FLASY12 - Workshop on Flavor Symmetries

30 Jun 2012, 13:00 → 4 Jul 2012, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

Dortmund

FLASY12 is the Second Workshop on Flavor Symmetries and Consequences in Accelerators and Cosmology. The workshop is intented to bring together researchers in the field of flavor symmetries, neutrino physics, accelerator physics and cosmology to present new results, stimulate discussion and new collaborations.

Saturday 30 June

13:00 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 15:45 Flavor Symmetries: Session I

Convener: Jose Valle (IFIC Valencia)

14:05 A_4, Theta_13, and Delta_CP

Speaker: Ernest Ma (UC Riverside)

Slides a4q13cp.pdf

14:25 Vacuum Alignment from Group Theory

Speaker: Mr Martin Holthausen (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Slides holthausen.pdf

14:45 Discrete flavor symmetries and geometrical CP violation

Speaker: Philipp Leser (TU Dortmund)

Slides leser.pdf

15:05 (Non-)Abelian discrete anomalies

Speaker: Michael Ratz (TU Munich)

Slides FLASY12.pdf

15:25 Models of Flavor Symmetries and the Stability of their Predictions

Speaker: Mu-Chun Chen (UC Irvine)

Slides FLASY2012-MCChen.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Neutrinos: Session I

Convener: Laura Covi (Goettingen University)

16:15 Neutrino Masses and Mixing: Evidences and Implications

Speaker: Jose Valle (IFIC Valencia)

16:35 Embedding Models Generating Neutrino Masses via Higher-Dimensional Effective Operators in an SU(5) GUT

Speaker: Martin Krauss (Wuerzburg University)

Slides flasy12_mbkrauss.pdf

16:55 Relating Neutrino Mixing Angles to Neutrino Masses

Speaker: Morimitsu Tanimoto (Niigata University)

Slides tanimotoFLASY.pdf

17:15 A Minimal Model of Neutrino Flavour

Speaker: Dr Akin Wingerter (LPSC)

Slides wingerter_akin.pdf

17:35 Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in 136Xe with EXO-200

Speaker: Andreas Piepke (Alabama University)

Slides for_posting_exo-200_piepke_flasy_2012.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Excursion: Extraschicht

"Night of industry culture"

Sunday 1 July

09:30 → 11:00 Beyond the Standard Model: Session I (MFV and RS)

Convener: Gautam Bhattacharyya

09:30 Enhanced Higgs Mediated Lepton Flavour Violating Processes in the Supersymmetric Inverse Seesaw Model

Speaker: Debottam Das (LPT, Orsay)

09:53 New physics beyond flavour dogmas

Speaker: Gustavo Branco (CFTP Lisbon)

Slides GBranco.pdf

10:15 Radiative Penguins in RS Models and g-2

Speaker: Martin Beneke (TU Munich)

10:38 Solving Flavor Problems in Composite Higgs Models

Speaker: Michele Redi (CERN)

Slides Michele_FLASY.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Dark Matter

Convener: Andreas Piepke

11:30 Gravitino Dark Matter with colored NLSPs

Speaker: Laura Covi (Goettingen University)

11:53 Dark Matter and Flavor Symmetry

Speaker: Stefano Morisi (IFIC Valencia)

Slides morisi.pdf

12:15 Phenomenological aspects of discrete Dark Matter

Speaker: Sofiane Boucenna (IFIC Valencia)

Slides flasy12_boucenna.pdf

12:38 Multi-Component Dark Matter System with Non-Standard Annihilation Processes of Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Jisuke Kubo (Kanazawa University)

Slides FLASY-kubo1.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:00 Neutrinos: Session II (Theta_13)

Convener: Myriam Mondragon

14:30 Family Symmetries in the Light of Large Theta_13

Speaker: Christoph Luhn (Durham University)

Slides luhn-flasy12.pdf

14:53 TFH Mixing Patterns, Large Theta_13 and Delta(96) Family Symmetry

Speaker: Gui-Jun Ding (Hefei University)

Slides Ding.pdf

15:15 Spontaneous CP Violation and Nonzero Theta_13

Speaker: Hugo Serodio (CFPT Lisbon)

Slides Serodio.pdf

15:38 Flavour Symmetry Models after Daya Bay and RENO

Speaker: Steve King (Southampton University)

Slides King_FLASY.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Lepton Flavor Violation

Convener: Frank Deppisch

16:30 Pathways to small neutrino masses: The one-loop story

Speaker: Martin Hirsch (IFIC Valencia)

16:53 Enhancing l_i -> 3l_j with the Z^0 Penguin

Speaker: Avelino Vicente (LPT Orsay)

Slides a_vicente.pdf

17:15 Neutrino Masses and LFV from U(3)^5 -> U(2)^5 in SUSY

Speaker: Gianluca Blanckenburg (Roma Tre University)

17:38 RS-A4, \theta_{13} and LFV

Speaker: Avihay Kadosh (Groningen University)

Paper

• AvihayKadosh.aux
• AvihayKadosh.log
• AvihayKadosh.out
• AvihayKadosh.pdf
• AvihayKadosh.tex
• AvihayKadosh.tex.bak

Slides

• Avihay1.pdf
• Avihay2.pdf
• Avihay3.pdf
• Avihay4.pdf
• KadoshWEDLFV1.pdf

20:00 → 22:30 Final of the European Championship

Start: 20:45

Monday 2 July

09:30 → 11:00 Neutrinos: Session III

Convener: Steve King

09:30 keV Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter

Speaker: Manfred Lindner (MPI Heidelberg)

09:53 Direct Detection of Leptophilic Dark Matter in a Model with Radiative Neutrino Masses

Speaker: Daniel Schmidt (MPI Heidelberg)

Slides FLASY2012DanielSchmidt.pdf

10:15 Sterile Neutrinos for Warm Dark Matter and the Reactor Anomaly in Flavor Symmetry Models

Speaker: James Barry (MPI Heidelberg)

Slides FLASY_Barry.pdf

10:38 2012 Status of Neutrino Oscillations: Theta_13 and Beyond

Speaker: Mariam Tortola (IFIC Valencia)

Slides flasy12-tortola.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Flavor Symmetries: Session II

Convener: Manfred Lindner

11:30 Local Flavour Symmetries

Speaker: Julian Heeck (MPI Heidelberg)

Slides flavor_symmetries.pdf

11:53 The quark NNI textures rising from SU(5) X Z4 symmetry

Speaker: Catarina Simoes (CFPT Lisbon)

Slides Simoes.pdf

12:15 Higgs mediators, $\theta_{13}$ and light familons

Speaker: Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas (TU Dortmund)

Slides FLASY2012.pdf

12:37 Explicit and spontaneous breaking of SU(3) into its finite subgroups

Speaker: Alexander Merle (Southampton University)

Slides Flasy12_Merle.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Beak

14:30 → 16:00 SUSY Flavor: Session I

Convener: Martin Hirsch

14:30 On the Messenger Sector of SUSY Flavour Models

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Calibbi (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen)

14:53 Flavour in SUSY Models with Extended Gauge Symmetries

Speaker: Werner Porod (Universität Würzburg)

15:15 Squark Flavour Implications from B -> K(*)l+l-

Speaker: Mr Stefan Schacht (Technische Universität Dortmund)

Slides susyflavor.pdf

15:38 Flavoured Gauge Mediation

Speaker: Yael Shadmi (Technion Haifa)

Slides shadmi_fgm.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Beyond the Standard Model: Session II

Convener: Werner Porod

16:30 Renormalization Group Effects on the Chromoelectric DipoleMoment via CP violating Four Fermion Operators

Speaker: Masaki Yang (Tokyo University)

Slides 12:07:02:FLASY12_yang.pdf

16:53 Novel Higgs signatures from S3 flavor symmetry

Speaker: Prof. Gautam Bhattacharyya (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700064, India)

Slides talk_s3.pdf

17:15 A SUSY SU(5) × T′ Unified Model of Flavour with large θ13

Speaker: Ms Aurora meroni (sissa)

Slides FlasyAM.pdf

17:38 The "Singlet Flavor" and Particle Time Travel

Speaker: Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University Nashville)

Slides DortmundFLASY_2012_(Weiler).pdf

Tuesday 3 July

09:30 → 11:00 SUSY Flavor: Session II, GUTs and leptonic physics at the LHC

Convener: Yael Shadmi

09:30 Correlations in Minimal U(2)^3 models and an SO(10) SUSY GUT model facing new data

Speaker: Mrs Jennifer Girrbach (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut fuer Theoretische Teilchenphysik)

Slides Jennifer_FLASYtalk.pdf

09:53 Flavour Symmetry in Pati-Salam GUTs

Speaker: Florian Hartmann (Siegen University)

Slides hartmann.pdf

10:15 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Mechanisms at LHC

Speaker: Juan Carlos Helo Herrera (Santa Maria University Valparaiso)

10:38 Probing the Right-Handed Neutrino Sector of Left-Right Symmetric Models at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Frank Deppisch (University College London)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:40 Heavy Flavor Physics at the LHC

Convener: Thomas Mannel

11:30 LHCb results now and tomorrow

Speaker: Michal Kreps (Warwick University)

Slides flasy2012_kreps.pdf

11:55 Quark Flavour Physics Facing Recent LHCb Data

Speaker: Andrzej Buras (TU Munich)

Slides Buras_FLASY.pdf

12:18 (Buried) Non-degenerate squarks, from flavor precision to colliders

Speaker: Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute Rehovot)

Slides Gilad_Perez_Flasy12.pdf

12:40 → 13:00 Group Picture

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:00 Flavor Symmetries: Session III

Convener: Thomas Kephart

14:30 The S3 Flavour Symmetry: Quarks, Leptons and Higgs

Speaker: Myriam Mondragon (Mexico University)

Slides flasy12.pdf

14:53 Reactor mixing angle and flavor symmetries

Speaker: Eduardo Peinado (IFIC Valencia)

15:15 The finite subgroups of SU(3)

Speaker: Patrick Ludl (Vienna University)

Slides Ludl-FLASY12.pdf

15:38 Two Approaches for Flavour Models with Large theta_13

Speaker: Martin Spinrath (SISSA Trieste)

Slides FLASY_Spinrath.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 B Flavor Physics

Convener: Gustavo Branco

16:30 Semileptonic B Meson Decays in QCD

Speaker: Dr Yuming Wang (Theoretische Physik 1,Fachbereich 7 (Physik),Universität Siegen)

16:48 Flavor Constraints from b->s Transitions

Speaker: Javier Virto (UAB Barcelona)

Slides TalkFLASY12.pdf

17:06 Squark Flavor Mixing and CP Violation of Neutral B Mesons at LHCb

Speaker: Kei Yamamoto (Niigata University)

Slides yamamoto_FLASY12.pdf

17:24 Constraining CP Violation in Neutral Meson Mixing with Theory Input

Speaker: Sascha Turczyk (LBNL Berkeley)

Slides Turczyk_Flasy_Final

17:42 Extraction of the CP phase 2\beta_s and the life time difference (\Delta\Gamma_s) from penguin free tree level $B_s$ decays

Speaker: Soumitra Nandi (Siegen University)

19:30 → 23:00 Conference dinner

Dinner at the Hoevels Hausbrauerei Dortmund

Wednesday 4 July

09:30 → 10:40 Heavy Flavor Physics at the LHC: Session II

Convener: Thorsten Feldmann

09:30 Top Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Chiral U(1)' Models

Speaker: Dr Yuji Omura (KIAS)

Slides FLASY12-OMURA.pdf

09:53 Determing Weak Phases from B->J/Psi P Decays

Speaker: Martin Jung (TU Dortmund)

Slides BtoJPsiP.pdf

10:16 Flavour Physics from an approximate U(2)^3 Symmetry

Speaker: Filippo Sala (SNS & INFN Pisa)

Slides SalaFlasy.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 11:55 Heavy Flavor Physics at the LHC: Session III

Convener: Jisuke Kubo

11:10 Delta A_CP and "Old Physics" in D Decays

Speaker: Thorsten Feldmann (Siegen University)

11:33 Implications of the Delta A_CP Measurement for New Physics

Speaker: Dr Jernej Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)

11:55 → 13:00 Future FLASY's and Closing

13:00 → 14:00 Departure