Beauty 2014

14 Jul 2014, 09:00 → 18 Jul 2014, 14:00 Europe/London

Playfair Library (Edinburgh)

The purpose of the Beauty 2014 conference is to review results in the field of B-physics and CP-violation, as well as to explore the physics potential of existing and upcoming B-physics experiments at frontier machines.

Monday 14 July

09:00 → 10:00 Registration

10:00 → 11:00 Overview

10:00 Welcome

Speaker: Franz Muheim (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides beauty-2014-welcome.pdf beauty-2014-welcome.ppt

10:15 New Physics at LHC run II: perspectives, visions

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

Slides JE-Beauty2014.pdf JE-Beauty2014.pptx

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 12:30 Mixing, Lifetimes, CP violation: Session I

11:20 Bs-Bsbar mixing and lifetimes 25'+5'

Speaker: Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)

Slides Lenz_BEAUTY2014.pdf

11:50 Lifetimes: Lambda-B, Bs, ... 17'+3'

Speaker: Paolo Gandini (Syracuse University (US))

Slides gandini_Beauty2014.pdf

12:10 Semileptonic B decays at LHCb 17'+3'

Speaker: Katharina Kreplin (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Slides Kreplin_Beauty_v4.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:05 Mixing, Lifetimes, CP violation: Session II

14:00 CP asymmetries in Bs->J/psiX decays 20'+5'

Speaker: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides 140714-Beauty.pdf

14:25 Mixing and CP violation in the decay Bs->J/psiphi in Atlas 17'+3'

Speaker: William James Dearnaley (Lancaster University (GB))

Slides Dearnaley-2011_CONF_NOTE-Beauty2014-2014_07_14-Approved.pdf

14:45 Measurement of phi_s and DeltaGamma_s at CMS 17'+3'

Speaker: Prof. Paula Eerola (University of Helsinki (FI))

Slides Beauty-phis-Eerola-final.pdf

15:05 → 15:55 Semileptonic decays at B factories: Session I

15:05 Semileptonic decays at B Factories 20'+5'

Speaker: Bill Gary (University of California Riverside (US))

Slides gary-beauty-2014.pdf

15:30 Missing energy B modes at B Factories 20'+5'

Speaker: Prof. Youngjoon Kwon (Yonsei University)

Slides yjkwon_Emiss.pdf

15:55 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 16:50 Semileptonic decays at B factories: Session II

16:20 |Vub|, |Vcb| determination and hadronic form factors 25'+5'

Speaker: Aoife Bharucha (Hamburg University)

Slides Aoife-Beauty.pdf

16:50 → 18:20 Heavy flavour production: Session I

16:50 Heavy flavour production 25'+5'

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

Slides hvq.pdf

17:20 Quarkonium production and polarization in pp collisions with the CMS detector 17'+3'

Speaker: Valentin Knunz (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

Slides CMS_onia_BEAUTY2014_final.pdf

17:40 Measurement of associated production of vector bosons with b-jets, with a charm quark, and with a J/psi meson in ATLAS 17'+3'

Speaker: Miriam Watson (University of Birmingham (GB))

Slides beauty.pdf

18:00 B0 and B0s production asymmetries and LambdaB production at LHCb 17'+3'

Speaker: Maria Zangoli (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides Zangoli_beauty14.pdf

18:45 → 19:45 Reception

Tuesday 15 July

09:00 → 10:25 Heavy flavour production: Session II

09:00 Heavy flavour production in ATLAS: Onia and open flavour hadrons 17'+3'

Speaker: Ioannis Nomidis (Carleton University)

Slides Beauty2014-Nomidis.pdf

09:20 Beauty physics with heavy ions and prospects 17'+3'

Speaker: Alessandro De Falco (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides adf-beauty14.pdf

09:45 Heavy flavour production at CMS in heavy ion collisions 17'+3'

Speaker: Matthew Andre Nguyen (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Slides Beauty_150714_MAN_v2.pdf

10:05 Beauty contribution to the proton structure function and charm results 17'+3'

Speaker: Andrea Longhin (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

Slides Longhin_Beauty2014_v1.pdf

10:25 → 10:55 Coffee

10:55 → 12:15 CP Violation: Session I

10:55 B -> Open charm 17'+3'

Speaker: Daniel Charles Craik (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides 20140715_Beauty_B2DKpi_DanielCraik.pdf

11:15 Charmless B decays: Dalitz 17'+3'

Speaker: Marianna Fontana (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))

Slides BEAUTY_talk.pdf

11:35 Charmless B decays: 2 body and B->VV 17'+3'

Speaker: Cibran Santamarina Rios (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Slides beauty_2014_cibran_santamarina.pdf

11:55 Amplitude analysis in B->J/psiX decays 17'+3'

Speaker: Greig Cowan (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides gcowan_amplitude_lhcb.pdf

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 CP Violation: Session II

13:45 Gamma determinations 25'+5'

Speaker: Marco Ciuchini (Sezione Sanita(ISS))

Slides Ciuchini-Beauty14.pdf

14:15 Gamma measurements 25'+5'

Speaker: Sneha Sirirshkumar Malde (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides 15-07-14-CKM14_v2.pdf

14:45 CP violation in D and B decays at B factories 25+5'

Speaker: Prof. Bostjan Golob (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Slides beauty14.pptx

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee

15:15 → 15:45 Poster session

15:45 → 17:45 Spectroscopy, onia and exotics

15:45 Beauty and charm spectroscopy 25'+5'

Speaker: Antonio Augusto Alves Junior (INFN sezione di Roma "La Sapienza" - CERN)

Slides talk_BEAUTY.pdf

16:15 Spectroscopy of Onia and hadrons with open beauty in ATLAS 17'+3'

Speaker: Robert Henderson (Lancaster University)

Slides henderson-spectroscopy5.pdf

16:35 Production of exotic hadrons at CMS 17'+3'

Speakers: Kai Yi (University of Iowa (US)), Prof. Paula Eerola (University of Helsinki (FI))

Slides beauty2014-kai-yi.pdf

16:55 Recent results in (exotic) charmonium spectroscopy 17'+3'

Speaker: Wenbiao Yan

Slides wenbiao.pdf

17:15 Spectroscopy and exotics 25'+5'

Speaker: Antonio Polosa (Universita' La Sapienza, Roma - Italy)

Slides Polosa_beauty14.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Whisky Tasting

will take place in Kirkland suite in South Hall complex which is located on Pollock Halls campus

Wednesday 16 July

09:00 → 10:45 Charm physics: Session I

09:00 Charm theory 25'+5'

Speaker: Roman Zwicky (edinburgh university)

Slides 14_Beauty.pdf

09:30 Searches for CP violation in two-body D decays 20'+5'

Speaker: Angelo Carbone (University of Bologna and INFN (IT))

Slides CarboneBeauty2014.pdf

09:55 Searches for CP and T violation in multibody D decays 20'+5'

Speaker: Jinlin Fu (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

Slides beauty2014_jfu.pdf

10:20 Leptonic and semileptonic D meson decays 20'+5'

Speaker: Hailong Ma

Slides Beauty2014-mahl-ok.pdf

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 11:40 Charm physics: Session II

11:10 Lattice QCD 25'+5'

Speaker: Aida El-Khadra (UIUC)

Slides axk_beauty2014.pdf

11:40 → 12:40 Instrumentation

11:40 LHCb trigger in Run I and prospects for Run II 17'+3'

Speaker: Sebastian Neubert (CERN)

Slides hltBeauty14.pdf

12:00 Tracking detectors for Belle II 17'+3'

Speaker: Tomoko Iwashita (N)

Slides Beauty2014_iwashita_v4.pdf

12:20 Particle identification for Belle II 17'+3'

Speaker: Tomokatsu Hayakawa

Slides hayakawa-beauty2014-ver1.1.pdf

12:40 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 17:00 Half-Day Excursions

Edinburgh Castle & Royal Mile Walking Tour or Forth Bridges Cruise Bus and Boat Tour

Thursday 17 July

09:00 → 10:40 Other flavour physics: Lepton flavour violation, kaons

09:00 Exotic searches such as Majorana neutrinos 17'+3'

Speaker: Veerle Heijne (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides Exotic_searches_LHCb_BEAUTY2014_Veerle.pdf

09:20 Kaon physics 20'+5'

Speaker: Marco Sozzi (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

Slides Beauty14.pdf Beauty14.ppt

09:45 Tau results from B factories 20'+5'

Speaker: Georges Vasseur (CEA)

Slides Vasseur_Tau.pdf

10:10 Lepton flavour violation 25'+5'

Speaker: Dr Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides beauty14-cirigliano.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 12:00 Other flavour physics: Tevatron final results

11:10 B physics results from D0 20'+5'

Speaker: Dr Iain Bertram (Lancaster University)

Slides IAB_Beauty_2014.pdf

11:35 B physics results from CDF 20'+5'

Speaker: Jonathan Rosner (University of Chicago)

Slides cdfb.pdf

12:00 → 12:45 Poster Session

12:00 Effective lifetimes of B->hh decays

Speaker: Paul Sail (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides BeautyPoster2014_slides.pdf

12:05 Measurement of CP violation in Bs->J/psiKK decays

Speaker: Dianne Marion Ferguson (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides beauty_pres_dianneferguson.pdf

12:10 Measurement of CP violation in B0_s -> phi phi decays

Speaker: Adam Morris (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides BsPhiPhiPosterSlides.pdf

12:15 LHCb Upstream Tracker

Speaker: Paolo Gandini (Syracuse University (US))

Slides poster_presentation_Gandini.pdf

12:20 Characteristics and magnetic field properties of the Hamamatsu R11265 Multi-Anode Photomultiplier Tubes

Speaker: Haofei Luo (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides Beauty_slides.pdf

12:25 First evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay B0 -> ppbar

Speaker: John Beddow (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides Beddow_Beauty2014_slides.pdf

12:30 Measurement of indirect CP asymmetries in D0 -> K-K+ and D0 -> pi-pi+ decays

Speaker: Michael Thomas Alexander (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides Beauty-Talk-MAlexander.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Rare decays: Session I

14:00 Rare and supressed decays of B0 mesons with the ATLAS detector 17'+3'

Speaker: Wolfgang Walkowiak (Universitaet Siegen (DE))

Slides beauty2014_walkowiak_1.pdf

14:20 Search for Bs,d->mumu decays at CMS 17'+3'

Speaker: Arno Heister (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

Slides CMS_Bs_BEAUTY_2014_Arno.pdf

14:40 Very rare B decays 17'+3'

Speaker: Matteo Rama (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

Slides VRD_lhcb.pdf

15:00 Rare leptonic decays 25'+5'

Speaker: Mikolaj Krzysztof Misiak (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

Slides Misiak.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Rare decays: Session II

16:00 Electroweak penguins with di‐leptons 20'+5'

Speaker: Christoph Michael Langenbruch (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides langenbruch.pdf

16:25 EW and radiative penguin transitions from B factories 20'+5'

Speaker: Prof. Paoti Chang (National Taiwan University)

Slides BEAUTY_PChang_3.pdf

16:50 Radiate electroweak penguins 17'+3'

Speaker: Albert Puig Navarro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Slides RadiativeElectroweakPenguins.pdf

17:10 Study of FCNC in top quark production and decay with the ATLAS detector 17'+3'

Speaker: Juan Pedro Araque Espinosa (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

Slides slides.pdf

17:30 Semileptonic Rare decays 25'+5'

Speaker: Christoph Bobeth (Technical University Munich)

Slides bobeth_Beauty-2014-07-17.pdf

19:30 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 18 July

09:00 → 11:00 Future programme

09:00 LHCb upgrade 20'+5'

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Cardini (INFN Cagliari, Italy)

Slides 000_-_LHCb_Upgrade_-_final.pdf 000_-_LHCb_Upgrade_-_final.pptx

09:25 Belle II complementarity 20'+5'

Speaker: Prof. Youngjoon Kwon (Yonsei University)

Slides Belle2_yjkwon_v1.0.pdf

09:50 CMS B-physics prospects at HL-LHC 17'+3'

Speakers: Kai Yi (University of Iowa (US)), Mario Galanti (Universita di Padova e INFN Padova (IT))

Slides Beauty2014Mario.pdf

10:10 The B-physics programme of ATLAS in LHC Run-II and in HL-LHC 17'+3'

Speaker: Dr Pavel Reznicek (Charles University (CZ))

Slides ATLAS_Bphys_Run2HLLHC_reznicek.odp ATLAS_Bphys_Run2HLLHC_reznicek.pdf

10:30 Beyond the Standard Model 25'+5'

Speaker: Jernej F. Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)

Slides Kamenik_Beauty2014_1.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:10 Other flavour physics: Beauty baryons

11:30 Beauty baryon at LHCb 17'+3'

Speaker: Steven R. Blusk (Syracuse University (US))

Slides Beauty2014_Blusk_v2.pdf Beauty2014_Blusk_v2.pptx

11:50 Studies of Lambda_b in ATLAS: decays to charmonium states and parity violating asymmetry 17'+3'

Speaker: Dongliang Zhang (University of Michigan (US))

Slides Dongliang_Zhang_Beauty2014.pdf

12:10 → 12:55 Summary

12:10 Summary talk 40'+5'

Speaker: Hassan Jawahery (Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics Groups)

Slides Beauty-2014-summary.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch