Name: High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2015
Start: 2015-02-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-02-13T13:30:00+02:00
Location: Other Institutes

High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2015

from Wednesday 11 February 2015 (09:00) to Friday 13 February 2015 (13:30)
Other Institutes (iThemba LABS - Gauteng)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

11 Feb 2015

12 Feb 2015

13 Feb 2015

09:00	DVC research - Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi (University of Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng)
09:10	Welcome from the SAIP - Dr Igle Gledhill (CSIR) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng)
09:20	Welcome from the Head of the School of Physics - Prof. John Carter (University of Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng)
09:35	Introduction and structure of the workshop - Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand) Alan Cornell (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
09:45	Overview of iThemba facilities - Simon Mullins (iThemba LABS) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee ---
11:00	Heavy Ion Theory - Muronga Azwinndini (University of Johannesburg) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
11:45	Heavy Ion Experiment - Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides

09:00	Theoretical overview of pp collision physics results - Alan Cornell (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
09:45	Review of ATLAS Physics Results - Deepak Kar (University of Glasgow (GB)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee ---
11:00	The discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson and its properties - Xolisile Octavia Thusini (University of Cape Town) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
11:20	Measurement of the properties of Higgs boson in two photon final state in ATLAS - Xifeng Ruan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
11:40	Measurement of the Higgs Boson Transverse Momentum in the Di-photon Channel with the ATLAS detector - Robert Graham Reed (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides

09:00	Design of a new front-end electronics test bench for the upgraded ATLAS detector’s Tile Calorimeter - Chamunorwa Oscar Kureba (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper Slides
09:20	Development and Testing of a High Data Throughput ADC Board for the Prometeo Portable Test-bench System for the Certification of the ATLAS Tile Hadronic Calorimeter - Matthew Spoor (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper Slides
09:40	Optimal Filtering on ARM for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Front-End Processing - Mitchell Arij Cox (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
10:00	PGAS in-memory data processing for the Processing Unit of the Upgraded Electronics of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector - Daniel Ohene-Kwofie (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
10:20	--- Coffee ---
10:50	Using GPGPU to Increase Accessibility and Efficiency in LHC Computational Systems - Marc Sacks (University of Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
11:10	Atlas Nightly on Arm - Joshua Wyatt Smith (University of Cape Town (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
11:30	The Data Acquisition system for a fixed target experiment at the NICA complex at JINR and its connection to the ATLAS TileCal readout electronics - Kehinde Gbenga Tomiwa (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
11:50	An Integration Framework Tool for ATCA's in the ATLAS Detector Control System - Robert Graham Reed (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides

12:30	--- Lunch ---
13:30	Jets of light hadrons via AdS/CFT correspondence - Razieh Morad (University of Cape Town) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
13:50	Using a Classical Gluon Cascade to study the Equilibration of a Gluon-Plasma - R McConnel (University of Cape Town) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
14:10	Short path length and running coupling pQCD corrections to energy loss in the QGP - Isobel Kolbe (University of Cape Town) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
14:30	Finite time calculations for hard parton production relevant to the QGP - Ben Meiring (University of Cape Town) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
14:50	Review of jet reconstruction algorithms - Ryan Atkin (UKZN) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
15:10	--- Coffee ---
15:40	Simulation of microscopic black-hole production at the LHC - Mr Warren Anthony Carlson (University of the Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
16:00	Quasi-normal Modes for Spin 3/2 Fields - Gerhard Harmsen (University of Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
16:20	Single Top and Double Higgs Boson Production in ep Collisions - Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper Slides
16:40	Understanding the Higgs Boson with the Large Hadron Electron Collider - Jonathan Esteves (University of Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides

12:00	Measurement of the Higgs Boson Transverse Momentum and its Sensitivity to New Physics Beyond the Standard Model - David Gossman (University of the Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
12:20	Higgs Production through Gluon Fusion and Plausible Dark Matter Studies - Stefan Erich Von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper
12:40	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Missing PT reconstruction at ATLAS - Claire Lee (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper Slides
14:20	Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in ATLAS studied in proton-proton collisions in 2012 at 8 TeV - Luis March Ruiz (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
14:40	Large AT without Dessert - Ammar Abdalgabar (University of Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
15:00	Results of the search for an A boson decaying to Zh, with an lltautau final state, in pp collisions at 8 TeV centre of mass energy recorded with the ATLAS experiment - Guillermo Nicolas Hamity (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper Slides
15:20	Measurement of exclusive γγ → μ+μ− events in the ATLAS Experiment - Ferdinand Wilhelm Schenck (University of Cape Town (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides summary
15:40	--- Coffee ---
16:10	Radiation hardness of plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Harshna Jivan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
16:30	Studying the Radiation Damage of Plastic Scintillators using EPR - Chad Dean Pelwan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Paper Slides
16:50	Study of Radiation Hardness of Plastic Scintillators for the Upgrade of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Shell-May Liao (University of the Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng) Slides
17:10	(CANCELLED) A study of radiation damage in the on—detector electronics of the ATLAS detector using a (p,n) nuclear reaction in the Van Der Graf tandem linear accelerator at iThemba LABS, Gauteng - Thokozani Khumalo (University of the Witwatersrand) (iThemba LABS - Gauteng)
18:30	--- Dinner ---

12:30

--- Lunch ---

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