Name: IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2009
Start: 2009-04-06T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2009-04-08T18:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Oxford

IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2009

from Monday, April 6, 2009 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 8, 2009 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 6, 2009

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome and administrative issues - Robin Devenish

1:45 PM TeVatron - Terry Wyatt (University of Manchester)

2:30 PM HERA and Deep Inelastic Scattering - Paul Newman (Birmingham University)

3:00 PM Highlights From The B Factories - Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL)
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:00 PM QCD matrix elements and truncated showers - Frank Siegert (University of Durham)

4:15 PM Top Quark Mass Measurement using Matrix Element Analysis Technique and Lepton + Jets Channel - Jacob Linacre (University of Oxford)

4:30 PM DIS Charged Current Interactions in e+p data At ZEUS - Katie Oliver (University of Oxford)

4:45 PM Super-leading Logarithms in QCD - James Keates (University of Manchester)

5:00 PM Gaps between jets - Simone Marzani (University of Manchester)

5:15 PM Production of direct photons at ATLAS - Mark Stockton (University of Birmingham)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Lindemann
Contributions

4:00 PM B->K*mu+mu-: Symmetries and Asymmetries in the SM and Beyond - Aoife Bharucha (University of Durham)

4:15 PM Determination of |Vub| using the endpoint of the lepton spectrum - Michael Sigamani (Queen Mary, University of London)

4:30 PM Performing a full angular analysis of Bd->K*mumu at LHCb - William Reece (Imperial College London)

4:45 PM Two-Body Charmless Hadronic B decays at LHCb - Laurence Carson (University of Glasgow)

5:00 PM Charm triggering and physics at LHCb - Patrick Spradlin (University of Oxford)

5:15 PM LHCb's potential in D0 mixing and CP violation - Funai Xing (University of Oxford)

5:30 PM Lifetime measurements at LHCb - Marco Gersabeck (University of Glasgow)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:00 PM Testing and simulation of Multi-Pixel Photon Counter devices - Martin Haigh (University of Warwick)

4:15 PM Software buildup to LHC switch-on - Alexander Richards (University College London)

4:30 PM Particle Flow at CMS - Jamie Ballin (Imperial College London)

4:45 PM Crosstalk in the LHCb Vertex Locator modules - Lisa Dwyer (University of Liverpool)

5:00 PM Performance of HPDs in the LHCb RICH Detectors - Young Min Kim (University of Edinburgh)

5:15 PM Computation of Resistive Wakefields - Adina Toader (University of Manchester)

5:30 PM A CLIC Post-Collision Extraction Line Photon Background Study - Michael Salt (University of Manchester)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Natural History Museum
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Machine Status - Roger Bailey (CERN)

9:30 AM Detector Status - Neville Harnew (University of Oxford)

10:00 AM Phenomenology Status - Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge)
10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 AM Measuring Z->ee with ATLAS - Michael James Flowerdew (University of Liverpool)

11:15 AM The Z boson a_T distribution - Rosa María Durán Delgado (University of Manchester)

11:30 AM Spin correlation in top quark pair produciton at ATLAS - Simon Head (University of Manchester)

11:45 AM A study of low pt electron reconstruction efficiencies in ATLAS - Susan Cheatham (University of Lancaster)

12:00 PM Data driven methods of a W/Z cross section measurement in ATLAS - Eleanor Dobson (University of Oxford)

12:15 PM Constraining PDFs at the LHC: The W asymmetry - Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)

12:30 PM Fast simulation and the Higgs with ATLAS - Neil Cooper-Smith (Royal Holloway)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Lindemann
Contributions

11:00 AM Event by Event alignment studies using B physics observables in the ATLAS experiment - Lee De Mora (University of Lancaster)

11:15 AM Recent results in rare charmless three-body hadronic B decays - Eugenia Puccio (University of Warwick)

11:30 AM Measurement of semileptonic asymmetry in Bs decays at D0 - Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool)

11:45 AM Time dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B0->Kspi+pi- at BaBar - Jelena Ilic (University of Warwick)

12:00 PM ATLAS Electron Trigger efficiency determination for BSM channels - Matthew Tamsett (Royal Holloway)

12:15 PM CP Violation in the MSSM at the LHC - Jaime Tattersall (University of Durham)

12:30 PM Precise Predictions for Higgs Production in Neutralino Decays - Alison Fowler (Durham IPPP)

12:45 PM Inelastic Dark Matter and Non-Standard Halos - Matthew McCullough (University of Oxford)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 AM ATLAS SCT Endcap Module Efficiency Measurement - Nicholas Austin (University of Liverpool) Nicholas Charles Austin

11:15 AM Construction of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter for ND280 and the T2K collaboration - Gavin Davies (University of Lancaster)

11:30 AM Commisioning the LHCb Vertex Detector - Abdi Noor (University of Liverpool)

11:45 AM 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)

12:00 PM Results from the first science run of ZEPLIN-III - Blair Edwards (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12:15 PM ZEPLIN-III: The future - Emma Barnes (University of Edinburgh)

12:30 PM The Physics and Analysis of Cosmic Muons in the Downstream Ecal of T2K - Melissa George (Queen Mary, University of London)

12:45 PM Calculations of background from radioactivity in dark matter detectors - Vito Tomasello (University of Sheffield)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lindemann
Contributions

1:45 PM IoP PAB gp - M Poole (ASTeC)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

2:00 PM PPAN and Grant Panels, including Project Approvals and Progress on Advisory Panels - Jordan Nash (CERN)

2:30 PM Science Board View of Programme and Priorities – Big Issues, Opportunities, Accelerator Vision - Jenny Thomas (UCL)

3:00 PM STFC Update, including Financial Situation - John Womersley (STFC)
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:00 PM PPAP Role, Constitution and Plans - Philip Burrows (University of Oxford)

4:20 PM Economic Impact - Liz Towns-Andrews (STFC)
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

5:00 PM Selling Particle Physics to the Treasury - Mark Lancaster (UCL)
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Christ Church Hall
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Neutrino Long & Short baseline - Elisabeth Falk (University of Sussex)

9:35 AM Double Beta Decay - R Saakyan

10:00 AM Dark Matter - Hans Kraus (Umiversity of Oxford)

10:30 AM Theory - Stephen King (Department of Physics (SHEP))
11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 AM Search Strategies for SUSY in Tri-lepton Final States - Oleg Brandt (University of Oxford)

11:45 AM SUSY Gauge Singlets and Dualities - James Barnard (University of Durham)

12:00 PM Chargino/ Neutralino Mass - Yiming Li (University of Oxford)

12:15 PM Black hole event generation with BlackMax - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)

12:30 PM Phenomenology of Rotating Extra-Dimensional Black Holes at Hadron Colliders - James Frost (University of Cambridge)

12:45 PM Optimising selections for the potential discovery of inclusive Supersymmetry - Paul Prichard (University of Liverpool)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Lindemann
Contributions

11:30 AM Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in vector boson fusion and decaying into a tau pair in CMS with 1fb^-1 - Nicholas Cripps (Imperial College London)

11:45 AM L2 tracking robustness and trigger study for semileptonic ttH channel - Catrin Bernius (University College London)

12:00 PM Highly Boosted HW/HZ Production - Adam Davison (University College London)

12:15 PM Statistical Combination of Low-Mass Higgs Channels - Catherine Wright (University of Glasgow)

12:30 PM High Mass Standard Model Higgs Searches at D Zero - Nicholas Osman (Imperial College London)

12:45 PM Measuring Higgs boson branching fraction to cc-bar at the ILC - Yambazi Banda (University of Oxford)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 AM Particle Identification in the ND280 Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Antony Carver (University of Warwick)

11:45 AM Lepton Asymmetries and their Evolution in the E6SSM - Rui Luo (University of Glasgow)

12:00 PM Anti neutrinos at MINOS - David Auty (University of Sussex)

12:15 PM Double Beta Decay of Zr96 using NEMO-3 and Calorimeter R&D for SuperNEMO - Matthew Kauer (University College London)

12:30 PM SuperNEMO sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay via the mass mechanism and right handed currents - Christopher Jackson (University of Manchester)

12:45 PM Exploring the physics reach of a low-energy neutrino factory - Tracey LI (University of Durham)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
Room: Lindemann
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Future Facilities - Grahame Blair (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London)

2:45 PM Finale - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

3:30 PM Closing Remarks - Robin Devenish (Oxford University)

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