Plenary Sessions
Invited Talks
| Jinlong Zhang |
LHC Run-2 Startup. |
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| Sheldon Stone |
Pentaquarks and Tetraquarks at LHCb. |
[ hep-ph/1509.04051] |
[ PDF] |
| Josh Ruderman |
BSM: Theory. |
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| John Alison |
Searches for New Physics at the Energy Frontier. |
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| Glen Crawford |
DOE-HEP Program and FOAs. |
[ Conference Indico] |
[ PDF] |
| Kevin Lannon |
Top Physics. |
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| Junjie Zhu |
Latest Electroweak Results. |
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| Christopher Neu |
Higgs Physics: Highlights from the Post-Discovery Era. |
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| William Detmold |
Lattice QCD at the Particle Frontiers. |
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| Christine Aidala |
Advancing the Era of Quantitative QCD: Experiment. |
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| Susan Gardner |
Sculpting the BSM Landscape with low-energy Precision Physics. |
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| J. Michael Williams |
Quark Flavor Physics. |
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| Mateusz Ploskon |
Heavy-Ion Collisions - Hot QCD in Laboratory. |
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| Jocelyn Monroe |
Cosmology Experiment: Dark Matter Direct Detection. |
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| Kathryn Zurek |
Beyond the WIMP: New Detectors for New Dark Matter Ideas. |
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| David Schlegel |
The State of Dark Energy in 2015. |
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| Oliver Gutsche |
Exascale and Exabytes: Future directions in HEP Software and Computing. |
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| Mark Messier |
Exploring Neutrinos Via Oscillations in the Atmosphere, at Reactors, and at Accelerators. |
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| Mu-Chun Chen |
Neutrinos and Beyond the Standard Model Physics. |
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| Joseph Formaggio |
Weighing Neutrinos. |
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| Crystal Bailey |
Breaking the Myth of the Non-Traditional Physicist: The Real Story about Employment for Physics Graduates. |
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| Stephane Coutu |
The Highest Energy Frontier. |
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| Samir Mathur |
Black Holes in String Theory. |
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| Vladimir Shiltsev |
Future Accelerators. |
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| Erik Ramberg |
The Future (Near and Far) of Particle Detectors. |
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| Paul Collier |
The Vision of CERN. |
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| Joseph Lykken |
Fermilab Vision. |
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| Jim Siegrist |
The U.S. High Energy Physics Program in a Global Vision of Particle Physics. |
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| Andrew Lankford |
P5: One Year Later. |
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| Jim Shank |
Status of the NSF Particle Physics Program. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| Vladimir Shiltsev |
On the Future High Energy Colliders |
[ hep-ph/1509.08369] |
[ PDF] |
| Robert Stringer |
TPilot System for the CMS Phase I Pixel Upgrade. |
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| Hongtao Yang |
Studies on the prototype of ATLAS Phase-2 pixel module. |
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| K.K. Gan |
Radiation-Hard/High-Speed Parallel Optical Engine. |
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| E. Craig Dukes |
A Cosmic Ray Veto Detector for the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab. |
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| 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. |
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| Bin Gui |
Beam Test Results of the Dependence of Signal Size on Incident Particle Rate in Diamond Pixel and Pad Detectors. |
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| Jamie Antonelli |
The qualification of the forward pixel detector modules for the CMS phase 1 upgrade. |
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| David Velazquez |
Surface-Engineered Photocathode for Tunable Photoemissive Properties. |
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| 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. |
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| Joseph Warner |
New Beam Profile Monitoring System for the Proton Irradiation Facility at the CERN PS East Area. |
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| Ryan Edgar |
Low Voltage Power for the ATLAS New Small Wheel. |
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| Merlin Davies |
Micro-pattern detectors based on plasma panels: Past, present,and future developments. |
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| Jim Popp |
A Straw Tube Tracker for the Mu2e Experiment. |
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| Daniel Ambrose |
Straw Leak Testing for the Mu2e Tracker. |
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| Thomas Browder |
Status of Belle II and SuperKEKB. |
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| Thomas Browder |
The iTOP particle identification detector at Belle II. |
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| Leo Piilonen |
The upgraded KLM detector at Belle II. |
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| 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. |
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| Alexander Undrus |
Code Management in the ATLAS Collaboration. |
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| Torre Wenaus |
The HEP Software Foundation. |
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| Pushpalatha Bhat |
New Developments in Multivariate Machine Learning Methods and their Applications in HEP. |
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| Bo Jayatilaka |
Data Preservation at the Fermilab Tevatron. |
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| Soo Ryu |
FELIX: the detector readout upgrade of the ATLAS experiment. |
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| Jay Chapman |
Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Drift Tube (MDT) electronics for the Phase-II upgrade. |
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| Liang Guan |
Characterization of the Trigger Data Serializer ASIC Prototype for the ATLAS Forward Muon Detector Upgrade. |
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| Xueye Hu |
Design and Test of a Signal Packet Router Board Prototype for the ATLAS Forward Muon Detector Upgrade. |
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| Niklaus Lehmann |
Real Time Tracker Based Upon Local Hit Correlation Circuit for Silicon Strip Sensors. |
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| Tao Huang |
Impact of the GEM-based Upgrade of the CMS Forward Muon System on Trigger Performance. |
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| Brian Winer |
A Level-1 Track Trigger for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade. |
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| Eric Mannel |
The sPHENIX Calorimeter Readout Electronics. |
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| Michelle Dolinski |
Solid xenon bolometers. |
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| Denver Whittington |
Development of a Photon Detection System in Liquid Argon for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. |
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| Tomonari Miyashita |
The Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter. |
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| Yuri Oksuzian |
Studies of Beam Induced Radiation Backgrounds at the Mu2e Experiment and Implications for the Cosmic Ray Veto Detector Operations. |
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| Jingbo Wang |
Progress on the development of 6cm x 6cm micro channel plate photodetectors at Argonne National Laboratory. |
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| Ranjan Dharmapalan |
Cryogenic Application of MCP-PMTs. |
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| Michael Litos |
High-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam in a plasma wakefield accelerator. |
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| Pushpalatha Bhat |
Future HEP Accelerators: The US Perspective. |
[ hep-ph/1511.00390] |
[ PDF] |
| Alexander Thomas |
Particle Acceleration - Laser Wakefield Experiments at U. Michigan. |
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| Toshiba Tajima |
TeV on a chip: X-ray wakefield accelerator in nanomaterials. |
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| 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). |
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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. |
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| Rachel Wolf |
Supernovae & The Dark Energy Survey. |
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| Rutuparna Das |
The Dark Energy Survey - First Results in Galaxy Cluster Weak Lensing. |
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| Ting Li |
Discovery of Milky Way dwarf galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey and implications for cosmological models. |
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| Alex Geringer-Sameth |
A search for dark matter annihilation in the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Reticulum 2. |
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| Matthew Walker |
Dark matter inferred from stellar kinematics in the smallest galaxies. |
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| Alejandro Lopez |
Fermi/LAT observations of Dwarf Galaxies highly constrain a Dark Matter Interpretation of Excess Positrons seen in AMS-02, HEAT, and PAMELA. |
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| Stephen Portillo |
Constraining Unresolved Point Source Contributions to the GeV Excess with Probabilistic Catalogues. |
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| Kerstin Perez |
Antineutron Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment. |
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| Peter Karn |
Prospects for Measuring the Positron Excess with the Cherenkov Telescope Array. |
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| 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. |
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| Jeffrey Filippini |
SPIDER: Exploring the dawn of time from above the clouds. |
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| Chi-Ting Chang |
Position-dependent power spectrum: a new observable in the large-scale structure. |
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| Julia Vogel |
Axion and ALP Dark Matter Search with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO). |
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| 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. |
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| Samuel McDermott |
Probing Theories of Dark Matter with Direct Detection. |
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| Junhui Liao |
DAMIC results: Low Mass WIMP (~<5Gev) direct detection with scientific CCDs. |
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| Orin Harris |
World-leading Dark Matter Limits with PICO-2L and PICO-60. |
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| Kyungeun Lim |
Results of DM-Ice17 and Prospects of the DM-Ice Experiment. |
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| Kyungwon Kim |
Status of the KIMS-Nal experiment. |
[ hep-ph/1511.00023] |
[ PDF] |
| Patrick De Perio |
XENON: New Results and Prospects. |
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| 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. |
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| Matteo Fasiello |
Cosmology of Massive Gravity. |
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| Hayato Motohashi |
Optimized evaluation approach for inflationary power spectra. |
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| Evangelos Sfakianakis |
Gauge and fermion preheating and the end of axion inflation. |
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| Tansu Daylan |
Contribution of Dark Matter Annihilations to the Low-Redshift Metagalactic Ionization Rate. |
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| 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. |
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| Joshua Eby |
Axion Stars and Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter. |
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| Niayesh Afshordi |
Cosmological Non-Constant Problem: Cosmological bounds on TeV-scale physics and beyond. |
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| Kristen Anne Tollefson |
TeV Astrophysics with the HAWC Observatory. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Kataryzna Frankiewicz |
Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande. |
[ hep-ph/1510.07999] |
[ PDF] |
| Tom Caldwell |
Status of the MiniCLEAN Experiment. |
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| 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. |
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| Carter Hall |
Progress of the LZ Dark Matter Experiment. |
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| Andi Tan |
The PandaX Dark Matter Experiment. |
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| Matthew Szydagis |
Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Detection. |
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BSM Physics
Session Chair: Kevin Black, Nathaniel Craig, and Rouven Essig
| Allison Renae McCarn |
ATLAS results in the search for a charged Higgs boson. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Deepanjali Goswami |
Type-III Seesaw Sermonic Triplets at the International Linear Collider. |
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| 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. |
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| Jamie Antonelli |
Search for Displaced Supersymmetry in Events with an Electron and a Muon with Large Impact Parameters. |
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| Carlos Andres Florez Bustos |
Search for Chargino and Neutralino using Two Jets in Vector-Boson-Fusion Topology at CMS. |
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| Evelyn Thomson |
Search for Direct Scalar Top Production with R-Parity Violating Decay in pp Collisions at √=8 TeV with ATLAS. |
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| Sadia Khalil |
Searches for RPV SUSY via LQD Couplings at the CMS Experiment. |
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| 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. |
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| Yanlin Liu |
Prospects for a Search for Z′ to the Dimuon Final State in Run 2 of the LHC. |
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| Daniel Hayden |
A First Look at 13 TeV Data for the Exotic Dilepton Channel Search using the ATLAS Detector. |
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| David Norvil Brown |
Search a Dark Photon at BABAR. |
| Alexandre Beaulieu |
Search for a new π0-like particle at BABAR. |
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| Richard Kass |
Search for light CP-odd Higgs decay with a charm tag at BABAR. |
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| Richard Kass |
Search for long-lived particles at BABAR. |
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| James Mott |
Status of the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment. |
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| Joseph Grange |
Current status and Prospects of the FNAL muon g-2 Storage Ring. |
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| 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. |
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| Lashkar Kashif |
Dark Matter search in ATLAS in the H →γγ + MET channel: Run 1 Results and Run 2 Prospects. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Robert Stringer |
Searches for Vector-Like Quarks at CMS. |
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| K.C. Kong |
Model-Independent Production of a Top-Philip Resonance at the LHC. |
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| Nathan Bernard |
Searches for Micro Black Holes and String Balls with the ATLAS Detector During Run 1. |
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| 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. |
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| Christopher Willis |
Constructing an Inclusive Lepton Early Warning System. |
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| Jared Evans |
The Most Important Searches Missing from Run 1. |
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| David Kaplan |
A Cosmological Solution to the Electroweak Hierarchy Problem. |
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| 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. |
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| Satyanarayan Nandi |
Supersymmetry versus Extra Dimensions at the LHC. |
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| 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. |
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| Zhen Liu |
Long-Lived Superparticles with Hadronic Decays at the LHC. |
......... ............. |
| Zhen Liu |
Anatomizing BSM effects with differential Higgsstrahlung observables. |
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| 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. |
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| April Jakubowski and Sophia Nasr |
Enhancing Scientific Outreach with Social Media. |
......... ............. |
| Breese Quinn |
HEP User Community Government Outreach. |
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| Claire Adam Bourdarios |
ATLAS Virtual Visits. |
......... ............. |
| Marjorie Bardeen |
The International Particle Physics Outreach Group. |
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| Kenneth Cecire |
Discovery and the QuarkNet Data Portfolio. |
[ hep-ph/1510.08913] |
[ PDF] |
| Zach Constan and Renee Leone |
Reaching the Public with Science Festivals. |
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| Elyse Aurbach and Katherine Prater |
How to run a Science Cafe. |
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EWK and Higgs Sector
Session Chair: Sally Dawson and Shih-Chieh Hsu
| Tyler Corbett |
Effective Lagrangians for Higgs Physics. |
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| Fangzhou Zhang |
Measurement of the Higgs boson coupling strengths in the ATLAS experiment. |
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| Nan Lu |
Study of the Spin and Parity of the Higgs boson in diboson Decays with the ATLAS Detector. |
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| Meshy Roskes |
Tools for the Higgs boson CP studies: JHUGen and MELA. |
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| Biswaranjan Das |
125 GeV Higgs Signal at the LHC in the CP-violating MSSM. |
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| Yusheng Wu |
Recent Standard Model electroweak measurements at ATLAS. |
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| 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. |
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| Hongtao Yang |
Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments. |
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| Christopher Martin |
Lifetime and Quantum Numbers of the Higgs Boson using the Decay H→4l. |
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| Marc Sher |
The Lifetime of the Electroweak Vacuum. |
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| Cong Geng |
Physics prospects of the ZZ production measurements with the ATLAS experiment at LHC Run2. |
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| 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. |
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| Ahmed Ismail |
New Physics in Double Higgs Production. |
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| Kenneth Bloom |
Search for Associated Production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark. |
t[ hep-ph/1510.00894] |
[ PDF] |
| Peter Onyisi |
Searches for associated top quark and Higgs boson production at the ATLAS experiment. |
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| Baris Altunkaynak |
Flavor Violating Heavy Higgs Decays at the LHC. |
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| Robert Clarke |
Search for LFV decays with Hadronic Taus of the Higgs with 2012 Data (ATLAS). |
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| Nathan Kellams |
Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of the Higgs Boson. |
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| Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz |
Probing Flavon-Higgs mixing effects at Future Colliders. |
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| 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. |
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| Cyril Closset |
Guaged linear sigma models on the Omega-deformed two-sphere. |
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| 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. |
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| Zaq Carson |
Thermalization in the D1D5 Black Hole. |
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| Michael Spillane |
Thermal Corrections to Renyi Entropies on the n-Sphere. |
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| David Berenstein |
Spinning the fuzzy sphere. |
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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. |
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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:
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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