LHC students poster session

Wednesday 5 Mar 2014, 16:55 → 19:05 Europe/Zurich

61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room - (CERN)

Poster session on the most recent physics results from the LHC experiments, prepared by the experiments' PhD students. The session will take place during the Wednesday afternoon session of the March 2014 LHCC, starting at 5pm. Venue: Salle des Pas Perdus (the area outside the Main Auditorium, and leading to the Council Chamber) Refreshments will be served.

Floorplan floorplan14.pdf

Jets and QCD studies

• hard jets: production and properties
• MB&UE studies
• small-x, diffraction
• general properties of pp collisions: elastic, inelastic, diffractive cross sections

1 Hadronic event shapes in pp collisions at 7 TeV with the CMS detector

Speaker: Sandeep Bhowmik (Visva-Bharati University (IN))

Slides hadronic_event_shapes.pdf

2 Measurement of Drell-Yan and associated jet cross section at low and high invariant masses with the CMS detector

Speaker: Samantha Katherine Dooling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides Dooling_LHCC.pdf

3 PDF constraints and extraction of the strong coupling constant from the inclusive jet cross section at 7 TeV with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Georg Sieber (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides poster.pdf

EW gauge bosons

4 Electroweak (VBF) production of a Z boson in association with forward/backward jets at CMS

Speaker: Tom Cornelis (University of Antwerp (BE))

Slides LHCC-EWKZjj.pdf

5 Forward Z+jet production in $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV pp collisions at LHCb

Speaker: Valdir Salustino Guimaraes (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

Poster LHCCvaldir.pdf

6 Measurement of differential isolated diphoton production cross section at CMS

Speaker: Marco Peruzzi (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides poster_LHCC.pdf

7 Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z boson with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (University College London (UK))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1664578

8 Measurement of the production cross sections for a Z boson and one or more b jets at 7 TeV with the CMS detector

Speaker: Adrien Caudron (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Poster 140076_AdrienCaudronPosterLHCC2014.pdf

9 Measurements of inclusive Z and Z plus D production at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV at LHCb

Speaker: Ronan James Wallace (University College Dublin (IE))

Slides ZLHCC.pdf

10 Measurements of the inclusive σ(pp→4l) at the Z resonance with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Bing Li (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1664566

11 Study of charm and bottom production in association with a W boson at CMS

Speaker: Thomas Mastrianni Perry (University of Wisconsin (US))

Slides TMPerry_WplusHF_LHCC.pdf

Heavy Ion Collisions

12 CMS pA dijet measurements

Speaker: Doga Can Gulhan (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

Slides lhcc_2014_gulhan.pdf

13 Measurement of D-hadron azimuthal correlations in pp and p-Pb collisions with ALICE

Speaker: Jitendra Kumar (IIT- Indian Institute of Technology (IN))

Slides D_hadron_Poster_LHCC_Jitendra_ALICE.pdf

14 Measurement of electrons from charm- and beauty-hadron decays in p-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV with ALICE at the LHC

Speaker: Jan Wagner (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Poster jwagner_LHCC2014.pdf

15 Measurement of the D-meson nuclear modification factor in p-Pb collisions with ALICE

Speaker: Riccardo Russo (Universita e INFN (IT))

16 Minijets analysis with two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions with ALICE

Speaker: Emilia Leogrande (University of Utrecht (NL))

17 Results of the LHCf experiment in the p-Pb run

Speaker: Marina Del Prete (Unknown)

Physics of heavy flavours

• charm and bottom hadron decays
• charm and bottom hadron spectroscopy
• CKM and CP violation
• BSM studies with heavy quarks

18 A time-dependent measurement of charm CP violation at LHCb

Speaker: Mark Elliot Smith (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides Charm_poster.pdf

19 Azimuthal angular correlations between heavy-flavour decay electrons and charged hadrons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ALICE detector

Speaker: Jasper Van Der Maarel (University of Utrecht (NL))

Poster 2014-Mar-03-conferencefile-poster.pdf

20 B_s→D_s^(*)+D_s^(*)- decays at LHCb

Speaker: Adrian Andrew Pritchard (University of Liverpool (GB))

Poster LHCCStudentPosterFINAL.pdf

21 Branching fraction of B_s→D_sK at LHCb

Speaker: Lennaert Johannes Bel (NIKHEF (NL))

Poster lhcc_poster_converted.pdf

22 LHCb searches for $\Lambda_b^0$ and $\Xi_b^0$ decays to $K_S^0p\pi^-$ and $K_S^0pK^-$ final states with first observation of the $\Lambda_b^0\to K_S^0p\pi^-$ decay

Speaker: Rafael Silva Coutinho (University of Warwick (GB))

Poster LHCC_poster.pdf

23 Measurement of helicity amplitudes of the decay Λ_b→J/ψ+Λ in the ATLAS experiment

Speakers: Dongliang Zhang (University of Michigan (US)), Hok Chuen Cheng (University of Michigan (US))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665455

24 Measurement of the B_c Lifetime in semileptonic decays at LHCb

Speaker: Lucio Anderlini (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides poster.pdf

25 Mixing and CP violation in the Bs system with ATLAS

Speaker: Tomas Jakoubek (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Poster ATLAS-LHCC-Jakoubek_2014_2_a0_eps_figs.pdf

26 Observation of photon polarization in B→Kππγ decays at LHCb

Speaker: Giovanni Veneziano (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Poster lhcc_poster.pdf

27 Prospect for rare strange decays at LHCb

Speaker: Carla Marin Benito (University of Barcelona (ES))

Poster LHCb_poster_StrangeDecays_v1.7.pdf

28 Prospects for Λ_b→pμν at LHCb

Speaker: William Lawrence Sutcliffe (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides LHCC_poster_port.pdf

Top quark physics

• top quark properties and couplings
• top quark production

29 Combination of the CMS measurements of the top quark mass

Speaker: Eunhyang Kwon (Sungkyunkwan University (KR))

Slides LHCC2014_TopMass_ehkwon.pdf

30 First observation of single top production in the tW-channel in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Daniel Noonan (University of Kansas (US))

Poster SingleTop_tW_8TeV_LHCCVersion_v2.pdf

31 Measurement of the top-quair pair production cross section in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the CMS detector

Speaker: Taimoor Khurshid (Quaid-i-Azam University (PK))

Poster LHCC2014_Poster_A0_Taimoor_v1.pdf

32 Measurement of the top-quark pair+photon production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the CMS detector

Speaker: Heiner Tholen (Hamburg University (DE))

Poster LHCC_ttgam_tholen.pdf

33 Measurement of top polarization in t-channel single-top production at CMS

Speaker: Andres Tiko (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))

Poster poster.pdf

34 Normalized differential cross-section measurements for top-quark pair production at ATLAS

Speaker: Clare Sullivan Bernard (Boston University (US))

Poster ATLAS-LHCC-Poster.pdf

35 Search for s-channel single top-quark production in p-p collisions at 8 TeV by the CMS

Speaker: Ferdos Rezaei Hosseinabadi (School of Particles and Accelerator Inst. for Res. in Fundam. S)

Poster LHCCposter_FerdosRezaei.pdf

36 Spin correlations in top events at 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Boris Lemmer (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665428

37 Study of the underlying event and exclusive b decays in top-pair events at CMS

Speaker: Elvire Bouvier (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Poster Study of the underlying event and exclusive b decays in top-pair events at CMS

38 Top-quark charge asymmetry at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Francesco Rubbo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1664579 LHCC2014_v4.pdf

Higgs studies

39 CP-mixing in the H→ZZ*→4l channel with ATLAS

Speaker: Giuliano Gustavino (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

Slides LHCC_POSTER_GUSTAVINO.pdf

40 Determination of spin and parity of the Higgs boson in the WW decay channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Johannes Mattmann (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665656

41 Measurements of the Higgs boson in the WW decay channel with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Jonathan Long (University of Michigan (US))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665427

42 Properties of the Higgs-like boson in the H ->ZZ -> 4 leptons decay channel at CMS

Speaker: Linda Finco (Universita e INFN (IT))

Poster poster_LHCC_finco.pdf

43 Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Caterina Vernieri (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

Poster posterLHCC_cvernieri_2014.pdf

BSM searches

• Direct searches of the production of new particles (SUSY, Z', heavy quarks, ....)

44 A general search for new phenomena with the ATLAS detector at √s = 8 TeV

Speaker: Simone Amoroso (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1666537

45 Probes for magnetic monopoles with ATLAS and MoEDAL

Speaker: Akshay Katre (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665736

46 Search for a vector-like bottom quark partner at CMS

Speaker: Devdatta Majumder (National Taiwan University (TW))

Slides DMajumder_LHCC2014_Poster_Poster.pdf

47 Search for charginos, neutralinos and sleptons in 1 or 2 lepton final state events with ATLAS

Speakers: Claire Anne Sophie David (University of Victoria (CA)), Ryuichi Ueno (Carleton University (CA))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665646

48 Search for electroweak SUSY production with 3-leptons at ATLAS

Speaker: Ryo Nagai (Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665663

49 Search for excited quarks in the photon + jet final state in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Varun Sharma (University of Delhi (IN))

Slides LHCC2014_PosterSession_varun.pdf

50 Search for Higgs boson production within supersymmetric cascades in hadronic final states using invariant mass distribution and MT2 at CMS

Speaker: Mario Masciovecchio (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides Mario-Masciovecchio_poster_LHCC2014.pdf

51 Search for new masssive resonances in dilepton mass spectra in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the CMS detector

Speaker: Thomas Reis (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

Poster poster_LHCC2014.pdf

52 Search for resonant Higgs-pair production in the bbbb final state with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Rebecca Jane Falla (University College London (UK))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1666511

53 Search for the lepton flavour violating decay $\tau^-\to\mu^+\mu^-\mu^-$ with the LHCb detector

Speaker: Laura Gavardi (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

Poster LauraGavardi_LHCCposter.pdf

54 Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to top quark - tau lepton pairs in pp collisions with the CMS detector

Speaker: Halil Saka (Princeton University (US))

Poster posterLHCC_EXO12030_HalilSaka_V6.pdf

55 Search for top-squark pair production in the single-lepton final state in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Alexandre Aubin (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

Poster poster.pdf

56 Search for vector-like quarks with charge (-1/3 e) in final states with 3 or more leptons at CMS

Speaker: Christian Contreras Campana (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

Slides Christian_Contreras-Campana_LHCC_Poster.pdf

57 Searches for electroweak SUSY production at CMS

Speaker: Marc Dunser (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides 2014-03-05-LHCC.pdf

Physics performance, upgrades, etc

Physics performance, simulation, luminosity determination, trigger, detector R&D

58 ATLAS calorimeter performance in Run-1

Speakers: Blake Oliver Burghgrave (Northern Illinois University (US)), Elodie Tiouchichine (CPPM / Aix Marseille University)

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665640

59 ATLAS offline beam spot in 2012

Speaker: David Ren-Hwa Yu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665618

60 B-tagging performance measurements with the ATLAS detector at √s = 8 TeV

Speaker: Lei Zhou (Columbia University (US))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665451

61 Electron performances in ATLAS

Speaker: Eleonora Benhar Noccioli (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665452

62 Exclusive reconstruction of B meson decays with the ALICE inner tracker upgrade

Speaker: Johannes Hendrik Stiller (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Slides Johannes_Stiller_-_LHCC_Poster_-_ITS_Upgrade_v3.pdf

63 Fast Interaction Trigger for ALICE

Speaker: Tatiana Karavicheva (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

Slides ALICE_FIT_poster_05092014.pdf

64 First results and prospects of CMS-CASTOR together with TOTEM-T2

Speaker: Clemens Wohrmann (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Poster CastorPosterLHCC_v4.pdf

65 Jet calibration, substructure techniques and preparation for the HL-LHC in ATLAS

Speaker: Chris Malena Delitzsch (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1664572

66 Measuring the ATLAS b-tagging performance using top events and a combinatorial likelihood approach

Speaker: Jelena Jovicevic (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665645

67 Missing transverse momentum in ATLAS: current and future performance

Speaker: Steven Randolph Schramm (University of Toronto (CA))

Poster ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2014-061.pdf https://cds.cern.ch/record/1664513

68 Muon reconstruction efficiency, momentum scale and resolution in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Aleksandra Dimitrievska (University of Belgrade (RS))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665715

69 Performance of tau reconstruction and identification for Run-1 in ATLAS

Speaker: Benedict Tobias Winter (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

Poster ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2014-072.pdf

70 Performance of the ATLAS muon trigger in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

Speaker: Yoichi Ninomiya (University of Tokyo (JP))

Poster https://cds.cern.ch/record/1665445

71 Quark/gluon jet discrimination in 8 TeV pp data at CMS

Speaker: Andrea Carlo Marini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides 2014_03_05_LHCC_QuarkGluon.pdf

72 RF Optimization of the New TOTEM Roman Pot

Speaker: Nicola Minafra (Universita e INFN (IT))

Poster Poster_nminafra_web.pdf

73 TOTEM Trigger System

Speaker: Josef Kopal (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides LHC_poster_session.pdf

74 Trigger tracking for the LHCb upgrade

Speaker: Kevin Dungs (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

Poster TriggerTracking_kdungs.pdf