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - jets – Topic: Discussion Session 7/2/14

Jared Evans (Rutgers University) will give us an overview of searches for R-parity violating supersymmetry scenarios. The list of searches that Jared will focus on is:

jets: CMS RPV gluino

jets: ATLAS RPV gluino

jets: ATLAS RPV stop

jets: CMS RPV stop

lepton+jets: CMS 2nd gen. leptoquark

lepton+jets: CMS 3rd gen. leptoquark

multilepton: ATLAS RPV gluino/chargino

multilepton: CMS RPV stop

multilepton: CMS LLE

ATLAS LLE resonance

ATLAS displaced muon

Forum: Other – Topic: Discussion Session 12/4/13

Sean’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Other – Topic: Discussion Session 12/4/13

Sean Tulin (U. Michigan) will lead the discussion on the recent improvement in the electron EDM measurement by the ACME collaboration.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 11/7/13

Louis’ slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 11/7/13

Louis Strigari will lead the forum on the recent analysis and results from LUX.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 10/23/13

Nathaniel’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 10/23/13

Nathaniel Craig (Rutgers University) will give us an overview on the status of multilepton searches.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 9/20/13

Wolfgang’s slides can be downloaded here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 9/20/13

Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Fermilab) will give us an overview on B -> K* mu mu. Relevant references for Wolfgang’s talk are:

LHCb-recent

LHCb-angular

Descotes-Genon, Matias, Virto

Altmannshofer, Straub

Forum: Astroparticle Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 6/20/2013

Kara Hoffman (U. Maryland, member of the IceCube experiment) will tell us about the recent observation of high energy neutrinos at the IceCube experiment. The IceCube results can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 6/6/13

Yuval’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 6/6/13

Yuval Grossman (Cornell University) will give us an overview of the results of recent searches for CP violation. Yuval’s slides will be posted here shortly before the talk.

Forum: LHC - photons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 5/16/13

Nausheen’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - photons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 5/16/13

Nausheen Shah (U. Michigan) will give an overview on the Higgs boson analyses in the diphoton channel. The relevant experimental references are

ATLAS

CMS

and some theory references that Nausheen will take a look at are listed below

arXiv:1206.1082

arXiv:1112.3336

arXiv:1303.4414

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 5/2/2013

Matt’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 5/2/2013

Matthew Buckley (Fermilab) will lead the discussion session on the recent CDMS Silicon result. Some relevant references are:

The CDMS Si analysis

CDMS Ge low energy analysis

Reanalysis of the low energy CDMS data by Collar et al

Cogent modulation analysis

Xenon analyses 10, 100 and comment by Sorensen

CRESST search and comment by Kuznial et al.

Some relevant theory papers Fox et al., Mao et al., Kelso et al., Del Nobile et al.

Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 4/18/13

Raphael’s slides can be downloaded here.

Forum: General – Topic: Upcoming Talk Schedule

4/18/13 Raphael Flauger (IAS) will give an overview of the recent Planck results.

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Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 4/18/13

Raphael Flauger (Institute for Advanced Study) will give an overview of the recent PLANCK results.