Name: IoP Joint HEPP and APP Meeting 2012
Start: 2012-04-02T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-04-04T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Queen Mary, University of London

IoP Joint HEPP and APP Meeting 2012

from Monday, 2 April 2012 (12:00) to Wednesday, 4 April 2012 (18:00)

Monday, 2 April 2012

12:00 Registration

12:00 - 13:00
Room: Francis Bancroft 113/113a/115
13:00 STFC Town Meeting
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

13:00 Chief Executive Address - John William Womersley (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

13:30 Science Board - Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)

14:00 PPAP - Philip Burrows (University of Oxford)

14:30 European Strategy for Particle Physics - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

15:00 Discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Francis Bancroft 113/113a/115
16:00 Plenary Session
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:00 Welcome - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary University of London)

16:10 Latest results from neutrino experiments - Jenny Thomas (UCL)

16:40 The INFN perspective on HEP and APP - Fernando Ferroni (Dipartim.di Fisica G.Marconi RomeI)

17:25 Communicating Our Science - Benjamin Still

17:40 Early Cosmic Rays - Don Perkins (University of Oxford)
18:00 Reception

18:00 - 20:30
Room: Senior Common Room Lounge, Queens Building
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
08:30 Plenary Session
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

08:30 Standard Model Results from CMS & ATLAS - Jonathan Hays (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

09:00 Beyond the Standard Model results from CMS & ATLAS - Christopher Gorham Lester (University of Cambridge (GB))

09:30 Collider Phenomenology - Peter Richardson (Durham University)

10:00 Accelerators for the Intensity and Energy Frontier - Chris Rogers (STFC)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Francis Bancroft 113/113a/115
11:00 Plenary Session
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) - Timothy John Greenshaw (University of Liverpool (GB))

11:30 Gravitational Waves - Daw Edward (University of Sheffield)

12:00 Hadronic Interactions Beyond the LHC - Johannes Knapp (University of Leeds)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Francis Bancroft 113/113a/115

13:00 HEPP Group AGM

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Mason LT
14:00 Track 1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: G. O. Jones Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Top quark charge asymmetry in dilepton final states - Tim Head (The University of Manchester)

14:15 ttbar cross section measurement in mu+jets channel with CMS - Philip Hugh Symonds (Brunel University (GB))

14:30 Spin Correlations in ttbar events at ATLAS - James William Howarth (University of Manchester (GB))

14:45 A Search for Resonances in Semileptonic Top Pair Production - Lukasz Kreczko (University of Bristol (GB))

15:00 ttbar Spin Correlations at ATLAS - Thomas Mclaughlan (University of Birmingham (GB))

15:15 Search for single top tW associated production in the dilepton decay channel at CMS - William Patrick Martin (Brunel University (GB))
Track 2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Mason LT
Contributions

14:00 Neutral Current Pi0 Interactions in the T2K Near Detector - Samantha Short (Imperial College London)

14:15 Working towards a measurement of the neutrino interaction cross section on lead at the T2K ND280 detector - Mark Scott (Imperial College, London)

14:30 Neutrino Cross-Section Measurements at T2K - Daniel Scully (U)

14:45 Analysis of the Inclusive νμ to μ- π+ π0 Cross-section in the T2K Near Detector - Steven Bentham

15:00 Pi0 cross section measurement at T2K - Elzbieta Poplawska (QMUL)

15:15 3-flavour neutrino oscillations - Nick Grant

15:30 Pileup background rejection for SNO+ - Phil Jones (SNO+)

15:45 Calibration of the SNO+ detector - Matthew Mottram (University of Sussex)
Track 3
14:00 - 16:00
Room: David Sizer LT
Contributions

14:00 The EDELWEISS dark matter search: latest results and future plans - Sam Henry (University of Oxford)

14:15 Searching for eV-scale neutrinos with muon storage rings - Christopher Tunnell

14:30 Searching for correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby large scale structure - foteini oikonomou (University College London)

14:45 A terrestrial search for dark contents of the vacuum and dark energy, using atom interferometry. - Oliver Burrow (University of Liverpool)

15:00 A Blueprint for Galaxy Formation through Dark Matter Mapping - Genetic Codes and Algorithms - Sotira Trifourki

15:15 Use of Gamma Rays to constrain expansion history of Universe - Malcolm Fairbairn

15:30 Underground Muon Detection - Sam Telfer (T)
Track 4
14:00 - 16:00
Room: FB 240
Contributions

14:00 Searches for CP violation in charm decays at LHCb - Hamish Gordon (University of Oxford (GB))

14:15 Measurement of Branching Fractions in the B2KShh Modes at LHCb - David Alasdair Dossett (University of Warwick (GB))

14:30 Results from Flavour Tagging using a neural network algorithm in LHCb Data - Matt Williams (University of Warwick (GB))

14:45 D mixing at LHCb - Thomas Rex Hampson (University of Bristol (GB))

15:00 The Time-Dependent CP Violation in Charm - Gianluca Inguglia (Queen Mary University of London)

15:15 Charm Production in DIS from Inclusive Secondary Vertices at HERA - Kenan Mujkic (U)

15:30 Unfolding of charged track multiplicities at LHCb - David Voong (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

15:45 Central Exclusive Production at LHCb - Paal Marius Bjoernstad (University of Manchester)
16:00 Break
Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Francis Bancroft 113/113a/115
16:30 Track 1
16:30 - 18:00
Room: G. O. Jones Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:30 Hybridized Pixel Sensors for High Luminousity LHC - Dean Charles Forshaw (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:45 The CMS Binary Chip - overview and results - William Ferguson (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

17:00 Characterization and Test Beam Analysis of 3D Silicon Sensors for the ATLAS Upgrade - Clara Nellist (University of Manchester (GB))

17:15 Digital Calorimetry at future linear colliders - Tony Price (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:30 Delta-Rays in ATLAS silicon - Thibaut Mueller (University of Cambridge)
Track 2
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Mason LT
Contributions

16:30 Study of the K+ -> e+ nu gamma (SD+) decay in the NA62 experiment at CERN - Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))

16:45 Kaon experiments at CERN - Evgueni Goudzovski (University of Birmingham)

17:00 Measurement of differential branching fraction and angular analysis of the rare decay B+-->Kmumu from LHCb data - Espen Eie Bowen (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

17:15 Analyses of $B^- \to \pi^- [\mu^+\mu^-]_{(\psi)}$ decays - Sophie Redford (University of Oxford)

17:30 Semileptonic charge asymmetry in the B^{0}_{d} system, a^{d}_{sl} - Anthony Ross (L)

17:45 Asl at LHCb using time integrated semileptonic B decays - Adam Dane Webber (School of Physics and Astronomy Schuster Laboratory)
Track 3
16:30 - 18:00
Room: David Sizer LT
Contributions

16:30 W mass measurement at ATLAS - Eleanor Lucy - USE THIS ONE Davies (University of Oxford (GB))

16:45 Forward transverse energy measurements with ATLAS - Peter Alexander Wijeratne (University College London (UK))

17:00 Using rapidity gaps to study soft diffractive interactions in the ATLAS detector. - Tim Martin (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:15 W -> mu nu selection at LHCb - Stephanie Clare Donleavy (University of Liverpool (GB))

17:30 Measurement of the Electron Charge Asymmetry in Inclusive W Production in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV - Martyn David Jarvis (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

17:45 A study of psi(2S) to J/psi Pi Pi in ATLAS - Lee John Allison (Lancaster University (GB))
Track 4
16:30 - 18:00
Room: FB240
Contributions

16:30 A "Grand" Delta(96) Flavour Symmetry and a Large Prediction for the Reactor Neutrino Mixing Angle - Alexander Stuart

16:45 Early measurements of muon flux at the MuSIC beamline - Sam Cook

17:00 Low-level radon detection in the SuperNEMO detector - James Mott (UCL)

17:15 Fitting External Data Sets and Extracting Model Parameters with Neutrino Interaction Monte Carlo - Ryan Terri (Queen Mary, Univeristy of London)
19:00 Dinner

19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
08:30 Plenary Session
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

08:30 Dark Matter Experiments - Jocelyn Monroe (MIT)

09:00 The Fermi Large Area gamma ray Telescope and the current searches for dark matter in space - Aldo Morselli (INFN)

09:30 BSM Particle and AstroParticle Theory - Stephen West (Royal Holloway, University of London)

10:00 Nuclear Astrophysics - Christian Diget (Institute of Physics and Astronomy)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 113/113a/115
11:00 Plenary Session
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 Latest Results from the Tevatron - Christian Schwanenberger (University of Manchester (GB))

11:30 LHCb and B Factories - Nicholas BROOK (BRISTOL)

12:00 Intensity Frontier Experiments - Mark Lancaster (UCL) Mark Lancaster (University College London (UK))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 113/113a/115

13:00 APP Group AGM

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Mason LT
14:00 Track 1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: G. O. Jones LT
Contributions

14:00 CP Violation on Bs mixing: measuring phis - Robert Andrew Currie (University of Edinburgh (GB))

14:15 Observation of CP violation in B\pm -> D K\pm decays - Paolo Gandini (Particle Physics)

14:30 Measurement of the CP violating phase gamma using B->D0(->Kshh)h decays at LHCb - Daniel Johnson (University of Oxford)

14:45 The angular analysis of Bd->K*mumu at LHCb - Alexander Shires (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

15:00 Rare Beauty and Charm decays at LHCb - Christopher John Parkinson (High Energy Phys.Group)

15:45 Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology - Sophie Redford (University of Oxford)
Track 2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Mason LT
Contributions

14:00 Search for SuperSymmetry with Heavy Flavour Jets at ATLAS - Alan Tua (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

14:15 SUSY with Higher Luminosity - Sara Mahmoud (University of Liverpool)

14:30 Searching for SUSY with the AlphaT kinematic varible at CMS - Bryn Mathias (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)

14:45 Searches for stop pair production at ATLAS - Josh Mcfayden (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

15:00 Searching for SUSY with taus at ATLAS - Anthony Kevin Rose (University of Sussex)

15:15 Search for New Phenomena in Events with High Jet Multiplicity and MET - Christopher Young (Particle Physics)

15:30 Jet studies and Parton Distribution Functions - Benjamin Watt (U)
Track 3
14:00 - 16:00
Room: David Sizer LT
Contributions

14:00 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the two photon decay mode - Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)

14:15 Optimisation of VBF tagging for Higgs ->gamgam - Robert Cantrill (University of London (GB))

14:30 b-bbar dijet measurement at the ATLAS Detector - Stephen Paul Bieniek (University College London)

14:45 Boosted H->bb analysis - Brendan Joseph O'Brien (University of Edinburgh (GB))

15:00 Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H->ZZ->llnunu channel with the ATLAS detector - Joseph David Price (Department of Physics)

15:15 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the four lepton channel at ATLAS - Nick Edwards (University of Glasgow (GB))

15:30 Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the tau tau mu+X final state at DZero - Louise Suter (University of Manchester)

15:45 Lepton Jets at CMS - Benjamin Radburn-Smith (RAL (GB))
Track 4

14:00 - 16:00
Room: FB 240

16:00 Break
Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 113/113a/115
16:30 Plenary Session
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Mason Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:30 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Simon Peeters (University of Sussex)

17:00 Flavour and Neutrino Theory - Christoph Luhn (Durham University)