ATLAS workshop on tau lepton physics 2009

from Wednesday, 15 April 2009 (08:00) to Friday, 17 April 2009 (17:00)
Niels Bohr Institute (Auditorium 4)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Apr 2009
16 Apr 2009
17 Apr 2009
AM
08:15 Workshop Registration   (Auditorium 4)
09:00 Preparing for First Physics - Thomas Le Compte (Argonne National Laboratory)   (Auditorium 4)
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09:30
Tau trigger (until 12:45) (Auditorium 4)
09:30 Trigger menu for 10^31 - Olga Igonkina (Nikhef)   (Auditorium 4)
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09:45 performance of tau trigger in release 15 - Andreas Reinsch (University of Oregon)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:05 L2 and EF tracking performance - Sinead Marie Farrington (University of Oxford)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:25 Tau Trigger efficiency determination - Prof. Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:40 Tau trigger efficiency measurement with QCD jets - Anna Sfyrla   (Auditorium 4)
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11:00 --- Coffee and tea break ---
11:15 Tau trigger performance in presence of pile up - Pavel Jez (NBI Copenhagen)   (Auditorium 4)
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11:35 EF calorimeter performance issues - Soshi Tsuno (University of Tokyo)   (Auditorium 4)
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11:55 Optimization of tau cone size - Peter Kadlecik (Niels Bohr Institute (NBI)-Niels Bohr Inst. Astr., Phys, & Geo-U)   (Auditorium 4)
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12:15 Tau trigger Data Quality - Mansoora Shamim (University of Oregon-Unknown-Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
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12:30 Toolkit for MC tuning on first data - Camille Belanger-Champagne (Dept. of Nuclear and Particle Phys.-University of Uppsala)   (Auditorium 4)
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09:00
Performance and Algorithms (until 12:50) (Auditorium 4)
09:00 Tau Reconstruction and Event Data Model - Dr Thomas Burgess (Department of Physics & Technology - University of Bergen)   (Auditorium 4)
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09:20 Cut-based Tau ID and Systematic Studies - Bjoern Gosdzik (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))   (Auditorium 4)
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09:35 Developments on multi-variate Tau ID - Marcin Wolter (Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN) Andrzej Adam Zemla (Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Physics, PAN-Unknown-Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
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09:55 Tau ID in busy environments - Elias Coniavitis (IKP, Uppsala Universitet)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:10 Tau ID systematics with Min Bias Events, and overlay status - Trevor Vickey (University of Wisconsin)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:30 Tauola Interface and MC Tester - Nadia Davidson (University of Melbourne)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Tau Reconstruction Validation and Tau Tools - Jyothsna Rani Komaragiri (Department of Physics - Simon Fraser University) Aldo Saavedra (Falkiner High Energy Department - School of Physics - University) Till Nattermann (Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
Pileup sample update
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11:20 Derived Physics Data for Taus - Ulrike Blumenschein (Uni Goettingen)   (Auditorium 4)
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11:40 Tracking in Taus and MET DPD Validation - Dr Antonio Limosani (University of Melbourne)   (Auditorium 4)
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12:00 Conversion Track Tagging and other Track Studies in Tau Reconstruction - Michael Boehler (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Unknown-Unknown) Guilherme N. Hanninger (Bonn University)   (Auditorium 4)
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12:20 Pi0 Reconstruction in Tau Decays - Michel Janus (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)   (Auditorium 4)
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12:35 Tau Reconstruction with EflowRec Objects - Sebastian Fleischmann (U. Bonn)   (Auditorium 4)
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09:00
Discoveries with tau lepton (until 12:40) (Auditorium 4)
10:00 Taus in Real Data: MSSM Higgs Searches at CDF - Cristobal Cuenca Almenar (University of California, Irvine)   (Auditorium 4)
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10:30 New Searches in the Higgs WG - Nicolas Moeser (Physikalisches Institut)   (Auditorium 4)
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11:00 The MSSM h/H/A->tau.tau Project @ 14 TeV - Will Davey (Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
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11:25 --- Coffee/Tea Break ---
11:40 Studies of Tau Polarization in Z'->tautau Events - Zofia Czyczula (Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)   (Auditorium 4)
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12:05 Sypersymmetry with tau final states in early data - Caroline Zendler   (Auditorium 4)
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Commissioning (until 17:00) (Auditorium 4)
14:00 Overview of commissioning in LAr/Tile/HLT - Denis Oliveira Damazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Auditorium 4)
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14:30 Overview of commissioning in ID - Trevor Vickey (University of Wisconsin)   (Auditorium 4)
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14:55 ID Tracking and alignment performances - Mr Oleg Brandt (University of Oxford)   (Auditorium 4)
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15:20 Tracking software status and expected performance in tau events - Sebastian Fleischmann (U. Bonn)   (Auditorium 4)
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15:40 --- Coffee break ---
15:55 Jet/Etmiss commissioning - Ulrike Blumenschein (Uni Goettingen)   (Auditorium 4)
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16:20 Tau commissioning analysis - Saminder Dhaliwal (Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
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16:40 Tau Offline DQ - Sarah Marie Demers (SLAC)   (Auditorium 4)
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17:00
Time for parallel meeting and working groups (until 19:00) (Auditorium 4)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Physics with 10-100 pb<sup>-1</sup> (until 17:05) (Auditorium 4)
14:00 W->taunu analysis - Pawel Malecki (Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Physics, PAN)   (Auditorium 4)
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14:20 Z->tau-tau analysis for scales determination and cross section - Caterina Pizio (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Universita & INFN, Milano) Susanne Kuehn (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)   (Auditorium 4)
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14:50 Z->tau-tau-> muon-hadron analysis - Ryan David Reece (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pennsylvania)   (Auditorium 4)
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15:10 Z->tau-tau->electron-hadron analysis - Anna Kaczmarska (IFJ PAN, Krakow, Poland)   (Auditorium 4)
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:45 Z->tau-tau studies for efficiency determination - Philip Bechtle (DESY) Gordon Fischer (Institut fuer Physik-Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin-Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
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16:05 Z->tau-tau analysis and QCD background - Justin Griffiths (Department of Physics, University of Washington)   (Auditorium 4)
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16:20 Use of safe Tau variables for Z->tau-tau - Carl Bryan Gwilliam (Department of Physics - Oliver Lodge Laboratory - University of)   (Auditorium 4)
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16:35 l+tau channels with NN cuts - Serban Dan Protopopescu (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)   (Auditorium 4)
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16:50 Measurement of fake tau leptons from QCD jets - Mathias Uhlenbrock (Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms- Univ.-Univ. Bonn, Physikalisches)   (Auditorium 4)
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17:00
Time for parallel meeting and working groups (until 19:00) (Auditorium 4)
Cosmics
Wtaunu trigger
19:45 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---