UK Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2004

5 Apr 2004, 13:00 → 7 Apr 2004, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Birmingham, UK

David Evans

Particle Physics 2004 is the annual conference of
the High Energy Particle Physics Group of the
Institute of Physics. It is hosted and organised
by the Particle Physics Group of the School of
Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.

For more information, see the meeting web page at:
http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/iophepp/2004/index.html

Monday 5 April

Registration

Registration with tea and coffee

Particle Physics Town Meeting

1 SR2004, Linear Collider

Speaker: Ian Halliday (PPARC)

2 News from Science Committee

including review of the peer review structure

Speaker: Jenny Thomas (UCL)

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3 PPAP news and 2004 Road Map

Speaker: Phil Allport (Liverpool)

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4 PAAP news and 2004 Road Map

Speaker: David Wark (Imperial)

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15:15 Tea and Coffee

5 Funding for industry in the PPARC programme

Speaker: Peter Fletcher (PPARC)

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Reception

Tuesday 6 April

Plenary I

6 Announcements, Registration

7 Physics at the B-factories

Speaker: Adrian Bevan (Liverpool)

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8 Recent Lepton-Nucleon Scattering Results from HERA

Speaker: Paul Newman (Birmingham)

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9 Latest results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster)

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10:30 Tea and Coffee

Parallel I: B physics

10 Inclusive BR(b->sgamma) with a fully reconstructed B

Speaker: Clare Brown (RHUL)

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11 Reconstructing Bs->Ds+-K+- Decays with the LHCb experiment

Speaker: James Lawrence (Edinburgh)

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12 Analysis of the decay B+->K+-pi+pi- at the BaBar experiment

Speaker: Tom Latham (Bristol)

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13 Dalitz Plot Analyses of B meson decay to three charged tracks at BaBar

Speaker: Sian Morgan (Birmingham)

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14 Charmless Branching Fraction Studies of B0->Ks0pi+pi- at BaBar

Speaker: Kelly Ford (Birmingham)

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15 Analysis of the decay B+->K*+-pi0 at BaBar

Speaker: James Gaillard (Imperial)

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Parallel II: QCD

16 High |t| diffractive photoproduction of rho mesons

Speaker: Carl Gwilliam (Manchester)

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17 Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 CERN Experiment

Speaker: Stephen Bull (Birmingham)

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18 Lambda-based Perturbation Theory for Event Shapes in e+e- Annihilation

Speaker: Michael Dinsdale (Durham)

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19 Infrared Finite Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Darren Forde (Durham)

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20 Infrared freezing of QCD observables

Speaker: Paul Brooks (Durham)

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21 Multi-Jets at HERA

Speaker: Tim Namsoo (Bristol)

Parallel III: Standard Model and Beyond

22 A first measurement of the polarised Charged Current cross section from Hera-II

Speaker: Oliver Henshaw (Birmingham)

23 Wgamma and Zgamma Production and Extraction of Trilinear Gauge Couplings at CDF in Run 2

Speaker: Helen Hayward (Liverpool)

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24 Search for the decay tau->e-gamma using the BaBar detector

Speaker: Robert Flack (RHUL)

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25 Measurement of the cross section times BR for ppbar->XZ->Xmu+mu- at root(s) = 2 TeV using the D0 detector

Speaker: Emily Nurse (Manchester)

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26 Leptoquark and Lepton Flavour Violation at HERA

Speaker: Mudhahir Ismail (Manchester)

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27 Full Simulation of Black Holes at ATLAS

Speaker: Matt Palmer (Cambridge)

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Plenary II

12:30 Lunch

28 What's nu?

Speaker: Paul Harrison (Warwick)

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29 The LHC and the Experiments

Speaker: Roger Cashmore (Oxford)

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30 Heavy-Ion Physics at the LHC with ALICE

Speaker: Yves Schutz (CERN)

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15:30 Tea and Coffee

Parallel IV: Neutrinos and Dark Matter

31 The Nemo-3 experiment and neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Leo Jenner (UCL)

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32 Searching for atmospheric neutrino oscillations at MINOS

Speaker: Andy Blake (Cambridge)

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33 Acoustic Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos

Speaker: David Waters (UCL)

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34 Calibration of the MINOS Detectors using Stopping Muons

Speaker: Jeff Hartnell (Oxford)

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35 Development of Micromegas Charge Read-Out for a Two Phase Xenon Dark Matter Detector

Speaker: Robert Hollingworth (Sheffield)

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36 Near & Far detector response comparison with the MINOS calibration detector

Speaker: Anatael Cabrera (Oxford)

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Parallel V: Detectors

37 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector using tracks

Speaker: Daniel Hindson (Oxford)

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38 Optimization of the alignment of the D0 detector

Speaker: Brian Davies (Lancaster)

39 Photon Detectors for the LHCb RICH System

Speaker: Lisa Allebone (Imperial)

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40 Photodetectors for the LHCb RICH

Speaker: Charlotte Newby (Oxford)

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41 Behaviour of MaPMTs in Magnetic Fields

Speaker: Reinhardt Chamonal (Edinburgh)

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42 Resolution studies of the CMS ECAL in the 2003 test beam

Speaker: Guy Dewhirst (Imperial)

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Parallel VI: Heavy Flavour

43 The bb production cross-section at CDF

Speaker: Anant Gajjar (Liverpool)

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44 Charm at the ZEUS experiment at HERA I and HERA II

Speaker: John Loizides (UCL)

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45 The Study of Excited B-mesons at the D0 detector

Speaker: Matt Doidge (Lancaster)

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46 A Search for the Z->bbar Decay at D0

Speaker: Amber Jenkins (Imperial)

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47 Triggering on B events at D0

Speaker: Chris Barnes (Imperial)

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Conference Dinner

Wednesday 7 April

Plenary III

48 Selected topics in LHC phenomenology

Speaker: Jeff Forshaw (Manchester)

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49 Cosmology in Wonderland: Does dark energy really exist?

Speaker: Subir Sarkar (Oxford)

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10:30 Tea and Coffee

Parallel IX: Standard Model and Beyond

50 Results from investigations into the CMS physics channels PP->bbH(H->gammagamma)

Speaker: Daniel Holmes (Bristol)

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51 WW production at CDF

Speaker: Dustin McGivern (UCL)

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52 WW scattering studies at a Future Linear Collider

Speaker: Andres Osorio (Manchester)

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53 CKM physics from B->Kpi decays at LHCb

Speaker: Andy Buckley (Cambridge)

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54 Resonant Leptogenesis

Speaker: Tom Underwood (Manchester)

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55 Search for events with tau-leptons at H1

Speaker: Christian Veelken (Liverpool)

Parallel VII: Detectors

56 Charge Transfer Inefficiency Simulation for CCD Vertex Detector Studies

Speaker: James Walder (Lancaster)

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57 Recent results from R&D towards a vertex detector at the future linear collider

Speaker: Sonja Hillert (Oxford)

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58 BaBar Level-1 Drift Chamber Trigger Upgrade

Speaker: Marc Kelly (Bristol)

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59 DAQ for ATLAS SCT macro-assembly

Speaker: Bruce Gallop (Birmingham)

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60 Development of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Readout

Speaker: Matthew Noy (Imperial)

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61 Navigation Timing Studies of the ATLAS High-Level Trigger

Speaker: Andrew Lowe (RHUL)

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Parallel VIII: GRID and Computing

62 Simulation of Replica Optimisation Strategies for Data Grids

Speaker: David Cameron (Glasgow)

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63 Storage Management on the Grid

Speaker: Alasdair Earl (Edinburgh)

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64 Running BaBar Jobs on the Grid using gsub and AliBaBa

Speaker: Mike Jones (Manchester)

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65 A web based submission tool for a Physics Computing Cluster

Speaker: David Jones (Liverpool)

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IOP AGM

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12:30 Lunch

66 Chair's Report

Speaker: Roger Barlow (Manchester)

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67 IOP HEPP Group Accounts

Speaker: Phil Burrows (QMUL)

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Plenary IV

68 The Linear Collider: Physics Highlights and Detector Challenges

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (DESY)

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69 What is the GRID?

Speaker: Tony Doyle (Glasgow)

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70 The Neutrino Factory: Motivation and Machine

Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial)

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15:30 Tea and Coffee