Celebration of the discovery of the Higgs boson Anniversary from Africa

Monday 4 Jul 2022, 09:45 → 19:00 Africa/Casablanca

Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA)), Mohammed Attia Mahmoud Mohammed (Center for High Energy Physics, Fayoum (CHEP-FU), University, Egypt (EG)), Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

A celebration of the 10 year anniversary since the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs boson with a full-day virtual scientific symposium themed  “Celebration of the Higgs Anniversary -  4th July from Africa”.  CERN is also hosting a celebration. This great achievement of the 21st Century is global and there are other celebrations in other continents, regions and countries. This is the celebration event highlighting the African participation. The talks will present an historical overview as well as the current situation and future prospects for the  programmes of the African countries, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa, these  being current members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.  

The African Scientific Diaspora at CERN and also the African countries that do not yet have a membership of a HEP experiment at CERN will take part in this celebration as a 5th region (as in the AU terminology). There will also be  speakers representing both experiments ATLAS and CMS. The Opening is by the African Physical Society followed by the Presentations by ATLAS, CMS and African Scientists and the Closing is by the African Academy of Sciences. 

 Committee chairs:
    Farida Fassi (Mohammed V University In Rabat, Faculty of Sciences)
    Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed (Fayoum University, Egypt)
    Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
 

 

 

09:58 → 10:00 Session-1

Convener: Abdesslam Arhrib (AbdelMalek Essaadi university)

video-Abdesslam Arhrib.mp4

10:00 → 10:15 Opening from the African Physical Society

President of the African physical Society

Speaker: Ahmadou Wague

video-Ahmadou Wague.mp4

10:15 → 10:45 Review and Prospects of Higgs physics from CMS since the discovery

Professor Dr. Albert De Roeck is a senior research scientist and staff member at CERN and a professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Antwerp and then spent ten years at the German particle physics laboratory, DESY, where he and his team made very precise measurements of the quark and gluon structure of the proton, and performed precise tests of the strong force. To pursue his interest in discovering new physics at particle colliders, in particular supersymmetry and extra dimensions, he returned to CERN. During the last ten years, he has played a significant role in the preparation of one of the experiments at the LHC: the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). De Roeck is one of the leaders in the CMS physics program and was the deputy spokesperson of the experiment in 2010 and 2011. He is presently the convener of the Higgs search physics group.

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

deroeck_Higgs_July4th_v4.pdf

deroeck_Higgs_July4th_v4.pptx

video-Albert De Roeck.mp4

10:45 → 11:15 Review and Prospects of Higgs physics from ATLAS since the discovery

Prof. Bill Murray was the ATLAS Higgs Convener in the run-up to Higgs discovery 2012 and then Physics Coordinator. More recently he has coordinated the ATLAS Tracking In Dense Environments group and is currently Higgs and Diboson Searches Convener. He also e​ngages with future collider projects.​ The Warwick ATLAS Group, led by Prof. Bill Murray, have made substantial contributions to the ATLAS trigger and physics analysis and have held several coordination roles within the collaboration. A focus of the new appointment will be a substantial role in delivering aspects of Warwick’s responsibilities for the ATLAS upgrade.

Speaker: Bill Murray (University of Warwick (GB))

murray-celebrationAfrica.pdf

video-Bill Murray-2.mp4

video-Bill Murray.mp4

11:15 → 11:17 Session-2

Convener: Yasser Assran (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))

11:17 → 11:32 Morocco: Historical perspective up to Higgs discovery

Speaker: Abdeslam Hoummada (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))

Higgs_Anniversary2022.pdf

Prof. Abdeslam Hoummada

video-Abdeslam Hoummada.mp4

11:32 → 11:47 Morocco: Current status and future perspectives

Speaker: Driss Benchekroun (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))

Benchekroun-july-2022.pdf

video-DrissBenchekroun.mp4

11:47 → 12:02 Egypt: Historical perspective up to Higgs discovery

Speaker: Reham Aly (Politecnico - Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

Reham_10th_H_Ann_Africa.pdf

video-RehamAly.mp4

12:02 → 12:03 Session-3

Convener: Yasser Mohammed (Fayoum University (EG))

12:03 → 12:18 Egypt: Current status and future perspectives

Speaker: Ahmed Ali Abdelalim (Helwan University, also at CTP, Zewail City of Science and Tech.)

AfPS_Higgs_10thAnn_AAbdelalim_04072022.pdf

video-AhmedAliAbdelalim.mp4

12:18 → 12:33 South Africa: Historical perspective for the SA-CERN Programme

Speaker: Zeblon Vilakazi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))

10_years_Higgs_SA-CERN_04.07.22.pdf

Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi

video-Zeblon Vilakazi.mp4

12:36 → 12:51 South Africa: Current status and future perspectives

Speaker: Lerothodi Leonard Leeuw (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

ATLAS_AT_UCT.pdf

SA-Current Status and Future Perspectives.pdf

video-LerothodiLeonardLeeuw.mp4

12:51 → 13:21 Break

13:21 → 13:26 Session-4

Convener: Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

13:26 → 13:41 Contribution from the ASFAP Working Group on Particle Physics

Speaker: Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University)

Higgs10_ASFAP_PP_July2022_vf.pdf

Prof. Mohamed Chabab

video-MohamedChabab.mp4

13:41 → 13:56 Selected contributions from the African diaspora

Speaker: Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

A few contributions from the African diaspara

Dr. Ketevi Adikle Assamagan

video-KeteviAdikleAssamagan.mp4

13:56 → 14:11 Selected contributions from the Non-Member Countries

Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal
Founding member and current President of the Senegalese Physical Society
Co-Vice President of the West African Physical Society

Speaker: Oumar Ka (Cheikh Anta Diop University)

HBD10_Presentation-OKa.pdf

video-OumarKa.mp4

14:11 → 14:26 Closing from African Academy of Sciences

The Acting Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

Speaker: Catherine Ngila (The Ag. Executive Director)

Prof. Catherine Jane Ngila

video-CatherineNgila.mp4

15:25 → 15:35 Posters

15:40 → 15:45 Posters: Muon Yields from Heavy-Quark Production in Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Convener: Awadallah Mekki (CERN)

Awadallah_Mekki_Poster_for_Summer_Students_Project_at_CERN_10th_Higgs_Aniversary_in_Africa_ASP&ASP.pdf

15:45 → 15:50 A High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) for the Phase-II upgrade of the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Asmaa Aboulhorma (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

Higgs celib.pdf

15:50 → 15:55 QCD background estimation for top-antitop resonances search in the lepton plus jets final state with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Badr-Eddine Ngair (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

Badr_poster_higgs_v1july2022.pdf

15:55 → 16:00 Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction: muon-jets overlap removal

Speaker: Mr Mohamed Zaazoua (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

Poster__Mohamed ZAAZOUA_ATLAS_Qualification_task.pdf

16:00 → 16:05 UJ @ ATLAS : History, Analysis, Operations, Computing, Tech transfer, Outreach

Speaker: S. Ballestrero et al.

UJ-ATLAS-Higgs 10 Year-red.pdf