Chicago Flavor

The Chicago Flavor seminar is devoted to current issues in B,K and D physics. It aims at the exchange of information and ideas among the lab's theorists and experimentalists working in the field. The style is informal and everything from blackboard to Power Point is allowed. Depending on the demand it takes place irregularly, roughly bi-weekly. The talks are announced by e-mail. To get on the mailing list, please contact me at nierste@fnal.gov. Documents

31 Mar  2006
  in WH2NW
Ulrich Nierste (Karlsruhe): Theory prediction for ΔΓBs and ΔΓBs/ΔMBs    (pdf)
25 Aug 2005
  Thursday
    4 p.m.
 Michael Morello (Pisa): CDF results and perspectives on B h+h- modes (ppt) (pdf)
12 Aug 2005
Sergey Burdin (D0): New Bs mixing result from D0  (ppt)
  5 Aug 2005
Paul Mackenzie (TH): Semileptonic decays and unitarity constraints
22 Jul 2005
Andreas Kronfeld (TH): The D meson decay constant, D meson form factors and
                                        the Bc mass in lattice QCD with dynamical fermions

15 Jul 2005
Andrei Davydychev (Moscow State U): Geometrical methods in loop calculations (pdf)
  8 Jul  2005
Ulrich Nierste (TH): Quark mixing and CP violation - the CKM matrix (LP'05 talk) (pdf)
  3 Jun  2005
   3 p.m.
Shin-Shan Yu (U Penn): Measurement of the Ratio BR(Λ→  Λc μν)/BR(Λ→  Λc π)
                                        at CDF II
(ppt) (pdf)
20 May 2005
Ulrich Nierste (TH): Ideas after the SLAC/INT workshop (ps)  (pdf)
 6 May 2005
UT angle γ from tree-tree interference:
Ulrich Nierste (TH): More on γ from B→DX decays (ps)
Hung-Chung Fang (Berkeley): Opportunities for γ at CDF (pdf)
Sergey Burdin (D0): Opportunities for γ at D0 (pdf)
22 Apr 2005
Ulrich Nierste (TH): Angle γ from B→D0X decays (ps) (pdf)
15 Apr 2005
Thomas Becher (TH): Factorization in B→K*γ
  8 Apr 2005 Gino Isidori (Frascati): Light quark loops in K→ π νν
11 Mar 2005
Jack Laiho (TH): Lattice results on ε'
25 Feb 2005
Ulrich Nierste (TH): ΔΓBs beyond the Standard Model (ps) (pdf)
28 Jan  2005
Leo Bellantoni: Lepton-flavor violating Kaon decays
10 Dec 2004
Simone Donati (CDF): Measurement of the Branching Fractions and CP Asymmetries in B0hh
  3 Dec 2004
Andreas Kronfeld (TH): Mass of the Bc meson in 3-flavor lattice QCD (preprint)
15 Oct  2004
Thomas Becher (TH): Soft-Collinear Effective Theory
24 Sep  2004
Ron Ray (FNAL): New Physics Searches Using Muons:
Preview of the Muon Working Group at the Proton Driver Workshop (pdf) (ppt)
27 Aug 2004
 in WH2NW
Pedro Podesta (D0):
Bs and Λb lifetimes measured in Bs → J/ψ φ and Λ→ J/ψ Λ
13 Aug 2004
 in WH2NW
Sergey Burdin (D0): Bd mixing with same side flavor tagging
  6 Aug 2004
 in WH10NW
Denis Suprun (U Chicago):
Phenomenology of charmless hadronic B decays (pdf) (ppt)
30 July 2004
  in WH8NX
Peter Cooper (FNAL):
Future Kaon Physics at Fermilab K+ π+νν and more
23 July 2004
  in WH8NX
Masataka Okamoto (TH): Semileptonic Decays of D,B mesons and CKM determinations from Unquenched Lattice QCD
16 July 2004
  in WH8NX
Ulrich Nierste (TH): Theory prediction for ΔΓBs
28 May 2004
  in WH2NW
Vyacheslav Krutelyov (Texas A&M):
Search for rare decays Bs(d) μ+μ- using CDF Run-2 data (pdf) (ppt)
21 May 2004 Pentaquarks at CDF:
Yeon Sei Chung (U Rochester):
            Search for Charmed Pentaquark States at CDF
Elena Gerchtein (Carnegie Mellon U): Search for S=-2 Pentaquarks at CDF
  7 May 2004
  in WH10NW
B mixing at CDF:
Nuno Leonardo (MIT): Same Side Tagging Study at CDF using Run-II data
Jonatan Piedra (IFCA): B0 mixing with SST in fully reconstructed
                                             B decays at CDF  (
pdf)(ppt)
Ilya Kravchenko (MIT): Opposite side b flavor tagging at CDF
16 Apr 2004
  in WH8NX
Andrei Nomerotski (D0): Precise measurement of the B+B0 lifetime ratio
  9 Apr 2004 Dmitri Litvintsev (CDF): Search for S=-2 Pentaquarks at CDF
12 Mar 2004
Alexey Petrov (Wayne State):  Mixing and CP violation in charm
27 Feb  2004
Leonid G. Landsberg (IHEP,Protvino):
Is it still interesting to search for lepton flavor violation in rare kaon decays?
16 Jan   2004
Denis Suprun (U Chicago): Phenomenology of charmless B decays
  9 Jan   2004
Ivan Furic (MIT): Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions
                                  Br(Bs Ds- π+) / Br(B0 D- π+) with CDF-II
  5 Dec  2003
Zack Sullivan (TH): Is a b-squark hiding in Bd-mixing or the b cross section? (How can we tell?)
14 Nov 2003 Bs mixing festival
Ting Miao (CDF): Bs mixing at CDF
Brad Abbott (U Oklahoma): Bs mixing at D0
Uli Nierste (TH): Decay modes for
Bs mixing 
31 Oct 2003
Mary Bishai (CDF): b-anti-b cross section at CDF Run-II
24 Oct 2003
Robyn Madrak (Harvard): Λb lifetime at CDF from Λ→ J/ψ Λ
  3 Oct 2003
Kai Yi (J Hopkins): Charm physics at CDF and D0 and X(3850)
12 Sep 2003
Brendan Casey (Brown U): D0 b physics results 
22 Aug 2003
Uli Nierste (TH): CP violation in flavor-specific B decays
  1 Aug 2003
Andreas Korn (MIT): b hadron masses at CDF in Run-II
20 Jun 2003
Hrachia Asatrian (Yerevan Ph. Inst.):
NNLL contributions to AFB in b → sll
13 Jun 2003
Pyongwon Ko (U Mich): Bd  φ KS in SUSY models
  6 Jun 2003
Preparation of WIN'03 workshop
30 May 2003
Don Benson (U Notre Dame):
Extracting |Vcb| from semileptonic decays

16 May 2003 Estia Eichten (TH): Chiral multiplets of heavy-light mesons
  8 May 2003
Stefan Bosch (Cornell): Exclusive Radiative B Decays and Factorization
(special theory seminar in Curia-II)
21 Mar 2003
Konstantin Anikeev (MIT):
B and D physics at CDF including recent results
28 Feb 2003
Sebastian Jäger (TU München):
Supersymmetry in K πνν  and other rare K and B decays
  7 Feb 2003
Brendan Casey (Brown U):  aCP(B0 π+π-)  at BELLE
31 Jan 2003
Andreas Kronfeld (TH): Discussion on lattice QCD (ctd.)
24 Jan 2003
Andreas Kronfeld (TH): Discussion on lattice QCD 
17 Jan 2003
Leonid Landsberg (Protvino):
Overview of the CKM physics opportunities beyond K+ π+νν
10 Jan 2003
Hogan Nguyen (CKM):
Study of K+ π+νν  with the CKM experiment
 6 Dec 2002
Uli Nierste (TH): Heavy hadron lifetimes
15 Nov 2002
Uli Nierste (TH): Bs  μ+μ- and supersymmetry
Julia Thom (CDF): Progress in CDF on Bs  μ+μ-
 8 Nov 2002
Discussion on the framework of Chicago Flavor

Uli Nierste