Zurich PhD seminar 2011

Name: Zurich PhD seminar 2011
Start: 2011-08-29T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-08-30T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ETH Zurich

29 Aug 2011, 09:00 → 30 Aug 2011, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

HPV G5 (ETH Zurich)

HPV G5

ETH Zurich

ETH Hoenggerberg 8093 Zuerich

Christoph Grab (ETH Zurich), Rainer Wallny (ETH Zurich)

Description

Joint PhD seminar of Physics departments of ETH Zurich and University of Zurich

Organised by

C.Grab

Contact C.Grab

grab@phys.ethz.ch

Monday 29 August
- Mon 29 Aug
- Tue 30 Aug
- 09:00 → 10:40
  SESSION 1
  - 09:00
    
    Antenna Subtraction for the Production Heavy Fermions at Hadron Colliders 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Gabriel Alejandro Abelof (ETH Zurich - Inst. for Theoretical Physics)
    
    Slides
  - 09:25
    
    Studies of the Background in Run 10 of the XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment 25m
    
    Speaker: Ms Annika Behrens (Uni Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 09:50
    
    Optimizing the Signal Processing for GERDA's Phase I ... shifted to Tuesday 11:00 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Francis Froborg (Uni Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    
    Skyrmions in Composite Higgs Models 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Marc Gillioz (Uni Zurich)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 11:00 → 12:40
  SESSION 2
  - 11:00
    
    Improvements of the Hg Cohabiting Magnetometer for the nEDM Experiment 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Martin Fertl (PSI)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
  - 11:25
    
    Muonium Production in Silica thin Film of Porous Material 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Siang Khaw Kim (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    Radiocarbon AMS at 45 keV 25m
    
    Speaker: Martin Seiler (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 12:15
    
    Actinide Measurements at the TANDY AMS Facility 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Johannes Lachner (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
- 12:40 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 20m
- 14:00 → 15:40
  SESSION 3
  - 14:00
    
    ArDM: A 1 ton Liquid Argon Detector for direct Dark Matter Search 25m
    
    Speaker: Ms Ursina Lucretia Degunda (ITP - Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ))
    
    Slides
  - 14:25
    
    Development of Liquid Argon TPCs at CERN 25m
    
    Speaker: Lukas Epprecht (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Z)
    
    Slides
  - 14:50
    
    Results from Lar TPC Exposed to Tagged low-p charged Particle Beam (T32 @ J-PARC) 25m
    
    Speaker: Devis Orlando Lussi (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Z)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 15:15
    
    New Results from the MEG Experiment 25m
    
    Speaker: Jeanine Adam (ETH Zürich)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
- 15:40 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 16:00 → 17:40
  SESSION 4
  - 16:00
    
    Recent Results from the Magic Telescopes 25m
    
    the talk will be delivered in personam at the occasion
    
    Speaker: Ms Andrea Boller (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
  - 16:25
    
    Magic 25m
    
    the talk will be delivered in personam at the occasion
    
    Speaker: Ms Dorothee Hildebrand (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    abstract
  - 16:50
    
    MSSM Higgs Selbstkopplungen 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Mathias Brucherseifer (ETH Zurich)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
  - 17:15
    
    Performance of WaveDREAM DAQ System for Noble Gas Scintillation Detectors 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Friederich Hannes (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    abstract
- 18:00 → 21:00
  
  Common BBQ 3h
Tuesday 30 August
- Mon 29 Aug
- Tue 30 Aug
- 09:00 → 10:40
  SESSION 5
  - 09:00
    
    Resummation of the Thrust Distribution 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Pier Francesco Monni (Uni Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 09:25
    
    Lambda_b baryon at CMS: Lifetime and cross-section 25m
    
    Speaker: Frank Meier (Nuclear and Particle Physics Dept.-Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI))
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
  - 09:50
    
    b-baryon Searches at CMS 25m
    
    Speaker: Mirena Ivova Rikova (Physik-Institut-Universitaet Zuerich)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Distribution of Proton Partons 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Nicola Chiapolini (Uni Zurich)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
- 10:40 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 11:00 → 12:40
  SESSION 6
  - 11:00
    
    Optimizing the Signal Processing for GERDA's Phase I 25m
    
    Speaker: Ms Francis Froborg (Uni Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 11:25
    
    Status of H--> b bbar Search in CMS 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Pierluigi Bortignon (Inst. for Particle Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    Combining NLO corrections to production and decay in the WH process 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Julian Cancino (Inst. for Theor. Physics - ETH Zurich)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 12:15
    
    Search for the Higgs boson Decaying into tau+tau- 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Mauro Verzetti (Uni Zurich)
    
    Slides
- 12:40 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h 20m
- 14:00 → 15:40
  SESSION 7
  - 14:00
    
    MT2 Susy Searches 25m
    
    Speaker: Pascal Nef (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ))
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 14:25
    
    ttbar Asymmetry 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Romain Mueller (ETH Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 14:50
    
    Diffraction at CMS 25m
    
    Speaker: Ann-Karin Sanchez (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Z)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 15:15
    
    FLUKA benchmark study of radiation environment inside CMS cavern 25m
    
    Speaker: Christina Urscheler (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochsch Zuerich)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
- 15:40 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 16:00 → 17:40
  SESSION 8
  - 16:00
    
    B_s → mumu in CMS 25m
    
    Speaker: Christoph Nageli (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik-Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Z)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 16:25
    
    Increasing the energy - from bs to jets with W or Z in LHCb 25m
    
    Speaker: Albert Bursche (UZH)
    
    Abstract
    
    Slides
  - 16:50
    
    Measuring B -> K*mumu at LHCb 25m
    
    Speaker: Mr Michel De Cian (Uni Zurich)
    
    abstract
    
    Slides
  - 17:15
    
    Bs-lifetime from J/psi phi Decays at CMS 25m
    
    Speaker: Barbara Millan Mejias (Physik-Institut-Universitaet Zuerich)
    
    Slides