2012 Michigan REU Student Program - First Meeting

Thursday 28 Jun 2012, 15:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

3162/1-K01 (CERN)

Steven Goldfarb (CERN)

First presentations by the REU Summer Students

Slides first_talk_cern.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Opening Remarks

Speaker: Homer Neal (University of Michigan (US))

15:20 → 15:25 Monte Carlo Simulations of Proton-Proton Collisions

A brief overview of the necessity of the CMS experiment, and the data analysis techniques that are necessary to correctly interpret the results.

Speaker: Alexandru Bacanu (CERN)

Slides Presentation1.pdf Presentation1.pptx

15:25 → 15:30 ISF Simulation project

Speaker: Ryan Badman (Syracuse University)

Slides Pictures_of_Polar_Bears.pdf

15:30 → 15:35 Measuring the Top Mass in the Semileptonic Channel

Speaker: Benjamin Burdick

Slides Presentation1.pdf Presentation1.pptx

15:35 → 15:40 Multi-turn Extraction: Splitting the PS Beam in Phase Space

Speaker: Christopher Frye

Slides REUtalk1.pdf

15:40 → 15:45 Searching for and Characterizing the Quark-Gluon Plasma in ALICE

Speaker: John Groh

Slides Presentation1.pdf

15:45 → 15:50 Event Reconstruction in the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter

Speaker: Stephanie Hamilton

Slides First_Presentation_28_June_2012.pdf

15:50 → 15:55 Top Reconstruction Techniques in 0-Lepton Direct Stop Searches

A brief overview of my project dealing with top quark reconstructions from hadronic (3 jet) decays. I will also discuss the importance of this reconstruction algorithm to my working group, SUSY, and the general public.

Speaker: Anthony Kremin

Slides CERN_REU_Initial_Presentation.pdf CERN_REU_Initial_Presentation.pptx

15:55 → 16:00 Analysis Flow at the LHC

An introduction into the work that I will be doing this summer at CERN explained in parallel with basic steps of carrying out an analysis.

Speaker: Kristina Krylova

Slides Analysis_Flow_at_the_LHC.pdf Analysis_Flow_at_the_LHC.pptx

16:00 → 16:05 Razor Analysis of R-Parity Conserving SUSY Decays

Speaker: Ksheerasagar Vijay

Slides Summer_Presentation_1.pdf Summer_Presentation_1.pptx

16:05 → 16:10 ALICE Physics Selection Quality Assurance

The ALICE experiment uses a low level offline physics selection to check that all events passed by the triggers for saving are operating correctly. The code used for quality assurance has been in constant evolution and needs serious restructuring.

Speaker: Kevin McDermott

Slides mcdermott_2012reu_1st_presentation.pdf mcdermott_2012reu_1st_presentation.pptx

16:10 → 16:15 Reconstruction of the Single Top

Brief introduction to the motivations behind the CMS experiment, and more specifically, looking at the single top quark, produced primarily through electroweak interactions in the t-channel decay at the energies obtained within the LHC detector.

Speaker: Kelvin Mei

Slides Reconstruction_of_the_Single_Top.pptx

Slides (PDF Format) Reconstruction_of_the_Single_Top.pdf

16:15 → 16:20 Studies of Same Sign WW Vector Boson Scattering at the ATLAS Experiment

The SM theory is based on gauge symmetries and it predicts that all particles to be massless without EWSB. We need to figure out the source for the EWSB mechanism studying the backgrounds in these case the W+W+ one.

Speaker: Ms Diana Paola Perea Palacios

Slides Proving_the_Electroweak_Symmetry_Breaking_first_presentation_(2).pdf Proving_the_Electroweak_Symmetry_Breaking_first_presentation_(2).pptx

16:20 → 16:25 Scintillating Fiber Detector for AEgIS Antihydrogen Trap

A discussion of the steps in the construction of an annihilation detector, using scintillating fiber, for the AEgIS experiment.

Speaker: Joseph Redford

Slides Joseph_Redford_pres28-6-12.pdf

16:25 → 16:30 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the H→WW(∗)→lnulnu decay mode for the ATLAS Experiment

Speaker: Victor Rodriguez

Slides Victor_presentation_1_CERNREU.pdf

16:30 → 16:35 A Study of Lambda - Lambda Bar Correlations

Speaker: Cheryl Theroux

Slides first_talk_cern.pdf