2011 Michigan REU Student Presentations - Second Meeting

Thursday 28 Jul 2011, 15:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

40/4-C01 (CERN)

Steven Goldfarb (CERN)

1 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Homer Alfred Neal (High Energy Physics)

2 Search for Randall-Sundrum Graviton's Decay to Two Photons in 7 TeV collisions with the CMS detector

Speaker: Joshua Robert Hardenbrook (California Institute of Technology (CALTECH))

Slides jhardenbrook_pres2_RS_Grav.pdf

3 HLT Optimization for a Heavy B Quark

Speaker: Sylvia Klare Lewin (Department of Physics-Boston University)

Slides UM_Presentation_2.pdf

4 Study of Single and Diboson Z Production at the LHC

Speaker: David Sweigart (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides UM-CERN_Second_Meeting_-_Sweigart.pdf

5 Effects of Multiple Interactions on Tracking

Speaker: Russell Smith (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides UMichiganTalk_7_27_11.pdf

6 Searching for Lepton Flavor Violation at LHCb

Speaker: Matthew Jaffe (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides Presentation_2.pdf Presentation_2.pptx

7 Linear Attenuation Coefficients

Speaker: Macey Ruble (CERN)

Slides Presentation2.pdf

8 EE Chamber Commissioning

Speaker: Kareem Hussein Hegazy (University of Michigan)

Slides EE_Chamber_Commissioning.pdf

9 CMS Tier-0 Workflow Monitoring

Speaker: Jennifer Roloff (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides Presentation2.pdf Presentation2.pptx

10 Trigger Efficiency of CMS RPCs

Speaker: Eric Dodds (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides reupres2.pdf reupres2.pptx

11 Electron Identification Using Bremsstrahlung Radiation

Speaker: Daniel Kapec (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides UM_REU_Talk2.pptx

12 GBT-FPGA Interface

Speaker: Carson Teale (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides GBT-FPGA_Interface.pdf GBT-FPGA_Interface.pptx

13 ATLAS: Missing Transverse Energy in the Search for Supersymmetry

Speaker: Christine Angela Mc Lean (University of Michigan)

Slides 28-07-presentation.pdf

14 Study of the crystal transparency changes of ECAL CMS

Speaker: Caroline Sofiatti Nunes (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides sofiatti_UM-CERN_2.pdf

15 Efficiency Measurements at the CMS High Level Trigger

Speaker: Andrew Bower (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides Trigger_Efficiency_Andrew_Bower_7-28.pdf Trigger_Efficiency_Andrew_Bower_7-28.pptx

16 The Gas Man

Speaker: Eric Michael Seabron (University of Michigan)

Slides Gas_Management_of_EE_Chambers.pdf Gas_Management_of_EE_Chambers.pptx