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BSM Journal Club Fall 2009

The particle theory graduate student journal club ("Pheno Club") meets once a week to discuss topics of interest in phenomenology. Topics roughly alternate between review articles and new papers.

Mondays, 1:00pm -- 3:00pm
Newman Lab, Room 311
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Fall 2009 Schedule

Topics marked (R) are review talks where some previous reading is recommended but not necessary. Otherwise topics are "current papers" and everyone is expected to have read the main paper in advance.

DATES SPEAKER TOPIC REFERENCES
31 Aug 09 Itay Nachshon Flavor Physics BSM (R) arXiv:0903.2118
7 Sep 09 Flip Tanedo Metastable SUSY Breaking (Notes, More) hep-th/0602239
14 Sep 09 Bibhushan Shakya Dark Matter: From Theory to Indirect Observation and Back (R) arXiv:0901.2925
21 Sep 0 Josh Berger Little Higgs (R) hep-ph/0512128
28 Sep 09 David Curtin DD-bar mixing (R, notes, presentation) PDG
hep-ph/0310076
5 Oct 09 Yuhsin Tsai An instant review of instantons (R) A-exam
19 Oct 09 Josh Berger Slepton Flavor Physics: CP Violation at the TeV Scale hep-ph/0111154
hep-ph/9603431
hep-ph/9704205
26 Oct 09 Flip Tanedo Kinky Kinematics? MT2 is just for you. (R, notes, refs) arXiv:0810.5178
arXiv:0709.0288
2 Nov 09 David Curtin Gauge invariance of the Fayet-Iliopoulos Term arXiv:0904.1159
7 Nov 09 Yuhsin Tsai Composite, dynamical SUSY breaking without messengers hep-ph/9712389
16 Nov 09 Bibhushan Shakya Sphericity Kills Sommerfeld arXiv:0911.0422
23 Nov 09 Itay Nachshon Interaction from NP in the neutrino sector hep-ph/0105159
30 Nov 09 Yong-Hui Qi A new custodial symmetry to protect the Zbb coupling (notes) hep-ph/0607146
4 Dec 09 Stefan Out of This World Supersymmetry Breaking (notes) hep-th/9810155

Fall 2009 Abstracts

2010 Winter 'Pheno Camp': 4D CFTs

This is a week-long, in-depth student workshop focusing on 4D conformal field theories in phenomenology. Meetings will be roughly 10 - 5pm every day with all participants in the same room. The dates have been fixed for 18 January - 22 January 2010, please schedule your winter break plans accordingly. We will study the 4D (super)conformal group and consider applications in supersymmetry, technicolor, AdS/CFT, renormalization group, compositeness, and as a solution to the hierarchy problem.

Primary and preparatory reading

Background Reading

This is a list of 'light reading' for those interested in preparing over the holidays. Participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the conformal algebra as a common starting point for our camp. It is strongly suggested that everyone reads chapter 4 of Di Francesco (above).

Conformal Technicolor

Superconformal Symmetry

AdS/CFT

Holography with Randall-Sundrum

Other

Resources

Unsure about places to start looking for talk ideas? Here are a few suggestions, geared towards the pedagogical side.

Guidelines