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, 26 November 2008 (10:00) to Friday, 28 November 2008 (18:00)

Monday, 24 November 2008
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
11:30
11:30 - 15:30
Room: Eurogress (Saal Berlin)
Contributions

11:30 Registration

13:00 Begrüßung - Ernst Schmachtenberg (Rektor RWTH Aachen University)

13:20 The Helmholtz Alliance "Phyics at the Terascale" - Ties Behnke (DESY)

13:35 The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:35 Das weltweite Computing Grid - Martin Erdmann (RWTH Aachen University)

14:55 Trends in High Performance Computing - Frank Baetke (Hewlett Packard)

15:15 Inbetriebnahme der Aachener GRID Station - Ernst Schmachtenberg
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SuperC 6.39
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Physikzentrum
Contributions

16:00 Meeting of fellows and YIs - introduction - Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
Thursday, 27 November 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: SuperC 2.29
Contributions

09:00 Report WP1: TPC at ILC - Jochen Kaminski (Univ. Bonn)

09:15 Report WP2: Calorimeter at ILC - Christian Zeitnitz (Univ. Wuppertal)

09:30 Report WP3: Trigger for sLHC - Marius Groll (Univ. Mainz)

09:45 Report WP4: Radiation hard silicon sensors - Alexander Dierlamm (Universität Karlsruhe)

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

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

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

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

11:25 VLDT status report Heidelberg - NN

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

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

11:55 VLDT status report Karlsruhe - Alexander Dierlamm (Univ. Karlsruhe)
Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
09:00 - 12:40
Room: Super-C
Contributions

09:00 Higgs search at the Tevatron - Michiel Sanders (LMU München)

09:40 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 Searches for light H+ decaying to a hadronic tau in the one lepton mode with ATLAS - Susanne Mohrdieck-Möck (MPI München)

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

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

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

12:15 Quark and squark contributions to Higgs + 2 jet via gluon fusion - Michael Kubocz (Uni Karlsruhe)
Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
09:00 - 12:30
Room: SuperC
Contributions

09:00 Phenomenology of the constrained NMSSM at the LHC - Abdel Djouadi (Orsay)

09:20 Rapidity Gap Events in Squark Pair Production - Kim Jong-Soo

09:40 Search for MSugra in Inclusive Lepton Channel - Daniel Teyssier (Aachen)

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

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

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

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

11:50 NNLO corrections to squark-antisquark-production at the LHC - Ulrich Langenfeld (DESY)
Parallel Session I
Parallel Session I
09:00 - 12:30
Room: SuperC 5.30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Top-quark pair production beyond next-to-leading order - Peter Uwer (Humboldt University Berlin)

09:35 ttbar cross section (ATLAS) - Balint Radics (University of Bonn)

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 17:30
Room: SuperC 4.30
Contributions

14:00 Optical Inspection for High Gradient SRF Cavities - Sebastian Aderhold (DESY)

14:30 RF Controls for High Gradient SRF Cavities - Marc Wenskat (Göttingen)

14:50 Precision Compton Polarimetry using a counting silicon microstrip detector - Jürgen Wittschen (Bonn)

15:20 Photoenhanced field emission for high-brightness electron sources - Benjamin Bornmann (Wuppertal)

15:50 Developments & Opportunities in Terascale Accelerator Research in Germany - Eckhard Elsen (DESY)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: SuperC 6.37
Contributions

14:00 Introduction and Status - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

14:15 NAF Use Case: Reprocessing (ATLAS) - Peter Wienemann (University of Bonn)

14:20 NAF Use Case: PROOF (CMS) - Hartmut Stadie (Universitaet Hamburg)

14:25 NAF Use Case: local MC production (ATLAS) - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

14:30 Discussion - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)
15:00 Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
15:00 - 17:05
Room: SuperC
Contributions

15:00 Comparison of Pythia, vbfnlo and Herwig++ for the Vector Boson Fusion channel - Christoph Hackstein (Uni Karlsruhe)

15:25 Supersymmetric Higgs Production via Vector-Boson Fusion - Michael Rauch (Uni Karlsruhe)

15:50 CP-violating Loop Effects in the Higgs Sector of the MSSM - Karina Williams (Uni Bonn)

16:15 Determination of the CP quantum numbers of neutral Higgs bosons in the tau decay channels - Stefan Berge (Uni Mainz)

16:40 HiggsBounds : confronting arbitrary Higgs sectors with LEP & Tevatron results - Oliver Brein (IPPP Durham)
15:00 - 18:30
Room: SuperC
Contributions

15:00 Hadronization & UE Corrections to inclusive Jets with Pythia, Herwig+Jimmy and Herwig++ - Michael Heinrich (Karlsruhe)

15:25 NLO Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Boson Production at Hadron Colliders - Sandro Uccirati (University of Karlsruhe)

15:50 Corrections to single Z boson production - oleg veretin (desy)

16:15 Gfitter -- the global electroweak fit: now and during the LHC era - Martin Goebel

16:40 Z nach mu mu mit MC@NLO - Maarten Thomas (RWTH Aachen)

17:05 Luminosity calibration from W/Z counting - Hasko Stenzel (University of Giessen)

17:30 Measurement of W/Z+jet production - Ulla Blumenschein (Goettingen)
Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
15:00 - 18:40
Room: SuperC
Contributions

15:00 Three Loop Corrections to the MSSM Higgs Boson Mass - Philipp Kant (Wuppertal)

15:20 Data-Driven Background Estimation for the One-Lepton SUSY Search Mode - Till Eifert (CERN)

15:40 Search for GMSB SUSY - Mark Terwort (Hamburg)

16:00 Reconstruction of SUSY Parameters from LHC Observables with Fittino - Mathias Uhlenbrock (Bonn)

16:20 Model Independent Search for New Physics - Stefan Schmitz (Aachen)

16:40 s-channel production of heavy vector bosons in a three-site higgsless model - Christian Specker (Wuerzburg)

17:20 Search for Heavy Gauge Bosons with CMS - Walter Bender (Aachen)

17:40 Rare meson decays into light neutralinos - Ben O'Leary (Aachen)

18:00 Flavor and precision physics in a warped extra dimension - Sandro Cassagrande (Mainz)

18:20 Neutralino dark matter in SO(10) SUSY GUT models - Jari Laamanen (Dortmund)
Parallel Session II
Parallel Session II
15:00 - 18:30
Room: SuperC 5.30
Contributions

15:00 Single Top Production in MC@NLO - Patrick Motylinski (Freiburg)

15:25 Single top (ATLAS) - Gia Khoriauli (Universität Bonn)

15:45 Single top (CMS) - Julia Weinelt (Karlsruhe)

16:30 Top mass and other properties (CMS) - Roger Wolf (CMS Univ. Hamburg)

16:55 Top mass (ATLAS) - Kevin Kroeninger (University of Goettingen)

17:20 The potential of top invariant mass measurements at the LHC - Fabio Maltoni (Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Louvain)

17:45 Resonances decaying into ttbar (CMS) - Jan Steggermann (Aachen)

18:10 ttbar resonances with Herwig++ - Markus Mechtel (Wuppertal)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30

19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Friday, 28 November 2008
08:30
08:30 - 12:30
Room: Aula
Contributions

08:30 Status of the Alliance - Ian Brock (University of Bonn)

08:50 Accelerator Physics Developments - Eckhard Elsen (DESY)

08:55 The Analysis Centre in the Alliance - Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (Hamburg University)

09:15 The National Analysis Facility (NAF) - Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

09:35 Grid Computing Status - Günter Duckeck (LMU München)

09:50 Detector Development Status - Lutz Feld (RWTH Aachen)

10:35 EW+QCD Review - S. Pozzorini

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

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

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

12:30 - 15:00
Room: SuperC 5.32

12:30 - 16:00
Room: Physikzentrum

12:30 - 16:00
Room: SuperC 4.30