KICP , University of Chicago



Baryogenesis Confronts Experiment

November 7--9, 2007, University of Chicago



Wednesday
November 7
Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis (Chair: Mariano Quiros)
9:30 Welcome
On the origin of the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry

Carlos Wagner (Univ. of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. )
10:15 Low Energy Neutrino Physics and Leptogenesis
Belen Gavela (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
11:00 Break
11:30 Connecting Leptogenesis to Low Energy LFV Processes in Models with Spontaneous CP Violation
Mu-Chun Chen (University of California, Irvine)
12:15 Lunch
Leptogenesis (Chair: Tao Liu)
1:30 Flavored Thermal Leptogenesis
Steve Blanchet (Max Planck Institut, Munich)
2:15 Warped Leptogenesis with Dirac Neutrino Masses
Tony Gherghetta (University of Minnesota)
3:00 Break
3:30 Soft Leptogenesis in Warped Extra Dimensions
Anibal Medina (Argonne and University of Chicago)
4:15

Gravitational Baryogenesis
Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Lab.)

5:00 Baryogenesis from quantum fluctuations during inflation
Bjorn Garbrecht (University of Wisconsin, Madison )
Thursday
November 8
Chair: David Morrissey
Post- and Pre-Sphaleron Baryogenesis
9:30 Post-Sphaleron Baryogenesis and Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations
Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
10:15 Unified Description of Baryogenesis and Dark Matter
K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)
11:00 Break
11:30 EWBG in the MSSM: towards higher scales of SUSY-breaking
Germano Nardini (IFAE, Barcelona )
12:15 Lunch
Electroweak Baryogenesis (Chair: Marcela Carena )
1:30 Electroweak Baryogenesis and Higgs Phenomenology
Michael Ramsey-Musolf (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2:15 Electroweak Baryogenesis in the MSSM
Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
3:00 Break
3:30 Electroweak Baryogenesis and Dark Matter in the nMSSM
David Morrissey (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
4:15 Baryogenesis in the nMSSM and Collider Physics
Ayres Freitas (Fermilab)
5:00 Baryogenesis in a U(1) gauge extension of the MSSM
Paul Langacker (IAS, Princeton)
6:30 BANQUET AT CEDAR'S , 1206 E 53rd Street
Friday
November 9
Alternatives to Standard Scenarios Chair: Mu-Chun Chen
9:30 Baryogenesis from a Supercooled Phase Transition
Mariano Quiros (IFAE, Barcelona)
10:15 Probing CP- and CPT-odd baryogenesis at low energies
Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria)
11:00 Break
11:30 Baryogenesis from spontaneous Lorentz symmetry violation
Jing Shu (University of Chicago)
12:15 Lunch
Baryogenesis
Mu-Chun Chen (Chair person)
1:30 Towards a Minimal Particle-Cosmology Supersymmetric Standard Model
Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester )
2:15 Baryogenesis from an Early Phase Transition
Tim Tait (Argonne Nat. Lab. and Northwetern Univ.)
3:00 End of Conference
Last Updated: October 26, 2007