Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2006

10 Apr 2006, 14:15 → 12 Apr 2006, 17:10 Europe/Zurich

University of Warwick

Paul Harrison (University of Warwick)

Particle Physics 2006 is the annual conference of the High Energy Particle Physics Group of the Institute of Physics. It is hosted and organised by the Particle Physics Group at the University of Warwick. For more information, see the meeting web page at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/epp/iop06/

Tuesday 11 April

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary 1

09:00 Review of Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (CERN/Durham)

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09:30 Review of B Physics

Speaker: Tim Gershon (Univ. of Warwick)

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10:00 Exotics Searches at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Tovey Daniel (Department of Physics)

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel 1: Electroweak Physics and Beyond the SM

11:00 Direct W Boson Width Measurement at CDF

Speaker: Mr Troy Vine (UCL)

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11:15 Study of the W_L W_L scattering at the LHC using the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Stathis Stefanidis (University College London)

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11:30 Fine Tuning in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Mr Peter Athron (Glasgow university)

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11:45 The Search for New Physics in the Di-Electron Channel at CDF

Speaker: Sam Harper (University of Oxford)

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12:00 Search for Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Ms Sara-Madge Wynne (University of Liverpool/ FNAL)

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11:00 → 12:30 Parallel 2: B Meson Physics

11:00 Inclusive B->Xs gamma on the recoil of a fully reconstructed B meson

Speaker: Mr David Hopkins (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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11:15 Fit to Moments of Inclusive B->Xc lv and B-> Xs gamma Decay Distributions

Speaker: Dr Henning Flaecher (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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11:30 Measuring Vub from semileptonic B decays

Speaker: Wolfgang Menges (QMUL)

Slides IoPHEP06_menges.pdf Slides

11:45 Study of the Rare Decay B->a0+pi0 using the BaBar Detector

Speaker: Mr William Panduro Vazquez (Imperial College London)

Slides IOP_talk.pdf Slides

12:00 Branching Fraction Measurement of B+ -> (a1 pi)+

Speaker: Mr Daniel Walker (University of Bristol)

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12:15 Measurement of B0->JpsiPi+Pi- Branching Fractions

Speaker: Mr Yaw Chia (The University of Manchester)

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11:00 → 12:30 Parallel 3: Strong Interactions I

11:00 Charged current deep inelastic scattering at HERA

Speaker: Catherine Fry (Imperial College)

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11:15 F2 Charm at HERA II

Speaker: Mr William Dunne (University of Glasgow)

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11:30 Multijet Physics at HERA and measurement of alpha_s

Speaker: Paul Prideaux (University of Liverpool)

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11:45 Resummed Q_t Distribution in DIS as a probe of small-x broadening effects

Speaker: Mr Yazid Delenda (The University of Manchester)

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12:00 Jet Phenomenology and the KtJet Algorithm

Speaker: William George Plano (University of Manchester)

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12:15 Parton Density Functions and LHC physics

Speaker: Oliver Harris (University College London)

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary 2

14:00 Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment

Speaker: Prof. Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)

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14:45 Recent Advances in Detector Technologies

Speaker: Paula Collins (CERN)

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15:30 → 16:00 Coffee + Poster Session

16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 4: Neutrino Oscillations and Double Beta Decay

16:00 Calibration in the MINOS Detectors

Speaker: Mr Justin Evans (University of Oxford)

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16:15 Observations of Separted Atmospheric Neutrino and Anti-neutrino Events in the MINOS Detector

Speaker: Mr John Chapman (University of Cambridge)

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16:30 The Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos

Speaker: Jonathan Perkin (University of Sheffield)

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16:45 Heavy Majorana Neutrinos at a Linear Collider

Speaker: Mr Simon Bray (University of Manchester)

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17:00 The COBRA Experiment: Status and First Results

Speaker: Dr Jeanne Wilson (University of Sussex)

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17:15 The COBRA Experiment - Future Prospects

Speaker: Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)

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16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 5: Strong Interactions II

16:00 On-shell recursion relations for scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Mr Simon Badger (Durham University, IPPP)

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16:15 Infrared Finite Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Mr Gareth Brown (Durham University, IPPP)

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16:30 Diffractive Triggers for CMS

Speaker: Richard Croft (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

Slides iop06Diff.pdf Slides

16:45 Physics Potential of FP420

Speaker: Andrew Denis Pilkington (University of Manchester)

Slides AndrewPilkingtonIOP2006.pdf Slides

17:00 Diffractive Production of Gluino Bound States at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Tim Coughlin (The University of Manchester)

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17:15 Rho Resonance Measurement Prospects in Heavy Ion Collisions at ALICE

Speaker: Richard Platt (University of Birmingham)

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17:30 Direct Photon Studies within ATLAS

Speaker: Thomas Ivan Hollins (University of Birmingham)

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16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 6: Detectors

16:00 Particle Identification with the ZEUS Central Tracking Detector

Speaker: Mark Bell (Oxford University)

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16:15 Characterization of Hybrid Photon Detectors for the LHCb Experiment

Speaker: Judith Mc Carron (University of Edinburgh)

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16:30 LHCb RICH Detector System Tests

Speaker: Mr Richard Hallam (Imperial College London)

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16:45 LHCb Particle ID and Performance

Speaker: Paul Szczypka (Bristol)

Slides LHCb_Particle_ID_IOP.pdf Slides

17:00 Resolution and alignment of the LHCb Velo

Speaker: David Petrie (University of Glasgow)

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17:15 Mapping the Magnetic Field of the ATLAS Solenoid

Speaker: Miyagawa Paul (Department of Physics)

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17:30 Triggering at Super LHC

Speaker: Mr John Jones (Imperial College London)

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18:30 → 19:00 Leave Campus by Bus for Dinner

19:00 → 19:45 Drinks reception at St. Mary's Crypt

19:45 → 22:30 Dinner at St. Mary's Guildhall

Wednesday 12 April

09:00 → 10:40 Plenary 3

09:00 International Linear Collider: the Accelerator Challenges

Speaker: Prof. Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)

09:40 New Long Range Forces: Particle Physics at the Low Energy Frontier

Speaker: Dr Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)

10:10 Background Measurements at SNO

Speaker: Nick Jelley (University of Oxford)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 12:40 Parallel 7: Higgs and Top

11:10 Search for gg->H/A->2 tau jets at CMS

Speaker: Mr Stuart Wakefield (IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON)

Slides H2tauj-IOP-HEP06.pdf Slides

11:25 H2->H1+H1 decays in the complex MSSM

Speaker: Ms Karina Williams (IPPP, Physics Department, University of Durham)

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11:40 Higgs production in association with squark pairs

Speaker: Clare Lynch (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

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11:55 Mass Generation without a Higgs

Speaker: Mr Richard Williams (Durham University)

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12:10 ATLAS's sensitivity to anomalous FCNC single top production

Speaker: Teh Lee Cheng (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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12:25 Top Mass Measurement at the LHC

Speaker: Chris Tevlin (Manchester)

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11:10 → 12:40 Parallel 8: CP-violating Signatures and other Flavour Physics

11:10 Measurement of the Branching Ratio, Polarisation and CP asymmetry of B^+ -> rho^+rho^0 decays at Babar

Speaker: Ms Katharine Schofield (University of Liverpool)

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11:25 The Cryogenic Neutron EDM Experiment

Speaker: Mr James Karamath (University of Sussex)

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11:40 Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime at DZero

Speaker: Mr Marcus Lewin (Lancaster University)

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11:55 Removing Trigger Biases in Lifetime Fitting at LHCb

Speaker: Vladimir Gligorov (University of Oxford)

Slides Lifetime_fitting_Warwick_110406_v2_2.pdf Slides

12:10 Tau to 3pi pi0 at BaBar

Speaker: Mr Tim West (University of Manchester)

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12:25 Charmed Hadron Production at ZEUS

Speaker: Mr Philip Allfrey (University of Oxford)

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11:10 → 12:40 Parallel 9: Accelerator Science and HEP Computing

11:10 Design and characterisation of the MICE beamline

Speaker: Kenny Walaron (University of Glasgow)

Slides IOPBeamlineTalkApril2006.pdf Slides

11:25 Measurement of Muon Cooling for a Future Neutrino Factory

Speaker: Mr Chris Rogers (Imperial College)

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11:40 Design of a Compton Backscatter X-ray Source on ERLP

Speaker: Mr Steve Malton (UCL)

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11:55 DIRAC Infrastructure for Distributed Analysis

Speaker: Stuart Paterson (University of Glasgow)

Slides DIRAC_Warwick_SKP.pdf Slides

12:10 CEDAR: Global Tuning of MC Event Generators

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

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12:40 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 15:05 Parallel 10: New Results in Flavour Oscillations

13:40 Bd mixing measurement using Opposite-side Flavor Tagging at Dzero

Speaker: Phil Lewis (Imperial College London)

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13:55 Bs Oscillations at D0

Speaker: Dr Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University)

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14:10 Bs Oscillations at CDF

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Liverpool)

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14:25 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam

Speaker: Phillip Litchfield (University of Oxford)

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14:37 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam

Speaker: Mr Mark Dorman (University College London / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

14:49 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam

Speaker: Mr Tobias Raufer (University of Oxford)

15:05 → 15:10 Outreach Talk

15:05 Outreach Activities in the UK

Speaker: Anna Starkey (PPARC)

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15:10 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 16:11 Plenary 4

15:30 Higgs Searches at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Dr Beate Heinemann (University of Liverpool)

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16:10 End

16:10 → 16:40 IoP HEPP Group AGM

16:10 Welcome / Introduction

16:15 Chairperson's report

16:25 Secretary's report

Slides agm-sec-2006-1.pdf agm-sec-2006-1.ppt

16:30 Elections

16:35 Other Business