Conveners
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- Herbert Dreiner (Universitaet Bonn)
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- Howard Haber (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics)
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- Marek Olechowski
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- Thomas Flacke (IBS CTPU)
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- Manuel Drees (Bonn University)
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- Margarete Mühlleitner (KIT)
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- Kiwoon Choi (CTPU/IBS)
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- Michal Malinsky
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- Stefan Foerste
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- Stuart Raby
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- Athanasios Dedes
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- Hans Peter Nilles (Univ. Bonn)
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- Stefan Pokorski
Martin Schmaltz
(Boston University)
21/05/2018, 10:00
The cosmological standard model, LCDM, provides a very good overall fit to the precision cosmological data from the CMB, its polarization, baryon acoustic oscillations, measurements of large scale structure, and the current expansion rate of the universe. The most significant tension in the fit is associated with two quantities: the current expansion rate, H_0, and the amplitude of the matter...
Anson Hook
(University of Maryland)
21/05/2018, 11:30
We present a new mechanism for making a scalar parametrically
lighter than the UV cutoff utilizing non-linearly realized discrete
symmetries. The cancelations occur due to a discrete symmetry that is
realized as a shift symmetry on the scalar and as an exchange symmetry
on the particles with which the scalar interacts.
David Shih
(Rutgers University)
21/05/2018, 12:00
While the LHC has done an excellent job of looking for new physics in all the expected places using simplified models, so far much less attention has been paid to model-independent, data-driven approaches. I will review a recently proposed method of "rectangular aggregations" that can find potentially interesting excesses in existing LHC searches without relying on simplified models. As a...
Dr
Igor Ivanov
(CFTP, Instituto Superior Tecnico)
21/05/2018, 14:30
I will describe recent results on phenomenological consequences of imposing an exotic CP-symmetry of order 4 in multi-Higgs models. Despite minimality of the assumptions, such models have well shaped scalar and flavor sectors and lead to rich phenomenology to be tested in experiments and astroparticle observations.
Andreas Weiler
(TUM)
21/05/2018, 15:30
We consider a composite model where both the Higgs and a complex scalar χ, which is the dark matter (DM) candidate, arise as light pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pNGBs) from a strongly coupled sector with TeV scale confinement.
Steve King
(University of Southampton)
21/05/2018, 16:30
In this talk we discuss various Theories of Flavour from the Planck scale to the
Electroweak Scale, ranging from SUSY GUTs with Flavour Symmetry (with or without extra
dimensions) to Flavourful Z' Models at the Electroweak scale capable of accounting for
R_K(*).
Michael Spannowsky
(Durham University)
22/05/2018, 10:00
With increasingly precise measurements of Higgs boson interactions, we start to set tighter limits on Standard Model extensions. First, I will review the impact of existing and ongoing Higgs coupling measurements on how they constrain such extensions. In the second part of the presentation, I will focus on one of the most important couplings of the scalar sector, the Higgs self-coupling. Given...
Dr
Jong Soo Kim
(University of the Witwatersrand, NITheP, MITP)
22/05/2018, 11:00
Prof.
Howard Baer Baer
(University of Oklahoma)
22/05/2018, 11:30
I review how natural SUSY may emerge from the string landscape and present probability distributions for Higgs and sparticle masses
Dr
Nishita Desai
(LUPM, Montpellier)
22/05/2018, 12:00
Sebastian Jaeger
(University of Sussex)
23/05/2018, 10:00
b->c cbar s transitions proceed at the tree-level in the weak interactions
in the Standard Model, and for this reason are typically ignored in the search for
new physics. I will show that, in fact, even small BSM contributions can give
observables effects in B-meson lifetime observables, CP-violation measurements,
as well as rare and radiative decays. This can provide useful constraints on...
Stefan Pokorski
(University of Warsaw)
23/05/2018, 12:00
Ms
Irene Valenzuela
(IFT UAM/CSIC)
24/05/2018, 10:00
Consistency with quantum gravity can have significant consequences on low energy physics. Interestingly, it seems that not every effective field theory can be consistently coupled to quantum gravity unless it satifies some additional consistency constraints. Recently substantial effort has been dedicated to determine these constraints in terms of black-hole physics and string theory. Some...
Dr
Thomas Grimm
(Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Physics)
24/05/2018, 11:00
It has been conjectured that in theories consistent with quantum
gravity infinite distances in field space coincide with an infinite tower of states
becoming massless exponentially fast. In this talk I present non-trivial evidence
for this conjecture from the study of Type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds.
I will also comment on the observation that the behavior of the metric and...
Prof.
Gabriele Honecker
(Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
24/05/2018, 12:00
For most string vacua, only the chiral matter spectrum can be computed in terms of topological data of the compact extra dimensions, while already the vector-like spectrum remains elusive. If the compact extra dimensions consist of (orbifolds of) tori, however, the string quantisation can be explicitly performed and thus not only the full tower of massless and massive matter states can be...
Dr
Martin Winkler
(Bonn University)
25/05/2018, 11:30
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) have been the target of
cosmic ray experiments for decades. AMS-02 is the first experiment which can
realistically probe WIMP annihilation signals in the antiproton channel. Due to
the tiny experimental errors, uncertainties in the astrophysical background
have become the most limiting factor for the dark matter detection. I will use
the...
Tao Han
(Univ. of Pittsburgh)
25/05/2018, 15:30
The luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) is being actively pursued with the targeted integrated luminosity of 3 ab-1 by the year of 2037. There has been increasing interest to upgrade the energy of the LHC (HE-LHC) to about a c.m. energy of 27 TeV by doubling the magnetic field in the same tunnel, which is part of the effort of the European Strategy of Particle Physics led by CERN. I present...
