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Recent Results from the CRESST dark matter search
Franz Proebst - Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)
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Spin, hadronization, and lifetimes
Yuval Grossman - Cornell University
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Jet substructure at the LHC
Michael Spannowsky - Durham University
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Hawking radiation in AdS_5
Derek Teaney - Stony Brook University
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Long-Lived Neutral Particles at the LHC
Matthew Reece - Harvard University
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The flavor puzzle : Why neutrinos are different ?
Fu-Sin Ling - Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Topological defects and vacuum decay
Urjit Yajnik - Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
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Cascade supersymmetry breaking and low scale gauge mediation
Masahiro Ibe - University of California, Irvine
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An Unparticle Solution to the Hierarchy Problem
Nick Setzer - University of Melbourne
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Boosting Higgs Discovery
Graham Kribs - University of Oregon
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Recent Results from the CRESST dark matter search
Franz Proebst - Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)
CRESST is a cryogenic dark matter search located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Scintillating CaWO4 crystals are operated as cryogenic calorimeters. The phonon (heat) signal measured with a tungten transition edge sensor on the surface of these crystals allows a precise… -
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Jet substructure at the LHC
Michael Spannowsky - Durham University
The consequences of the fact that electroweak scale particles are often produced beyond threshold has been appreciated only recently. Decay products of boosted objects tend to be collimated and their final state radiation (FSR) might overlap. It has been shown that it can be advantageous to collect… -
Hawking radiation in AdS_5
Derek Teaney - Stony Brook University
We formulate a numerical procedure to calculate Hawking radiation during non-equilibrium black hole formation. The procedure is applied to a static string in thermal AdS and it is shown that for an arbitrary initial state, the final state is an equilibrated heavy quark string. The fluctuations in… -
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Long-Lived Neutral Particles at the LHC
Matthew Reece - Harvard University
I will discuss the collider signatures of heavy, long-lived, neutral particles that decay to charged particles plus missing energy. The focus will be the case of a neutralino NLSP decaying to Z and gravitino within the context of General Gauge Mediation (based on arXiv:1006.4575). I will show that… -
The flavor puzzle : Why neutrinos are different ?
Fu-Sin Ling - Université Libre de Bruxelles
Large mixing angles and a mild mass hierarchy are observed in neutrino oscillations, in stark contrast with the quarks and charged leptons sectors where very hierarchical masses come along with small mixings. We review and discuss the neutrino mass patterns that are technically natural, in the… -
Topological defects and vacuum decay
Urjit Yajnik - Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
False vacua in QFT are liable to undergo spontaneous decay. Slowness of quantum tunneling can however allow a long lifetime to the false vacuum state. In supersymmetric theories this is a crucial criterion for obtaining a long lived universe with spontaneously broken supersymmetry. We have explored… -
Cascade supersymmetry breaking and low scale gauge mediation
Masahiro Ibe - University of California, Irvine
The gauge mediation models with a gravitino mass in the eV range is a quite attractive scenario which causes no cosmological/astrophysical problems. The model construction with such a light gravitino is, however, quite challenging and in most cases ends up with the problems with the suppressed… -
Rescuing the Standard Model in the case the Higgs Boson is not found
A plethora of Higgsless models have been proposed and we are in the peculiar situation where Fermilab & LHC results will be extremely interesting whether or not the Higgs boson is found. I present here a model where one of the sacred assumption of quantum field theory (renormalizability) is dropped… -
An Unparticle Solution to the Hierarchy Problem
Nick Setzer - University of Melbourne
The Planck-weak hierarchy is investigated in an extradimensional, soft-wall model originally proposed by Batell and Gherghetta. In this model the soft-wall is dynamically generated by background fields that, in the Einstein frame, cause the metric factor to deviate from anti-de Sitter by a power-law… -
Boosting Higgs Discovery
Graham Kribs - University of Oregon
An enormous effort is underway to search for the Higgs boson at the LHC. One new development of the past couple of years is to look into the kinematic region where the Higgs boosted, which has led to the possibility to observe the dominant b-bar decay mode as a single "fat jet" when the Higgs is…