Name: 2nd Annual Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics at the Terascale'
Start: 2008-11-26T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2008-11-28T18:00:00+01:00
Location: RWTH Aachen

2nd Annual Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics at the Terascale'

from Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (10:00 AM) to Friday, November 28, 2008 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 24, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Room: Eurogress (Saal Berlin)
Contributions

11:30 AM Registration

1:00 PM Begrüßung - Ernst Schmachtenberg (Rektor RWTH Aachen University)

1:20 PM The Helmholtz Alliance "Phyics at the Terascale" - Ties Behnke (DESY)

1:35 PM The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:35 PM Das weltweite Computing Grid - Martin Erdmann (RWTH Aachen University)

2:55 PM Trends in High Performance Computing - Frank Baetke (Hewlett Packard)

3:15 PM Inbetriebnahme der Aachener GRID Station - Ernst Schmachtenberg
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: SuperC 6.39
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Physikzentrum
Contributions

4:00 PM Meeting of fellows and YIs - introduction - Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
Thursday, November 27, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: SuperC 2.29
Contributions

9:00 AM Report WP1: TPC at ILC - Jochen Kaminski (Univ. Bonn)

9:15 AM Report WP2: Calorimeter at ILC - Christian Zeitnitz (Univ. Wuppertal)

9:30 AM Report WP3: Trigger for sLHC - Marius Groll (Univ. Mainz)

9:45 AM Report WP4: Radiation hard silicon sensors - Alexander Dierlamm (Universität Karlsruhe)

10:00 AM Report WP5: Luminosity detector for ATLAS - Anatoli Astvatsatourov (Univ. Giessen)

10:15 AM Powering schemes for sLHC - Katja Klein (RWTH Aachen)

11:00 AM Upgrade of the ATLAS Lvl1 Calorimeter trigger for sLHC - Andrei Khomich (Univ. Heidelberg)

11:15 AM VLDT status report Bonn - Hans Krueger (Univ. Bonn)

11:25 AM VLDT status report Heidelberg - NN

11:35 AM VLDT status report DESY - Ingrid-Maria Gregor (DESY)

11:45 AM VLDT status report Hamburg - CANCELED - Doris Eckstein (Univ. Hamburg)

11:55 AM VLDT status report Karlsruhe - Alexander Dierlamm (Univ. Karlsruhe)
Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
9:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Super-C
Contributions

9:00 AM Higgs search at the Tevatron - Michiel Sanders (LMU München)

9:40 AM Search for the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in h/H/A->tau.tau->2l.4nu final state with ATLAS - Jana Schaarschmidt (Uni Dresden)

10:05 AM Searches for light H+ decaying to a hadronic tau in the one lepton mode with ATLAS - Susanne Mohrdieck-Möck (MPI München)

11:00 AM Higgs decay and gluon fusion in the MSSM at NLO - Franziska Hofmann (Uni Wuppertal)

11:25 AM Electroweak corrections to the decay A0 -> gamma gamma - Joachim Brod (Uni Karlsruhe)

11:50 AM Studies of b-associated production of neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the muonic decay mode - Markus Warsinski (Uni Freiburg)

12:15 PM Quark and squark contributions to Higgs + 2 jet via gluon fusion - Michael Kubocz (Uni Karlsruhe)
Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: SuperC
Contributions

9:00 AM Phenomenology of the constrained NMSSM at the LHC - Abdel Djouadi (Orsay)

9:20 AM Rapidity Gap Events in Squark Pair Production - Kim Jong-Soo

9:40 AM Search for MSugra in Inclusive Lepton Channel - Daniel Teyssier (Aachen)

10:00 AM SUSY Di- and Trileptons at CMS - Martin Niegel (KIT)

10:40 AM Inclusive SUSY searches at ATLAS - Jan Sundermann (Freiburg)

11:10 AM QCD suppression in Full-Hadronic SUSY - Sergei Bobrowskyi (Hamburg)

11:30 AM Threshold resummation for squark-antisquark and gluino-pair production at the LHC - Anna Kulesza (Aachen)

11:50 AM NNLO corrections to squark-antisquark-production at the LHC - Ulrich Langenfeld (DESY)
Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: SuperC 5.30
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome

9:10 AM Top-quark pair production beyond next-to-leading order - Peter Uwer (Humboldt University Berlin)

9:35 AM ttbar cross section (ATLAS) - Balint Radics (University of Bonn)

10:00 AM Top rediscovery / cross section (CMS) - Thorsten Chwalek (Karlsruhe)

11:00 AM ttbar differential cross section (ATLAS) - Moritz Bunse (Dortmund)

11:15 AM Differential cross section (mtt) at production threshold - Matthias Steinhauser (Karlsruhe)

11:40 AM Calibration with ttbar events (CMS) - Sebastian Naumann-Emme (Uni Hamburg)

12:05 PM Top Montecarlo at LHC - Ulrich Husemann (DESY)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: SuperC 4.30
Contributions

2:00 PM Optical Inspection for High Gradient SRF Cavities - Sebastian Aderhold (DESY)

2:30 PM RF Controls for High Gradient SRF Cavities - Marc Wenskat (Göttingen)

2:50 PM Precision Compton Polarimetry using a counting silicon microstrip detector - Jürgen Wittschen (Bonn)

3:20 PM Photoenhanced field emission for high-brightness electron sources - Benjamin Bornmann (Wuppertal)

3:50 PM Developments & Opportunities in Terascale Accelerator Research in Germany - Eckhard Elsen (DESY)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: SuperC 6.37
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction and Status - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

2:15 PM NAF Use Case: Reprocessing (ATLAS) - Peter Wienemann (University of Bonn)

2:20 PM NAF Use Case: PROOF (CMS) - Hartmut Stadie (Universitaet Hamburg)

2:25 PM NAF Use Case: local MC production (ATLAS) - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

2:30 PM Discussion - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)
3:00 PM Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
3:00 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: SuperC
Contributions

3:00 PM Comparison of Pythia, vbfnlo and Herwig++ for the Vector Boson Fusion channel - Christoph Hackstein (Uni Karlsruhe)

3:25 PM Supersymmetric Higgs Production via Vector-Boson Fusion - Michael Rauch (Uni Karlsruhe)

3:50 PM CP-violating Loop Effects in the Higgs Sector of the MSSM - Karina Williams (Uni Bonn)

4:15 PM Determination of the CP quantum numbers of neutral Higgs bosons in the tau decay channels - Stefan Berge (Uni Mainz)

4:40 PM HiggsBounds : confronting arbitrary Higgs sectors with LEP & Tevatron results - Oliver Brein (IPPP Durham)
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: SuperC
Contributions

3:00 PM Hadronization & UE Corrections to inclusive Jets with Pythia, Herwig+Jimmy and Herwig++ - Michael Heinrich (Karlsruhe)

3:25 PM NLO Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders - Sandro Uccirati (University of Karlsruhe)

3:50 PM Corrections to single Z boson production - oleg veretin (desy)

4:15 PM Gfitter -- the global electroweak fit: now and during the LHC era - Martin Goebel

4:40 PM Z nach mu mu mit MC@NLO - Maarten Thomas (RWTH Aachen)

5:05 PM Luminosity calibration from W/Z counting - Hasko Stenzel (University of Giessen)

5:30 PM Measurement of W/Z+jet production - Ulla Blumenschein (Goettingen)
Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
3:00 PM - 6:40 PM
Room: SuperC
Contributions

3:00 PM Three Loop Corrections to the MSSM Higgs Boson Mass - Philipp Kant (Wuppertal)

3:20 PM Data-Driven Background Estimation for the One-Lepton SUSY Search Mode - Till Eifert (CERN)

3:40 PM Search for GMSB SUSY - Mark Terwort (Hamburg)

4:00 PM Reconstruction of SUSY Parameters from LHC Observables with Fittino - Mathias Uhlenbrock (Bonn)

4:20 PM Model Independent Search for New Physics - Stefan Schmitz (Aachen)

4:40 PM s-channel production of heavy vector bosons in a three-site higgsless model - Christian Specker (Wuerzburg)

5:20 PM Search for Heavy Gauge Bosons with CMS - Walter Bender (Aachen)

5:40 PM Rare meson decays into light neutralinos - Ben O'Leary (Aachen)

6:00 PM Flavor and precision physics in a warped extra dimension - Sandro Cassagrande (Mainz)

6:20 PM Neutralino dark matter in SO(10) SUSY GUT models - Jari Laamanen (Dortmund)
Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: SuperC 5.30
Contributions

3:00 PM Single Top Production in MC@NLO - Patrick Motylinski (Freiburg)

3:25 PM Single top (ATLAS) - Gia Khoriauli (Universität Bonn)

3:45 PM Single top (CMS) - Julia Weinelt (Karlsruhe)

4:30 PM Top mass and other properties (CMS) - Roger Wolf (CMS Univ. Hamburg)

4:55 PM Top mass (ATLAS) - Kevin Kroeninger (University of Goettingen)

5:20 PM The potential of top invariant mass measurements at the LHC - Fabio Maltoni (Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Louvain)

5:45 PM Resonances decaying into ttbar (CMS) - Jan Steggermann (Aachen)

6:10 PM ttbar resonances with Herwig++ - Markus Mechtel (Wuppertal)
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday, November 28, 2008
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula
Contributions

8:30 AM Status of the Alliance - Ian Brock (University of Bonn)

8:50 AM Accelerator Physics Developments - Eckhard Elsen (DESY)

8:55 AM The Analysis Centre in the Alliance - Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (Hamburg University)

9:15 AM The National Analysis Facility (NAF) - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

9:35 AM Grid Computing Status - Günter Duckeck (LMU München)

9:50 AM Detector Development Status - Lutz Feld (RWTH Aachen)

10:35 AM EW+QCD Review - S. Pozzorini

11:00 AM Top Quark physics at LHC-D - Markus Cristinziani (Uni Bonn)

11:20 AM Report from the Higgs Working Group - Sandra Horvat (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

11:45 AM Report from the SUSY/BSM Working Group - Christian Sander (University of Hamburg)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: SuperC 5.32

12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Physikzentrum

12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: SuperC 4.30