Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar Archive 2011


Date Speaker Title
Jan. 7 Dan Amidei
University of Michigan
Evidence for a Mass Dependent Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production at CDF
Jan. 14 Friedrich Dydak
CERN
New results from HARP-CDP and the “LSND anomaly”
Jan. 21 No seminar
Jan. 28

Edward Wenger
MIT

Observation and Studies of Jet Quenching using Dijet Momentum Imbalance in 2.76 TeV PbPb Collisions at CMS
Feb. 4 Graham Kribs
Oregon/Fermilab
Boosting Higgs Discovery
Feb. 11 Shabnam Jabeen
Brown University
Three Tales of Two Tops
Feb. 18 Brian Rebel
Fermilab
Search for Lorentz Violation in the NuMI beam with the MINOS detectors
Feb. 24
Thursday, 4pm
Steve Geer, Vladimir
Shiltsev and Ron Lipton
Muon Collider R&D: Status and Opportunities for Participation
(Powerpoint slides: S. Geer,
V. Shiltsev,
R. Lipton)
Feb. 25 Greg Landsberg
Brown University
Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at CMS
Mar. 4 Akito Kusaka
University of Chicago
A Measurement of the CMB Polarization at 43 GHz by the QUIET Collaboration
Mar. 11
Time: 3:30pm
Christian Schwanenberger
University of Manchester

Jonathan Lewis
Fermilab

New results from CDF and D0 for the Winter 2011 conferences

(CDF slides,
D0 slides)
Mar. 18 Chris Jones
MIT
Reactor Simulations With DRAGON for Antineutrino Experiments and Nonproliferation
Mar. 22
Tuesday, 11am
Istvan Danko
University of Pittsburgh
First Results from the T2K Experiment
Mar. 25
Auditorium
Jeff Berryhill
Fermilab
Electroweak and Top Measurements from CMS (ppt)
Apr. 1 Vladimir Tishchenko
University of Kentucky
Precision measurement of the positive
muon lifetime by the MuLan collaboration
Apr. 6
Wed. 4pm
Viviana Cavaliere
UIUC
Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association
with a W boson in proton-antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Apr. 8 Mark Neubauer
UIUC
New results from ATLAS
Apr. 15 Seog Oh
Duke University
Production properties of baryon and meson resonances
in jets and minimum bias events at CDF
Apr. 22 Patrick Fox
Fermilab
Hunting for Dark Matter at the Tevatron
Apr. 29 Yasuhiro Nakajima
Kyoto/LBNL
Search for Neutrino Disappearance with SciBooNE and MiniBooNE
May 6 Fabio Maltoni
Université Catholique de Louvain
AAA Phenomenology: Automatic, Accurate and… Amazing new MC tools for discoveries at hadron colliders
May 13 No seminar
May 20 Karen Bland
Baylor University
Lighting up the Higgs Sector with Photons at CDF (ppt)
May 27 David Lopes-Pegna
Princeton
B Physics Results from CMS
Jun. 3 Michael Albrow
Fermilab
Observation of Exclusive Two-Photon Production in CDF
Jun. 10 Joe Haley
Northeastern University
Study of the dijet invariant mass distribution in ppbar–>W + jj final states
Jun. 17 Informal discussion The T2K result and Fermilab Neutrino Programs
Jun. 24 Lisa Whitehead
BNL
New results on Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS
Jun. 30
Thursday, 4pm
Bruce Hoeneisen
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Updated measurement of the like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry
Jul. 1 Dmitri Tsybychev
Stony Brook
New results from ATLAS
Jul. 8 Tom Wright
University of Michigan
Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with b-Quarks at CDF
Jul. 15
Auditorium, 2pm
Julia Thom
Cornell
First Two Sided Limit of Bs to mu mu decays at CDF
Jul. 15 Wick Haxton
UC Berkeley/LBL
Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics: Aspirations for the Next Decade
Jul. 18
Monday, 2:30pm
Mark Hartz
University of Toronto/York University
Results from T2K: Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon
Neutrino Beam
Jul. 20
Wednesday, 2:30pm
Pat Lukens
Fermilab
Observation of a new heavy baryon at CDF
Jul. 22
Time: 3:30pm
Marco Verzocchi
Fermilab

Ankush Mitra
Academia Sinica

New results from CDF and D0 for EPS-HEP 2011

(CDF slides,
D0 slides)
Jul. 25
Monday, 2:30pm
Douglas Orbaker
University of Rochester
Forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production
in proton-antiproton collisions at D0
Jul. 29 Andrew Askew
Florida State University
Recent Results on BSM Searches at CMS
Aug. 5 Federico Sforza
Pisa
On the road to Higgs→b-bbar:
diboson reconstruction in lν+heavy flavor jets at CDF
Aug. 12 Maaike Limper
University of Iowa
Latest physics results from ATLAS
Aug. 19 Hideki Miyake
Tsukuba
Observation of the Baryonic FCNC Decay Λb
Λμ+μ and the Angular Analysis in
B → K(*)μ+μ decays at CDF
Aug. 25
Thurs. 11am
Alex Sousa
Harvard University
New antineutrino oscillation results from MINOS
Aug. 26 Avi Yagil
UCSD
Searches for the Higgs Boson at CMS
Sep. 2
3:30pm
Brendan Casey
Jim Strait
Sergei Nagaitsev
Intensity @ FNAL: Now,
LBNE, Project X
(ppt)
LBNE physics and status
Project X: Accelerators (ppt)
Sep. 9 Ruth van de Water
Brookhaven

Searching for new physics at the frontiers with lattice
QCD

Sep. 16 Costas Vellidis
Fermilab
Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated
Diphoton Production at CDF
(pdf,
ppt)
Sep. 23 Ben Hooberman
Fermilab
Searches for New Physics at CMS
Sep. 29
Thurs. 4pm
Zhenyu Ye
Fermilab
Measurement of the top quark mass at D0
Oct. 7 Rajendran Raja
Fermilab
Towards a Compensatable Muon Collider Calorimeter with Manageable Backgrounds
Oct. 14 Anyes Taffard
UC Irvine
New results from ATLAS
Oct. 20
Thurs. 4pm
Mark Williams
University of Lancaster
Studies of CP violation in the Bs system
Oct. 28 Eric Adelberger
Washington
Equivalence principle results and the motivation for testing the
gravitational properties of antihydrogen
Nov. 4 Ken Bloom
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
In Search of the Standard Model at CMS
Nov. 11 Teppei Katori
MIT
Test of Lorentz and CPT violation with MiniBooNE excesses
Nov. 18
2:30pm
Zelimir Djurcic
ANL
First results from the Double Chooz reactor anti-neutrino
experiment
Nov. 18 Sarah Demers
Yale
New results from ATLAS
Nov. 25 Day after Thanksgiving No seminar
Dec. 2 Eric Dahl
University of Chicago
The COUPP Dark Matter Search: Results from the First Year of Deep Underground
Running at SNOLAB
Dec. 9 Ken Herner
University of Michigan
WZ/ZZ measurements and evidence for diboson
processes in b-tagged final states
Dec. 16
2:30pm
Andrey Korytov
Florida
Higgs Searches at CMS
Dec. 23 Christmas holiday No seminar
Dec. 30 New Year’s holiday No seminar