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, April 8, 2013 (10:15 AM) to Wednesday, April 10, 2013 (7:00 PM)

Monday, April 8, 2013

10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub

12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome/Introduction - Themis Bowcock (CERN)

1:45 PM Status of Standard Model measurements at the LHC - Veronique Boisvert (University of London (GB))

2:15 PM Status of BSM Searches at the LHC - Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB))

2:45 PM Status of the LHC Higgs Programme (SM & BSM) - Monica Vazquez Acosta (Imperial College London (UK))
3:30 PM Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

4:00 PM Status of Quark Flavour Physics - Tim Gershon (Univ. of Warwick)

4:30 PM Future Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Robert Wilson (Colorado State University)

5:05 PM Non Accelerator Neutrino Physics - Jeanne Wilson (Queen Mary, University of London)

5:25 PM Absolute mass and neutrinoless double beta decay - Justin Evans (University of Manchester (UK))

5:45 PM Direct dark matter detection - Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)
6:30 PM Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Victoria Building, Brownlow Hill
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Working Towards a Boosted Z to bb Measurement with the ATLAS Detector - Luke Lambourne (University College London (UK))

8:57 AM Ratio Measurement of W/Z + Jets at ATLAS - Gregory James Fletcher (University of London (GB))

9:09 AM Constraining QCD modelling uncertainties in ttbar events at ATLAS - Kiran Daniel Joshi (University of Manchester (GB))

9:21 AM Search for the standard-model Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons with the CMS detector - Andrew Gilbert (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

9:33 AM Rare Charm Decays at LHCb - Edward Thomas Greening (University of Oxford)

9:45 AM Search for $B^0_{(s)} \to J/\psi K_S^0 h^+ h^{(\prime)-}$ - Matthew Michael Reid (University of Warwick)
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Boosted Hadronically Decaying W/Z bosons in ATLAS - Rebecca Chislett

8:57 AM Top Quark Physics at Hadron Colliders - Rhorry Gauld (University of Oxford)

9:09 AM Measurement of MET, HT and other global distributions in top pair events - Sergey Senkin (University of Bristol (GB))

9:21 AM Higgs to bbar at ATLAS, and the estimation of theoretical systematic uncertianties - Ben Harry Smart (University of Edinburgh (GB))

9:33 AM Measuring charm mixing parameters using a model-independent technique in D0->KShh - Tomas Pilar (University of Warwick (GB))

9:45 AM Measurement of CP observables in B0 -> D K*0 - Edmund Smith (University of Oxford (GB))
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM The forward backward asymmetry of the decay qq(bar)->Z/γ*->mu+mu- at LHCb - Myfanwy Liles (University of Liverpool (GB))

8:57 AM Measurement of the Low Mass Drell-Yan Process at ATLAS - Jack Robert Goddard (University of London (GB))

9:09 AM 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))

9:21 AM 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 - Chiara Debenedetti (The University of Edinburgh)

9:33 AM Model dependent measurement of charm mixing and CPV parameters in prompt D0->KShh decays at LHCb - Nick Torr (University of Oxford (GB))

9:45 AM The Kaon Identification Detector for the NA62 Experiment at CERN - Karim Massri (University of Birmingham (GB))
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Status of the MICE Experiment - Melissa George (Imperial College)

8:57 AM 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))

9:09 AM Signal selection efficiency and mass resolution in the H->ZZ*->4l decay channel with the ATLAS detector - Andrew Daniells (University of Birmingham (GB))

9:21 AM 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))

9:33 AM Measurement of the isospin asymmetry in B->K(*)MuMu decays - Patrick Haworth Owen (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

9:45 AM First measurement of the CP-violating phase in hadronic Bs -> phi phi decays - Sean Benson (University of Edinburgh (GB))
10:00 AM Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

10:30 AM Precision Physics with leptons: g-2, LFV and EDMs - Thomas Teubner (University of Liverpool)

11:00 AM Status of Cosmology and Implications for PP - Edmund Copeland (University of Nottingham)

11:30 AM Where we go from here? - Ben Gripaios (University of Cambridge (GB))

12:00 PM Future Facilities: The European Strategy - Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
12:45 PM
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

12:45 PM Chair/Secretary/Treasurer Reports - Mark Lancaster (UCL)
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

1:30 PM Electroweak Gauge Boson and Associated Jet Production at LHCb - William James Barter (University of Cambridge (GB))

1:42 PM An Amplitude Analysis of D0->4pi at CLEO-C - Jack Benton (University of Bristol (GB))

1:54 PM Measurement of ∆ms and ∆md - Thomas Michael Bird (University of Manchester (GB))

2:06 PM 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))

2:18 PM Status of SUSY after LHC Run I - Andrew Fowlie (U)

2:30 PM Optical Calibration of SNO+ - James Sinclair (U)

2:42 PM Measurement of neutrino induced neutral current single pi0 production in the near detector of the T2K experiment. - Helen O'Keeffe (University of Oxford)

2:54 PM An expanded CCQE cross-section analysis at ND280 - Terry Duboyski (Queen Mary University London)

3:06 PM Perturbative Non-Equilibrium Thermal Field Theory - Peter Millington (University of Sheffield)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

1:30 PM Double Jpsi Production at LHCb - Andrew David Cook (University of Bristol (GB))

1:42 PM Time-Integrated Analysis of B0->phiK* at LHCb - Dean Michael Lambert (University of Edinburgh (GB))

1:54 PM SUSY searches in multi-lepton final states at ATLAS - Stewart Martin-Haugh (University of Sussex (GB))

2:06 PM Search for ttbar resonances in ATLAS - Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (University of Glasgow (GB))

2:18 PM 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))

2:30 PM Muon anti-neutrino inclusive charged-current interactions in the T2K near detector - Callum Lister (University of Warwick)

2:42 PM Leptonic topologies for the study of neutral current single pi0 events in the T2K near detector - Zachary Williamson (T2K Oxford)

2:54 PM The resummation of the low-phistar domain of Z production - Lee Tomlinson (University of Manchester (GB))

3:06 PM Extreme Galactic particle accelerators - the case of HESS J1640-465 - Stefan Ohm (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

1:30 PM Delta ACP from Semileptonic Charmed Baryon Decays at LHCb - Alex Pearce (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

1:42 PM b to (s , d) mu mu decays at LHCb - Gregory Max Ciezarek (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

1:54 PM Searching for Weakly Produced Supersymmetry at the ATLAS experiment - Sarah Louise Williams (University of Cambridge (GB))

2:06 PM Search for Non-Resonant exotic physics in the dilepton channels with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Liam Duguid (University of London (GB))

2:18 PM Search for high-mass dielectron resonances with ATLAS - Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB))

2:30 PM Multinucleon-neutrino interactions and the T2K experiment - Peter Sinclair (Imperial College London)

2:42 PM Event reconstruction and background rejection in the SNO+ experiment - Ian Coulter (O)

2:54 PM Detecting electron neutrinos in the T2K near detector - Benjamin Smith (Imperial College London)

3:06 PM Radon monitoring and reduction for the DRIFT directional dark matter experiments - Stephen Sadler (University of Sheffield)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

1:30 PM chi_c and chi_b studies at ATLAS - Andrew Stephen Chisholm (University of Birmingham (GB))

1:42 PM [HEPP] Measurements of Lambda_c+ -> p h h Branching Fractions with 2011 LHCb Data - Stephen Ogilvy (University of Glasgow (GB))

1:54 PM Searches for top squarks in ATLAS - Josh McFayden (University of Sheffield (GB))

2:06 PM Search for New Physics using boosted Z bosons at CMS - Tom Williams (University of Bristol (GB))

2:18 PM Super Kamiokande: The T2K Far Detector - Benjamin Still

2:30 PM Building the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) - The search for ultra-high energy neutrinos at the South Pole - Jonathan Davies (UCL)

2:42 PM Deployed calibration sources in SNO+ - Matthew Mottram (University of Sussex)

2:54 PM Muon neutrino disappearance at T2K - Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford)

3:06 PM EURECA – A Cryogenic Dark Matter Detector - Xiaohe Zhang (University of Oxford)
3:30 PM Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Lecture Theatre A, Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

4:00 PM Extreme Astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - White Richard (University of Leicester)

4:30 PM Challenges in Nuclear Astrophysics: nucleosynthesis in novae, x-ray bursts and type Ia supernovae - Jose Jordi (UPC BarcelonaTECH)

5:00 PM The Search for Gravitational Waves - James Hough (University of Glasgow)

5:30 PM Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi-LAT - Michael Gustafsson
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Future prospects for measuring the extragalactic background light and probing for axion signatures - Jonathan Harris (Durham University)

8:57 AM Measuring the photon yield in the RICH subdetectors at LHCb - Indrek Sepp (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

9:09 AM Development of a Reliable Target Mechanism for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment - Edward Overton (The University of Sheffield)

9:21 AM SCT ATLAS Upgrade - Samer Al-Kilani (University of London (GB))

9:33 AM R&D efforts for the next generation of very large scale Liquid Argon detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter. - Roxanne Guenette (Yale University)
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Liquid Scintillator Time Projection Chamber - Nicola McConkey (University of Warwick)

8:57 AM CASCADE – RF cavity experiment to search for hidden sector photons - Matti Kalliokoski (Lancaster University)

9:09 AM Charged-current 1pi0 analysis with the ND280 detector of the T2K experiment. - Matthew Lawe (University of Sheffield)

9:21 AM Impact of transverse coupling on the ATLAS luminosity calibration in the gaussian-beam limit - Lee Tomlinson (University of Manchester (GB))

9:33 AM Top Quark Search at LHCb - Henry Brown (University of Liverpool (GB))
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Gamma Rays From Galaxy Clusters? - Kate Dutson (University of Leicester)

8:57 AM First Results from Cherwell a CMOS sensor for particle physics - James Edwin Mylroie-Smith (Queen Mary, University of London)

9:09 AM Charm and new physics opportunities at colliders - Gianluca Inguglia (Queen Mary University of London)

9:21 AM The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment - Joseph Walding (Royal Holloway, University of London)

9:33 AM Searches for supersymmetry using the alphaT variable - Darren Lee Burton (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

8:45 AM Real-Time Gravitational Wave Data Analysis - Clive Tomlinson (Sheffield University)

8:57 AM Development of the tracking detector for SuperNEMO and analysis of double-beta decay in 48Ca using NEMO3 data. - Cristovao Vilela (University College London)

9:09 AM ATLAS Phase-II High Luminousity Hybrid Planar Pixel Sensors UK design and Testbeam update - Dean Forshaw (University of Liverpool)

9:21 AM WIMP searches with liquid xenon: LUX and LZ - Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)

9:33 AM T symmetry invariance tests in neutral meson decays - Adrian Bevan (University of London (GB))
9:45 AM Break
Break
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

10:00 AM Upgrades at the LHC - Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK))

10:30 AM The APPEC Roadmap and Strategy - Stavros KATSANEVAS (CNRS/IN2P3)

11:20 AM The CERN Programme - Rolf Heuer (CERN)

11:50 AM The View from the USA - Jim Strait (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

12:20 PM The View from Japan - Sachio Komamiya (The University of Tokyo)

12:50 PM Conference Close - Themis Bowcock (CERN)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

1:15 PM Chair/Secretary/Treasurer Reports - Alex Murphy (University of Edinburgh)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub
Contributions

2:00 PM STFC Update - John William Womersley (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

2:30 PM European Strategy for Particle Physics Update - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

2:45 PM PPAP Activities - Philip Burrows (Oxford University)

3:00 PM PAAP Activities - Jim Hinton (University of Leicester)

3:15 PM Q & A Session - John William Womersley (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)) Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK)) Philip Burrows (Oxford University)

3:30 PM Particle Physcs Department at RAL - Dave Wark (RAL / Imperial College London)

3:45 PM Discussion
4:30 PM Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Central Teaching Hub

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