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Monday March 4th : Top & Dark Matter
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Dr Carlo Battilana (CIEMAT)3/4/13, 8:30 AMExperimentOrdinaryAn 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...Go to contribution page
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Jonathan Wilson (University of Michigan)3/4/13, 8:55 AMExperimentOrdinary
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Dr Aran Garcia Bellido (University of Rochester, USA)3/4/13, 9:15 AMExperimentOrdinary
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Dr Bruna Bertucci (University of Perugia and INFN)3/4/13, 9:35 AMExperimentOrdinary
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Dr Gabrijela Zaharijas (ICTP and INFN Trieste)3/4/13, 10:15 AMExperimentOrdinaryHigh 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...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alejandro Ibarra (Technische Universität München)3/4/13, 10:35 AMTheoryOrdinary
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Dr Sara Rydbeck (DESY)3/4/13, 10:55 AMTheoryOrdinaryAn 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...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nader Mirabolfathi (University of California, Berkeley)3/4/13, 5:00 PMExperimentOrdinary
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Dr Michel Tytgat (ULB - Université Libre de Bruxelles)3/4/13, 5:25 PMTheoryOrdinary
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Ms Laura Lopez Honorez (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles Belgium)3/4/13, 5:50 PMTheoryOrdinaryIn 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.Go to contribution page
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Dr Paolo Beltrame (Weizmann Institute of Science)3/4/13, 6:30 PMExperimentOrdinaryAstronomical 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,...Go to contribution page
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Nathan Whitehorn (University of Wisconsin - Madison)3/4/13, 6:50 PMExperimentOrdinary