2012 Michigan REU Student Program - Final Presentations

Thursday Aug 9, 2012, 2:00 PM → 10:10 PM Europe/Zurich

40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie (CERN)

Steven Goldfarb (CERN)

Presentations by the REU Summer Students

Paper Reminder PaperReminder.rtf

Slides CMS Cavern (Kevin McDermott) ALICE HLT (Kevin McDermott)

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM Opening Remarks

Speakers: Homer Neal (University of Michigan (US)), Jean Krisch (University of Michigan), Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US)), Steven Goldfarb (University of Michigan (US))

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2:20 PM → 2:30 PM Efficiency of Jet Algorithms

The efficiency of jet algorithms is studied especially in relation to pile-up.

Speaker: Alexandru Bacanu (CERN)

Slides Final_Presentation.pdf Final_Presentation.pptx

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2:30 PM → 2:40 PM Search for Dark Matter Direct Production with the CMS Razor

Speaker: Ksheerasagar Vijay (CERN)

Slides Final_REU_Presentation.pdf

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2:40 PM → 2:50 PM Hadronic Interaction Studies for ATLAS Inner Detector for ISF

Final results for child particle studies and first steps in parametrizing SCT and inner pixel layers for the Integrated Simulation Framework (ISF)

Speaker: Ryan Badman (Syracuse University)

Slides CERN_finaltalk.pdf

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2:50 PM → 3:00 PM Studies on Muon Reconstruction efficiency at ATLAS using 2012 8TeV data

Speaker: Feng Bi (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))

Slides Muon_Reconstruction_Efficiency_Studies_using_2012_Data.pdf Muon_Reconstruction_Efficiency_Studies_using_2012_Data.pptx

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3:00 PM → 3:10 PM Unbiased reconstruction of #Lambda_{c} baryons in LHCb

Whether the decay chain of the Λc (2595) * can provide a tag that is precise enough and has a low enough background to count the total number of Λc + baryons in the data sample

Speaker: Yi Bao (CERN)

Slides REU_Final_YiBao.pdf REU_Final_YiBao.pptx

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3:10 PM → 3:20 PM Top Quark Mass at 8 TeV using kinematic fit

Speaker: Benjamin Henry Malkin Burdick (CERN)

Slides Burdick_UM_final_pres.pdf Burdick_UM_final_pres.pptx

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3:20 PM → 3:30 PM Multi-turn Extraction: Splitting the PS Beam in Transverse Phase Space

Speaker: Christopher Frye

Slides 3rd_REU_Talk.pdf

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3:30 PM → 3:40 PM Measurement of the Transverse Momentum Spectra of Identified Hadrons in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV in the ALICE Detecor

Speaker: John Groh (CERN)

Slides Presentation3.pdf

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3:40 PM → 3:50 PM ATLAS - Examination of Corrupted Data in the Tile Calorimeter

A brief presentation on my examination of corrupted data from TileCal.

Speaker: Stephanie June Hamilton (University of Michigan (US))

Slides Third_Presentation_9_August_2012.pdf Third_Presentation_9_August_2012.pptx

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3:50 PM → 4:00 PM Top Reconstruction Techniques in 0-Lepton Direct Stop Searches

Final presentation of my summer research into new and improved methods for identifying top quarks in 6+ jet events with missing transverse energy. Specifically, I will discuss methods I have developed to reconstruct tops, and my future plans for my project in the future.

Speaker: Anthony James Kremin (University of Michigan (US))

Slides University_of_Michigan_REU_Final_Presentation_(Anthony_Kremin).pdf University_of_Michigan_REU_Final_Presentation_(Anthony_Kremin).pptx

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4:00 PM → 4:10 PM Monte Carlo Comparisons in W-gamma-gamma Channel

Speaker: Kristina Krylova (CERN)

Slides final_talk.pdf

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4:10 PM → 4:20 PM Vector Boson Scattering At High Mass

Speaker: Hanzhe Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))

Slides vector_boson_scattering_at_high_mass.pdf vector_boson_scattering_at_high_mass.pptx

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4:20 PM → 4:30 PM ALICE Trigger and Event Selection QA

I will present the last nine weeks of work on building a class that efficiently produces trending physics selection of various trigger classes for the purposes of quality assurance. This class is easily generalizable and will be used for live monitoring via a webpage.

Speaker: Kevin Mcdermott (CERN)

Slides mcdermott_2012REU_final_presentation.pdf mcdermott_2012REU_final_presentation.pptx

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4:30 PM → 4:40 PM Resolving the Neutrino Ambiguity

A condensed talk about the neutrino ambiguity and the methods applied, both traditional and regression based, to solving it in single top quark reconstruction.

Speaker: Kelvin Mei (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

Slides Reconstruction_of_the_Single_Top_v3.pdf Reconstruction_of_the_Single_Top_v3.pptx

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4:40 PM → 4:50 PM The Development of the Scintillating Fiber Detector in AEgIS

A brief description of my work on AEgIS and their scintillating fiber detector.

Speaker: Joseph Redford

Slides Joseph_Redford_pres09-8-12.pdf

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4:50 PM → 5:00 PM Search for the Higgs boson in the ATLAS Experiment: Optimization of the H-WW 0-jet cuts for 2011 and 2012 data

Speaker: Victor Alonso Rodriguez (University of Michigan (US))

Slides Victor_presentation_Final_CERNREU.pdf Victor_presentation_Final_CERNREU.pptx

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5:00 PM → 5:10 PM Lambda Lambdabar Spin Correlations & Higgs Spin, CP Measurement

Speaker: Cheryl Audrey Theroux (University of Michigan (US))

Slides final_talk_cern.pdf

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5:10 PM → 5:20 PM Summer Study on Jet Physics and Beyond!

I will sum up my project about inclusive jet and dijet cross section from sqrt(s)=7 TeV pp collision, and also present other important things I learned at CERN.

Speaker: Yu-Dai Tsai (CERN)

Slides REU_presentation.pdf REU_presentation.pptx

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5:20 PM → 5:30 PM Add Title

Speaker: Shaofeng Xu

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Portrait at BEBC

6:25 PM → 6:55 PM Bus to Restaurant

6:55 PM → 9:55 PM Dinner