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I think item #5 should include more than just Higgs couplings. It's also CP admixture and the Higgs mass. Also, I think it should include searches for extended Higgs sectors. Regards, Sally On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Peskin, Michael E. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > In Energy Frontier, we have been trying to design sessions that we hope > will > be of general interest, to be organized at Minnesota in the parallel > session > days. We have come up with a list of 10 sessions that we present below. > Many of these would be organized in collaboration with other Frontiers or > with > input from other frontiers. Thus, no speakers are listed yet, and we are > open > to changes in the program descriptions. > > Some of these topics (in particular, the first one) might be discussed in > the panel > discussions, but we feel that all of the topics below merit 2-4 hour > sessions with talks > that will present substantive material. > > We have received a 1-day program on underground facilities from Gil but > (to my > knowledge) no other specific proposals for the intermediate days at > Snowmass. > If we can accumulate a number of these lists, we can begin to allot time > for the > parallel session days. Energy Frontier will also schedule meetings of > our working > groups, but we feel it is more important now to put together and announce > a program > of sessions of broad interest that will cross the Frontier boundaries. > > Thank you, > > Michael and Chip > > > ========================================================= > > Titles and Descriptions for Sessions of General Interest in Minnesota > proposed by the Energy Frontier group: > > > 1. Naturalness -- The strongest argument for new particles at the TeV > scale is that they are needed to provide a "natural" explanation for > electroweak symmetry breaking. But some people are now saying that LHC > exclusions or flavor bounds are inconsistent with naturalness. What is the > real situation? To what extent have we excluded naturalness of the > electroweak scale? Is it possible to fully exclude naturalness by proposed > experiments and, if so, how? Is there an alternative to naturalness to > estimate the scale of new physics? (needs input from IF and CF) > > 2. Dark Matter -- Review the various approaches to dark matter particle > detection, including direct searches for new particles at colliders. > Compare the advantages, disadvantages, and complementarity of the various > methods. How does the sensitivity to models of new physics from > astrophysical dark matter searches compare to that from direct searches at > colliders? Do the times scales for discovery match? What can each method > tell us about the quantum numbers and interactions of the dark matter > particle? (needs to be organized with CF). > > 3. Lepton Flavor Violation -- what new physics models will be accessed by > mu-e conversion, mu-> e gamma, and tau-> ell gamma experiments now being > planned? How does the sensitivity to these models compare to that from > direct collider searches? Do the times scales for discovery match? Are > there collider observables sensitive to the neutrino mixing angles? (needs > to be organized with IF) > > 4. Quark Mixing and Quark Flavor -- What new physics models will be > accessed by future measurements of B, D, and K weak decays, either from > improved precision or from new observables? How does the sensitivity to > these models compare to that from direct collider searches? Do the times > scales for discovery match? Are there new sources of flavor mixing beyond > the CKM angles that might show up either in low-energy or in high-energy > measurements? (needs to be organized with IF) > > 5. Future of the Higgs -- What are examples of models that predict > deviations from the Standard Model in the Higgs couplings, and at what > levels? How far have current measurements constrained this model space? > What is the interplay between Higgs coupling measurement and searches for > new particles? What should be the goal in precision Higgs measurement? > > 6. Future of the Top Quark -- To what extent have we tested the statement > that the couplings of the top quark agree with the Standard Model? What > models of new physics predict variations in the top quark couplings that > will be visible when we achieve a higher level of precision? What is the > interplay between measurement of top quark couplings and searches for new > particles? The top quark mass is an important parameter for many purposes; > how accurately must it be measured, and how can that be accomplished? > (need input from IF) > > 7. Future of Precision Electroweak -- How will the precision tests of the > electroweak interactions improve in the coming generation of experiments, > both from improved measurements at high energy and from lower energy probes > such as Moller scattering and Atomic Parity Violation? What are the > achievable accuracies on mW, mZ, alpha, alpha_s, sin2thetaw, etc.? What > accuracies are needed to test predictions of new physics models? What is > the interplay of precision measurement with measurements of W boson > scattering? What is the interplay between precision electroweak > measurements and precision Higgs boson measurements? > > 8. Instrumentation for High-Luminosity Hadron Colliders -- High energy > hadron colliders face serious experimental problems, especially in event > reconstruction in the presence of high pileup. What new technologies are > emerging to confront the problems of triggering, heavy flavor ID, and > precision tracking and calorimetry in this environment. How do the > specifications of these technologies align with the requirements for > physics measurements? (needs to be organized with InstF) > > 9. Instrumentation for Future Lepton Colliders -- Future lepton colliders > present a mixture of opportunities and challenges for particle > experimentation. At large angles, ILC offers a very low-background > experimental environment, while linear colliders detectors at small angles > and muon collider detectors must deal with very large background rates. > These features of future lepton colliders have spurred the development of > new technologies, including, on the one hand, silicon detectors with > minimal material and energy flow calorimetry at the level of single > particle sensitivity and, on the other hand, trackers and calorimeters with > nanosecond time windows. What is the range of such future detector > technologies, and how do the proposed solutions match the needs from the > physics? (needs to be organized with InstF) > > 10. Beyond the Terascale -- What are the most important elements of the > case for hadron colliders at 30-100 TeV and lepton colliders at 3-10 TeV? > What sorts of particles or phenomena will we be searching for at such > energies? What are the requirements from the physics on collider > parameters and on experimental design? (needs to be organized with > Capabilities, and with input from InstF) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael E. 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