Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS
Thursday–Saturday, November 9–11, 2006; Williamsburg, Virginia
Session DB: Recent Advances in High Energy Physics |
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Chair: Brad Cox, University of Virginia Room: Williamsburg Hospitality House Jamestown |
Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:00PM - 2:36PM |
DB.00001: Search for New Physics with Flavor Invited Speaker: In recent years, the quark-mixing angles and the $CP$ phase in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix have been measured with very high precision. Today, the availability of high-luminosity hadronic and electron-positron accelerators enables indirect searches for new quark generations and interactions at energies in the TeV range via rare processes involving quantum-loops. Low energy constraints for beyond Standard Model scenarios are derived from such measurements. Recent experimental results of searches in reactions involving $b$, $c$, and $s$-quarks will be presented. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:36PM - 3:12PM |
DB.00002: Today at the Tevatron, Tomorrow at the LHC Invited Speaker: This talk will give an overview of the Run2 physics program at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider highlighting recent results from the CDF and D-ZERO Collaborations. Both experiments study proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energies of approximately 2 TeV and are engaged in collecting and analyzing nearly 2 orders of magnitude more data than in the previous Tevatron running periods. Current results in electroweak, top, and new physics studies, as well as prospects for the full Run2 data set will be reviewed. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will soon open a window to explore elementary particle physics at a new, more fundamental scale with proton-proton interactions at center-of-mass energies of 14 TeV beginning in 2008. This discussion will conclude with an introduction to the physics goals for the first run at the LHC. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 9, 2006 3:12PM - 3:48PM |
DB.00003: Future directions in HEP: the LHC era and beyond Invited Speaker: The LHC era in high energy physics is about to begin, and we may soon be accruing data that unravels the mysteries surrounding electroweak symmetry breaking, and the nature of the Higgs boson. In addition, various data point to the possibility of weak scale supersymmetry as an integral part of physics beyond the Standard Model. At this point in time, there is a wonderful intertwining of cosmological physics and particle physics, and LHC may be helpful in unravelling the mystery of cold dark matter in the universe, and possibly shed light on dark energy. Any new physics uncovered by LHC will of course need to be studied in the precision environment of clean TeV-scale e+ e- collisions, so a case is made for the International Linear Collider, and what it might accomplish in both particle physics and cosmology. [Preview Abstract] |
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