2015 US LHC Users Association Meeting

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Building 327 (Fermilab)

Building 327

Fermilab

Pine St and Kirk Rd Batavia, Illinois
Harvey Newman (Caltech)
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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 pT 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
    • 1
      Welcome to Fermilab Building 327

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      Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
    • 2
      US LUA Chair's Report Building 327

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      Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)
    • 3
      Status and Outlook of the LHC Building 327

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      Speaker: Mike Lamont (CERN)
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    • 4
      LARP Report Building 327

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      Speaker: Dr Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)
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    • 10:30
      Coffee Break Building 327

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    • 5
      ATLAS Status and Outlook Building 327

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      Speaker: Beate Heinemann (University of California Berkeley , LBNL)
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    • 6
      CMS Status and Outlook Building 327

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      Speaker: Dr Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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    • 7
      US HEP Program and Outlook Building 327

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      Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)
    • 12:20
      Lunch Building 327

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    • 13:20
      Group Photo Building 327

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    • 8
      LHCb Status and Run2 Results Building 327

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      Speaker: Mike Williams (MIT)
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    • 9
      ALICE Status and Run2 Results Building 327

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      Speaker: Bellwied Rene (University of Houston)
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    • Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 1: 5 presentations Building 327

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      • 10
        Fast tracking in the ATLAS Trigger: Why and How
        Speaker: James Saxon (University of Chicago / ATLAS)
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      • 11
        Higgs Decays to New Light Higgs Bosons in Boosted Tau Final States
        Speaker: Francesca Ricci-Tam (University of California, Davis)
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      • 12
        Exciting opportunities in a boosted hadronic diboson excess
        Speaker: Liu Zhen (Fermilab)
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      • 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)
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      • 14
        Exotic Higgs Decays: LHC Reach and Theoretical Constraints
        Speaker: Felix Kling (Arizona / Fermilab)
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    • 15:30
      Afternoon Break Building 327

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    • 15
      CMS Run2 Results Building 327

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      Speaker: Gunther Dissertori (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich)
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    • 16
      ATLAS Run2 Results Building 327

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      Speaker: Jessica Metcalfe
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    • 17
      DOE Office of HEP Report Building 327

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      Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (DOE)
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      DOE Office of NP Report Building 327

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      Speaker: Tim Hallman
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    • 19
      P5 Plan: Progress and Visibility Building 327

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      Speaker: Prof. Steve Ritz (UCSC and SCIPP)
    • 20
      Careers Session (Panel, Q&A) Building 327

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      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)
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    • 19:30
      Conference Dinner; Cocktail at 7:20 Wilson Hall 2nd Floor Crossover Area

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    • 21
      Introduction; 2015 Trip to Washington Building 327

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      Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)
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    • 22
      Supporting Young Physicists Building 327

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      Speaker: Prof. Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)
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    • Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 2: 6 presentations Building 327

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      • 23
        Polyurethane spray coating of aluminum wire bons to prevent corrosion and suppress resonant oscillations
        Speaker: Matthew Kurth (University of Texas at Dallas)
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      • 24
        Measuring R(D*) = B(B -> D* tau nu)/B(B -> D* mu nu) at LHCb
        Speaker: Jack Wimberley (University of Maryland)
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      • 25
        Pentaquarks at LHCb
        Speaker: Nathan Jurik (Syracuse University)
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      • 26
        Top quark-antiquark cross section from highly Lorentz-boosted jets
        Speaker: Maral Alyari (State University of New York)
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      • 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)
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      • 28
        Associative Memory Based L1 Tracking Trigger Demonstration for CMS Phase II Upgrade
        Speaker: Zhen Hu (Fermilab)
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    • 10:50
      Coffee Break Building 327

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      US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program Building 327

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      Speaker: Dr Ruediger Voss (CERN)
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    • 30
      Advisory Committee of CERN Users Building 327

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      Speaker: Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)
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    • Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 3: 5 presentations Building 327

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      • 31
        ATLAS Trigger Operation in Run 2
        Speaker: Catrin Bernius (New York University)
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      • 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)
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      • 33
        Measurement of the top-Higgs coupling at CMS as a possible window to new physics
        Speaker: Evan Wolfe (University of Virginia)
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      • 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)
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      • 35
        Strangeness production in small collision systems at the LHC
        Speaker: Livio Bianchi (University of Houston)
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    • 12:55
      Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps. Building 327

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      US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs) Building 327

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    • Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 4: 6 presentations Building 327

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      • 37
        Search for top-antitop quark resonances
        Speaker: Mr Irving Daniel SANDOVAL (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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      • 38
        Differential two-particle correlations in ALICE
        Speaker: Prabhat Pujahari (Wayne State University)
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      • 39
        Advanced Reconstruction Algorithms for the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter
        Speaker: Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)
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      • 40
        Measurements of open heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
        Speaker: Deepa Thomas (University of Texas at Austin)
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      • 41
        Searching for all-hadronic SUSY with Jet Substructure
        Speaker: Maximilian Swiatlowski (University of Chicago)
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      • 42
        Search for neutral MSSM heavy scalar Higgs Boson
        Speaker: Laura Margaret Dodd (University Wisconsin-Madison)
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    • 15:35
      Afternoon Break Building 327

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    • Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 5: 6 presentations Building 327

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      • 43
        Search for Supersymmetry in Same-Sign Dilepton Final states
        Speaker: Matthew Carver (University of Florida)
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      • 44
        Search for Dark Matter with Higgs (to bbar) at ATLAS: Run 1 and beyond
        Speaker: Yangyang Cheng (University of Chicago)
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      • 45
        MadDM v2.0: Computation of Dark Matter Observables using Madgraph 5
        Speaker: Gopolang Mohlanbeng (Fermilab)
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      • 46
        Search for Supersymmetry in Higgs to diphoton final states with the razor variables at 8 TeV
        Speaker: Cristian Pena (Caltech)
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      • 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)
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      • 48
        Heavy Ion Jet Results from CMS
        Speaker: Hallie Trauger (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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    • 49
      Lightning Round Winners Announcement Building 327

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    • 50
      Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA Building 327

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    • 18:45
      Adjourn Building 327

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