Institute of Physics: Nuclear and Particle physics divisional conference 2007

2 Apr 2007, 13:00 → 5 Apr 2007, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

University of Surrey, Guildford

This is the webpage of the IoP Nuclear and Particle physics division meeting, held at the University of Surrey on April 2-5 2007. All talks are listed in the session links here.

Tuesday 3 April

08:50 → 11:00 PLENARY Session 1: Plenary Session 1

Convener: Prof. Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey)

08:50 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. John Turner

09:00 Developments in particle accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Ken Peach

09:45 The multinational facility for antiproton and ion research (FAIR)

Speaker: Prof. Hans Gutbrod

11:25 → 13:00 Parallel 1: QCD 1

11:30 Direct extraction of QCD Lambda MSbar from Moments of DIS structure functions

Speaker: Paul Brooks (Durham)

11:45 Gluon Saturation in the Colour Dipole Model

Speaker: Graham Shaw (Manchester)

12:00 Gaps between Jets in the High Energy Limit

Speaker: Albrecht Kyrieleis (Manchester)

12:15 Exclusive Double Diffraction at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: James Monk (Manchester)

12:30 The underlying event in jet physics at TeV colliders

Speaker: Arthur Moraes (Glasgow)

12:45 Jet Energy Scale Issues at D0

Speaker: Lydia Lobo (Imperial)

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 2: Detector R&D 1

11:30 MICE

Speaker: Lara Howlett (Sheffield)

11:45 Scintillating Fibre Tracker for MICE

Speaker: Malcolm Ellis (Imperial)

12:00 The MINOS calibration system

Speaker: Philip Symes (Sussex)

12:15 A Laser-Wire for the Linear Collider

Speaker: Nicolas Delerue (Oxford)

12:30 Charge Transfer Inefficiency Studies for Future CCD Vertex Detector

Speaker: James Walder (Lancaster)

12:45 The CMS tracker front end readout electronics

Speaker: James Leaver (Imperial)

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 3: Dark Matter / Higgs

11:30 The DRIFT Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Jennie Davies (Sheffield)

11:45 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at D0

Speaker: Tim Scanlon (Imperial)

12:00 Higgs searches at CMS

Speaker: Rob Frazier (Bristol)

12:15 Invisible Higgs at the CMS detector

Speaker: Simon Metson (Bristol)

12:30 Studying a Light Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Scott McGarvie (RHUL)

12:45 Jet Clustering Effects in the tth, h to bb channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Christian Shaw (Glasgow)

14:00 → 15:30 PLENARY: His Dark Materials

14:00 The Dark Side of the Universe: An Astrophysical Perspective

Speaker: Joe Silk (Oxford)

14:45 Can particle physics shed light on the dark secrets of the universe?

Speaker: John Ellis (CERN)

16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 4: Flavour Physics 1

16:00 B0 to pi0pi0 and the CKM angle alpha

Speaker: Carlos Chavez (Liverpool)

16:15 The decay B- to D0 K* and the CKM angle gamma in BABAR

Speaker: Paul Jackson (RHUL)

16:30 Dalitz Plot analysis of B+ to K+K+K- at BABAR

Speaker: Matthew Barrett (Birmingham)

16:45 Amplitude analysis of B+ to K+pi+pi- at BABAR

Speaker: Tom Latham (Warwick)

17:00 B+ to K+K-pi+ at BABAR

Speaker: James Burke (Bristol)

17:15 Radiative Penguin Decays at BABAR

Speaker: Debbie Bard (Edinburgh)

17:30 Branching Fraction measurement of D_s+ to K+pi0 at BABAR

Speaker: Michael Nikolich (Imperial)

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel 5: Electroweak

16:00 W/Z cross-sections at the Tevatron

Speaker: Paul Telford (Manchester)

16:15 Measurement of the W + nJet cross-section at CDF

Speaker: Ben Cooper (UCL)

16:30 W charge asymmetry with Run II data at CDF

Speaker: Cigdem Issever (Oxford)

16:45 WW scattering at ATLAS

Speaker: Sarah Allwood (Manchester)

17:00 Search for dimuon events with the H1 detector at HERA

Speaker: Aweys Mohamed (Liverpool)

17:15 Tau to pi pi0 nu_tau at BABAR

Speaker: Mitchell Naisbit (Manchester)

16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 6: QCD 2

16:00 Strange Particle Production at Zeus

Speaker: Andrew Cottrell (Oxford)

16:15 Quark-Gluon Plasma and Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dmitri Grigoriev (Maynooth)

16:30 Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 experiment at CERN

Speaker: Paul Bacon (Birmingham)

16:45 Search for excited quark production at H1

Speaker: Andy Rimmer (Liverpool)

17:00 First results on Beauty production using HERA II data at ZEUS

Speaker: Silvia Miglioranzi (UCL)

17:15 The ATLAS B Physics Programme

Speaker: James Catmore (Lancaster)

17:30 Determining the Gluon PDF at HERA

Speaker: Christopher Targett-Adams (UCL)

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel 7: Detector R&D 2

16:00 The LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors

Speaker: James Storey (Cambridge)

16:15 LHCb RICH mirror optics

Speaker: Alex Muir (Bristol)

16:30 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors at LHCb

Speaker: Laura Somerville (Oxford)

16:45 An overview of the LHCb RICH1 Magnetic Shielding Design

Speaker: Richard Plackett (Imperial)

17:00 Research towards a possible upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator

Speaker: Alison Bates (Glasgow)

Wednesday 4 April

09:30 → 11:00 PLENARY: Reviews of Current Experimental Results

09:30 Electroweak Physics

Speaker: Martin Grunewald (UCD)

10:00 B physics

Speaker: Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL)

10:30 Exotic exotics

Speaker: Tracey Pratt (Liverpool)

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 10: QCD3 & Detector R&D 3

11:30 Pentaquarks from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Keisuke Jimmy Juge (Trinity College Dublin)

11:45 Photon Calibration of the CMS ECAL

Speaker: Maiko Takahashi (Imperial)

12:00 Analysis of a File Catalogue for the LHC Computing Grid

Speaker: Caitriana Nicholson (Glasgow)

12:15 Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for use as Radiation Hard Detectors

Speaker: James Grant (Glasgow)

12:30 Gallium Nitride UV Detectors for Synchrotron-based protein structure studies

Speaker: Andrew Blue (Glasgow)

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 8: Flavour Physics 2

11:30 Light cone distribution amplitude, B-physics, QCD

Speaker: Angelique Talbot (IPPP Durham)

11:45 Opposite Side Flavor Tagging at D0

Speaker: Philip Lewis (Imperial College)

12:00 Inclusive Vub measurements in BABAR

Speaker: Roberto Sacco (QMUL)

12:15 B_s physics at CDF

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (Liverpool)

12:30 Branching Fraction and Time Dependent Analysis of B0 to rho Kshort

Speaker: Ian Forster (Liverpool)

12:45 Measurement of the mass of B_c

Speaker: Peter Bussey (Glasgow)

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 9: New Physics

11:30 Search for crypto-exotic states in BABAR

Speaker: Daniel Sherwood (Brunel)

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

Speaker: Jon Coleman (Liverpool)

12:00 Neutrino masses in lepton number violating MSSM

Speaker: Steven Rimmer (Durham)

12:15 Searches for new physics in high mass at CDF and ATLAS

Speaker: Muge Karagoz Unel (Oxford)

12:30 Search for associated chargino-neutralino production in three-lepton events at CDF

Speaker: Martin Griffiths (Liverpool)

12:45 Searching for Gluino-Gluino bound states at ATLAS

Speaker: Anne Small (Lancaster)

13:30 → 14:00 IOP AGM

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 → 15:30 PLENARY: From Here to There

14:00 Current and Future Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Yoshi Uchida (Imperial)

14:45 QCD: From Tevatron to LHC

Speaker: James Stirling (IPPP, Durham)