Zurich PhD seminar 2014

11 Sept 2014, 09:00 → 12 Sept 2014, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Y17-M-05, Y16-G-15 (University of Zurich (UZH))

Ben Kilminster (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

PhD seminar for Zurich area PhD students. There are 30 talks from the groups of UZH, ETHZ, and PSI phd students, covering a wide variety of topics from collider physics to ultra cold neutrons, particle beams, and detector R&D.

Thursday 11 September

09:00 → 10:40 Session 1

Convener: Gino Isidori (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

09:00 Trigger and Tracking for the LHCb upgrade

Speaker: Espen Eie Bowen (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides PhDSeminar-2014.pdf

09:25 Same sign dileptons at CMS

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

Slides 2014-09-11-PhDSeminar.pdf

09:50 Search for Dark Matter associated top pair production in single-lepton channel with the CMS detector

Speaker: Deborah Pinna (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides PhDSeminar.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Session 2

Convener: Stefano Pozzorini

11:00 NLO Monte Carlo simulations of the ttH background

Speaker: Niccolo Moretti

Slides Phd_seminar.pdf

11:25 Search for associated ttH production in the Hbb decay channel at CMS using the Matrix Element Method

Speaker: Daniel Nicholas Salerno (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides 140911_PhDseminar.pdf

11:50 Search for new heavy bosons with boosted b-tagged jets in the final state with CMS

Speaker: Jennifer Ngadiuba (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides PhDSeminar_Ngadiuba.pdf

12:15 Search for new bosons decaying to boosted tau and b pairs at CMS

Speaker: Camilla Galloni (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides PhD_Seminar_.pdf PhD_Seminar_.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Session 3

14:05 A new high intensity muon beamline at the Paul Scherrer Institut

Speaker: Zachary Hodge

Slides hodgez_ETHZ_UZH_Seminar.pdf

14:30 Towards a novel muon beamline for next generation precision experiments

Speaker: Andreas Eggenberger (E)

Slides PhD_Seminar_2014_Presentation_Andreas_Eggenberger.pdf

14:55 Mu3e Fibre detector R&D

Speaker: Roman Gredig

Slides 20140911-phdseminar-rgredig.pdf

15:20 A Dedicated Calibration Tool for the MEG Positron Spectrometer

Speaker: Giada Rutar (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides PhDSeminar2014_MEGMott_Giada.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 17:15 Session 4

16:00 Status of the PSI source for Ultracold Neutrons

Speaker: Dieter Ries (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides PhDSem14DRiesFinal.pdf

16:25 Neutron radiography of a helium gas density gradient at cryogenic temperatures for a novel muon beam line.

Speaker: Gunther Wichmann (ETHZ)

Slides ZurichPhDSeminar2014_Wichmann.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Barbecue for students & mentors

Please fill out the doodle if you are coming. http://doodle.com/dezmbbxh8w37sbtx

Friday 12 September

09:00 → 10:40 Session 5

Convener: Nicola Serra (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

09:00 Studies for a new experiment SHIP

Speaker: Elena Graverini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides eg-20140912-PhDseminars.pdf

09:25 Search for Muons to Neutrinos (MUTON)

Speaker: Carlos Vigo Hernandez

Slides 2014_09_PhDSeminar.pdf

09:50 Neutrino Oscillations at T2K

Speaker: Davide Sgalaberna (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides phdseminar_2013_DavideSgalaberna.pdf

10:15 Development of a double phase Lar TPC at CERN

Speaker: Shuoxing Wu (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides PHD_seminar_swu.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Session 6

Convener: Christian Regenfus (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

11:00 Response of liquid Xenon to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils

Speaker: payam pakarha (UZH)

Slides slides.pdf

11:25 Noise Reduction and Pulse Shape Analysis in BEGe-type Germanium Detectors for the GERDA Experiment employing Wavelet Transformation

Speaker: Manuel Walter (University of Zurich)

Slides WaveletDenoising_ManuelWalter_Sept2014.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Session 7

Convener: Malte Hildebrandt (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:00 Test-beam characterisation and simulations for hybrid-pixel readout assemblies with ultra-thin sensors

Speaker: Niloufar Alipour Tehrani (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Transparents Niloufar_Alipour_CLIC_VXD.pdf

14:25 Optimizing low energy and compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry systems

Speaker: Sascha Maxeiner

14:50 Tracker for Anti-hydrogen free-fall measurement

Speaker: Dipanwita Banerjee

Slides gbar_phd_talk.pdf

15:15 Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy quark production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Hayk Sargsyan

Slides PhDSem_HS.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 17:15 Session 8

Convener: Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich)

16:00 Vector boson pair production at NNLO

Speaker: Dirk Rathlev

Slides rathlev.pdf

16:25 NNLO corrections to Higgs+jet production

Speaker: Matthieu Jaquier

Slides Matthieu-phdseminar2014.pdf

16:50 Regularization scheme dependence of two-loop amplitudes

Speaker: Andrea Visconti

Slides phdseminar-visconti.pdf