Name: Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2006
Start: 2006-04-10T14:15:00+02:00
End: 2006-04-12T17:10:00+02:00
Location: University of Warwick

Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2006

from Monday, 10 April 2006 (14:15) to Wednesday, 12 April 2006 (17:10)

Monday, 10 April 2006
Tuesday, 11 April 2006
09:00 Plenary 1
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Review of Neutrino Physics - Silvia Pascoli (CERN/Durham)

09:30 Review of B Physics - Tim Gershon (Univ. of Warwick)

10:00 Exotics Searches at Hadron Colliders - Tovey Daniel (Department of Physics)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Parallel 1: Electroweak Physics and Beyond the SM
Electroweak Physics and Beyond the SM
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Direct W Boson Width Measurement at CDF - Troy Vine (UCL)

11:15 Study of the W_L W_L scattering at the LHC using the ATLAS detector - Stathis Stefanidis (University College London)

11:30 Fine Tuning in the Standard Model and Beyond - Peter Athron (Glasgow university)

11:45 The Search for New Physics in the Di-Electron Channel at CDF - Sam Harper (University of Oxford)

12:00 Search for Extra Dimensions - Sara-Madge Wynne (University of Liverpool/ FNAL)
Parallel 2: B Meson Physics
B Meson Physics
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Inclusive B->Xs gamma on the recoil of a fully reconstructed B meson - David Hopkins (Royal Holloway, University of London)

11:15 Fit to Moments of Inclusive B->Xc lv and B-> Xs gamma Decay Distributions - Henning Flaecher (Royal Holloway, University of London)

11:30 Measuring Vub from semileptonic B decays - Wolfgang Menges (QMUL)

11:45 Study of the Rare Decay B->a0+pi0 using the BaBar Detector - William Panduro Vazquez (Imperial College London)

12:00 Branching Fraction Measurement of B+ -> (a1 pi)+ - Daniel Walker (University of Bristol)

12:15 Measurement of B0->JpsiPi+Pi- Branching Fractions - Yaw Chia (The University of Manchester)
Parallel 3: Strong Interactions I
Strong Interactions I
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Charged current deep inelastic scattering at HERA - Catherine Fry (Imperial College)

11:15 F2 Charm at HERA II - William Dunne (University of Glasgow)

11:30 Multijet Physics at HERA and measurement of alpha_s - Paul Prideaux (University of Liverpool)

11:45 Resummed Q_t Distribution in DIS as a probe of small-x broadening effects - Yazid Delenda (The University of Manchester)

12:00 Jet Phenomenology and the KtJet Algorithm - William George Plano (University of Manchester)

12:15 Parton Density Functions and LHC physics - Oliver Harris (University College London)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Plenary 2
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment - Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)

14:45 Recent Advances in Detector Technologies - Paula Collins (CERN)
15:30 Coffee + Poster Session
Coffee + Poster Session
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Parallel 4: Neutrino Oscillations and Double Beta Decay
Neutrino Oscillations and Double Beta Decay
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 Calibration in the MINOS Detectors - Justin Evans (University of Oxford)

16:15 Observations of Separted Atmospheric Neutrino and Anti-neutrino Events in the MINOS Detector - John Chapman (University of Cambridge)

16:30 The Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Jonathan Perkin (University of Sheffield)

16:45 Heavy Majorana Neutrinos at a Linear Collider - Simon Bray (University of Manchester)

17:00 The COBRA Experiment: Status and First Results - Jeanne Wilson (University of Sussex)

17:15 The COBRA Experiment - Future Prospects - Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
Parallel 5: Strong Interactions II
Strong Interactions II
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 On-shell recursion relations for scattering amplitudes - Simon Badger (Durham University, IPPP)

16:15 Infrared Finite Scattering Amplitudes - Gareth Brown (Durham University, IPPP)

16:30 Diffractive Triggers for CMS - Richard Croft (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

16:45 Physics Potential of FP420 - Andrew Denis Pilkington (University of Manchester)

17:00 Diffractive Production of Gluino Bound States at the LHC - Tim Coughlin (The University of Manchester)

17:15 Rho Resonance Measurement Prospects in Heavy Ion Collisions at ALICE - Richard Platt (University of Birmingham)

17:30 Direct Photon Studies within ATLAS - Thomas Ivan Hollins (University of Birmingham)
Parallel 6: Detectors
Detectors
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 Particle Identification with the ZEUS Central Tracking Detector - Mark Bell (Oxford University)

16:15 Characterization of Hybrid Photon Detectors for the LHCb Experiment - Judith Mc Carron (University of Edinburgh)

16:30 LHCb RICH Detector System Tests - Richard Hallam (Imperial College London)

16:45 LHCb Particle ID and Performance - Paul Szczypka (Bristol)

17:00 Resolution and alignment of the LHCb Velo - David Petrie (University of Glasgow)

17:15 Mapping the Magnetic Field of the ATLAS Solenoid - Miyagawa Paul (Department of Physics)

17:30 Triggering at Super LHC - John Jones (Imperial College London)
18:30 Leave Campus by Bus for Dinner
Leave Campus by Bus for Dinner
18:30 - 19:00

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

19:45 Dinner at St. Mary's Guildhall
Dinner at St. Mary's Guildhall
19:45 - 22:30
Wednesday, 12 April 2006
09:00 Plenary 3
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 International Linear Collider: the Accelerator Challenges - Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)

09:40 New Long Range Forces: Particle Physics at the Low Energy Frontier - Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)

10:10 Background Measurements at SNO - Nick Jelley (University of Oxford)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Parallel 7: Higgs and Top
Higgs and Top
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Search for gg->H/A->2 tau jets at CMS - Stuart Wakefield (IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON)

11:25 H2->H1+H1 decays in the complex MSSM - Karina Williams (IPPP, Physics Department, University of Durham)

11:40 Higgs production in association with squark pairs - Clare Lynch (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

11:55 Mass Generation without a Higgs - Richard Williams (Durham University)

12:10 ATLAS's sensitivity to anomalous FCNC single top production - Teh Lee Cheng (Royal Holloway, University of London)

12:25 Top Mass Measurement at the LHC - Chris Tevlin (Manchester)
Parallel 8: CP-violating Signatures and other Flavour Physics
CP-violating Signatures and other Flavour Physics
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Measurement of the Branching Ratio, Polarisation and CP asymmetry of B^+ -> rho^+rho^0 decays at Babar - Katharine Schofield (University of Liverpool)

11:25 The Cryogenic Neutron EDM Experiment - James Karamath (University of Sussex)

11:40 Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime at DZero - Marcus Lewin (Lancaster University)

11:55 Removing Trigger Biases in Lifetime Fitting at LHCb - Vladimir Gligorov (University of Oxford)

12:10 Tau to 3pi pi0 at BaBar - Tim West (University of Manchester)

12:25 Charmed Hadron Production at ZEUS - Philip Allfrey (University of Oxford)
Parallel 9: Accelerator Science and HEP Computing
Accelerator Science and HEP Computing
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Design and characterisation of the MICE beamline - Kenny Walaron (University of Glasgow)

11:25 Measurement of Muon Cooling for a Future Neutrino Factory - Chris Rogers (Imperial College)

11:40 Design of a Compton Backscatter X-ray Source on ERLP - Steve Malton (UCL)

11:55 DIRAC Infrastructure for Distributed Analysis - Stuart Paterson (University of Glasgow)

12:10 CEDAR: Global Tuning of MC Event Generators - Andy Buckley (Durham University)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
13:40 Parallel 10: New Results in Flavour Oscillations
New Results in Flavour Oscillations
13:40 - 15:05
Contributions

13:40 Bd mixing measurement using Opposite-side Flavor Tagging at Dzero - Phil Lewis (Imperial College London)

13:55 Bs Oscillations at D0 - Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University)

14:10 Bs Oscillations at CDF - Sinead Farrington (University of Liverpool)

14:25 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam - Phillip Litchfield (University of Oxford)

14:37 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam - Mark Dorman (University College London / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

14:49 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam - Tobias Raufer (University of Oxford)
15:05 Outreach Talk
15:05 - 15:10
Contributions

15:05 Outreach Activities in the UK - Anna Starkey (PPARC)
15:10 Coffee
Coffee
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 Plenary 4
15:30 - 16:11
Contributions

15:30 Higgs Searches at Hadron Colliders - Beate Heinemann (University of Liverpool)
16:10 IoP HEPP Group AGM
16:10 - 16:40
Contributions

16:10 Welcome / Introduction

16:15 Chairperson's report

16:25 Secretary's report

16:30 Elections

16:35 Other Business