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

Institute of Physics: Nuclear and Particle physics divisional conference 2007

from Monday 2 April 2007 (13:00) to Thursday 5 April 2007 (16:00)
University of Surrey, Guildford

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

3 Apr 2007

4 Apr 2007

08:50	PLENARY Session 1 -Prof. Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey) (until 11:00) ()
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	Parallel 1: QCD 1 (until 13:00) ()
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	Parallel 2: Detector R&D 1 (until 13:00) ()
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	Parallel 3: Dark Matter / Higgs (until 13:00) ()
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) ()

09:30	PLENARY: Reviews of Current Experimental Results (until 11:00) ()
09:30	Electroweak Physics - Martin Grunewald (UCD) ()
10:00	B physics - Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL) ()
10:30	Exotic exotics - Tracey Pratt (Liverpool) ()
11:30	Parallel 10: QCD3 & Detector R&D 3 (until 13:00) ()
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	Parallel 8: Flavour Physics 2 (until 13:00) ()
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	Parallel 9: New Physics (until 13:00) ()
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) ()

14:00	PLENARY: His Dark Materials (until 15:30) ()
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	Parallel 4: Flavour Physics 1 (until 17:45) ()
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	Parallel 5: Electroweak (until 17:30) ()
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	Parallel 6: QCD 2 (until 17:45) ()
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	Parallel 7: Detector R&D 2 (until 17:30) ()
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) ()

13:30	IOP AGM (until 14:00) ()
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	PLENARY: From Here to There (until 15:30) ()
14:00	Current and Future Neutrino Physics - Yoshi Uchida (Imperial) ()
14:45	QCD: From Tevatron to LHC - James Stirling (IPPP, Durham) ()

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