Thursday 26/2, 10.00 – 10.45, room H331
‘Hadronic final states and QCD: status and perspectives’ by Andrea Banfi (Milan)
We give a broad overview of the theoretical approaches that can be
exploited to obtain predictions for hadronic final states within
perturbative QCD and beyond. We then concentrate on selected
final-state observables, namely event shape distributions. After
reviewing the success of event shape studies at LEP, we explore the
potential that analogous studies could have at hadron-hadron
colliders, especially at the LHC.
Thursday 26/2, 14.00 – 14.45, room H331
‘The flavor puzzle and the Higgs’ by Oleg Lebedev (Milan)
The flavor structure of the Standard Model poses a long-standing puzzle:
why some fermions are so much lighter than the others ? I will discuss the
possibility that it is the Higgs field that plays a prominent role in
this mystery. This approach has dramatic implications
for the LHC experiments as well as for EDM searches and demonstrates
synergy among different areas of particle physics.