LHC Search Strategies

Event Type: Conference
Scientific Area(s):
Particle Physics
End date:
August 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM

An informal workshop on LHC Search Strategy, organized jointly by Perimeter Institute and CMS, will be held from August 2-4, 2012 at Perimeter Institute. This time was chosen by Joe Incandela and Greg Landsberg to confront post-ICHEP results with the first 5-8 fb-1 of 8 TeV data and to discuss the search program for 2012/13.

This workshop has two very focused goals:

  1. To gather critical feedback on the search program and post-ICHEP results that can potentially impact fall 2012 running and analyses going into 2013.
  2. To help connect people engaged in physics efforts inside CMS with expert theorists in the broader community.

The program will include a review of public LHC results and invited presentations by theorists, with ample time dedicated to discussion of the search program, ideas for possible extensions thereof, and the associated challenges, including:

  • Lessons from the Higgs searches, and what continuing studies are most promising to learn more about electroweak symmetry breaking
  • Implications of existing BSM (SUSY and Exotica) searches for TeV-scale physics, and for particular theoretical models
  • Additional possible search strategies that complement the present BSM program; potential sensitivity and challenges
  • Standard Model measurements that are key to Higgs or BSM program, or that determine the feasibility of a particular direction of searches
  • What search opportunities depend sensitively on operation plans over the next year?
  • In light of findings so far, what opportunities should be considered in developing longer-term detector upgrade plans?

 

Participants:

THEORISTS: (PARTIAL LIST)
Haipang An, Perimeter Institute
Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute, McMaster University
Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Lab
Stefano Forte, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Benjamin Gripaios, University of Cambridge
Eder Izaguirre, Stanford University
Andrey Katz, Harvard University
David Kosower, CEA
Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University
Michelangelo Mangano, CERN
John Moffat, Perimeter Institute
Kemal Ozeren, University of California, Los Angeles
Josef Pradler, Perimeter Institute
Matthew Reece, Harvard University
Philip Schuster, Perimeter Institute
Matthew Strassler, Rutgers University
Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland
Carlos Tamarit, Perimeter Institute
Scott Thomas, Rutgers University
Natalia Toro, Perimeter Institute
Jacob Wacker, SLAC
Andreas Weiler, DESY
Itay Yavin, Perimeter Institute, McMaster University

EXPERIMENTALISTS: (PARTIAL LIST)
Jeffrey Berryhill, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Freya Blekman, CERN
Claudio Campagnari, University of California, Santa Barbara
John Paul Chou, Rutgers University
David d'Enterria, CERN
Maxime Gouzevitch, Universit de Lyon
Eva Halkiadakis, Rutgers University
Christophe Hill, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Joe Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Markus Klute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Greg Landsberg, Brown University
Luca Malgeri, CERN
Martijn Mulders, CERN
Jim Olsen, Princeton University
Shahram Rahatlou, University of Rome, INFN
Salvatore Rappoccio, SUNY
Albert de Roeck, CERN
David Stuart, University of California, Santa Barbara
Joao Varela, CERN
Steve Worm, CERN

Organizers:

Michelangelo Mangano, CERN
Michael Peskin, SLAC