HEFTI Workshop on

Missing Energy Signals at LHC

Date:	Apr. 1-2, 2009
Location:	University of California Davis
Building:	University Club, UC Davis

Abstract:

In conjunction with MC4BSM, we will also hold a HEFTI workshop which focuses on collider signals of jets/leptons plus missing energy. The purpose is to discuss the strategies to search for new physics with missing energy signals and how to identify the new physics if such experimental signals are discovered. We hope the workshop can bring the experimentalists and theorists working in this area together to develop the best approaches to these problems.

To contact the organizers, please send email to
mc4bsm@particle.physics.ucdavis.edu.

Organizing committee: Hsin-Chia Cheng, Max Chertok, John Conway, Robin Erbacher, Christophe Grojean, Jack Gunion, Markus Luty, Konstantin Matchev, Steve Mrenna, Maxim Perelstein, Peter Skands, John Terning.

Program

Wednesday Apr. 1

9:00-9:15 Welcome: Dean Winston Ko
9:15-9:30 Martin Schmaltz Theory motivation for MET mp3
9:30-10:00 Meenakshi Narain Searches with MET at the LHC mp3
10:00-10:30 coffee break
10:30-10:45 Diego Casadei Missing Et Trigger
10:45-11:00 Peter Loch Commissioning Missing Et
11:00-11:15 Greg Landsberg MET in CMS
11:15-11:30 Jason Nielsen MET Calibration with W+jets / GMSB
11:30-11:45 Bruce Mellado Normalizing VV production at the LHC
11:45-12:15 Discussion on MET searches/prospects (Chair: Dan Green)
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:30 Johan Alwall Approaches to Model Independent Searches
2:30-3:00 Philip Schuster Model Independent Characterizations of New Physics with Early Data
3:00-3:15 Johan Alwall Communication between theorists and experimentalists
3:15-3:45 coffee break
3:45-4:30 Moderated discussion + Contributed talks (3 slides) on model -independent approaches to j/l+MET (Chair: Tom Rizzo)
4:30-5:00 Discussion: MET in the first LHC run (Chair: Dan Green)
5:00 Wine tasting, Gunrock Pub (Organizer: Max Chertok)

Thursday Apr. 2

9:00-9:20 Albert de Roeck The Day After: Strategies to Characterize New Physics mp3
9:20-9:40 Natalia Toro Excesses and Models mp3
9:40-10:00 Jay Hubisz MET Lookalikes
11:45-12:15 10:00-10:30 Discussion on NP attack strategies (Chair: Albert de Roeck)
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-11:45 Konstantin Matchev Introduction to Mass and Spin Determinations
11:45-12:15 Michael Peskin IPMU mass and spin determination workshop summary
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:30 Moderated discussion+Contributed talks (3 slides) on mass and spin determinations (Chair: Konstantin Matchev)
2:45-3:00 Myeonghun Park Decay chains with invisible particles
3:00-3:15 Han TBA
3:15-3:30 Partha Konar Inclusive variables
3:30-4:00 coffee break
4:00-5:30 Moderated discussion: Theory/Expt collaboration in the LHC era (Chair: Tao Han)
4:30-5:00 Discussion: MET in the first LHC run (Chair: Dan Green)
4:45-5:00 Jack Gunion Paradigms for Collaboration
5:00 Workshop Ends