UK Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2004

Europe/Zurich
Birmingham, UK

Birmingham, UK

David Evans
Description
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

    • 13:00 13:30
      Registration Physics Coffee Lounge

      Physics Coffee Lounge

      Registration with tea and coffee

    • 13:30 16:00
      Particle Physics Town Meeting Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 13:30
        SR2004, Linear Collider 30m
        Speaker: Ian Halliday (PPARC)
      • 14:00
        News from Science Committee 25m
        including review of the peer review structure
        Speaker: Jenny Thomas (UCL)
        transparencies
      • 14:25
        PPAP news and 2004 Road Map 25m
        Speaker: Phil Allport (Liverpool)
        transparencies
      • 14:50
        PAAP news and 2004 Road Map 25m
        Speaker: David Wark (Imperial)
        transparencies
      • 15:15
        Tea and Coffee 15m
      • 15:30
        Funding for industry in the PPARC programme 30m
        Speaker: Peter Fletcher (PPARC)
        transparencies
    • 18:15 20:00
      Reception Barber Institute

      Barber Institute

    • 08:50 11:00
      Plenary I Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 08:50
        Announcements, Registration 10m
      • 09:00
        Physics at the B-factories 30m
        Speaker: Adrian Bevan (Liverpool)
        transparencies
      • 09:30
        Recent Lepton-Nucleon Scattering Results from HERA 30m
        Speaker: Paul Newman (Birmingham)
        transparencies
      • 10:00
        Latest results from the Tevatron 30m
        Speaker: Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster)
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Tea and Coffee 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel I: B physics Small Lecture Theatre

      Small Lecture Theatre

      • 11:00
        Inclusive BR(b->sgamma) with a fully reconstructed B 15m
        Speaker: Clare Brown (RHUL)
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        Reconstructing Bs->Ds+-K+- Decays with the LHCb experiment 15m
        Speaker: James Lawrence (Edinburgh)
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        Analysis of the decay B+->K+-pi+pi- at the BaBar experiment 15m
        Speaker: Tom Latham (Bristol)
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        Dalitz Plot Analyses of B meson decay to three charged tracks at BaBar 15m
        Speaker: Sian Morgan (Birmingham)
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Charmless Branching Fraction Studies of B0->Ks0pi+pi- at BaBar 15m
        Speaker: Kelly Ford (Birmingham)
        transparencies
      • 12:15
        Analysis of the decay B+->K*+-pi0 at BaBar 15m
        Speaker: James Gaillard (Imperial)
        transparencies
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel II: QCD West Seminar Room

      West Seminar Room

      • 11:00
        High |t| diffractive photoproduction of rho mesons 15m
        Speaker: Carl Gwilliam (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 CERN Experiment 15m
        Speaker: Stephen Bull (Birmingham)
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        Lambda-based Perturbation Theory for Event Shapes in e+e- Annihilation 15m
        Speaker: Michael Dinsdale (Durham)
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        Infrared Finite Scattering Amplitudes 15m
        Speaker: Darren Forde (Durham)
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Infrared freezing of QCD observables 15m
        Speaker: Paul Brooks (Durham)
        transparencies
      • 12:15
        Multi-Jets at HERA 15m
        Speaker: Tim Namsoo (Bristol)
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel III: Standard Model and Beyond Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 11:00
        A first measurement of the polarised Charged Current cross section from Hera-II 15m
        Speaker: Oliver Henshaw (Birmingham)
      • 11:15
        Wgamma and Zgamma Production and Extraction of Trilinear Gauge Couplings at CDF in Run 2 15m
        Speaker: Helen Hayward (Liverpool)
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        Search for the decay tau->e-gamma using the BaBar detector 15m
        Speaker: Robert Flack (RHUL)
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        Measurement of the cross section times BR for ppbar->XZ->Xmu+mu- at root(s) = 2 TeV using the D0 detector 15m
        Speaker: Emily Nurse (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Leptoquark and Lepton Flavour Violation at HERA 15m
        Speaker: Mudhahir Ismail (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 12:15
        Full Simulation of Black Holes at ATLAS 15m
        Speaker: Matt Palmer (Cambridge)
        transparencies
    • 12:30 02:30
      Plenary II Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 12:30
        Lunch 14h
      • 14:00
        What's nu? 30m
        Speaker: Paul Harrison (Warwick)
        transparencies
      • 14:30
        The LHC and the Experiments 30m
        Speaker: Roger Cashmore (Oxford)
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        Heavy-Ion Physics at the LHC with ALICE 30m
        Speaker: Yves Schutz (CERN)
        transparencies
      • 15:30
        Tea and Coffee 30m
    • 16:00 17:30
      Parallel IV: Neutrinos and Dark Matter Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 16:00
        The Nemo-3 experiment and neutrinoless double beta decay 15m
        Speaker: Leo Jenner (UCL)
        transparencies
      • 16:15
        Searching for atmospheric neutrino oscillations at MINOS 15m
        Speaker: Andy Blake (Cambridge)
        transparencies
      • 16:30
        Acoustic Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos 15m
        Speaker: David Waters (UCL)
        transparencies
      • 16:45
        Calibration of the MINOS Detectors using Stopping Muons 15m
        Speaker: Jeff Hartnell (Oxford)
        transparencies
      • 17:00
        Development of Micromegas Charge Read-Out for a Two Phase Xenon Dark Matter Detector 15m
        Speaker: Robert Hollingworth (Sheffield)
        transparencies
      • 17:15
        Near & Far detector response comparison with the MINOS calibration detector 15m
        Speaker: Anatael Cabrera (Oxford)
        transparencies
    • 16:00 17:30
      Parallel V: Detectors West Seminar Room

      West Seminar Room

      • 16:00
        Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector using tracks 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Hindson (Oxford)
        transparencies
      • 16:15
        Optimization of the alignment of the D0 detector 15m
        Speaker: Brian Davies (Lancaster)
      • 16:30
        Photon Detectors for the LHCb RICH System 15m
        Speaker: Lisa Allebone (Imperial)
        transparencies
      • 16:45
        Photodetectors for the LHCb RICH 15m
        Speaker: Charlotte Newby (Oxford)
        transparencies
      • 17:00
        Behaviour of MaPMTs in Magnetic Fields 15m
        Speaker: Reinhardt Chamonal (Edinburgh)
        transparencies
      • 17:15
        Resolution studies of the CMS ECAL in the 2003 test beam 15m
        Speaker: Guy Dewhirst (Imperial)
        transparencies
    • 16:00 17:30
      Parallel VI: Heavy Flavour Small Lecture Theatre

      Small Lecture Theatre

      • 16:00
        The bb production cross-section at CDF 15m
        Speaker: Anant Gajjar (Liverpool)
        transparencies
      • 16:15
        Charm at the ZEUS experiment at HERA I and HERA II 15m
        Speaker: John Loizides (UCL)
        transparencies
      • 16:30
        The Study of Excited B-mesons at the D0 detector 15m
        Speaker: Matt Doidge (Lancaster)
        transparencies
      • 16:45
        A Search for the Z->bbar Decay at D0 15m
        Speaker: Amber Jenkins (Imperial)
        transparencies
      • 17:00
        Triggering on B events at D0 15m
        Speaker: Chris Barnes (Imperial)
        transparencies
    • 19:00 23:00
      Conference Dinner Birmingham

      Birmingham

    • 09:00 11:00
      Plenary III Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 09:00
        Selected topics in LHC phenomenology 45m
        Speaker: Jeff Forshaw (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 09:45
        Cosmology in Wonderland: Does dark energy really exist? 45m
        Speaker: Subir Sarkar (Oxford)
        transparencies
      • 10:30
        Tea and Coffee 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel IX: Standard Model and Beyond Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 11:00
        Results from investigations into the CMS physics channels PP->bbH(H->gammagamma) 15m
        Speaker: Daniel Holmes (Bristol)
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        WW production at CDF 15m
        Speaker: Dustin McGivern (UCL)
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        WW scattering studies at a Future Linear Collider 15m
        Speaker: Andres Osorio (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        CKM physics from B->Kpi decays at LHCb 15m
        Speaker: Andy Buckley (Cambridge)
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Resonant Leptogenesis 15m
        Speaker: Tom Underwood (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 12:15
        Search for events with tau-leptons at H1 15m
        Speaker: Christian Veelken (Liverpool)
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel VII: Detectors Small Lecture Theatre

      Small Lecture Theatre

      • 11:00
        Charge Transfer Inefficiency Simulation for CCD Vertex Detector Studies 15m
        Speaker: James Walder (Lancaster)
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        Recent results from R&D towards a vertex detector at the future linear collider 15m
        Speaker: Sonja Hillert (Oxford)
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        BaBar Level-1 Drift Chamber Trigger Upgrade 15m
        Speaker: Marc Kelly (Bristol)
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        DAQ for ATLAS SCT macro-assembly 15m
        Speaker: Bruce Gallop (Birmingham)
        transparencies
      • 12:00
        Development of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker Readout 15m
        Speaker: Matthew Noy (Imperial)
        transparencies
      • 12:15
        Navigation Timing Studies of the ATLAS High-Level Trigger 15m
        Speaker: Andrew Lowe (RHUL)
        transparencies
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel VIII: GRID and Computing West Seminar Room

      West Seminar Room

      • 11:00
        Simulation of Replica Optimisation Strategies for Data Grids 15m
        Speaker: David Cameron (Glasgow)
        transparencies
      • 11:15
        Storage Management on the Grid 15m
        Speaker: Alasdair Earl (Edinburgh)
        transparencies
      • 11:30
        Running BaBar Jobs on the Grid using gsub and AliBaBa 15m
        Speaker: Mike Jones (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 11:45
        A web based submission tool for a Physics Computing Cluster 15m
        Speaker: David Jones (Liverpool)
        transparencies
    • 12:30 13:50
      IOP AGM Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      transparencies
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h
      • 13:30
        Chair's Report 15m
        Speaker: Roger Barlow (Manchester)
        transparencies
      • 13:45
        IOP HEPP Group Accounts 5m
        Speaker: Phil Burrows (QMUL)
        transparencies
    • 14:00 16:00
      Plenary IV Large Lecture Theatre

      Large Lecture Theatre

      • 14:00
        The Linear Collider: Physics Highlights and Detector Challenges 30m
        Speaker: Rolf Heuer (DESY)
        transparencies
      • 14:30
        What is the GRID? 30m
        Speaker: Tony Doyle (Glasgow)
        transparencies
      • 15:00
        The Neutrino Factory: Motivation and Machine 30m
        Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial)
        transparencies
      • 15:30
        Tea and Coffee 30m