US LHC Users Organization Annual Meeting 2012

Oct 18, 2012, 8:00 AM → Oct 20, 2012, 6:00 PM US/Central

Wh1W and Ramsey Auditorium (Fermilab)

Fifth Annual Meeting of the US LHC Users Organization

Slides USLUECMeeting_Fermilab101812.pptx

Thursday, October 18

3:00 PM → 5:00 PM Media Training (TBC)

5:00 PM → 6:15 PM Executive Committee Meeting

slides USLUECMeeting_Fermilab101812.pptx

5:00 PM US LUEC Discussion

Speaker: Prof. Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUECMeeting_Fermilab101812.pptx

6:15 PM → 7:30 PM Welcome Reception

Friday, October 19

9:00 AM → 9:25 AM Chair's Report

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUOChairAnnualReport_hbn101912Final.pptx

9:25 AM → 9:55 AM Status and Outlook of the LHC

Speaker: Luca Bottura (CERN)

Slides LHC_present_and_future_copy.pptx

9:55 AM → 10:20 AM LARP

Speaker: Dr Eric Prebys (Fermilab)

Slides larp_usluo_20121019.pptx

10:20 AM → 10:30 AM Welcome

Speaker: Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 11:20 AM CMS Overview/Higgs

Speaker: Prof. Joao Varela (CMS)

Slides CMSoverview-USLUO-Oct12-F.pdf

11:20 AM → 11:50 AM ATLAS Overview/Higgs

Speaker: Andrew Lankford (UC Irvine)

Slides 1012_USLUO_AJL_not_animated.pptx

11:50 AM → 12:20 PM LHCb Highlights

Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (INFN, Frascati)

Slides FNAL_20121019.pdf

12:20 PM → 1:20 PM Lunch

1:20 PM → 1:50 PM ALICE Highlights

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Voloshin (Wayne State University)

Slides voloshin_Ali_fnal_v2.key voloshin_Ali_fnal_v2.pdf

1:55 PM → 2:15 PM Top Quark and Electroweak Physics Results from CMS

Speaker: Dr Sadia Khalil (Kansas State)

Slides USLUO_skhalil_Oct19.pdf

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM Recent Results on Top at ATLAS

Speaker: Dr M. Saleem (Oklahoma)

Slides Saleem_USLUO-Oct18-2012.pdf

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Results from Searches for Supersymmetry at CMS

Speaker: Dr Kenichi Hatakeyama (Baylor)

Slides SUSY_CMS_USLUO_2012_post.pdf SUSY_CMS_USLUO_2012_post.pptx

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Semileptonic b decays at LHCb

Speaker: Dr Alessandra Borgia (Syracuse)

Slides USLUO2012_FNAL_Borgia.pdf

3:50 PM → 4:10 PM CPM 2012 and Snowmass 2013

Speaker: Prof. Raymond Brock (Michigan State)

Slides HEF_USLUO_1_notransitions.key.pdf HEF_USLUO_1_withtrans.pdf

4:10 PM → 4:50 PM Results from the TeVatron

Speaker: Dr Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab)

Slides Denisov_US_LHC.pdf

4:50 PM → 5:30 PM EWSB, the Higgs and New Physics

Speaker: Dr Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

Slides Fermilab-US-LUO-2012.pdf

6:15 PM → 8:00 PM Conference Dinner (Chez Leon)

Dinner Tickets Purchased at time of Registration

Saturday, October 20

8:30 AM → 8:40 AM Introduction (chair)

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

8:40 AM → 9:10 AM DOE Office of HEP Report

Speaker: Dr Simona Rolli (DOE)

Slides LHC-UsersMeeting2012-SR.pdf

9:10 AM → 9:40 AM NSF EPP Report

Speakers: Randall Ruchti (NSF), ruchti

Slides USLUO_NSF_Presentation_10.20.12_v8.pptx

9:40 AM → 10:10 AM DOE Office of NP Report

Speaker: James Sowinski (DOE Office of Nuclear Physics)

Slides 2012_US_LHC_Users'_Meeting_Final.pptx

10:10 AM → 10:30 AM DC Trip Report

Speaker: Prof. Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUOTriptoDC_USLUOFermilabMeet102012.pptx

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM CERN Users Advisory Committee Report

Speaker: Darin Acosta (University of Florida)

Slides ACCU-USLUO-Oct12.pptx

11:20 AM → 11:30 AM Election Committee Report

Speakers: Daniela Bortoletto (Purdue University), Sarah Demers (Yale University)

Slides USLUOElectionDemers.pptx

11:30 AM → 11:50 AM Higgs to gamma gamma at ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Haichen Wang (Wisconsin)

Slides USLUOMEETING_HAICHENWANG_Higgs_to_gamma_gamma.pdf

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Results from Exotica Searches at CMS

Speaker: Dr James Hirschauer (Fermilab)

Slides hirschauer_usluo2012.pdf

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Higgs to b bbar at ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Remi Zaidan (Iowa)

Slides Zaidan_USLUO_2012.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 1:55 PM US - CERN Relations

Speaker: Ruediger Voss

Slides cern_us_2012.pdf cern_us_2012.pptx

1:55 PM → 4:35 PM Young Physicist Lightning Round

A series of short presentations by young LHC physicists

1:55 PM Search for Higgs Decays to b-jet Pairs in CMS

Speaker: Matt Fisher (University of Florida)

Slides MFisherLightningRound.pdf

2:05 PM ATLAS Search for Higgs Boson in H->WW->lvlv

Speaker: Philip Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides PhilipChang20121020_USLHC_HWWlvlvMVA_Lite_v2.pdf

2:15 PM Search for Higgs Decays to Tau Pairs in CMS

Speaker: Matthew Chan (MIT)

Slides HiggsToTauTau.pdf

2:25 PM ATLAS searches for new quarks after the SM Higgs-like particle

Speaker: Mark Cooke (LBL)

Slides mcooke_uslhc2.pdf

2:35 PM The Bs semileptonic asymmetry measurement from LHCb

Speaker: Allesandra Borgia (Syracuse University)

Slides USLUO2012_FNAL_Lightning_Borgia.pdf

2:45 PM Top Quark Cross Section Measurements at ATLAS

Speaker: Jake Searcy (University of Oregon)

Slides TopXsec.pdf

2:55 PM Monojet searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Bjorn Penning (University of Chicago)

Slides lightning_v2.pdf

3:05 PM Study of the Dijet Mass spectrum and Search for an Anomalous Resonance Near 150 GeV in CMS

Speaker: Ilya Osipenkov

Slides MjjAnomaly_12_10_20.pdf

3:15 PM Search for a W' or Techni-rho Decaying into WZ in CMS

Speaker: Cory Fantasia (Boston University)

Slides FNAL-2012-10-20.pdf

3:25 PM Search for W' to tb with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Jeremy Love (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides JLove_WPtbSearch_USLUO.pdf

3:35 PM Z-prime search at ATLAS

Speaker: James Coggeshall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides USLUO2012-Coggeshall-Final-121020.pdf

3:45 PM Higgs to Gamma Gamma in CMS

Speaker: Alex Mott (CalTech)

Slides 20121018_AM_USLUO_Hgg.pdf

3:55 PM Search for supersymmetry using events with three leptons, multiple jets, and missing transverse momentum at ATLAS

Speaker: Sasha Paramonov

Slides USLUO_2012_SUSY.pdf

4:05 PM CMS Evidence for a New particle of Mass 125 GeV that Decays to Four Leptons

Speaker: Matt Snowball (University of Florida)

Slides HZZ4L_FNAL_10.20.2012_Snowball.ppt HZZ4L_FNAL_10.20.2012_Snowball.pptx

4:15 PM Search for resonant tt production in lepton+jets events in CMS

Speaker: Samvel Khalatyan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides samvelUS.LHC.Meeting.pdf

4:35 PM → 5:00 PM AOB