Physics in Collision 2012

11 Sept 2012, 17:00 → 15 Sept 2012, 14:00 Europe/Bratislava

Congress Hall (Hotel Patria)

Dusan Bruncko (Department of Subnuclear Physics)

The international symposium on Physics in Collision is a conference series that began in 1981 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. The program of the conference is composed of invited talks and contributions in poster session.

Invited speakers review and update key topics in elementary particle physics with the aim of encouraging informal discussions on new experimental results and their implications. The conference covers the following topics:

• Electroweak
• Heavy Flavour
• Higgs
• QCD Searches
• Neutrino Physics
• Astroparticle Physics

More details for PIC2012 can be found on the conference webpage: http://www.saske.sk/PIC2012

Tuesday 11 September

17:00 → 20:30 Initial registration

Wednesday 12 September

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome Address

09:10 → 10:15 Electroweak I

Convener: J. Antos

09:10 Measurement of the W Boson Mass and Width

Speaker: Mark Lancaster (UCL)

Slides MarkLancaster_Mw.pdf

09:35 W, Z and γ Production

Speaker: Alexander Savin (University of Wisconsin (US))

Slides PIC2012savin.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 12:30 Electroweak II

Convener: V. Simak

10:45 tt and Single t Production

Speaker: Andreas Meyer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides pic_top_120912.pdf

11:25 Charge Asymmetry in tt Production

Speaker: Reinhild Peters (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

Slides AsymmetryTevLHC.pdf

11:50 Measurements of t Quark Properties

Speaker: Anthony Michael Liss (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

Slides PIC2012.pdf

12:30 → 13:50 Lunch

13:50 → 16:20 QCD I

Convener: U. Heintz

13:50 Total pp Cross Section at 2 TeV and pp Cross Section Measurements at 7, 8 TeV and 57 TeV

Speaker: Nicolo Cartiglia (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides Cartiglia_PIC2012.pdf Cartiglia_PIC2012.ppt

14:20 Multiparton Interactions

Speaker: Ellie Dobson (Oxford University)

Slides presentation_edobson.pdf

14:50 Jet Production

Speaker: Prof. Bob Hirosky (University of Virginia)

Slides Hirosky_PIC2012.pdf

15:35 Jet Substructure

Speaker: Ehud Duchovni (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

Slides pic2012_duchovni.pdf pic2012_duchovni.ppt

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee

16:50 → 18:40 QCD II

Convener: J. Cvach

16:50 Inclusive NC and CC Cross Sections and HERA Quarks and Gluon Distributions

Speaker: Matthew Wing (UCL)

Slides PIC2012Wing.pdf

17:30 Precision Tests of QCD

Speaker: Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides PIC2012_kogler.pdf

18:00 Status of Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

Slides PIC.pdf

20:30 → 23:00 Welcome Drink

Thursday 13 September

08:30 → 10:20 Neutrino I

Convener: Robert Tschirhart (FNAL)

08:30 The Experimental Status of θ₁₃ from the Point of View of the Electron (Anti-) Neutrino Disappearance Experiments

Speaker: Rupert Leitner (Charles University (CZ))

Slides PIC2012%Leitner.pdf

09:10 The Experimental Status of θ₁₃ from the Point of View of the Electron Neutrino Appearance Experiments

Speaker: Yoshi Uchida (Imperial College London)

Slides YoshiUchida-PIC2012-ElectronNeutrinoAppearance-indico.pdf

09:50 Other Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

Speaker: Yusuke Koshio (University of Tokyo)

Slides pic.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 11:30 Neutrino II

Convener: Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY)

10:50 Double β Decay

Speaker: Dr Lisa Kaufman (University of Indiana)

Slides kaufman_pic2012.pdf

11:10 Neutrino Cross Sections

Speaker: Laura J. Fields (Northwestern Univ.)

Slides PIC2012_LauraF.pdf

11:30 → 12:05 Poster Presentations I

Convener; S. Tokar

11:30 Measurement of the proton-air cross-section at sqrt(s) = 57 TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Jan Ebr (IP CAS, Prague)

Slides ebr-pic12.pdf

11:37 JEM-EUSO experiment for extreme energy cosmic ray observation

Speaker: Blahoslav Pastircak (Institute of Experimental Physics)

Slides Pastircak_JEM-EUSO.pdf

11:44 The Lambda parameter of two flavor QCD

Speaker: Bjoern Leder (University of Wuppertal)

Slides PIC2012-leder.pdf

11:51 Search for Dark Matter and Large Extra Dimensions in pp Collisions Yielding a Photon and Missing Tranverse Energy

Speaker: Bhawna Gomber (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))

Slides PIC_talk.pdf

11:58 The SuperB factory : physics prospects and project status

Speaker: Luis Alejandro Perez (INFN-Pisa)

Slides Perez_SuperB_prospects_and_status_PIC2012.pdf

12:05 → 13:05 Lunch

13:05 → 15:35 Heavy Flavour I

Convener: Prof. Xiaoyan Shen (IHEP Beijing)

13:05 B Decays and CPV

Speaker: Roland Waldi (Universitaet Rostock (DE))

Slides waldi-pic12.pdf

13:35 B_s Decays and CPV

Speaker: Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Slides PIC2012_shm.pdf

14:05 Bottom Production, Spectroscopy and Lifetimes

Speaker: Stefano Argiro (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides argiro-pic2012.pdf

14:35 Leptonic and Semileptonic Decays in Charm

Speaker: Yangheng Zheng (GUCAS)

Slides LepSemiLepCharmDecays-zheng.pdf

15:05 D⁰ Mixing and CP Violation in D Decays

Speaker: Erica Polycarpo Macedo (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

Slides pic2012_epolycarpo_v3.pdf

15:35 → 16:05 Coffee

16:05 → 17:50 Heavy Flavour II

Convener: Roy Briere (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:05 Charmonium and Light Meson Spectroscopy

Speaker: Kai Zhu (IHEP)

Slides PIC2012_charmonium_light_hadron_spectrum_KZhu.pdf

16:35 Quarkonium and Exotic Hadrons

Speaker: Ruslan Chistov (ITEP Moscow)

Slides chistov_pic2012.exotics.pdf chistov_pic2012.exotics.ppt

17:20 LFV in Charged Leptons

Speaker: Marco Grassi (INFN - Italy)

Slides PIC2012-grassi.pptx.pdf

Friday 14 September

08:30 → 09:45 Searches, Dark Matter, Exotic Phenomena I

Convener: Helenka Przysiezniak Frey (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

08:30 Supersymmetry Searches

Speaker: Paul De Jong (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides pic2012_pauldejong.pdf

09:15 Search for New Generations

Speaker: Petra Van Mulders (Inter-University Institute for High Energies (BE))

Slides PetraVanMulders-NewFermionsBosons-PIC2012.pdf

09:45 → 10:20 Poster Presentations II

Convener: T. Blazek

09:45 Charge asymmetry in top quarks pair production in the dilepton channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Jakub Cuth (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides ChAsymmSlidesPic2012.pdf

09:52 Charged-particle veto detector for the KL-->pi0nunubar study in the J-PARC KOTO experiment

Speaker: Yosuke Maeda (Kyoto University)

Slides Maeda_PIC2012_poster.pdf Maeda_PIC2012_posterTalk.pdf

09:59 A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H -> ZZ -> 2l2nu decay channel, where l = e or mu, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of both 7 and 8 TeV

Speaker: Arun Kumar (University of Delhi (IN))

Slides PIC_HZZ2l2nu.pdf

10:06 The COMET Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment

Speaker: Yoshi Uchida (Imperial College London)

Slides YoshiUchida-PIC2012-COMETPoster-indico.pdf

10:13 The ATLAS Inner Detector operation, data quality and tracking performance

Speaker: Ewa Stanecka (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

Slides posterOverview.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 11:30 Heavy Ion Physics

Convener: Dr Jean-Marie Brom (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

10:50 Hadron-Hadron Correlations

Speaker: Peter Hristov (CERN)

Slides Hristov_PIC2012.pdf Hristov_PIC2012.pptx

11:30 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 14:05 QCD III

Convener: Tomas Blazek (Comenius University (SK))

12:30 Recent progress in Lattice QCD

Speaker: Stephan Durr (Unknown)

Slides durr_pic2012.pdf

13:15 Very Forward pp interactions with the LHCf detector

Speaker: Alessia Tricomi (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides PIC2012_noani.pdf PIC2012.pptx

13:35 Recent Results from Kaon Physics

Speaker: Antonino Sergi (CERN)

Slides PIC2012.pdf

14:30 → 19:30 Excursion

20:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday 15 September

08:30 → 09:45 Searches, Dark Matter, Exotic Phenomena II

Convener: Livia Ludhova (INFN Milano)

08:30 Exotic Phenomena Searches

Speaker: Francesco Santanastasio (CERN)

Slides PIC2012_exotica_talk_Sept2012_v2.pdf

09:00 Searches for Dark Matter

Speaker: Francesco Arneodo (Laboratorio Nazionale del Gran Sasso (LNGS))

Slides arneodo_PIC2012.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Higgs Boson Searches I

Convener: Dr Rudiger Voss (CERN)

09:45 Higgs Searches at the Tevatron

Speaker: Erich Varnes (University of Arizona)

Slides Varnes_PIC2012.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Higgs Boson Searches II

Convener: Dr Rudiger Voss (CERN)

11:00 Higgs Searches at ATLAS

Speaker: R D Schaffer (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Slides RDS_PIC_20120915.pdf

11:45 Higgs Searches at CMS

Speaker: Dr Roberto Salerno (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides RobertoSalerno_PIC2012.pdf

12:30 → 12:40 Next PIC

slides PIC-2013.pdf

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch and departure