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

PLENARY Session 1: Plenary Session 1

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

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. John Turner

2 Developments in particle accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Ken Peach

3 The multinational facility for antiproton and ion research (FAIR)

Speaker: Prof. Hans Gutbrod

Parallel 1: QCD 1

4 Direct extraction of QCD Lambda MSbar from Moments of DIS structure functions

Speaker: Paul Brooks (Durham)

5 Gluon Saturation in the Colour Dipole Model

Speaker: Graham Shaw (Manchester)

6 Gaps between Jets in the High Energy Limit

Speaker: Albrecht Kyrieleis (Manchester)

7 Exclusive Double Diffraction at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: James Monk (Manchester)

8 The underlying event in jet physics at TeV colliders

Speaker: Arthur Moraes (Glasgow)

9 Jet Energy Scale Issues at D0

Speaker: Lydia Lobo (Imperial)

Parallel 2: Detector R&D 1

10 MICE

Speaker: Lara Howlett (Sheffield)

11 Scintillating Fibre Tracker for MICE

Speaker: Malcolm Ellis (Imperial)

12 The MINOS calibration system

Speaker: Philip Symes (Sussex)

13 A Laser-Wire for the Linear Collider

Speaker: Nicolas Delerue (Oxford)

14 Charge Transfer Inefficiency Studies for Future CCD Vertex Detector

Speaker: James Walder (Lancaster)

15 The CMS tracker front end readout electronics

Speaker: James Leaver (Imperial)

Parallel 3: Dark Matter / Higgs

16 The DRIFT Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Jennie Davies (Sheffield)

17 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at D0

Speaker: Tim Scanlon (Imperial)

18 Higgs searches at CMS

Speaker: Rob Frazier (Bristol)

19 Invisible Higgs at the CMS detector

Speaker: Simon Metson (Bristol)

20 Studying a Light Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Scott McGarvie (RHUL)

21 Jet Clustering Effects in the tth, h to bb channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Christian Shaw (Glasgow)

PLENARY: His Dark Materials

22 The Dark Side of the Universe: An Astrophysical Perspective

Speaker: Joe Silk (Oxford)

23 Can particle physics shed light on the dark secrets of the universe?

Speaker: John Ellis (CERN)

Parallel 4: Flavour Physics 1

24 B0 to pi0pi0 and the CKM angle alpha

Speaker: Carlos Chavez (Liverpool)

25 The decay B- to D0 K* and the CKM angle gamma in BABAR

Speaker: Paul Jackson (RHUL)

26 Dalitz Plot analysis of B+ to K+K+K- at BABAR

Speaker: Matthew Barrett (Birmingham)

27 Amplitude analysis of B+ to K+pi+pi- at BABAR

Speaker: Tom Latham (Warwick)

28 B+ to K+K-pi+ at BABAR

Speaker: James Burke (Bristol)

29 Radiative Penguin Decays at BABAR

Speaker: Debbie Bard (Edinburgh)

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

Speaker: Michael Nikolich (Imperial)

Parallel 5: Electroweak

31 W/Z cross-sections at the Tevatron

Speaker: Paul Telford (Manchester)

32 Measurement of the W + nJet cross-section at CDF

Speaker: Ben Cooper (UCL)

33 W charge asymmetry with Run II data at CDF

Speaker: Cigdem Issever (Oxford)

34 WW scattering at ATLAS

Speaker: Sarah Allwood (Manchester)

35 Search for dimuon events with the H1 detector at HERA

Speaker: Aweys Mohamed (Liverpool)

36 Tau to pi pi0 nu_tau at BABAR

Speaker: Mitchell Naisbit (Manchester)

Parallel 6: QCD 2

37 Strange Particle Production at Zeus

Speaker: Andrew Cottrell (Oxford)

38 Quark-Gluon Plasma and Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dmitri Grigoriev (Maynooth)

39 Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 experiment at CERN

Speaker: Paul Bacon (Birmingham)

40 Search for excited quark production at H1

Speaker: Andy Rimmer (Liverpool)

41 First results on Beauty production using HERA II data at ZEUS

Speaker: Silvia Miglioranzi (UCL)

42 The ATLAS B Physics Programme

Speaker: James Catmore (Lancaster)

43 Determining the Gluon PDF at HERA

Speaker: Christopher Targett-Adams (UCL)

Parallel 7: Detector R&D 2

44 The LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors

Speaker: James Storey (Cambridge)

45 LHCb RICH mirror optics

Speaker: Alex Muir (Bristol)

46 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors at LHCb

Speaker: Laura Somerville (Oxford)

47 An overview of the LHCb RICH1 Magnetic Shielding Design

Speaker: Richard Plackett (Imperial)

48 Research towards a possible upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator

Speaker: Alison Bates (Glasgow)

Wednesday 4 April

PLENARY: Reviews of Current Experimental Results

49 Electroweak Physics

Speaker: Martin Grunewald (UCD)

50 B physics

Speaker: Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL)

51 Exotic exotics

Speaker: Tracey Pratt (Liverpool)

Parallel 10: QCD3 & Detector R&D 3

52 Pentaquarks from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Keisuke Jimmy Juge (Trinity College Dublin)

53 Photon Calibration of the CMS ECAL

Speaker: Maiko Takahashi (Imperial)

54 Analysis of a File Catalogue for the LHC Computing Grid

Speaker: Caitriana Nicholson (Glasgow)

55 Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for use as Radiation Hard Detectors

Speaker: James Grant (Glasgow)

56 Gallium Nitride UV Detectors for Synchrotron-based protein structure studies

Speaker: Andrew Blue (Glasgow)

Parallel 8: Flavour Physics 2

57 Light cone distribution amplitude, B-physics, QCD

Speaker: Angelique Talbot (IPPP Durham)

58 Opposite Side Flavor Tagging at D0

Speaker: Philip Lewis (Imperial College)

59 Inclusive Vub measurements in BABAR

Speaker: Roberto Sacco (QMUL)

60 B_s physics at CDF

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (Liverpool)

61 Branching Fraction and Time Dependent Analysis of B0 to rho Kshort

Speaker: Ian Forster (Liverpool)

62 Measurement of the mass of B_c

Speaker: Peter Bussey (Glasgow)

Parallel 9: New Physics

63 Search for crypto-exotic states in BABAR

Speaker: Daniel Sherwood (Brunel)

64 Searches for the Theta(1540)+ strange pentaquark candidate in BABAR

Speaker: Jon Coleman (Liverpool)

65 Neutrino masses in lepton number violating MSSM

Speaker: Steven Rimmer (Durham)

66 Searches for new physics in high mass at CDF and ATLAS

Speaker: Muge Karagoz Unel (Oxford)

67 Search for associated chargino-neutralino production in three-lepton events at CDF

Speaker: Martin Griffiths (Liverpool)

68 Searching for Gluino-Gluino bound states at ATLAS

Speaker: Anne Small (Lancaster)

IOP AGM

69 Welcome & introduction

70 Chairperson's report

71 Secretary's report

72 Elections (see newsletter item)

73 Other business

PLENARY: From Here to There

74 Current and Future Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Yoshi Uchida (Imperial)

75 QCD: From Tevatron to LHC

Speaker: James Stirling (IPPP, Durham)