The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2018

21 May 2018, 08:00 → 23 May 2018, 18:00 US/Central

In association with the Physics Department at Sam Houston State University, the 2018 Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics will be held on May 21-23 at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University. The conference will focus on recent developments in the fields of collider, dark matter, and neutrino physics. The conference will be attended by experimental and theoretical experts from these fields, and plenty of time will be allocated for interaction, discussion, and collaboration.

Venue
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Mitchell Institute (MIST), Hawking Auditorium

Internet Access
Guest internet instructions will be provided with your welcome packet. Some guests have had connectivity issues in the past, so we highly recommend that you setup Eduroam if your home institution supports it. The setup requires internet connection, so it needs to be done before hand. Once done it will allow you hassle-free internet access at more than 400 academic institutions around the US. Please contact your IT support for assistance.

Travel Information 
Please visit: http://mitchell.tamu.edu/collider-and-dark-matter-physics-2018/

Organizers
Mohammad Abdullah
Amanda Barreiro (Admin)
James Dent
Bhaskar Dutta
Teruki Kamon
Louis Strigari
Joel Walker

Monday 21 May

08:00 → 08:50 Check-in + Light breakfast

08:50 → 09:00 Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)

2018_Mitchell_Intro.pdf

09:00 → 10:00 Dark Matter

09:00 Astrophysical and Dark Matter Origin of the IceCube High-energy Neutrino Events

Speaker: Dr Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)

dev_tamu18.pdf

09:20 Concentrated Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Scott Watson (Syracuse University)

TAMU.pdf

09:40 Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars

Speaker: Dr Tim Linden (The Ohio State University )

1-3-Linden.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Tea Break

10:20 → 11:20 Collider Physics

10:20 Higgs Physics at CMS

Speaker: Paul Padley (Rice University (US))

Mitchell Conference Padley May 2018.pdf

10:40 Exotic Higgs searches at the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Dr Luca Pernie (Texas A&M University)

18_05_29_HiggsExo_Mitchel.pdf

11:00 Exotic Higgs searches - ATLAS

Speaker: Lei Zhang (Nanjing University (CN))

2018May21_Texas_Mitchel2018_talkV2.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Tea Break

11:40 → 12:40 Phenomenology

11:40 Loop-Induced Single Top Partner Production and Its Exotic Decays at the HL-LHC

Speaker: Jeong Han Kim (University of Kansas)

Mitchell_Conference_2018_JHK.pdf

12:00 Separating nucleon and nuclear effects in quasielastic (anti)neutrino-nucleus scattering

Speaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

Paz_Mitchell_2018.pdf

12:20 Six Flavor Quark Matter

Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

6FQM_YangBai.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break - on your own

14:00 → 15:00 Cosmology

14:00 Primordial Black Holes from String Inflation

Speaker: Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)

4-1 Cicoli.pdf

14:20 Nonthermal Dark Matter from Early Matter Domination Revisited

Speaker: Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)

4-2-Allahverdi.pdf

14:40 A Natural Explanation to the 21-cm Absorption Signal via the QCD Axion

Speaker: Prof. Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences )

4-3-Tianjun.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Tea Break

15:20 → 16:20 Miscellaneous

15:20 Mining LHC Data for Anomalies

Speaker: Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University)

buckleyTAMU.pdf

15:40 Searching for W' using b-tagging, hadronic taus, and missing energy

Speaker: Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)

Mitchell2018.pdf

16:00 IceCube's astrophysical neutrino spectrum from CPT violation

Speaker: Danny Marfatia

5-3-Marfatia.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Tea Break

16:40 → 17:40 Student Talks

16:40 21cm Limits on Decaying Dark Matter and Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Steven Clark (Texas A&M University - College Station)

Clark_mitchell_workshop_2018.pdf

16:55 CEvNS as a probe of Z' through kinetic and mass mixing effects

Speaker: Shu Liao (Texas A&M University)

shul_kmix.pdf

17:10 Bottom-quark Fusion Processes at the LHC for Probing Z′ Models and B-meson Decay Anomalies

Speaker: Adrian Thompson (Texas A&M)

bff_zprime_thompson_v3.pdf

17:25 Leptogenesis and non-standard cosmology

Speaker: Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M University)

Leptogenesis and Non-standard Cosmology.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Reception at Cavalry Court

Tuesday 22 May

08:00 → 09:00 Check-in + Light Breakfast

09:00 → 10:00 Miscellaneous

09:00 Light Mediators in Neutrino Physics: Oscillations versus Scattering Data

Speaker: Ian Shoemaker

TAMUmitchell_IMS.pdf

09:20 Probing neutrino sector through Higgs decays

Speaker: Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma State University)

TAMU18_Babu.pdf

09:40 Jet SIFT-ing

Speaker: Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)

Jet-SIFTing_Mitchell.pdf

Movies

• 1_PP_TTB_P0_ORIG.mov
• 2_LEP_TTB_2500_AK5_GST.mov
• 3_LEP_TTB_2500_GST.mov
• 4_PP_TTB_P0_SIFT.mov
• 5_LEP_TTB_2500_GST_SIFT.mov

10:00 → 10:20 Tea Break

10:20 → 11:20 Phenomenology

10:20 Searching for See-Saw Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Shreyashi Chakdar (Colby College)

Mitchell2018_chakdar.pptx

10:40 Signatures of New Anomalous Gauge Bosons

Speaker: Ahmed Ismail

Ismail_Mitchell_2018.pdf

11:00 Colored scotogenic

Speaker: Prof. Diego Restrepo (Universidad de Antioquia)

2-3-Restrepo.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Tea Break

11:40 → 12:40 Collider Physics

11:40 Supersymmetry searches with ATLAS

Speaker: William James Fawcett (Universite de Geneve (CH))

searchingForSUSY.pdf

12:00 Searches for Physics Beyond Standard Model at CMS

Speaker: Youngdo Oh

3-2-Oh.pdf

12:20 Search for New Gauge Bosons with ATLAS

Speaker: Reda Tafirout (TRIUMF (CA))

talk_mitchell18_tafirout_final.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break - on your own

14:00 → 15:00 Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology

14:00 Current Status and Recent Result of the XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment

Speaker: Dr Petr Shagin (Rice University)

Mitchell_18_pshagin_ver4_short.pdf

14:20 Searching for Dark Matter Interactions in Cosmology

Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins University)

boddy.pdf

14:40 The Fermilab LArTPC Neutrino Program

Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

Asaadi_2018_TAMU.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Tea Break

15:20 → 16:20 Cosmology

15:20 Constraining Axion-Like-Particles with Hard X-ray Emission from Magnetars

Speaker: Prof. Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)

5-1-Sinha.pdf

Kuver_Sinha_Mitchell_talk.pdf

15:40 Gravitational Leptogenesis, Reheating, and Models of Neutrino Mass

Speaker: Dr Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Adshead.pdf

16:00 The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter

Speaker: Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

ErickcekMitchellDM18.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Tea Break

16:40 → 17:40 Dark Matter

16:40 Bremsstrahlung in dark matter direct detection

Speaker: Dr Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)

6-1-Newstead.pdf

17:00 Reaching Beyond the Standard Scenarios: From Strongly Coupled Dark Sectors and Thermal Freezeout to Cosmological Phase Transitions and the Lifetime Frontier

Speaker: Prof. Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)

Dienes_tamu3.pdf

17:20 Lines, Boxes, and Conveyor Belts: Deciphering Astrophysical and Cosmological Imprints of Extended Dark Sectors

Speaker: Prof. Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)

Mitchell-Workshop-2018 (17 minutes).pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner at Kreuz Market Texas BBQ

Wednesday 23 May

08:00 → 08:55 Check-in + Light Breakfast

08:55 → 09:00 Acknowledgments and Announcements

Speaker: Mohammad Abdullah (Texas A&M University)

09:00 → 10:20 Neutrinos, flavor, and cosmology

09:00 An Update on the Borexino Solar Neutrino Program

Speaker: Prof. Ed Hungerford (University of Houston)

1-1-Hungerford.pdf

09:20 Flavor Physics and Light Dark Sectors

Speaker: Irina Mocioiu (Pennsylvania State University)

1-2-Mocioiu.pdf

09:40 Primordial black holes in dwarf galaxies

Speaker: Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)

1-3-Koushiappas.pdf

10:00 First observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and continued efforts of the COHERENT Collaboration

Speaker: Grayson Rich

1-4-Rich.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Tea Break

10:50 → 12:10 Collider Physics

10:50 Top quark-Higgs boson interactions

Speaker: Peter Onyisi (University of Texas at Austin (US))

20180522_mitchell_top.pdf

11:10 Search for Supersymmetry at CMS

Speaker: Teruki Kamon (Texas A & M University (US))

2-2-Kamon.pdf

11:30 Searches for Dark Matter in MonoX at CMS

Speaker: Shuichi Kunori (Texas Tech University (US))

kunori_20180523_CMSdm_TexasAM.pdf

11:50 ttH related searches in the SM and/or the MSSM

Speaker: Simone Monzani (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

ttHMonzani.pdf

12:10 → 13:45 Lunch Break - on your own

13:45 → 14:00 Texas Dialogue Session

Speaker: Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)

14:00 → 15:00 Texas Session

14:00 Things that go bump in the data: Searching Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Fred Olness

3-1-Olness.pdf

14:20 The Mu2e Experiment at FNAL

Speaker: Dr Aji Daniel (University of Houston)

3-2-Daniel.pdf

14:40 Non-thermal dark matter production from the end of inflation

Speaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)

Amin&Garcia_MitchellConf.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Tea Break

15:20 → 16:20 Texas Session

15:20 Searching For Dark Matter At UH

Speaker: Andrew Lee Renshaw (University of Houston (US))

Renshaw-DarkMatterAtUH.pdf

15:40 A Secret Asymmetry From Flavored Dark Matter

Speaker: Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)

Mitchell2018 SADM.pdf

16:00 Recent results and current analysis activities from SuperCDMS

Speaker: Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)

calkins2018.pdf