2015 US LHC Users Association Meeting

11 Nov 2015, 08:00 → 13 Nov 2015, 19:20 US/Central

Building 327 (Fermilab)

Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Link for connecting to Vidyo, extension 10461145

Dear Colleagues,

 

Fermilab has kindly agreed to host our Annual US LHC Users Association Meeting, Wednesday - Friday November 11-13. There will be an arrival reception and Executive Committee meeting in the afternoon of November 11, and the main sessions will follow on Thursday and Friday November 12 to 13.

Please register as soon as possible at hep.caltech.edu/uslua where you will be able to pay securely with a credit card, or through a bank account. Please do not forget to make your payment to complete your registration.

Note that the fees, and any additional voluntary donation to US LUA you may care to make, are tax deductible.

• The meeting fee is $ 150. Students are eligible for a reduced fee of $ 75.
• The conference dinner is $ 40 per person, and is paid separately for those attending the dinner.

We are looking forward to an exciting meeting, with a great range of first results from Run2 as our search for beyond the Standard Model continues, as well as a wide range of Run1 results in high p_T physics, heavy flavor and heavy ion physics. With the greatly expanded reach at 13 TeV as well as the recent progress shown in Run1 analyses that are being finalized or maturing, we can anticipate new knowledge and perhaps some groundbreaking surprises in one or all of these physics sectors by November.

Our annual meeting will provide an excellent opportunity for the members of our community, especially the younger members, to come and present and discuss their work. We have reserved as much time as possible for 28 student talks during the meeting. This will be complemented by status and physics highlight talks with an emphasis on Run2 results from each of the LHC experiments, the LHC accelerator team, and LARP, as well as the view from Washington by representatives of the DOE and NSF.

We will review and discuss this year's trip to Washington together with Fermilab UEC and SLUO. The P5 Report setting directions and priorities for our field has been a significant milestone. We will review the impact and progress in implementing the plans outlined in the Report in an international context, the outcomes resulting from the report in government, and our community's ongoing activities targeting increased funding for our field in FY2017.

Following our tradition, there will be a lightning talk round, organized by members of the Executive Committee, as one of the highlights of the meeting. Each of the lightning talks, and the longer student and postdoc talks, will be judged by a panel. The winners of the competition will be invited to join us on the HEP trip to Congress, the agencies and executive offices in Washington DC in Spring 2016. The 2015 visit covering 360 Congressional offices and key committees was very interesting and highly interactive, and had a positive impact due to the evident enthusiasm and team spirit of many younger members of our field. We are looking forward to an equally successful visit to DC next Spring.

We will also hear a report on US-CERN International Relations in light of the new framework that includes US participation in the LHC program and CERN participation in the US neutrino program for many years ahead. We will also review the status, activities and plans of our US LHC Users Association, hosted in DC by URA. We will discuss the work of our various committees whose goal is to inform and assist our community in its daily work at CERN and life in the region, while helping to resolve issues and problems as they arise, in concert with the Advisory Committee of CERN Users.

This year we will also have a special Careers session where the younger members of our field can share the experiences and advice of members of our field who have gone out to work in various fields of science or engineering, at research labs, or large or small companies.

We look forward to seeing many of you at Fermilab in November. On behalf of US LUA, we'd like to thank Fermilab once again for hosting our annual meeting and for its strong support, together with Argonne, BNL, LBNL and SLAC, for our Association and its work. Furthermore, we'd like to particularly thank Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer, physicists and LPC Coordinators Boaz Klima (Fermilab) and Meenakshi Narain (Brown) and Fermilab staff member Terry Grozis.

 

Best regards

Harvey Newman

For the US LUA Executive Committee

 

Registration/payment page: hep.caltech.edu/uslua

Wednesday, 11 November

Executive Committee Meeting

Convener: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

slides

• USLUAAnnualMeeting2015_LightningRoundTalksFinal.pdf
• USLUAAnnualMeeting2015_LightningRoundTalksFinal.pptx
• USLUAAnnualMeetingAgendaFinal_hbnFermilab112015.pdf
• USLUAAnnualMeetingAgendaFinal_hbnFermilab112015.pptx
• USLUECMeet_hbnFermilab111115.pdf
• USLUECMeet_hbnFermilab111115.pptx

17:30 Welcome Reception

Thursday, 12 November

1 Welcome to Fermilab

Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

2 US LUA Chair's Report

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides

• USLUAChairReportFinal_hbnFermilab111215.pdf
• USLUAChairReportFinal_hbnFermilab111215.pptx
• USLUAChairReportFinalPres_hbnFermilab111215.pptx

3 Status and Outlook of the LHC

Speaker: Mike Lamont (CERN)

Slides US-LUA-LHC-status-outlook.pptx

4 LARP Report

Speaker: Dr Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)

Slides LARP_Report_USLUA_15.pptx

10:30 Coffee Break

5 ATLAS Status and Outlook

Speaker: Beate Heinemann (University of California Berkeley , LBNL)

Slides ATLASUSLUA_BeateHeinemann11122015.pdf

6 CMS Status and Outlook

Speaker: Dr Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Slides USLUA-StatusCMS-DHondt-Nov2015.pdf

7 US HEP Program and Outlook

Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

12:20 Lunch

13:20 Group Photo

8 LHCb Status and Run2 Results

Speaker: Mike Williams (MIT)

Slides USLHC_Williams.pdf

9 ALICE Status and Run2 Results

Speaker: Bellwied Rene (University of Houston)

Slides bellwied-uslua-2015-2.pdf

Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 1: 5 presentations

10 Fast tracking in the ATLAS Trigger: Why and How

Speaker: James Saxon (University of Chicago / ATLAS)

Slides ftk3.pdf

11 Higgs Decays to New Light Higgs Bosons in Boosted Tau Final States

Speaker: Francesca Ricci-Tam (University of California, Davis)

Slides USLUALightning_Ricci-Tam.pdf

12 Exciting opportunities in a boosted hadronic diboson excess

Speaker: Liu Zhen (Fermilab)

Slides 6_2TeV_LHCUserMeeting.pdf

13 Search for Higgs bosons decaying to $aa$ in the $\mu\mu\tau\tau$ final state in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment

Speaker: Benjamin Kaplan (New York University)

Slides Kaplan_USLUA_h2aa.pdf

14 Exotic Higgs Decays: LHC Reach and Theoretical Constraints

Speaker: Felix Kling (Arizona / Fermilab)

Slides LHCUA15.pdf

15:30 Afternoon Break

15 CMS Run2 Results

Speaker: Gunther Dissertori (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich)

Slides FNAL_GD_final.pdf

16 ATLAS Run2 Results

Speaker: Jessica Metcalfe

Slides Metcalfe_ATLAS_Run2_USLUA_Nov2015_v3.pdf

17 DOE Office of HEP Report

Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (DOE)

Slides DOEHEPProgram_SimonaRollliUSLUAMeet111215.pdf

18 DOE Office of NP Report

Speaker: Tim Hallman

Slides DOENPPerspective_TimHallmanUSLUAMeeting111215.pptx

19 P5 Plan: Progress and Visibility

Speaker: Prof. Steve Ritz (UCSC and SCIPP)

20 Careers Session (Panel, Q&A)

Panel discussion moderated by Toyoko Orimoto. Panelists: Ben Auerbach, Alexandra Carley Bennett, Thomas Gadfort, Jennifer Gimmell

Speakers: Alexandra Carley Bennett, Ben Auerbach, Jennifer Gimmell, Mr Thomas Gadfort (Fermilab), Toyoko Orimoto (Northeastern University)

Slides career_panel_2015.pdf

19:30 Conference Dinner; Cocktail at 7:20

Friday, 13 November

21 Introduction; 2015 Trip to Washington

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUADCTripReportFinal_hbn111315.pptx

22 Supporting Young Physicists

Speaker: Prof. Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)

Slides USLHC15UMtalk.pdf

Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 2: 6 presentations

23 Polyurethane spray coating of aluminum wire bons to prevent corrosion and suppress resonant oscillations

Speaker: Matthew Kurth (University of Texas at Dallas)

Slides wirebonds.pptx

24 Measuring R(D*) = B(B -> D* tau nu)/B(B -> D* mu nu) at LHCb

Speaker: Jack Wimberley (University of Maryland)

Slides US_LUA_R(D-).pdf

25 Pentaquarks at LHCb

Speaker: Nathan Jurik (Syracuse University)

Slides Jurik_USLUA.pdf

26 Top quark-antiquark cross section from highly Lorentz-boosted jets

Speaker: Maral Alyari (State University of New York)

Slides USLUA2015_BoostedTopXSection.pdf

27 Search for evidence of new physics in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Speaker: Brian Amadio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides 11_11_USLUA_meeting_v5.pdf

28 Associative Memory Based L1 Tracking Trigger Demonstration for CMS Phase II Upgrade

Speaker: Zhen Hu (Fermilab)

Slides 20151113_USLUA_ZhenHu2.pptx

10:50 Coffee Break

29 US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program

Speaker: Dr Ruediger Voss (CERN)

Slides cern_us_2015.pptx

30 Advisory Committee of CERN Users

Speaker: Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)

Slides torrence_USLUA.pdf

Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 3: 5 presentations

31 ATLAS Trigger Operation in Run 2

Speaker: Catrin Bernius (New York University)

Slides USLUA_Nov15_CBernius.pdf

32 Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Speaker: Brad Axen (University of California, Berkeley)

Slides axen_inelastic_151113.pdf

33 Measurement of the top-Higgs coupling at CMS as a possible window to new physics

Speaker: Evan Wolfe (University of Virginia)

Slides USLUA_EvanWolfe_Final.pdf

34 Combined measurement of the Higgs Boson mass in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS experiments

Speaker: Hongtao Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides lhc_mass_combination_hongtao.pdf

35 Strangeness production in small collision systems at the LHC

Speaker: Livio Bianchi (University of Houston)

Slides LivioBianchi_US_LUA.pdf

12:55 Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.

36 US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)

Slides USLUAElectionRulesTF_JharedAdelman111315.pdf uslua_socialmedia.pdf

Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 4: 6 presentations

37 Search for top-antitop quark resonances

Speaker: Mr Irving Daniel SANDOVAL (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides ttbarResonances_USLUA_1115_v1.pdf

38 Differential two-particle correlations in ALICE

Speaker: Prabhat Pujahari (Wayne State University)

Slides Pujahari-USLUA.pdf

39 Advanced Reconstruction Algorithms for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter

Speaker: Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)

Slides hgcal_reco_uslua.pdf

40 Measurements of open heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC

Speaker: Deepa Thomas (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides USLUA_meet_Deepa-11-12.pdf

41 Searching for all-hadronic SUSY with Jet Substructure

Speaker: Maximilian Swiatlowski (University of Chicago)

Slides swiatlow.pdf

42 Search for neutral MSSM heavy scalar Higgs Boson

Speaker: Laura Margaret Dodd (University Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides lightningTalk_ldodd_Nov13.pdf

15:35 Afternoon Break

Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 5: 6 presentations

43 Search for Supersymmetry in Same-Sign Dilepton Final states

Speaker: Matthew Carver (University of Florida)

Slides Searching_For_SUSY_With_SS_Dileptons.pdf

44 Search for Dark Matter with Higgs (to bbar) at ATLAS: Run 1 and beyond

Speaker: Yangyang Cheng (University of Chicago)

Slides uslua2015_YangyangCHENG.pdf

45 MadDM v2.0: Computation of Dark Matter Observables using Madgraph 5

Speaker: Gopolang Mohlanbeng (Fermilab)

Slides MadDM_LHCUA.pdf

46 Search for Supersymmetry in Higgs to diphoton final states with the razor variables at 8 TeV

Speaker: Cristian Pena (Caltech)

Slides USLUA_Talk_CPena_V5.pdf

47 Measurement of the production of pairs of prompt J/psi mesons at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Benjamin Weinert (Indiana University)

Slides BenWeinert_USLUA2015.pdf

48 Heavy Ion Jet Results from CMS

Speaker: Hallie Trauger (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides USLUA_FINAL.pdf

49 Lightning Round Winners Announcement

50 Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA

18:45 Adjourn