Fourth NExT PhD Workshop: the Road Ahead

23 Jun 2014, 10:15 → 25 Jun 2014, 18:10 Europe/London

Lecture Theatre C (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton)

This NExT PhD Workshop is the fourth of a series of Workshops for Graduate students. It is open to NExT Institute staff, PDRAs and students, as well as external participants. It aims to bring people together to present, share and generate new ideas. The topic of this Graduate Workshop is "The road ahead", a chance to discuss present status and future plans for particle physics in the light of LHC, Planck and neutrino results. This will be the topic of the lectures planned for the PhD school. Two afternoon sessions will be conference-type with talks given by young members of the NExT nodes. A poster session will take place on the first day, before dinner.

The core of the program consists of a series of extensive review talks and lectures on:

Higgs experiment: N Konstantinidis (University College London, UK)
Higgs theory: D Miller (University of Glasgow, UK)
Beyond the SM: V Sanz (University of Sussex, UK)
Dark Matter: L Roszkowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
Supersymmetry: S Khalil (Zewail City of Science & Technology, Egypt)
LHC detectors and Experimental techniques: F Salvatore (University of Sussex, UK)
Cosmology and gravitational waves: C Baccigalupi (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy)

The workshop will feature also the following.

* Research presentations by participants (talks and posters)
* A student-led discussion session (coordinated by SEPnet students)
* A discussion on Graduate School matters and their integration within GRADnet
* Plenty of time for informal conversations
* Social events like workshop dinners


The meeting is organised by the NExT Institute and sponsored by SEPnet. This event is in fact part of the SEPnet Graduate School.

Claim form SPR_B46_R5014062012250-1.pdf

Poster poster.pdf

Slides postera3_low.pdf roszkowski_next_soton_23jun14.pdf

Monday, 23 June

10:30 → 10:55 Coffee

10:55 → 11:00 Welcome

11:00 → 12:40 Higgs

Convener: Luca Panizzi (University of Southampton)

11:00 Higgs Theory 1

Speaker: David Miller (University of Glasgow)

Slides Next_DJM_L1.pdf

11:50 Higgs Experiment 1

Speaker: Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK))

Slides higgs-1.pdf

12:40 → 14:10 Lunch

14:10 → 15:50 Dark Matter

Convener: Stephan Huber (Unknown)

14:10 Dark Matter 1

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield (GB))

Slides https://indico.cern.ch/event/320137/material/slides/2.pdf

15:00 Dark Matter 2

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield (GB))

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 18:00 Cosmology & Gravitational waves

Convener: Stephan Huber (Unknown)

16:20 Cosmology

Speaker: Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)

17:10 Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)

18:00 → 19:00 Poster Session

18:00 An SU(5)xS4xU(1) model of flavour

Speaker: Maria Dimou (University of Southampton)

Slides posterayto!!!.pdf

18:00 Fine tuning in the NMSSM with and without extra matter

Speaker: Maien Binjonaid (University of Southampton)

18:00 Finite temperature considerations on the Higgs sector in the NMMSSM

Speaker: Mr Christopher Harman (University of Sussex)

18:00 Improving Z' searches with angular distribution analysis

Speaker: Mr Juri Fiaschi (University of Southampton)

Slides Improving_Z'_searches_with_angular_distribution_analysis_-_Juri_Fiaschi.pdf

18:00 Large-D Limit of Quantum Gravity from Asymptotic Safety

Speaker: Tugba Buyukbese

Slides Buyukbese.pdf

18:00 M-Theory and Particle Physics

Speaker: Miguel Crispim Romão (University of Southampton)

18:00 SNO+: readiness for data taking and neutrinoless double beta decay phenomenology

Speaker: Ashley Back (Queen Mary, University of London)

Poster poster.pdf

18:00 SUSY signatures in GNMSSM using mono-jets and single photons

Speaker: Mr Kilian Nickel (University of Southampton)

Slides Nickel.pdf

18:00 Top quark LHC phenomenology of extra dimensions

Speaker: Mr Declan Millar (Universoty of Southampton)

19:30 → 22:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 24 June

09:00 → 10:40 Higgs Theory

Convener: Andrew Akeroyd (University of Southampton)

09:00 Higgs Theory 2

Speaker: David Miller (University of Glasgow)

Slides Next_DJM_L2.pdf

09:50 Higgs Theory 3

Speaker: David Miller (University of Glasgow)

Slides Next_DJM_L3.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:50 Higgs Experiment

Convener: Andrew Akeroyd (University of Southampton)

11:10 Higgs Experiment 2

Speaker: Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK))

12:00 Higgs Experiment 3

Speaker: Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK))

12:50 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 16:00 LHC Detectors and Experimental Techniques

Convener: Alexander Stuart (University of Southampton)

14:20 LHC Detectors and Experimental Techniques 1

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Salvatore (University of Sussex (GB))

Slides DetectorLectureSalvatore.pdf

15:10 LHC Detectors and Experimental Techniques 2

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Salvatore (University of Sussex (GB))

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:10 SUSY

Convener: Alexander Stuart (University of Southampton)

16:30 SUSY 1

Speaker: Shaaban Khalil (Zeiwal City of Science and Technology)

Slides SK_lect1.pdf

17:20 SUSY 2

Speaker: Shaaban Khalil (Zewail City of Science & Technology)

Slides SK_lect2.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 25 June

09:00 → 10:40 LHC Detector and Experimental Techniques / Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Alexander Belyaev (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

09:00 LHC Detectors and Experimental Techniques 3

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Salvatore (University of Sussex (GB))

09:50 Beyond The Standard Model 1

Speaker: Veronica Sanz

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:50 Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Alexander Belyaev (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

11:10 Beyond the Standard Model 2

Speaker: Veronica Sanz

12:00 Beyond the Standard Model 3

Speaker: Veronica Sanz

12:50 → 14:10 Lunch

14:10 → 15:50 Student Talks

Conveners: Barry Dillon (University of Sussex), Maien Binjonaid (University of Southampton)

14:10 Electron neutrino detection in the T2K off-axis near detector

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 present recent results from, the off-axis near detector (ND280) to detect charged current electron neutrino interactions and construct cross-section measurements.

Speaker: Sophie King (QMUL / University of Southampton)

Slides NEXT_14_SophieKing.pdf

14:30 Jet Observables at NNLL Accuracy

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.

Speaker: Heather MCASLAN (University of Sussex)

Slides McAslan.pdf

14:50 Dark Matter from Decaying Topological Defects

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 Doublet Model.

Speaker: Kirk Russell (Royal Holloway)

Slides RKirk_NeXtTalk.pdf

15:10 Probing Higgs Physics with Vector-Boson Scattering

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 usually obscured by the large irreducible background of transversely polarized boson scattering. We show that combining cuts on two main observables is very effective at reducing this transversely polarized background, enabling vector boson fusion to provide a robust, model independent method to study Higgs boson couplings to gauge bosons.

Speaker: Marc Thomas (Southampton University)

Slides WLWL_NExT2014_2.pdf

15:30 Search for light CP-odd higgs in the NMSSM at CMS

Speaker: Robin Cameron Aggleton (University of Bristol (GB))

Slides 4tau_next_workshop_25_6_14.pdf

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:10 Student Lead Session

Conveners: Djuna Lize Croon (University of Sussex), Marc Thomas (Southampton University), Sophie King (University of Soupthampton / QMUL)