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2012 Michigan REU Student Program - Final Presentations
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40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie (CERN)
Steven Goldfarb
(CERN)
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Presentations by the REU Summer Students
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Opening Remarks 20m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeakers: 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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Efficiency of Jet Algorithms 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieThe efficiency of jet algorithms is studied especially in relation to pile-up.Speaker: Alexandru Bacanu (CERN)
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Search for Dark Matter Direct Production with the CMS Razor 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Ksheerasagar Vijay (CERN)
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Hadronic Interaction Studies for ATLAS Inner Detector for ISF 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieFinal 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)
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Studies on Muon Reconstruction efficiency at ATLAS using 2012 8TeV data 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Feng Bi (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
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Unbiased reconstruction of #Lambda_{c} baryons in LHCb 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieWhether 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 sampleSpeaker: Yi Bao (CERN)
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Top Quark Mass at 8 TeV using kinematic fit 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Benjamin Henry Malkin Burdick (CERN)
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Multi-turn Extraction: Splitting the PS Beam in Transverse Phase Space 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Christopher Frye
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Measurement of the Transverse Momentum Spectra of Identified Hadrons in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV in the ALICE Detecor 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: John Groh (CERN)
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ATLAS - Examination of Corrupted Data in the Tile Calorimeter 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieA brief presentation on my examination of corrupted data from TileCal.Speaker: Stephanie June Hamilton (University of Michigan (US))
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Top Reconstruction Techniques in 0-Lepton Direct Stop Searches 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieFinal 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))
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Monte Carlo Comparisons in W-gamma-gamma Channel 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Kristina Krylova (CERN)
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Vector Boson Scattering At High Mass 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Hanzhe Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
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ALICE Trigger and Event Selection QA 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieI 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)
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Resolving the Neutrino Ambiguity 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieA 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))
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The Development of the Scintillating Fiber Detector in AEgIS 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieA brief description of my work on AEgIS and their scintillating fiber detector.Speaker: Joseph Redford
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Search for the Higgs boson in the ATLAS Experiment: Optimization of the H-WW 0-jet cuts for 2011 and 2012 data 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Victor Alonso Rodriguez (University of Michigan (US))
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Lambda Lambdabar Spin Correlations & Higgs Spin, CP Measurement 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Cheryl Audrey Theroux (University of Michigan (US))
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Summer Study on Jet Physics and Beyond! 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieI 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)
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Add Title 10m 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-CurieSpeaker: Shaofeng Xu
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Portrait at BEBC 30m Detector Garden
Detector Garden
CERN
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Bus to Restaurant 30m Building 40 Parking Lot
Building 40 Parking Lot
CERN
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Dinner 3h Restaurant Creux de Genthod
Restaurant Creux de Genthod
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