IOP HEPP Particle Physics 2009

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 6, 2009
Apr 7, 2009
Apr 8, 2009
AM
9:00 AM
Plenary II: LHC (until 10:30 AM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
9:00 AM Machine Status - Dr Roger Bailey (CERN)  
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9:30 AM Detector Status - Prof. Neville Harnew (University of Oxford)  
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10:00 AM Phenomenology Status - Prof. Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge)  
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10:30 AM
Coffee (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Parallel Session 2 A - QCD and Electroweak / Higgs (until 1:00 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
11:00 AM Measuring Z->ee with ATLAS - Michael James Flowerdew (University of Liverpool)  
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11:15 AM The Z boson a_T distribution - Rosa María Durán Delgado (University of Manchester)  
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11:30 AM Spin correlation in top quark pair produciton at ATLAS - Simon Head (University of Manchester)  
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11:45 AM A study of low pt electron reconstruction efficiencies in ATLAS - Susan Cheatham (University of Lancaster)  
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12:00 PM Data driven methods of a W/Z cross section measurement in ATLAS - Eleanor Dobson (University of Oxford)  
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12:15 PM Constraining PDFs at the LHC: The W asymmetry - Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)  
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12:30 PM Fast simulation and the Higgs with ATLAS - Neil Cooper-Smith (Royal Holloway)  
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12:45 PM --- Discussion ---
11:00 AM
Parallel Session 2 B - Flavour Physics / Beyond the Standard Model (until 1:00 PM) (Lindemann)
11:00 AM Event by Event alignment studies using B physics observables in the ATLAS experiment - Lee De Mora (University of Lancaster)  
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11:15 AM Recent results in rare charmless three-body hadronic B decays - Eugenia Puccio (University of Warwick)  
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11:30 AM Measurement of semileptonic asymmetry in Bs decays at D0 - Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool)  
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11:45 AM Time dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B0->Kspi+pi- at BaBar - Jelena Ilic (University of Warwick)  
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12:00 PM ATLAS Electron Trigger efficiency determination for BSM channels - Matthew Tamsett (Royal Holloway)  
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12:15 PM CP Violation in the MSSM at the LHC - Jaime Tattersall (University of Durham)  
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12:30 PM Precise Predictions for Higgs Production in Neutralino Decays - Alison Fowler (Durham IPPP)  
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12:45 PM Inelastic Dark Matter and Non-Standard Halos - Matthew McCullough (University of Oxford)  
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11:00 AM
Parallel Session 2 C - Detectors and Future Facilities / Neutrinos and Dark Matter (until 1:00 PM) (Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre)
11:00 AM ATLAS SCT Endcap Module Efficiency Measurement - Nicholas Austin (University of Liverpool) Nicholas Charles Austin  
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11:15 AM Construction of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter for ND280 and the T2K collaboration - Gavin Davies (University of Lancaster)  
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11:30 AM Commisioning the LHCb Vertex Detector - Abdi Noor (University of Liverpool)  
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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)  
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12:00 PM Results from the first science run of ZEPLIN-III - Blair Edwards (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
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12:15 PM ZEPLIN-III: The future - Emma Barnes (University of Edinburgh)  
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12:30 PM The Physics and Analysis of Cosmic Muons in the Downstream Ecal of T2K - Melissa George (Queen Mary, University of London)  
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12:45 PM Calculations of background from radioactivity in dark matter detectors - Vito Tomasello (University of Sheffield)  
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9:00 AM
Plenary III: Neutrinos and Dark Matter (until 11:00 AM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
9:00 AM Neutrino Long & Short baseline - Elisabeth Falk (University of Sussex)  
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9:35 AM Double Beta Decay - R Saakyan  
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10:00 AM Dark Matter - Hans Kraus (Umiversity of Oxford)  
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10:30 AM Theory - Stephen King (Department of Physics (SHEP))  
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11:00 AM
Coffee (until 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM
Parallel Session 3 A - Beyond the Standard Model (until 1:00 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
11:30 AM Search Strategies for SUSY in Tri-lepton Final States - Oleg Brandt (University of Oxford)  
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11:45 AM SUSY Gauge Singlets and Dualities - James Barnard (University of Durham)  
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12:00 PM Chargino/ Neutralino Mass - Yiming Li (University of Oxford)  
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12:15 PM Black hole event generation with BlackMax - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford)  
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12:30 PM Phenomenology of Rotating Extra-Dimensional Black Holes at Hadron Colliders - James Frost (University of Cambridge)  
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12:45 PM Optimising selections for the potential discovery of inclusive Supersymmetry - Paul Prichard (University of Liverpool)  
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11:30 AM
Parallel Session 3 B - Higgs (until 1:00 PM) (Lindemann)
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)  
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11:45 AM L2 tracking robustness and trigger study for semileptonic ttH channel - Catrin Bernius (University College London)  
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12:00 PM Highly Boosted HW/HZ Production - Adam Davison (University College London)  
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12:15 PM Statistical Combination of Low-Mass Higgs Channels - Catherine Wright (University of Glasgow)  
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12:30 PM High Mass Standard Model Higgs Searches at D Zero - Nicholas Osman (Imperial College London)  
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12:45 PM Measuring Higgs boson branching fraction to cc-bar at the ILC - Yambazi Banda (University of Oxford)  
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11:30 AM
Parallel Session 3 C - Neutrinos and Double Beta Decay (until 1:00 PM) (Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre)
11:30 AM Particle Identification in the ND280 Electromagnetic Calorimeter - Antony Carver (University of Warwick)  
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11:45 AM Lepton Asymmetries and their Evolution in the E6SSM - Rui Luo (University of Glasgow)  
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12:00 PM Anti neutrinos at MINOS - David Auty (University of Sussex)  
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12:15 PM Double Beta Decay of Zr96 using NEMO-3 and Calorimeter R&D for SuperNEMO - Matthew Kauer (University College London)  
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12:30 PM SuperNEMO sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay via the mass mechanism and right handed currents - Christopher Jackson (University of Manchester)  
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12:45 PM Exploring the physics reach of a low-energy neutrino factory - Tracey LI (University of Durham)  
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PM
12:00 PM
Registration/Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Plenary I: Collider Physics (until 3:30 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
1:30 PM Welcome and administrative issues - Prof. Robin Devenish  
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1:45 PM TeVatron - Terry Wyatt (University of Manchester)  
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2:30 PM HERA and Deep Inelastic Scattering - Dr Paul Newman (Birmingham University)  
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3:00 PM Highlights From The B Factories - Dr Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL)  
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3:30 PM
Tea (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Parallel Session 1 A - QCD and Electroweak (until 6:00 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
4:00 PM QCD matrix elements and truncated showers - Frank Siegert (University of Durham)  
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4:15 PM Top Quark Mass Measurement using Matrix Element Analysis Technique and Lepton + Jets Channel - Jacob Linacre (University of Oxford)  
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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)  
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5:00 PM Gaps between jets - Simone Marzani (University of Manchester)  
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5:15 PM Production of direct photons at ATLAS - Mark Stockton (University of Birmingham)  
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4:00 PM
Parallel Session 1 B - Flavour Physics (until 6:00 PM) (Lindemann)
4:00 PM B->K*mu+mu-: Symmetries and Asymmetries in the SM and Beyond - Aoife Bharucha (University of Durham)  
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4:15 PM Determination of |Vub| using the endpoint of the lepton spectrum - Michael Sigamani (Queen Mary, University of London)  
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4:30 PM Performing a full angular analysis of Bd->K*mumu at LHCb - William Reece (Imperial College London)  
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4:45 PM Two-Body Charmless Hadronic B decays at LHCb - Laurence Carson (University of Glasgow)  
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5:00 PM Charm triggering and physics at LHCb - Patrick Spradlin (University of Oxford)  
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5:15 PM LHCb's potential in D0 mixing and CP violation - Funai Xing (University of Oxford)  
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5:30 PM Lifetime measurements at LHCb - Marco Gersabeck (University of Glasgow)  
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4:00 PM
Parallel Session 1 C - Detectors and Future Facilities (until 6:00 PM) (Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre)
4:00 PM Testing and simulation of Multi-Pixel Photon Counter devices - Martin Haigh (University of Warwick)  
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4:15 PM Software buildup to LHC switch-on - Alexander Richards (University College London)  
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4:30 PM Particle Flow at CMS - Jamie Ballin (Imperial College London)  
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4:45 PM Crosstalk in the LHCb Vertex Locator modules - Lisa Dwyer (University of Liverpool)  
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5:00 PM Performance of HPDs in the LHCb RICH Detectors - Young Min Kim (University of Edinburgh)  
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5:15 PM Computation of Resistive Wakefields - Adina Toader (University of Manchester)  
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5:30 PM A CLIC Post-Collision Extraction Line Photon Background Study - Michael Salt (University of Manchester)  
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6:00 PM
Reception (until 8:30 PM) (Natural History Museum)
1:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
1:45 PM
New IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams Group (until 2:00 PM) (Lindemann)
1:45 PM IoP PAB gp - M Poole (ASTeC)  
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2:00 PM
STFC Town Meeting (a) (until 3:30 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
2:00 PM PPAN and Grant Panels, including Project Approvals and Progress on Advisory Panels - Dr Jordan Nash (CERN)  
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2:30 PM Science Board View of Programme and Priorities – Big Issues, Opportunities, Accelerator Vision - Prof. Jenny Thomas (UCL)  
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3:00 PM STFC Update, including Financial Situation - Dr John Womersley (STFC)  
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3:30 PM
Tea (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
STFC Town Meeting (b) (until 5:00 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
4:00 PM PPAP Role, Constitution and Plans - Prof. Philip Burrows (University of Oxford)  
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4:20 PM Economic Impact - Dr Liz Towns-Andrews (STFC)  
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5:00 PM
PP2020: Particle Physics - Fundamental Impacts (until 5:30 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
5:00 PM Selling Particle Physics to the Treasury - Mark Lancaster (UCL)  
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7:00 PM
Conference Dinner (until 10:00 PM) (Christ Church Hall)
1:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
1:30 PM
HEPP Group AGM (until 1:55 PM) (Lindemann)
2:00 PM
Plenary IV: Final (until 3:45 PM) (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre)
2:00 PM Future Facilities - Grahame Blair (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London)  
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2:45 PM Finale - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)  
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3:30 PM Closing Remarks - Robin Devenish (Oxford University)