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nasim fatemi-ghomi
(manchesteruniversity)
31/03/2008, 15:30
The NEMO3 detector is a currently running double beta decay experiment in Modane underground laboratory in France. Neodymium-150 is one of the 7 double beta decay isotopes in NEMO3. This work presents a precise measurement of the two neutrino double beta decay half-life of Neodymium-150 and also limits on the half-life of the different neutrinoless modes of this isotope.
Mr
Michael Sigamani
(Queen Mary, University of London))
31/03/2008, 15:30
We present partial branching fractions for inclusive charmless semileptonic B decays B -> Xu l ? , and the determination of the CKM matrix element |Vub |. The analysis is based on a sample of 383 million Y(4S) decays into B Bar pairs collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings.
Psi(4S ) -> B Bar events are tagged by the full reconstruction of a hadronic decay of one...
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Ellie Dobson
(University of Oxford)
31/03/2008, 15:43
Electroweak & Top Physics
An important aim of the LHC is the precise measurement of W and Z
boson production cross sections, as these may be used to extract
fundamental electroweak parameters as well as further test and constrain
existing QCD models. In first data they may also be used as 'standard
candle events' to understand detector performance. Any significant
deviation from the predicted behaviour of these...
Mr
Mark Tibbetts
(Imperial College)
31/03/2008, 15:43
We present details of an ongoing analysis of data collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ storage rings at SLAC. Making use of a sum of exclusive final states with up to three charged pions and one neutral pion or eta, we demonstrate that it is possible to measure the ratio of the inclusive rates $b\to d \gamma$ and $b \to s \gamma$. This provides information...
Mr
Steve Chun-Hay Kom
(DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
31/03/2008, 15:43
We perform a quantitative study of neutrino phenomenology in the framework of minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) with grand unified theory (GUT)-scale tri-linear lepton number violation. The difficulties in obtaining the observed neutrino mass pattern are discussed, and we show that numerical fits are possible using two GUT scale lepton number violating parameters and three charged lepton mixing...
Mr
Jon Tully
(Durham University)
31/03/2008, 15:56
POWHEG is a novel method for combining fixed order NLO calculations with parton showers. In this work the scheme is fully implemented in the Herwig++ Event Generator for electron positron annihilation and Drell Yan vector boson production processes.
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Jennifer Watson
(University of Edinburgh)
31/03/2008, 15:56
Measurements of the FCNC decay B->K*ll allow for sensitive test of the Standard Model due to possible New Physics contributions in the interference between penguin and box diagrams. Results from Babar on the forward-backward asymmetry, K* polarization, rate asymmetries and branching fraction are presented. The study of additional angular variables and the extension of the analysis to inclusive...
Mr
Joseph Walding
(Imperial College London)
31/03/2008, 15:56
The SciBooNE experiment is the newest neutrino experiment to be built at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), USA. The detector sits on-axis, 100 metres downstream of the target in the Booster Neutrino Beam-line.
Proposed in 2005, SciBooNE began its data run in June 2007 with completion projected for August 2008.
SciBooNE has a number of measurement goals, principally sub-GeV...
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Anna Holin
(University College London)
31/03/2008, 16:09
MINOS is a long baseline neutrino experiment that sends a beam of muon neutrinos from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to a Far Detector in Minnesota 735 km away. MINOS will be able to improve the limit on the neutrino mixing angle theta13 by searching for electron neutrino appearance resulting from the subdominant oscillation of muon neutrinos. This analysis will be discussed.
Jelena Ilic
(University of Warwick)
31/03/2008, 16:09
We perform a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B0->Kspi+pi- in order to extract the CP violation parameters of f0(980)Ks and rho0(770)Ks and direct CP-asymmetries of K*+(892)pi-. The results are obtained from a data sample of (383 +/- 3) 10e6 BBbar decays, collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. The measured values of 2beta_eff in B0 decays to...
Mr
David Wardrope
(Imperial College London)
31/03/2008, 16:09
Measurements of the inclusive cross-sections of W and Z in their leptonic decay modes will be among the first results from the LHC. An overview of the motivation and plans for such measurements with CMS will be presented, with emphasis on describing the use of data-driven methods for efficiency and background determination.
Ryan Terri
(Queen Mary, Univeristy of London)
31/03/2008, 16:21
Measurements of two flavor $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance were made using K2K, the KEK
to Kamioka long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, data for
three fiducial volume definitions at the far detector,
Super-Kamiokande. A study was conducted on expanding the fiducial
volume at Super-Kamiokande to show it is possible to expand it both
symmetrically and shifted in the incoming neutrino...
Mr
James Walder
(Lancaster University)
31/03/2008, 16:22
The measurement is reported of the branching fraction Br(Bs -> Ds(*) Ds(*)) using a data sample corresponding to 1.3 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment in 2002-2006 during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. One Ds(*) meson was partially reconstructed in the decay Ds -> phi mu nu, and the other Ds(*) meson was identified using the decay Ds -> phi pi where no...
Mr
Petridis Konstantinos
(Imperial College)
31/03/2008, 16:22
We report on the selection and reconstruction strategy for Z->tautau->e+tau jet events, and and their application in CMS with early data, as a benchmark for SUSY H/A->tautau->e+tau jet and tau tagging efficiency measurement. Using Monte Carlo simulated data, the performance of the reconstruction algorithms is evaluated. The number of expected signal and background events for 100 pb^-1 of...
Mr
Simon Bevan
(UCL)
31/03/2008, 16:33
I will present the latest results in the acoustic detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos, focusing mainly on the work of the ACoRNE collaboration.
Mr
Mark Williams
(Lancaster University)
31/03/2008, 16:35
Recently, CDF and D0 simultaneously reported the world's first ever observation of the Bs2* meson, a narrow, orbitally-excited state of the Bs meson. I will describe D0's efforts to reconstruct and study this particle in decays to B+K- (B+ -> J/psi K+), and the fitting procedure used to determine the Bs2* mass (5839.6 +- 1.1 +- 0.7 MeV). In addition, the production rate of the Bs2* relative...
Mr
Daniel Robert Clements
(University of Glasgow)
31/03/2008, 16:35
The ATLAS experiment will provide an opportunity to explore interactions at higher energies than previous detectors; allowing a test of standard model predictions, as well as opening the possibility of 'new physics' discoveries. The inclusive jet cross-section at high pT is one measurement which may provide evidence of physics `beyond the standard model', however a thorough understanding of...
Dr
Samuel Henry
(University of Oxford)
31/03/2008, 16:48
EURECA is a proposed dark matter experiment which will use cryogenic detector technology pioneered by the CRESST and EDELWEISS projects. This will use up to 1 tonne absorber mass made from multiple materials to search for the elastic scattering of neutralino WIMPs with a cross section down to 10^{-10}pb. The CRESST experiment is currently running. It will search down to 10^{-8}pb and provides...
Mr
Kostyantyn Holubyev
(Lancaster University)
31/03/2008, 16:48
Heavy Flavour Physics and CP Violation
We present a search for direct CP violation in $B^{\pm} \to J/\psi K^{\pm}(\pi^{\pm})$ decays.
The event sample is selected from 2.8 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions
collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider.
The charge asymmetry
$A_{CP}(B^+ \to J/\psi K^+) = +0.0075 \pm 0.0061$(stat.)$\pm 0.0027$(syst.)
is obtained using a sample of approximately...
Mr
Rose Andrew William
(Imperial College - University of London)
31/03/2008, 16:48
The LHC has been described as a statistics machine, using very high interaction rates to compensate for the very low cross-sections of โnewโ (interesting) physical processes. Were the detector to be read out continually a data rate of around 5x10^7 Mbyte/s (~50Tbyte/s) would be routine, the vast majority of which is of no interest. To reduce this to a storable (100MByte/s) rate, two levels of...
Mr
Mark Pesari
(Imperial College)
31/03/2008, 17:01
A luminosity upgrade to 1035 cm-2 s-1 for the LHC is expected after 2016. In order to maintain physics performance, the CMS experiment will also require upgrading; principally to the tracking and triggering systems, since detector occupancies and trigger rates are expected to be much higher. We report on ongoing studies into possible tracker designs and the feasibility of using tracking...
Dr
Stefan Soldner-Rembold
(Manchester University)
01/04/2008, 09:00
Jonathan Butterworth
(University College London)
01/04/2008, 09:45
Mr
Darren Price
(Lancaster University)
01/04/2008, 11:00
One of the first physics results to come out of ATLAS will be an analysis of J/psi and Upsilon production at 14 TeV. I present an overview of the motivation for looking into the theoretical model underlying quarkonium production, ATLAS expected performance and rates for quarkonium reconstruction and its ability to separate out various proposed production models with a view to improving our...
Mr
toby davies
(glasgow university)
01/04/2008, 11:00
An outline of the current search results for the standard model Higgs decaying to W+W- and then to leptons from CDF. Descriptions and evaluations of the matrix element and neural net techniques which are presently used together in current searches.
Mr
Filimon Gournaris
(UCL)
01/04/2008, 11:00
The top quark threshold at the ILC offers unique opportunities to make measurements of the top quark properties (mass, width, couplings) to an unprecedented precision. I will describe how the measurement will be done, give an overview of the main experimental issues and present recent developments leading to a full simulation of the precision reach at the ILC.
Mr
Erik Devetak
(Oxford University / RAL)
01/04/2008, 11:13
After a brief description of the theory behind Wtb anomalous coupling we will follow with an overview of the vertexing and flavour tagging tools developed. Finally we will outline the usage of flavour tagging and charge reconstruction in the anomalous top coupling analysis.
Mr
Theo Christoudias
(Imperial College)
01/04/2008, 11:13
We present a search for a light Standard Model Higgs Boson produced in association with a Z boson decaying invisibly into a pair of neutrinos. The final state is characterised by a presence of two b-tagged jets from the Higgs Boson decay and a large imbalance in the transverse energy of the event. The search has been performed using data collected by the D0 experiment at Fermilab. This channel...
Ms
Ying Ying Li
(High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
01/04/2008, 11:13
A measurement of the CP angle gamma at the tree-level is one of the principal goals of LHCb and provides a benchmark for any New Physics. One of the most precise direct determinations of gamma comes from the amplitude analysis of the Dalitz plots in B+-->(D0/D0-bar)K+- decays, where the D0/D0-bar decays to Kspi+pi-. This has been demonstrated at the B-factory experiments and will be a key...
Ms
Talini Pinto Jayawardena
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
01/04/2008, 11:25
Reconstruction and analysis of simulated top quark pair events for the future 500 GeV electron positron linear collider ILC are discussed. A detailed GEANT-based simulation of the ILC detector concept LDC is used. The reconstruction is performed with realistic tracking, vertex reconstruction, particle flow and jet finding algorithms. Reconstructed properties of the top quark are compared with...
Sophy Palmer
(University of Durham)
01/04/2008, 11:26
Higgs production via weak boson fusion (WBF) is both an excellent discovery channel and a source of valuable information about the structure of the coupling between weak bosons and a Higgs. WBF is examined in both the Standard Model and the MSSM, with particular emphasis on this coupling and its sensitivity to higher-order corrections.
Mr
John Dale
(University of Oxford)
01/04/2008, 11:37
The Linear Collider Alignment and Survey (LiCAS) group has developed a Rapid Tunnel Reference Surveyor (RTRS), which will survey the reference network of the ILC to a high accuracy. By measuring small overlapping sections of the tunnel, the LiCAS RTRS will be capable of surveying the entire reference network in the main linac tunnel. The LiCAS RTRS has several measurement subsystems, one...
Ms
Lily Asquith
(University College London)
01/04/2008, 11:39
The search of a Higgs Boson around the lower mass region (the mass indicated by LEP precision measurements) is particularly challenging at the LHC due to the vast QCD background. For M_Higgs < 130 GeV, decay is predominantly to a b anti-b quark pair, which makes it difficult to reconstruct because the total cross section for b anti-b production at the LHC will be ~10^9 times higher than the...
Dr
Graeme Burt
(Lancaster University/ Cockcroft)
01/04/2008, 11:49
Crab cavities have been proposed at a number of particle colliders to increase the luminosity in the presence of a crossing angle, including the LHC upgrade, ILC and CLIC colliders. These RF devices rotate the incoming bunches prior to collision in order to provide a head-on collision. However if the phase and amplitude is sufficiently unstable the crab cavities can cause a decrease rather...
Mr
Nicholas Styles
(University of Edinburgh)
01/04/2008, 11:50
The LHCb experiment, currently being commissioned at CERN, will perform precision measurements of mixing and decays in B-mesons. I will present studies on the decay B_s->phiphi, a channel in which physics beyond the Standard Model has the potential to affect parameters measurable at LHCb. An introduction to the channel will be given, including the physics of B-meson to Vector-Vector decays....
Mr
Michele Faucci Giannelli
(Royal Holloway University of London)
01/04/2008, 11:52
The Higgs self coupling is a precision measurement that LHC cannot produce. A linear collider detector must be able to perform such measurement therefore this channel can be used as a benchmark to optimize the detector design. The challenge of this analysis is the overwhelming tt background. In order to reduce it, a cut based and a neural network analysis have been performed. After an...
Mr
Lawrence Deacon
(John Adams Institute at RHUL, London, U.K.)
01/04/2008, 12:01
Transverse beam size diagnostics systems are essential for luminosity and beam property optimisation of low emittance beams. The laser-wire (LW) system in the extraction line at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK aims to achieve micron-scale electron beam profile measurements. This is done by colliding high energy laser pulses with an electron beam and monitoring the inverse Compton...
Mark Grimes
(University of Bristol)
01/04/2008, 12:05
An electron-positron collider would provide a tool for incredibly precise measurements of the discoveries made at the LHC. This talk will discuss the applications to Higgs physics, and how the excellent vertexing capabilities at such a collider would be able to distinguish between many physics models, through the measurement of the Higgs branching ratios.
Mr
Alastair Dewhurst
(Lancaster University)
01/04/2008, 12:05
The Bs โ J/ฯ ฯ decay exhibits CP violation sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. In order to extract physics parameters it will be necessary to perform a simultaneous fit to both the mass and lifetime of the reconstructed decays. At low luminosities the measured parameters will be useful in detector performance and alignment sensitive tests while at higher luminosities it will be...
Dr
Anthony Hartin
(Oxford University)
01/04/2008, 12:13
Depolarization effects at the interaction point of a linear collider are analyzed. The main effects occur during the intense beam-beam interactions. Higher-order effects as well as theoretical improvements in the derivation of suitable equations are given. Updates on existing simulation programs are reported. Numerical results for the design of the International Linear Collider (ILC)
and the...
Ruth Davidson
(Physics Department)
01/04/2008, 12:18
The decay of Bs->J/Psi Phi is parameterised by 8 variables, which we obtain from data using a maximum likelihood fit. The effect of systematic errors, particularly from detector resolution and misalignment, will significantly impact the accuracy of this fit. I investigate using lifetime measurements to estimate these errors.
Ms
Cathy Nockles
(Liverpool University)
01/04/2008, 12:18
Exclusive J/psi production, gamma p->J/psi p, offers a unique opportunity to
determine the gluon density of the proton in the small Bjorken x domain. We
use the available HERA data to determine the gluon distribution in the
region 10^{-4} < x < 10^{-2} for scales 2 < Q^2 < 10 GeV^2, where the
uncertainty on the gluon extracted from the global parton analyses is large.
We present results...
Ms
Christine Clarke
(Oxford University)
01/04/2008, 12:25
Experiment T-488 at SLAC, End Station A recorded distorted BPM voltage signals due to the impingement of background e+, e- and gamma particles on the BPM striplines. Simulations agreed with the experiment to show that the impact of background pairs at the level expected at the ILC would be negligible. However for CLIC default parameters (centre of mass E=3 TeV, s_x/s_y=53/1nm, e_x/e_y=660/20...
Ray Mathias
(LHC Outreach Officer)
01/04/2008, 16:15
Dave Evans
(H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)
02/04/2008, 11:00
At the LHC bunched proton proton collisions will occur at a centre of mass energy of 14 TeV, an order of magnitude greater than previously available. It has been shown that models predicting new heavy resonances decaying to electron-positron pairs may be detectable with a small data sample given the predicted clean event signature and low background. A search for such high mass events...
Aoife Bharucha
(Durham University)
02/04/2008, 11:00
The Lee Wick Standard Model (LWSM) is an extension of the Standard Model and was recently proposed by Grinstein, O'Connell and Wise. It makes use of higher derivatives terms in the Lagrangian to introduce Lee-Wick states of negative norm. These heavy states (1TeV) cancel the quadratic divergences which arise due to the Higgs self-coupling. It is of interest to investigate the effects of this...
Mr
Sudarshan Paramesvaran
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
02/04/2008, 11:00
"The photon energy resolution of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the BaBar detector at SLAC has been studied. The response of the calorimeter was investigated using single photons above 1 GeV from the reaction e+e- -> mu+mu-gamma. Initially a discrepancy was observed between Data and Monte Carlo simulated events. A smearing technique has been developed to correct this discrepancy, based on...
Mr
Eames Christopher Edward
(Imperial College London)
02/04/2008, 11:13
I present an overview of the proposed alignment strategy for the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors in the LHCb experiment. Small misalignments of optical components in the detectors can be determined from data and corrected for in the event reconstruction. Techniques to achieve this were validated on RICH Testbeam data. Simulated LHCb data was then used to determine the effects of individual...
Mr
Philip Tanedo
(Durham University / IPPP)
02/04/2008, 11:13
One of the most promising signals of new physics at colliders is the rare decay B_s -> mu+ mu-. The LHC will be the first experiment to directly probe this loop- and helicity- suppressed decay channel down to the Standard Model prediction. Deviations from the predicted branching ratio are a signature of new particles in the loops. In particular, it is well known that the MSSM prediction scales...
Jordan Skittrall
(University of Cambridge, UK)
02/04/2008, 11:13
In the large extra dimensional ADD scenario, Z bosons undergo a one-loop decay into a photon and Kaluza-Klein towers of gravitons/gravi-scalars. We donsider the phenomenology of this decay, using LEP data to derive constraints on the size of such extra dimensions.
David Lee
(Imperial College London)
02/04/2008, 11:25
The RAL Front End Test Stand is being constructed to demonstrate the production of a 60 mA, 3 MeV, 50 pps, chopped H- beam suitable for future high-power proton accelerators.
Due to the high beam brightness and a desire to have online instrumentation while the accelerator is operational, a series of non-intrusive, non-destructive diagnostics, based on the photo-detachment of the outer...
Mr
Hugh Skottowe
(University of Cambridge)
02/04/2008, 11:26
The study of rare B meson decays with the LHCb detector is
expected to be one of the highlights of the first phase of
LHC physics analysis. The forward-backward asymmetry of the
decay Bd to K* mu mu is very sensitive to New Physics beyond
the Standard Model. Recent work on optimizing the selection
of the decay will be presented.
Mr
Martyn Gigg
(University of Durham)
02/04/2008, 11:26
I will present the work I have been doing in simulations of BSM physics within the Herwig++ event generator.
Konstantinos Mavrokoridis
(University of Sheffield)
02/04/2008, 11:37
The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM) is a 1-ton two phase liquid/gaseous argon scintillation/ionisation WIMP detector. The primary VUV scintillation light of argon (wavelength 128 nm) needs to be shifted to visible light in order to match the sensitivity range of the photomultiplier tubes. We discuss results from the development and optimization of wavelength shifters based on the organic...
Mr
Kenneth Lessnoff
(University of Bristol)
02/04/2008, 11:39
The CP asymmetry in Bs-Bsbar mixing is sensitive to new Physics. This can be probed from measurement of the time dependent charge asymmetry. This method also allows measurement of the Bs-Bsbar production asymmetry. This talk desribes an approach for making this measurement at LHCb. The Bs lifetimes are calculated using energy and momentum conservation considerations. This results in a...
Ms
Alison Fowler
(Durham University)
02/04/2008, 11:39
The study of neutralino decays provides valuable information on the underlying MSSM parameters. Contributions from Higgs boson exchange can play an important role in parts of parameter space, particularly in CP violating scenarios. The effect of loop corrections in the Higgs and chargino-neutralino sectors is also considered.
Mr
Benjamin Still
(University of Sheffield)
02/04/2008, 11:49
The T2K experiment will fire an intense neutrino beam from the JPARC
facility on the east coast of Japan to the Super Kamiokande detector 295km
to the west. To measure the sub dominant theta13 lepton mixing angle, Super
Kamiokande will detect the appearence of electron flavour neutrinos from the
originally >99% pure Muon neutrino beam.
One of the major backgrounds to this electron...
Mr
Franciole Marinho
(University of Glasgow)
02/04/2008, 11:52
The Bd->K*mu+mu- decay ocurrs via the FCNC process in the Standard Model(SM) with a branching ratio calculated to be 11.9+-3.9x10^-7. It has been already measured in previous experiments and the the obtained value is of the order of 12.2^{+5.8}_{-5.2} x10^-7. A set of important quantities such as dimuon mass spectra and the forward-backward asymmetry(FBA) can be measured with this decay in...
Mr
Jamie Tattersall
(University of Durham)
02/04/2008, 11:52
We consider the complex MSSM and examine whether and in which cases CP-violating phases will be observable at the LHC. We study Stop production and subsequent cascade decay into Neutralinos as the process for our investigation. It is found that asymmetries of up to 40% can be produced.
Mr
Gavin Davies
(Lancaster University)
02/04/2008, 12:01
T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a 295km long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan, which is due to start taking commissioning data late in 2009. It is designed to measure muon-neutrino oscillations to other flavours. This will enable the measurement of some of the components of the MNSP mixing matrix. One of the UK's main contributions is the construction of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECal)...
Mr
Robert Lambert
(Edinburgh LHCb)
02/04/2008, 12:05
This summer the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment, LHCb, will start its ambitious physics programme: to make precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider. With 10^12 b-quarks produced in each 2fb-1 (~1 year) LHCb has the opportunity to perform very precise measurements of b-quark physics with much more copious samples of decays than currently available.
In the measurement of the...
Ms
Christina Potter
(RHUL)
02/04/2008, 12:05
The trilepton signature is one of the 'golden' channels for SUSY due to its striking signature of three leptons and missing energy in the final state. The classic trilepton SUSY signature is gaugino pair production and decay via virtual Z and W bosons to three leptons, neutrinos and the LSP. The Tevatron collider at Fermilab has been looking for these events using proton-antiproton collisions...
Mark Ward
(University Of Sheffield)
02/04/2008, 12:13
The T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment will fire a neutrino beam from the JPARC facility on the east coast of Japan, 295km to the Super Kamiokande detector. At a distance of 280m from the neutrino beam source a Near Detector will be used to parametrise the beam. The optical channels of the 280m Near Detector will be instrumented using a relatively new photosensor, the...
Mr
Callum Durnford
(Durham University)
02/04/2008, 12:18
It can be argued that in generic models of low scale supersymmetry breaking (where gravity effects can be neglected) metastability is inevitable. Accepting this fact allows one to build simple and concrete models of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking. We exhibit a compact model of direct gauge mediation and its resulting MSSM phenomenology, which is able to interpolate between the standard...
Colin David Mc Lean
(Edinburgh)
02/04/2008, 12:18
The LHCb experiment will offer a precise hadronic probe with which to study CP violation and possible New Physics (NP) effects in the Bs system. For example from Bs->JpsiPhi decays, it will be possible to measure the CP violating weak phase, phis. This phase owing to its small Standard Model (SM) prediction, -0.04 rad, will provide a sensitive indicator to NP occurring at the TeV scale.
...
Hakan Yilmaz
(Imperial College)
02/04/2008, 12:25
In order to meet the physics goals of a future linear collider, a high level of hadronic jet energy resolution is required. This is best done by accurate track-shower matching, which has led to the proposal of high spatial granularity calorimetry. This talk will focus on a method of determining the positional and angular resolutions of the CALICE pre-prototype ECAL, in response to electrons....
Mr
Stefan Hoeche
(IPPP, Durham University)
02/04/2008, 12:31
We present recent developments in the Monte Carloevent generator Sherpa. An extension of the CKKW algorithm for merging Matrix Elements and Parton Showers to processes
including decays of heavy unstable particles is discussed.
New shower algorithms based on the Catani-Seymour subtraction
terms and dipole splitting functions are introduced.
A new Matrix Element generator for high...
Maria Smizanska
(Lancaster University)
02/04/2008, 14:00
Prof.
Nigel Glover
(Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham)
02/04/2008, 14:45
Ms
Melissa George
(Queen Mary University of London)
The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.
An intense neutrino beam from the J-PARC facility in Tokai will be sent
295 km across Japan towards the Super Kamiokande detector in Kamioka.
T2K is expected to start taking data in 2009.
The main objectives of the first stage of the T2K experiment are the search of muon into electron neutrino...
