Cornell Collider Phenomenology Group

Group meetings will be held on Thursdays throughout the semester in Newman 311 at 4:30 pm unless otherwise announced.

Schedule

September 12 - Organizational Discussion
September 21 - Maxim Perelstein - effective vertices in Madgraph
September 28 - TBA
October 5 - cancelled
October 12 - ??
October 19 - no meeting
October 26 - Matt Reece - recent papers on spins in cascade decays (see hep-ph/0605286, hep-ph/0605296)
November 2 - No meeting
November 9 - Johannes Heinonen - Spin determination using invariant mass distributions
November 16 - ?
November 23 - No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
November 30 - No Meeting
December 7 - TBA
December 14 - TBA

January 24 - LHC Olympics Discussion
January 31 - LHC Olympics Discussion
February 7 - No Meeting (Week of LHC Olympics)
February 14 - Patrick Meade - LHC Olympics Report - Discussion of Semester Objectives
February 21 - Maxim Perelstein- Aspen Conference Report - Matt Reece - Kinematics Review: Tao Han's LHCO talks
February 28 - Matt Reece- Kinematics Review continued: Tao Han's LHCO talks
March 7 - Anders Ryd and Jim Alexander - CMS Tracking and Calorimetry
March 14 - Patrick Meade- An Overview of Little Higgs Models and Experimental Signatures
March 21 - SPRING BREAK (MC4BSM)
March 28 - No Meeting
April 4 - Cornell Blackbox Discussion
April 11 - Gil Paz- SM Flavor, CKM overview
April 18 - Cornell Blackbox Discussion
April 25 - Cornell Blackbox Discussion
May 2 - Matthias Neubert - Threshold Resummation in Effective Field Theories
May 9 - Peter Onyisi - Tevatron EW results(non-top)
May 16 - TBA
May 23 - TBA
May 30 - TBA

September 13 - Patrick Meade,Matt Reece - Organizational stuff, Overview of LHC Olympics
September 20 - Maxim Perelstein- Spin Determination at the LHC (hep-ph/0405052 hep-ph/0507170)
September 27 - LHC discussion
October 4 - Matt Reece - SUSY breaking and phenomenology
October 11 - Fall Break
October 18 - Csaba Csaki - Triple Gauge Boson Couplings - Measurements and Model Predictions
October 25 - Fumihiro Takayama- Dark Matter Detection Experiments
November 1 - No meeting - Journal Club Special Time
November 8 - Giacomo Cacciapaglia - TBD
November 15 - TBD
November 22 - Seung Lee - TBD
November 29 - Andrew Noble - TBD
December 6 - Matthew Nobes - Technicolor and Colliders
December 13 - Patrick Meade - Properties of the top quark at the Tevatron
December 20 - TBD

January 27 - Patrick - Organizational stuff, Review of COMPHEP (use and introduction of new processes)
February 3 - No meeting (work on HW1 and HW2 and implementing effective gluon fusion for Higgs in comphep)
February 10 - Patrick - Go over comphep exercises
February 17 - No meeting (HW assigned in email for Madgraph)
February 24 - Meeting postponed due to seminar
March 3 - Jay - Review Madgraph, report on HW
March 10 - No meeting (look over Pythia documentation)
March 17 - Patrick - intro to Pythia
March 24 - Spring Break
March 31 - Matt R,Matt N, Andy N - review HW3
April 7 - Matt R - hadron collider detector overview (for background material see ATLAS TDR vol.II and CMS TP)
April 14 - Csaba, Matt N, Patrick - HW 4 (4th generation, exotic higgs, SUSY in pythia)
April 21 - Jay, Andy N, Matt R - HW 5 (measuring sparticle masses and spins at LC)
April 28 - Short meeting to discuss LHC theory initiative
May 4 - Special date! LHC Theory Initiative Town Hall Meeting (videoconference) Newman 305 3:00 pm
May 5 - CMS 101
May 12 - No meeting (exams)
May 19 - No meeting (lack of quorum)
May 26 - No meeting (lack of quorum)
June 2 - Possible Meeting with experimentalists
June 9 - Last meeting of semester
Have a good summer!