IoP Joint HEPP and APP Meeting 2012

2 Apr 2012, 12:00 → 4 Apr 2012, 18:00 Europe/London

Queen Mary, University of London

Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary University of London), Ben Still (Queen Mary, University of London), Cozmin Timis (University of London (GB)), Marcella Bona (Queen Mary, University of London), Richard Alexander Owen (Queen Mary (QM)-University of London), Roberto Sacco (Queen Mary University of London)

This joint meeting of the Institute of Physics High Energy Particle Physics and Astro Particle Physics groups. The meeting will take place on the Mile End campus of Queen Mary, University of London and will start on Monday 2nd April. Registration will be in the Francis Bancroft building from 12:00 noon. This will be followed by an STFC town meeting from 13:00 until 15:30, and the conference itself will commence following coffee at 16:00. As 2012 is the centenary year of the discovery of cosmic rays, and we will have a talk dedicated to a historical review of this important era of early particle physics development.

 

Please note that registration is now closed.

Monday, 2 April

12:00 → 13:00 Registration

Conference Registration

13:00 → 15:30 STFC Town Meeting

13:00 Chief Executive Address

Speaker: John William Womersley (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides PP-NP_Town_Meetings_April_2012.pdf PP-NP_Town_Meetings_April_2012.pptx

13:30 Science Board

Speaker: Dr Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)

Slides SB_HEP_NP_Town_Mtg_2012.pdf SB_HEP_NP_Town_Mtg_2012.pptx

14:00 PPAP

Speaker: Prof. Philip Burrows (University of Oxford)

Slides PPAP_IoPHEPP_April12.pdf PPAP_IoPHEPP_April12.ppt

14:30 European Strategy for Particle Physics

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

Slides esg-town-meeting.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Break

Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary Session

Plenary Session

Convener: Francesca Di Lodovico (University of London (GB))

16:00 Welcome

Speaker: Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary University of London)

Slides Welcome.pdf Welcome.pptx

16:10 Latest results from neutrino experiments

Speaker: Prof. Jenny Thomas (UCL)

Slides jenny-IoP-2012.pptx

16:40 The INFN perspective on HEP and APP

Speaker: Fernando Ferroni (Dipartim.di Fisica G.Marconi RomeI)

Slides London-QMUL.pdf

17:25 Communicating Our Science

A video recording of the talk by Dr Still can be found via the following links: http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/689a2dee-8b46-4b0d-a15a-d27493e89e25 (Requires Flash) http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/689a2dee-8b46-4b0d-a15a-d27493e89e25/media.m4v

Speaker: Benjamin Still

Slides Talk.pdf

17:40 Early Cosmic Rays

A recording of this presentation can be found at the following link. http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/9af0fd0b-6469-40c3-ba78-dc4ee5a345f1 (Flash Player Required) http://ess.q-review.qmul.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/9af0fd0b-6469-40c3-ba78-dc4ee5a345f1/media.m4v

Speaker: Prof. Don Perkins (University of Oxford)

Slides Early_Days_of_Cosmic_Rays.pdf Early_Days_of_Cosmic_Rays.ppt

18:00 → 20:30 Reception

Reception in the SCR Lounge. The SCR Lounge is on the 1st floor of the Queens Building, see building 35 on the campus map: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py/getPic?picId=4&confId=175304

slides SCR-Reception-Location.pdf

Tuesday, 3 April

08:30 → 10:30 Plenary Session

Plenary Session

Convener: Steve Lloyd (University of London (GB))

08:30 Standard Model Results from CMS & ATLAS

Speaker: Jonathan Hays (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides haysjm_SMatLHC.pdf

09:00 Beyond the Standard Model results from CMS & ATLAS

Speaker: Christopher Gorham Lester (University of Cambridge (GB))

Slides IOP-lester-v2.pdf

09:30 Collider Phenomenology

Speaker: Dr Peter Richardson (Durham University)

Slides IOP-QMUL.pptx

10:00 Accelerators for the Intensity and Energy Frontier

Speaker: Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)

Slides Accelerators_for_the_Energy_and_Intensity_Frontier.odp Accelerators_for_the_Energy_and_Intensity_Frontier.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Session

Plenary Session

Convener: Malcolm Fairbairn

11:00 CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array)

Speaker: Prof. Timothy John Greenshaw (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides IoPlondonCTAproject.pdf

11:30 Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Dr Daw Edward (University of Sheffield)

Slides gwtalk.pdf

12:00 Hadronic Interactions Beyond the LHC

Speaker: Dr Johannes Knapp (University of Leeds)

Slides 2012_IOP_QMUL.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 HEPP Group AGM

Convener: Mark Lancaster (UCL)

14:00 → 16:00 Track 1

This track will run in the G. O. Jones (Physics) Building, a short walk from the Francis Bancroft Building where the rest of the meeting takes place

Convener: Giuseppe Salamanna (Queen Mary)

14:00 Top quark charge asymmetry in dilepton final states

Speaker: Tim Head (The University of Manchester)

Slides head-top-dilep-afb.pdf

14:15 ttbar cross section measurement in mu+jets channel with CMS

Speaker: Philip Hugh Symonds (Brunel University (GB))

Slides PhilSymondsIOP.pdf

14:30 Spin Correlations in ttbar events at ATLAS

Speaker: James William Howarth (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides IOP_2012_JHowarth_Spin.pdf

14:45 A Search for Resonances in Semileptonic Top Pair Production

Speaker: Mr Lukasz Kreczko (University of Bristol (GB))

Slides L.Kreczko_IOP_Talk_2012.pdf

15:00 ttbar Spin Correlations at ATLAS

Speaker: Thomas Mclaughlan (University of Birmingham (GB))

Slides McLaughlan-IOPMeeting-April-2012.pdf

15:15 Search for single top tW associated production in the dilepton decay channel at CMS

Speaker: William Patrick Martin (Brunel University (GB))

Slides IOPtalkv6.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Track 2

Parallel Track 1: This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Ryan Terri (Queen Mary, Univeristy of London)

14:00 Neutral Current Pi0 Interactions in the T2K Near Detector

Speaker: Samantha Short (Imperial College London)

Slides SamShort_20120403_IOPTalk_NCpi0.pdf

14:15 Working towards a measurement of the neutrino interaction cross section on lead at the T2K ND280 detector

Speaker: Mark Scott (Imperial College, London)

Slides MScott_030412_IoP2012.pdf

14:30 Neutrino Cross-Section Measurements at T2K

Speaker: Daniel Scully (U)

Slides DanielScully_XSecAtT2k.pdf

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

Speaker: Steven Bentham

Slides StevenBenthamIOP2012v3.pdf

15:00 Pi0 cross section measurement at T2K

Speaker: Elzbieta Poplawska (QMUL)

Slides ElaIOP_03_04_12.pdf

15:15 3-flavour neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Nick Grant

Slides Grant_IOP_2012.pdf

15:30 Pileup background rejection for SNO+

Speaker: Phil Jones (SNO+)

Slides IoP-SNO+.pdf

15:45 Calibration of the SNO+ detector

Speaker: Matthew Mottram (University of Sussex)

Slides mottram_iop.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Track 3

This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Melissa George (Q)

14:00 The EDELWEISS dark matter search: latest results and future plans

Speaker: Sam Henry (University of Oxford)

Slides EDELWEISS_APP-HEPP2012_SH.pdf

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

Speaker: Christopher Tunnell

Slides iop.pdf

14:30 Searching for correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby large scale structure

Speaker: foteini oikonomou (University College London)

Slides IoP_2012_oikonomou.pdf

14:45 A terrestrial search for dark contents of the vacuum and dark energy, using atom interferometry.

Speaker: Oliver Burrow (University of Liverpool)

Slides V1.pdf

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

Speaker: Sotira Trifourki

15:15 Use of Gamma Rays to constrain expansion history of Universe

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn

Slides fairbairn_iopqmul2012.pdf

15:30 Underground Muon Detection

Speaker: Sam Telfer (T)

14:00 → 16:00 Track 4

This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Evgueni Goudzovski (University of Birmingham)

14:00 Searches for CP violation in charm decays at LHCb

Speaker: Hamish Gordon (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides IoP_gordon.pdf

14:15 Measurement of Branching Fractions in the B2KShh Modes at LHCb

Speaker: David Alasdair Dossett (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides IOP-B2KShh-20120402-final.pdf

14:30 Results from Flavour Tagging using a neural network algorithm in LHCb Data

Speaker: Matt Williams (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides williams-tagging.pdf

14:45 D mixing at LHCb

Speaker: Thomas Rex Hampson (University of Bristol (GB))

Slides slides-2012-04-03tom.pdf

15:00 The Time-Dependent CP Violation in Charm

Speaker: Gianluca Inguglia (Queen Mary University of London)

Slides TDCPV_IOP.pdf

15:15 Charm Production in DIS from Inclusive Secondary Vertices at HERA

Speaker: Kenan Mujkic (U)

Slides IOPConference.pdf IOPConference.pdf

15:30 Unfolding of charged track multiplicities at LHCb

Speaker: David Voong (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

Slides charged_particle_multiplicity_unfolding.pdf

15:45 Central Exclusive Production at LHCb

Speaker: Paal Marius Bjoernstad (University of Manchester)

Slides cep.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:00 Track 1

This track will run in the G. O. Jones (Physics) Building, a short walk from the Francis Bancroft Building where the rest of the meeting takes place

Convener: Leo Jenner (Imperial, UK)

16:30 Hybridized Pixel Sensors for High Luminousity LHC

Speaker: Dean Charles Forshaw (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:45 The CMS Binary Chip - overview and results

Speaker: William Ferguson (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides CMS_Binary_Chip.pdf

17:00 Characterization and Test Beam Analysis of 3D Silicon Sensors for the ATLAS Upgrade

Speaker: Clara Nellist (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides 2012-04-02_IOP-CNellist.pdf

17:15 Digital Calorimetry at future linear colliders

Speaker: Tony Price (University of Birmingham (GB))

Slides main.pdf

17:30 Delta-Rays in ATLAS silicon

Speaker: Thibaut Mueller (University of Cambridge)

Slides Thibaut_Mueller_IoP_talk.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Track 2

Parallel Track 1: This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Roberto Sacco (Queen Mary University of London)

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

Speaker: Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))

Slides Romano_IoP2012.pdf

16:45 Kaon experiments at CERN

Speaker: Evgueni Goudzovski (University of Birmingham)

Slides goudzovski-030412.pdf

17:00 Measurement of differential branching fraction and angular analysis of the rare decay B+-->Kmumu from LHCb data

Speaker: Espen Eie Bowen (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides EspenBowen_Kmumu.pdf

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

Speaker: Sophie Redford (University of Oxford)

Slides Sophie - PiMuMu Final States

17:30 Semileptonic charge asymmetry in the B^{0}_{d} system, a^{d}_{sl}

Speaker: Anthony Ross (L)

Slides Semileptonic charge asymmetry search in B0d system at D0, Fermilab.

17:45 Asl at LHCb using time integrated semileptonic B decays

Speaker: Adam Dane Webber (School of Physics and Astronomy Schuster Laboratory)

Slides awebber_IOP_2012.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Track 3

This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Joseph Neil Lilley (University of London (GB))

16:30 W mass measurement at ATLAS

Speaker: Eleanor Lucy - USE THIS ONE Davies (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides IOPTalk.pdf

16:45 Forward transverse energy measurements with ATLAS

Speaker: Peter Alexander Wijeratne (University College London (UK))

Slides IOP2012_parallel_etdensity_PAW_v1.pdf

17:00 Using rapidity gaps to study soft diffractive interactions in the ATLAS detector.

Speaker: Mr Tim Martin (University of Birmingham (GB))

Slides TimM_Bham_ForwardGaps_IOP_2April12.pdf

17:15 W -> mu nu selection at LHCb

Speaker: Stephanie Clare Donleavy (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides IOPTALK.pdf

17:30 Measurement of the Electron Charge Asymmetry in Inclusive W Production in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

Speaker: Martyn David Jarvis (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides iop_mjarvis_03Apr.pdf

17:45 A study of psi(2S) to J/psi Pi Pi in ATLAS

Speaker: Lee John Allison (Lancaster University (GB))

Slides IOP2012_LeeAllison.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Track 4

This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Benjamin Still

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

Speaker: Alexander Stuart

Slides london.pdf

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

Speaker: Sam Cook

Slides Slides for "Early measurements of muon flux at the MuSIC beamline"

17:00 Low-level radon detection in the SuperNEMO detector

Speaker: James Mott (UCL)

Slides IoP_James_Mott.pdf

17:15 Fitting External Data Sets and Extracting Model Parameters with Neutrino Interaction Monte Carlo

Speaker: Ryan Terri (Queen Mary, Univeristy of London)

Slides terri_IoP_2012.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

The conference dinner will be held in the Ecology Pavilion in Mile End Park. This is indicated on the local area map given in the local information handout. The pavilion is next to the Palm Tree public house, and overlooks Regent's canal.

slides EcologyPav.pdf

Wednesday, 4 April

08:30 → 10:30 Plenary Session

Plenary Session

Convener: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

08:30 Dark Matter Experiments

Speaker: Jocelyn Monroe (MIT)

09:00 The Fermi Large Area gamma ray Telescope and the current searches for dark matter in space

Speaker: Aldo Morselli (INFN)

Slides Morselli_London3r.pdf

09:30 BSM Particle and AstroParticle Theory

Speaker: Stephen West (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Slides iop_westBSM.pdf

10:00 Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Christian Diget (Institute of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides Diget-HEPP-APP.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Session

Plenary Session

Convener: Akram Khan (Detector Development Group)

11:00 Latest Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Christian Schwanenberger (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides Tevatron_Schwanen.pdf

11:30 LHCb and B Factories

Speaker: Nicholas BROOK (BRISTOL)

Slides IoP-2012.pdf

12:00 Intensity Frontier Experiments

Speakers: Mark Lancaster (UCL), Mark Lancaster (University College London (UK))

Slides MarkLancaster_IntensityFrontier_IoPQMUL2012.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 APP Group AGM

14:00 → 16:00 Track 1

This track will run in the G. O. Jones (Physics) Building, a short walk from the Francis Bancroft Building where the rest of the meeting takes place

Convener: Susan Carol Haines (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:00 CP Violation on Bs mixing: measuring phis

Speaker: Robert Andrew Currie (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides Talk.pdf

14:15 Observation of CP violation in B\pm -> D K\pm decays

Speaker: Paolo Gandini (Particle Physics)

Slides gandini_IOP.pdf

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

Speaker: Daniel Johnson (University of Oxford)

Slides 12-04Apr-04_IOPConference_DJohnson.pdf

14:45 The angular analysis of Bd->K*mumu at LHCb

Speaker: Alexander Shires (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides AlexShiresIOPApril.pdf

15:00 Rare Beauty and Charm decays at LHCb

Speaker: Christopher John Parkinson (High Energy Phys.Group)

Slides cparkins_iop.pdf

15:45 Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Speaker: Sophie Redford (University of Oxford)

Slides Sophie - POST

14:00 → 16:00 Track 2

Parallel Track 1: This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Stephen John Maxfield (Department of Physics)

14:00 Search for SuperSymmetry with Heavy Flavour Jets at ATLAS

Speaker: Alan Tua (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides SUSYWithHeavyFlavourATLAS_tua.pdf

14:15 SUSY with Higher Luminosity

Speaker: Sara Mahmoud (University of Liverpool)

Slides SaraMahmoud_IOP0204.pdf

14:30 Searching for SUSY with the AlphaT kinematic varible at CMS

Speaker: Mr Bryn Mathias (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)

Slides IOP_talk__brynMathias.pdf

14:45 Searches for stop pair production at ATLAS

Speaker: Josh Mcfayden (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides 2012-04-02_IoP_stop_mcfayden.pdf

15:00 Searching for SUSY with taus at ATLAS

Speaker: Anthony Kevin Rose (University of Sussex)

Slides IoP_SUSY_tau.pdf

15:15 Search for New Phenomena in Events with High Jet Multiplicity and MET

Speaker: Christopher Young (Particle Physics)

Slides Presentation.pdf

15:30 Jet studies and Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Benjamin Watt (U)

Slides Watt_IOP.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Track 3

This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

Convener: Ilektra Christidi (University College London (UK))

14:00 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the two photon decay mode

Speaker: Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med.)

Slides nw_hgg_ioptalk.pdf

14:15 Optimisation of VBF tagging for Higgs ->gamgam

Speaker: Robert Cantrill (University of London (GB))

Slides IopTalk.pdf

14:30 b-bbar dijet measurement at the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Stephen Paul Bieniek (University College London)

Slides BjetXSec_IOP.pdf

14:45 Boosted H->bb analysis

Speaker: Mr Brendan Joseph O'Brien (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides BrendanOBrien_BoostedHTobbIOP2012.pdf

15:00 Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H->ZZ->llnunu channel with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Joseph David Price (Department of Physics)

Slides IOP_2012_JoePrice_April.pdf

15:15 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the four lepton channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Nick Edwards (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides IOP_April2012_ZZ4l_nedwards.pdf

15:30 Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the tau tau mu+X final state at DZero

Speaker: Louise Suter (University of Manchester)

Slides iop_lsuter.pdf

15:45 Lepton Jets at CMS

Speaker: Benjamin Radburn-Smith (RAL (GB))

Slides LeptonJetsIoP-BRS040412.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Track 4

This session will be in the Francis Bancroft Building, where most of the conference takes place

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:30 Plenary Session

Plenary Session

Convener: Dr Jordan Nash (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

16:30 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Speaker: Dr Simon Peeters (University of Sussex)

Slides sjmp_0vbb.pdf

17:00 Flavour and Neutrino Theory

Speaker: Dr Christoph Luhn (Durham University)

Slides iop-Luhn.pdf