Dr
Jan Stark
(LPSC Grenoble, CNRS/IN2P3)
08/03/2009 08:30
Dr
Fabrizio Petrucci
(Universita' Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Fisica)
08/03/2009 09:15
The study of Standard Model (SM) physics is very important at the LHC.
Before any discovery can be claimed a detailed understanding
of the detectors should be reached and benchmark SM processes should be
measured. A precise measurement of the various parameters is crucial as a
consistecy check of the SM. Moreover, SM processes can be directly sensitive
to new physics, they will allow to...
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Thilo Pauly Pauly
(CERN)
08/03/2009 09:50
The ATLAS detector is one of the experiments at the LHC that will detect high-energy proton collisions at 14 TeV. The commissioning of the detector has started already in 2005 in parallel to the detector installation and is still in progress. The data taken corresponds to noise runs, cosmic muon events and beam background events from single beam in September 2008. We present the current status...
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Douglas Benjamin
(Duke University,Durham - NC USA)
08/03/2009 17:10
Dr
Nicola De Filippis
(LLR - Ecole Polytechnique)
08/03/2009 17:50
Perspective searches for Higgs bosons and new particles expected by supersymmetric and extra dimension models are presented in the context of current strategies of the CMS and ATLAS experiments. An excess of events will be looked for in the first data taking period at LHC as an indication of the existence of new particles. Focus is on the potential both of the discovery and of the exclusion...
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Martin Goebel
(DESY / University of Hamburg)
08/03/2009 18:10
The global fit of the Standard Model to electroweak precision data, routinely performed by the LEP electroweak working group and others, demonstrated impressively the predictive power following from electroweak unification. We have revisited this fit in view of (i) the new generic fitting package Gfitter, developed to allow flexible model testing in high-energy physics, and (ii) a more...
Dr
Shin-Shan Yu
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
08/03/2009 19:25
Photons and jets are the most copiously produced particles at the Fermilab Tevatron. By analyzing events with photons and jets, we may search for hints of physics beyond the standard model of elementary paticles. Models which predict photon and jet signatures include SUSY, extra dimension, leptoquarks, etc. Both model-driven and signature-based searches have been performed. I will present the...
Dr
Christoph Stephan
(Institut für Mathematik, Universität Potsdam)
08/03/2009 19:45
Alain Connes' noncommutative geometry (NCG) allows to unify the classical Yang-Mills-Higgs theory and General relativity in a single geometrical framework.
This unification implies restrictions for the couplings of the Standard Model (SM)
at a given cut-off energy which reduce the degrees of freedom compared to the classical SM.
I will give an introduction to the basic ideas of NCG and...
