NPPD Conference

3 Apr 2011, 18:00 → 7 Apr 2011, 16:30 Europe/London

University of Glasgow

Sunday 3 April

18:00 → 20:00 Registration and Drinks Reception

Monday 4 April

09:15 → 11:00 Division Plenary

09:15 Welcome from the Principal and Vice Chancellor

Slides nppd_holding_slide.ppt

09:30 Detectors - enabling more than science?

Speaker: Val O'Shea (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides OShea.pdf OShea.pptx

10:15 Light on dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Subir Sarkar (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics - University of Oxford)

Slides Sarkar_NPPDMon1015.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Group Plenary A

11:30 ATLAS: recent results and future prospects

Speaker: Dan Tovey (University of Sheffield)

Slides iopnppd_drt.pdf iopnppd_drt.pptx

12:00 CMS: the first year of data-taking

Speaker: Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Particle Physics)

11:30 → 13:15 Group Plenary B

11:30 Frontiers of nuclear physics

Speaker: Witold Nazarewicz

Slides Glasgow2011.ppt

12:15 Topical applications of nucleon knockout reactions

Speaker: Edward Simpson

Slides ecsimpson_nppd_april2011.pdf ecsimpson_nppd_april2011.pptx

12:45 What is it that makes light nuclei so interesting?

Speaker: Martin Freer

12:30 → 12:31 Lunch 12:30-14:00

13:30 → 15:00 Group Plenary A

13:30 Rare kaon decays

Speaker: Cristina Lazzeroni (High Energy Physics Group, University of Birmingham)

Slides CL_IOP_2011_1.pdf

14:00 Testing Time Reversal: the search for the neutron electric dipole moment

Speaker: Philip Harris (Particle Physics)

Slides 1104edmtalk_IoP_glasgow.pdf 1104edmtalk_IoP_glasgow.ppt

14:30 The Tevatron: recent results and prospects

Speaker: Gavin Davies (Imperial College)

Slides Tevatron-2011.ppt

13:30 → 15:00 Group Plenary B

13:30 The Search for Dark Matter

Speaker: Anne Green

14:00 Searching for Wimps Underground: the experimental quest

Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Unknown)

Slides HA_DMSearchesIOP2011.pdf HA_DMSearchesIOP2011.pptx

14:30 Probing the Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Euclid

Speaker: Andy Taylor

14:00 → 15:30 Nuclear Physics 1: Parallel session 1.1

14:00 Investigating isomers in heavy neutron-rich nuclei populated in relativistic projectile fragmentation of 238U

Speaker: M Bowry

14:15 Exploring shape co-existence in light Radon isotopes

Speaker: J Smallcombe

Slides SmallcombeIoP2.pdf SmallcombeIoP2.ppt

14:30 In-beam spectroscopy of 253No

Speaker: P Papadakis

Slides No253_talk.pdf

14:45 Lifetime measurements of proton-unbound states in 109I

Speaker: Mark Procter

Slides i109_presentation.pdf

15:00 The evolution of nuclear structure in light osmium isotopes; gamma ray spectroscopy of 163Os and 165Os

Speaker: Mark Drummond

Slides

• The_evolution_of_nuclear_structure_in_light_osmium_2.pdf
• The_evolution_of_nuclear_structure_in_light_osmium.pdf
• The_evolution_of_nuclear_structure_in_light_osmium.pptx

14:00 → 15:30 Nuclear Physics 2: Parallel session 1.2

14:00 γ- spectroscopic study of key resonances in 31S for the 30P(p,γ)31S reaction in ONe novae

Speaker: Daniel Doherty

14:15 Time-reversed measurement of the 18Ne(α,p)21Na cross-section relevant to breakout from the Hot-CNO cycle in X-ray bursts

Speaker: Philip Salter

Slides nppd-04-04-2011_2.ppt

14:30 The first direct measurement of 17O(α,γ)21Ne

Speaker: Matthew Taggart

14:45 Resonances in 19Ne with relevance to the astrophysically important 18F(p,α)15O reaction

Speaker: David Mountford

Slides Dave_M.pdf Dave_M.ppt

15:00 Beta – proton emission from Mg, and the breakout from the hot CNO cycles

Speaker: Jennifer Wallace

Slides Presentation_IOP_2011_Wallace.pdf Presentation_IOP_2011_Wallace.ppt

14:00 → 15:30 Nuclear Physics 3: Parallel session 1.3

14:00 Performance of an Asymmetric AGATA Detector

Speaker: Carl Unsworth

Slides AGATA_IOP_Apr11_Unsworth.pdf

14:15 A new implantation detection system on the Argonne FMA for studies of the structure of nuclei in the region of 100Sn and the astrophysical rp-process

Speaker: Helena David

Slides Updated version

14:30 TACTIC and SHARC: Detector Developments at the University of York

Speakers: Simon Fox, Simon.P Fox (University of York)

Slides TACTIC-SHARC-IOP_2011.pdf

14:45 Polycrystalline diamond detectors for fast timing applications at FAIR

Speaker: Lianne Scruton

Slides Scruton_Iop.pptx

15:00 DIRC counters for the PANDA experiment at FAIR

Speakers: Tibor Keri, Tibor Keri (University of Glasgow)

Slides TiborKeri_iop2011NPPD_id110_np1.3e_Mo1500.pdf

15:15 Development of a Fast-Timing LaBr3(Ce) Array for NuSTAR

Speaker: Oliver Roberts

14:00 → 15:30 Nuclear Physics 4: Parallel session 1.4

14:00 X-ray Rocking Curve and Topography Study of High Quality Coherent Bremsstrahlung Radiators

Speaker: Guangliang Yang

Slides diamond_NPPD2011.pdf diamond_NPPD2011.ppt

14:15 Eta Photoproduction on the Proton

Speaker: Joe Mancell

Slides IOP2011Mancell_1.pdf

14:30 The excited hadron spectrum from lattice QCD

Speaker: Justin Foley

14:45 DVCS spin asymmetries on the proton with the CLAS detector

Speaker: Gary Smith

Slides Nuclear physics parallel session 1.4

15:00 Global features of proton-proton collisions at LHC energies using the ALICE detector

Speaker: Arvinder Singh Palaha (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham)

15:15 Polarisation Observables for Strangeness Photoproduction on a Frozen Spin Target with CLAS at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Stuart Fegan

14:30 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Group Plenary B

15:30 Planck: post launch mission status and early results

Speaker: George Efstathiou

16:15 Experimental Gravitation

Speaker: Dr Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)

15:30 → 17:30 Particle Physics 1: Parallel session 1.1

15:30 Analysis of Bd->J/psi K* at LHCb

Speaker: Ailsa Sparkes (University of Edinburgh-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides Bd2JpsiK_ASparkes.pdf

15:45 Early measurements of the decay Bs->J/psi phi at LHCb

Speaker: Conor Fitzpatrick (University of Edinburgh-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides conor_fitzpatrick_bs2jpsiphi_IoP2011.pdf

16:00 Measuring the branching fraction ratio between Bs->Psi'Phi and Bs->J/PsiPhi

Speakers: Paul Nicholas Schaack, Paul Schaack (Imperial College-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides 20110404_paul_schaack_IOP.pdf

16:15 Delta md and delta ms measurements from LHCb

Speaker: Thomas Bird (University of Southampton)

Slides TBIopNppd2011.pdf

16:30 The observation of the D*+→D0(K3π) π+ decay and a charm production cross section measurement at LHCb

Speaker: Philip John Hunt (Particle Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown)

Slides phunt_IoPConference_NPPD2011.pdf phunt_IoPConference_NPPD2011.ppt

16:45 The D to K and D to pi semileptonic decay form factors from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Jonna Koponen

Slides JKoponen_IoPmeeting.pdf

17:00 Model-independent determination of the (D0,D0bar) -> K(S,L)K+K- strong phase difference and its impact on the measurement of the CKM angle gamma

Speaker: Christopher Thomas (University of Oxford/RAL)

Slides CT_040411.pdf

17:15 B->DK* studies at LHCb

Speaker: Mr Mark Peter Whitehead (University of Warwick)

Slides Whitehead_IOP_2011.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Particle Physics 2: Parallel session 1.2

15:30 Search for Supersymmetry with dilepton final state at ATLAS

Speaker: Muhammad Aftab Alam (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown)

15:45 Search for New Physics with Same-Sign Dileptons with the CMS detector at the LHC

Speakers: A Guneratne Bryer (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.), Arlo Guneratne Bryer (Imperial College London)

Slides NPPD_Glasgow_2011.pdf

16:00 Searching for Supersymmetry in 7TeV pp collisions at CMS with 35pb-1 of data in events with one low-pT lepton, jets and missing transverse energy

Speakers: Z Hatherell (Imperial College-Unknown-Unknown), Z Hatherell (Imperial College-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides ZoeHatherell_IOPNPPD_SUSY1LEP.pdf

16:15 ATLAS Search for Supersymmetry in Events with Jets, one Electron or Muon and Missing Transverse Momentum

Speaker: Daniel Short (University of Oxford-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides danshort_ATLAS_1LeptonSUSY_IOPNPPD2011.pdf

16:30 QCD background to SUSY searches with no leptons at ATLAS

Speaker: Simon Owen (University of Sheffield)

Slides QCD_background.pdf

16:45 Data-Driven Estimation of the Invisible Z background to SUSY Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Tanya Sandoval (University of Cambridge)

Slides Sandoval_ZFromGamma_IOP.pdf

17:00 SUSY with b-jets

Speaker: Graham John Sellers (University of Liverpool-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides gsellers_SUSY_bjets.pdf

17:15 The Role of the Messenger Scale in Gauge Mediated SUSY Breaking

Speaker: Chris Wymant

Slides ChrisWymantStudentTalk

15:30 → 17:30 Particle Physics 3: Parallel session 1.3

15:30 The T2K Experiment and θ_13

Speakers: Benjamin Still, Benjamin Still (University of Sheffield)

15:45 Testbeam Performance of the Downstream Electromagnetic Calorimeter Module of the T2K ND280m Detector

Speaker: Leigh Whitehead

Slides LeighWhiteheadTestbeamElectrons.pdf

16:00 π0 cross section measurement at the T2K experiment

Speaker: Elzbieta Poplawska

Slides IOPtalkEla11.pdf

16:15 1st Results from the Super-Kamiokande Detector for Muon Neutrino Disappearance at T2K

Speaker: Alex Hyndman

Slides Hyndman-SK-numu.pdf

16:30 Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance at T2K

Speaker: Patrick Masliah

Slides NuMuOscillation_Masliah_010411.pdf

16:45 T2K and Neutrino Interaction Errors at Super-Kamiokande

Speakers: Ryan Terri (Queen Mary, Univeristy of London), Ryan Vincent Terri (Queen Mary University of London-University of London-Unknown)

Slides iop_glasgow_terri.pdf

17:00 Calibration of the T2K Near Detector and study of beam contamination as a background to electron neutrino appearance

Speaker: Sarah Ives

Slides SI_IOP_040411_final.pdf

17:15 A Study of the Optimal Fiducial Volume of Super-Kamiokande in the T2K experiment

Speaker: Gil Kogan

Slides IOP_talk.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Particle Physics 4: Parallel session 1.4

15:30 Review of the Inclusive Jet Measurement at ATLAS in the Forward Calorimeter Region

Speakers: Gareth Brown (University of Manchester), Gareth Brown (University of Manchester-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides IOPTalk-2011-2-gabrown.pdf

15:45 Forward jet physics at ATLAS

Speaker: James Robinson (University College London)

Slides ForwardJetPhysics.pdf

16:00 Measurement of inclusive two-particle angular correlations and cluster properties with the ATLAS Detector

Speakers: Cristina Oropeza Barrera (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Glasgow), Cristina Oropeza Barrera (University of Glasgow)

Slides cbarrera_2pCorrelations_NPPD_040411.pdf

16:15 Measurement of dijet production with a jet veto using the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Graham Jones (University of Manchester)

Slides grahamj_IOP_UKMeetingTalk.pdf

16:30 Forward-Backward Correlations and Event Shapes as probes of Minimum-Bias Event Properties

Speaker: Kenneth Gibb Wraight (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Glasgow-Unknow)

Slides IoP_talk_correlations_fancy.ppt

16:45 Jet performance and inclusive cross section measurement with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Speaker: Ms Caterina Doglioni (University of Oxford)

Slides 04_04_2011_IOP_InclusiveJetXSecPerf.pdf

17:00 Jet Measurements using ATLAS at the LHC

Speakers: Sarah Baker (University College London-University of London-Unknown), Sarah Baker (UCL)

17:15 An alternative subtraction scheme for next-to-leading order QCD calculations

Speakers: Tania Robens (RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany), Tania Robens (University of Glasgow)

Slides trobens_dipoles.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Group Plenary A

16:00 MYRRHA: building a high power proton accelerator driven system for nuclear research

Speaker: Paul Schuurmans

16:30 Generalised Parton Distributions: low-energy nucleon structure in pp collisions at LHC

Speaker: Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)

18:45 → 20:00 Civic Reception - buses depart from University of Glasgow at 18:45

Tuesday 5 April

09:00 → 10:30 Division Plenary

09:00 Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves: status and prospects

Speaker: Bruce Allen

09:45 Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Group Plenary A

11:00 The Equation State of Neutron-rich Matter

Speaker: Charles Horowitz

Slides horowitz_equation_of_state.pdf

11:30 Nuclear Matter at the Highest Energies - results from ALICE

Speakers: Peter.G Jones (School of Physics and Astronomy), Peter.G Jones (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham), Peter.G Jones (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham)

Slides JonesIoP2011Final.pdf

12:00 Search for Dark Matter and Beyond: studies at the Boulby Deep Underground Science Facility

Speaker: Sean Paling

11:00 → 12:30 Group Plenary B

11:00 Gauge-Gravity Duality and Transport in Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems

Speaker: Andrei Starinets (Institute for Advanced Study)

11:30 Putting a Spin on Gravitational-wave Models

Speaker: Mark Hannam

12:00 Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars and the Nuclear Equation of State

Speaker: Ian Jones

11:00 → 12:30 Particle Physics 1: Parallel session 2.1

11:00 Prompt hadron production at LHCb

Speaker: Andrea Contu (CERN)

Slides AContu_NPPD2011.pdf

11:15 B and Bottomonium spectroscopy from lattice NRQCD

Speaker: Rachel Dowdall

Slides rdowdall-nppdtalk-5-4-11.pdf

11:30 Search for Bs->Ds+Ds- at LHCb

Speaker: James Edwin Mylroie-Smith (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool-Unknown)

Slides JamesMS_IOP2011.pdf

11:45 Measurement of y_CP and A_Γ via direct lifetime measurements

Speaker: Mr Michael Thomas Alexander (University of Glasgow)

Slides MAlexander-YcpAGamma.pdf

12:00 CP violation and lifetime measurement in Bs->KK

Speaker: Lars Eklund (University of Glasgow)

Slides slides.pdf

12:15 Can the Inertia of Highly-Accelerated Particles Be Modified Electromagnetically?

Speaker: Mike McCulloch

11:00 → 12:30 Particle Physics 2: Parallel session 2.2

11:00 Search for New Physics in the Dilepton channel using the ATLAS Detector at CERN

Speaker: Daniel Hayden (Royal Holloway College-University of London)

Slides HaydenNPPD.pdf

11:15 Exotic Di-Photon Resonances at the ATLAS Experiment

Speakers: Mr Peter Waller (University of Liverpool), Peter Waller (University of Liverpool-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides pwaller-iop.pdf

11:30 Phenomenology of doubly charged Higgs bosons at hadron colliders

Speaker: Andrew Akeroyd

Slides glasgow_akeroyd.pdf

11:45 Using an effective charges method to extract the strong coupling constant

Speaker: Katy Morgan

Slides kmorgan.pdf

12:00 Re-evaluation of the muon g-2 and QED coupling constant at the Z-boson mass

Speaker: Ruofan Liao

Slides RLiao_IOP_NPPD_2011.pdf

12:15 Search for CPT Violation in the Top Quark Sector at ATLAS

Speakers: Vikash Chavda (University of Manchester-Unknown-Unknown), Vikash Suresh Chavda (School of Physics and Astronomy Schuster Building-University of)

Slides IOPMeeting2011CPTVioTalk_NEW_Final.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Particle Physics 3: Parallel session 2.3

11:00 LSND Oscillations in T2K

Speaker: Abbey Waldron

Slides abbey_iop_2011.pdf

11:15 SNO+ Experiment Phase 1

Speaker: Philip Jones

Slides SNO+Phase1.pdf SNO+Phase1.ppt

11:30 The SNO+ Experiment

Speaker: Kenneth Clark

Slides iop_kclark_snoplus.pdf

11:45 Optimisation of the Low-Energy Neutrino Factory

Speaker: Peter Ballett

Slides Ballett-NPPD.pdf

12:00 Searching for sterile neutrino mixing in low energy neutrino factory

Speaker: Steven Wong

12:15 Loop induced neutrino mass in a gauged B-L model

Speaker: Osamu Seto

11:00 → 12:30 Particle Physics 4: Parallel session 2.4

11:00 The Z/gamma* transverse momentum distribution at D0

Speaker: Mika Vesterinen

Slides IOP_NPPD_2011_Vesterinen.pdf

11:15 Measuring σ(Z➝μμ) at LHCb

Speaker: Emma Hicks (University of Liverpool)

Slides EmmaHicksIOP.pdf

11:30 Measurement of QED Final State Radiation in Z➝μμ

Speaker: Da Xu (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Sheffield-Unkn)

Slides ZmumuFSR_IOP2011_DaXu.pdf

11:45 Studies on the Measurement of the W --> eΝν Channel with the ATLAS 2010 Data

Speaker: Bozydar Wrona (Department of Physics-Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Live)

12:00 First Measurement of the W Polarisation in the Electron Channel at CMS

Speakers: Alex Sparrow, Alex Sparrow

Slides 05042011_iop_ewpol.pdf

12:15 Measurement of the top anti-top quark cross section using Soft Muon Tagging

Speakers: Matthew Rose (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown), Matthew. Rose (Royal Holloway College-University of London)

Slides RoseIoP2011.pdf

12:30 → 12:31 Lunch 12:30-13:30

13:00 → 14:30 Group Plenary B

13:00 Asymmetric Nuclear Matter Explored with Relativistic Radioactive Beams at GSI/FAIR

Speaker: Marielle Chartier

Slides MC-IOP-Glasgow2011.pdf MC-IOP-Glasgow2011.ppsx

13:30 Perspectives for Ab-Initio Theory in Mid-Mass Isotopes

Speaker: Carlo Barbieri

14:00 RISING to NuSTAR

Speaker: Patrick Regan

13:15 → 15:00 Astroparticle Physics: Parallel session 2.1

13:15 Mass composition of cosmic rays and particle physics at ultra high energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Ronald Bruijn

Slides glasgow_april_2011_v1.0.pdf

13:30 Systematic uncertainties in air shower measurements from high-energy hadronic interaction models

Speaker: Robert Parsons

13:45 Studying Cosmic Ray Electrons with CTA

Speaker: Robert Parsons

14:00 Can WR140, WR146 and WR147 be detected by CTA?

Speaker: Paul Brook

Slides Glasgow.pdf

14:15 Monte Carlo Simulations for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Cameron Rulten

14:30 Latest results and future plans for the Edelweiss dark matter search

Speaker: Sam Henry

Slides Talk_6_Edw_NPP-2011_SH.ppt

14:45 Background reduction & spin-dependent results from DRIFT

Speaker: Mark Pipe

Slides DRIFT-Pipe-IOP2011-Talk-FINAL.key.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Gravitational Physics 1: Parallel session 2.1

13:30 The status of searches for continuous gravitational waves

Speaker: Matthew Pitkin

Slides IoP_NPPD_talk_Pitkin.pdf

13:45 Modern optical techniques for gravitational wave detectors

Speaker: Matt Edgar

Slides NPPD_MattEdgar_Tues1345.pdf

14:00 Thermal noise performance of advanced gravitational wave detector suspensions

Speaker: Alan Cumming

Slides A_Cumming_NPPD.pdf A_Cumming_NPPD.ppt

14:15 The UK hardware contribution to LISA Pathfinder

Speaker: Christian Killow

13:30 → 15:00 Group Plenary A

13:30 Neutrino Oscillations: current excitement and plans for the future

Speaker: Christofas Touramanis Douramanis (Department of Physics-Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Live)

14:00 No-Neutrino Physics: the search for neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: David Waters (University College London)

Slides IOP2010_DBD.pdf

14:30 Recent Developments in Particle Phenomenology

Speaker: James Stirling (Cambridge University)

Slides Stirling_Glasgow_v2.pdf Stirling_Glasgow_v2.pptx

14:30 → 15:30 Coffee

15:00 → 16:30 Nuclear Physics 1: Parallel session 2.1

15:00 New Measurements of Low Lying Isomers in the Experimental Storage Ring at GSI

Speaker: Matthew Reed

15:15 Measurements of Picosecond Lifetimes in the Transitional Nucleus 100Pd using the RDDM in Inverse Kinematics

Speaker: Vasiliki Anagnostatou

15:30 Low energy magnetic and electric dipole excitations in 182W

Speaker: Filiz Ertugral

Slides NPPD_conference_new.pdf NPPD_conference_new.pptx

15:45 New high-spin states in 219Ra: Evidence for the condensation of rotationally-aligned octupole phonons?

Speaker: Christopher Wilson

Slides IoP_2011_ChrisWilson.pdf IoP_2011_ChrisWilson.pptx

16:00 The changing structure of 160Er from low to ultrahigh spin

Speaker: James Ollier

Slides IOP-2011-160Er_JO.pptx

15:00 → 16:30 Nuclear Physics 2: Parallel session 2.2

15:00 Development of a simulation package for fragmentation reactions at GSI

Speaker: Daniel Bloor

Slides Development_of_a_simulation_package_for_fragmentation_reactions.pdf Development_of_a_simulation_package_for_fragmentation_reactions.pptx

15:15 Methodology development for analysis of in-beam AGATA data

Speaker: Fay Filmer

Slides Fay_Filmer.pdf

15:30 Characterisation of AGATA HPGe detectors for Pulse Shape Analysis

Speaker: Samantha Colosimo

Slides IOP_Colosimo.pdf IOP_Colosimo.pptx

15:45 A Focussing disc DIRC for PANDA

Speaker: Euan Cowie

Slides A Focussing disc DIRC for PANDA

16:00 A new Differential Plunger to measure lifetimes of unbound states in exotic nuclei

Speaker: Michael Taylor

Slides 5.Taylor_Plunge.r.pptx

16:15 Developments of the new laser-IGISOL facility

Speaker: Duncan Johnson

Slides 6.IoP_2011.pptx

15:00 → 16:30 Nuclear Physics 3: Parallel session 2.3

15:00 Constraining on the Equation of State of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter with Collective Flow Observables

Speakers: Zoe Louise Matthews (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham), Zoe Matthews

Slides ASYEOS_FLOW_IOP_2.ppt ASYEOS_FLOW_IOP_PDF.pdf

15:15 Role of Short-Range and Tensor Correlations in Nuclei

Speaker: Arnau Rios Huguet

Slides rios_IoP11.pdf

15:30 Exploring Nuclear Halos with the Ratio Method

Speaker: Ronald Johnson

Slides JohnsonIoP0411.pdf JohnsonIoP0411.ppt

15:45 Nuclear Symmetry Energy in Ca+Ca Collisions

Speaker: Peter Wigg

Slides iop2.pdf

16:00 Absorbing Boundary Conditions in Time-Dependent Problems

Speaker: Chris Pardi

16:15 Tensor force effects in fusion reactions

Speaker: Paul Stevenson

Slides stevenson-iop11.pdf stevenson-iop11.pptx

15:00 → 16:30 Nuclear Physics 4: Parallel session 2.4

15:00 A Shell model study of the high spin states in 88Y

Speaker: Michael Bunce

15:15 Investigating trends in proton single-particle states outside Z=50 isotopes

Speaker: A J Mitchell

Slides ajmitchell_nppd2011.pdf ajmitchell_nppd2011.pdf

15:30 Single-neutron adding reactions outside the N=50 isotones

Speaker: David Sharp

Slides David-Sharp-IOP-April-11-final.pdf

15:45 Evidence for a spin-aligned neutron-proton paired phase from the level structure of 92Pd

Speaker: Harith Al-Azri

Slides Harith_IOP.pdf Harith_IOP.ppt

16:00 Spectroscopy of competing electromagnetic and radioactive decays from a high-spin isomer in the neutron-deficient nucleus, 158Ta

Speaker: Robert Carroll

Slides iop2011_rcarroll.odp iop2011_rcarroll.pdf

16:15 Lifetime of the Iπ=4- intruder state in 34P using LaBr3:Ce fast timing

Speaker: Peter Mason

Slides pmason_iop11_34P.pdf pmason_iop11_34P.ppt

15:30 → 16:30 Group Plenary A

15:30 First Results from the LHCb Experiment

Speakers: Dr Chris Parkes (Glasgow), Chris Parkes (University of Glasgow)

Slides Parkes_IOP_0411_final.pdf

16:00 LHC Upgrades

Speaker: Geoff Hall (Imperial College London)

Slides

• Upgrades_0411.pdf
• Upgrades_0411.pdf
• Upgrades_0411.pptx

15:30 → 16:30 Group Plenary B

15:30 Physical measurements from Maps of Galaxy Positions

Speaker: Will Percival (University of Portmsouth)

16:00 The Einstein Gravitational Wave Telescope

Speaker: Stefan Hild

Slides Hild_NPPD2011_final.pdf

16:45 → 17:30 Division Plenary

16:45 Nuclear Physics since Rutherford

Speaker: Jim Al-Khalili

19:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 6 April

09:00 → 09:30 Astroparticle Group AGM

09:00 → 09:30 Gravitational Group AGM

09:00 → 09:30 HEPP Group AGM

09:00 → 09:30 Nuclear Group AGM

09:30 → 11:00 Division Plenary

09:30 Impact of Modern Accelerator Beam Technology Developments

Speaker: Prof. Philip Burrows (University of Oxford)

10:15 Advances in Astronomy

Speaker: Graham Woan

Slides Advances_in_Astronomy.pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Gravitational Physics 1: Parallel session 3.1

11:30 Cauchy Horizon Stability in the Self-Similar LTB Spacetime

Speaker: Emily Duffy

Slides E_Duffy_talk.pdf

11:45 Beyond the single mode approximation

Speaker: David Bruschi

Slides BG11.pdf

12:00 Wheeler-DeWitt's Equation Corrected for Quantum Geometry

Speaker: Michael Fil'chenkov

12:15 Search for gravitational waves associated with short hard Gamma Ray Bursts

Speaker: Valeriu Predoi

Slides Valeriu_Predoi_GRB_BritGrav_2011.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Gravitational Physics 2: Parallel session 3.2

11:30 Global stability: from vacuum to matter

Speaker: Christian Luebbe

11:45 The Coincidence Problem in a Phantom Cyclic Model of the Universe

Speaker: Hui-Yiing Chang

Slides physics_conference,_NPPD,_Scotland,_4-11,_presentn.pdf physics_conference,_NPPD,_Scotland,_4-11,_presentn.pptx

12:00 Black holes with SU(N) gauge fields and superconducting horizons

Speaker: Ben Shepherd

Slides Ben_Shepherd.pdf

12:15 The search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescences with the LIGO-Virgo network

Speaker: Duncan Macleod

11:30 → 13:00 Group Plenary A

11:30 Light Sources and Future Prospects

Speaker: riccardo bartolini (Diamond Light Source and John Adams Institute)

Slides RB_IoP_Glasgow.ppt

12:00 New Applications of Particle Accelerators

Speaker: Andrei Seryi (SLAC)

12:30 R&D for Enabling Accelerator Technologies

Speakers: Peter McIntosh (STFC), Peter McIntosh (STFC)

11:30 → 13:00 Group Plenary B

11:30 Solar Flare Energetic Particles

Speaker: Eduard Kontar

Slides kontar_energetic_particles.pdf kontar_energetic_particles.ppt

12:00 Science and Engineering Challenges of the European Extremely Large Telescope

Speaker: Mr Colin Cunningham (UK ATC)

12:30 Nuclei and Gamma-rays: from the lab to the stars

Speaker: Dr Alison Laird (University of York)

11:30 → 12:45 Particle Physics 2: Particle/Nuclear/Applications Parallel session 3.1

11:30 Purification Studies Towards Giant Liquid Argon TPC without Evacuation

Speaker: Konstantinos Mavrokoridis (University of Sheffield)

11:45 Reconstruction Challenges in Large Volume Liquid Argon Detectors

Speaker: Andrew Bennieston (University of Warwick)

Slides abennieston-nppd11.pdf

12:00 Multivariate Data Visualisation and Lepton Jets

Speaker: Benjamin Radburn-Smith

12:15 Multianode Photomultiplier Tube Studies for Imaging Applications

Speaker: Rachel Montgomery

Slides Montgomery-IOPTalk2011.pdf

12:30 Recursive algorithms for digital nuclear pulse processing

Speaker: Mohammad Nakhostin

11:30 → 12:45 Particle Physics 3: Parallel session 3.2

11:30 SNEMO Calibration Software and NEMO3 Ca48 analysis

Speaker: Benjamin Richards

Slides Iop_Glasgow_talk.pdf

11:45 The Coherent Muon to Electron Transition (COMET) Experiment

Speaker: Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London)

12:00 Charged Lepton Flavour Violation (cLFV) via experimental Coherent Muon-to-Electron Transition (CoMET)

Speaker: Richard D'Arcy

12:15 CryoEDM: building a simulation framework for ultra-cold neutrons

Speaker: Matthew Raso-Barnett

Slides mjrb_iop_06_04_2011.pdf

12:30 The Final Measurement of the Muon Decay Parameters from the TWIST Experiment

Speaker: Ryan Bayes

Slides RBayes-IOP-2011talk.pdf

11:30 → 12:45 Particle Physics 4: Parallel session 3.3

11:30 On the search for the Higgs at the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Gemma Holly Wooden (Department of Theoretical Physics-University of Oxford-Unknown)

Slides HtoWW_IoP.pdf

11:45 The search for a Standard Model Higgs boson in the Vector Boson Fusion llnunu final state with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Clive Andrew Edwards (Royal Holloway College University of London)

12:00 Searches for a Light Charged Higgs Boson with H+->csbar in Early ATLAS Data

Speaker: Alex Christopher Martyniuk (School of Physics and Astronomy Schuster Building-University of)

Slides ChargedHiggs_IOP_060411_v2.pdf

12:15 Antenna Subtraction in pQCD at NNLO

Speaker: James Currie

Slides AntennaGlasgow2011.pdf

12:30 Extra

Speakers: Brian Colquhoun, Christopher Bell, Dave Ireland, Jon Mackew, Lauren Stacy, Paul Campsie

12:30 → 12:31 Lunch 12:30-13:45

13:30 → 15:00 Astroparticle Physics: Parallel session 3.1

13:30 Results from the second run of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment

Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Unknown)

Slides HA_Z3SSR_IOP2011.pdf HA_Z3SSR_IOP2011.pptx

13:45 Measurement of nuclear recoil scintillation and ionisation yields of liquid xenon using ZEPLIN-III

Speaker: Alastair Currie

Slides Currie_110406.pdf

14:00 The ZEPLIN-III Veto Detector: Performance and Results

Speaker: Chamkaur Ghag

Slides ghag_glasgow_IOP_Apr2011.pdf

14:15 Using the ZEPLIN-III veto detector as a diagnostic tool

Speaker: Anthony Hollingsworth

Slides results from Kr-85 contamination analysis

14:30 Single electron detection in liquid xenon and its application to neutrino detection

Speaker: Markus Horn

14:45 Low Energy Quenching Factors for a Plastic Scintillator

Speaker: Lea Reichhart

Slides Presentation_Reichhart.pdf Presentation_Reichhart.ppt

13:30 → 15:00 Gravitational Physics 1: Parallel session 3.3

13:30 Testing Relativity with Gravitational Wave Observations

Speaker: John Veitch

13:45 r-modes, gravitational waves and extreme physics

Speaker: Nils Andersson

Slides nppd11.pdf

14:00 A Search For Gravitational Waves Associated With The August 2006 Timing Glitch Of The Vela Pulsar

Speaker: James Clark

Slides jclark_pulglitch_britgrav.pdf

14:15 Information extraction and GR testing from a black hole ringdown radiation

Speaker: Ioannis Kamaretsos

14:30 Tracking the precession of compact binaries

Speaker: Patricia Schmidt

Slides BritGravFinal.pdf

14:45 Fundamental physics and astrophysics with the Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Thomas Dent

Slides britgrav_2011_dent.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Gravitational Physics 2: Parallel session 3.4

13:30 A self-similar cylindrically symmetric gravitational collapse model

Speaker: Louise Nolan

Slides britgrav11-LN.pdf

13:45 Self-similar cylindrical spacetimes coupled to a scalar field

Speaker: Eoin Condron

14:00 Pre-inflationary homogenization of the Universe

Speaker: Krzysztof Bolejko

Slides Bolejko_Grav_3-4_1400.pdf

14:15 Binary systems of extreme black holes

Speaker: Vladimir Manko

14:30 Gravitational Self-Force Calculations for Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals: the 2+1D approach

Speaker: Sam Dolan

14:45 A classical variational approach to dissipation in general relativity

Speaker: Cesar Lopez-Monsalvo

Slides britgrav_cslm.pdf

13:30 → 15:15 Group Plenary A

13:30 Particle Physics Theory Overview

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

14:15 Lattice QCD 2011

Speaker: Prof. Christine Davies Davies (University of Glasgow)

Slides lattice2011.pdf

14:45 Is String Theory Useful?

Speaker: David Tong (University of Cambridge)

13:30 → 14:00 Particle Accelerators and Beams Group AGM

13:45 → 15:15 Group Plenary B

13:45 Pseudoscalar Meson Photoproduction

Speaker: Douglas MacGregor

Slides Psuedoscalar_meson_photoproduction_v4.pdf Psuedoscalar_meson_photoproduction_v4.pptx

14:15 Nucleon Structure Studies through Elastic Electron Scattering

Speaker: Kees de Jager

Slides dejager_NPPD.pdf dejager_NPPD.pptx

14:45 Generalised Parton Distributions

Speaker: Michel Guidal (CNRS)

14:00 → 15:30 Particle Accelerators and Beams 1: Parallel session 3.1

14:00 The ALICE Accelerator R&D Facility

Speaker: Dr Frank Jackson (Daresbury Laboratory)

Slides fjackson_IOP_nppd_talk.pdf

14:15 First lasing of the ALICE free electron laser

Speaker: David Dunning

Slides ALICEFirstLasing_Final.pptx

14:30 Developments of high brightness, high repetition rate photoelectron injectors at STFC ASTeC

Speaker: Boris Militsyn

Slides B.L._Militsyn,_NPPD2011.pdf B.L._Militsyn,_NPPD2011.pptx

14:45 Design of the Max-IV Injector

Speaker: Peter Williams

Slides williams_iop_nppd_2011.pdf

15:00 High intensity proton FFAG accelerator challenges

Speaker: Suzanne Sheehy

Slides NPPD_sheehy.pptx

15:15 Studies of Ionization Cooling Lattices for the Neutrino Factory

Speaker: Androula Alekou

Slides IOPfinalTalk_AndroulaAlekou.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Particle Accelerators and Beams 2: Parallel session 3.2

14:00 Energy spoiler design for CLIC

Speakers: Dr Juan Fernandez Hernando (STFC/ASTeC), Luis Fernandez Hernando (Technical University of Catalonia)

Slides

• JLFH-NPPD2011.pdf
• JLFH-NPPD2011.pptx
• seqv3Ddeephitreal.wmv
• seqv3Ddeephit.wmv
• seqv3Dtophit.wmv
• seqvs1s2s3deephit.wmv
• seqvs1s2s3tophit.wmv
• temp3Ddeephit.wmv

14:15 Pomeron exchange modelling of elastic and diffractive scattering applied to collimation studies for LHC

Speakers: Adina Toader (University of Manchester), Adina Toader (University of Manchester)

14:30 Beam Gas simulations for LHCb at 3.5 TeV beam energy

Speaker: David Robert Brett (School of Physics and Astronomy Schuster Laboratory-University o)

Slides Presentation on results for 3.5 TeV beam energy long straight section beam gas simulations into LHCb.

14:45 Crab Cavities for High Energy Colliders

Speaker: Graeme Burt (Cockcroft Institute)

Slides IoP_PAB_Group.pdf IoP_PAB_Group.ppt

15:00 Latest results from the FONT5 intra-train beam-based feedback system at ATF2

Speaker: Douglas Bett

Slides Bett_FONT.pdf Bett_FONT.ppt

15:15 Undulator Based Positron Sources

Speaker: Mike Jenkins

Slides Jenkins_Undulator_Based_Positron_Sources.pps

15:30 → 17:30 Group Plenary B

15:30 Green Functions and Radiation Reaction from a Spacetime Perspective

Speaker: Barry Wardell

Slides Wardell.pdf

16:00 Theoretical and Experimental Gravity: current and future opportunities

Speaker: Dr Giles Hammond (University of Birmingham)

16:30 Astroparticle Physics and Multi-messenger Astronomy

Speaker: Alan Watson

15:45 → 17:30 Nuclear Physics 1: Parallel session 3.1

15:45 An Oveview of Recent DVCS Results at HERMES

Speaker: David Mahon

Slides An Overview of Recent DVCS Results at HERMES

16:00 Measurement of identified charged particle spectra in p-p collisions with the ALICE detector

Speakers: Plamen Rumenov Petrov (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham-Unknown), Plamen Rumenov Petrov (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham)

Slides iop2011.pdf

16:15 Measurement of the Double Polarisation Observable in Pion Photoproduction with the Crystal Ball at MAMI

Speaker: Pauline Hall Barrientos

16:30 Exploring QCD with Anti-protons - PANDA at FAIR

Speaker: Matthias Hoek

Slides Exploring_QCD_with_Antiprotons.pdf Exploring_QCD_with_Antiprotons.pptx

16:45 Electromagnetic Theory of the Nuclear Interaction. Application to the Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes

Speaker: Bernard Schaeffer

17:00 Form factor measurements in the presence of two-photon exchange

Speaker: Inti Lehmann

Slides Form factor measurements in the presence of two-photon exchange by Inti Lehmann for the Olympus collaboration

17:15 Prospects for Meson Spectroscopy with CLAS12

Speaker: Derek Glazier

Slides Glazier.pdf

15:45 → 17:30 Nuclear Physics 2: Parallel session 3.2

15:45 Relative quadrupole moments of exotic shapes in 154Er

Speaker: John Revill

Slides Revill_IOP2011_presentation.pdf

16:00 Gamma-ray spectroscopy of excited states in the highly neutron-deficient nucleus 158W

Speaker: Liliana Donosa

Slides donosa_(2).pdf donosa_(2).pptx

16:15 Recoil-decay tagging studies of the highly neutron-deficient nucleus 159Ta

Speaker: Bahadir Saygi

16:30 Mass & Energy Distributions of Cf Fission Fragments using STEFF

Speaker: Andrew Pollitt

16:45 Beta delayed fission studies of the neutron deficient Tl and Fr nuclei

Speaker: Valentina Liberati

17:00 Mass Fragmentation of 241Am Fission by Neutrons of Energy 14.8 MeV

Speaker: Mohammad Saleem

15:45 → 17:30 Nuclear Physics 3: Parallel session 3.3

16:00 Preliminary Compton imaging results of the AGATA A006 detector

Speaker: Mike Slee

Slides IOP_Glasgow-Slee.pdf IOP_Glasgow-Slee.ppt

16:15 Study of Hamamatsu H8500 Multi-Anode Photo Multiplier Tubes with a focus on the dynode 12 Signal

Speaker: Sian Nutbeam

Slides snutbeam_iop_2011.pdf

16:30 Development of the CRIS (Collinear Resonant Ionisation Spectroscopy) beam line

Speaker: Thomas Procter

Slides 3.iop_06.04.2011.pdf

16:45 Characterisation of the Bucharest LaBr3:Ce - HPGe Fast-Timing gamma-ray array

Speaker: Thamer Alharbi

Slides 4.Thamer-IOP-2011.pdf

17:00 Compton imaging with a planar semiconductor system using pulse shape analysis

Speaker: Anthony Sweeney

Slides Cs-137_Compton_video.avi IoP2011.ppt

17:15 Sage Spectrometer: Comparison of First Results and Geant4 Simulation

Speaker: Daniel Cox

Slides 6.SAGE_Spectrometer-Comparison_of_First_Results_and_Geant4_Simulation.pdf

15:45 → 17:30 Nuclear Physics 4: Parallel session 3.4

15:45 TZ = -1 to 0 beta decays and the ΔT = 0, M1 transition “quasi-rule”

Speaker: William Gelletly

16:00 Non-yrast structures at low spin in the gamma-soft nucleus 156Er

Speaker: Joseph Rees

16:15 Measurements of octupole collectivity in 220,222Rn and 222,224Ra using Coulomb excitation at ISOLDE, CERN

Speaker: Liam Gaffney

Slides PDF Slides Keynote slides

16:30 Deformation in the mid fp shell: isomer tagging in 59Cr

Speaker: Alick Deacon

16:45 A Kπ = 8+ isomer in 162Dy and the relative importance of competing K-mixing mechanisms for 2- quasiparticle isomer decays in the 82≤N≤126 region

Speaker: Tom Swan

Slides Glasgow_Swan.pdf Glasgow_Swan.ppt

17:00 Neutron activation analysis for contraband detection using a 241Am-Be source

Speaker: Adwan Al-Ajili

17:15 Nuclear Data for Space Radiation

Speaker: John Norbury

Slides norbury.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Group Plenary A

16:00 Accelerators at the Intensity Frontier

Speaker: Chris Prior (Unknown)

16:30 Colliders at the Energy Frontier

Speaker: Brian Foster (Unknown)

Slides Glasgow_0411.pdf Glasgow_0411.ppt

17:30 → 19:30 NPP Division Meeting

Thursday 7 April

09:00 → 10:45 Division Plenary

09:00 B Physics with the D0 Detector: extending the limits

Speakers: Dr Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University), Dr Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University)

Slides talk.ppt

09:45 Poster Prizes Presentation

10:00 Radiation and Particle Sources based on Laser-Plasma Interactions

Speaker: Dino Jaroszynski

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Particle Accelerators and Beams

11:00 Commissioning of EMMA, a novel FFAG

Speaker: Susan Smith (STFC)

11:30 The Future of Neutron Sources

Speaker: Andrew Taylor

11:15 → 13:30 Division Plenary

11:15 SPECT Imaging with Semiconductor Detectors

Speaker: Dr Andrew Boston (University of Liverpool)

Slides IOP-2011-ajboston.pdf IOP-2011-ajboston.pptx

12:00 Perspectives of Nuclear Physics in Europe - a forward look

Speaker: Prof. Guenther Rosner (Glasgow)

Slides Glasgow_IoP_110407_gr1.ppt

12:45 The Energy Frontier: results and prospects

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (CERN)

13:30 → 13:31 Lunch 13:30-14:00

14:00 → 15:15 STFC Town Meeting

14:00 STFC: John Womersley / Janet Seed

Speakers: Janet Seed (STFC), Dr John Womersley (RAL)

Slides 1_womersleyPP-NP_town_meeting_2011.pdf

14:30 PPAN

Speaker: Dr Jordan Nash (Imperial College)

Slides 2_nashPPAN_IOP_HEP_Town_Mtg_2011.pdf

15:15 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 16:30 STFC Town Meeting