IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2008

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 Mar 2008
1 Apr 2008
2 Apr 2008
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09:00
Plenary Session 2 (until 10:30) ()
09:00 SM/MSSM/Higgs - Dr Stefan Soldner-Rembold (Manchester University)   ()
09:45 QCD and the legacy of HERA - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)   ()
10:30
Coffee (until 11:00) (George Fox Foyer)
11:00
Parallel 2A: Collider Physics - Higgs (until 12:30) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
11:00 The Search for Higgs in the W+W- Decay Channel at the CDF detector at Fermilab - Mr toby davies (glasgow university)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:13 Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in nunu bb Final States - Mr Theo Christoudias (Imperial College)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:26 Weak boson fusion - Sophy Palmer (University of Durham)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:39 Searching for a Higgs Boson in the channel ttH(H->bb) with the ATLAS detector - Ms Lily Asquith (University College London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:52 Higgs self coupling sensitivity at ILC - Mr Michele Faucci Giannelli (Royal Holloway University of London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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12:05 Higgs studies at a future electron-positron collider - Mark Grimes (University of Bristol)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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12:18 Small x gluon from exclusive J/psi production - Ms Cathy Nockles (Liverpool University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:00
Parallel 2B: Flavour Physics - LHC (until 12:30) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
11:00 Quarkonium production and polarisation with early data at ATLAS - Mr Darren Price (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:13 Study of B+->D0(Kspi+pi-)K+ Dalitz decays and Sensitivity to gamma in LHCb - Ms Ying Ying Li (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:26 Measuring Gamma with B0 --> D0K*0 decays at LHCb - Jacopo Nardulli (RAL)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:38 Technical challenges to measurements of the CP phase gamma at LHCb with B->DK decays where the D->KsPiPi - Mr Sean Brisbane (CERN)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:50 B_S->phiphi as a potential probe for New Physics at LHCb - Mr Nicholas Styles (University of Edinburgh)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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12:05 Performance and Physics with the channel Bs → J/ψ ϕ at ATLAS - Mr Alastair Dewhurst (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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12:18 Bs->J/Psi Phi and Misalignment in the ATLAS Detector - Ruth Davidson (Physics Department)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:00
Parallel 2C: ILC Physics and Accelerator (until 12:44) (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
11:00 The top quark threshold at the ILC - Mr Filimon Gournaris (UCL)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:13 Anomalous top coupling at the ILC - from the tools to the physics - Mr Erik Devetak (Oxford University / RAL)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:25 Realistic Reconstruction of top Quark Pairs for the ILC - Ms Talini Pinto Jayawardena (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:37 The LiCAS FSI subsystem current status and initial measurements - Mr John Dale (University of Oxford)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:49 The use of crab cavities in colliders to increase luminosity - Dr Graeme Burt (Lancaster University/ Cockcroft)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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12:01 A Micron-Scale Laser-Based Beam Profile Monitor for High Luminosity Particle Accelerators - Mr Lawrence Deacon (John Adams Institute at RHUL, London, U.K.)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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12:13 Depolarization effects at the interaction point of a linear collider - Dr Anthony Hartin (Oxford University)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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12:25 The effect of electromagnetic backgrounds on an IP feedback system at ILC and CLIC - Ms Christine Clarke (Oxford University)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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09:00
Plenary Session 3 (until 10:30) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
09:00 Astro-Particle - Prof. Ed Copeland (University of Sussex)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
09:30 Neutrinos - Dr Neil McCauley (University of Liverpool)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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10:00 Grid Computing - Dr Glenn Patrick (RAL)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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10:30
Coffee (until 11:00) (George Fox Foyer)
11:00
Parallel 3A: Collider - BSM (until 12:44) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
11:00 A Search for Heavy Resonances in the e+e- Final State - Dave Evans (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:13 Z boson decay to photon plus Kaluza Klein graviton in large extra dimensions - Jordan Skittrall (University of Cambridge, UK)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:26 Simulations of BSM Physics - Mr Martyn Gigg (University of Durham)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:39 Supersymmetric cascade decays and Higgs effects - Ms Alison Fowler (Durham University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:52 CP violation in the MSSM at the LHC - Mr Jamie Tattersall (University of Durham)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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12:05 Trilepton SUSY signatures at ATLAS - Ms Christina Potter (RHUL)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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12:18 Patterns of Gauge Mediation in Metastable Supersymmetry Breaking - Mr Callum Durnford (Durham University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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12:31 Sherpa - an event generator for the LHC - Mr Stefan Hoeche (IPPP, Durham University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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11:00
Parallel 3B: Flavour Physics - LHC (until 12:30) (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
11:00 B-Mixing and b->s gamma in the Lee-Wick Standard Model - Aoife Bharucha (Durham University)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
11:13 Low tan beta MSSM Predictions for B_s -> mu+ mu- at the LHC - Mr Philip Tanedo (Durham University / IPPP)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:26 Rare B to K* mu mu Decays at LHCb - Mr Hugh Skottowe (University of Cambridge)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:39 Measurement of CP and production asymmetries with Bs->DsMuNu decays at LHCb - Mr Kenneth Lessnoff (University of Bristol)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:52 An unbinned method to extract the Forward-Backward Asymmetry of Bd->K*mu+mu- decay on LHCb - Mr Franciole Marinho (University of Glasgow)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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12:05 a_{fs} at LHCb: illuminating new physics - Mr Robert Lambert (Edinburgh LHCb)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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12:18 Probing CP violation in Bs mixing - Colin David Mc Lean (Edinburgh)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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11:00
Parallel 3C: Detector (until 12:44) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
11:00 Smearing of Monte Carlo simulated photon energies in the Babar Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Mr Sudarshan Paramesvaran (Royal Holloway, University of London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:13 LHCb RICH Alignment - Mr Eames Christopher Edward (Imperial College London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:25 A Laser-Based Beam Density Distribution Diagnostic for the RAL Front End Test Stand - David Lee (Imperial College London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:37 Development of wavelength shifters for the ArDM Argon Dark Matter detector - Konstantinos Mavrokoridis (University of Sheffield)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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11:49 The T2K 280m Near Detector P0DECal - Mr Benjamin Still (University of Sheffield)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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12:01 Construction of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter for ND280 and the T2K collaboration - Mr Gavin Davies (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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12:13 Photosensors for the T2K 280m Near Detector - Mark Ward (University Of Sheffield)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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12:25 Positional and Angular Resolution of the CALICE pre-Prototype ECAL - Hakan Yilmaz (Imperial College)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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PM
12:00
Registration and Lunch (until 13:30) (George Fox Foyer)
13:30
Plenary Session 1 (until 15:00) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
13:30 Detectors - Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
14:00 Accelerators - Swapan Chattopadhyay (The Cockcroft Institute)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
14:30 Electroweak - Victoria Martin (University of Edinburgh)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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15:00
Coffee (until 15:30) (George Fox Foyer)
15:30
Parallel 1A: Collider Physics - QCD and Electroweak (until 17:14) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
15:30 Measurement of beauty photoproduction at HERA II with the ZEUS detector - Sarah Boutle (UCL)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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15:43 A data driven measurement of W and Z boson production cross sections in ATLAS - Ms Ellie Dobson (University of Oxford)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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15:56 POWHEG NLO matching in the Herwig++ Monte Carlo Event Generator - Mr Jon Tully (Durham University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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16:09 W and Z Measurements with Initial CMS Data - Mr David Wardrope (Imperial College London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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16:22 Reconstruction of Z->tautau->e+tau jet events using early data with CMS - Mr Petridis Konstantinos (Imperial College)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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16:35 The Inclusive Jet Cross-Section at ATLAS (ApplGrid) - Mr Daniel Robert Clements (University of Glasgow)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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16:48 The CMS L1 trigger: from LHC to SLHC - Mr Rose Andrew William (Imperial College - University of London)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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17:01 CMS upgrade studies - Mr Mark Pesari (Imperial College)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6)
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15:30
Parallel 1B: Flavour Physics B-factory and Tevatron (until 17:00) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
15:30 Measurements of Partial Branching Fractions for B -> X and Determination of |Vub| at BaBar - Mr Michael Sigamani (Queen Mary, University of London))   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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15:43 Evidence for $b \to d \gamma$ Transitions Using a Sum of Exclusive Final States - Mr Mark Tibbetts (Imperial College)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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15:56 Study of B->K*ll decays with BaBar - Ms Jennifer Watson (University of Edinburgh)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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16:09 Time-Dependent Dalitz Plot Analysis of B0->Kspi+pi- Decays - Jelena Ilic (University of Warwick)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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16:22 Measurement of the branching fraction Br(Bs -> Ds(*) Ds(*)) by the D0 Experiment - Mr James Walder (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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16:35 First observation of the excited Bs2* meson at D0 - Mr Mark Williams (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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16:48 Study of direct CP violation in $Study of direct CP violation in B^{\pm} \to J/\psi K^{\pm}(\pi^{\pm})$ decays - Mr Kostyantyn Holubyev (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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15:30
Parallel 1C: Neutrino Physics (until 17:00) (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
15:30 Double beta decay of Neodymium-150 in the NEMO-3 experiment - Ms nasim fatemi-ghomi (manchesteruniversity)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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15:43 Lepton Number Violating mSUGRA and Neutrino Masses - Mr Steve Chun-Hay Kom (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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15:56 The SciBooNE Experiment: Motivation, Construction and CCQE Analysis - Mr Joseph Walding (Imperial College London)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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16:09 MINOS Electron Neutrino Appearance Analysis - Ms Anna Holin (University College London)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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16:21 K2K nu_mu disappearance analysis with an expanded fiducial volume at Super-Kamiokande - Ryan Terri (Queen Mary, Univeristy of London)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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16:33 Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Mr Simon Bevan (UCL)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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16:48 CRESST to EURECA: Progress with cryogenic dark matter searches - Dr Samuel Henry (University of Oxford)   (George Fox Seminar Room B56)
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17:00
Poster Presentations (until 18:00) (George Fox Foyer)
18:00
Reception (until 19:00) (Barker House Farm)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00) (Barker House Farm)
15:30
Coffee (until 16:00) (George Fox Foyer)
16:00
STFC Town Meeting Session 2 (until 17:30) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
16:00 Progress on PP2020 - Mark Lancaster (UCL)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
16:15 PP Outreach Activities - Ray Mathias (LHC Outreach Officer)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
19:00
Conference Dinner (until 22:00) (Lancaster House Hotel)
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30) (Barker House Farm)
13:30
IOP HEPP Annual General Meeting (until 14:00) ()
14:00
Plenary Session 4 (until 15:30) (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
14:00 Heavy Flavour and CP Violation - Maria Smizanska (Lancaster University)   (George Fox Foyer)
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14:45 Theory Overview - Prof. Nigel Glover (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham)   (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)
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