2008LHC
29 September - October 4, 2008
Split, Croatia
published February 16, 2010

This is the fourth conference in the series started in Prague in 2003 and held in Wiena (2004) and Cracow (2006).
The conference is dedicated to the physics at LHC. Topics: Higgs Boson, Supersymmetry, Standard Model and Beyond, Beauty and Heavy-Ion Physic

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Sessions
Monday Morning Plenary Session: "Higgs Boson"
Monda Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "Higgs Boson"
Monda Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "SUSY and BSM"
Tuesday Morning Plenary Session: "SUSY and BSM"
Tuesday Afternoon Working Session: "Detector performance and early physics expectations"
Wednesday Morning Plenary Session: "QCD"
Thursday Morning Plenary Session: "Electroweak Physics / First Data"
Thursday Afternoon Working Session: "Electroweak Physics / First Data"
Friday Morning Plenary Session: "B Physics / Heavy Ions"
Friday Afternoon Plenary Session: "B Physics / Heavy Ions"
Friday Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "B Physics"
Friday Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "Heavy Ions"
Saturday Morning Plenary Session: "Upgrades and Future Visions"
Poster session
Monday Morning Plenary Session: "Higgs Boson"
Status of LHC
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J. Engelen
Status of ATLAS
P. Jenni
Status of CMS
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T. Virdee
Understanding EW symmetry breaking at the LHC
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C. Grojean
Tevatron Higgs boson results
J. Qian
Higgs boson at the LHC
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L. Fayard
Monda Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "Higgs Boson"
Higgs production at the LHC: selected results
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M. Grazzini
Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC
F. Sannino
Search for the SM Higgs Boson in the $H\rightarrow ZZ^*$ in 4 leptons at CMS
D. Trocino
SM $H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ discovery potential with ATLAS
Y. Fang
Discovery potential for the SM Higgs Boson in the $H\rightarrow WW^*\rightarrow 2\ell 2\nu$ channel at CMS
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F. Stoeckli
VBF SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS
S. Xella
Vector Boson Fusion Production of the SM Higgs Boson at the LHC
M. Vazquez Acosta
Associated SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS
I. Ludwig
Low mass Higgs boson at the Tevatron
A. Mehta
Higgs boson at 160 GeV at the Tevatron
M. Buehler
Monda Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "SUSY and BSM"
Doubly charged higgsinos at LHC
K. Huitu, D.A. Demir, M. Frank, S.K. Rai and I. Turan
The BESS model revisited as an Higgsless Linear Moose @ LHC
S. De Curtis
See-saw signals at the LHC
B. Bajc
Searches for SUSY with lepton, jets, and missing ET
Measurement of SUSY parameters in events using dileptons in ATLAS
U. De Sanctis
Search for heavy stable charged particles in CMS
K. Nawrocki
Vector Boson Scattering at high mass
P. Sherwood
The discovery reach for mini-black holes with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
M. Kaneda
Prospects for discoveries of final states with dileptons, jets and no missing energy with ATLAS
S.S. Wendler
D0 SUSY/BSM searches
Tuesday Morning Plenary Session: "SUSY and BSM"
LHC Commissioning
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L. Evans
ATLAS Commissioning
M. Vincter
CMS Commissioning
I. Mikulec
Search for new physics at HERA
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P. Schleper
Tevatron SUSY+BSM Results
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D. Toback
SUSY at the LHC
G. Lungu
LHC and the origin of neutrino mass
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G. Senjanovic
Tuesday Afternoon Working Session: "Detector performance and early physics expectations"
Triggers for early physics at CMS
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P. Bargassa
Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system
R. Moles Valls
CMS Tracker Alignment and Implications on Physics Performance
N.V. Tran
First physics with hadrons and the Underlying Event at CMS
F. Siklér
Jet reconstruction with first data in ATLAS
D. Lelas
Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Reconstruction with CMS
D. Dobur
Electron and Photon Reconstruction and Identification with the ATLAS Detector
E. Turlay
Inclusive W and Z production at LHC startup
G. Daskalakis
ATLAS Electroweak Measurements with early data
K. Lohwasser
Measurement of diboson production in early LHC data
V. Brigljevic
Wednesday Morning Plenary Session: "QCD"
HERA structure functions
C. Vallee
Tevatron QCD physics
B. Hirosky
Tevatron top physics
J. Wagner-Kuhr
QCD and top at LHC
F.P. Schilling
Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (theory)
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F. Krauss
Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (comparison with data)
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S. Lammers
Higher order corrections in view of LHC
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K.R. Ellis
Thursday Morning Plenary Session: "Electroweak Physics / First Data"
Tevatron EWK physics
T. Nunnemann
Electroweak physics at the LHC
L. di Ciaccio
First physics with ATLAS
D. Zerwas
First physics with CMS
M. Mulders
First physics with ALICE
J.F. Grosse-Oetringhaus
First physics with LHCb
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A. Schopper
Diffractive Physics at the LHC: a theoretical overview
A. Martin
Open issues in diffractive physics: what answers do we expect from the LHC
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M. Deile
Thursday Afternoon Working Session: "Electroweak Physics / First Data"
TOTEM status
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K. Eggert
Status of the LHCf experiment
A. Tricomi
Neutrinoless double beta decays of the top quark and other effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos.
G. Eilam
Single top production and Vtb determination at LHC: a complete one-loop MSSM calculation
C. Verzegnassi
Forward physics with CMS
M. Grothe
b-tagging algorithm and performance in ATLAS
L. Vacavant
Measurement of the Z boson plus two b-jets cross section in CMS with 100 pb^{1}
A.K. Nayak
Top quark pair cross-section measurement at ATLAS
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W. Verkerke
Top quark mass measurement with ATLAS
P.G. Cavalleri
Single top cross section measurements in ATLAS
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B.E. Clément
Friday Morning Plenary Session: "B Physics / Heavy Ions"
B Factory Results
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T. Gershon
Tevatron B Physics Results
K. Gibson
Status and Potential of LHCb
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A. Golutvin
LHCb Commissioning
O. Callot
RHIC overview
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J. Velkovska
Heavy Ions Physics (Theory)
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U. Wiedemann
ALICE Status and Potential
J. Schukraft
ALICE Commissioning
S. Chapeland
Friday Afternoon Plenary Session: "B Physics / Heavy Ions"
Heavy ions with ATLAS and CMS
O. Kodolova
B physics with ATLAS and CMS
Friday Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "B Physics"
Measurement of B_s mixing phase beta_s
G. Giurgiu
Implications of beta_s measurements
L. Silvestrini
Prospects for beta_s measurement
A. Satta
Measurement of CKM angle gamma/phi_3
A. Poluektov
Prospects for gamma/phi_3 measurement
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V. Gibson
Recent developments in charm physics
J. Yelton
Prospects for $B_s\rightarrow \mu\mu$ at CMS
B. Caponeri
Prospects for K*mumu
W.R. Reece
Friday Afternoon Working Session (Parallel): "Heavy Ions"
First physics with ALICE: from pp to heavy ions
D. Elia
Heavy flavour in ALICE
P. Pillot
Physics with photons in ALICE
Y. Kharlov, L. Benhabib and R. Wan
Diffractive and ultraperipheral physics with ALICE
R. Schicker
Jet physics in Pb-Pb collisions with ATLAS
M. Spousta
Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions with CMS
Y.J. Lee
Performance of CMS Tracker in Heavy Ion Collisions
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V. Chetluru
Saturday Morning Plenary Session: "Upgrades and Future Visions"
Scenarios beyond standard LHC physics
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G. Giudice
Super LHC
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W. Scandale
Detector upgrades for SLHC
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N. Hessey
Results From Astroparticle Physics
N. Palanque-Delabrouille
Thoughts about LHC physics
E. Witten
Future perspectives in particle physics
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C. Rubbia
Poster session
Production of jets accompanied by W and Z bosons at LHC startup with CMS
D. Dobur
Constraining parton distribution functions using the W charge asymmetry at the LHC
J. Duarte Campderrós
Jet Shapes at CMS
P. Kurt
High-pt Jet Studies at CMS
J. Weng
Jet Finding and Reconstruction in CMS using Charged Tracks only
P. Azzurri
Search for di-lepton resonances and Wprimes with CMS
D. Evans
Inclusive search for the SM Higgs Boson in the channel $H\rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ at CMS
F. Ferri
SM Higgs search in the 4-lepton final state with ATLAS
A. D'orazio
SM Higgs properties measurement with ATLAS
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W. Murray
MC free calibration of LHCb RICH detectors using the $\Lambda \to p \pi$
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B.P. Popovici
SUSY search with b jets at ATLAS
M. Milosavljevic
Challenges in the detection of long lived particles with ATLAS: the Hidden valley scenario
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D. Ventura
Diboson production with ATLAS
L. Simic
The reach of the ATLAS experiment in SUSY parameter space
D. Lumb
Searching for new physics in events with three leptons with ATLAS
K. Pajchel
QCD with Weak Bosons and Jets with ATLAS
K. Lohwasser
Direct photons at ATLAS
F. Bucci
Minimum Bias Triggers at ATLAS
R. Kwee
Sensitivity to photon polarization in $B_s\rightarrow \phi \gamma$ decays at LHCb
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L. Shchutska
Transverse momentum spectra of D-and B-mesons in hadron collisons at very high energies
G. Lykasov
Hadronic Calibration for the ATLAS Jet Trigger
N.M. Goncalves dos Anjos
Search for W' in Lepton+Missing ET Final State with Early Data at ATLAS
N. Vranjes
Prospects for early dicoveries of high mass resonances with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
C. Helsens
Atlas trigger for first physics and beyond
T. Fonseca-Martin, M. Abolins, R. Achenbach, C. Adorisio, P. Adragna, M. Aharrouche, G. Aielli, A. Al-Shabibi, I. Aleksandrov, G. Alexandre, A. Aloisio, M.G. Alviggi, A. Amorim, N. Amram, K. Anderson, V. Andrei, X. Anduaga, S. Antonelli, F. Anulli, I. Aracena, S. Ask, G. Avolio, S. Backlund, E. Badescu, J. Baines, S. Banerjee, B.M. Barnett, R. Bartoldus, S. Batraneanu, A. Battaglia, B. Bauss, P. Bacon, H.P. Beck, C. Bee, P.K. Behera, P. Bell, W.H. Bell, L. Bellagamba, M. Bellomo, S. Ben Ami, M. Bendel, Y. Benhammou, K. Benslama, D. Berge, N. Berger, C. Bernius, T. Berry, M. Bianco, M. Biglietti, I. Bizjak, R.E. Blair, A. Bogaerts, C. Bohm, V. Boisvert, T. Bold, M. Bondioli, J.R.A. Booth, C. Borer, D. Boscherini, M. Bosman, J. Boyd, I.P. Brawn, B. Brelier, S. Bressler, R. Brock, W. Brooks, S. Brunet, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, C. Bucci, S. Buda, D. Burckhart-Chromek, C. Buttar, P. Camarri, M. Campanelli, V. Canale, L. Capasso, M. Caprini, D. Caracinha, C. Caramarcu, R. Cardarelli, G. Carlino, D. Casadei, P. Casado, G. Cataldi, A. Cerri, D. Charlton, J.T. Childers, G. Chiodini, G. Ciapetti, D. Cimino, M. Ciobotaru, A. Coccaro, N.J. Collins, P. Conde Muíño, F. Conventi, M. Corradi, A. Corso-Radu, M.J. Costa, R. Coura Torres, K. Cranmer, G. Crone, R. Crupi, C. Cuenca Almenar, C.J. Curtis, Z. Czyczula, M. Dam, D. Oliveira Damazio, G.L. Darlea, A.O. Davis, D. De Pedis, A. De Santo, J.M. de Seixas, R. DeAsmundis, J. Degenhardt, D. della Volpe, M. DellaPietra, P.A. Delsart, S. Demers, B. Demirkoz, A. Di Mattia, R. Di Nardo, M. Diaz, A. Di Ciaccio, C. Dionisi, R. Djilkibaev, E. Dobson, M. Dobson, M. Dogaru, A. dos Anjos, A. Dotti, M.T. Dova, G. Drake, M.A. Dufour, S. Eckweiler, W. Ehrenfeld, T. Eifert, E. Eisenhandler, N. Ellis, D. Emeliyanov, D. Enoque Ferreira de Lima, Y. Ermoline, E. Etzion, S. Falciano, P. Farthouat, P.J.W. Faulkner, A. Fedorko, I. Fedorko, E. Feng, J. Ferland, S. Ferrag, R. Ferrari, M.L. Ferrer, G. Fischer, H. Flacher, J.E. Fleckner, M. Flowerdew, F. Föhlisch, D. Francis, S. Fratina, C. Fukunaga, S. Cheatham, M.P. Gallacher, H. Garitaonandia Elejabarrieta, G. Gaudio, C.N.P. Gee, S. George, V.M. Ghete, S. Giagu, A.R. Gillman, P. Giusti, M. Goebel, J.J.M.S. Gonçalo, F. Gonzalez Pinto, L. Gonzalez Silva, C. Göringer, B. Gorini, E. Gorini, I. Grabowska-Bold, S. Grancagnolo, B. Green, M. Groll, A. Guida, S. Haas, H. Hadavand, D.R. Hadley, J. Haller, A. Hamilton, P. Hanke, J.R. Hansen, S. Hasegawa, Y. Hasegawa, M. Hauschild, R. Hauser, T. Hayakawa, S. Head, A. Heijboer, S. Heim, S. Hellman, A. Hershenhorn, A. Hidvégi, S.J. Hillier, S. Hirayama, N. Tal Hod, T. Hori, T. Hryn'ova, R. Hughes-Jones, J.W. Huston, G. Iacobucci, J. Idarraga, P. Iengo, O. Igonkina, M. Ikeno, A. Ishikawa, M. Ishino, H. Iwasaki, V. Izzo, V. Jain, P. Jez, S. Jimenez Otero, M. Johnson, K. Johns, G. Jones, M. Joos, T. Kadosaka, E. Kajomovitz, A. Kalinowski, S. Kama, N. Kanaya, F. Kanega, V. Kaushik, K. Kawagoe, T. Kawamoto, A. Kazarov, R. Kehoe, K. Kessoku, G. Khoriauli, G. Kieft, J. Kirk, H. Kiyamura, P. Klofver, S. Klous, E.E. Kluge, T. Kobayashi, K. Koeneke, S. Kolos, T. Kono, R. Konoplich, N. Konstantinidis, K. Korcyl, K. Kordas, V. Kotov, R.V. Kowalewski, A. Krasznahorkay, A. Kreisel, S. Li, P.A. Steinberg, K. Schmitt, A. Sidoti, A. Salnikov, R. Spiwoks, G. Romeo, C. Taylor, W. Scott, E. Pasqualucci, M. Primavera, S. Veneziano, H. Kurashige, M. Landon, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, C. Luci, N. Lupu, K. Mahboubi, G. Mahout, K. Meier, K. Nagano, A. Nisati, H. Nomoto, M. Nozaki, A. Ochi, C. Omachi, H. Oshita, F. Pastore, S. Patricelli, T. Pauly, M. Perantoni, R. Perrino, E. Petrolo, W. Qian, S. Rieke, F. Rühr, H. Sakamoto, A. Salamon, R. Santonico, O. Sasaki, U. Schäfer, G. Sekhniaidze, S. Silverstein, S. Spagnolo, Y. Sugaya, T. Sugimoto, H. Takeda, T. Takeshita, S. Tanaka, S. Tarem, R. Vari, P. Weber, T. Wengler, L. Zanello, L. Merola, M. Wang, Y. Yasu, G. Usai, F. Parodi, C. Schiavi, U.k. Yang, A. Saavedra, B. Åsman, T. Kubota, A. Kugel, J. Lane, A.J. Lankford, L. Leahu, M. Leahu, T. LeCompte, F. Ledroit, G. Lehmann Miotto, X. Lei, V. Lendermann, B. Liberti, J.N. Lilley, H. Lim, J.T. Linnemann, M. Losada, A. Lowe, L. Luminari, J. Lundberg, R. Mackeprang, S. Maettig, D. Maltrana, R. Männer, L. Mapelli, F. Marchese, C. Marino, B. Martin, B.T. Martin, A. Martyniuk, F. Marzano, T. Matsushita, T. McMahon, R. Mcpherson, M. Medinnis, C. Meessen, C. Meirosu, A. Messina, R.P. Middleton, M. Mineev, A. Misiejuk, T. Moa, K. Moenig, C. Mora Herrera, D. Moreno, P. Morettini, J.D. Morris, F. Müller, R. Murillo Garcia, Y. Nagasaka, H. Nakatsuka, G.A. Navarro, A. Negri, P. Nemethy, A. Neusiedl, T. Niwa, M. Nozicka, E. Nurse, C. Ohm, Y. Okumura, B. Oltmann, D. Olvito, B. Osculati, C. Osuna, M.A. Owen, K. Ozone, C. Padilla, B. Panes, V.J.O. Perera, E. Perez, H. Pessoa Lima Junior, M. Petcu, J. Petersen, R. Piegaia, J. Pilcher, G. Pinzon, A. Policicchio, A. Polini, B.G. Pope, D.P.F. Prieur, F. Prokoshin, F. Quinonez, S. Rajagopalan, R. Ramos Dos Santos Neves, E. Reinherz, P. Renkel, M. Rescigno, C. Risler, I. Riu, C. Roda, D. Rodriguez, Y. Rogriquez, A. Roich, S. Rosati, A. Ruiz-Martinez, Y. Ryabov, P. Ryan, D. Salvatore, F. Salvatore, D.P.C. Sankey, C.S. Rios, E. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum, D. Savu, D. Scannicchio, J. Schlereth, I. Scholtes, D. Schultz, N. Schroer, H.C. Schultz-Coulon, R. Schwienhorst, E. Segura, D. Sherman, M. Shimojima, D. Silverstein, G. Siragusa, S. Sivoklokov, R. Sjoen, J. Sjölin, J.E. Sloper, M. Smizanska, A. Soffer, I. Soloviev, R.J. Staley, R. Stamen, S. Stancu, M. Stockton, A. Stradling, A. Straessner, D. Su, S. Sushkov, Y. Suzuki, T. Szymocha, A. Taffard, M. Tamsett, C.L.A. Tan, Z. Tarem, R.P. Taylor, P. Teixeira-Dias, J.P. Thomas, P.D. Thompson, K. Tokushuku, M. Tomoto, C. Topfel, E. Torrence, F. Touchard, L. Tremblet, M. Tripiana, S. Tsuno, P. Urquijo, P. Urrejola, B. Vachon, W. Vandelli, L. Vaz Gil Lopes, V. Vercesi, J.C. Vermeulen, J. Von Der Schmitt, V. Vorwerk, P.M. Watkins, A.T. Watson, T. Weidberg, P. Werner, M. Werth, M. Wessels, S. Wheeler-Ellis, D. Whiteson, F.J. Wickens, W. Wiedenmann, M. Wielers, M. Wildt, S.L. Wu, Y. Yamazaki, F. Zema, J. Zhang, L. Zhao, H. Wilkens, F. Winklmeier, X. Wu, R. Kwee, T. Lohse, J. Masik, G. Mikenberg, A.I. Mincer, F. Monticelli, V.E. Özcan, N. Panikashvili, V. Perez Reale, B. Petersen, C. Potter, A.D.W. Reinsch, S.H. Robertson, S. Schmitt, N. Sinev, J. Stelzer, M. Sutton, S. Tapprogge, G. Ünel, A. Ventura, S. Xella, K. Tollefson, S. Ota and J. Mamuzic