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Experimental Particle Physics at Penn: Seminar Schedule

 

Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania

Experimental
Particle Physics
Seminars

Fall 2010 and Spring 2011

Tuesdays at 1:30pm in room 3W2 (Directions)
Coffee & cookies *before* the seminar in the Faculty Lounge

EVO meeting link UPenn particle physics seminar in Universe
Phone bridge is 79189 on 1-626-395-2112 (Caltech) or 1-631-344-6100 (BNL) or +41-22-767-1400 (Switzerland) or +33-144-27-81-50 (France) (password protected)

Contact: Associate Professor Evelyn Thomson

See also theory seminars and department colloquia

 

Info for Watching Video recordings

Download the zip file and uncompress the video folder. In the folder should be a number of files one of which will have EVO file extension. Next go to EVO's website at http://evo.caltech.edu/ and click on the "Recording Player" (Please note that Java needs to be installed to launch this application). Once the recording player has launched go to "File" and then "Open" and navigate to where the uncompressed folder/files are on your computer. Click on the file with the .EVO file extension in the video folder and click the "Open" button. This should launch the video recording windows and the video will start playing. For more information on EVO please refer EVO's website.

 

Tuesday October 26 at 1:30pm
Paul Langacker
IAS Princeton
Z' physics (slides pdf)
Tuesday November 16 at 1:30pm
Burt Ovrut
Penn
B-L MSSM (slides pdf)
Tuesday December 7 at 1:30pm
Sogee Spinner
Wisconsin
The Fate of R-parity(slides pdf)
One of the outstanding problems of supersymmetry is an understanding of the baryon and lepton number violating terms allowed in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (so-called R-Parity violating terms). Explanations which are linked to TeV scale physics are exciting due to their testability in the near future. I will discuss some TeV scale models, which provide a framework for understanding R-parity by utilizing it's connection to baryon minus lepton number symmetry(B-L). I will also outline some possible collider implications of such models.
Tuesday December 14 at 1:30pm
Tricia Vahle
William & Mary
New results from MINOS (slides pdf)
MINOS records interactions of neutrinos produced by the Fermilab NuMI beam line in two detectors, 734 km apart. Comparisons of the energy spectra and beam composition at the two sites yield precision measurements of neutrino oscillations for L/E $\sim$ 500 km/GeV. In this paper, updated results from an integrated exposure more than twice that of earlier publications will be presented. We will present a measurement of the probability of muon-neutrino disappearance as a function of energy and of the neutrino oscillation parameters \dmsq{32} and \sinsq{23}. We will report on the measurement of neutral current interaction rates in each detector, which enables a search for light neutrino families that do not couple via the weak interaction. We will also discuss results from the search for electron-neutrino events in the Far Detector, which probes the value of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. Finally, we will discuss a dedicated antineutrino run, which allows for measurement of antineutrino oscillation parameters.
Tuesday January 18 at 1:30pm
Rick Van Berg
PENN
 LSST (pdf slides)
Tuesday January 25 at 1:30pm
Corrinne Mills
Harvard
W physics results at ATLAS (pdf slides)
The 2010 LHC data from proton-proton collisons at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV give us our first look at matter and forces at an energy scale unprecedented at colliders. W bosons decaying to a charged lepton and a neutrino are a benchmark Standard Model process, and has the highest cross section of any process producing isolated high-momentum leptons. Although the integrated luminosity of this first data is orders of magnitude below what is projected for the next few years of LHC running, there is already a sufficient number of W candidates to begin characterizing W production at the LHC. I will show measurements by the ATLAS collaboration of the inclusive W cross section and lepton charge asymmetry, and describe a measurement in progress of the transverse momentum distribution of the W. These and similar measurements test our understanding of a new detector and of physics at a new energy scale, establishing the foundation needed to search for evidence of new particles and phenomena.
Tuesday February 1 at 1:30pm
Amit Lath
Rutgers
Search for a new hadronic resonance using jet ensembles at CDF (pdf slides)
Tuesday February 15 at 1:30pm
Mariangela Lisanti
Princeton
Model-Independent Searches at the LHC
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday February 22 at 1:30pm
Doug Glenzinski
Fermilab
The Mu2e experiment
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday March 1 at 1:30pm
Stan Seibert
University of Pennsylvania
MiniCLEAN
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday March 15 at 1:30pm
Daniel Whiteson
University of California, Irvine
Exploring the unknown universe with the LHC
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday March 22 at 1:30pm
Richard Hughes
Ohio State University
Recent CDF results on the Standard Model Higgs Search
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday March 29 at 1:30pm
Roy Briere
Carnegie Mellon University
Early results and prospects at BESIII
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday April 5 at 1:30pm
Sarah Demers
Yale University
Recent results from ATLAS on W -> tau nu
EVO Video Recording
Tuesday April 12 at 1:30pm
Kathy Copic
Columbia University
Recent results from ATLAS on W' and Z' searches
EVO Video Recording
 
 
Tuesday April 19 at 1:30pm
Richard Gray
Rutgers University
Recent results from CMS on multilepton searches
EVO Video Recording

 
Thursday April 21 at !Note time! 3:00pm
Peter Wittich
Cornell University
Recent results from CMS on W' searches
EVO Video Recording

 
Tuesday April 26 at 1:30pm
Brian Winer
Ohio State University
 
Recent results from FERMI
 
EVO Video Recording