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
AM
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)   ()
PM
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)   ()