Name: Institute of Physics: Nuclear and Particle physics divisional conference 2007
Start: 2007-04-02T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-04-05T16:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Surrey, Guildford

Monday 2 April 2007
Tuesday 3 April 2007
08:50 Plenary Session 1
Plenary Session 1
08:50 - 11:00
Contributions

08:50 Welcome - Prof. John Turner

09:00 Developments in particle accelerators - Prof. Ken Peach

09:45 The multinational facility for antiproton and ion research (FAIR) - Prof. Hans Gutbrod
11:25
11:25 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Direct extraction of QCD Lambda MSbar from Moments of DIS structure functions - Paul Brooks (Durham)

11:45 Gluon Saturation in the Colour Dipole Model - Graham Shaw (Manchester)

12:00 Gaps between Jets in the High Energy Limit - Albrecht Kyrieleis (Manchester)

12:15 Exclusive Double Diffraction at the Tevatron and LHC - James Monk (Manchester)

12:30 The underlying event in jet physics at TeV colliders - Arthur Moraes (Glasgow)

12:45 Jet Energy Scale Issues at D0 - Lydia Lobo (Imperial)
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 MICE - Lara Howlett (Sheffield)

11:45 Scintillating Fibre Tracker for MICE - Malcolm Ellis (Imperial)

12:00 The MINOS calibration system - Philip Symes (Sussex)

12:15 A Laser-Wire for the Linear Collider - Nicolas Delerue (Oxford)

12:30 Charge Transfer Inefficiency Studies for Future CCD Vertex Detector - James Walder (Lancaster)

12:45 The CMS tracker front end readout electronics - James Leaver (Imperial)
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 The DRIFT Dark Matter Experiment - Jennie Davies (Sheffield)

11:45 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at D0 - Tim Scanlon (Imperial)

12:00 Higgs searches at CMS - Rob Frazier (Bristol)

12:15 Invisible Higgs at the CMS detector - Simon Metson (Bristol)

12:30 Studying a Light Higgs Boson in ATLAS - Scott McGarvie (RHUL)

12:45 Jet Clustering Effects in the tth, h to bb channel at ATLAS - Christian Shaw (Glasgow)
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 The Dark Side of the Universe: An Astrophysical Perspective - Joe Silk (Oxford)

14:45 Can particle physics shed light on the dark secrets of the universe? - John Ellis (CERN)
16:00
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 B0 to pi0pi0 and the CKM angle alpha - Carlos Chavez (Liverpool)

16:15 The decay B- to D0 K* and the CKM angle gamma in BABAR - Paul Jackson (RHUL)

16:30 Dalitz Plot analysis of B+ to K+K+K- at BABAR - Matthew Barrett (Birmingham)

16:45 Amplitude analysis of B+ to K+pi+pi- at BABAR - Tom Latham (Warwick)

17:00 B+ to K+K-pi+ at BABAR - James Burke (Bristol)

17:15 Radiative Penguin Decays at BABAR - Debbie Bard (Edinburgh)

17:30 Branching Fraction measurement of D_s+ to K+pi0 at BABAR - Michael Nikolich (Imperial)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 W/Z cross-sections at the Tevatron - Paul Telford (Manchester)

16:15 Measurement of the W + nJet cross-section at CDF - Ben Cooper (UCL)

16:30 W charge asymmetry with Run II data at CDF - Cigdem Issever (Oxford)

16:45 WW scattering at ATLAS - Sarah Allwood (Manchester)

17:00 Search for dimuon events with the H1 detector at HERA - Aweys Mohamed (Liverpool)

17:15 Tau to pi pi0 nu_tau at BABAR - Mitchell Naisbit (Manchester)
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 Strange Particle Production at Zeus - Andrew Cottrell (Oxford)

16:15 Quark-Gluon Plasma and Baryogenesis - Dmitri Grigoriev (Maynooth)

16:30 Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 experiment at CERN - Paul Bacon (Birmingham)

16:45 Search for excited quark production at H1 - Andy Rimmer (Liverpool)

17:00 First results on Beauty production using HERA II data at ZEUS - Silvia Miglioranzi (UCL)

17:15 The ATLAS B Physics Programme - James Catmore (Lancaster)

17:30 Determining the Gluon PDF at HERA - Christopher Targett-Adams (UCL)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 The LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors - James Storey (Cambridge)

16:15 LHCb RICH mirror optics - Alex Muir (Bristol)

16:30 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors at LHCb - Laura Somerville (Oxford)

16:45 An overview of the LHCb RICH1 Magnetic Shielding Design - Richard Plackett (Imperial)

17:00 Research towards a possible upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator - Alison Bates (Glasgow)
Wednesday 4 April 2007
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Electroweak Physics - Martin Grunewald (UCD)

10:00 B physics - Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL)

10:30 Exotic exotics - Tracey Pratt (Liverpool)
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Pentaquarks from Lattice QCD - Keisuke Jimmy Juge (Trinity College Dublin)

11:45 Photon Calibration of the CMS ECAL - Maiko Takahashi (Imperial)

12:00 Analysis of a File Catalogue for the LHC Computing Grid - Caitriana Nicholson (Glasgow)

12:15 Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for use as Radiation Hard Detectors - James Grant (Glasgow)

12:30 Gallium Nitride UV Detectors for Synchrotron-based protein structure studies - Andrew Blue (Glasgow)
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Light cone distribution amplitude, B-physics, QCD - Angelique Talbot (IPPP Durham)

11:45 Opposite Side Flavor Tagging at D0 - Philip Lewis (Imperial College)

12:00 Inclusive Vub measurements in BABAR - Roberto Sacco (QMUL)

12:15 B_s physics at CDF - Sinead Farrington (Liverpool)

12:30 Branching Fraction and Time Dependent Analysis of B0 to rho Kshort - Ian Forster (Liverpool)

12:45 Measurement of the mass of B_c - Peter Bussey (Glasgow)
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Search for crypto-exotic states in BABAR - Daniel Sherwood (Brunel)

11:45 Searches for the Theta(1540)+ strange pentaquark candidate in BABAR - Jon Coleman (Liverpool)

12:00 Neutrino masses in lepton number violating MSSM - Steven Rimmer (Durham)

12:15 Searches for new physics in high mass at CDF and ATLAS - Muge Karagoz Unel (Oxford)

12:30 Search for associated chargino-neutralino production in three-lepton events at CDF - Martin Griffiths (Liverpool)

12:45 Searching for Gluino-Gluino bound states at ATLAS - Anne Small (Lancaster)
13:30
13:30 - 14:00
Contributions

13:30 Welcome & introduction

13:35 Chairperson's report

13:40 Secretary's report

13:45 Elections (see newsletter item)

13:50 Other business
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Current and Future Neutrino Physics - Yoshi Uchida (Imperial)

14:45 QCD: From Tevatron to LHC - James Stirling (IPPP, Durham)
Thursday 5 April 2007