Name: IOP 2013 - HEPP & APP Group Meeting
Start: 2013-04-08T10:15:00+01:00
End: 2013-04-10T19:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Liverpool

IOP 2013 - HEPP & APP Group Meeting

from Monday, 8 April 2013 (10:15) to Wednesday, 10 April 2013 (19:00)
University of Liverpool (Central Teaching Hub)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

8 Apr 2013

9 Apr 2013

10 Apr 2013

10:15

Registration (until 12:30) (Central Teaching Hub)

08:45	Track 1 - Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh (GB)) (until 10:00) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Working Towards a Boosted Z to bb Measurement with the ATLAS Detector - Luke Lambourne (University College London (UK)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	Ratio Measurement of W/Z + Jets at ATLAS - Gregory James Fletcher (University of London (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	Constraining QCD modelling uncertainties in ttbar events at ATLAS - Kiran Daniel Joshi (University of Manchester (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	Search for the standard-model Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons with the CMS detector - Andrew Gilbert (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	Rare Charm Decays at LHCb - Edward Thomas Greening (University of Oxford) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:45	Search for $B^0_{(s)} \to J/\psi K_S^0 h^+ h^{(\prime)-}$ - Matthew Michael Reid (University of Warwick) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:45	Track 2 - Tracey Berry (University of London (GB)) (until 10:00) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Boosted Hadronically Decaying W/Z bosons in ATLAS - Rebecca Chislett (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders - Rhorry Gauld (University of Oxford) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	Measurement of MET, HT and other global distributions in top pair events - Sergey Senkin (University of Bristol (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	Higgs to bbar at ATLAS, and the estimation of theoretical systematic uncertianties - Ben Harry Smart (University of Edinburgh (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	Measuring charm mixing parameters using a model-independent technique in D0->KShh - Tomas Pilar (University of Warwick (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:45	Measurement of CP observables in B0 -> D K*0 - Edmund Smith (University of Oxford (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:45	Track 3 -Dr Jan Kretzschmar (University of Liverpool (GB)) (until 10:00) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	The forward backward asymmetry of the decay qq(bar)->Z/γ*->mu+mu- at LHCb - Myfanwy Liles (University of Liverpool (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	Measurement of the Low Mass Drell-Yan Process at ATLAS - Jack Robert Goddard (University of London (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	The search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using the 4 lepton final state and data taken by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider - Karoline Elfriede Selbach (University of Edinburgh (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	Study on the production of a vector boson decaying to leptons in association with a Z or a Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair with the ATLAS experiment - Ms Chiara Debenedetti (The University of Edinburgh) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	Model dependent measurement of charm mixing and CPV parameters in prompt D0->KShh decays at LHCb - Nick Torr (University of Oxford (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:45	The Kaon Identification Detector for the NA62 Experiment at CERN - Karim Massri (University of Birmingham (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:45	Track 4 - Benjamin Still (Queen Mary, University of London) (until 10:00) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Status of the MICE Experiment - Dr Melissa George (Imperial College) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	Updated results and measurements of the coupling properties of the new Higgs-like particle in the four lepton decay channel with the ATLAS detector - Richard David Mudd (University of Birmingham (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	Signal selection efficiency and mass resolution in the H->ZZ*->4l decay channel with the ATLAS detector - Andrew Daniells (University of Birmingham (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	The measurement of R_k (BF(B^+->K^+\mu^+\mu^-)/BF(B^+->K^+e^+e^-)) using data collected by LHCb in 2011/2012 to probe physics beyond the Standard Model - Nicola Anne Skidmore (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	Measurement of the isospin asymmetry in B->K(*)MuMu decays - Patrick Haworth Owen (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:45	First measurement of the CP-violating phase in hadronic Bs -> phi phi decays - Sean Benson (University of Edinburgh (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
10:00	--- Tea/Coffee ---
10:30	Plenary - Theory and Future - Brian Foster (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:30) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub)
10:30	Precision Physics with leptons: g-2, LFV and EDMs - Thomas Teubner (University of Liverpool) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides iop2013_tteubner.pdf iop2013_tteubner.pptx iop2013_tteubner.pptx
11:00	Status of Cosmology and Implications for PP - Prof. Edmund Copeland (University of Nottingham) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
11:30	Where we go from here? - Ben Gripaios (University of Cambridge (GB)) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
12:00	Future Facilities: The European Strategy - Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH)) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides

08:45	Track 1 - Richard White (University of Leicester) (until 09:45) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Future prospects for measuring the extragalactic background light and probing for axion signatures - Mr Jonathan Harris (Durham University) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	Measuring the photon yield in the RICH subdetectors at LHCb - Indrek Sepp (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	Development of a Reliable Target Mechanism for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment - Edward Overton (The University of Sheffield) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	SCT ATLAS Upgrade - Samer Al-Kilani (University of London (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	R&D efforts for the next generation of very large scale Liquid Argon detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter. - Roxanne Guenette (Yale University) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:45	Track 2 -Dr Jonas Rademacker (University of Bristol (GB)) (until 09:45) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Liquid Scintillator Time Projection Chamber - Ms Nicola McConkey (University of Warwick) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	CASCADE – RF cavity experiment to search for hidden sector photons - Dr Matti Kalliokoski (Lancaster University) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	Charged-current 1pi0 analysis with the ND280 detector of the T2K experiment. - Matthew Lawe (University of Sheffield) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	Impact of transverse coupling on the ATLAS luminosity calibration in the gaussian-beam limit - Lee Tomlinson (University of Manchester (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	Top Quark Search at LHCb - Henry Brown (University of Liverpool (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:45	Track 3 - Sam Henry (University of Oxford) (until 09:45) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Gamma Rays From Galaxy Clusters? - Kate Dutson (University of Leicester) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	First Results from Cherwell a CMOS sensor for particle physics - James Edwin Mylroie-Smith (Queen Mary, University of London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	Charm and new physics opportunities at colliders - Gianluca Inguglia (Queen Mary University of London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment - Dr Joseph Walding (Royal Holloway, University of London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	Searches for supersymmetry using the alphaT variable - Darren Lee Burton (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:45	Track 4 - Melissa George (Imperial College London) (until 09:45) (Central Teaching Hub)
08:45	Real-Time Gravitational Wave Data Analysis - Mr Clive Tomlinson (Sheffield University) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
08:57	Development of the tracking detector for SuperNEMO and analysis of double-beta decay in 48Ca using NEMO3 data. - Cristovao Vilela (University College London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:09	ATLAS Phase-II High Luminousity Hybrid Planar Pixel Sensors UK design and Testbeam update - Mr Dean Forshaw (University of Liverpool) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:21	WIMP searches with liquid xenon: LUX and LZ - Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:33	T symmetry invariance tests in neutral meson decays - Adrian Bevan (University of London (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
09:45	--- Break ---
10:00	Plenary - Future of the Programme -Prof. Mark Andrew Thomson (University of Cambridge (GB)) (until 13:00) (Central Teaching Hub)
10:00	Upgrades at the LHC - Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
10:30	The APPEC Roadmap and Strategy - Stavros KATSANEVAS (CNRS/IN2P3) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
11:00	--- Tea/Coffee ---
11:20	The CERN Programme - Rolf Heuer (CERN) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
11:50	The View from the USA - Jim Strait (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
12:20	The View from Japan - Prof. Sachio Komamiya (The University of Tokyo) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
12:50	Conference Close - Themis Bowcock (CERN) (Central Teaching Hub)

12:30	Lunch (until 13:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	Plenary - PP Experimental, LHC GPDs - Mark Lancaster (UCL) (until 15:30) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	Welcome/Introduction - Themis Bowcock (CERN) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub)
13:45	Status of Standard Model measurements at the LHC - Dr Veronique Boisvert (University of London (GB)) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:15	Status of BSM Searches at the LHC - Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB)) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:45	Status of the LHC Higgs Programme (SM & BSM) - Monica Vazquez Acosta (Imperial College London (UK)) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:30	--- Tea/Coffee ---
16:00	Plenary - PP Experimental, Flavour and Neutrinos - Dave Wark (RAL / Imperial College London) (until 18:15) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub)
16:00	Status of Quark Flavour Physics - Tim Gershon (Univ. of Warwick) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
16:30	Future Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Prof. Robert Wilson (Colorado State University) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
17:05	Non Accelerator Neutrino Physics - Jeanne Wilson (Queen Mary, University of London) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
17:25	Absolute mass and neutrinoless double beta decay - Dr Justin Evans (University of Manchester (UK)) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
17:45	Direct dark matter detection - Dr Chamkaur Ghag (University College London) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
18:30	--- Reception ---

12:30	--- Lunch ---
12:45	HEPP Group AGM - Mark Lancaster (UCL) (until 13:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
12:45	Chair/Secretary/Treasurer Reports - Mark Lancaster (UCL) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	Track 1 - Jeff Hartnell (University of Sussex) (until 15:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	Electroweak Gauge Boson and Associated Jet Production at LHCb - William James Barter (University of Cambridge (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:42	An Amplitude Analysis of D0->4pi at CLEO-C - Jack Benton (University of Bristol (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:54	Measurement of ∆ms and ∆md - Thomas Michael Bird (University of Manchester (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:06	Search for Majorana neutrino production in same-sign dimuon final states with the ATLAS detector at 7 TeV - Joel Alexander Klinger (University of Manchester (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:18	Status of SUSY after LHC Run I - Andrew Fowlie (U) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:30	Optical Calibration of SNO+ - James Sinclair (U) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:42	Measurement of neutrino induced neutral current single pi0 production in the near detector of the T2K experiment. - Helen O'Keeffe (University of Oxford) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:54	An expanded CCQE cross-section analysis at ND280 - Terry Duboyski (Queen Mary University London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:06	Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Thermal Field Theory - Peter Millington (University of Sheffield) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:30	Track 2 - Eduardo Rodrigues Figueiredo (University of Manchester (GB)) (until 15:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	Double Jpsi Production at LHCb - Andrew David Cook (University of Bristol (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:42	Time-Integrated Analysis of B0->phiK* at LHCb - Dean Michael Lambert (University of Edinburgh (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:54	SUSY searches in multi-lepton final states at ATLAS - Stewart Martin-Haugh (University of Sussex (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:06	Search for ttbar resonances in ATLAS - Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (University of Glasgow (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:18	Search for heavy resonances decaying to long-lived neutral particles in the displaced lepton channel with the CMS detector - Emyr John Clement (University of Bristol (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:30	Muon anti-neutrino inclusive charged-current interactions in the T2K near detector - Callum Lister (University of Warwick) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:42	Leptonic topologies for the study of neutral current single pi0 events in the T2K near detector - Mr Zachary Williamson (T2K Oxford) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:54	The resummation of the low-phistar domain of Z production - Lee Tomlinson (University of Manchester (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:06	Extreme Galactic particle accelerators - the case of HESS J1640-465 - Dr Stefan Ohm (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:30	Track 3 - Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London) (until 15:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	Delta ACP from Semileptonic Charmed Baryon Decays at LHCb - Alex Pearce (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:42	b to (s , d) mu mu decays at LHCb - Gregory Max Ciezarek (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:54	Searching for Weakly Produced Supersymmetry at the ATLAS experiment - Sarah Louise Williams (University of Cambridge (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:06	Search for Non-Resonant exotic physics in the dilepton channels with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Liam Duguid (University of London (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:18	Search for high-mass dielectron resonances with ATLAS - Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:30	Multinucleon-neutrino interactions and the T2K experiment - Mr Peter Sinclair (Imperial College London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:42	Event reconstruction and background rejection in the SNO+ experiment - Ian Coulter (O) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:54	Detecting electron neutrinos in the T2K near detector - Benjamin Smith (Imperial College London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:06	Radon monitoring and reduction for the DRIFT directional dark matter experiments - Stephen Sadler (University of Sheffield) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:30	Track 4 -Dr Georgios Christodoulou (University of Liverpool) (until 15:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:30	chi_c and chi_b studies at ATLAS - Andrew Stephen Chisholm (University of Birmingham (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:42	[HEPP] Measurements of Lambda_c+ -> p h h Branching Fractions with 2011 LHCb Data - Stephen Ogilvy (University of Glasgow (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
13:54	Searches for top squarks in ATLAS - Josh McFayden (University of Sheffield (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:06	Search for New Physics using boosted Z bosons at CMS - Tom Williams (University of Bristol (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:18	Super Kamiokande: The T2K Far Detector - Benjamin Still (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:30	Building the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) - The search for ultra-high energy neutrinos at the South Pole - Jonathan Davies (UCL) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:42	Deployed calibration sources in SNO+ - Matthew Mottram (University of Sussex) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:54	Muon neutrino disappearance at T2K - Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:06	EURECA – A Cryogenic Dark Matter Detector - Ms Xiaohe Zhang (University of Oxford) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:30	--- Tea/Coffee ---
16:00	Plenary - APP Experimental -Dr Alex Murphy (University of Edinburgh) (until 18:00) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub)
16:00	Extreme Astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Dr White Richard (University of Leicester) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
16:30	Challenges in Nuclear Astrophysics: nucleosynthesis in novae, x-ray bursts and type Ia supernovae - Prof. Jose Jordi (UPC BarcelonaTECH) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
17:00	The Search for Gravitational Waves - James Hough (University of Glasgow) (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Media Bounce_side_on.avi sn_explosion_sm_web.mpg wd_sm.mpg Slides
17:30	Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi-LAT - Michael Gustafsson (Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub) Slides
19:00	--- Dinner ---

13:00	--- Lunch ---
13:15	APP Group AGM -Dr Alex Murphy (University of Edinburgh) (until 14:00) (Central Teaching Hub)
13:15	Chair/Secretary/Treasurer Reports - Dr Alex Murphy (University of Edinburgh) (Central Teaching Hub)
14:00	STFC Town Meeting - Themis Bowcock (University of Liverpool (GB)) (until 16:30) (Central Teaching Hub)
14:00	STFC Update - John William Womersley (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
14:30	European Strategy for Particle Physics Update - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK)) (Central Teaching Hub)
14:45	PPAP Activities - Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:00	PAAP Activities - Prof. Jim Hinton (University of Leicester) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:15	Q & A Session - John William Womersley (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)) Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK)) Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University) (Central Teaching Hub)
15:30	Particle Physcs Department at RAL - Dave Wark (RAL / Imperial College London) (Central Teaching Hub) Slides
15:45	Discussion (Central Teaching Hub)
16:30	--- Tea/Coffee ---