Exploring the origin of mass: A new dawn

21 Apr 2010, 14:15 → 23 Apr 2010, 18:00 Europe/London

The meeting will focus on electroweak symmetry breaking. Topics to be discussed include * review of spontaneous symmetry breaking * recent results from the Tevatron * prospects for Higgs discovery at the LHC * new theoretical developments * beyond the standard model This workshop will bring together some of the leading experts in the field of electroweak symmetry breaking, with the aim of stimulating in-depth discussions of the prospects for the discovery of the Higgs boson and the theoretical tools needed to exploit its discovery as well as alternative ideas beyond the Higgs of the Standard Model.

Wednesday, 21 April

14:15 → 14:30 Welcome

14:30 → 14:55 History of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Speaker: Peter Higgs

15:00 → 15:40 Broken Symmetry

Speaker: Francois Englert

15:45 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 17:30 The Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (CERN)

Thursday, 22 April

09:00 → 09:25 Higgs searches from LEP

Speaker: Bill Murray (RAL)

09:30 → 09:55 Indirect limits on Higgs bosons from electroweak precision observables

Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

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10:00 → 10:25 Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Krisztian Peters (Manchester)

10:30 → 10:55 Higgs boson searches at the LHC

Speaker: Chiara Mariotti (INFN-Torino)

11:00 → 11:30 break

11:30 → 11:55 How accurately can we predict Higgs cross sections at the LHC?

Speaker: James Stirling (Cambridge)

12:00 → 12:25 Higgs production via gluon fusion

Speaker: Frank Petriello (U. Wisconsin)

12:30 → 12:55 Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion

Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (Wuerzburg)

13:00 → 14:15 lunch

14:15 → 14:40 Higgs pseudo observables

Speaker: Giampiero Passarino (Torino)

14:45 → 15:10 HiggsBounds: Confronting arbitrary Higgs sectors with exclusion bounds from LEP and Tevatron

Speaker: Karina Williams (Bonn)

15:15 → 15:40 Higgs boson parameter measurements at the LHC

Speaker: Michael Duehrssen (CERN)

15:45 → 16:15 break

16:15 → 16:40 Precise predictions for Higgs production at hadron colliders within the SM and beyond

Speaker: Radja Boughezal (U. Zurich)

16:45 → 17:10 Charged Higgs bosons in the MSSM

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg)

17:15 → 17:40 Jet substructure as a new Higgs search channel at the LHC

Speaker: Jon Butterworth (UCL)

Friday, 23 April

09:00 → 09:25 Extracting the CP Structure of the Higgs Boson Coupling from H+dijets

Speaker: Jeppe Andersen (CERN)

09:30 → 09:55 Hadronic production of a Higgs boson and two jets at next-to-leading order

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (IPPP)

10:00 → 10:25 Central Exclusive Production of Higgs bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Andy Pilkington (IPPP/Manchester)

10:30 → 10:55 NLO Higgs boson production matched with the parton shower using POWHEG

Speaker: Peter Richardson (IPPP)

11:00 → 11:30 break

11:30 → 11:55 Neutral Higgs bosons in the MSSM

Speaker: Georg Weiglein (DESY)

12:00 → 12:25 CP violation and supersymmetric Higgs bosons

Speaker: John Ellis (CERN)

12:30 → 12:55 Higgs bosons in the NMSSM

Speaker: David Miller (Glasgow)

13:00 → 14:15 lunch

14:15 → 14:40 Associated Higgs Production at the LHC: Multivariate Analyses, Limits Setting and Discovery Potential

Speaker: Tony Doyle (Glasgow)

14:45 → 15:10 Higgs boson searches at the Flavour Factories

Speaker: Fergus Wilson (RAL)

15:15 → 15:40 Higgs at the LHC: a new dawn or a polar night?

Speaker: Jochum van der Bij (Freiburg)

15:45 → 16:15 break

16:15 → 16:55 New approaches to electroweak symmetry breaking

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (CERN)