Indiana University High Energy Physics
and Astrophysics Seminars
2003-2004 Academic Year
| Mondays, 4pm | Refreshments 3:30 pm |
| Swain West 238 | HEP Coffee Room (SW262) |
Organizers: Mike Berger and Mark Messier
Spring Semester 2004
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| Jan. 19: | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK |
| Martin Luther King Jr Day | |
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| Feb. 2: | B(d)->phi K(S) CP asymmetry as an important probe of supersymmetry |
| Haibin Wang | |
| Purdue U.
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| Feb. 9: | Little Higgs Phenomenology |
| Lian-Tao Wang | |
| U. Wisconsin
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| Mar. 15: | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK |
| Spring Break | |
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| Mar. 29: | Simulating heavy quarks using overlap fermions |
| Sonali Tamhankar | |
| University of Kentucky
New methods of simulating chiral fermions on lattice - overlap fermions
and domain wall fermions are being used to obtain exciting results.
However, simulations so far have focused on light quarks. I will talk
about simulating heavy quarks using overlap fermions. After an
introduction to overlap fermions, I will present results for charmonium
spectrum, using a 16^3*72 lattice, at a spacing of 0.0561fm.
Discretization errors in lattice simulations can be reduced by using a
finer spacing in the time direction. I will conclude with an exploratory
study of overlap fermions on anisotropic lattice.
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| Apr. 12: | Gamma-Gamma Colliders to Study the CP Nature of the Higgs Boson as Part of the R+D program for a Multi-TeV e+e- Collider |
| Mayda Velasco | |
| Northwestern U.
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| Apr. 26: | Searches for the Higgs Boson: Past, Present, and Future |
| Steve Armstrong | |
| University of Wisconsin
The Higgs mechanism is the prime candidate to accommodate and explain
electroweak and flavour symmetry breaking within the Standard Model.
Despite nearly 30 years of direct searches for the Higgs boson, it
has thus far evaded detection, presumably due to its large mass.
Hence, searches for Higgs boson(s) are a key motivating factor for
contemporary high energy physics experiments. A review of results of
direct Higgs boson searches and indirect precision electroweak fits
from Large Electron Positron (LEP) and the Tevatron colliders will
be presented followed by a discussion of the discovery potential at
the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC). An emphasis will be placed
on the unprecedented challenges with which LHC experiments must
successfully cope in order to discover this elusive particle.
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