IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2009

Session

Parallel Session 2 C - Detectors and Future Facilities / Neutrinos and Dark Matter

PP02C

7 Apr 2009, 11:00

University of Oxford

Description

11:00 - 12:00 - Detectors and Future Facilities
12:00 - 13:00 - Neutrinos and Dark Matter

24. ATLAS SCT Endcap Module Efficiency Measurement

Nicholas Austin (University of Liverpool), Nicholas Charles Austin

07/04/2009, 11:00

Detectors and Future Facilities

A description of my work on the measurement of efficiencies of modules in the SCT endcap using cosmic data taken in SR1 during the cosmic tests.

33. Construction of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter for ND280 and the T2K collaboration

Gavin Davies (University of Lancaster)

07/04/2009, 11:15

Detectors and Future Facilities

T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a 295km long-baseline experiment in Japan, due to start taking commissioning data late this year. It is designed to measure muon-neutrino oscillations to other flavours. In particular, it has the primary goal of measuring the mixing angle 13. One of the UK's contributions is the construction and calibration of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECal) for the near...

88. Commisioning the LHCb Vertex Detector

Abdi Noor (University of Liverpool)

07/04/2009, 11:30

Detectors and Future Facilities

76. Luminosity Performance Studies of Linear Colliders with Intra-train Feedback Systems: Simulations and Experimental Plans

Javier Resta Lopez (Institut fur Physik), Javier Resta Lopez (Oxford university)

07/04/2009, 11:45

Detectors and Future Facilities

The design luminosity for the future linear colliders is very demanding and challenging. Beam-based feedback systems will be required to achieve the necessary beam-beam stability and steer the two beams into collision. In particular, by means of computer simulations we study the luminosity performance improvement by intra-train beam-based feedback systems for position and angle corrections at...

39. Results from the first science run of ZEPLIN-III

Blair Edwards (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

07/04/2009, 12:00

Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter

We present the results from the first science run of the ZEPLIN-III WIMP dark matter search. ZEPLIN-III utilises two-phase xenon, measuring both scintillation and ionisation produced by interactions in the liquid to differentiate between the nuclear recoils expected from WIMPs and the electron recoil background signals down to ∼10keV nuclear recoil energy. The higher-field operation of the...

22. ZEPLIN-III: The future

Emma Barnes (University of Edinburgh)

07/04/2009, 12:15

Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter

ZEPLIN-III aims to be the world's leading detector of weakly interacting massive particles, the favored explanation of Galactic dark matter. Identification is based on extraction of scintillation and electroluminescence signals from a two-phase xenon target. A successful first science run has demonstrated the benefits of ZEPLIN-III's unique high-field operation, open-plan geometry and use of...

43. The Physics and Analysis of Cosmic Muons in the Downstream Ecal of T2K

Melissa George (Queen Mary, University of London)

07/04/2009, 12:30

Neutrinos

70. Calculations of background from radioactivity in dark matter detectors

Vito Tomasello (University of Sheffield)

07/04/2009, 12:45

Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter

New generation dark matter experiments aim at exploring the 10e-9 - 10e-10 pb cross-section region for the WIMP-nucleon scalar interactions. Neutrons and gamma-rays produced in detector components are the main factors that can limit detector sensitivity. Energy spectra and production rates of neutrons coming from radioactive contamination of materials with uranium and thorium have been...