SLAC eConf C150804 Edited by Monica Tecchio and Daniel Levin, University of Michigan, Department of Physics

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Scientific and Local Committees

Plenary Sessions

Invited Talks
Jinlong Zhang LHC Run-2 Startup. ......... .............
Sheldon Stone Pentaquarks and Tetraquarks at LHCb. [ hep-ph/1509.04051] [ PDF]
Josh Ruderman BSM: Theory. ......... .............
John Alison Searches for New Physics at the Energy Frontier. ......... .............
Glen Crawford DOE-HEP Program and FOAs. [ Conference Indico] [ PDF]
Kevin Lannon Top Physics. ......... .............
Junjie Zhu Latest Electroweak Results. ......... .............
Christopher Neu Higgs Physics: Highlights from the Post-Discovery Era. ......... .............
William Detmold Lattice QCD at the Particle Frontiers. ......... .............
Christine Aidala Advancing the Era of Quantitative QCD: Experiment. ......... .............
Susan Gardner Sculpting the BSM Landscape with low-energy Precision Physics. ......... .............
J. Michael Williams Quark Flavor Physics. ......... .............
Mateusz Ploskon Heavy-Ion Collisions - Hot QCD in Laboratory. ......... .............
Jocelyn Monroe Cosmology Experiment: Dark Matter Direct Detection. ......... .............
Kathryn Zurek Beyond the WIMP: New Detectors for New Dark Matter Ideas. ......... .............
David Schlegel The State of Dark Energy in 2015. ......... .............
Oliver Gutsche Exascale and Exabytes: Future directions in HEP Software and Computing. ......... .............
Mark Messier Exploring Neutrinos Via Oscillations in the Atmosphere, at Reactors, and at Accelerators. ......... .............
Mu-Chun Chen Neutrinos and Beyond the Standard Model Physics. ......... .............
Joseph Formaggio Weighing Neutrinos. ......... .............
Crystal Bailey Breaking the Myth of the Non-Traditional Physicist: The Real Story about Employment for Physics Graduates. ......... .............
Stephane Coutu The Highest Energy Frontier. ......... .............
Samir Mathur Black Holes in String Theory. ......... .............
Vladimir Shiltsev Future Accelerators. ......... .............
Erik Ramberg The Future (Near and Far) of Particle Detectors. ......... .............
Paul Collier The Vision of CERN. ......... .............
Joseph Lykken Fermilab Vision. ......... .............
Jim Siegrist The U.S. High Energy Physics Program in a Global Vision of Particle Physics. ......... .............
Andrew Lankford P5: One Year Later. ......... .............
Jim Shank Status of the NSF Particle Physics Program. ......... .............

Parallel Sessions

Accelerators, Detectors, Computing
Session Chairs: Rainer Bartoldus, Joel England, Michael Kagan, Toyoko Orimoto, Torre Wenaus, and Daniel Winklehner
Joshua Spitz IsoDAR and DAEdALUS: The next generation of cyclotrons for neutrino physics. ......... .............
Chandra Bhat Early Beam Injection Scheme for the Fermilab Booster: A Path for Intensity Upgrade. [ hep-ph/1510.08427] [ PDF]
James Brau 500 GeV ILC Operating Scenarios. [ hep-ph/1510.05739] [ PDF]
Don Hartill HEPAP Accelerator R&D Subpanel. ......... .............
Vladimir Shiltsev On the Future High Energy Colliders [ hep-ph/1509.08369] [ PDF]
Robert Stringer TPilot System for the CMS Phase I Pixel Upgrade. ......... .............
Hongtao Yang Studies on the prototype of ATLAS Phase-2 pixel module. ......... .............
K.K. Gan Radiation-Hard/High-Speed Parallel Optical Engine. ......... .............
E. Craig Dukes A Cosmic Ray Veto Detector for the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab. ......... .............
Yongyi Wu Performance of Scintillation Counters with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout. [ hep-ph/1511.00374] [ PDF]
Vishnu Zutshi Radiation Damage Testing of Silicon Photomultipliers for the Mu2e Experiment. ......... .............
Bin Gui Beam Test Results of the Dependence of Signal Size on Incident Particle Rate in Diamond Pixel and Pad Detectors. ......... .............
Jamie Antonelli The qualification of the forward pixel detector modules for the CMS phase 1 upgrade. ......... .............
David Velazquez Surface-Engineered Photocathode for Tunable Photoemissive Properties. ......... .............
Mary Anne Cummings Muon cooling progress and prospects for an S-channel muon collider Higgs factory. [ hep-ph/1511.01423] [ PDF]
Sergey Shchelkunov Diagnostic and Detectors for Charging and Damage of Dielectrics in High-gradient Accelerators [ hep-ph/1510.05507] [ PDF]
Sergey Shchelkunov Compact Low-Voltage, High-Power, Multi-beam Klystron for ILC: Initial Test Results [ hep-ph/1510.06065] [ PDF]
Ryan Hooper Beam Extinction and Monitoring at the Upcoming Mu2e Experiment. ......... .............
Joseph Warner New Beam Profile Monitoring System for the Proton Irradiation Facility at the CERN PS East Area. ......... .............
Ryan Edgar Low Voltage Power for the ATLAS New Small Wheel. ......... .............
Merlin Davies Micro-pattern detectors based on plasma panels: Past, present,and future developments. ......... .............
Jim Popp A Straw Tube Tracker for the Mu2e Experiment. ......... .............
Daniel Ambrose Straw Leak Testing for the Mu2e Tracker. ......... .............
Thomas Browder Status of Belle II and SuperKEKB. ......... .............
Thomas Browder The iTOP particle identification detector at Belle II. ......... .............
Leo Piilonen The upgraded KLM detector at Belle II. ......... .............
Andrew White The SiD Detector for the International Linear Collider. [ hep-ph/1511.00134] [ PDF]
Kenneth Bloom CMS Software and Computing: Ready for Run 2. [ hep-ph/1509.08180] [ PDF]
Doris Kim Software and Physics Simulation at Belle II. [ hep-ph/1510.09008] [ PDF]
Malachi Schram GRID computing at Belle II. ......... .............
Alexander Undrus Code Management in the ATLAS Collaboration. ......... .............
Torre Wenaus The HEP Software Foundation. ......... .............
Pushpalatha Bhat New Developments in Multivariate Machine Learning Methods and their Applications in HEP. ......... .............
Bo Jayatilaka Data Preservation at the Fermilab Tevatron. ......... .............
Soo Ryu FELIX: the detector readout upgrade of the ATLAS experiment. ......... .............
Jay Chapman Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Drift Tube (MDT) electronics for the Phase-II upgrade. ......... .............
Liang Guan Characterization of the Trigger Data Serializer ASIC Prototype for the ATLAS Forward Muon Detector Upgrade. ......... .............
Xueye Hu Design and Test of a Signal Packet Router Board Prototype for the ATLAS Forward Muon Detector Upgrade. ......... .............
Niklaus Lehmann Real Time Tracker Based Upon Local Hit Correlation Circuit for Silicon Strip Sensors. ......... .............
Tao Huang Impact of the GEM-based Upgrade of the CMS Forward Muon System on Trigger Performance. ......... .............
Brian Winer A Level-1 Track Trigger for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade. ......... .............
Eric Mannel The sPHENIX Calorimeter Readout Electronics. ......... .............
Michelle Dolinski Solid xenon bolometers. ......... .............
Denver Whittington Development of a Photon Detection System in Liquid Argon for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. ......... .............
Tomonari Miyashita The Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter. ......... .............
Yuri Oksuzian Studies of Beam Induced Radiation Backgrounds at the Mu2e Experiment and Implications for the Cosmic Ray Veto Detector Operations. ......... .............
Jingbo Wang Progress on the development of 6cm x 6cm micro channel plate photodetectors at Argonne National Laboratory. ......... .............
Ranjan Dharmapalan Cryogenic Application of MCP-PMTs. ......... .............
Michael Litos High-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam in a plasma wakefield accelerator. ......... .............
Pushpalatha Bhat Future HEP Accelerators: The US Perspective. [ hep-ph/1511.00390] [ PDF]
Alexander Thomas Particle Acceleration - Laser Wakefield Experiments at U. Michigan. ......... .............
Toshiba Tajima TeV on a chip: X-ray wakefield accelerator in nanomaterials. ......... .............
Sergey Kuzikov High-Gradient, Millimeter Wave Accelerating Structure. [ hep-ph/1511.00415] [ PDF]
Manoel Conde Two-Beam-Acceleration Experiments at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA). ......... .............

Astroparticle, Cosmology, Dark Matter Searches, and CMB
Session Chairs: Hugh Lippincott, Marilena Loverde, Rachel Mandelbaum, Stefano Profumo, and Michael Schubnell
Eric Huff New Science with the Dark Energy Survey. ......... .............
Rachel Wolf Supernovae & The Dark Energy Survey. ......... .............
Rutuparna Das The Dark Energy Survey - First Results in Galaxy Cluster Weak Lensing. ......... .............
Ting Li Discovery of Milky Way dwarf galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey and implications for cosmological models. ......... .............
Alex Geringer-Sameth A search for dark matter annihilation in the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Reticulum 2. ......... .............
Matthew Walker Dark matter inferred from stellar kinematics in the smallest galaxies. ......... .............
Alejandro Lopez Fermi/LAT observations of Dwarf Galaxies highly constrain a Dark Matter Interpretation of Excess Positrons seen in AMS-02, HEAT, and PAMELA. ......... .............
Stephen Portillo Constraining Unresolved Point Source Contributions to the GeV Excess with Probabilistic Catalogues. ......... .............
Kerstin Perez Antineutron Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment. ......... .............
Peter Karn Prospects for Measuring the Positron Excess with the Cherenkov Telescope Array. ......... .............
Leila Hamdan Bound on the variation in the fine structure constant implied by Oklo data. [ hep-ph/1510.00856] [ PDF]
Amy Bender SPT-3G: The Next Generation Receiver for Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements with the South Pole Telescope. ......... .............
Jeffrey Filippini SPIDER: Exploring the dawn of time from above the clouds. ......... .............
Chi-Ting Chang Position-dependent power spectrum: a new observable in the large-scale structure. ......... .............
Julia Vogel Axion and ALP Dark Matter Search with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO). ......... .............
Fuquan Wang Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic photon or jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. ......... .............
Samuel McDermott Probing Theories of Dark Matter with Direct Detection. ......... .............
Junhui Liao DAMIC results: Low Mass WIMP (~<5Gev) direct detection with scientific CCDs. ......... .............
Orin Harris World-leading Dark Matter Limits with PICO-2L and PICO-60. ......... .............
Kyungeun Lim Results of DM-Ice17 and Prospects of the DM-Ice Experiment. ......... .............
Kyungwon Kim Status of the KIMS-Nal experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00023] [ PDF]
Patrick De Perio XENON: New Results and Prospects. ......... .............
Sahar Bahrami Neutrino Dark Matter in the Higgs triplet model. [ hep-ph/1509.04763] [ PDF]
Richard Hill Soft-collinear effective theory for heavy WIMP annihilation. ......... .............
Matteo Fasiello Cosmology of Massive Gravity. ......... .............
Hayato Motohashi Optimized evaluation approach for inflationary power spectra. ......... .............
Evangelos Sfakianakis Gauge and fermion preheating and the end of axion inflation. ......... .............
Tansu Daylan Contribution of Dark Matter Annihilations to the Low-Redshift Metagalactic Ionization Rate. ......... .............
Tanja Rindler-Daller How dark matter conspires to facilitate baryogenesis at the electroweak scale. [ hep-ph/1510.08369] [ PDF]
Daniel Grin Cosmological tests of ultra-light axions. ......... .............
Joshua Eby Axion Stars and Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter. ......... .............
Niayesh Afshordi Cosmological Non-Constant Problem: Cosmological bounds on TeV-scale physics and beyond. ......... .............
Kristen Anne Tollefson TeV Astrophysics with the HAWC Observatory. ......... .............
Augusto Ghiotto A Deep Observation of Gamma-ray Emission from Cassiopeia A using VERITAS. [ hep-ph/1511.00309] [ PDF]
James Linnemann Searching for Primordial Black Holes with TeV Gamma Ray Detectors. ......... .............
James Linnemann Observational Characteristics of the Final Stages of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes. [ hep-ph/1507.01648] [ PDF]
J Patrick Harding First Limits on the Dark Matter Cross-Section with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. ......... .............
Kataryzna Frankiewicz Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande. [ hep-ph/1510.07999] [ PDF]
Tom Caldwell Status of the MiniCLEAN Experiment. ......... .............
Bei Cai The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00949] [ PDF]
Alden Fan Status and Results from DarkSide-50. [ hep-ph/1511.00676] [ PDF]
Tomasz Biesiadzinski The LUX Dark Matter Experiment and an Updated Analysis of its First Results. ......... .............
Carter Hall Progress of the LZ Dark Matter Experiment. ......... .............
Andi Tan The PandaX Dark Matter Experiment. ......... .............
Matthew Szydagis Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Detection. ......... .............

BSM Physics
Session Chair: Kevin Black, Nathaniel Craig, and Rouven Essig
Allison Renae McCarn ATLAS results in the search for a charged Higgs boson. ......... .............
Sven Dildick Search for non Standard Model Higgs boson decays in events with displaced muon-jets. [ hep-ph/1510.02764] [ PDF]
Laser Seymour Kaplan Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying to ZZ diboson with the ATLAS Detector. ......... .............
Benjamin Kaplan Search for Higgs bosons decaying to aa in the μμττ final state in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. ......... .............
Allison Renae McCarn ATLAS results in the search for a CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh, in final states with 2 taus and 2 electrons or muons. ......... .............
Deepanjali Goswami Type-III Seesaw Sermonic Triplets at the International Linear Collider. ......... .............
Pawandeep Jandir Estimating the QCD Background in Searches for New Physics in Events with Missing Energy and Large Hadronic Activity in pp collisions at 13 TeV. ......... .............
Jamie Antonelli Search for Displaced Supersymmetry in Events with an Electron and a Muon with Large Impact Parameters. ......... .............
Carlos Andres Florez Bustos Search for Chargino and Neutralino using Two Jets in Vector-Boson-Fusion Topology at CMS. ......... .............
Evelyn Thomson Search for Direct Scalar Top Production with R-Parity Violating Decay in pp Collisions at √=8 TeV with ATLAS. ......... .............
Sadia Khalil Searches for RPV SUSY via LQD Couplings at the CMS Experiment. ......... .............
Stefania Gori Exploration of Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the International Linear Collider. [ hep-ph/1511.00405] [ PDF]
Bob Zheng Producing Heavy Squarks at 100 TeV. ......... .............
Yanlin Liu Prospects for a Search for Z′ to the Dimuon Final State in Run 2 of the LHC. ......... .............
Daniel Hayden A First Look at 13 TeV Data for the Exotic Dilepton Channel Search using the ATLAS Detector. ......... .............
David Norvil Brown Search a Dark Photon at BABAR.
Alexandre Beaulieu Search for a new π0-like particle at BABAR. ......... .............
Richard Kass Search for light CP-odd Higgs decay with a charm tag at BABAR. ......... .............
Richard Kass Search for long-lived particles at BABAR. ......... .............
James Mott Status of the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment. ......... .............
Joseph Grange Current status and Prospects of the FNAL muon g-2 Storage Ring. ......... .............
Prajwal Mohanmurthy Test of Lorentz Invariance from Compton Scattering. [ hep-ph/1509.08297] [ PDF]
Zhirui Xu Radiative B decays as probes of Physics beyond the Standard Model. ......... .............
Lashkar Kashif Dark Matter search in ATLAS in the H →γγ + MET channel: Run 1 Results and Run 2 Prospects. ......... .............
Yangyang Cheng Search for Dark Matter produced in association with a Higgs Boson decaying to two bottom quarks in √s= 8TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. ......... .............
Andrea Mauri Search for a Light Dark Sector Particle at LHCb. [ hep-ph/1511.00281] [ PDF]
Preema Rennee Pais Search for long-lived, weakly-interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. ......... .............
Toyoko Orimoto Search for New Physics in the low MET Monophoton Channel with the CMS Detector. [ hep-ph/1511.00337] [ PDF]
Justin Pilot Search for tt Resonances at CMS. ......... .............
Wells Wulsin Recent CMS searches for Exotic Phenomena Beyond the Standard Model. [ hep-ph/1510.08898] [ PDF]
Sarah Jones Prospects for a Search for Vector-Like Quarks with Events that have Two Leptons of the Same Charge + b-Jets at √ = 13 TeV at ATLAS. ......... .............
Robert Stringer Searches for Vector-Like Quarks at CMS. ......... .............
K.C. Kong Model-Independent Production of a Top-Philip Resonance at the LHC. ......... .............
Nathan Bernard Searches for Micro Black Holes and String Balls with the ATLAS Detector During Run 1. ......... .............
Wells Wulsin Search for Disappearing Tracks. [ hep-ph/1510.08909] [ PDF]
Andrew Mc Rae Chegwidden Search for Monotop Production in Semi-Leptonic Decays of Top Quarks at √= 8 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector. ......... .............
Christopher Willis Constructing an Inclusive Lepton Early Warning System. ......... .............
Jared Evans The Most Important Searches Missing from Run 1. ......... .............
David Kaplan A Cosmological Solution to the Electroweak Hierarchy Problem. ......... .............
Florian Lyonnet Automation of non-SUSY two-loop RGEs with PyR@TE: latest developments. [ hep-ph/1510.08841] [ PDF]
Nausheen Shah Phenomenological Implications of the Naturally Aligned NMSSM. ......... .............
Satyanarayan Nandi Supersymmetry versus Extra Dimensions at the LHC. ......... .............
Pawin Ittisami Color Discriminant Variable to Separate Dijet Resonances at the LHC. [ hep-ph/1510.08753] [ PDF]
Aaron Pierce Anatomy of Coannihilation with a Scalar Top Partner. ......... .............
Zhen Liu Long-Lived Superparticles with Hadronic Decays at the LHC. ......... .............
Zhen Liu Anatomizing BSM effects with differential Higgsstrahlung observables. ......... .............
Bibhushan Shakya Hints of a PeV Scale Supersymmetric Neutrino Sector: Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, keV and PeV Anomalies. [ hep-ph/1510.08540] [ PDF]

Education and Outreach
Session Chair: Don Lincoln and Nicole Michelotti
Colin Barras How to be a successful Freelance Science Reporter. ......... .............
April Jakubowski and Sophia Nasr Enhancing Scientific Outreach with Social Media. ......... .............
Breese Quinn HEP User Community Government Outreach. ......... .............
Claire Adam Bourdarios ATLAS Virtual Visits. ......... .............
Marjorie Bardeen The International Particle Physics Outreach Group. ......... .............
Kenneth Cecire Discovery and the QuarkNet Data Portfolio. [ hep-ph/1510.08913] [ PDF]
Zach Constan and Renee Leone Reaching the Public with Science Festivals. ......... .............
Elyse Aurbach and Katherine Prater How to run a Science Cafe. ......... .............

EWK and Higgs Sector
Session Chair: Sally Dawson and Shih-Chieh Hsu
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Tyler Corbett Effective Lagrangians for Higgs Physics. ......... .............
Fangzhou Zhang Measurement of the Higgs boson coupling strengths in the ATLAS experiment. ......... .............
Nan Lu Study of the Spin and Parity of the Higgs boson in diboson Decays with the ATLAS Detector. ......... .............
Meshy Roskes Tools for the Higgs boson CP studies: JHUGen and MELA. ......... .............
Biswaranjan Das 125 GeV Higgs Signal at the LHC in the CP-violating MSSM. ......... .............
Yusheng Wu Recent Standard Model electroweak measurements at ATLAS. ......... .............
Joshua Milo Kunkle Multiboson Measurements and Limits on Anomalous Gauge Couplings with the CMS experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00143] [ PDF]
Jacob Alexander Searcy Deep Learning and Vector Boson Scattering. ......... .............
Hongtao Yang Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments. ......... .............
Christopher Martin Lifetime and Quantum Numbers of the Higgs Boson using the Decay H→4l. ......... .............
Marc Sher The Lifetime of the Electroweak Vacuum. ......... .............
Cong Geng Physics prospects of the ZZ production measurements with the ATLAS experiment at LHC Run2. ......... .............
Hasan Ogul Measurement of the Muon Charge Asymmetry for W Bosons Produced in Inclusive pp → W(μν) + X at √s = 8 TeV. [ hep-ph/1510.04166] [ PDF]
Zack Sullivan Improving Parton Distribution Uncertainties in a W Mass Measurement at the LHC. [ hep-ph/1508.04081] [ PDF]
Ian Lewis Usefulness of Effective Field Theory in Higgs plus jet Production. ......... .............
Ahmed Ismail New Physics in Double Higgs Production. ......... .............
Kenneth Bloom Search for Associated Production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark. [ hep-ph/1510.00894] [ PDF]
Peter Onyisi Searches for associated top quark and Higgs boson production at the ATLAS experiment. ......... .............
Baris Altunkaynak Flavor Violating Heavy Higgs Decays at the LHC. ......... .............
Robert Clarke Search for LFV decays with Hadronic Taus of the Higgs with 2012 Data (ATLAS). ......... .............
Nathan Kellams Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson. ......... .............
Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz Probing Flavon-Higgs mixing effects at Future Colliders. ......... .............
Hong Zhang Inclusive Higgs Production at Large Transverse Momentum. [ hep-ph/1510.07007] [ PDF]
Jan Strube The Higgs Physics Program at the International Linear Collider. [ hep-ph/1511.00286] [ PDF]

Field and String Theory
Session Chair: David Berenstein and Christopher Herzog
Matteo Lotito Geometric constraints on the space of N=2 SCFTs. ......... .............
Cyril Closset Guaged linear sigma models on the Omega-deformed two-sphere. ......... .............
Christopher Winterowd Magnetic Catalysis in Graphene. [ hep-ph/1509.06432] [ PDF]
Roland Allen Predicted Higgs-related spin 1/2 particles as a new Dark Matter Candidate. [ hep-ph/1511.00301] [ PDF]
Yongchao Lv On the classification of 4d rank1 N=2 SCFT. [ hep-ph/1511.00669] [ PDF]
Martin Polacek T-Duality off shell in 3D Type II superspace. ......... .............
Zaq Carson Thermalization in the D1D5 Black Hole. ......... .............
Michael Spillane Thermal Corrections to Renyi Entropies on the n-Sphere. ......... .............
David Berenstein Spinning the fuzzy sphere. ......... .............

LHC Run-2 Detector Performance
Session Chair: Petra Merkel and Aynes Taffard
Gabriele Benelli The CMS Silicon Tracker Performance during early LHC Run II. ......... .............
Eric Feng ATLAS Inner Detector Alignment for LHC Run 2. ......... .............
Shih-Chieh Hsu Commissioning and Performance of the upgraded ATLAS Pixel Detector for Run 2. ......... .............
Heshy Roskes CMS Silicon Tracker Alignment: First Run2 Results. ......... .............
Espen Bowen Novel real-time calibration & alignment and tracking performance for LHCb Run II. ......... .............
Kelly Stifter The CMS Beam halo Monitor Detector System. [ hep-ph/1511.00264] [ PDF]
Michael Clark Improvements to ATLAS track reconstruction for Run-2. ......... .............
Benjamin Sowden The performance and development of the Inner Detector Trigger Algorithms at ATLAS for LHC Run 2. [ hep-ph/1511.01136] [ PDF]
Grant Riley Commissioning and Alignment of the Pixel Luminosity Telescope of CMS. ......... .............
Kevin Black The upgraded ATLAS Trigger and DAQ system for the second LHC run. ......... .............
Gabriella Pasztor The Upgrade of the ATLAS Electron and Photo Triggers toward LHC Run 2 and their Performance. [ hep-ph/1511.00334] [ PDF]
Andrea Massironi Precision Electromagnetic Calorimetry at the Energy Frontier: CMS ECAL at LHC Run 2. [ hep-ph/1510.02745] [ PDF]
David Miller Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Performance in ATLAS with early Run 2 data. ......... .............
Sebastien Prince The updated ATLAS Jet Trigger for the LHC Run II. [ hep-ph/1511.00972] [ PDF]
John Alison Real-time Flavour Tagging Selection in ATLAS: ready for LHC Run-2. ......... .............
Wells Wulsin Performance of the CMS Endcap Muon Detector in Run 2. [ hep-ph/1510.08908] [ PDF]
Dongliang Zhang Muon Reconstruction and Identification Performance in ATLAS at Run-II. ......... .............

Neutrino Physics
Session Chair: Daniel Hernandez, Lisa Kaufman, Irina Mocioiu, and Lindley Winslow
Guang Yang Latest results/analysis in Double Chooz. [ hep-ph/1511.00068] [ PDF]
Chris Kachulis Super Kamiokande Atmospheric Neutrino Analysis. ......... .............
Marianna Gabrielyan Search for Exotic Transitions of muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos with MINOS. [ hep-ph/1511.00179] [ PDF]
Nicholas Graf Search for Flavor Changing non-standard Interactions with the MINOS+ Experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00204] [ PDF]
Maury Goodman An Experimental Program in Neutrinos, Nucleon Decay and Astroparticle Physics Enabled by the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility. ......... .............
Chris Grant DUNE: The Physics Potential of a Large, Underground, Liquid Argon Neutrino. ......... .............
Maury Goodman The LBNF Beamline. ......... .............
Sebastien Murphy LBNO-DEMO (WA105): a large demonstrator of the Liquid Argon double phase TPC. ......... .............
Jarrett Moon Characterization of New Meter Scale Light Guides for Liquid Argon TPC Light Collection. ......... .............
William Foreman First Run of the LAIAT Testbeam Experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00305] [ PDF]
Michael Mooney The MicroBooNE Experiment and the Impact of Space Charge Effects. [ hep-ph/1511.01563] [ PDF]
Jyoti Joshi Signal Processing in the MicroBooNE LAr TPC. [ hep-ph/1511.00317] [ PDF]
Jianming Bian The CAPTAIN experiment. [ hep-ph/1509.07739] [ PDF]
Julieta Gruszko Status Update of the MAJORCAN DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00395] [ PDF]
Christopher Chambers Barium Tagging in Solid Xenon for the nEXO Experiment. ......... .............
Emrah Tiras Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in same-sign dilepton + jets events in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV. ......... .............
Emrah Tiras Radiation Hard & High Light Yield Scintillator Search for CMS Phase II Upgrade. [ hep-ph/1510.08572] [ PDF]
Spencer N. Axani KPipe: a Decisive Test for muon neutrino Disappearance [ hep-ph/1510.06994] [ PDF]
Shaokai Yang Looking for Sterile Neutrinos with NOvA. ......... .............
Danielle Norcini Development of PROSPECT detectors for precision antineutrino studies. [ hep-ph/1510.09082] [ PDF]
Karin Gilje Sensitivity and Discovery Potential of the PROSPECT Experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00177] [ PDF]
Marjon Moulai Fast Neutron Detection with MITPC. ......... .............
Matthew Strait Cosmogenic isotope production by stopping muons in Double Chooz. ......... .............
Richard Hill Elementary target data and precision neutrino-nucleus cross sections. ......... .............
Jay Hyun Jo Measurement of the Charged Current Electron Neutrino Interaction Rate on Water with the T2K Pi-zero Detector. ......... .............
Jeremy Lopez Measurement of the νμ Charged Current Quasielastic Scattering Cross Section on Water with the T2K Off-Axis Near Detector. ......... .............
Don Athula HARP targets π+ production measurements and νμ flux for MiniBooNE. ......... .............
Kuldeep Maan Neutrino Flux Studies at NOνA. [ hep-ph/1511.00287] [ PDF]
Andrew Cudd Neutrino CCQE Cross Section Discrepancies with Data and Generators. ......... .............
Gregorio Ponti nuPRISM. ......... .............
Joel Mousseau First Search for EMC Effect and Shadowing in Neutrino Scattering at MINERvA. ......... .............
Jeremy Wolcott Electron neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic scattering in the MINERvA experiment. [ hep-ph/1510.08342] [ PDF]
Aaron Mislivec Coherent Charged Pion Production at MINERvA. ......... .............
Tomohiro Hayakawa Results from the OPERA experiment at the CNGS beam. ......... .............
Joao Pedro Prospects for measuring tau neutrino appearance in DeepCore. ......... .............
Tyce Deyoung Neutrino Physics Prospects with PINGU. ......... .............
Joshua Hignight Numu Disappearance with IceCube/DeepCore. ......... .............
Kevin Labe Nucleon Decay Search in SNO+ Water Phase using a Likelihood Approach. ......... .............
Kirk Bays Muon neutrino disappearance at NOvA. ......... .............
Louise Suter Extrapolation techniques and systematic uncertainties in the NOvA muon neutrino disappearance anaysis. [ hep-ph/1511.00181] [ PDF]
Jianming Bian First Results of NuE Appearance Analysis and Electron Neutrino Identification at NOvA. [ hep-ph/1510.05708] [ PDF]
Tian Xin Cosmic Ray Background Rejection in NOvA. ......... .............
Hongyue Duyang Muon Induced EM Showers in NOvA Detectors. [ hep-ph/1511.00351] [ PDF]
Daniel Pershey Predicting the Far Detector Event Rate in the NOvA Electron Neutrino Appearance Channel. ......... .............
Robert Mina A first look at data from the NOvA upward-going muon trigger. [ hep-ph/1511.00155] [ PDF]

QCD and Heavy Ions
Session Chair: Aaron Angerami, Radja Boughezal, Joey Huston, and Nikos Varelas
Emanuela Barberis QCD results from ATLAS and CMS. ......... .............
Xiaohui Liu Overview of Precision QCD. ......... .............
Fred Olness Precision QCD for LHC New Physics Searches: the nCTEQ15 PDFs [ hep-ph/1511.00372] [ PDF]
Ben Nachman Recent Jet Substructure Results from the LHC. ......... .............
Tie-Jiun Hou PDF Overview. ......... .............
Eric Godat Mathematica Toolbox for PDF Uncertainties and Application to New Physics Searches. [ hep-ph/1510.06009] [ PDF]
Emanuela Barberis Vector Boson Production in association with jets and Heavy Flavor Quarks at CMS. ......... .............
David Clark Drell-Yan Production of W/Z at the LHC with Protons and Neavy Nuclei. [ hep-ph/1510.09200] [ PDF]
Konstantinos Vellidis Recent QCD Results from the Tevatron. [ hep-ph/1510.02992] [ PDF]
Stefan Prestel Parton Shower overview. ......... .............
Keith Pedersen Flavor Tagging TeV Jets for BSM and QCD. [ hep-ph/1509.07551] [ PDF]
Eric Braaten Making Sense of the XYZ Mesons from QCD. ......... .............
Nathan Jurik Exotic hadron spectroscopy in LHCb. ......... .............
Last Feremenga Searches for the exclusive double diffractive Higgs. ......... .............
Peilian Liu Exotic and Charmonium(-like) states at BESIII. [ hep-ph/1509.08042] [ PDF]
Luigi Marchese Measurement of low pT D+ meson production cross section at CDF. ......... .............
Hok Chuen Cheng Measurement of Correlation of Lambda Pairs with the ATLAS Detector. ......... .............
Joydeep Roy Model Independent Analysis of the Proton Magnetic Radius. [ hep-ph/1511.00664] [ PDF]
David Brown Measurement of Collins asymmetries for kaons and pions in e+e- annihilation at BABAR. ......... .............
Jacob Berg Study of inclusive charmonium production in e+e- annihilation and B decays at BABAR. ......... .............
Richard Hill Extraction of the proton radius from electron-proton scattering data. ......... .............
Joseph Osborn Parton Dynamics at PHENIX. [ hep-ph/1511.00016] [ PDF]
David Zaslavsky Saturation physics on the energy frontier. [ hep-ph/1511.00386] [ PDF]
John Haggerty The sPHENIX Experiment. ......... .............
Peter Arnold The LPM Effect in Sequential Bremsstrahlung. ......... .............
Jian Sun Open heavy flavor measurements in heavy ion collisions with CMS. ......... .............

Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Session Chair: J Michael Williams and Jure Zupan
Wolfgang Altmannshofer BSM and Flavor. ......... .............
Espen Bowen Rare electroweak B decays at LHCb. ......... .............
Michael Kolpin Bs0 → φμ+μ- at LHCb. ......... .............
Tomonari Miyashita Study of CP asymmetry in B0B0 Mixing using Inclusive Dilepton Samples in BABAR. ......... .............
Edward Kearns Searching for Nucleon Decay with Super-Kamiokande. ......... .............
Marc Buehler The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab. ......... .............
Daping De Lattice Inputs for Flavor. ......... .............
Marco Fiore New Results on Semileptonic B Decays from LHCb. [ hep-ph/1511.00105] [ PDF]
Bob Kowalewski Inclusive Electron Spectrum from B-meson Decays and Determination of |Vub|. ......... .............
Tobias Tekampe First Measurement of the Differential Branching Fraction and CP Asymmetry of the B+ → π+μ+μ- Decay. ......... .............
Paula Alvarez Caretelle Amplitude Analysis of Charmless B Decays at LHCb. ......... .............
Bilas Pal Recent Results on Charmless Hadronic B decays at Belle. [ hep-ph/1511.00164] [ PDF]
Yao Li Study of B± → π±π+π- decays at Belle. ......... .............
Peter Garbincius Recent D0 Measurements of the Forward-Backward Asymmetries for pp→ B±, ΛB, and Λ Production. [ hep-ph/1509.06665] [ PDF]
Dongliang Zhang Measurement of the Λb Polarization and Decay Helicity Amplitude. ......... .............
Maksat Haytmyradov Double Quarkonium Production at CMS. ......... .............
Bob Kowalewski Exclusive semileptonic B decays to a D or D* meson and one or two pions. ......... .............
Liming Zhang Control penguin effect in Bs→J/ψΦ at LHCb. ......... .............
Aaron Taylor A Selection of Three ATLAS B-Physics Results: A Search Beyond the Standard Model, A Precision Measurement, and the Discovery of a New Heavy Meson. [ hep-ph/1510.01212] [ PDF]
Reddy Pratap Gandrajula Observation of B+ → ψ(2S)K+. ......... .............
Soeren Prell Observation of CP violation in B0 → D*CP h0 decays in a combined analysis using BABAR and Belle data. ......... .............
Brian Hamilton Experimental Overview of Lepton Non-universality Results and Prospects. ......... .............
Kevin Dungs LHCb data taking strategy for the upcoming LHC runs. ......... .............
Boqun Wang Searches for New Physics at the Belle II Experiment. [ hep-ph/1511.00373] [ PDF]
Lucio Anderlini Study of BC Mesons at LHCb. ......... .............
David Brown Study of baryonic decays of B mesons at BABAR. ......... .............
David Brown Study of three-body charmonium decays in BABAR. ......... .............
Xiaolong Wang Update on e+e- → π+ π- φ(2S) via initial state radiation at Belle. ......... .............

Top Physics
Session Chair: Andrew Ivanov and Christopher Neu
Nikolaos Kidonakis High-order threshold corrections for top-pair and single-top production [ hep-ph/1509.07848] [ PDF]
Thomas Schwarz Measurements of the Top Quark Cross Section with the ATLAS Experiment. ......... .............
Gabriele Benelli Top pair production inclusive and differential production cross section measurements in pp collisions. ......... .............
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez Run-1 Single-top measurements at CMS. [ hep-ph/1510.05235] [ PDF]
Kenneth Bloom Recent results on top-quark physics at D0. [ hep-ph/1510.06993] [ PDF]
Philip Ilten Forward W + c, b-jet and Top Measurements with LHCb. [ hep-ph/1511.00644] [ PDF]
Graham Wilson Top Quark Physics at a Future Linear Collider. ......... .............
Zhi Liu Lorentz and CPT Violation in Top-Quark Production. [ hep-ph/1511.00630] [ PDF]
Ziqing Hong Forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production at CDF. ......... .............
Daniel Marley Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in 8 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment. ......... .............
Andrew Brinkerhoff Observation of ttZ and measurement of ttW at CMS. ......... .............
Chen Zhou Measurement of the Production Cross Sections of top quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson using proton-proton collisions at √=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. ......... .............
Andrew Ivanov Measurement of ttγ production cross section at CMS. ......... .............
Jesse Heilman Search for Standard Model Production of Four Top Quarks. ......... .............

DOE Program Manager Sessions
Session Chairs:
Abid Patwa DOE Program: Energy Frontier [ Conference Indico] [ PDF]
Kathy Turner DOE Program: Cosmic Frontier [ Conference Indico] [ PDF]
Simona Rolli DOE Program: HEP Theory [ Conference Indico] [ PDF]

Posters

Carl Akerlof How to include cosmology experiments in upper level undergraduate physics lab courses. ......... .............
Andrew Gerhart Brandt Development of a Long Life Photomultiplier Tube for High Flux Applications. ......... .............
Ralf Ehrlich Cosmic Ray Backgrounds in the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab. ......... .............
Minyu Feng Searches for New Physics in Run 2 at the LHC using Vγ Production. ......... .............
Sophia Kim An Analog Beamformer for a Prototype Radio Phased Array for Detection of High Energy Neutrinos. ......... .............
Alex Kwiatkowski Design and Optimization of a Cylindrical Bragg Accelerator Structure and Input Coupler. ......... .............
Chungun Lee Novel Fabrication of 3D Silicon Woodpile Structure for Dielectric Laser Accelerators (DLAs). ......... .............
Wayne Randy Lundberg Neutrino Oscillations: a natural effect of Band Theory. [ viXra/1510.0382] [ PDF]
John Myers Studies of Pileup Suppression to Improve the Missing Transverse Energy Trigger Performance in the ATLAS Phase-I Upgrade. ......... .............
Paul O'Brien Scale invariance in our universe. ......... .............
Connor Richards Search for Gluino-Mediated Pair Production of Higgsinos in pp Collisions at 13 TeV in the CMS Detector. ......... .............
Thomas Roberts MuSim, a Graphical User Interface for Multiple Simulation Programs. ......... .............
Jaime Ruz Armendariz X-ray optics for the International Axion Observatory (IAXO). ......... .............
Tom Schwartz Status of the DAMIC Direct Detection Dark Matter Experiment. ......... .............
Ilija Vukotic ATLASrift - a Virtual Reality application. [ hep-ph/1511.00047] [ PDF]
Shouting Wang A new blackhole theorem and its applications to cosmology and astrophysics. ......... .............

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