Name: IOP 2014 Joint HEPP & APP Group Meeting
Start: 2014-04-07T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2014-04-09T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Royal Holloway, University of London

Monday 7 April 2014

10:30

10:30 - 12:30
Room: Windsor Building Foyer

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
13:30 The Energy Frontier Programme
The Energy Frontier Programme
13:30 - 15:50
Room: Windsor Building Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Welcome - Paul Layzell, Principal

13:35 The Status of Standard Model Measurements at the LHC - Emily Nurse (University College London)

14:10 The Status of Beyond Standard Model Searches at the LHC - Henning Flaecher (University of Bristol)

14:45 The Status of the LHC Higgs Programme - William Murray (STFC/Warwick)

15:20 125 GeV Higgs, Now What? - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
15:50 Coffee
Coffee
15:50 - 16:15
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
16:15 The Cosmic Frontier Programme
The Cosmic Frontier Programme
16:15 - 18:30
Room: Windsor Building Auditorium
Contributions

16:15 PLANCK: 2013 Results and Future Prospects - Anthony Challinor

16:45 Gamma Ray Astronomy - Paula Chadwick

17:15 Dark Matter Direct Detection - James Nikkel

17:40 Cosmology: What Will the Next Big Discovery Be? - Katherine Freese
18:30 Reception
Reception
18:30 - 20:00
Room: Founders Building Picture Gallery
Tuesday 8 April 2014
08:30 Flavour Physics
Flavour Physics
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Windsor Building Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Status of Quark Flavour Physics - Franz Muheim

09:05 Probing New Physics through Flavour Violation - Evgueni Goudzovski

09:35 Electric Dipole Moments, Recent Results and Prospects - Clark Griffith
10:00 Coffee / Poster Session I
Coffee / Poster Session I
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
10:30 The Neutrino Sector
The Neutrino Sector
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Windsor Building Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Results from Current Experiments - Helen O'Keeffe

11:05 Neutrino Mass Searches with Beta Decay Experiments - Jeff Hartnell

11:35 Neutrino Particle Astrophysics - Ryan Nichol
12:00

12:00 - 13:00
Room: Windsor Building

Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
13:00 Standard Model
Standard Model
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

13:00 Measurement of the distribution of $\varphi^\star$ in events containing dimuon pairs with masses between 30 and 500 GeV in 10.4 fb$^{−1}$ of proton-antiproton collisions - Xingguo Li (Manchester University)

13:15 A measurement of the $\phi^{\star}$ angle in Drell-Yan di-lepton pairs - Samuel Webb (University of Manchester (GB))

13:30 Observation of electroweak Zjj production - Christian Gutschow (University College London (UK))

13:45 Production of a Z Boson in association with b-jets measured with the ATLAS detector - Peter Robert Davison (University College London (UK))

14:00 QCD Estimation in V+jet Production at the LHC - Craig Anthony Sawyer (University of Oxford (GB))

14:15 Central exclusive production at LHCb: current analyses and future detectors - Scott Stevenson (University of Oxford (GB))

14:30 Low Mu Run analysis on Measurement of the 2012 Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$8 TeV using the ATLAS detector - Hilal Kucuk (University of London (GB))

14:45 B-tagging Calibration Bias Using Semileptonic Jets - Joshuha Thomas-Wilsker (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

15:00 Top pair differential cross-section measurements with respect to MET, HT and other global distributions at CMS - Jeson Abe Jacob (University of Bristol (GB))

15:15 First Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark with a W Boson - Duncan Leggat (University of Brunel)
Flavour Physics 1
Flavour Physics 1
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Room B
Contributions

13:00 Search for the decay $\Lambda_b^0 \rightarrow \Lambda^0 \eta^{(\prime)}$ at LHCb - James Mccarthy (University of Birmingham (GB))

13:15 Measurement of the differential branching fraction of the rare decay $\Lambda_{b} \to pK\mu\mu$ at LHCb - Michael Kiss (STFC (RAL))

13:30 The analysis of $B^0\rightarrow K^{{\star}0}\mu\mu$ decays at including S-wave contributions at LHCb - Sam Cunliffe (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

13:45 Rare B decays in ATLAS: results and most recent updates on the 2012 analyses - Cristiano Alpigiani

14:00 CP asymmetries in $B\rightarrow K^{(\star)}\mu\mu$ decays - Simon Robert Magee Wright (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:15 $B_{s}^{0} \rightarrow D_s^{(\ast)+} D_s^{(\ast)-}$ Decays in LHCb - Adrian Andrew Pritchard (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:30 Search for $B_s^0 \to \phi \pi^+ \pi^-$ and $B_d^0 \to \phi \pi^+ \pi^-$ decays in LHCb - Haofei Luo (University of Edinburgh (GB))

14:45 Towards measurements of CKM parameters with loops and trees at LHCb - Sam Hall (Imperial College London)

15:00 A measurement of the CP-violation parameter $\gamma$ from $B^{\pm}\rightarrow [hh]_{D}K^{\pm}$ decays - Donal Hill (University of Oxford, LHCb Experiment)
SUSY
SUSY
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Room C
Contributions

13:00 Compressed and Split Spectra in Minimal SUSY SO(10) - Tomas Gonzalo (UCL)

13:15 Searching for supersymmetry with compressed mass spectra at CMS - Robyn Lucas (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

13:30 Supersymmetry searches in three lepton events at ATLAS - Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB))

13:45 A search for supersymmetry using four or more leptons at ATLAS - Zara Jane Grout (University of Sussex (GB))

14:00 Search for strongly produced SUSY particles in events with zero leptons, jets and missing transverse energy with the ATLAS detector. - Gareth Thomas Fletcher (University of Sheffield (GB))

14:15 Searching for SUSY in the Jets+MET channel with the AlphaT kinematic variable - Christopher Lucas (University of Bristol (GB))

14:30 Searching for supersymmetry in events with large jet multiplicities using b-tagging and large-radius jets with 20 fb$^{−1}$ of ATLAS data - Mireia Crispin Ortuzar (University of Oxford (GB))

14:45 Searching for strongly produced SUSY with like-charge leptons at ATLAS - Thomas Gillam (University of Cambridge (GB))

15:00 The CMSSM and NUHM1 after LHC Run 1 - Kees Jan De Vries (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Dark Matter I
Dark Matter I
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Room D
Contributions

13:00 Is there evidence for a Dark Matter signal in CoGeNT data? - Jonathan Davis (IPPP, Durham University)

13:15 First results from the LUX dark matter experiment - Lea Reichhart (University College London)

13:30 Delayed Coincidence Analysis for Determining the 85Kr Background in LUX - Adam Bailey (Imperial College)

13:45 Multi Higgs doublet models - Venus Keus (University of Southampton)

14:00 A DEAP Search for Dark Matter: An Overview of the DEAP-3600 Experiment - Joseph Walding (Royal Holloway, University of London)

14:15 A DEAPer Search for Dark Matter: Getting Ready for Data - Alistair Butcher (R)

14:30 The long term future of direct detection Experiments and the Neutrino barrier. - Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London)

14:45 DMTPC Progress on Directional Dark Matter Detection - Richard Eggleston (RHUL)

15:00 Simple steps to analyse direct detection experiments without halo uncertainties - Felix Kahlhoefer (University of Oxford)
Rare/Precision Lepton Physics
Rare/Precision Lepton Physics
13:00 - 15:30
Room: Room E
Contributions

13:00 Search for Neutrinoless Double-β Decay of $\rm{^{100}Mo}$ in the final NEMO-3 dataset - Stefano Torre (UCL)

13:15 Results of the NEMO-3 experiment and Low-radioactivity measurements for SuperNEMO with the BiPo detector - Guillaume Eurin (University College London (UK))

13:30 Status of the SuperNEMO experiment - Pawel Guzowski (University of Manchester)

13:45 The SNO+ Experiment - Philip Jones (QMUL)

14:00 Developing criteria for SNO+ Data Quality and Run Selection - Ashley Back (Queen Mary, University of London)

14:15 The FNAL muon g-2 experiment - Mark Lancaster (University College London (UK))

14:30 Magnetometry standard for the muon g−2 experiment - Sam Henry (University of Oxford)

14:45 A Search for Muon to Electron Conversion with COMET - Andrew Edmonds (UCL)

15:00 SQUID Magnetometry for Neutron EDM Experiments - Amy Cottle (University of Oxford)

15:15 A prototype atomic interferometer for fundamental physics - Oliver Burrow (University of Liverpool)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
16:00 Detectors
Detectors
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room A
Contributions

16:00 A software framework and toolkit for developing simulations of 2D pixel detectors - Ashley Joy (UCL)

16:15 3D Silicon and 3D Diamond detectors for future upgrades of LHC experiments - Iain Haughton (University of Manchester (GB))

16:30 Characterisation of ATLAS planar pixel modules for ATLAS Upgrade - Kate Doonan (University of Glasgow (GB))

16:45 The CBC2 ASIC for 2S Modules at HL-LHC - Davide Braga (RAL/STFC)

17:00 TORCH - a Cherenkov based Time-of-Flight Detetor - Euan Niall Cowie (University of Bristol (GB))

17:15 LHCb's future vertex detector - Thomas Bird (University of Manchester (GB))

17:30 Sensor R&D for the stable operation of the LZ detector - Paul Scovell (University of Oxford)

17:45 High voltage delivery in LZ - Alfredo Tomas Alquezar (Imperial College London)

18:00 The SoLid Experiment - Nick Ryder (University of Oxford (GB))

18:15 Detecting Special Nuclear Material With Muon Scattering Tomography - Christian Thomay (University of Bristol)
Flavour Physics II
Flavour Physics II
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room B
Contributions

16:00 Search for CP violation in $B\rightarrow DK$, $D\rightarrow hh\pi^0$ decays at LHCb - Nazim Hussain (University of Oxford (GB))

16:15 Dalitz plot analysis of $B_s\rightarrow D^0K\pi$ - Daniel Charles Craik (University of Warwick (GB))

16:30 Charmless three body decays at LHCb - Rafael Silva Coutinho (University of Warwick (GB))

16:45 Search for the two-body charmless baryonic $B$-decays $B^{0} \to p \bar{p}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to p \bar{p}$ at LHCb - John Beddow (University of Glasgow (GB))

17:00 Time-dependent measurements of CP violation in charm - Mark Elliot Smith (University of Manchester (GB))

17:15 D mixing in multi-body decays - Samuel Thomas Harnew (University of Bristol (GB))

17:30 Crystal collimation for LHC - Daniele Mirarchi (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

17:45 Investigating the Microbunching Instability at Diamond Light Source - William Shields (Royal Holloway, University of London)

18:00 The AWAKE experiment beam-plasma interaction simulations - Scott Mandry (University College London, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

18:15 Muon tomography to monitor carbon sequestration - Sam Telfer (The University of Sheffield)
Higgs
Higgs
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room C
Contributions

16:00 Evidence for Higgs Boson Decays to the $\tau\tau$ Final State with the ATLAS Detector - Carl Jeske (University of Warwick)

16:15 ATLAS results on the Higgs boson properties in the decay channel $H\rightarrow ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ - Ludovica Aperio Bella (University of Birmingham (GB))

16:30 Overview of 0-Lepton $Z(\nu\nu) + H(b\bar{b})$ Analysis and b-tagging MC Calibration - Matthew Ian Jackson (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:45 The matrix element method in the search for dileptonic ttH(H$\to$bb) - Ian Allan Connelly (Royal Holloway, University of London)

17:00 Novel Techniques to improve the Invariant Dijet Mass Reconstruction in the Standard Model Higgs boson resonance search $H\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ in association with a W/Z boson using the ATLAS detector - Manuel Proissl (University of Edinburgh (GB))

17:15 Search for the Higgs Boson $b\bar{b}$ decay with the ATLAS detector - Ines Ochoa (University of London (GB))

17:30 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson decaying to bb produced in association with a W boson with the ATLAS detector - Benedict Allbrooke (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:45 Using a Regressional Analysis to Improve the b-jet energy correction in $WH\rightarrow\ell\nu bb$ Searches at ATLAS - Thomas Olivier Ravenscroft (University of Glasgow (GB))

18:00 Evidence for the 125GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons at CMS - Rebecca Charlotte Lane (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

18:15 Search for invisible Higgs decays in the VBF channel using the CMS detector - João Pela (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Dark Matter II / Exotic Searches
Dark Matter II / Exotic Searches
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room D
Contributions

16:00 Using cosmological data to study Dark Matter interactions with Standard Model particles - Ryan Wilkinson (IPPP, Durham University)

16:15 The LZ dark matter experiment - Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)

16:30 Building the background screening capability for LZ - Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)

16:45 Beyond DEAP-3600: Development of a 50-tonne Next-Generation Liquid Argon Detector at SNOLAB - Simon Peeters (University of Sussex)

17:00 The search for heavy neutrinos at NA62 - Francis Oliver Newson (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:15 A search for long lived neutral particles decaying to photons at the ATLAS detector - Allan Kenneth Lehan (University of Liverpool (GB))

17:30 Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in 21 fb$^{−1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Marc Bret Cano (University of London (GB))

17:45 Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at LHCb - Jon Harrison (University of Manchester (GB))

18:00 Axion search prospects with the LZ experiment - Paolo Beltrame (University of Edinburgh)
Neutrino Oscillations
Neutrino Oscillations
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Room E
Contributions

16:00 Neutrino interactions and the T2K experiment - Andrew Furmanski (University of Warwick)

16:15 Neutrinos in Gas at T2K - Pip Hamilton (Imperial College London)

16:30 Proton selection in the T2K near detector ND280 - Michail Lazos (Liverpool University)

16:45 Towards measuring charged current neutrino interactions in T2K’s electromagnetic calorimeters - Dominic Brailsford (Imperial College)

17:00 Selecting electron anti-neutrino charge current events in the ND280 tracker at T2K - Luke Southwell (Lancaster University)

17:15 Sensitivities to neutrino oscillation parameters of the Hyper-K experiment - Linda Cremonesi (Queen Mary University of London)

17:30 Near Detector Simulations in LAGUNA-LBNO - Thomas Stainer (University of Liverpool)

17:45 Neutrino Oscillation Search With MINOS+ - Joseph O'Connor (University College London)

18:00 Manifest causality in QFT with sources and detectors - Peter Millington (University of Manchester and IPPP, Durham University)

18:15 The $N_2$-dominated scenario of leptogenesis - Michele Re Fiorentin (University of Southampton)
19:00 Conference Banquet
Conference Banquet
19:00 - 22:30
Room: Buses depart RHUL at 18:45 from stop opposite Carpark 12
Wednesday 9 April 2014
08:30 Near-Future Prospects
Near-Future Prospects
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Windsor Building Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 LHC Detector Upgrades - Geoff Hall (Imperial College London)

08:55 The Next-Generation Particle Accelerator - Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

09:25 Future Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments and Detectors - Morgan Wascko

09:55 Gravitational Wave Detection: the Advanced Generation of Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Sheila Rowan
10:30 Coffee / Poster Session II
Coffee / Poster Session II
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
11:00 Far-Future Programme
Far-Future Programme
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Windsor Building Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Why do we live in a Matter Dominated Universe? - Silvia Pascoli

11:30 Particle Theory: Where We Go From Here - John March-Russell

12:00 Accelerators: How Do We Get to 100 TeV? - Vladimir Shiltsev
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Windsor Building

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Windsor Building Foyer
14:00
14:00 - 17:15
Room: Boilerhouse Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Town Meeting: State of the STFC - John Womersley (STFC)

14:30 Science Board Report - Matt Griffin

14:45 Q&A

16:00 The Global Strategy in Particle Physics - Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

16:25 Panel on Future Directions in Particle Physics - Alison Davenport Dave Wark (RAL / Imperial College London) Grahame Blair (STFC) John Womersley (STFC) Philip Burrows (Oxford University) Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))