MITP Summer School 2017: Joint Challenges for Cosmology and Colliders

6 Aug 2017, 16:00 → 25 Aug 2017, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Erbacher Hof

The Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics hosts a summer school for Ph.D. students in theoretical physics. Attendance will be limited to 50-60 students, who will be hosted at the Erbacher Hof in downtown Mainz.

Confirmed lecturers and lecture series titles:

Evgeny Akhmedov (MPI Heidelberg) - Neutrino Phenomenology
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) - Collider Physics from the Bottom Up
Matthias Bartelmann (U. of Heidelberg) - Lambda CDM and Early Universe Cosmology
Brian Batell (U. of Pittsburgh) - Laboratory Probes of Dark Matter and Neutrinos
David Morrissey (TRIUMF/U. of Victoria) - CP Violation and the Baryogenesis Puzzle
Stefania Gori (U. of Cincinnati) - Beyond the Standard Model Phenomenology
Christophe Grojean (DESY/Humboldt U. Berlin) - Standard Model, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, and the Higgs Boson
Andreas Ringwald (DESY) - Axions and Axion-Like Particles
Tracy Slatyer (MIT) - CMB and Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter
LianTao Wang (U. of Chicago) - Dark Matter at the Collider
Neal Weiner (NYU) - Dark Matter Model Building
with a special lecture by
Thomas Konstandin (DESY) - Gravitational Waves

 

Lecture videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLejkXpUan6WG8DC6ZO4sLqQlIrAeMeIOo

Participants Participant_List.pdf

Poster 2017Poster

Sunday 6 August

Registration

18:00 Welcome reception

Monday 7 August

Welcome

Conveners: Dr Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz), Joachim Kopp (University of Mainz)

SM, EWSB, and Higgs: Grojean 1/4

Homework Grojean_Mainz_homework.pdf

Lecture 1 Grojean-Mainz_1.pdf

Outline Grojean_Mainz_Outline.pdf

10:30 Coffee and tea

Lambda CDM: Bartelmann 1/4

Lecture notes Bartlemann_cosmoSM.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

CPV and Baryogenesis: Morrissey 1/4

Lecture notes (link) http://trshare.triumf.ca/~dmorri/Teaching/MITP-BG/

15:30 Coffee and tea

Tuesday 8 August

Lambda CDM: Bartelmann 2/4

Lecture notes Bartlemann_cosmoSM.pdf

10:30 Coffee and tea

SM, EWSB, and Higgs: Grojean 2/4

Homework Grojean_Mainz_homework.pdf

Lecture 1 Grojean-Mainz_1.pdf

Outline Grojean_Mainz_Outline.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

CPV and Baryogenesis: Morrissey 2/4

Lecture notes (link) http://trshare.triumf.ca/~dmorri/Teaching/MITP-BG/

15:30 Coffee and tea

Wednesday 9 August

DM at Colliders: Wang 1/4

Lecture 3 Colliders_LTWang_Precision.pdf

Lectures 1-2 Collider_LTWang_Basics.pdf

10:30 Coffee and tea

SM, EWSB, and Higgs: Grojean 3/4

Homework Grojean_Mainz_homework.pdf

Lecture 1 Grojean-Mainz_1.pdf

Outline Grojean_Mainz_Outline.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

DM at Colliders: Wang 2/4

Lecture 3 Colliders_LTWang_Precision.pdf

Lectures 1-2 Collider_LTWang_Basics.pdf

15:30 Coffee and tea

Free discussion

Break into groups aligned with research interests

Thursday 10 August

CPV and Baryogenesis: Morrissey 3/4

Lecture notes (link) http://trshare.triumf.ca/~dmorri/Teaching/MITP-BG/

10:30 Coffee and tea

Lambda CDM: Bartelmann 3/4

Lecture notes Bartlemann_cosmoSM.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

DM at Colliders: Wang 3/4

Lecture 3 Colliders_LTWang_Precision.pdf

Lectures 1-2 Collider_LTWang_Basics.pdf

15:30 Coffee and tea

SM, EWSB, and Higgs: Grojean 4/4

Homework Grojean_Mainz_homework.pdf

Lecture 1 Grojean-Mainz_1.pdf

Outline Grojean_Mainz_Outline.pdf

Friday 11 August

Lambda CDM: Bartelmann 4/4

Lecture notes Bartlemann_cosmoSM.pdf

10:30 Coffee and tea

CPV and Baryogenesis: Morrissey 4/4

Lecture notes (link) http://trshare.triumf.ca/~dmorri/Teaching/MITP-BG/

12:30 Lunch and coffee

DM at Colliders: Wang 4/4

Lecture 3 Colliders_LTWang_Precision.pdf

Lectures 1-2 Collider_LTWang_Basics.pdf

15:30 Coffee and tea

Sunday 13 August

10:30 Excursion - Climbing park Neroberg

Monday 14 August

Neutrinos: Akhmedov 1/4

Lecture notes 1 mainz1.pdf

Lecture notes 2 mainz2.pdf

Lecture notes 3 mainz3.pdf

Lecture notes 4-1 mainz4-1.pdf

Lecture notes 4-2 mainz4-2.pdf

10:30 Coffee and tea

DM Model Building: Weiner 1/4

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Astrophysical probes of DM: Slatyer 1/4

Lecture 4 MainzLecture4_Slatyer.pdf

15:30 Coffee and tea

Student talks

Conveners: Rishabh Jain, Rupert Coy

1 Victor Guada

2 Alexandre Poulin

3 Federico Ambrogi

4 Rupert Coy

Tuesday 15 August

DM Model Building: Weiner 2/4

10:30 Coffee and tea

Neutrinos: Akhmedov 2/4

Lecture notes 1 mainz1.pdf

Lecture notes 2 mainz2.pdf

Lecture notes 3 mainz3.pdf

Lecture notes 4-1 mainz4-1.pdf

Lecture notes 4-2 mainz4-2.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Astrophysical probes of DM: Slatyer 2/4

Lecture 4 MainzLecture4_Slatyer.pdf

15:30 Coffee and tea

DM Model Building: Weiner 3/4

Wednesday 16 August

Campus visit

10:00 Walking to JGU Mainz campus

5 MAMI and MESA Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Achim Denig (JGU Mainz)

6 MAMI C and spectrometer hall tour

12:30 Lunch

On your own

7 Free discussion at MITP

14:30 Coffee and cookies

8 Thomas Konstandin - Gravitational Waves

17:00 BBQ

Thursday 17 August

DM Model Building: Weiner 4/4

10:30 Coffee and tea

Astrophysical probes of DM: Slatyer 3/4

Lecture 4 MainzLecture4_Slatyer.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Neutrinos: Akhmedov 3/4

Lecture notes 1 mainz1.pdf

Lecture notes 2 mainz2.pdf

Lecture notes 3 mainz3.pdf

Lecture notes 4-1 mainz4-1.pdf

Lecture notes 4-2 mainz4-2.pdf

15:30 Coffee and tea

Student talks

Conveners: Rishabh Jain, Rupert Coy

9 John Gargalionis

10 Rishabh Jain

11 Martin Klassen

12 Anirban Das

Friday 18 August

Astrophysical probes of DM: Slatyer 4/4

Lecture 4 MainzLecture4_Slatyer.pdf

10:30 Coffee and tea

Neutrinos: Akhmedov 4/4

Lecture notes 1 mainz1.pdf

Lecture notes 2 mainz2.pdf

Lecture notes 3 mainz3.pdf

Lecture notes 4-1 mainz4-1.pdf

Lecture notes 4-2 mainz4-2.pdf

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Student talks

Conveners: Rishabh Jain, Rupert Coy

13 Anatasia Filimonova

14 Jesse Stryker

15 Albert Samolienka

Saturday 19 August

10:00 Excursion - Weinbergsrundfahrt Nierstein

Meet at Erbacher Hof lobby at 10:30. Return to Mainz at about 14:15.

Sunday 20 August

09:00 Excursion - Hiking along the Rhein river

Meet at 9:45 am at the Mainz main train station (Hauptbahnhof), next to the flower shop at the main entrance. Hike from St. Goar to Oberwesel (about 10 km) and have lunch. Then, return by train to Mainz or continue another 14 km to Bacharach. Host: Dr. Sonia El Hedri

Monday 21 August

Laboratory Probes: Batell 1/4

10:30 Coffee and tea

Axions: Ringwald 1/4

12:30 Lunch and coffee

BSM phenomenology: Gori 1/4

15:30 Coffee and tea

Laboratory Probes: Batell 2/4

Tuesday 22 August

Axions: Ringwald 2/4

10:30 Coffee and tea

BSM phenomenology: Gori 2/4

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Laboratory Probes: Batell 3/4

15:30 Coffee and tea

Free discussion: Summary of Working Groups

Break into groups aligned with research interests

Student talks

Conveners: Rishabh Jain, Rupert Coy

16 Thomas Edwards

17 Anke Biekoetter

18 Jonas Wittbrodt

19 Wenyuan Ai

Wednesday 23 August

Axions: Ringwald 3/4

10:30 Coffee and tea

Collider physics from the bottom-up: Arkani-Hamed 1/4

paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04891

12:30 Lunch and coffee

BSM phenomenology: Gori 3/4

15:30 Coffee and tea

Collider physics from the bottom-up: Arkani-Hamed 2/4

paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04891

Thursday 24 August

Collider physics from the bottom-up: Arkani-Hamed 3/4

paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04891

10:30 Coffee and tea

Laboratory Probes: Batell 4/4

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Axions: Ringwald 4/4

15:30 Coffee and tea

Friday 25 August

BSM phenomenology: Gori 4/4

10:30 Coffee and tea

Collider physics from the bottom-up: Arkani-Hamed 4/4

paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04891

12:30 Lunch and coffee

Collider physics from the bottom-up: Arkani-Hamed 5/4

paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04891