Description
Monday March 4th : Top & Dark Matter
Dr
Carlo Battilana
(CIEMAT)
04/03/2013 08:30
Experiment
Ordinary
An overview of recent results on top quark properties and interactions is given, obtained using data collected with the CMS and ATLAS experiments during the years 2011 and 2012 at 7 TeV and 8 TeV center-of-mass energies. Measurements of top quark pair production cross sections in several top quark final states are reported. Moreover, cross sections for the electroweak production of single top...
Jonathan Wilson
(University of Michigan)
04/03/2013 08:55
Experiment
Ordinary
Dr
Aran Garcia Bellido
(University of Rochester, USA)
04/03/2013 09:15
Experiment
Ordinary
Dr
Bruna Bertucci
(University of Perugia and INFN)
04/03/2013 09:35
Experiment
Ordinary
Dr
Gabrijela Zaharijas
(ICTP and INFN Trieste)
04/03/2013 10:15
Experiment
Ordinary
High energy gamma-rays are one of the most promising ways to constrain or reveal the nature of dark matter. After the four year of the Fermi LAT mission, indirect constraints on the dark matter cross section to various particle channels are moving well into the theoretically motivated region of the parameter space. I will present an overview of the recent Fermi LAT dark matter and relevant...
Prof.
Alejandro Ibarra
(Technische Universität München)
04/03/2013 10:35
Theory
Ordinary
Dr
Sara Rydbeck
(DESY)
04/03/2013 10:55
Theory
Ordinary
An MSSM scenario in which two higgsino-like neutralinos and a higgsino-like chargino are light (of the order 100 GeV) and the other superparticles heavy (TeV-scale masses) is an interesting theoretical possibility. Such a spectrum can be obtained in GUT models and is consistent with a Higgs mass of $\sim 126$ GeV and the absence of LHC signals for any other new physics so far.
Because the...
Dr
Nader Mirabolfathi
(University of California, Berkeley)
04/03/2013 17:00
Experiment
Ordinary
Dr
Michel Tytgat
(ULB - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
04/03/2013 17:25
Theory
Ordinary
Mlle
Laura Lopez Honorez
(Univ. Libre de Bruxelles Belgium)
04/03/2013 17:50
Theory
Ordinary
In my talk, I will consider dark matter candidates corresponding to new scalar degrees of freedom coupling to quarks in a way consistent with minimal flavor violation hypothesis. I will discuss the experimental constraints on the viable parameter space of these models and explain how their phenomenology can differ from the scalar dark matter models with a coupling to quarks through SMS portal only.
Dr
Paolo Beltrame
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
04/03/2013 18:30
Experiment
Ordinary
Astronomical and cosmological observations indicate that a large amount of the energy content of the Universe is made of dark matter. Particle candidates, under the generic name of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), arise naturally in many theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The XENON100 detector, the current phase of the XENON direct dark matter search program,...
Nathan Whitehorn
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
04/03/2013 18:50
Experiment
Ordinary
