Name: Origin of Mass 2012
Start: 2012-05-28T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-06-22T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Nordita

Monday, 28 May 2012
11:00 In prospect of the simplest composite Higgs mechanism - Julius Kuti
In prospect of the simplest composite Higgs mechanism
- Julius Kuti
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 132:028 New lattice results for two massless fermions in the sextet representation of the SU(3) color gauge group are presented. Chiral symmetry breaking in the model is consistent with the simplest realization of the composite Higgs mechanism. The composite spectrum and the anomalous dimension of the fermion mass are discussed with outlook for phenomenological LHC analysis. For developing conformal tests, twelve fermion flavors in the fundamental SU(3) representation will be discussed.
14:00 Running, Walking and Jumping Dynamics - Francesco Sannino
Running, Walking and Jumping Dynamics
- Francesco Sannino
14:00 - 15:00
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
11:00 Light Asymmetric Dark Matter on the Lattice: SU(2) Technicolor with Two Fundamental Flavors - Randy Lewis
Light Asymmetric Dark Matter on the Lattice: SU(2) Technicolor with Two Fundamental Flavors
- Randy Lewis
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 132:028 The SU(2) gauge theory with two massless Dirac flavors constitutes the building block of several models of Technicolor. Furthermore it has also been used as a template for the construction of a natural light asymmetric, or mixed type, dark matter candidate. We use explicit lattice simulations to confirm the pattern of chiral symmetry breaking by determining the Goldstone spectrum and therefore show that the dark matter candidate can, de facto, be constituted by a complex Goldstone boson. We also determine the phenomenologically relevant spin-one and spin-zero isovector spectrum and demonstrate that it is well separated from the Goldstone spectrum.
15:00 Reduced staggered fermions: four fermion operators and beyond - Simon Catterall
Reduced staggered fermions: four fermion operators and beyond
- Simon Catterall
15:00 - 16:00
Room: 132:028 I will describe how reduced staggered fermions can be used to study candidate theories for dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking based on new strongly coupled dynamics. Two examples will be discussed; the construction and simulation of chirally invariant four fermion terms in a lattice verson of the gauged NJL model and a proposal for a lattice model that should generate a condensate which breaks both chiral symmetry and gauge invariance.
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
11:00 Flavors and Cosmology from Extra Dimensions - Elisabetta Pallante
Flavors and Cosmology from Extra Dimensions
- Elisabetta Pallante
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
Thursday, 31 May 2012
11:00 SU(2) with two adjoint fermions, Minimal Walking Technicolor - Antonio Rago
SU(2) with two adjoint fermions, Minimal Walking Technicolor
- Antonio Rago
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 132:028 SU(2) with two Dirac flavors in the adjoint representation is believed to be an IR conformal theory. As a result, if perturbed with a mass for the fermions, the theory develops a mass gap and the entire mass spectrum scales with a fixed exponent of the perturbing mass. In this talk I will collect all the evidence for the IR behaviour of the theory that have been proposed by our group during the years. I will discuss the reliability of our findings, and the latest development to investigate the most phenomenologically relevant quantities.
Friday, 1 June 2012
11:00 The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new strong interactions - Alex Kagan
The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new strong interactions
- Alex Kagan
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 132:028
Saturday, 2 June 2012
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