Institute of Physics: Particle Physics 2005

21 Mar 2005, 13:00 → 23 Mar 2005, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

UCD, Dublin, Ireland

Ronan McNulty

Particle Physics 2005 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 UCD Physics Department. For more information, see the meeting web page at: http://www.ucd.ie/physics/iop05/

Tuesday, 22 March

09:30 → 11:00 PLENARY: Onwards and Upwards towards the LHC

09:30 Status of the LHC

Speaker: Steve Myers (CERN)

10:00 GridPP

Speaker: Steve Lloyd (QMUL)

10:30 QCD Exotics

Speaker: Mike Pennington (IPPP Durham)

11:25 → 13:00 Parallel 1: QCD 1

11:30 Direct extraction of QCD Lambda MSbar from Moments of DIS structure functions

Speaker: Paul Brooks (Durham)

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11:45 Gluon Saturation in the Colour Dipole Model

Speaker: Graham Shaw (Manchester)

12:00 Gaps between Jets in the High Energy Limit

Speaker: Albrecht Kyrieleis (Manchester)

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12:15 Exclusive Double Diffraction at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: James Monk (Manchester)

12:30 The underlying event in jet physics at TeV colliders

Speaker: Arthur Moraes (Glasgow)

document document iop-dublin-moraes.pdf

12:45 Jet Energy Scale Issues at D0

Speaker: Lydia Lobo (Imperial)

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11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 2: Detector R&D 1

11:30 MICE

Speaker: Lara Howlett (Sheffield)

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11:45 Scintillating Fibre Tracker for MICE

Speaker: Malcolm Ellis (Imperial)

document document Malcolm_Ellis.pdf

12:00 The MINOS calibration system

Speaker: Philip Symes (Sussex)

document document Philip_Symes.pdf

12:15 A Laser-Wire for the Linear Collider

Speaker: Nicolas Delerue (Oxford)

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12:30 Charge Transfer Inefficiency Studies for Future CCD Vertex Detector

Speaker: James Walder (Lancaster)

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12:45 The CMS tracker front end readout electronics

Speaker: James Leaver (Imperial)

document document IOP_HEPP_Dublin_2005_James_leaver_v5.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 3: Dark Matter / Higgs

11:30 The DRIFT Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Jennie Davies (Sheffield)

document document jennie-IoP-HEPP2005.pdf

11:45 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at D0

Speaker: Tim Scanlon (Imperial)

document document Tim_Scanlon.pdf

12:00 Higgs searches at CMS

Speaker: Rob Frazier (Bristol)

document document Robert_Frazier.pdf

12:15 Invisible Higgs at the CMS detector

Speaker: Simon Metson (Bristol)

document document Simon_Metson.pdf

12:30 Studying a Light Higgs Boson in ATLAS

Speaker: Scott McGarvie (RHUL)

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12:45 Jet Clustering Effects in the tth, h to bb channel at ATLAS

Speaker: Christian Shaw (Glasgow)

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14:00 → 15:30 PLENARY: His Dark Materials

14:00 The Dark Side of the Universe: An Astrophysical Perspective

Speaker: Joe Silk (Oxford)

14:45 Can particle physics shed light on the dark secrets of the universe?

Speaker: John Ellis (CERN)

16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 4: Flavour Physics 1

16:00 B0 to pi0pi0 and the CKM angle alpha

Speaker: Carlos Chavez (Liverpool)

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16:15 The decay B- to D0 K* and the CKM angle gamma in BABAR

Speaker: Paul Jackson (RHUL)

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16:30 Dalitz Plot analysis of B+ to K+K+K- at BABAR

Speaker: Matthew Barrett (Birmingham)

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16:45 Amplitude analysis of B+ to K+pi+pi- at BABAR

Speaker: Tom Latham (Warwick)

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17:00 B+ to K+K-pi+ at BABAR

Speaker: James Burke (Bristol)

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17:15 Radiative Penguin Decays at BABAR

Speaker: Debbie Bard (Edinburgh)

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17:30 Branching Fraction measurement of D_s+ to K+pi0 at BABAR

Speaker: Michael Nikolich (Imperial)

document document DsToKpi0_IOP05.pdf

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel 5: Electroweak

16:00 W/Z cross-sections at the Tevatron

Speaker: Paul Telford (Manchester)

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16:15 Measurement of the W + nJet cross-section at CDF

Speaker: Ben Cooper (UCL)

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16:30 W charge asymmetry with Run II data at CDF

Speaker: Cigdem Issever (Oxford)

document Cigdem_Issever.pdf document

16:45 WW scattering at ATLAS

Speaker: Sarah Allwood (Manchester)

document document Sarah_Allwood.pdf

17:00 Search for dimuon events with the H1 detector at HERA

Speaker: Aweys Mohamed (Liverpool)

17:15 Tau to pi pi0 nu_tau at BABAR

Speaker: Mitchell Naisbit (Manchester)

document document DublinIOP.pdf

16:00 → 17:45 Parallel 6: QCD 2

16:00 Strange Particle Production at Zeus

Speaker: Andrew Cottrell (Oxford)

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16:15 Quark-Gluon Plasma and Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dmitri Grigoriev (Maynooth)

16:30 Heavy Ion Physics at the NA57 experiment at CERN

Speaker: Paul Bacon (Birmingham)

16:45 Search for excited quark production at H1

Speaker: Andy Rimmer (Liverpool)

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17:00 First results on Beauty production using HERA II data at ZEUS

Speaker: Silvia Miglioranzi (UCL)

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17:15 The ATLAS B Physics Programme

Speaker: James Catmore (Lancaster)

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17:30 Determining the Gluon PDF at HERA

Speaker: Christopher Targett-Adams (UCL)

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel 7: Detector R&D 2

16:00 The LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors

Speaker: James Storey (Cambridge)

document document jamesStoreyDublin.pdf

16:15 LHCb RICH mirror optics

Speaker: Alex Muir (Bristol)

document Alex_Muir.pdf document

16:30 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors at LHCb

Speaker: Laura Somerville (Oxford)

document document Laura_Somerville.pdf

16:45 An overview of the LHCb RICH1 Magnetic Shielding Design

Speaker: Richard Plackett (Imperial)

document document Richard_Plackett.pdf

17:00 Research towards a possible upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator

Speaker: Alison Bates (Glasgow)

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Wednesday, 23 March

09:30 → 11:00 PLENARY: Reviews of Current Experimental Results

09:30 Electroweak Physics

Speaker: Martin Grunewald (UCD)

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10:00 B physics

Speaker: Francesca di Lodovico (QMUL)

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10:30 Exotic exotics

Speaker: Tracey Pratt (Liverpool)

document document TraceyIOP05.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 10: QCD3 & Detector R&D 3

11:30 Pentaquarks from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Keisuke Jimmy Juge (Trinity College Dublin)

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11:45 Photon Calibration of the CMS ECAL

Speaker: Maiko Takahashi (Imperial)

document document Maiko_Takahashi.pdf

12:00 Analysis of a File Catalogue for the LHC Computing Grid

Speaker: Caitriana Nicholson (Glasgow)

document document IoP-caitriana.pdf

12:15 Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for use as Radiation Hard Detectors

Speaker: James Grant (Glasgow)

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12:30 Gallium Nitride UV Detectors for Synchrotron-based protein structure studies

Speaker: Andrew Blue (Glasgow)

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11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 8: Flavour Physics 2

11:30 Light cone distribution amplitude, B-physics, QCD

Speaker: Angelique Talbot (IPPP Durham)

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11:45 Opposite Side Flavor Tagging at D0

Speaker: Philip Lewis (Imperial College)

document document Philip_Lewis.pdf

12:00 Inclusive Vub measurements in BABAR

Speaker: Roberto Sacco (QMUL)

document document Roberto_Sacco.pdf

12:15 B_s physics at CDF

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (Liverpool)

document document Sinead_Farrington.pdf

12:30 Branching Fraction and Time Dependent Analysis of B0 to rho Kshort

Speaker: Ian Forster (Liverpool)

document document Ian_Forster.pdf

12:45 Measurement of the mass of B_c

Speaker: Peter Bussey (Glasgow)

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11:30 → 13:00 Parallel 9: New Physics

11:30 Search for crypto-exotic states in BABAR

Speaker: Daniel Sherwood (Brunel)

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11:45 Searches for the Theta(1540)+ strange pentaquark candidate in BABAR

Speaker: Jon Coleman (Liverpool)

document document Jonathon_Coleman.pdf

12:00 Neutrino masses in lepton number violating MSSM

Speaker: Steven Rimmer (Durham)

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12:15 Searches for new physics in high mass at CDF and ATLAS

Speaker: Muge Karagoz Unel (Oxford)

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12:30 Search for associated chargino-neutralino production in three-lepton events at CDF

Speaker: Martin Griffiths (Liverpool)

document document Martin_Griffiths.pdf

12:45 Searching for Gluino-Gluino bound states at ATLAS

Speaker: Anne Small (Lancaster)

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13:30 → 14:00 IOP AGM

13:30 Welcome & introduction

13:35 Chairperson's report

13:40 Secretary's report

13:45 Elections (see newsletter item)

13:50 Other business

14:00 → 15:30 PLENARY: From Here to There

14:00 Current and Future Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Yoshi Uchida (Imperial)

14:45 QCD: From Tevatron to LHC

Speaker: James Stirling (IPPP, Durham)