Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting
Volume 53, Number 5
Friday–Tuesday, April 11–15, 2008; St. Louis, Missouri
Session R2: American Particle Physics in the Coming Era I |
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Charlie Baltay, Yale University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D |
Monday, April 14, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
R2.00001: The U.S. Role in the LHC Program Invited Speaker: The start of the LHC physics program will initiate the long anticipated chance to explore physics at the TeV mass scale. In collaboration with scientists across the globe, opportunities will exist for U.S. physicists to attack some of the most pressing physics questions of the field as well as break new ground in areas such as computing and detector development for very high luminosity data collection at an upgraded LHC. I will review a number of these exciting opportunities. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, April 14, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
R2.00002: The U.S. Role in the Global ILC Effort Invited Speaker: An e+e- Linear Collider in a similar center-of-mass energy range to the LHC was affirmed by the world community in 1999 (HEPAP, ECFA, \& ACFA) as the consensus next global HEP facility. With the ICFA decision in 2004 to adopt a superconducting approach to the RF technology of such a machine the Global Design Effort (GDE) was launched to produce a conceptual reference design and associated cost estimate. This design work also indicated the critical R&D milestones that needed to be demonstrated before the ILC could be credibly proposed to the various funding agencies. This talk will review the global R\&D program and the role of the U.S. within these activities. Recent funding decisions in the U.K. and the U.S. have impacted these efforts and the current status will be outlined. A snapshot of the detector R\&D program will also be given. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, April 14, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
R2.00003: Flavor Physics in the Coming Era Invited Speaker: Decades of intense experimental and theoretical effort in flavor physics has established a foundation from which incisive probes of physics beyond the Standard Model can be performed. Our most compelling theories of ``Terascale'' (TeV energy scale) physics typically predict new contributions to flavor-violating processes involving quarks. New particles predicted by Terascale physics are expected to have flavor-violating and CP-violating couplings. The rich program of experiments at B factories and elsewhere have unexpectedly found no clear signals of such contributions, which in turn tightly constrains the space for new physics. The ``Minimal Flavor Violating'' world we find ourselves in motivates a new program of precision experiments that can build on the strong theoretical foundation that exists today in flavor physics. This lecture will review where precision flavor experiments at the ``Intensity Frontier'' are at today and what the prospects are for advancing probes of new physics through precision experiments at next-generation Intensity Frontier facilities. [Preview Abstract] |
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