2013 Annual US LUO Meeting

6 Nov 2013, 08:00 → 8 Nov 2013, 18:00 US/Central

Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Due to the US Government Shutdown, this meeting has been moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison.   The new website is

http://agenda.hep.wisc.edu//conferenceDisplay.py?confId=757

Wednesday, 6 November

15:00 → 17:00 Media Training

17:00 → 18:00 Executive Committee Meeting

18:00 → 19:30 Welcome Reception

Thursday, 7 November

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome to Argonne

Speaker: Prof. Hendrik Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:10 → 09:40 US LUO Chair's Report

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

09:40 → 10:10 Status and Outlook of the LHC

Speaker: Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

10:10 → 10:35 LARP

Speaker: Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 ATLAS Highlights and Outlook

Speaker: Beate Heinemann

11:30 → 12:00 CMS Highlights and Outlook

Speaker: Tiziano Camporesi (CERN)

12:00 → 12:30 LHCb Highlights and Upgrades

Speaker: Sheldon Stone (Syracuse)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 ALICE Highlights and Upgrades

Speaker: Soren Sorensen

14:00 → 14:25 CMS Upgrade Program

Speaker: Spalding Jeff (Fermilab)

14:25 → 14:50 ATLAS Upgrade Program

Speaker: Sarah Demers (Yale)

14:50 → 15:50 Young Physicists Lightning Round

14:50 Measurement of the Z(nunu)Gamma cross section and searching for anomalous triple gauge coupling

Speaker: Ben Auerbach (Argonne)

15:00 Rare Higgs Boson Decay to Muon Pairs

Speaker: Justin Hugon (Florida)

15:10 Search for SUSY with Razor kinematic variable in 0-lepton channel

Speaker: Anton Kravchenko (U. South Carolina)

15:20 LHCb Charm Mixing and CPV Measurements

Speaker: Adam Davis (Cincinnati)

15:30 Search for W' decaying to top and bottom quarks in the hadronic final state

Speaker: Ho Ling Li (University of Chicago)

15:40 Search for W' bosons that decay to top+bottom

Speaker: David Sperka (Boston)

15:50 → 16:15 Afternoon Break

16:15 → 16:35 Supporting Young Physicists

Speaker: Usha Mallik (Iowa)

16:35 → 17:00 US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program

Speaker: Ruediger Voss (CERN)

17:00 → 17:25 DOE Office of HEP Report

Speaker: Abid Patwa (DOE OHEP)

17:25 → 17:50 NSF EPP Office Report

Speaker: Randy Ruchti (NSF/EPP)

17:50 → 18:15 DOE Office of Nuclear Physics Report

Speaker: Jim Sowinski (DOE/NP)

19:00 → 20:30 Conference Dinner

Cocktails at 18:15, Dinner at 19:00

Friday, 8 November

08:30 → 09:00 Introduction; 2013 Trip to Washington

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

09:00 → 09:20 Advisory Committee of CERN Users

Speaker: Darin Acosta (Florida)

09:20 → 10:20 Young Physicists Lightning Round

09:20 IBL upgrade or dibosons

Speaker: Brian Lidquist (SUNY-Stonybrook)

09:30 Search for heavy neutral higgs boson of MSSM

Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo (Wisconsin)

09:40 Measuring the Higgs boson property with the Higgs to 4-lepton final state

Speaker: Eleni Mountricha (BNL)

09:50 Exciting results in Bc decays

Speaker: Nathan Jurik (Syracuse)

10:00 Search for Higgs to invisible states

Speaker: Hideki Okawa (BNL)

10:20 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:45 Young Physicists Lightning Round

10:45 H to WW in lnulnu, associated production with H to WW or ttH with H to WW

Speaker: Chris Lester (U. Penn)

10:55 Measurement of spin correlations and top polarization in ttbar production

Speaker: Yanjun Tu (UCSD)

11:05 Search for resonances in the semi-hadronic diboson channel

Speaker: Sam Meehan (Chicago)

11:15 The CP violating semileptonic asymmetry in Bs decays

Speaker: Christos Hadjivasiloiu (Syracuse)

11:25 A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Harisankar Namasivayam (UT-Dallas)

11:45 → 12:35 The Physics Horizon

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern)

12:35 → 13:35 Lunch

13:35 → 14:35 Young Physicists Lightning Round

13:35 Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark by CMS

Speaker: Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Brown)

13:45 Search for pair production of new physics resonances decaying to a top quark and jet in the dilepton decay channel

14:35 → 15:05 Snowmass 2013

Speaker: Chip Brock (Michigan State)

15:05 → 15:35 Young Physicists’ View of Snowmass

Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)

15:35 → 16:00 Where we go from here: the P5 Process

Speaker: Steve Ritz (UC Santa Cruz)

16:00 → 16:15 Afternoon Break

16:15 → 16:25 Lightning Round Winners Announcement

Speaker: Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)

16:25 → 16:55 AOB and Discussion