Detecting the Unexpected

There are a number of well-defined proposals for physics beyond the standard model that generate LHC signals that are significantly different from what is usually discussed (e.g. “unparticle” physics, “hidden valley models”, heavy stable particles, “quirks”,...). The idea behind the workshop is to get theorists and experimentalists together to discuss these ideas and what search strategies could be employed for these and other “unexpected” new physics at LHC.

Friday November 16

• 9:00-9:15 Welcome (Winston Ko)
• 9:15-10:00 Introductory talk: Hidden Valleys (Matt Strassler)
• 10:00-10:30 Questions/Discussion
• 10:30-11:15 Introductory talk: Quirks (Zacharia Chacko)
• 11:15-11:45 Questions/Discussion
• 11:45-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-2:15 Introductory talk: Unparticle Physics (Jonathan Feng)
• 2:15-2:45 Questions/Discussion
• 2:45-3:45 Moderated discussion: Hidden Valleys (Kathryn Zurek and Yuri Gershtein)
• 3:45-4:00 Coffee break
• 4:00-5:00 Continuation of moderated discussion

Saturday November 17

• 9:00-11:00 Moderated discussion: Quirks (Roni Harnik and Albert de Roeck)
• 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
• 11:15-11:45 Moderated discussion: Unparticle Physics (John Terning and Greg Landsberg)
• 11:45-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-3:00 Moderated discussion: Unparticle Physics continued
• 3:00-3:30 Triggers
• 3:30-3:45 Coffee break
• 3:45-5:00 Triggers/Open
• 5:00-5:30 Summary talk

Slides and mp3

• hidden valleys
• quirks
• unparticles

The following people have registered:

• Zacharia Chacko, faculty at Maryland
• Spencer Chang, postdocs at NYU
• Elliott Cheu, faculty at Arizona
• Kyle Cranmer, faculty at NYU
• Albert de Roeck, staff at CERN
• Jonathan Feng, faculty at UC Irvine
• Henry Frisch, faculty at Chicago
• Yuri Gershtein, faculty at Florida State
• Bohdan Grzadkowski, faculty at Warsaw
• Dan Green, staff at FNAL
• George Hou, faculty at Taiwan
• Can Killic, postdoc at Hopkins
• Greg Landsberg, faculty at Brown
• Steve Mrenna, staff at Fermilab
• Jason Nielsen, faculty at UCSC
• Mariano Quiros, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
• Matt Strassler, faculty at Rutgers
• Dave Stuart, faculty at UCSB
• Shufang Su, faculty at Arizona
• Scott Thomas, faculty at Rutgers
• Daniel Ventura, postdoc at Washington
• Liantao Wang, faculty at Princeton
• Gordon Watts, faculty at U. Washington
• Kathryn Zurek postdoc at Wisconsin

and “local” participants:

• Giacomo Cacciapaglia, postdoc at UC Davis
• Hsin-Chia Cheng, faculty at UC Davis
• Robin Erbacher, faculty at UC Davis
• John Conway, faculty at UC Davis
• Hock-Seng Goh, postdoc at UC Berkeley
• Jack Gunion, faculty at UC Davis
• Roni Harnik, postdoc at SLAC
• Zhenyu Han, postdoc at UC Davis
• JoAnne Hewett, staff at SLAC
• Nemanja Kaloper, faculty at UC Davis
• Winston Ko, Dean at UC Davis
• Dick Lander, faculty at UC Davis
• Markus Luty, faculty at UC Davis
• Guido Marandella, postdoc at UC Davis
• Yasunori Nomura, faculty at UC Berkeley
• Michael Peskin, staff at SLAC
• Dave Pellett, faculty at UC Davis
• Tom Rizzo, staff at SLAC
• Philip Schuster, postdoc at SLAC
• John Terning, faculty at UC Davis
• Natalia Toro, postdoc at SLAC
• Devon Walker, postdoc at Berkeley
• Tomar Wizansky, student at SLAC