Discussion Topics

Here is a list of topics for discussion and/or talks that were suggested at the organizational meeting.

Mass and spin determination

Monte Carlo tools

Dark matter at the LHC

Experimental realities (efficiencies, fakes, detector differences)

Triggering & analysis of unexpected physics

Very high pT physics

Standard Model issues (background sidebands, event rates, PDF uncertainties, N^nLO, EW precision)

Distinguishing models of SUSY breaking and mediation

Little Higgs / composite Higgs / technicolor models

Theories of flavor

CP violation: theory & LHC

Unification signals at the LHC

Low-scale strings

Gravity at the LHC

Folded SUSY-like theories

Complementarity of LHC with other experiments

Language for discoveries -- how to talk to experimentalists

Data challenge from Nima