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Theoretical Particle Physics (aka hep-phenomenology) in Israel in Israel Yael Shadmi Technion

groups (mainly) at three institutions (alphabetically) Technion Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute of Science + Ben Gurion (QCD) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

focus: theory exp: LHC measurements + intensity frontier (flavor, B-physics, neutrinos..) + DM searches the standard model and extensions: the standard model and extensions: supersymmetry RS compositeness flavor Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

focus: theory exp: LHC measurements + intensity frontier (flavor, B-physics, neutrinos..) + DM searches the standard model and extensions: the standard model and extensions: supersymmetry RS compositeness flavor + model-independent tools/searches (jet-substructure, long lived particles) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

+ lattice gauge theory (TAU) + QCD (TAU, Technion, BGU) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS): 2 faculty: Nir, Perez (joined about 5 yrs ago, returning from 3 years as CERN fellow) a 3 rd (Blum) scheduled to join in August 2015 6 postdocs students : 7 PhD (3 female) 9 MSc (4 female) students : 7 PhD (3 female) 9 MSc (4 female) grants: EU-IRG: 100K Euros 2 Minerva grants: 75K Euros + 75K Euros GIF: 76K Euros BSF: $54K with Shadmi 3 ISF: 1200K NIS ERC starting 7/2014 (consolidator---Perez) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

90 publications: • flavor physics • collider phenomenology • astroparticle physics • Higgs physics Higgs physics • model building • perturbative QCD • jet substructure Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

Tel Aviv University (TAU) 3 faculty: Karliner, Volansky (joined 3 years ago) + Nussinov (now retired) 1 postdoc students: 2 MSc 1 PhD students: 2 MSc 1 PhD grants: ISF $223K BSF $112K (with Shadmi) Marie Curie 100K Euro (Volansky) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

97 publications: • Dark Matter • Higgs Physics • Collider Phenomenology • Supersymmetry • QCD Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

Technion 3 faculty: Shadmi + Eilam, Groanu (now retired) no postdocs (2 are scheduled to start in Fall) students: 4 PhD 5 MSc (1 female) students: 4 PhD 5 MSc (1 female) grants: 2 ISFs (764K NIS) 2 BSF's (112K with Volansky + 54K USD with Nir ) + newly established Technion Center for Particle Physics: visitor program $30K (to $50K)/year emphasis on particle theory and experiment (incl astroparticle) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

63 publications: • LHC physics • Supersymmetry • Model Building • Dark Matter • Flavor Flavor • CP violation • B-physics • Higgs physics Composite Higgs • top physics • 4th generation Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

The 3 groups all part of The Quantum Universe Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE) • 45million NIS for 5 years (starting 2013) • representatives: Nir (scientific director) • representatives: Nir (scientific director) Shadmi Volansky • main objective: recruiting new faculty + maintain and enhance collaboration between Institutes and disciplines (theory, collider experiment, astrophysics) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

Lattice at TAU: faculty: Svetitsky + 1 staff: Shamir students: 2 MSc (1 female) grants: 3 ISF: $417K 12 publications: • properties of lattice gauge theories of interest for technicolor properties of lattice gauge theories of interest for technicolor models • composite Higgs models on the lattice • Lattice QCD with mixed sea-valence actions • Renormalization of supersymmetric gauge theories • Equivariant gauge fixing and the construction of chiral lattice gauge theory Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

high-E / low-x QCD: Ben Gurion U (Beer Sheva): Lublinsky (joined 4.5 yrs ago) 2 postdocs students: 1 PhD 2 MSc grants: ISF 158K NIS EU FP7 IRG: 100K Euro grants: ISF 158K NIS EU FP7 IRG: 100K Euro EU FP7 IRSES: 39.9K Euro BSF: 67.7K USD (with Levin CI) 18 publications: High energy QCD; applications to heavy ion collisions at the LHC Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

TAU: Frankfurt Gotsman Levin Maor (all retired) 1 PhD student 123 publications Technion: Blok 13 publications QCD soft interactions: applications to cross sections (total, elastic and diffractive) at LHC nucleus-nucleus and hadron-nucleus collisions, proton-air showers at cosmic-ray energies, Reggeons and Pomerons, DIS multi-parton collisions at LHC Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

small but strong community • many international collaborations • close interaction between institutes • close experiment-theory interaction: – jet-substructure (Perez, ATLAS search for resonances decaying into tops) – displaced muonic jets (Volansky, ATLAS) displaced muonic jets (Volansky, ATLAS) – Shadmi-Tarem: long lived charged particles – Nir, Perez WIS Higgs group – Volansky WIS XENON group + developing new DM detectors … Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

• excellent students (strong undergraduate physics programs at research universities) • growing number of postdocs: next year: 4 new PDs from US, Europe, Japan • PhD graduates: postdocs at top groups: – Nir: Blum (IAS—returning to WIS) Hochberg (Miller Fellow at Berkeley) – Shadmi: Katz (2 nd PD & Harvard) Galon (UC Irvine in Fall 2014) Shadmi: Katz (2 nd PD & Harvard) Galon (UC Irvine in Fall 2014) 2 others (WIS): industry and finance (in Israel) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

zooming in (a few highlights): LHC (DM covered by Budnik) LHC (DM covered by Budnik) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

Higgs physics: main theme: this is ``new physics”: • use of effective field theory approach to quantify signatures and deviations from standard model (Volansky et al) • flavor structure of Higgs couplings to fermions flavor structure of Higgs couplings to fermions (Nir et al) • measurements of Higgs self couplings (Nir et al) Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

flavor and the search for supersymmetry: superpartner masses may be flavor dependent (and governed by whatever determines fermion masses) affects searches for supersymmetry: both production and decays both production and decays different aspects: (Nir, Shadmi, Perez) model building : hybrid models, Flavored Gauge Mediation LHC searches Yael Shadmi, Technion RECFA---Israel visit

in summary: with Israel becoming a CERN member state with funding on the rise with the exciting and vibrant research going on this is a great place to do particle physics! this is a great place to do particle physics! plans for future: help in making new discoveries at the LHC! and thanks to everyone for their input for this talk