IoP 2021 - Joint APP/HEPP/NP Conference

12 Apr 2021, 09:00 → 15 Apr 2021, 17:00 Europe/London

Remote (Edinburgh)

A combined annual meeting of the IOP Astroparticle Physics Group, the High Energy Particle Physics Group and the Nuclear Physics Group organised by the University of Edinburgh. From 12-15 April 2021, the Institute of Physics will be bringing together the UK Nuclear Physics, High Energy Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics communities for a joint annual conference.  Due to the ongoing Covid situation, this meeting will be delivered in an entirely online format. The meeting will feature keynote and invited talks from major national and international speakers, as well as extensive opportunities for contributed talks. Poster sessions will be presented using a virtual environment to promote social interaction, and updates and discussions with senior members of the Science and Technology Facilities Council will be provided at a Town Meeting. Gathertown will be used for poster sessions and break Hashtag: #EdiIOP2021

Gathertown link

GatherTownMap.png

iop2021_gather_town_guide.pdf

Monday, 12 April

09:45 → 10:00 Welcome - The Principal (Edinburgh)

Speaker: Alex Murphy (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

Plenary webinar zoom link

10:00 → 11:00 Joint Plenary

Convener: Alex Murphy (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

Plenary webinar zoom link

zoom link for the Thursday 13:30 session

10:00 The Next Decade in Particle Physics

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)

future.pdf

future.pptx

10:30 Hadron Physics

Speaker: Prof. David Ireland (University of Glasgow)

Ireland_IoP_Edinburgh_2021.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee/tea

11:30 → 12:45 Joint Plenary

Convener: Prof. Mark Lancaster (University of Manchester)

Plenary webinar zoom link

zoom link for the Thursday 13:30 session

11:30 Quark Flavour Physics

Speaker: Evelina Mihova Gersabeck (University of Manchester (GB))

QuarkFlavourPhysics-EG.pdf

12:00 HEPP prize talk: The g-2 experiment at Fermilab

Rebecca Chislett (UCL) -
featuring also Alex Keshavarzi (Manchester), Saskia Charity (FNAL) and Joe Price (Liverpool)

Speaker: Rebecca Chislett

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 1: Standard Model Processes

Convener: Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Parallel Stream 1 zoom link

13:30 Measurements of $W^+W^-$ production cross sections at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Jack MacDonald (University of Sheffield (GB))

IOP_12-04-21.pdf

13:45 Semileptonic Vector Boson Scattering at the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Tobias Fitschen (University of Birmingham (GB))

Fitschen_IOP_2021.pdf

14:00 Measurement of differential cross-sections of top-quark pair production in association with additional jets in highly boosted events

Speaker: Jonathan Jamieson (University of Glasgow (GB))

JJ_IOP2021_12_04_21_Boosted_ttbar_AddjetsWhirlwind_v5.pdf

14:15 Search for tZq production in association with a Z boson in the dilepton final state

Speaker: Kathryn Wendy Coldham (Brunel University (GB))

IOP_Talk_2021_FINAL.pdf

14:30 New dark matter searches with missing energy and b-quark final states at ATLAS

Speaker: Candice Basson (University of Manchester (GB))

Cbasson_IoP2021v6.pdf

14:45 Search for invisible particles in association with jets using the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Aidan Sean Kelly (University College London (UK))

IOP_HEP_talk_070421_ATLAS_final.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 2: Lepton Flavour Universality and rare decays (I)

Convener: William Barter (Imperial College (GB))

Parallel Stream 2 zoom link

13:30 Measurement of the interference between short- and long- distance contribution in $B^+ \to K^+ \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays

Speaker: Mr Lakshan Ram Madhan Mohan (University of Bristol (GB))

IoP_2021.pdf

13:45 Towards a test of the Standard Model’s lepton flavour universality with the ratio of branching fractions B(W→τν) / B(W→μν) at LHCb

Speaker: Ross John Hunter (University of Warwick (GB))

IOP_Rtaumu_RossHunter.pdf

14:00 Search for charged lepton flavour violation in top quark decays

Speaker: Mr Alexios Stampekis (University of Birmingham (GB))

AStampekis_IoP_Apr21_Top_cLFV_ATLAS.pdf

14:15 Measurement of RK with the full LHCb dataset

Speaker: Razvan-Daniel Moise (Imperial College (GB))

[20210412][IoP]RDMoise_RK.pdf

14:30 Search for the K+→π+νν decay at the NA62 Experiment at CERN

Speaker: Joel Christopher Swallow (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP21_JSwallow_NA62pnn_v2.F.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 3: Large liquid detectors

Convener: Alexander Deisting (Royal Holloway University of London (GB))

Parallel Stream 3 zoom link

13:30 Alpha – Neutron Background Characterisation Within the SNO+ Detector

Speaker: Matthew Cox

13:45 Cosmogenic Muon Induced Background Tagging in the SNO+ Scintillator Phase

Speaker: Lorna Nolan (University of London)

14:00 Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons using the ArgoNeuT detector at Fermilab

Speaker: Patrick James Green (University of Manchester (GB))

argoneut_IOP_2021.pdf

14:15 SNO+, Supernova neutrinos and Supernova Burst Trigger

Speaker: Mr Michal Rigan (University of Sussex)

14:30 Improved reconstruction of charged pions and other particles in the NOvA near detector

Speaker: Cathal Sweeney (UCL)

14:45 Reducing sensitivity to systematic uncertainties of the deep neural networks employed in the NOvA experiment

Speaker: Kevin Mulder (UCL)

IoP 2021 kmulder_v1.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 4: HEPP and APP Instrumentation 1

Convener: Matthew Daniel Buckland (University of Liverpool (GB))

Parallel Stream 4 zoom link

13:30 Benchmarking New Hardware and Software For Machine Learning In Particle Physics

Speaker: Stefano Vergani (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

vergani_iop_april_2020.pdf

13:45 Developing a distributed water Cherenkov detector array

Speaker: Simeon Bash (UCL)

14:00 An Alternative Design for Large Scale Liquid Scintillator Detectors

Speaker: Iwan Morton-Blake (University of Oxford)

IOP_SLIPs_IwanMorton-Blake.pdf

14:15 ARIADNE – A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) featuring an ultra-fast optical readout

Speaker: Barney Philippou

14:30 A Simulation Framework for Spherical Proportional Counters

Speaker: Patrick Ryan Knights (University of Birmingham (GB))

pk_iop_2021.pdf

14:45 Towards a Gas Filtration Setup for Ultra-Sensitive SF6 Gas Based Rare-Event Physics Experiments

Speaker: Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio (University of Sheffield)

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 5: Higgs Physics I

Convener: Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham (GB))

Parallel Stream 5 zoom link

13:30 Measurement of the Higgs boson mass decaying to a pair of Z bosons in the four lepton channel using pp collision events collected by the ATLAS detector at CERN

Speaker: Kamal Saoucha (University of Sheffield (GB))

IoP2021_HZZ4l.pdf

13:45 The ttH(bb) leptonic analysis at ATLAS

Speaker: Callum Booth (Royal Holloway University of London)

ttHbb_IOP_2021.pdf

14:00 A Search with the ATLAS Detector for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced In Association with a Top Quark Pair and Decaying to a Bottom Quark Pair (ttH(bb))

Speaker: Mr Dave Thomas (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

ttHbbDileptonIoP21_DaveThomas.pdf

14:15 Constraining the Higgs-top Yukawa Coupling with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Thomas Michael Carter (The University of Edinburgh)

IOP_talk_08_04_21.pdf

14:30 Adversarial Neural Networks for ttH(yy)

Speaker: Emily Petrova Takeva (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

IOPTalk.pdf

14:45 Search for the Higgs boson decaying to two electrons using the full Run 2 data set collected by the CMS detector at the LHC

Speaker: Joe Davies (University of London (GB))

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 6: Joint nuclear and particle physics

Convener: Matthew David Needham (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

Parallel Stream 6 zoom link

13:30 Probing the fragmentation and hadronisation processes of charm quarks using ALICE experiment at LHC

Speaker: Jakub Kvapil (University of Birmingham (GB))

IoP_JakubKvapil.pdf

13:45 Quarkonia production in jets at LHCb

Speaker: Naomi Cooke (University of Birmingham (GB))

Naomi_Cooke_IOP_HEPP_2021_Bham_Template.pdf

14:00 Measurement of Λc production in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Clara Bartels (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:15 Investigating strange particle production at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 8.16$ TeV with ALICE at the LHC

Speaker: Oliver Thomas Jevons (University of Birmingham (GB))

IoP_2021_Pres_OJevons_Final.pdf

IoP_2021_Pres_OJevons_Final.pptx

14:30 Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Beauty Dijet Production at the LHCb Experiment

Speaker: Matthew Bradley (Imperial College (GB))

IOP_MBradley_talk.pdf

14:45 Probing jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions through hadron+jet measurements with the ALICE experiment

Speaker: Jaime Norman (University of Liverpool (GB))

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 7: Nuclear Structure above Sn

Convener: Liam Gaffney (University of Liverpool (GB))

Parallel Stream 7 zoom link

13:30 𝛽-delayed neutron emission from r-process nuclei along the N=82 shell closure

Speaker: Oscar Hall (University of Edinburgh)

13:45 Excited States in the Rare-Earth Nucleus 129Pr

Speaker: Lorna Waring (University of Liverpool)

14:00 Structure of neutron rich nuclei in the 132Sn region

Speaker: Tom Parry (University of Surrey)

14:15 Identification of sub-μs isomeric states in the odd-odd nucleus 178Au.

Speaker: Stephen Gillespie (TRIUMF)

14:30 Calculated octupole spectra near Pb-208 with a time-depdendent method

Speaker: Paul Stevenson (University of Surrey)

Stevenson-IoP-2021.pdf

Stevenson-IoP-2021.pptx

14:45 Developing a charge plunger method for lifetime measurements in the heavy elements

Speaker: Jacob Heery (University of Liverpool)

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 8: Nuclear structure of light nuclei

Convener: Dr Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)

Parallel Stream 8 zoom link

13:30 Structure of 23F following a one-neutron removal reaction

Speaker: Luke Tetley (University of York)

13:45 Advances towards the measurement of $\gamma$-transitions from clustered states in 16O*

Speaker: Pedro Humberto Santa Rita Alcibia (University of Birmingham)

14:00 Unbound states in 16,18,20C with the R3B/LAND setup: the search for the mixed-symmetry 2+state

Speaker: Silvia Murillo Morales (University of York)

14:15 Identifying α-cluster states in 14O using the TexAT TPC

Speaker: Angus Hollands (University of Birmingham)

14:30 Understanding the interplay of different reaction channels in nuclear direct reactions with weakly-bound nuclei

Speaker: Laura Moschini (University of Surrey)

14:45 A Review of Machine Learning for Quantum Many-Body Systems

Speaker: James Keeble (University of Surrey)

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Stream 9: Astroparticle Physics 1

Convener: Dr Teppei Katori (King's College London)

Parallel Stream 9 zoom link

13:30 Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Jost Migenda (King’s College London)

20210412 SN Model Discrimination.pdf

13:45 Supernova Pointing with Multi-Detector Neutrino Light Curve Matching

Speaker: Jia-Shian Wang (University of Oxford)

14:00 The Potential for Supernova Discrimination with NEO

Speaker: Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:15 Boulby Underground Laboratory - Delivering outreach during the pandemic

Speaker: Emma Meehan (STFC Boulby Lab)

14:30 Subterranean Science and Ultra-Low Background Studies at Boulby Underground Laboratory

Speaker: Edward Banks (STFC)

14:45 Cosmic ray Tomography of the Wylfa Reactor Site Using VIDARR

Speaker: Ron Collins (University of Liverpool)

15:00 → 15:15 Comfort break

15:15 → 16:45 HEPP plenary

Convener: Tracey Berry (University of London (GB))

Parallel Plenary Particle Physics - zoom link

15:15 LHC upgrades

Speaker: Dr Stephen Mcmahon (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

SJM-Upgrade-IOP-Final2.pdf

SJM-Upgrade-IOP-Final2.pptx

15:45 Searches for BSM physics at the LHC

Speaker: Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh (GB))

BSM_searches_IoP2021.pdf

16:15 Searches for Dark Sector Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

ilten.pdf

15:15 → 16:45 NP/APP plenary

Parallel Plenary NP/APP - zoom link

15:15 Precision Isotop Measurements

Speaker: Moritz Pascal Reiter (TITAN)

15:45 AGATA

Speaker: Prof. Michael Bentley (University of York)

16:15 Recent Advances in Nuclear Structure Theory

Speaker: Dr Carlo Barbieri (University of Surrey)

Tuesday, 13 April

10:00 → 11:00 Joint Plenary

Convener: Christoph Englert (University of Glasgow)

Plenary webinar zoom link

zoom link for the Thursday 13:30 session

10:00 Gravitational waves

Speaker: James Hough (University of Glasgow)

10:30 Science at FAIR

Speaker: Prof. Paulo Giubellio

11:00 → 11:30 Coffe/tea

11:30 → 12:30 HEPP plenary

Convener: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))

Parallel Plenary Particle Physics - zoom link

11:30 The SM and the Higgs physics at the LHC

Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))

IOP_SM_Lohwasser.pdf

12:00 HEPP AGM

AGMAgenda_1342021.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 NP/APP plenary

Conveners: Alex Murphy (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Moritz Pascal Reiter (TITAN)

Parallel Plenary NP/APP - zoom link

11:30 Storage Ring Physics

Speaker: Yuri Litvinov (GSI, Darmstadt)

12:00 NP Summer school Prize talk

Speaker: Ruth Newton (University of York)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

12:30 → 13:30 NP AGM

Convener: Moritz Pascal Reiter (TITAN)

13:30 → 14:30 Poster/Social

GatherTown

14:30 → 14:45 Comfort break

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 1: Charge-parity measurement and searches

Convener: Matthew William Kenzie (University of Warwick (GB))

Parallel Stream 1 zoom link

14:45 Measuring the CP structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and τ leptons

Speaker: Mohammadhassan Hassanshahi (Imperial College (GB))

20210413-IOP-HiggsCP-MohammadHassanshahi.pdf

15:00 Time-dependent CP-violation at LHCb with $𝐵 \to 𝐷_{𝐶𝑃} \pi\pi$ decays

Speaker: Andrew George Morris (University of Warwick (GB))

IoP presentation.pdf

15:15 Extraction of the CKM ratio |Vub|/|Vcb| through $B_c^+$ semileptonic decays at LHCb

Speaker: Blaise Raheem Delaney (University of Cambridge (GB))

Delaney_IOP_April2021.pdf

15:30 Measurement of charm mixing and strong-phase parameters using multi-body decays at LHCb

Speaker: Kamil Leszek Fischer (University of Oxford (GB))

IOPTalk.pdf

15:45 Measurement of $\Delta \Gamma_s$ using the $B_s$ decays to the final states $J/\psi \eta^{\prime}$ and $J/\psi f_0$

Speaker: Stefano Petrucci (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

iop_petrucci.pdf

16:00 The first angular analysis of the $B^+ \to \pi^+\mu^+\mu^-$ decay using Run I and Run II data at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Flavia Cicala (University of Warwick (GB))

IOPHEPP Talk Cicala.pdf

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 2: Lepton Flavour Universality and rare decays (II)

Convener: Mark Richard James Williams (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

Parallel Stream 2 zoom link

14:45 In Search of Charged Lepton Flavor Violating Decay μ+ → e+e+e- for the Mu3e Experiment and Test-Beam Data Acquisition System for Characterization of HV-MAPS

Speaker: Afaf Wasili (University of Liverpool)

IOPconference2021.pdf

IOPconference2021.pdf

IOPconference2021.pptx

IOPconference2021.pptx

15:00 Augmenting background hit datasets in COMET with Generative Adversarial Networks

Speaker: Matthias Dubouchet (Imperial College London)

20210412_CDC-GAN_IOP_MatthiasDubouchet.odp

20210412_CDC-GAN_IOP_MatthiasDubouchet.pdf

15:15 Rare Measurements and Forbidden and Exotic Searches at NA62

Speaker: Thomas Bache (University of Birmingham (GB))

TBache_IOP-HEPP-talk_NA62RecentResults.pdf

15:30 Searches for Rare and Forbidden Exclusive Decays of the Higgs and Z Bosons to a Meson and a Photon with the ATLAS Experiment.

Speaker: Robert James Ward (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP-HEPP2021_RW_Higgs_ExclusiveDecays.pdf

15:45 First observation of B→D*(2007)Kπ and Bs→D*(2007)Kπ decays with fully reconstructed D*(2007) mesons at LHCb.

Speaker: Arnau Brossa Gonzalo (University of Warwick (GB))

IOP-ArnauBrossaGonzalo.pdf

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 3: Neutrinos: The long and the short of it

Convener: Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford)

Parallel Stream 3 zoom link

14:45 Neutral current quasielastic neutron tagging analysis with Super-Kamiokande-Gd

Speaker: Pruthvi Mehta

15:00 Improving CP violation sensitivity with improved electron neutrino cross-section measurements at Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Charlie Naseby (Imperial College London)

IOP_talk_cnaseby.pdf

15:15 Near detector constraint on beam and interaction model parameters in the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation analysis

Speaker: Joseph Walsh (Lancaster University)

IOP2021.pdf

15:30 An Electron Neutrino Selection in the Short Baseline NearDetector (SBND)

Speaker: Edward Tyley

etyley_IOP2021 (13).pdf

15:45 Using inclusive electron scattering data to improve the uncertainty on the nucleon removal energy systematic at T2K

Speaker: Jordan Michael Mcelwee

iop_talk-210413.pdf

16:00 An improved muon neutrino charged-current single positive pion cross section on water using michel electron reconstruction in the T2K near detector

Speaker: Sam Jenkins

SamJenkins_T2KCC1Pi_v1.pdf

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 4: HEPP and APP Instrumentation 2

Convener: Gary Smith (University of Edinburgh)

Parallel Stream 4 zoom link

14:45 Commissioning of the Upgraded ALICE Inner Tracking System for LHC Run 3

Speaker: Jian Liu (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOP-2021_Jian_Liu.pdf

15:00 The Commissioning of the SuperNEMO Demonstrator Module Calorimeter and an investigation into the effects of Helium Poisoning of PhotoMultiplier Tubes.

Speaker: William Quinn (UCL)

15:15 Identifying Materials in Nuclear Waste Drums using Muon Scattering Tomography and Machine Learning

Speaker: Michael Weekes (University of Sheffield)

Iop presentation slides weekes final.pdf

15:30 Contrast to Noise Ratio Method: Quantitative Assessment of Image Reconstruction Algorithms for Muon Scattering Tomography Technique.

Speaker: Ahmad F Alrheli (University of Sheffield)

15:45 A Silicon Pixel system for monitoring Primary and Secondary Radiation during Hadron Therapy

Speaker: Mohammad E. Alsulimane (Liverpool)

16:00 MAGIS-100: A Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer with Sensitivities to Dark Matter

Speaker: Sam Hindley (Liverpool)

APPHEPPNPTalkFINAL.pdf

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 5: Higgs Physics II

Convener: Panagiotis Bellos (University of Birmingham (GB))

Parallel Stream 5 zoom link

14:45 Development of a Z+jets dedicated treatment within the scope of the search for the decay of the Higgs Boson to charm quarks with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Antonio Manuel Mendes Jacques Da Costa (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP_Meeting_13_04_21.pdf

15:00 Axion searches in rare Higgs decays at ATLAS

Speaker: Adam James Ruby (University of Liverpool (GB))

IoPTalk.pdf

15:15 A search for invisibly decaying Higgs Bosons in the fully hadronic final state, targeting the ttH and VH production modes

Speaker: Mr David Benjamin Anthony (University of Bristol (GB))

David_IOP_Final.pdf

15:30 Searches for Higgs boson pair production in the bbττ final state with 139 fb-1 of pp collision data with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Zhiyuan Li (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOP 2021 Zhiyuan Li.pdf

IOP 2021 Zhiyuan Li.pptx

15:45 Optimizing the search for pair-production of Higgs Bosons in the bbbb final state using data collected from proton-proton collisions in the ATLAS detector.

Speaker: Lucas Santiago Borgna (UCL)

IOP_Talk_LSB_final.pdf

16:00 Combining di-Higgs decay channels to measure a combined limit on the di-Higgs cross section with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Natasha Hehir (Queen Mary University of London (GB))

NHehir_IOP21.pdf

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 6: High energy nuclear physics 2

Convener: Mikhail Bashkanov

Parallel Stream 6 zoom link

14:45 Exploring Neutron stars EoS with coherent π0 π0 photoproduction at A2@MAMI

Speaker: Mihai Mocanu (University of York)

15:00 J/ψ near threshold photoproduction at CLAS12

Speaker: Richard Tyson (University of Glasgow)

15:15 J/ψ photoproduction in Pb-Pb UPC: from x ~ $10^-2$ to $10^-5$

Speaker: Simone Ragoni (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP2021_slim.pdf

15:30 Analysis of γp → π+π- p at GlueX

Speaker: James Fitches (University of Glasgow)

15:45 Probing the internal structure of the neutron: Hard Exclusive π0-Production off neutrons using a deuteron target at CLAS12

Speaker: Paul Naidoo (University of Glasgow)

16:00 Towards the Discovery of First Strange Hexaquark with CLAS12

Speaker: Geraint Clash (University of York)

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 7: Nuclear Astrophysics 1

Convener: Carlo Bruno (University of Edinburgh)

Parallel Stream 7 zoom link

14:45 Nucleosynthesis inside common envelope accretion

Speaker: Alexander Hall-Smith (University of York)

15:00 The 22Ne(α,n)25Mg reaction rate and its key role in low metallicity AGB stellar nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Umberto Battino (University of Edinburgh)

15:15 Investigating The Astrophysical s-Process with DRAGON: Direct Measurement of the 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg Reaction

Speaker: Shaheen Jazrawi (University of Surrey/National Physical Laboratory)

15:30 21Ne and the Lighter Heavy Elements

Speaker: Cameron Angus (University of York )

15:45 New measurement of oxygen-15 alpha capture for neutron stars in binary systems through radioactive ion beam alpha transfer

Speaker: Jennifer Sanchez Rojo (University of York)

16:00 How good a poison is 16O?

Speaker: Philip Adsley (Wits/iThemba LABS)

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 8: Nuclear structure 3

Convener: Moritz Pascal Reiter (TITAN)

Parallel Stream 8 zoom link

14:45 Mass measurements of the low-lying states of 102Y

Speaker: Andrew Weaver (University of Brighton)

15:00 Lifetime measurements of the non-yrast structure in 102Mo

Speaker: Calum Jones (University of Brighton)

15:15 Decay spectroscopy of nuclei near doubly magic 100Sn with the Advanced Implantation Detector Array (AIDA) at RIKEN

Speaker: Corrigan Appleton (University of Edinburgh)

15:30 Collectivity beyond 78Ni: Lifetime measurements of low-lying states in neutron-rich 82Zn

Speaker: Zhiqiang Chen (University of Surrey)

16:00 An electrostatic ion trap for laser spectroscopy of exotic technetium isotopes

Speaker: Daniel Pitman-Weymouth (University of Manchester)

14:45 → 16:15 Parallel Stream 9: Astroparticle Physics 2

Convener: Garret Cotter (University of Oxford, Department of Physics)

Parallel Stream 9 zoom link

14:45 New results in the search for dark matter with the DarkSide Experiment

Speaker: Paolo Agnes (University of Houston (US))

15:00 New Physics Searches with Low Energy Electron Recoils in the LUX ZEPLIN Experiment

Speaker: Elizabeth Leason (University of Edinburgh)

15:15 Searching for Light Dark Matter with NEWS-G

Speaker: Tom Neep (University of Birmingham (GB))

iop_newsg_neep.pdf

15:30 A search for unvirialized axions in ADMX

Speaker: Shriram Jois (Royal Holloway, University of London)

15:45 Assembling the LZ Detector

Speaker: Nicolas Angelides (University College London)

16:00 Dark Noise Emission and Correlated Cross-Talk in Silicon Photomultipliers

Speaker: Joseph McLaughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16:15 → 16:45 APP Prize talk

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91843095434?pwd=b1l4K0lsRmVHQm13eGlhbkdjQWh3UT09

Speaker: Theresa Fruth

TF_IOP_2021.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 NP ECR Prize 2020 - Making the calculations of nuclear matrix elements easier

Wednesday, 14 April

10:00 → 11:00 Joint Plenary

Convener: Dr Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))

Plenary webinar zoom link

zoom link for the Thursday 13:30 session

10:00 Theory and Phenomenlogy

Speaker: Dr Jenni Smillie

IOPconf_Smillie.pdf

10:30 The year that was COVID

Speakers: Mark Andrew Thomson, Mark Thomson (STFC)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee/tea break

11:30 → 12:30 Poster/Social

GatherTown

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 HEPP plenary

Convener: Dr Jaroslaw Andrzej Nowak (Lancaster University (GB))

Parallel Plenary Particle Physics - zoom link

13:30 Short Baseline Neutrinos

Speaker: Roxanne Guenette (Harvard University)

IOP_SBL_Guenette.pdf

14:00 Neutrino Oscillation Physics

Speakers: Alfons Weber (STFC/RAL & Uni Oxford), Prof. Alfons Weber (University of Oxford (GB))

Neutrinos-IOP-2021.pdf

Neutrinos-IOP-2021.pptx

13:30 → 14:30 NP/APP plenary

Parallel Plenary NP/APP - zoom link

13:30 Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Prof. Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)

CTA-UK_IoP_Apr21_2.pdf

14:00 ISS physics

Speaker: David Sharp (University of Manchester (GB))

14:30 → 14:45 Comfort break

14:45 → 16:45 STFC town meeting

STFC town meeting zoom link

14:45 Chief Executive Report

Speakers: Mark Andrew Thomson, Mark Thomson (STFC)

15:15 Report from Science Board

Speaker: Tara Shears (University of Liverpool (GB))

SB update.pdf

SB update.pptx

15:45 Report from Advisory Panels

PAAP for STFC Town Hall.pdf

PPTAP STFC Town Meeting April 2021.pdf

PPTAP STFC Town Meeting April 2021.pptx

16:15 Discussion

18:30 → 20:30 Social progamme

Pub quiz - you need to bring your own beverages and snacks.
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/99208391993?pwd=VHJyWlR1bE1zTFJLUGFRUTVpL3FSZz09

Pub quiz zoom link

18:30 Pub quiz

Pub quiz - you need to bring your own beverages and snacks.

Speakers: Alex Martyniuk (UCL), Benjamin Michael Wynne (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Xin Ran Liu (University College London), Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh (GB))

pub-quiz-Poster.pdf

Thursday, 15 April

10:00 → 11:00 Joint Plenary

Convener: David Sharp (University of Manchester (GB))

Plenary webinar zoom link

zoom link for the Thursday 13:30 session

10:00 Nuclear Applications

Speaker: Laura Harkness (University of Liverpool)

10:30 Neutrino Mass Measurements

Speaker: Susanne Mertens (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee/tea

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 1: Rare decays in the SM and beyond

Convener: Alison Elliot (Queen Mary University of London (GB))

Parallel Stream 1 zoom link

11:30 From measurement to reinterpretation: ATLAS four-lepton invariant mass spectrum and a study of vector-like-quarks

Speaker: Joanna Huang (University of London (GB))

IOP_Huang_Final.pdf

11:45 High-mass Drell-Yan measurements at the ATLAS experiment and their phenomenological interpretation

Speaker: Ricardo Gonzalez Lopez (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOPSlides_RicardoGonzalez_v2.pdf

12:00 Searching for long-lived heavy neutral leptons in hadronic decays with the CMS detector using a novel deep neural network-based displaced jet tagger

Speaker: Julia-Suzana Dancu (Imperial College (GB))

IoP Conference talk 15_04 - Julia Dancu.pdf

12:15 Observation of excited Ωc0 baryons in exclusive Ωb- decays

Speaker: Sara Elizabeth Mitchell (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

SaraM_IOP_150421.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 2: Supersymmetry and EDMs

Convener: Sarah Louise Williams (University of Cambridge (GB))

Parallel Stream 2 zoom link

11:30 Search for charginos and neutralinos in final states with two and three leptons and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Marco Aparo (University of Sussex (GB))

maparo_IOP2021.pdf

11:45 Search for Supersymmetry in final states with tau leptons at the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Daniela Maria Koeck (University of Sussex)

IOPditau_dkoeck.pdf

12:00 Results from the Search for Supersymmetry in Final States Containing Multiple b-jets with 139 fb-1 with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Jack Joseph Hall (University of Sheffield (GB))

12:15 Measuring the electric dipole moment of the muon at the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment

Speaker: Sam Grant (University College London)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 3: Neutrino interactions

Convener: Nicola Mcconkey (University of Manchester (GB))

Parallel Stream 3 zoom link

11:30 Selecting charged current $\nu_\mu$ interactions with final state $\gamma$s in the T2K near detector

Speaker: Tristan Doyle (Lancaster University)

11:45 Measurement of the Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Inclusive Cross-Section on Argon in MicroBooNE

Speaker: Krishan Mistry

KM_IOP_April2021.pdf

12:00 Treatment of the 13C($\alpha$,n)16O background in the SNO+ antineutrino analyses

Speaker: Charlie Mills (University of Sussex)

treatment_of_the_13calphan16o_bckgrnd_iop21.pdf

12:15 Systematic Uncertainties in the NOvA Muon Neutrino Disappearance Analysis

Speaker: Ms Yibing Zhang (NOvA)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 4: HEPP Reconstruction

Convener: Jacob Linace (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Parallel Stream 4 zoom link

11:30 Event reconstruction in ALICE’s run 3 continuous readout environment

Speaker: Aimeric Landou (University of Derby (GB))

11:45 Track Finding in the CMS Level 1 Trigger for HL-LHC: Challenges, Design and Implementation

Speaker: David Gabriel Monk (Imperial College (GB))

Track Finding in the CMS Level 1 Trigger for HL-LHC_ Challenges, Design and Implementation (1).pdf

12:00 Enhancing physics reach with improved L1 triggers in Run 3

Speaker: Elena Michelle Villhauer (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

ev_IOP_1542021.pdf

12:15 New Algorithms for Reconstructing Event Pairs in Gd-H2O for Reactor Anti-neutrino Detection

Speaker: Elisabeth Kneale (University of Sheffield)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 5: Medical Nuclear Physics

Convener: Laura Harkness (University of Liverpool)

Parallel Stream 5 zoom link

11:30 Design of an Imaging Collimator for application in low dose Molecular Breast Imaging

Speaker: Hannah Brown (University of Liverpool)

11:45 Cross-section measurements for the production of theragnostic terbium isotopes at the Birmingham cyclotron facility

Speaker: Rebeckah Trinder (University of Birmingham)

12:00 Prompt gamma-ray measurements with nanoparticles for in vivo range verification and dose enhancement in protontherapy

Speaker: Escribano-Rodriguez Sonia (University of York)

12:15 Improving Gamma-Ray Position Resolution in Pixelated CZT Detectors for use in Molecular Breast Imaging Applications

Speaker: Ellis Rintoul (University of Liverpool)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 6: Nuclear physics facilities

Convener: Patrick Regan (University of Surrey)

Parallel Stream 6 zoom link

11:30 ADNIF@Bham — an Accelerator-Driven Neutron Irradiation Facility

Speaker: Carl Wheldon (University of Birmingham)

11:45 Electrons for Neutrinos at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Stuart Fegan (University of York)

12:00 The MARA Low-Energy Branch: The first tests and next steps

Speaker: Filippos Papadakis (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

12:15 Development of an upgraded National Nuclear Array (NaNA) at the National Physical Laboratory

Speaker: Sean Collins (NPL)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 7: Nuclear Astrophysics 2

Convener: Dr James Smallcombe (University of Liverpool)

Parallel Stream 7 zoom link

11:30 Mass measurement and energy level analysis of 190-Re using the Q3D magnetic spectrograph

Speaker: Mark Griffiths (University of Birmingham)

11:45 The 12C+12C fusion cross-section at sub-coulomb barrier energies

Speaker: Jose Gustavo Vega Romero (University of York)

12:00 Developing an Active-Target detector for studying nuclear reactions of astrophysical significance

Speaker: Soham Chakraborty (University of York)

12:15 The Impact of Nuclear Physics Uncertainties on Nucleosynthesis in the First Stars

Speaker: Samuel Lloyd (University of Edinburgh)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 8: Nuclear Structure 4

Convener: Alison Mary Bruce (University of Brighton (GB))

Parallel Stream 8 zoom link

11:30 Investigation of Isospin Symmetry Breaking Through Mirrored One-Nucleon Knockout Reactions to the T z = $\pm$2 A=48 Mirror Nuclei

Speaker: Rehab Yajzey (University of York)

11:45 Investigation of Isospin Symmetry Violation via One- and Two- Nucleon Knockout Reactions in Tz = $\pm$ 3/2 nuclei

Speaker: Sivahami Uthayakumaar (University of York)

12:00 New advancements in the shape coexistence and the onset of deformation at 98Y

Speaker: Charlie Stuart Devlin (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:15 The Development of Novel Pulse Shape Analysis Algorithms for the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA)

Speaker: Fraser Holloway (University of Liverpool)

11:30 → 12:30 Parallel Stream 9: Astroparticle Physics 3

Convener: Dr Christopher McCabe (King's College London)

Parallel Stream 9 zoom link

11:30 Novel improvements on the most sensitive axion detectors

Speaker: Mitchell Perry (University of Sheffield)

11:45 LUX-ZEPLIN optical photon simulations using GPUs

Speaker: Sam Eriksen (University of Bristol)

SE_IOP_2021(1).pdf

12:00 Instrumentation of the Darkside-20K Outer Detector

Speaker: Samuel Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London)

12:15 Dark photon searches using plasma wakefield acceleration

Speaker: Adam Scaachi (University of London (GB))

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Joint Plenary

Plenary webinar zoom link

zoom link for the Thursday 13:30 session

13:30 Dark Matter Summary

Speaker: Jim Dobson

Direct Detection Dark Matter IOP-2021.pdf

14:00 Indirect methods to constrain nuclear astrophysics: the case of 12C+12C fusion

Speaker: Prof. Aurora Tumino

14:30 → 14:45 Comfort break

14:45 → 16:15 HEPP plenary

Convener: Franz Muheim (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

Parallel Plenary Particle Physics - zoom link

14:45 Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions

Speaker: Dr Xianguo Lu (University of Oxford)

xlu_20210415_IOP_presented.pdf

15:15 Reconstruction Machine Learning

Speaker: Emmanuel Olatunji Olaiya (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

eolaiyaIOP2021.pdf

15:45 Neutrino and Dark Matter Liquid Argon Detector Technologies

Speaker: k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))

LAr_neutrinosDM_Mavrokoridis.pdf

14:45 → 16:15 NP/APP plenary

Parallel Plenary NP/APP - zoom link

14:45 Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

2021 Watson GSSI Colloquium by Zoom [Autosaved].pdf

2021 Watson GSSI Colloquium by Zoom [Autosaved].pptx

15:15 QGP physics with ALICE

Speakers: David Evans (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham), David Evans (University of Birmingham (GB))

IoP-April2021.pdf

IoP-April2021.pptx

15:45 ECR Prize talk

Speaker: Dr Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)

16:15 → 16:45 Conference Prizes and Closing Remarks

zoom link for the concluding session