====== Beyond the Standard Model Journal Club ====== ===== Spring 2017 ===== Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd This semester we are meeting on Friday at 4:15 pm, unless otherwise stated. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Feb 17 | **Nick Rodd** | Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube | | | ^ Feb 24 | ** Yong Zhao** | Matching the Quasi Parton Distribution in a Momentum Subtraction Scheme | | | ^ Mar 1 (Wednesday) | **Oscar Macias** | Is the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess due to Dark Matter? | **Nick Rodd** | | ^ Mar 10 | **Gherardo Vita ** | Subleading Factorization in SCET: Hard Scattering Operators and Radiative Functions | | | ^ Mar 17 | **Ken Lane** | The 30 GeV dimuon excess at ALEPH | **Lina Necib ** | | ^ Mar 24 | **Frank Tackmann** | Simplified Template cross sections for the next Higgs measurements | | | ^ Mar 31^ ** Spring Break ** ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Apr 7 | **Hongwan Liu ** | Enabling Forbidden Dark Matter | | | ^ Apr 14 | **Yuhsin Tsai ** | Probing Dark Showers at The LHCb Detector | **Jesse ** | | ^ Apr 21 | **Yuichiro Nakai** | Electric Dipole Moments in Natural Supersymmetry | **Yotam** | | ^ Apr 28 | ** Moritz Preisser ** | | | | ^ May 5 | **Mark Hertzberg ** | Special Relativity from Soft Gravitons | | | ^ May 12 | **Ben Safdi** | | | | ^ May 19 | | | | | ===== Fall 2016 ===== Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Sept 7, 2016| ** Lina Necib ** | Spherical Cows of Dark Matter Indirect Detection | | | ^ Sept 14, 2016^ ** No Talk ** ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Sept 21, 2016| ** Ben Elder ** | Generalized Fragmentation Functions for Fractal Observables | | | ^ Sept 28, 2016| ** Gherardo Vita ** | First steps into subleading factorization for collider physics observables | | | ^ Oct 5, 2016| ** Chih-Liang Wu ** | General constraints on Dark Matter Decay from Cosmic Microwave Background | | | ^ Oct 12, 2016| **Aditya Pathak** | Precision Top Quark Mass Extraction at the LHC using SoftDrop | | | ^ Oct 19, 2016| **Oren Slone** | New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter - from sub-GeV Direct Detection to AGNs | | | ^ Oct 26, 2016| **William Shepherd** | SM EFT Contributions to Z Decay at One Loop | | | ^ Nov 2, 2016| ** Felix Yu** | Phenomenology of Enhanced Light Quark Yukawa Couplings and the Wh Charge Asymmetry | | | ^ Nov 9, 2016| **Siddharth Mishra-Sharma ** | Dark matter searches outside our galaxy | | | ^ Nov 16, 2016| **Patrick Fitzpatrick** | Capture and Decay of Electroweak WIMPonium | | | ^ Nov 23, 2016^ ** Thanksgiving ** ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Nov 30, 2016| ** Hua-Xing Zhu** | Power Corrections from Effective Field Theory | | | ^ Dec 7, 2016| **Frédéric Dreyer ** | Small-radius jets at the LHC | | | ^ Dec 14, 2016| ** ** | :?: | | | ===== Spring 2016 ===== Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Feb 3, 2016| **Duff Neill** | The Soft Substructure of Jets. | | | ^ Feb 10, 2016| **Wei Xue** | dark sector search from galaxy and collider | | | ^ Feb 17, 2016| **Vicent Mateu** | :?: | Iain Stewart | :?: | ^ Feb 24, 2016| **Hongwan Lui** | Did dark matter end the cosmic dark ages? | | | ^ Mar 2, 2016| ** Kenneth Lane ** | A Light Composite Higgs and its Heavy Vector Partners | Lina Necib | lane at bu dot edu | ^ Mar 9, 2016| **Aditya Pathak** | Small x Resummation from Effective Field Theory | | | ^ Mar 16, 2016| **Kai Yan and Chris Frye** | Groomed jet observable and clustering effects/ Jet Substructure at NNLL+NNLO | Lina Necib | | ^ Mar 23, 2016| ** Spring Break** | | | | ^ Mar 30, 2016| **Gherardo and Chih-Liang** | Do we need N3LO PDFs?, and Detection of neutrino magnetic moment and dark matter. | | | ^ Apr 6, 2016| **HuaXing Zhu** | Towards Ultimate Precision for Transverse-Momentum Spectra of Electroweak Bosons with Effective Field Theory | | | ^ Apr 13, 2016| **Yotam Soreq** | Inclusive dark photon search at LHCb | | | ^ Apr 20, 2016| **Tracy Slatyer** | Why Resonant Sommerfeld Enhancement Doesn't Violate Unitarity | | | ^ Apr 27, 2016| :?: | :?: | | | ^ May 4, 2016| ** Lina Necib ** | Asymmetry Sharing/ Boosted Dark Matter | | | ^ May 11, 2016| **Ian Moult** | Progress in Subleading Power Factorization and Applications | | | ===== Fall 2015 ===== Organizing Committee: Lina Necib, Nick Rodd This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Sept 16, 2015| **Yotam Soreq** | Higgs Couplings to Light Quarks | Lina Necib | soreqy at mit dot edu | ^ Sept 23, 2015| **Daniel Kolodrubetz** | How strong is strong? A precision determination of alpha_s from the C parameter.| :?: | :?: | ^ Sept 30, 2015| **Aaron Vincent** | The effect of dark matter on the sun| :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 7, 2015| **Lina Necib** | GC excess in relations with Nbody simulations (1509.02164 and 1509.02166) | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 14, 2015| **Ben Elder** | Fuzzy jets (1509.02216) | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 21, 2015| **Alejandro Jenkins** | Analyticity and renormalization in nucleon scattering, or Misusing effective field theory techniques in nuclear physics | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 28, 2015| **Jesse Thaler** | Minimal Supersymmetric Slow-roll Inflation | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 4, 2015| **Hamish Silverwood** | Dark Matter Local Density | Tracy Slatyer | :?: | ^ Nov 11, 2015| **Ian Moult** | Analytic Boosted Boson Discrimination with D_2 | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 18, 2015| **Enrique Kajomivitz** | ATLAS hadronic diboson search | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 25, 2015^ **NO TALK - THANKSGIVING** |||| ^ Dec 2, 2015| **Nick Rodd** | The High Energy Tail of the Galactic Centre Excess/ Finding The Point Sources that make Up the Galactic Centre Excess (maybe with jets) | :?: | :?: | ^ Dec 9, 2015| **Iain Stewart** | An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation | :?: | :?: | ===== Spring 2015 ===== Organizing Committee: Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. Refreshments will be served at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Feb 25, 2015| **Dan Kolodrubetz** | Running EW couplings as a probe of naturalness (1410.6810) | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 4, 2015| **Andrew Larkoski** | Further evidence that Lagrangians are overrated (1502.05057) | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 11, 2015| **Adi Pathak** | On jet substructure methods for signal jets (1503.01088) | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 18, 2015| **Thomas Becher** | NNLL Resummation for Transverse Thrust | Duff | :?: | ^ Apr 1, 2015| **Matt Baumgart** | de Sitter wavefunctionals and the resummation of time | Duff | :?: | ^ Apr 8, 2015| **Jakub Scholtz** | Dissipative dark matter (1412.1839) | :?: | :?: | ^ Apr 15, 2015| **Sabrina Pasterski** | Asymptotic Virasoro symmetries and gravitational memory | Andrew | :?: | ^ Apr 22, 2015| **Bhupal Dev** | Natural Standard Model Alignment in the Two Higgs Doublet Model | Jesse | :?: | ^ Apr 29, 2015| **Sonia El Hedri** | Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on Dark Sectors | Andrew| :?: | ^ May 6, 2015| **Diego Guadagnoli** | On recent anomalies in B decays at LHCb | Jesse | :?: | ^ May 13, 2015| **Anson Hook** | Strong CP motivations for TeV scale colored physics | Jesse | :?: | ===== Fall 2014 ===== Organizing Committee: Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4:15 pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Sept 17, 2014| **Jesse** | Quarks, Gluons, and Information Theory (1408.3122) | :?: | :?: | ^ Sept 24, 2014| **Lina Necib** | Boosted dark matter (1405.7370) | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 1, 2014| **Sam McDermott**| Wavelets and the GeV excess | Tracy | :?: | ^ Oct 8, 2014| **Tracy Slatyer** | Planck CMB results | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 15, 2014| **Ian Moult** | Power Counting Jet Substructure | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 22, 2014| **Wei Xue** | Dark Photon Search and Dark Matter Indirect Detection | :?: | | ^ Oct 29, 2014| **Seyda Ipek** | CP violation and pseudo-Dirac gluinos | Yoni | ipek AT uw DOT edu | ^ Nov 5, 2014| **Yoni Kahn** | Halo-independent methods | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 12, 2014| **Gilly Elor** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 19, 2014| **Yue Zhao** | :?: | Jesse | zhaoyue AT stanford.edu | ^ Nov 26, 2014| **NO TALK - THANKSGIVING** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Dec 3, 2014| **Ben Safdi** | Cosmic neutrinos | :?: | :?: | ^ Dec 10, 2014| **Simone Marzani** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ===== Spring 2014 ===== Organizing Committee: Gilly Elor, Yonatan Kahn, Jesse Thaler This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Feb 5, 2014| **CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW** | :?: | :?: |:?: | ^ Feb 12, 2014| **Stefan Meinel** | Proton charge radius puzzle | :?: | smeinel AT mit DOT edu | ^ Feb 19, 2014| **Gustavo Tavares** | Scale invariance and naturalness | :?: | gusmt AT bu DOT edu | ^ Feb 26, 2014| **CANCELLED DUE TO LNS SPECIAL SEMINAR**| :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 5, 2014| **Daniele Bertolini** | 1402.2285 | :?: | danbert AT mit DOT edu | ^ Mar 12, 2014| **Nayara Fonseca** | 1402.2287 | :?: | nayara AT mit DOT edu | ^ Mar 19, 2014| **Ian Moult and Aditya Pathak** | Practice talks for SCET conference | :?: | | ^ Apr 2, 2014| **Peter Stoffer** | HLbL and muon g-2 (1402.7081) | Will Detmold | stoffer AT itp DOT unibe DOT ch | ^ Apr 9, 2014| **Nick Rodd** | Recent paper with Tracy (1402.6703) | :?: | nrodd AT mit DOT edu | ^ Apr 16, 2014| **Julien Billard** | Recent CDMS low-threshold results | :?: | billard AT mit DOT edu | ^ Apr 23, 2014| **Ilya Feige** | Many roads to factorization | :?: | feige AT physics DOT harvard DOT edu | ^ Apr 30, 2014| **Andrew Larkoski** | :?: | :?: | larkoski AT mit DOT edu | ^ May 7, 2014| **Iain Stewart** | New operator-based formalism for forward scattering and factorization violation | :?: | iains AT mit DOT edu | ^ May 14, 2014| **Gilly Elor** | :?: | :?: | gelor84 AT gmail DOT com | ===== Fall 2013 ===== Organizing Committee: Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Sep 25, 2013| **Stefan Meinel** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 2, 2013| **Matthew McCullough** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 9, 2013| **Daekyoung Kang** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 16, 2013| **Andrew Larkoski** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 23, 2013| **Lina Necib** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 30, 2013| **Iftah Galon** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 6, 2013| **no seminar** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 13, 2013| **Tom Melia** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 20, 2013| **Duff Neill** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 27, 2013| **Ian Moult** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Dec 4, 2013| **Marat Freytsis** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Dec 11, 2013| **Yonatan Kahn** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ===== Spring 2013 ===== Organizing Committee: Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Feb 13, 2013 | **Yoni Kahn** (MIT) | :?: | Matthew | ykahn at MIT.EDU | ^ Feb 20, 2013 | **Matthew McCullough** (MIT) | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Feb 27, 2013 | **Jesse Thaler** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 6, 2013 | **Dan Kolodrubetz** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 13, 2013 | **Zachary Thomas** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 20, 2013 | **No Journal Club** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Mar 27, 2013 ^ Spring Break |||| ^ Apr 3, 2013 | **Daniele Bertolini** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Apr 10, 2013 | **Nima Overflow Slot** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Apr 17, 2013 | **Sean Weinberg** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Apr 24, 2013 | **Adam Anderson** (MIT/CDMS) | :?: | :?: | adama at mit.edu | ^ May 1, 2013 | **Simone Marzani** (Durham) | :?: | :?: | simone.marzani at durham.ac.uk | ^ May 8, 2013 | :?: | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ May 15, 2013 | **Andrew Larkoski** | :?: | :?: | :?: | ==== Possible People to Speak ==== * Andrew * Jesse * Yasunori * Meng? * Lina? * CDMS person * Iain's students ===== Fall 2012 ===== Organizing Committee: Matthew McCullough, Jesse Thaler This semester we are meeting on Wednesday at 4pm. | ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ Host ^ Email ^ ^ Sept 7, 2012 (FRI)| **Pier Francesco Monni** (Zurich) | :?: | Jesse | pfmonni at physik.uzh.ch | ^ Sept 12, 2012| Zachary Thomas | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Sept 19, 2012| Daniele Bertolini | Summer 2012 Higgs Implications | :?: | :?: | ^ Sept 26, 2012| :?: | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 3, 2012| Yoni Kahn | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 10, 2012| Jaime Varela | :?: | Matthew | jaimevrl at berkeley.edu | ^ Oct 17, 2012| :?: | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Oct 24, 2012| Andrew Ian Chen | AMS02 | Matthew | achen7 at MIT.EDU | ^ Oct 31, 2012| Sean Downes | :?: | Daniele | sddownes at physics.tamu.edu | ^ Nov 7, 2012| Matthew McCullough | :?: | :?: | mccull at mit.edu | ^ Nov 14, 2012| Grant Larsen | :?: | :?: | larsen.ge at gmail.com | ^ Nov 21, 2012| Moved | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Nov 28, 2012| :?: | :?: | :?: | :?: | ^ Dec 5, 2012| :?: | :?: | :?: | :?: | ==== Additional Topics ==== * 1208.0601: (Johannes Heinonen, Richard J. Hill, Mikhail P. Solon) * Update on 130 GeV Line? * Status of Natural SUSY? * N=2 papers? * Yoni: something SUSY * Zach: not SUSY * Andrew: Jets? * Duff: Update on Jet Broadening? * Yasunori Students! (Talk about their own papers.) * Save December for CMS Higgs Update (Diphoton? Tau?) * Planck? (January?) * No need to do XENON? * For spring: LHC shutdown anticipation. Mini MadGraph Project? ===== Spring 2012 ===== Organizers: Matthew McCullough, Keith Rehermann | ^ Speaker ^ Comments | ^ March 1, 2012| Matthew | Seiberg duality versus hidden local symmetry | ^ March 8, 2012| Duncan Ralph | Something from from CMS | ^ March 15, 2012| Kevin Sung | Something from from CMS | ^ March 22, 2012| Cancelled | ? | ^ March 29, 2012^ :!: Spring vacation || ^ April 5, 2012| Daniele | Higgs and Dark Matter | ^ April 12, 2012| Cancelled | ? | ^ April 19, 2012| Zachary | R-symmetry and lepton number | ^ April 26, 2012| Jesse (tentative) | Dark anomalies | ^ May 3, 2012| Yoni | Conformal symmetry and scale invariance results | ^ May 10, 2012| Keith | ? | ^ May 24, 2012| Raffaele D'Agnolo | 2 Higgs or not 2 Higgs | ^ May 31, 2012| Siavosh Behbahani | ? | ^ July 3, 2012| Ennio Salvoni | Special journal club | ====== Past Semesters ====== ===== Fall 2011 ===== Organizers: Matthew McCullough, Keith Rehermann | ^ Speaker ^ Comments | ^ Sept 15, 2011| Matthew | The CRESST Experiment | ^ Sept 22, 2011| Teppo | Recent LHC SUSY searches | ^ Sept 29, 2011| Daniele | Superluminal neutrinos at OPERA | ^ Oct 6, 2011| | | ^ Oct 13, 2011| Zach | Predictions of the Higgs Boson Mass from A Finely-Tuned Weak Scale | ^ Oct 20, 2011| Yoni | Limits on a fourth generation | ^ Oct 27, 2011| | | ^ Nov 2, 2011| Keith | Multi-leptons at CMS | ^ Nov 10, 2011| Jesse | Collider limits on natural SUSY | ^ Nov 17, 2011| :?: Joshua Berger (Cornell) | New CP violating observables for the LHC | ^ Nov 24, 2011^ :!: Thanksgiving || ^ Dec 1, 2011| Daekyoung Kang | LHCb signals of CP violation in D mesons | ^ Dec 8, 2011| Francesco? | | ^ Dec 15, 2011| | | Keep in mind: Daekyoung on cold atom? ===== Spring 2011 ===== Organizers: Keith Rehermann | ^ Speaker ^ Comments | ^ Mar 3, 2011| **Keith Rehermann** | ATLAS SUSY Searches | ^ Mar 10, 2011| **Daniele Bertolini** | CMS Lepton Searches | ^ Mar 17, 2011| **Teppo Jouttenus** | CMS Higgs Searches | ^ Mar 24, 2011^ :!: Spring Break || ^ Mar 31, 2011| Cancelled | | ^ Apr 7, 2011| **Yoni Kahn** | | ^ Apr 14, 2011| **Pavel Fileviez Perez** (UW-Madison) | The Theory of R-parity at the LHC | ^ Apr 21, 2011| **Saba Zuberi** (UC Berkeley) | | ^ Apr 28, 2011| | | ^ May 5, 2011| | | ^ May 12, 2011| | | ===== Fall 2010 ===== Organizers: Jesse Thaler, Francesco D'Eramo | ^ Speaker ^ Comments | ^ Sept 9, 2010| Jesse Thaler | Highlights from [[http://www-ctp.mit.edu/lhc/|Implications of First LHC Data]] | ^ Sept 16, 2010| Chris Lee | Jet Shapes in Effective Field Theory | ^ Sept 23, 2010| Chris Vermillion | The CMS Ridge | ^ Sept 30, 2010| Keith Rehermann | Highlights of Topolgies2010 | ^ Oct 7, 2010| Fu-Sin Ling (Brussels) | The flavor puzzle : Why neutrinos are different ? | ^ Oct 14, 2010| Yoni Kahn | Origins of Hidden Sector Dark Matter | ^ Oct 21, 2010| Lorenzo Ubaldi (Santa Cruz) | Probing Dark Matter with AGN Jets | ^ Oct 28, 2010| Daniele Bertolini | Stimulated Supersymmetry Breaking | ^ Nov 4, 2010| Cancelled | | ^ Nov 11, 2010^ :!: Veteran's Day || ^ Nov 18, 2010| Riccardo Abbate | Direct Detection of Dark Matter, 1011.1910, 1011.1915 | ^ Nov 25, 2010^ :!: Thanksgiving || ^ Dec 2, 2010| Mindaugas Lekaveckas | Solitonic SUSY Restoration, 1011.4944 | ===== Spring 2010 ===== De Facto Organizers: Teppo Jouttenus, Francesco D'Eramo, Jesse Thaler | ^ Speaker ^ Title | ^ March 11, 2010 | Francesco D'Eramo | Cogent Results, 1002.4703, 1003.0014, 1003.0682| ^ March 18, 2010 | Daniele Bertolini | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1718|Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Monopole Condensation]] | ^ April 1, 2010 | Josephine Suh | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1722|Unified Approach to Cosmic Acceleration]] | ^ April 8, 2010 ^ :!: //No Meeting// || ^ April 15, 2010 | Andrea De Simone | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1567|Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter]] | ^ April 22, 2010 | Riccardo Abbate | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3886|Bigger, Better, Faster, More at the LHC]] | ^ April 29, 2010 | Teppo Jouttenus | Highlights from SCET 2010 | ^ May 6, 2010 | Surjeet Rajendran | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0937|Exothermic Dark Matter]] | ^ May 13, 2010 | Shufang Su | Visiting from Arizona | ^ May 20, 2010 | Minde Lekaveckas | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2757|Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry]] |