Name: IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2008
Start: 2008-03-31T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-04-02T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Lancaster University

IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2008

from Monday, 31 March 2008 (12:00) to Wednesday, 2 April 2008 (16:00)

Monday, 31 March 2008

12:00

12:00 - 13:30
Room: George Fox Foyer
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

13:30 Detectors - Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)

14:00 Accelerators - Swapan Chattopadhyay (The Cockcroft Institute)

14:30 Electroweak - Victoria Martin (University of Edinburgh)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: George Fox Foyer
15:30
15:30 - 17:14
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6
Contributions

15:30 Measurement of beauty photoproduction at HERA II with the ZEUS detector - Sarah Boutle (UCL)

15:43 A data driven measurement of W and Z boson production cross sections in ATLAS - Ellie Dobson (University of Oxford)

15:56 POWHEG NLO matching in the Herwig++ Monte Carlo Event Generator - Jon Tully (Durham University)

16:09 W and Z Measurements with Initial CMS Data - David Wardrope (Imperial College London)

16:22 Reconstruction of Z->tautau->e+tau jet events using early data with CMS - Petridis Konstantinos (Imperial College)

16:35 The Inclusive Jet Cross-Section at ATLAS (ApplGrid) - Daniel Robert Clements (University of Glasgow)

16:48 The CMS L1 trigger: from LHC to SLHC - Rose Andrew William (Imperial College - University of London)

17:01 CMS upgrade studies - Mark Pesari (Imperial College)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

15:30 Measurements of Partial Branching Fractions for B -> X and Determination of |Vub| at BaBar - Michael Sigamani (Queen Mary, University of London))

15:43 Evidence for $b \to d \gamma$ Transitions Using a Sum of Exclusive Final States - Mark Tibbetts (Imperial College)

15:56 Study of B->K*ll decays with BaBar - Jennifer Watson (University of Edinburgh)

16:09 Time-Dependent Dalitz Plot Analysis of B0->Kspi+pi- Decays - Jelena Ilic (University of Warwick)

16:22 Measurement of the branching fraction Br(Bs -> Ds(*) Ds(*)) by the D0 Experiment - James Walder (Lancaster University)

16:35 First observation of the excited Bs2* meson at D0 - Mark Williams (Lancaster University)

16:48 Study of direct CP violation in $Study of direct CP violation in B^{\pm} \to J/\psi K^{\pm}(\pi^{\pm})$ decays - Kostyantyn Holubyev (Lancaster University)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: George Fox Seminar Room B56
Contributions

15:30 Double beta decay of Neodymium-150 in the NEMO-3 experiment - nasim fatemi-ghomi (manchesteruniversity)

15:43 Lepton Number Violating mSUGRA and Neutrino Masses - Steve Chun-Hay Kom (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

15:56 The SciBooNE Experiment: Motivation, Construction and CCQE Analysis - Joseph Walding (Imperial College London)

16:09 MINOS Electron Neutrino Appearance Analysis - Anna Holin (University College London)

16:21 K2K nu_mu disappearance analysis with an expanded fiducial volume at Super-Kamiokande - Ryan Terri (Queen Mary, Univeristy of London)

16:33 Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Simon Bevan (UCL)

16:48 CRESST to EURECA: Progress with cryogenic dark matter searches - Samuel Henry (University of Oxford)
17:00

17:00 - 18:00
Room: George Fox Foyer

18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Barker House Farm
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 SM/MSSM/Higgs - Stefan Soldner-Rembold (Manchester University)

09:45 QCD and the legacy of HERA - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: George Fox Foyer
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

11:00 The Search for Higgs in the W+W- Decay Channel at the CDF detector at Fermilab - toby davies (glasgow university)

11:13 Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in nunu bb Final States - Theo Christoudias (Imperial College)

11:26 Weak boson fusion - Sophy Palmer (University of Durham)

11:39 Searching for a Higgs Boson in the channel ttH(H->bb) with the ATLAS detector - Lily Asquith (University College London)

11:52 Higgs self coupling sensitivity at ILC - Michele Faucci Giannelli (Royal Holloway University of London)

12:05 Higgs studies at a future electron-positron collider - Mark Grimes (University of Bristol)

12:18 Small x gluon from exclusive J/psi production - Cathy Nockles (Liverpool University)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6
Contributions

11:00 Quarkonium production and polarisation with early data at ATLAS - Darren Price (Lancaster University)

11:13 Study of B+->D0(Kspi+pi-)K+ Dalitz decays and Sensitivity to gamma in LHCb - Ying Ying Li (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

11:26 Measuring Gamma with B0 --> D0K*0 decays at LHCb - Jacopo Nardulli (RAL)

11:38 Technical challenges to measurements of the CP phase gamma at LHCb with B->DK decays where the D->KsPiPi - Sean Brisbane (CERN)

11:50 B_S->phiphi as a potential probe for New Physics at LHCb - Nicholas Styles (University of Edinburgh)

12:05 Performance and Physics with the channel Bs → J/ψ ϕ at ATLAS - Alastair Dewhurst (Lancaster University)

12:18 Bs->J/Psi Phi and Misalignment in the ATLAS Detector - Ruth Davidson (Physics Department)
11:00 - 12:44
Room: George Fox Seminar Room B56
Contributions

11:00 The top quark threshold at the ILC - Filimon Gournaris (UCL)

11:13 Anomalous top coupling at the ILC - from the tools to the physics - Erik Devetak (Oxford University / RAL)

11:25 Realistic Reconstruction of top Quark Pairs for the ILC - Talini Pinto Jayawardena (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

11:37 The LiCAS FSI subsystem current status and initial measurements - John Dale (University of Oxford)

11:49 The use of crab cavities in colliders to increase luminosity - Graeme Burt (Lancaster University/ Cockcroft)

12:01 A Micron-Scale Laser-Based Beam Profile Monitor for High Luminosity Particle Accelerators - Lawrence Deacon (John Adams Institute at RHUL, London, U.K.)

12:13 Depolarization effects at the interaction point of a linear collider - Anthony Hartin (Oxford University)

12:25 The effect of electromagnetic backgrounds on an IP feedback system at ILC and CLIC - Christine Clarke (Oxford University)
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Barker House Farm

15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: George Fox Foyer
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

16:00 Progress on PP2020 - Mark Lancaster (UCL)

16:15 PP Outreach Activities - Ray Mathias (LHC Outreach Officer)
19:00

19:00 - 22:00
Room: Lancaster House Hotel
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

09:00 Astro-Particle - Ed Copeland (University of Sussex)

09:30 Neutrinos - Neil McCauley (University of Liverpool)

10:00 Grid Computing - Glenn Patrick (RAL)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: George Fox Foyer
11:00
11:00 - 12:44
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

11:00 A Search for Heavy Resonances in the e+e- Final State - Dave Evans (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)

11:13 Z boson decay to photon plus Kaluza Klein graviton in large extra dimensions - Jordan Skittrall (University of Cambridge, UK)

11:26 Simulations of BSM Physics - Martyn Gigg (University of Durham)

11:39 Supersymmetric cascade decays and Higgs effects - Alison Fowler (Durham University)

11:52 CP violation in the MSSM at the LHC - Jamie Tattersall (University of Durham)

12:05 Trilepton SUSY signatures at ATLAS - Christina Potter (RHUL)

12:18 Patterns of Gauge Mediation in Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking - Callum Durnford (Durham University)

12:31 Sherpa - an event generator for the LHC - Stefan Hoeche (IPPP, Durham University)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: George Fox Seminar Room B56
Contributions

11:00 B-Mixing and b->s gamma in the Lee-Wick Standard Model - Aoife Bharucha (Durham University)

11:13 Low tan beta MSSM Predictions for B_s -> mu+ mu- at the LHC - Philip Tanedo (Durham University / IPPP)

11:26 Rare B to K* mu mu Decays at LHCb - Hugh Skottowe (University of Cambridge)

11:39 Measurement of CP and production asymmetries with Bs->DsMuNu decays at LHCb - Kenneth Lessnoff (University of Bristol)

11:52 An unbinned method to extract the Forward-Backward Asymmetry of Bd->K*mu+mu- decay on LHCb - Franciole Marinho (University of Glasgow)

12:05 a_{fs} at LHCb: illuminating new physics - Robert Lambert (Edinburgh LHCb)

12:18 Probing CP violation in Bs mixing - Colin David Mc Lean (Edinburgh)
11:00 - 12:44
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6
Contributions

11:00 Smearing of Monte Carlo simulated photon energies in the Babar Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Sudarshan Paramesvaran (Royal Holloway, University of London)

11:13 LHCb RICH Alignment - Eames Christopher Edward (Imperial College London)

11:25 A Laser-Based Beam Density Distribution Diagnostic for the RAL Front End Test Stand - David Lee (Imperial College London)

11:37 Development of wavelength shifters for the ArDM Argon Dark Matter detector - Konstantinos Mavrokoridis (University of Sheffield)

11:49 The T2K 280m Near Detector P0DECal - Benjamin Still (University of Sheffield)

12:01 Construction of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter for ND280 and the T2K collaboration - Gavin Davies (Lancaster University)

12:13 Photosensors for the T2K 280m Near Detector - Mark Ward (University Of Sheffield)

12:25 Positional and Angular Resolution of the CALICE pre-Prototype ECAL - Hakan Yilmaz (Imperial College)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Barker House Farm

13:30

13:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: George Fox Lecture Theatre 1
Contributions

14:00 Heavy Flavour and CP Violation - Maria Smizanska (Lancaster University)

14:45 Theory Overview - Nigel Glover (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham)

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