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

Media Training

Executive Committee Meeting

18:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday, 7 November

1 Welcome to Argonne

Speaker: Prof. Hendrik Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

2 US LUO Chair's Report

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

3 Status and Outlook of the LHC

Speaker: Massimo Giovannozzi (CERN)

4 LARP

Speaker: Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)

10:35 Coffee Break

5 ATLAS Highlights and Outlook

Speaker: Beate Heinemann

6 CMS Highlights and Outlook

Speaker: Tiziano Camporesi (CERN)

7 LHCb Highlights and Upgrades

Speaker: Sheldon Stone (Syracuse)

12:30 Lunch

8 ALICE Highlights and Upgrades

Speaker: Soren Sorensen

9 CMS Upgrade Program

Speaker: Spalding Jeff (Fermilab)

10 ATLAS Upgrade Program

Speaker: Sarah Demers (Yale)

Young Physicists Lightning Round

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

Speaker: Ben Auerbach (Argonne)

12 Rare Higgs Boson Decay to Muon Pairs

Speaker: Justin Hugon (Florida)

13 Search for SUSY with Razor kinematic variable in 0-lepton channel

Speaker: Anton Kravchenko (U. South Carolina)

14 LHCb Charm Mixing and CPV Measurements

Speaker: Adam Davis (Cincinnati)

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

Speaker: Ho Ling Li (University of Chicago)

16 Search for W' bosons that decay to top+bottom

Speaker: David Sperka (Boston)

15:50 Afternoon Break

17 Supporting Young Physicists

Speaker: Usha Mallik (Iowa)

18 US-CERN Relations and the LHC Program

Speaker: Ruediger Voss (CERN)

19 DOE Office of HEP Report

Speaker: Abid Patwa (DOE OHEP)

20 NSF EPP Office Report

Speaker: Randy Ruchti (NSF/EPP)

21 DOE Office of Nuclear Physics Report

Speaker: Jim Sowinski (DOE/NP)

19:00 Conference Dinner

Cocktails at 18:15, Dinner at 19:00

Friday, 8 November

22 Introduction; 2013 Trip to Washington

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

23 Advisory Committee of CERN Users

Speaker: Darin Acosta (Florida)

Young Physicists Lightning Round

24 IBL upgrade or dibosons

Speaker: Brian Lidquist (SUNY-Stonybrook)

25 Search for heavy neutral higgs boson of MSSM

Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo (Wisconsin)

26 Measuring the Higgs boson property with the Higgs to 4-lepton final state

Speaker: Eleni Mountricha (BNL)

27 Exciting results in Bc decays

Speaker: Nathan Jurik (Syracuse)

28 Search for Higgs to invisible states

Speaker: Hideki Okawa (BNL)

10:20 Coffee Break

Young Physicists Lightning Round

29 H to WW in lnulnu, associated production with H to WW or ttH with H to WW

Speaker: Chris Lester (U. Penn)

30 Measurement of spin correlations and top polarization in ttbar production

Speaker: Yanjun Tu (UCSD)

31 Search for resonances in the semi-hadronic diboson channel

Speaker: Sam Meehan (Chicago)

32 The CP violating semileptonic asymmetry in Bs decays

Speaker: Christos Hadjivasiloiu (Syracuse)

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

Speaker: Harisankar Namasivayam (UT-Dallas)

34 The Physics Horizon

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern)

12:35 Lunch

Young Physicists Lightning Round

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

Speaker: Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Brown)

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

37 Snowmass 2013

Speaker: Chip Brock (Michigan State)

38 Young Physicists’ View of Snowmass

Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse)

39 Where we go from here: the P5 Process

Speaker: Steve Ritz (UC Santa Cruz)

16:00 Afternoon Break

40 Lightning Round Winners Announcement

Speaker: Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)

41 AOB and Discussion