Abstract
A new era in high-energy physics is beginning with the commissioning of the LHC, which will expand our understanding of the Standard Model: from QCD and flavor physics to electroweak symmetry breaking and beyond the Standard Model physics. At the same time, the TeV scale is being probed by direct and indirect searches for dark matter, motivating a close connection between particle astrophysics and LHC physics. The entire spectrum of phenomenology is required for disentangling signals from backgrounds and unknown systematics. In recent years, new tools for studying the frontiers of physics being explored in the LHC era have been developed, new signals and search strategies have been proposed, and the role of the LHC as a precision measurement machine has been established. Searching for New Physics at the LHC will stimulate the study of these ideas by bringing together scientists from across particle physics, including QCD, Monte Carlo methods, phenomenology and model building, while taking advantage of the proximity to CERN to bring access to the latest results from the LHC.

Topics
Phenomenology for the LHC era, with a focus on the understanding of the TeV scale, including:

- Key signatures of new physics at the LHC
- Electroweak symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson
- Challenging discovery modes in exotic models
- Nature of QCD backgrounds and state-of-the-art simulations
- Connection to dark matter searches
- Modern analysis techniques and their phenomenological understanding

Later applications will be also considered until all the positions will be filled.

Organizers
Roberto Contino, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, IT (contact person),
Tilman Plehn, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, D
Jay Wacker, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford, CA, USA,
Neal Weiner, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Related events
The Search for New States and Forces of Nature (Conference) - Oct 26, 2009

This workshop will shape its program based upon the LHC results available at the time. Attention will focus on the interplay between early LHC data and the ongoing improvements in our understanding of Standard Model backgrounds. The workshop aims to expose theorists to the techniques employed in ongoing experiments, and foster interactions between theorists and experimentalists. We aim to have a weekly experimental seminar and short visits from LHC experimentalists. The tentative schedule also includes weekly theoretical seminars, and a weekly pedagogical lecture aimed at bridging the different sub-disciplines represented at this workshop. Additionally, there will be a one-week conference which will summarize the state-of-the-art understanding of a wide variety of issues relevant for the LHC.


Talks

Date	Speaker	Title	Type	Useful Links
Sep 01, 2009 - 11:00	Graham Kribs	Quirky Dark Matter	Seminar
Sep 02, 2009 - 14:00	Gianluca Cavoto	Searching for mu->egamma with the MEG experiment	Seminar		Slides
Sep 03, 2009 - 11:00	Gilad Perez	A Visible Warped Dark Sector	Seminar
Sep 08, 2009 - 11:00	Ed Berger	Struggles with Estimates of Standard Model Backgrounds in Searches for New Physics -- the Case of Isolated Leptons	Seminar		Slides
Sep 09, 2009 - 14:00	Aldo Morselli	Status of the Cosmic Ray Universe	Seminar		Slides
Sep 10, 2009 - 11:00	Carlos Wagner	Prospects for Higgs Searches at the Tevatron collider	Seminar
Sep 10, 2009 - 14:00	Zoltan Kunszt	Theoretical description of SM process at the LHC	Seminar		Slides
Sep 15, 2009 - 14:00	Klaus Rabbertz	Jet Physics with CMS	Seminar		Slides
Sep 17, 2009 - 11:00	Zurab Berezhiani	More about Neutron Oscillations	Seminar
Sep 18, 2009 - 11:00	Michele Redi	Gauge Boson Mass Generation in AdS4	Seminar
Sep 22, 2009 - 14:30	D. E. Kaplan	Exotic Higgs Decays	Seminar		Slides
Sep 22, 2009 - 15:30	C. Matteuzzi	Direct search of particles beyond the Standard Model at LHCb	Seminar
Sep 22, 2009 - 16:30	G. Isidori	Overview of rare B decays as signatures of new Physics models	Seminar		Slides
Sep 22, 2009 - 17:30	T. Gershon	New physics and CP violation measurements	Seminar
Sep 22, 2009 - 18:30	I. Belyaev	New physics and rare decay measurements	Seminar
Sep 23, 2009 - 11:00	Matthew Reece	The AdS/QCD Correspondence: Still Undelivered	Seminar
Sep 24, 2009 - 11:00	Diego Guadagnoli	CP violation in the K- vs Bd-meson systems: experiment vs SM	Seminar
Sep 29, 2009 - 10:30	Guido Martinelli	UT fit analysis and the implications of a large phase in Bs mixing	Seminar		Slides
Sep 30, 2009 - 14:00	Andrea Giammanco	Single top in CMS: an early data strategy	Seminar		Slides
Oct 01, 2009 - 11:00	Patrick Fox	Non-standard models of Dark Matter, and their direct detection	Seminar
Oct 06, 2009 - 10:30	Michele Papucci	Long-lived particles in neutrino telescopes	Seminar
Oct 07, 2009 - 14:00	Giacinto Piacquadio	Higgs searches using fat jets	Seminar
Oct 08, 2009 - 11:00	Jessie Shelton	Measuring chiral couplings of tops and bottoms to new physics	Seminar
Oct 13, 2009 - 11:00	Devin Walker	Distinguishing Dark Matter Stabilization Symmetries at the LHC	Seminar
Oct 14, 2009 - 14:00	Rick Cavanaugh	Experimental aspects of taus at the LHC	Seminar
Oct 15, 2009 - 11:00	Sasha Belyaev	Collider Phenomenology with CalcHEP	Seminar
Oct 20, 2009 - 11:00	Andrea Romanino	Tree level gauge mediation	Seminar
Oct 21, 2009 - 14:00	Giacomo Polesello	Susy at ATLAS with early LHC data	Seminar		Slides
Oct 22, 2009 - 11:00	John Conley	LHC Signals of Susy without Prejudice	Seminar		Slides