2010 Michigan REU Student Presentations - First Meeting

Thursday 8 Jul 2010, 13:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

160/1-009 (CERN)

Jeremy Herr (U. of Michigan)

13:00 → 13:20 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Homer Alfred Neal (High Energy Physics)

13:20 → 13:25 Z boson reconstruction with Monte Carlo Simulations and ATLAS Data

Speaker: Adam Wallace Sekou Lowery (University of Michigan)

Slides CERNPresentation1.pptx

13:27 → 13:32 CMS Dashboard System

Speaker: Aram Apyan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Slides cern_1.pdf

13:34 → 13:39 CMS Cathode Strip Chamber Track Finder: Overlap Region Synchronization

A short introduction to the CMS CSC track finder, the muon overlap region, and timing synchronization issues related to sharing stubs in that region.

Speaker: Alex Ji (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides 2010-7-08_REU_Presentation.pdf

13:41 → 13:46 Rebecca Pankow

Speaker: Rebecca Pankow

Slides CERN_Pankow_1.pdf CERN_Pankow_1.pptx

13:48 → 13:53 Semileptonic Boosted Top Decays

Speaker: David Martin Bjergaard (Johns Hopkins University-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides Bjergaard_Presentation.pdf

13:55 → 14:00 ATLAS Level 1 Muon Central Trigger Processor Interface Monitoring

Summary of ATLAS trigger and monitoring of Level 1 Muon Central Trigger Interface

Speaker: Timothy Olson (Valparaiso University)

Slides Olson_CERN_1.pdf Olson_CERN_1.ppt

14:02 → 14:07 COMPASS Trigger System Hodoscopes

Speaker: Kat Elise Ziegler (Purdue University)

Slides COMPASS_Trigger_System_Hodoscopes.pdf COMPASS_Trigger_System_Hodoscopes.pptx

14:09 → 14:14 Study of Gamma+Jets production with first CMS data

Speaker: Natasha Woods (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides Study of Gamma+Jets production with first CMS data Study of Gamma+Jets production with first CMS data

14:16 → 14:21 SiPM Readback Noise Tagging & HCAL Calibration

Speaker: Dayton Thorpe (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides UM-Thorpe-1.pdf UM-Thorpe-1.pptx

14:23 → 14:28 Search for Diphoton Resonances Using the CMS ECAL

Speaker: Elliot Schneider (University of Michigan)

Slides 7_8.pdf

14:30 → 14:35 Missing Transverse Energy in ATLAS Collisions

Speaker: Judson Benton Locke (Harrison M. Randall Laboratory-University of Michigan)

Slides Missing_Transverse_Energy.pdf Missing_Transverse_Energy.pptx

14:37 → 14:42 Data analysis of lambda-0 polarization.

Speaker: Ray Zhang (University of Michigan)

Slides Hyperon_polarization.pdf

14:44 → 14:49 Data Analysis of a Low Momentum Detector Prototype for NA61/SHINE

A brief introduction to the challenge of centrality characterization in both Pb+Pb and p+Pb collisions and the goals of NA61's prototype time projection chamber.

Speaker: Michael Glidden (University of South Florida)

Slides NA61-SHINE_Presentation_I_(7-4-10)_(SuperFinal).pdf NA61-SHINE_Presentation_I_(7-4-10)_(SuperFinal).ppt

14:51 → 14:56 Stability in VPT signal in the ECAL Endcap of the CMS Detector

Speaker: Len Evans (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides Talk Slides

14:58 → 15:03 Gustav Gandara

Speaker: Gustavo Gandara Montano

Slides First_Presentation,_July_8th_(Correct).pdf Design of Magnetic Shielding and Creation of homogeneous magnetic field