UK Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2004

from Monday, 5 April 2004 (13:00) to Wednesday, 7 April 2004 (16:00)
Birmingham, UK

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Apr 2004
6 Apr 2004
7 Apr 2004
AM
08:50
Plenary I (until 11:00) ()
08:50 Announcements, Registration   ()
09:00 Physics at the B-factories - Adrian Bevan (Liverpool)   ()
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09:30 Recent Lepton-Nucleon Scattering Results from HERA - Paul Newman (Birmingham)   ()
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10:00 Latest results from the Tevatron - Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster)   ()
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10:30 --- Tea and Coffee ---
11:00
Parallel I: B physics (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Inclusive BR(b->sgamma) with a fully reconstructed B - Clare Brown (RHUL)   ()
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11:15 Reconstructing Bs->Ds+-K+- Decays with the LHCb experiment - James Lawrence (Edinburgh)   ()
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11:30 Analysis of the decay B+->K+-pi+pi- at the BaBar experiment - Tom Latham (Bristol)   ()
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11:45 Dalitz Plot Analyses of B meson decay to three charged tracks at BaBar - Sian Morgan (Birmingham)   ()
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12:00 Charmless Branching Fraction Studies of B0->Ks0pi+pi- at BaBar - Kelly Ford (Birmingham)   ()
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12:15 Analysis of the decay B+->K*+-pi0 at BaBar - James Gaillard (Imperial)   ()
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11:00
Parallel II: QCD (until 12:30) ()
11:00 High |t| diffractive photoproduction of rho mesons - Carl Gwilliam (Manchester)   ()
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11:15 Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 CERN Experiment - Stephen Bull (Birmingham)   ()
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11:30 Lambda-based Perturbation Theory for Event Shapes in e+e- Annihilation - Michael Dinsdale (Durham)   ()
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11:45 Infrared Finite Scattering Amplitudes - Darren Forde (Durham)   ()
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12:00 Infrared freezing of QCD observables - Paul Brooks (Durham)   ()
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12:15 Multi-Jets at HERA - Tim Namsoo (Bristol)   ()
11:00
Parallel III: Standard Model and Beyond (until 12:30) ()
11:00 A first measurement of the polarised Charged Current cross section from Hera-II - Oliver Henshaw (Birmingham)   ()
11:15 Wgamma and Zgamma Production and Extraction of Trilinear Gauge Couplings at CDF in Run 2 - Helen Hayward (Liverpool)   ()
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11:30 Search for the decay tau->e-gamma using the BaBar detector - Robert Flack (RHUL)   ()
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11:45 Measurement of the cross section times BR for ppbar->XZ->Xmu+mu- at root(s) = 2 TeV using the D0 detector - Emily Nurse (Manchester)   ()
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12:00 Leptoquark and Lepton Flavour Violation at HERA - Mudhahir Ismail (Manchester)   ()
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12:15 Full Simulation of Black Holes at ATLAS - Matt Palmer (Cambridge)   ()
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09:00
Plenary III (until 11:00) ()
09:00 Selected topics in LHC phenomenology - Jeff Forshaw (Manchester)   ()
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09:45 Cosmology in Wonderland: Does dark energy really exist? - Subir Sarkar (Oxford)   ()
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10:30 --- Tea and Coffee ---
11:00
Parallel IX: Standard Model and Beyond (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Results from investigations into the CMS physics channels PP->bbH(H->gammagamma) - Daniel Holmes (Bristol)   ()
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11:15 WW production at CDF - Dustin McGivern (UCL)   ()
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11:30 WW scattering studies at a Future Linear Collider - Andres Osorio (Manchester)   ()
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11:45 CKM physics from B->Kpi decays at LHCb - Andy Buckley (Cambridge)   ()
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12:00 Resonant Leptogenesis - Tom Underwood (Manchester)   ()
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12:15 Search for events with tau-leptons at H1 - Christian Veelken (Liverpool)   ()
11:00
Parallel VII: Detectors (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Charge Transfer Inefficiency Simulation for CCD Vertex Detector Studies - James Walder (Lancaster)   ()
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11:15 Recent results from R&D towards a vertex detector at the future linear collider - Sonja Hillert (Oxford)   ()
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11:30 BaBar Level-1 Drift Chamber Trigger Upgrade - Marc Kelly (Bristol)   ()
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11:45 DAQ for ATLAS SCT macro-assembly - Bruce Gallop (Birmingham)   ()
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12:00 Development of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Readout - Matthew Noy (Imperial)   ()
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12:15 Navigation Timing Studies of the ATLAS High-Level Trigger - Andrew Lowe (RHUL)   ()
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11:00
Parallel VIII: GRID and Computing (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Simulation of Replica Optimisation Strategies for Data Grids - David Cameron (Glasgow)   ()
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11:15 Storage Management on the Grid - Alasdair Earl (Edinburgh)   ()
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11:30 Running BaBar Jobs on the Grid using gsub and AliBaBa - Mike Jones (Manchester)   ()
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11:45 A web based submission tool for a Physics Computing Cluster - David Jones (Liverpool)   ()
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PM
13:00
Registration (until 13:30) ()
13:30
Particle Physics Town Meeting (until 16:00) ()
13:30 SR2004, Linear Collider - Ian Halliday (PPARC)   ()
14:00 News from Science Committee - Jenny Thomas (UCL)   ()
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14:25 PPAP news and 2004 Road Map - Phil Allport (Liverpool)   ()
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14:50 PAAP news and 2004 Road Map - David Wark (Imperial)   ()
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15:15 --- Tea and Coffee ---
15:30 Funding for industry in the PPARC programme - Peter Fletcher (PPARC)   ()
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18:15
Reception (until 20:00) ()
12:30
Plenary II (until 02:30) ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 What's nu? - Paul Harrison (Warwick)   ()
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14:30 The LHC and the Experiments - Roger Cashmore (Oxford)   ()
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15:00 Heavy-Ion Physics at the LHC with ALICE - Yves Schutz (CERN)   ()
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15:30 --- Tea and Coffee ---
16:00
Parallel IV: Neutrinos and Dark Matter (until 17:30) ()
16:00 The Nemo-3 experiment and neutrinoless double beta decay - Leo Jenner (UCL)   ()
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16:15 Searching for atmospheric neutrino oscillations at MINOS - Andy Blake (Cambridge)   ()
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16:30 Acoustic Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos - David Waters (UCL)   ()
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16:45 Calibration of the MINOS Detectors using Stopping Muons - Jeff Hartnell (Oxford)   ()
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17:00 Development of Micromegas Charge Read-Out for a Two Phase Xenon Dark Matter Detector - Robert Hollingworth (Sheffield)   ()
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17:15 Near & Far detector response comparison with the MINOS calibration detector - Anatael Cabrera (Oxford)   ()
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16:00
Parallel V: Detectors (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector using tracks - Daniel Hindson (Oxford)   ()
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16:15 Optimization of the alignment of the D0 detector - Brian Davies (Lancaster)   ()
16:30 Photon Detectors for the LHCb RICH System - Lisa Allebone (Imperial)   ()
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16:45 Photodetectors for the LHCb RICH - Charlotte Newby (Oxford)   ()
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17:00 Behaviour of MaPMTs in Magnetic Fields - Reinhardt Chamonal (Edinburgh)   ()
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17:15 Resolution studies of the CMS ECAL in the 2003 test beam - Guy Dewhirst (Imperial)   ()
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16:00
Parallel VI: Heavy Flavour (until 17:30) ()
16:00 The bb production cross-section at CDF - Anant Gajjar (Liverpool)   ()
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16:15 Charm at the ZEUS experiment at HERA I and HERA II - John Loizides (UCL)   ()
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16:30 The Study of Excited B-mesons at the D0 detector - Matt Doidge (Lancaster)   ()
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16:45 A Search for the Z->bbar Decay at D0 - Amber Jenkins (Imperial)   ()
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17:00 Triggering on B events at D0 - Chris Barnes (Imperial)   ()
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19:00
Conference Dinner (until 23:00) ()
12:30
IOP AGM (until 13:50) ()
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Chair's Report - Roger Barlow (Manchester)   ()
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13:45 IOP HEPP Group Accounts - Phil Burrows (QMUL)   ()
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14:00
Plenary IV (until 16:00) ()
14:00 The Linear Collider: Physics Highlights and Detector Challenges - Rolf Heuer (DESY)   ()
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14:30 What is the GRID? - Tony Doyle (Glasgow)   ()
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15:00 The Neutrino Factory: Motivation and Machine - Ken Long (Imperial)   ()
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15:30 --- Tea and Coffee ---