Conveners
Student Talks
- Maien Binjonaid (University of Southampton)
- Barry Dillon (University of Sussex)
Sophie King
(QMUL / University of Southampton)
25/06/2014, 14:10
T2K is an off-axis long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, optimised to measure theta13 and delta-cp, using a muon neutrino beam. The best mode of flavour transformation for this is to look for electron neutrino appearance, and the dominant background for such measurements is the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the beam itself. I will discuss the work being done at, and...
Heather MCASLAN
(University of Sussex)
25/06/2014, 14:30
I will discuss the motivations and general idea of soft gluon resummation in QCD. Following previously formulated methods, I will talk about the resummation to next-to-leading logarithmic order of collider observables, such as event-shapes and jet rates. Finally, I will detail some of the new contributions required to achieve resummation of such observables to NNLL order.
Kirk Russell
(Royal Holloway)
25/06/2014, 14:50
The topological defects which are predicted to arise when the universe undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking can decay producing dark matter particles, this alters the standard freeze-out process. Consequently this means that one can significantly weaken relic density bounds on a dark matter model by introducing defects, to showcase this I'll consider the effect of the mechanism on the Inert...
Marc Thomas
(Southampton University)
25/06/2014, 15:10
In the standard model, the Higgs boson unitarizes longitudinally polarized vector boson scattering. If the couplings are not standard model like, this unitarization is lost and large increases in scattering cross sections can occur. Therefore, longitudinally polarized vector scattering is a potential probe of BSM Higgs physics. Unfortunately however, this potential probe of new physics is...
Robin Cameron Aggleton
(University of Bristol (GB))
25/06/2014, 15:30
