Schmaltz Martin - TASI 2012 : searching for new physics at small and large scales : proceedings of the 2012 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 4-29 June 2012

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TASI (Conference) (2012 : Boulder, Colo.)

Searching for new physics at small and large scales TASI 2012 : proceedings of the 2012
Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 429
June 2012 / editors, Martin Schmaltz & Elena Pierpaoli, Boston University, USA.

pages cm

ISBN 978-9814525213 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Nuclear physics--Congresses. I. Schmaltz, Martin, editor of compilation. II. Pierpaoli, Elena,
editor of compilation. III. Title.

QC770.T35 2012

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Preface

The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) in elementary particle physics has been held each summer since 1984. TASI was first organized in Ann Arbor, and was held in subsequent years in New Haven, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe and Providence. Since 1989, TASI has been permanently hosted by the University of Colorado in Boulder. Each year TASI attracts more than fifty of the most promising advanced theory graduate students in the United States, and several graduate students from abroad. Occasionally, TASI also accepts experimental students and beginning postdocts. The emphasis of the topics at TASI has shifted from year to year, but typically there have been courses of lectures in phenomenology, field theory, string theory, mathematical physics, and particle-astrophysics, as well as seminars on related theoretical and experimental topics. TASI has been highly successful, especially in introducing the students to a much broader range of ideas than they normally experience at their home institutions while working on their (often narrow) dissertation topics. The title of TASI-2012 was Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales.

The program comprised two parallel lecture series on Particle Physics and on Cosmology. The Particle Physics series covered LHC related experimental techniques, phenomenology, as well as basics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model. It consisted of the following lecture courses:

Peter Skands (CERN): Introduction to QCD

Jesse Thaler (MIT): Super-tricks for Superspace

Michael Peskin (Stanford): Weak Interactions and Higgs, Theory

Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers): LHC and Higgs, Experiment

Veronica Sanz (York & CERN): Collider physics

Aaron Pierce (Michigan): SUSY at the LHC

Michele Papucci (Berkeley): SUSY Model Building

Jesse Shelton (Yale): Jet substructure and new physics

Rouven Essig (SUNY Stony Brook): Dark Matter from Particle Physics

The other lecture series focused on modern cosmology with special attention to the topics of Dark Matter, the microwave background and alternatives to the Standard Model of Cosmology:

Edmund Bertschinger (MIT): Introduction to Cosmology

Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth): Dark Energy

Fabian Schmidt (Caltech): Modified gravity

Julien Lesgourgues (EPFL Lausanne & CERN): cosmological perturbations and dark matter

Leonardo Senatore (Stanford): Inflation

Shirley Ho (CMU & Berkeley): What can we learn from Large ScaleStructure of the Universe?

Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz): DM constraints from astrophysical data

Included in the program were also two excellent public lectures

Robert Caldwell: Einsteins Island and the Invisible Cities of Cosmology

Michael Peskin: The Higgs boson, is it real?

The Scientific Program was organized by Elena Pierpaoli and Martin Schmaltz. We were provided with invaluable assistance by the local directors K.T. Mahanthappa and Tom DeGrand. Tom also continued his tradition of leading TASI participants on weekend excursions into the Rocky Mountains. We would especially like to acknowledge Susan Spika for efficient secretarial help; Gurjeet Singh for help in the day-to-day running of TASI; Daniel Wegman for organizing student seminars; and the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy and University of Colorado for providing the facilities and financial support.

Finally, we would like to thank the Scientific Advisory Board for inviting us as the program directors. It was a great pleasure to witness the stimulating lectures and interact with such talented and curious students. We hope that TASI 2012 contributed to their development as scientists who will make exciting discoveries in the decades to come.

E. Pierpaoli and M. Schmaltz

Contents

R. R. Caldwell

J. Lesgourges

A. Pierce

S. Profumo

F. Schmidt

L. Senatore

J. Shelton

P. Skands

D. Bertolini, J. Thaler, and Z. Thomas

The Students

Tasi 2012 Group Photo: Identification List

1 Peter Winslow

2 Kevin Givens

3 Chris Rosen

4 Oscar Henriksson

5 Ennio Salvioni

6 Jan Heisig

7 Martin Schmaltz

8 Jesse Thaler

9 Tom DeGrand

10 Jack Kearney

11 Valerie Domcke

12 David Schaich

13 Zachary Thomas

14 Liang Dai

15 Daliang Li

16 Gustavo Marques Tavares

17 Laurent Canetti

18 David Yaylali

19 Ivan Rodriguez

20 Gauthier Durieux

21 Sohyun Park

22 Peisi Huang

23 Durmus Karabacak

24 Kristopher Healey

25 Jonathan Cornell

26 Aditya Yechan Gunja

27 Daniel Wegman

28 Matthew Walters

29 Andrea Thamm

30 Wei Xue

31 Erik Perkins

32 Daniele Bertolini

33 Ayon Patra

34 Melinda Andrews

35 Jiayin Gu

36 McCullen Sandora

37 Angelo Monteux

38 Michael Park

39 Marko Simonovic

40 Matthew Lewandowski

41 Elisa Mariani

42 Garrett Goon

43 Ahmed Ismail

44 Simon Knapen

45 Jing Ren

46 Daisy Mak

47 Ran Huo

48 Yiming Xu

49 Pawin Ittisamai

50 Jiajun Liao

51 Mikhail Solon