Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2006

from Monday 10 April 2006 (14:15) to Wednesday 12 April 2006 (17:10)
University of Warwick

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Apr 2006
12 Apr 2006
AM
09:00
Plenary 1 (until 10:30)
09:00 Review of Neutrino Physics - Silvia Pascoli (CERN/Durham)  
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09:30 Review of B Physics - Tim Gershon (Univ. of Warwick)  
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10:00 Exotics Searches at Hadron Colliders - Tovey Daniel (Department of Physics)  
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10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Parallel 1 (until 12:30)
11:00 Direct W Boson Width Measurement at CDF - 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 - Stathis Stefanidis (University College London)  
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11:30 Fine Tuning in the Standard Model and Beyond - Mr Peter Athron (Glasgow university)  
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11:45 The Search for New Physics in the Di-Electron Channel at CDF - Sam Harper (University of Oxford)  
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12:00 Search for Extra Dimensions - Ms Sara-Madge Wynne (University of Liverpool/ FNAL)  
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11:00
Parallel 2 (until 12:30)
11:00 Inclusive B->Xs gamma on the recoil of a fully reconstructed B meson - 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 - Dr Henning Flaecher (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
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11:30 Measuring Vub from semileptonic B decays - Wolfgang Menges (QMUL)  
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11:45 Study of the Rare Decay B->a0+pi0 using the BaBar Detector - Mr William Panduro Vazquez (Imperial College London)  
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12:00 Branching Fraction Measurement of B+ -> (a1 pi)+ - Mr Daniel Walker (University of Bristol)  
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12:15 Measurement of B0->JpsiPi+Pi- Branching Fractions - Mr Yaw Chia (The University of Manchester)  
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11:00
Parallel 3 (until 12:30)
11:00 Charged current deep inelastic scattering at HERA - Catherine Fry (Imperial College)  
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11:15 F2 Charm at HERA II - Mr William Dunne (University of Glasgow)  
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11:30 Multijet Physics at HERA and measurement of alpha_s - 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 - Mr Yazid Delenda (The University of Manchester)  
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12:00 Jet Phenomenology and the KtJet Algorithm - William George Plano (University of Manchester)  
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12:15 Parton Density Functions and LHC physics - Oliver Harris (University College London)  
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09:00
Plenary 3 (until 10:40)
09:00 International Linear Collider: the Accelerator Challenges - Prof. Phil Burrows (University of Oxford)  
09:40 New Long Range Forces: Particle Physics at the Low Energy Frontier - Dr Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)  
10:10 Background Measurements at SNO - Nick Jelley (University of Oxford)  
10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Parallel 7 (until 12:40)
11:10 Search for gg->H/A->2 tau jets at CMS - Mr Stuart Wakefield (IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON)  
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11:25 H2->H1+H1 decays in the complex MSSM - Ms Karina Williams (IPPP, Physics Department, University of Durham)  
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11:40 Higgs production in association with squark pairs - Clare Lynch (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)  
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11:55 Mass Generation without a Higgs - Mr Richard Williams (Durham University)  
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12:10 ATLAS's sensitivity to anomalous FCNC single top production - Teh Lee Cheng (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
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12:25 Top Mass Measurement at the LHC - Chris Tevlin (Manchester)  
11:10
Parallel 8 (until 12:40)
11:10 Measurement of the Branching Ratio, Polarisation and CP asymmetry of B^+ -> rho^+rho^0 decays at Babar - Ms Katharine Schofield (University of Liverpool)  
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11:25 The Cryogenic Neutron EDM Experiment - Mr James Karamath (University of Sussex)  
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11:40 Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime at DZero - Mr Marcus Lewin (Lancaster University)  
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11:55 Removing Trigger Biases in Lifetime Fitting at LHCb - Vladimir Gligorov (University of Oxford)  
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12:10 Tau to 3pi pi0 at BaBar - Mr Tim West (University of Manchester)  
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12:25 Charmed Hadron Production at ZEUS - Mr Philip Allfrey (University of Oxford)  
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11:10
Parallel 9 (until 12:40)
11:10 Design and characterisation of the MICE beamline - Kenny Walaron (University of Glasgow)  
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11:25 Measurement of Muon Cooling for a Future Neutrino Factory - Mr Chris Rogers (Imperial College)  
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11:40 Design of a Compton Backscatter X-ray Source on ERLP - Mr Steve Malton (UCL)  
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11:55 DIRAC Infrastructure for Distributed Analysis - Stuart Paterson (University of Glasgow)  
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12:10 CEDAR: Global Tuning of MC Event Generators - Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary 2 (until 15:30)
14:00 Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment - Prof. Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)  
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14:45 Recent Advances in Detector Technologies - Paula Collins (CERN)  
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15:30 --- Coffee + Poster Session ---
16:00
Parallel 4 (until 17:45)
16:00 Calibration in the MINOS Detectors - 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 - Mr John Chapman (University of Cambridge)  
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16:30 The Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Jonathan Perkin (University of Sheffield)  
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16:45 Heavy Majorana Neutrinos at a Linear Collider - Mr Simon Bray (University of Manchester)  
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17:00 The COBRA Experiment: Status and First Results - Dr Jeanne Wilson (University of Sussex)  
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17:15 The COBRA Experiment - Future Prospects - Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)  
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16:00
Parallel 5 (until 17:45)
16:00 On-shell recursion relations for scattering amplitudes - Mr Simon Badger (Durham University, IPPP)  
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16:15 Infrared Finite Scattering Amplitudes - Mr Gareth Brown (Durham University, IPPP)  
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16:30 Diffractive Triggers for CMS - Richard Croft (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)  
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16:45 Physics Potential of FP420 - Andrew Denis Pilkington (University of Manchester)  
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17:00 Diffractive Production of Gluino Bound States at the LHC - Mr Tim Coughlin (The University of Manchester)  
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17:15 Rho Resonance Measurement Prospects in Heavy Ion Collisions at ALICE - Richard Platt (University of Birmingham)  
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17:30 Direct Photon Studies within ATLAS - Thomas Ivan Hollins (University of Birmingham)  
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16:00
Parallel 6 (until 17:45)
16:00 Particle Identification with the ZEUS Central Tracking Detector - Mark Bell (Oxford University)  
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16:15 Characterization of Hybrid Photon Detectors for the LHCb Experiment - Judith Mc Carron (University of Edinburgh)  
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16:30 LHCb RICH Detector System Tests - Mr Richard Hallam (Imperial College London)  
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16:45 LHCb Particle ID and Performance - Paul Szczypka (Bristol)  
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17:00 Resolution and alignment of the LHCb Velo - David Petrie (University of Glasgow)  
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17:15 Mapping the Magnetic Field of the ATLAS Solenoid - Miyagawa Paul (Department of Physics)  
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17:30 Triggering at Super LHC - Mr John Jones (Imperial College London)  
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18:30 --- Leave Campus by Bus for Dinner ---
19:00 --- Drinks reception at St. Mary's Crypt ---
19:45 --- Dinner at St. Mary's Guildhall ---
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:40
Parallel 10 (until 15:05)
13:40 Bd mixing measurement using Opposite-side Flavor Tagging at Dzero - Phil Lewis (Imperial College London)  
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13:55 Bs Oscillations at D0 - Dr Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University)  
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14:10 Bs Oscillations at CDF - Sinead Farrington (University of Liverpool)  
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14:25 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam - Phillip Litchfield (University of Oxford)  
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14:37 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam - Mr Mark Dorman (University College London / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
14:49 First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam - Mr Tobias Raufer (University of Oxford)  
15:05
Outreach Talk (until 15:10)
15:05 Outreach Activities in the UK - Anna Starkey (PPARC)  
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15:10 --- Coffee ---
15:30
Plenary 4 (until 16:11)
15:30 Higgs Searches at Hadron Colliders - Dr Beate Heinemann (University of Liverpool)  
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16:10 --- End ---
16:10
IoP HEPP Group AGM (until 16:40)
16:10 Welcome / Introduction  
16:15 Chairperson's report  
16:25 Secretary's report  
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16:30 Elections  
16:35 Other Business