Ms
Denise Hellwig
(RWTH Aachen University), Mr
Guang Yang
(Argonne National Lab/Illinois Institute of Technology), Dr
Pau Novella
(CIEMAT), Dr
Pietro Chimenti
(Universidade Federal do ABC), Mr
Stefan Schoppmann
(RWTH Aachen University), Dr
Tsunayuki Matsubara
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Double Chooz experiment is a reactor neutrino disappearance experiment located at the nuclear power plant in Chooz, France. The primary goal of the Double Chooz experiment is to precisely
measure the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$, a neutrino oscillation parameter. The experiment consists of two identical liquid scintillator detectors and measures the electron-antineutrino flux of...
Mr
Rahul Chhabra
(Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We calculate the effect of density and temperature of isospin asymmetric non-strange medium on the shift in masses and decay constants of scalar D and B mesons using chiral SU(3) model and QCD sum rule approach. In this work we calculate the values of quark and gluon condensates from the chiral SU(3) model and we use these condensates in the QCD Sum rule framework to calculate the in medium...
Prof.
Martin Breidenbach
(SLAC)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The ILC polarized positron source design is based on a polarized photon beam produced in an undulator striking a 14 mm Ti target. Because both the instantaneous and average power is high, the concept of a rotating Ti hoop in the accelerator vacuum is accepted. The baseline approach in the TDR uses water cooling introduced through rotating seals, and rotating seals are used for an axial drive...
E. Craig Dukes
(University of Virginia)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Mu2e experiment is designed to search for the charged-lepton-flavor-violating
process, $\mu^-$ to a $e^-$, with unprecedented sensitivity. The single 105-MeV
electron that results from this process can be mimicked by electrons produced by
cosmic-ray muons traversing the detector. An active veto detector surrounding
the apparatus is used to detect incoming cosmic-ray muons. To reduce the...
Prof.
Mary Anne Cummings
(Muons, Inc.)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The recent hint of a possible observation of a peak in the two photon data at the LHC could be an indication of new physics. There may be several interpretations of what this alleged new physics could be. One possible explanation could be the heavy Higgs partner to the standard model Higgs. A heavy electron collider would be a unique machine to study the heavy Higgs since it could be...
Elena Gramellini
(Yale U),
Varuna Meddage
(Kansas State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
MicroBooNE is a short-baseline neutrino experiment operated with a large liquid argon time projection chamber built on the Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB). MicroBooNE started collecting data in Fall 2015 and in addition to addressing the low energy electron-like excess observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, the exceptional particle identification capability of MicroBooNE will make it...
Lev Timofeev
(SHICRA SB RAS)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Proposed a new method for measuring the cherenkov light from the extensive air shower (EAS) of cosmic rays (CR), which allows to determine not only the primary particle energy and angle of arrival, but also the parameters of the shower in the atmosphere - the maximum depth and "age".
For measurements Cherenkov light produced by EAS is proposed to use a ground network of wide-angle telescopes...
Dr
Yuguang Xie
(IHEP, Beijing, China)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The THGEM-based detector with cascade boron coating structure is a promising solution for high efficiency thermal neutron detection, instead of those 3He-based. The general idea is to coat boron on the surfaces of several layers of THGEMs. However, the gain difference and neutron scattering and absorption due to THGEMs themselves are problems. A new idea is proposed to avoid these problems....
David Sweigart
(Cornell University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
We present the design of a µTCA-based waveform digitizer that will be deployed in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. The digitizer features five independent channels, each with 12-bit, 800-MSPS digitization and a 1-Gbit memory buffer. The data storage and readout along with the configuration are handled by six Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGAs. In addition, the digitizer is equipped with a mezzanine...
Yifan Jin
(The University of Tokyo)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Belle II, as the upgrade of Belle, is aiming at searching for New Physics with 40 times higher luminosity. In order to cope with such a high luminosity, pure CsI scintillation crystals whose scintillation time is around 30 nanoseconds have been proposed. And silicon avalanche photodiodes, making up for the low light yield of pure CsI, are considered as photosensors. The application of the...
Julia Yarba
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
Particle physics experiments make heavy use of the Geant4 simulation package to model interactions between subatomic particles and bulk matter. Geant4 itself employs a set of carefully validated physics models that span a wide range of interaction energies.
These models rely on directly measured cross-sections and phenomenological models with physically motivated parameters, and are tuned to...
Elena Gramellini
(Yale U)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We present a study of the charged kaon-Argon total interaction cross section in liquid argon performed at the LArIAT experiment. LArIAT is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) deployed in a dedicated calibration test beam at Fermilab. LArTPC represents one of the most advanced experimental technologies for physics at the Intensity Frontier due to its full 3D-imaging, excellent...
Peilian Li
(USTC)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The BESIII detector accumulated 567 pb-1 data at the center-of-mass energy of 4.599 GeV, which is the world's largest e+e- collision sample at the Lambda_c pair threshold. By analyzing this data sample, we report the determinations of the absolute branching fractions of the Lambdac+ semi-leptonic decay into Lambdac e+v, and 12 hadrnoic decays of pKs, pK-pi+, pKspi0, pKspi+pi-, Lambda pi+,...
Menglei Sun
(Carnegie-Mellon University (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Many physics analyses using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the LHC require accurate, high resolution electron and photon energy measurements. Particularly important are decays of the Higgs boson resulting in electromagnetic particles in the final state. Di-photon events in CMS are also a very important channel in the search for Higgs boson production in association with other...
Fernando Serna
(IFT-UNEPS)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
In this work we have studied the pole locations of the quark propagator
by the solution of quark Dyson Schwinger equation (DSE) in term of the
truncation. We have fitted the Rainbow ladder solution (RL) of the quark
DSE with the Qin-Chang interaction on the real axis (p 2 > 0) and simul-
taneously the solution on the complex parabola with the same interaction.
The fits were made using the well...
Mr
Ander Simón Estévez
(IFIC)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The NEXT collaboration aims to find the neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe136. The rareness of this decay demands an exceptional background rejection. This can be obtained with an excellent energy resolution, which has been already demonstrated in the NEXT prototypes. In addition to this, the 2ß0ν decay in gas produces a characteristic topological signal which could be an extremely useful...
Jack Cranshaw
(Argonne National Laboratory (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
Choices in persistent data models and data organization have significant performance ramifications for data-intensive scientific computing.
In experimental high energy physics, organizing file-based event data for efficient per-attribute retrieval may improve the I/O performance of some physics analyses
but hamper the performance of processing that requires full-event access.
In-file data...
Theodor Christian Herwig
(University of Pennsylvania (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC uses a two-level trigger system to preferentially select events with a predefined topology of interest for future analysis. The hadronic jet trigger is used to select several different topologies containing different types and multiplicities of hadronic jets, thus supporting many different physics searches and measurements. The hadronic jet trigger efficiency...
William Keaton Balunas
(University of Pennsylvania (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The ATLAS experiment at CERN is planning a second phase of upgrades to prepare for the "High Luminosity LHC", a 4th major run due to start in 2026. In order to deliver an order of magnitude more data than previous runs, 14 TeV protons will collide with an instantaneous luminosity of 7.5 × 1034 cm−2s−1, resulting in much higher pileup and data rates than the current experiment was designed to...
Dr
Adrian Buzatu
(University of Glasgow (GB))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
The Higgs boson discovered at LHC in 2012 has been observed coupling directly to W and Z bosons and tau leptons, and indirectly to top quarks. In order to probe if it is indeeed the particle predicted by the Standard Model (SM), or by a theory beyond the SM, direct couplings of Higgs boson to quarks must also be measured and compared with the SM prediction. From all quarks, the Higgs boson...
Yury Gornushkin
(JINR-Dubna)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) experiment is under preparation in China by the international collaboration. The main goal of the project is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy by precise measurement of the energy spectrum of the antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors with help of the 20 kt liquid scintillator underground detector located at a distance of 53 km. Data...
Luis Arceo
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Detection of cosmic rays can be used for teaching and research. The detector and its electronics have a key role in the cosmic ray detection process. It is presented the design, construction and test of a basic readout three channel electronic board for a cosmic ray detector based on three 2.54 cm X 5.08 cm X 20.32 cm Aluminum blocks, and some very preliminary physical results.
Kenkichi Miyabayashi
(Nara Women's University, Japan)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider is a major upgrade of
KEK B factory facility in Tsukuba, Japan. First beams are planned for early
2016 and first physics data will be recorded in the middle of 2017 during
phase 2 commissioning, while the Belle II detector is still missing its
vertex detector system. In this talk, we will describe the physics program
for this early data,...
Nikola Lazar Whallon
(University of Washington (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
High $p_{T}$ (``boosted'') Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of $b$-quarks are an important signature for many physics searches in Run 2. The reconstruction and identification of such signatures relies mainly on the long-lived nature of the $b$-hadrons arising from the fragmentation of the $b$-quarks. Several advanced Higgs boson tagging techniques are presented here, including the...
Brian Nord
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration is an international
astronomy collaboration of 400 scientists (graduate student to professor) from ~30 institutions. Our public outreach and professional development programs are unique grass-roots efforts that set new standards for large science collaborations. We describe several
programs in which scientists build networks of internal support,...
John Strologas
(University of Ioannina (GR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Technology Applications and Industrial Opportunities
Poster
Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is the leading medical-imaging method of myocardial perfusion, important for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary-artery disease, the number-one killer in the western world. C-SPECT is a proposed novel cardiac SPECT system designed to achieve at least double the geometric efficiency compared to general-purpose dual-head gamma cameras, for...
Feng Su
(IHEP,CAS)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
In this paper, we introduced the layout and lattice design of Circular-Electron-Positron-Collider (CEPC) partial double ring (PDR) scheme and the lattice design of Super-Proton-Proton-Collider (SPPC). The baseline design of CEPC is a single beam-pipe electron positron collider, which has to adopt pretzel orbit scheme. And it is not suitable to serve as a high luminosity Z factory besides...
Dr
DOU WANG
(IHEP)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
In order to avoid the pretzel orbit, CEPC is proposed to use partial double ring scheme in CDR. In this paper, a general method of how to make an consistant machine parameter design of CEPC with crab waist by using analytical expression of maximum beam-beam tune shift and beamstrahlung beam lifetime started from given IP vertical beta, beam power and other technical limitations was developed....
Michael Mooney
(BNL)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
With many current and future neutrino experiments relying on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology, characterizing the performance of these detectors is critical. The MicroBooNE LArTPC experiment is capable of performing
numerous measurements to better understand the technology. These include measurements of the levels of electronegative contamination using cosmic rays and...
Aleena Rafique
(Kansas State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC)
located in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory. This poster presents a study on charged particle multiplicity
(CPM) analysis based on a small sample of automatically and visually
identified neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector. Initial comparison
of multiplicity distributions for data, BNB...
Dr
Elena Kokoulina
(On behalf of the SVD-2 Collaboration: JINR-IHEP-SINP MSU)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
Summary results of the SERP-E-184 experiment at the U-70 accelerator (IHEP, Protvino) are presented. Interactions of 70 GeV proton beam with carbon, silicon and lead targets were studied to detect decays of charmed $D^0$, $\overline D^0$, $D^+$, $D^-$ mesons and $\Lambda _c^+$ baryon nearby their production threshold. The possible modification of the charm properties (the width and/or the...
Hannsjorg Weber
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We will present results of electronics and system testing of the CMS forward pixel (FPIX) detector upgrade for Phase 1. The FPIX detector is comprised of four stand-alone half cylinders, each of which contains frontend readout electronic boards, power regulators, cables and fibers in addition to the active pixel modules. All of the components are undergoing rigorous testing and quality...
Lindsey Gray
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS experiment has chosen a novel high granularity calorimeter for the forward region as part of its planned upgrade for the high luminosity LHC. The calorimeter will have fine segmentation in both the transverse and longitudinal directions and will be the first such calorimeter specifically optimised for particle flow reconstruction to operate at a colliding beam experiment. The...
Mr
Zhi Wei Wang
(U of Saskatchewan)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
In this talk, we consider a conformal complex singlet extension of the Standard Model with a Higgs portal interaction. Two different scenarios depending on whether the global U(1) symmetry is broken or not have been studied. In the broken phase, including the additional vector-like fermion, we are able to address the recent 750 GeV LHC diphoton excesses. In the unbroken phase, the decay of the...
Kathryn Jepsen
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
The Pew Research Center last polled Americans about their interest in keeping up with science news in 2009. In that survey, most Americans expressed at least some interest in following science news, with 35 percent expressing a strong interest and 41 percent expressing some interest.
Since then, science has become more and more integrated into popular culture. The popular sitcom *The Big...
Kuldeep Maan
(Fermilab)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
NOvA, a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab, is designed to
measure electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance in the NuMI beam. NOvA comprises of two finely segmented liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the
NuMI beam. An accurate prediction of the neutrino flux is needed for precision oscillation and cross-section measurements. Data...
Nitin Yadav
(Fermilab/IITG)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NO$\nu$A experiment is a $\nu_e$ appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. It identifies the $\nu_e$ signal by the electromagnetic (EM) showers induced by the electrons in the final state of neutrino interactions. Cosmic muon induced EM showers, dominated
by bremsstrahlung, are abundant in NOνA far detector. We use the Cosmic Muon- Removal technique to get pure shower sample...
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Prof.
Gopinath Kamath
(Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati,Tirupati 517506,India)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Formal Theory Developments
Poster
The spherically symmetric Schwarzschild solution is a staple of textbooks on general
relativity; not so perhaps, the static but cylindrically symmetric ones, though they were obtained almost contemporaneously by H. Weyl, Ann.Phys.Lpz.**54**,117(1917) and T. Levi-Civita, Atti Acc.Lincei Rend. **28** ,101(1919). A renewed interest in this subject recently in C.S. Trendafilova and S.A.Fulling ,...
Dong-Won Jung
(Korea University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We analyze the scale-invariant extension of the standard model (SM) with a strongly interacting
hidden sector by using AdS/QCD. Using AdS/QCD, we can reduce the number of input parameters
to three, i.e., hidden pion decay constant, hidden pion mass and tan β that is defined as the ratio
of the vaccum expectation values of the singlet scalar field and the SM Higgs boson. As a result,
our model...
Eric Braaten
(Ohio State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Axions are described by a relativistic field theory with a real scalar field whose self-interaction potential is periodic. Low energy axions can be described more simply by a
nonrelativistic effective field theory with a complex scalar field called $\textit{axion EFT}$. An axion stars is a gravitationally bound collection of axions. We use axion EFT to calculate
the properties of a new class...
MyeongJae Lee
(Institute for Basic Science (Korea))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
CULTASK is an experiment to search for the cosmic axions using resonant cavities, to detect photons in the 1-8 GHz range from axion conversion in a very high magnetic field and at an ultra low temperature due to the inverse Primakoff effect. The postulated power of these signal is very weak in the order of $10^{-24}$ W, therefore, a signal processing network was carefully designed in order to...
Marco Morrone
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
In the framework of the high luminosity large hadron collider (HL-LHC) project, important upgrades will take place by 2024 including the installation of new superconducting magnets in which new beam screens will be placed. The beam screen is an octagonally shaped pipe inserted into the cold bore of superconducting quadrupoles a few tens of meters from the proton beam interaction points (ATLAS...
Pranava Teja Surukuchi
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
PROSPECT is a multi-phased reactor antineutrino experiment with primary goals of making a precise measurement of the $^{235}$U reactor antineutrino spectrum and performing a search for sterile neutrinos. The detectors will be deployed at short baselines of $\sim$ 7-19m from the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In addition to being optimally located to search for...
Julian Felix
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
Since 30 years ago Universidad de Guanajuato students and professors have participated in many international experimental high Energy physics collaborations, working at Fermilab USA, mainly [1]. Slow progress, and a tendency to impoverish, has observed in the development of this area of science in Mexico. We have disregarded the scientific and technological development of Mexico, preparing...
Mr
Frederick Sage
(University of Saskatchewan)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
We work with a UV conformally complete U(1)' extension of the Standard Model, motivated by the hierarchy problem and recent collider anomalies. This model admits fermionic vector portal WIMP dark matter charged under the U(1)' gauge group. The conformal boundary conditions can be used to fix the coupling parameters, which allows the observed thermal relic abundance to constrain the mass of the...
Michael DuVernois
(University of Wisconsin--Madison)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory in central Mexico is currently the world's only synoptic survey instrument for gamma rays above 1 TeV. Because there is significant interest in covering the full TeV gamma-ray sky with a survey instrument, we have examined options for a Southern Hemisphere counterpart to HAWC. In addition to providing all-sky coverage of TeV sources, a...
Dr
Anatoly Ronzhin
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Results of the study of timing properties of silicon photomultipliers, micro channel plates, silicon, etc. presented. The measurements were performed at Silicon Detector laboratory and Fermilab Test Beam Facility. The measured time resolution of the detectors is in the range of few picosecond up to few tens picosecond.
Nhan Viet Tran
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We study detector performance of jet substructure variables for extremely boosted objects at very high energy proton colliders. We study hadronically-decaying W bosons with transverse momentum in the multi-TeV range. Calorimeter detectors are benchmarked in various configurations in order to understand the impact of granularity and resolution on boosted boson discrimination.
Sourav Sen
(Duke University (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We study detector performance of tau-lepton identification variables at very high energy proton colliders. We study hadronically-decaying tau-leptons with transverse momentum in the TeV range. Calorimeters are benchmarked in various configurations in order to understand the impact of granularity and resolution on boosted tau-lepton discrimination.
Prof.
David Hitlin
(Caltech, USA)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
BaF$_2$ calorimeters are radiation-hard and have good energy resolution, but the time resolution can be a problem at high rate. Indeed, the scintillation light has both a fast (decay time 0.9 ns at 220 nm) and a larger, slow (decay time 650 ns at 300 nm) component. The slow component can worsen the excellent time resolution available from the fast component.
In order to take advantage of...
Nicola Minafra
(Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The upgrade program of the TOTEM experiment foresees the installation of timing detectors inside vertical Roman Pots to allow the reconstruction of the longitudinal vertex position in presence of event pile-up in high $\beta^{*}$ dedicated runs. The small available space inside the Roman Pot and the required time resolution led to the study of a solution using single crystal CVD diamonds.
The...
Kenji Inami
(Nagoya university)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We have been developing a Cherenkov ring-imaging detector as a barrel
particle identification device, named TOP (Time-Of-Propagation), for
the Belle-II experiment. In this presentation, we will show the overview
of TOP detector, the production results and focus on the MCP-PMT development
and its improved performance.
We have successfully produced the detector modules, which consist of...
Matthew Bass
(University of Oxford)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
SBND (Short-Baseline Near Detector) will be a 112 ton liquid argon TPC neutrino detector located 110m from the target of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. SBND, together with the MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T600 detectors at 470m and 600m, respectively, make up the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. SBN will search for new physics in the neutrino sector by testing the sterile...
Joseph Pusztay
(State University of New York at Buffalo CMS (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The differential cross sections of dijet and V+jet events with respect to the jet mass is presented. The cross section is presented with respect to the bare jet mass, as well as with grooming applied with the modified mass drop tagger.
NEHA BHATNAGAR
(BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We study the Renormalization Group (RG) flow of transport properties by holographic QCD. Diffusion constant and shear viscosity at the cut-off have been calculated in the soft wall model including the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) couplings in the gravity. An explicit relation between the two has been shown for Einstein–Maxwell system first and then with gauss- bonnet corrections in the soft wall approach.
Andrey Elagin
(University of Chicago)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
In a liquid scintillator detector electrons from $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay often exceed
Cherenkov threshold. Selection of early photons using fast photo-detectors separates prompt directional Cherenkov light from delayed isotropic scintillation light. This leads to the possibility of reconstructing the event topology of $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay candidate events by analyzing spatial and timing...
Sascha Mehlhase
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
To support the outreach activities of Atlas institutes and to grab people's attention in science exhibitions and during public events, we have created both a very detailed model of the experiment built entirely out of about Lego bricks as well as an outreach programme using Lego bricks to get people to think about particle detectors and involve them into a conversation about particle physics...
Fernando Brandt
(Universidade de São Paulo)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Formal Theory Developments
Poster
The first order form of the Einstein-Hilbert action is shown to reduce the number of
vertices needed to compute Feynman diagrams to just three three-point ones; in addition there are
two propagating fields. This simplified set of Feynman rules can be used to derive the same results
as the usual second order form of the Einstein-Hilbert action. We also consider the contributions to the...
Prof.
Samina Masood
(University of Houston Clear Lake)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
We study the properties of an electromagnetically interacting medium in the presence of high concentration of electrons at extremely high temperatures and chemical potentials.
We show that the electromagnetic properties of the medium such as the electric permittivity, magnetic permeability, magnetic moments and the propagation speed of electromagnetic waves as well as the corresponding...
Stefano Manzoni
(Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT), LPNHE Paris)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
An accurate calibration of the energy measurement of electron and photon is paramount for many ATLAS physics analysis.
The calibration of the energy measurement is performed in-situ using a large statistics of Z->ee events. A pre-requisite
of this calibration is a good understanding of the material in front of the calorimeter and of the inter-calibration of the
different calorimeter layers....
Sergey Antipov
(University of Chicago)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Electron cloud can lead to a fast instability in intense proton and positron beams in circular accelerators. We demonstrate that electron cloud can be trapped in a combined function magnet. We present the results of analytical estimates, and compare them to numerical simulations of electron cloud formation. In a combined function magnet the electron cloud is located at the beam center and the...
Clemencia Mora Herrera
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The study of electroweak boson production is an important part of
characterizing the standard model and it can also shed a light on new
physics, in the form of anomalous gauge couplings. We present studies
based on the measurement of WW scattering, the electroweak production
of Z gamma + 2 jets and the study of gamma gamma->WW through the
exclusive WW production performed by the CMS...
Victoria Blackmore
(Imperial College London)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The goal of the international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is to demonstrate transverse emittance reduction of a muon beam using a lattice cell that could be a component of a Neutrino Factory and a Muon Collider. In MICE Step IV configuration, the muon beam passes through a low-Z absorber material for reducing its transverse emittance through ionization energy loss and the...
Robin Bjorkquist
(Cornell University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 0.14 parts per million. The measurement will rely on detailed knowledge of the muon beam profile in the storage ring. A suite of 24 segmented lead-fluoride calorimeters will provide energy, time, and position information about the decay positrons. Calorimeter data will primarily be used...
Peter Filip
(Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Heavy Ions
Poster
Production of double-strange $\Xi^-$ baryons at sub-threshold
energies has been observed (by HADES experiment) to be unexpectedly enhanced, compared to theoretical estimates. We suggest, oscillation of neutral kaons can be affected due to high baryonic density in a specific way, which may result in the oscillation length 5-10 fm. This allows for the strangeness violation process $K^0(\bar s...
Mr
Evan Racah
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory),
Wahid Bhimji
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
High Energy Physics has made use of machine-learning approaches such as artificial neural networks for some time. Recently however there has been considerable development of these techniques outside the HEP community, particularly in deep neural networks for the purposes of image recognition. In this work, we describe a deep-learning analysis pipeline, developed at NERSC, capable of revealing...
Dr
Ballari Chakrabarti
(Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata, India)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
After the recent discovery of charmed pentaquarks $P_c^*$ (4380)
and, $P_c^*$ (4450) [1] quick search has been set in for
other pentaquarks. In the present work, the masses
of the cryptoexotic pentaquarks with hidden beauty
$P_b^*$ ($uudb\bar{b}$), and
strangeness $P_s^*$ ($uuds\bar{s}$) have been estimated
considering a di-hadronic
state consisting of a meson and a baryon. In addition to...
Dr
Bjorn Herrmann
(Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We analyse the impact of non-minimally flavour violating (NMFV) terms in the Lagrangian of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) at the TeV scale on signatures related to squarks at the LHC.
We begin with an extensive study of the corresponding parameter space by means of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) setup. This represents the first study of several non-zero NMFV elements in...
Joseph Lozier
(California Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NO$\nu$A experiment is a long-baseline, off-axis, two-detector neutrino-oscillation experiment using the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The disappearance analysis measures oscillation of the muon-neutrino beam and is sensitive to the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{23}$ and mass splitting $\Delta m^{2}_{32}$. This poster presents the method used to generate predicted far-detector energy spectra...
Geum Bong Yu
(Seoul National University (KR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
The first result of searching for a light charged Higgs decaying to cb-bar in 8 TeV CMS data corresponding to 19.7/fb is reported. When the charged Higgs has lighter mass than the top quark mass and strongly couples to the top quark, thereby it is expected to be found in the top quark decays. The cb-bar decay has been of interest by theorist since the hadronic channel of the charged Higgs was...
Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee
(University of Minnesota (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Calorimetry at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) faces two enormous challenges, particularly in the forward direction: radiation tolerance and unprecedented in-time event pileup. To meet these challenges, the CMS experiment has decided to construct a High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL), featuring a previously unrealized transverse and longitudinal segmentation, for both electromagnetic and...
Dr
Maxim Eingorn
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
In the framework of the concordance cosmological model the first-order scalar and vector perturbations of the homogeneous background are derived without any supplementary approximations in addition to the weak gravitational field limit. The sources of these perturbations (inhomogeneities) are presented in the discrete form of a system of separate point-like gravitating masses. The obtained...
Vanessa Mueller
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
Flavour tagging, i.e. the inference of the production flavour of reconstructed $b$-hadrons, is essential for precision measurements of decay time-dependent CP violation and of mixing parameters in the the neutral $B$ meson systems. LHC's $pp$ collisions with their high track multiplicities constitute a challenging environment for flavour tagging and demand for new and improved strategies. We...
Hee Sok Chung
(Argonne National Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We compute fragmentation corrections to hadroproduction of the
quarkonium states $J/\psi$, $\chi_{cJ}$, and $\psi(2S)$ at leading power
in $m_c^2/p_T^2$, where $m_c$ is the charm-quark mass and $p_T$ is the
quarkonium transverse momentum. The computation is carried out in the
framework of nonrelativistic QCD. We include corrections to the
parton-production cross sections through...
Elena Kokoulina
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
All available (up to 200 GeV) data on multiplicity in $e^+e^-$ annihilation are described well in the framework of two-stage model based on pQCD and suggested phenomenological scheme of hadronization. This model confirms increasing of number of splitting gluons with growth of energy and the fragmentation mechanism of hadronization in vacuum: single gluon $\rightarrow $ single hadron that...
Stefania Bufalino
(Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Heavy Ions
Poster
The main goal of the ALICE experiment at the LHC is to study the properties of the deconfined state of matter known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. In this context, strangeness and light flavor observables help for the characterization of the bulk properties of the QGP.
Thanks to its unique detector design, the ALICE experiment can identify...
Scott Robert Johnson
(University of Colorado at Boulder (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Particle spectra have been obtained from interactions of 31 GeV/c protons and pions on a thin carbon target with data taken in 2009 and interactions of protons on a T2K replica target with data taken in 2009 and 2010 by NA61/SHINE. These spectra include multiplicities of $\pi^+$,$\pi^-$, $K^+$, $K^-$, protons, $\Lambda^0$ and $K^0_s$. The results from the 2009 proton data have recently been...
Robert William Gardner Jr
(University of Chicago (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
Out of necessity, the computing model for HEP was transformed over the past two decades from being one confined to a centralized data center, usually situated at the host laboratory, to one fully network-based, distributed across institutional boundaries and geographical regions. This shift from centralized to an intrinsically distributed model has allowed accumulations of diverse collections...
Nihan Sipahi
(Colorado State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
There is a significant interest in achieving high-average power electron sources particularly in the area of electron sources integrated with Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) systems. For these systems, the electron gun and cathode parts are critical components for stable intensity and high-average powers. In this study, we will present the design of 8.5-cell accelerator cavity having...
Mr
Prajwal Mohanmurthy
(MIT)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
Re-configurable Open Architecture Computing Hardware (ROACH) developed by Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER) is a single processor, FPGA based board with the ability to accept a number of different add - on electronics for signal processing. Project 8 is a novel experiment making use of cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) technique to...
Mr
Javier Fernando Castaño Forero
(Universidad Antonio Nariño), Mr
LUIS FERNANDO CASTAÑEDA MELO
(Universidad Antonio Nariño)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Technology Applications and Industrial Opportunities
Poster
A SiPM device has very high sensitivity, rapid response and high performance when it is operated in oversaturation conditions and detects very small variations in incident optical radiation. A SiPM detects low power light beams that are imperceptibles for other photodetectors. In this paper, we present a SiPM-based receiver that discriminate small light signals from background noise, while...
Philip Burrows
(Oxford University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project is exploring the possibility of constructing a multi-TeV linear electron-positron collider for high-energy frontier physics studies beyond the LHC era. The CLIC concept is based on high-gradient normal-conducting accelerating structures operating at X-band (12 GHz) frequency. We present the status of development, prototyping and testing of structures...
Laurent Mirabito
(Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
With the increase of the LHC luminosity foreseen in the coming years many detectors currently used in the different LHC experiments will be dramatically impacted and some need to be replaced. The new ones should be capable not only to support the high particle rate but also to provide time information to reduce the data ambiguity due to the expected high pileup.
RPC using low-resistivity...
Dmitriy Beznosko
(Nazarbayev University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
“Horizon-T” is an innovative detector system located at Tien Shan high-altitude Science Station at approximately 3340 meters above the sea level. It consists of seven detection points separated by the distance up to one kilometer that can measure time characteristics of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) and record signal shapes with time resolution of ~10 ns. It was constructed to register EAS...
Anselmo Meregaglia
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Double Chooz (DC) is a reactor anti-nue disappearance experiment located in France near the power plant of Chooz. The main goal of the experiment is the measurement of the θ13 mixing angle and, already in 2011, it provided the first positive indication for a non-zero value of such an oscillation parameter, using a single detector. The exploitation of the second detector (near detector), taking...
ATLAS Collaboration
(CERN)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
At the LHC, massive hadronically decaying Standard Model particles, such as the
W boson and the top quark, can be produced with high transverse momenta much larger
than their mass. This will lead to increased collimation of the decay products in the direction
of the boosted parent particle. ATLAS has commissioned and implemented jet substructure
techniques to reconstruct and identify...
Frank Simon
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Future energy-frontier electron-positron colliders will be capable of high-precision studies of the properties of the top quark. The measurement of the top-pair production cross section around the threshold provides access to the mass of the top quark in theoretically well-defined schemes, with statistical uncertainties of 20 MeV or less, depending on the assumed integrated luminosity of the...
Ken Sakashita
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK), Institute of Particle and Nuclear Study), Prof.
Megan Friend
(KEK),
Takashi Kobayashi
(KEK),
Takeshi Nakadaira
(HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KEK),
Taku Ishida
(KEK),
Tetsuro Sekiguchi
(KEK)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The J-PARC neutrino beam-line generates a high intensity neutrino beam, using 30 GeV protons from the J-PARC MR accelerator, for the long-base line neutrino oscillation experiment T2K. T2K observed neutrino oscillations between muon neutrinos and electron neutrinos in 2013, and started the search for oscillations between muon anti-neutrinos and electron anti-neutrinos using a ~400kW proton...
Juan Rodrigo Gonzalez Fernandez
(Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The inclusive cross section for top-quark pair production is measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC using the data samples collected in 2015 and the first data collected in 2016. The measurement is performed with events containing an opposite charge electron-muon pair and at least 2 jets, one of which is identified as a...
Fernando Zago
(University of Pittsburgh)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
The seminal works of Guth and Sato established that an early period of accelerated cosmic expansion, referred to as inflation, can successfully account for many of the observed large scale properties of our Universe. Most importantly, the inflationary paradigm provides a natural and appealing mechanism for the generation of primordial density perturbations responsible for seeding the growth of...
Tomas Sykora
(Charles University (CZ))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Installation and Commissioning of the ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) detector
The ATLAS collaboration is realizing the first phase of the ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) detector to measure diffractive protons leaving under very small angles the ATLAS proton-proton interaction point. In its first phase the AFP detector consists of two 3D Silicon pixel detectors, each placed in a Roman Pot. Both Pots...
Qingmin Zhang
(Xi'an Jiaotong University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator (LS) detector, is under construction in China to mainly determine the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) by detecting reactor anti-neutrinos. The center detector of JUNO is an acrylic sphere with a diameter of 35.4 m containing about 20,000 ton of liquid scintillator as the target and...
Andrew Hanlon
(University of Pittsburgh),
Jacob Fallica
(Carnegie Mellon University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The spectrum of excited hadron resonances in QCD is studied using Monte Carlo path integration techniques formulated on a large $32^3\times 256$ anisotropic space-time lattice. A large number of probe interpolating operators are used, and calculation
of temporal correlations is accomplished using a stochastic method of treating the low-lying modes of quark propagation that exploits Laplacian...
Sudha Ahuja
(UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN is studying proton-proton collisions at a centre of mass energy of 13 TeV and a frequency of 40 MHz. The experiment produces a raw data rate of the order of PB/second and thus requires a highly efficient trigger system. This is achieved in two stages, a hardware trigger (Level-1(L1)) and a software trigger (High Level Trigger). The L1 trigger, selects...
Donatella Lucchesi
(Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The unique phase space coverage and features of the LHCb detector at the LHC makes it an ideal environment to probe complementary New Physics parameter regions. In particular, recently developed jet tagging algorithms are ideal for searches involving $b$ and $c$ jets. This poster will review different jet-related exotica searches together with the efforts in the search for a Higgs boson...
Dr
Ludovico Capparelli
(UCLA)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
We propose a new technique to detect WIMPs with large arrays
of carbon nanotubes. Carbon ions, scattered by WIMPs, might be
channeled within nanotubes depending on their kinematical
conditions. The orientation of nanotube axes with respect to
the Cygnus constellation is shown to be effective at
discriminating the background. We also show how the interstices
among nanotubes cooperate to...
Filip Jediny
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is getting record numbers of 120GeV protons on target from Fermilab's NuMI neutrino beam. We take advantage of the sophisticated particle identification algorithms of the experiment to search in the data from the 300-ton, off-axis, low-Z, Near Detector of NOvA during the experiment’s first physics runs. Lightweight Dark Matter models...
D'Ann Barker
(University of Minnesota)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
One trend in dark matter direct detection is the development of techniques which will lower experimental thresholds and achieve sensitivity to light mass dark matter particles. In doing so, it is necessary to have an understanding of the low energy spectrum and the major background components. Geant4.10 has a number of specialized low energy physics processes that can be implemented when...
Inwook Kim
(Institute of Basic Science)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Cryogenic detectors operating at millikelvin temperatures are important tools in search for rare events such as neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). This poster introduces how the extremely high energy resolution is achieved with the metallic magnetic calorimeter (MMC), which is used the rare events search. The poster gives a description of the photon-phonon simultaneous measurement...
Cristian Ignacio Pena Herrera
(California Institute of Technology (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In this report we outline the study of the development of calorimeter detectors using bright scintillating crystals. We discuss how timing information with a precision of a few tens of pico seconds and below can significantly improve the reconstruction of the physics events under challenging high pileup conditions to be faced at the High-Luminosity LHC or a future hadron collider. The...
Suchita Kulkarni
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Towards the end of Run-1 data taking, an excess in the diboson as well as eejj channel was announced. During the first round of Run-2 data taking, an excess in diphoton channel has been announced. I consider possible explanations of these excesses in two different BSM scenarios. I demonstrate the feasibility of accommodating the diboson and eejj excess in a Left-Right Symmetric Standard Model....
Mr
Jason Ho
(University of Saskatchewan)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Within QCD, colourless states may be constructed corresponding to exotic matter outside of the traditional quark model. Experiments have recently observed tetraquark and pentaquark states, but no definitive hybrid meson signals have been observed. With the construction of the PANDA experiment at FAIR, and with full commissioning of the GlueX experiment at JLab expected to be completed this...
Mr
Muhammad Ahmad
(Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
Integrated fiducial cross sections for the production of four leptons via $H \rightarrow 4\ell$ decays ($\ell = e, \mu$) are measured in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV , $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV and $\sqrt{13}~TeV$. Differential fiducial cross sections are also measured with $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV data. Measurements are performed with data corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.1 fb$ ^{-1}$ at 7...
Andre Sznajder
(Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
The status of the fiducial cross sections of the 125 GeV Higgs boson using the CMS detector will be given in this talk. New results at 13TeV will be presented together with the run-I measurements.
Luigi Marchese
(University of Oxford (GB))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We present a measurement of the production cross-section of charm mesons in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy, using the full data set collected by the CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider in Run II. The measurement probes a yet unexplored low transverse-momentum range, down to 1.5 GeV/c, using events selected with criteria that bias minimally the features of...
Mr
Han-wool Ju
(Seoul National University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
Measurements of the quenching factor for sodium and iodine recoils in a small (2 cm x 2 cm x 1.5 cm) NaI(Tl) crystal have been performed with 2.48 MeV mono-energetic neutrons generated from D-D fusion. The crystal was made from the same Alpha Spectra-grown ingot as a large crystal used for KIMS-NaI experiment. BC501a liquid scintillators are installed in various angles to tag neutrons that...
Ka Vang Tsang
(Lawerence Berkeley National Lab)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment consists of eight antineutrino detectors placed at different baselines from six 2.9 GWth nuclear reactors. Since the start of data taking in late 2011, the experiment has collected the largest sample of reactor antineutrino interactions. A measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum, and its comparison to the prediction of emission models...
Hanyu Wei
(Daya Bay)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Daya Bay experiment has made a measurement of sin22θ13 using neutron capture on hydrogen (nH). This measurement is largely independent of the more precise Daya Bay result using captures on gadolinium (nGd). The resulting observation of reactor antineutrino disappearance offers strong confirmation of the nGd result and provides the world’s second most precise measurement of sin22θ13. New...
Daniel Noonan
(Florida Institute of Technology (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
A measurement of the cross section of top quark pairs produced in association with a photon is presented. The data were collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. The measurement is performed in the semileptonic, electron+jets and muon+jets, final state. The fiducial cross section for top quark pair plus photon production is measured in the...
Dr
Alessandro Pilloni
(Jefferson Lab)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Measurements of low-energy e+e- hadronic cross sections are of fundamental importance
because of the approximately three sigma discrepancy between the current measured value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) and the Standard Model prediction.
By means of the initial-state-radiation technique, we present the first measurements of the e+e- -> KS KL pi0, KS KL eta and KS KL pi0...
Ms
Sandra Miarecki
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
We present a measurement of the total muon neutrino-to-nucleon cross-section at energies from 1.4 to 890 TeV. The measurement is based on the observation of the Earth's absorption of atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos, using a sample of over 10,000 up-going muons from Earth-transiting neutrinos detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in its 79-string configuration. The...
Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez
(Florida Institute of Technology (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
A novel technique for measuring the top quark mass using only leptonic observables is discussed. Top quark pair events with one electron and one muon and at least one jet in the final state are selected in proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. Several variables are studied and...
Daniel Fernando Guerrero Ibarra
(Boston University (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
A first measurement of the top-quark mass is presented based purely on the peak position of the energy spectrum of b jets produced from top-quark decays. This novel technique follows a recent theoretical proposal aiming to minimize systematic uncertainties related to the modeling of top quark production. The analysis is performed selecting top-antitop events with electron-muon final states in...
Daniel Kaplan
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The gravitational acceleration of antimatter (gbar) has never been directly measured and could bear importantly on our understanding of gravity, the possible existence of a fifth force, and the nature and early history of the universe. Three avenues appear feasible for such a measurement: antihydrogen, positronium, and muonium---a mu+ e- atom. The muonium measurement requires a novel...
Carrie McGivern
(Iowa State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a water Cherenkov (WCh)-based neutrino experiment at Fermilab, designed to study the abundance of final state neutrons from neutrino-nucleus interactions. Measurements of final-state neutron multiplicity will improve our understanding of the complex, many-body dynamics of neutrino-nucleus interactions and thus help to reduce...
Dr
Hee Sok Chung
(Argonne National Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
We discuss the decays of the Higgs boson to an $S$-wave vector quarkonium plus
a photon. The decay rate is sensitive to both the size and the phase
information of the Higgs-charm coupling through quantum interference.
We improve the theoretical predictions by resumming logarithms to
next-to-leading log accuracy and by calculating relativistic corrections of
order $v^2$, where $v$ is the...
Daniel Davee
(William and Mary)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
PROSPECT will measure the antineutrino flux close to a research reactor core, where little-to-no cosmic-ray attenuating over- burden is available. Therefore, a detailed understanding of the
background radiation fields is necessary. While time correlated detection of the products of Inverse Beta Decay (IBD), ${\nu+p\rightarrow e^{+}+n}$, provides powerful background rejection,
greater...
German Sborlini
(IFIC-Valencia)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We study the mixed effect of QCD and QED corrections to the evolution of parton distributions functions (PDF). The Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions are extended to one order higher in QED, reaching ${\cal O}(\alpha\, \alpha_S)$ accuracy. This also involves extending DGLAP equations to include charge separation effects which are ignored for pure QCD corrections.
Yury Gornushkin
(JINR-Dubna)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The OPERA experiment has recently assessed the discovery of nu-tau neutrinos in the CNGS beam with a significance larger than 5 sigma, thus successfully achieving its main goal.
The ongoing activity is aimed at the completion of the data analysis. Updated results will be presented including the search for nu_mu—>nu_e oscillations.
Dr
SungWoo YOUN
(CAPP/IBS)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
Exploring higher frequency regions in axion dark matter searches using microwave cavity detectors requires a smaller size of the cavity as the TM010 frequency scales inversely with the cavity radius. One of the intuitive ways to make a maximal use of a given magnet volume, and thereby to increase the experimental sensitivity, is to bundle multiple cavities together and combine their individual...
Prajwal Mohanmurthy
(PSI / MIT)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
A large part of the physics program being envisioned for future facilities such as the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) requires novel precision beam instrumentation. Here, we present a novel technique which uses the spacial asymmetry of synchrotron radiation (SR) produced by an electron beam passing through a wiggler magnet to trace the changes in beam polarization. Such a relative polarimeter...
Dr
Roberts Thomas
(Muons, Inc.)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
MuSim is a new user-friendly program designed to interface to many different particle simulation codes, regardless of their data formats or geometry descriptions. It presents the user with a compelling graphical user interface that includes a flexible 3-D view of the simulated world plus powerful editing and drag-and-drop capabilities. All aspects of the design can be parametrized so that...
YOUNG-MIN SHIN
(Northern Illinois University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Crystals behave like a non-equilibrium medium (e.g. plasma), but at a relatively low temperature, if heated by a high-power driving source. The warm dense matter contains many more ions (n0 ~ 10^19 – 10^23 cm^-3) available for plasma acceleration than gaseous plasmas, and can possibly support electric fields of up to 30 TV/m of plasma oscillation [1 - 4]. Atomic lattice spaces in solid...
Ms
Indrani Chakraborty
(University of Calcutta, India)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
One of the ways to address the fine-tuning problem of Higgs mass in the Standard Model is to assume the existence of some symmetry which keeps the quantum corrections to the Higgs mass to a manageable level. This condition, known after Veltman who first propounded it, is unfortunately not satisfied in the SM, given that we know all the masses. We discuss how one can get back the Veltman...
Amit Bashyal
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In the DUNE long-baseline neutrino experiment, the Near Detector near to the beamline sees a high neutrino flux, which helps to characterize the neutrino beam. Given a prediction for the neutrino flux at the Near Detector, the unoscillated flux at the Far Detector can be predicted and a transfer matrix constructed. We present results from a beam matrix method to predict the Far Detector flux...
Mr
Youngju Ko
(Chung-Ang University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The NEOS experiment intends to understand the short-distance behavior of reactor neutrino oscillation. The detector has been collecting about 2000 IBD events per day, since its operation was stabilized in September 2015. We present the design and the performance of the NEOS detector. Especially, the mixing recipe of the liquid scintillator will be introduced, which was tuned well enough to...
Ryan Grosso
(University of Cinbinnati)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
MicroBooNE is a 89 t active volume liquid argon TPC that has been collecting neutrino data in the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab since October 2015. The experiment is designed to
study the low energy excess of electromagnetic events observed by MiniBooNE and to measure a large suite of cross sections in argon with an average neutrino energy of about 800 MeV. In recent years interest...
Luis Labarga
(Departam.de Fisica Teorica)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a next generation large water Cherenkov detector. It is planned to be an order of magnitude larger than predecessor experiments, and high performance with improved PMTs. The major physics targets in Hyper-K are elucidation of the GUT and the evolution of the universe through an investigation of proton decay and CP violation, together with astronomical...
Alain Blondel
(Universite de Geneve (CH)),
Elena Graverini
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH)),
Mikhail Shaposhnikov
(EPFL),
Nicola Serra
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH)),
Oliver Fischer
(u)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, is presently studying a Future Circular Collider Complex (FCC), which includes a 100 TeV pp collider as ultimate goal, and high-luminosity Z, W, H and top e+e- factory (√s = 90-370 GeV) as a possible first step. The extremely large rates of Z and W production at both machines open the possibility to observe the right-handed partners of the...
Brian Dorney
(CERN)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The high luminosity operation of the LHC will require new detectors in the CMS endcap muon system to suppress the trigger rate of background events, to maintain high trigger efficiency for low transverse momentum muons, and to enhance the robustness of muon detection in the high-flux environment of the endcap. We report on recent progress towards implementing a new system of large-area,...
Cesare Calabria
(Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
For the era of the high-luminosity LHC, new detectors are planned to enhance the performance of the endcap muon system of the CMS detector. We report on two types of these detectors that will be installed during the third long shutdown (LS3) of the LHC. In the pseudo-rapidity region 1.6 < eta < 2.4, new triple-foil large-area gas-electron multiplier (GEM) detectors will be installed in the...
Luke Corwin
(South Dakota School of Mines and Technology),
Vladimir Bychkov
(University of Minnesota)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Merged the following:
The NuMI Off-Axis νe Appearance (NOνA) experiment utilizes the neutrino beam produced at Fermilab, Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI). The experiment consists of two detectors; the Near and Far Detectors are 810 km apart. The Near Detector, located at Fermilab, determines the initial state of the neutrino beam. In this poster, a muon neutrino selection and energy...
Dr
Anthony Palladino
(Boston University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Mu2e experiment, a search for Charged-Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV), aims to
measure the rate of neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the coulomb field of an aluminum nucleus,
$R_{\mu e} = \Gamma(\mu\mathrm{Al} \to e\mathrm{Al}) / \Gamma_{\mathrm{capture}}(\mu\mathrm{Al})$.
If CLFV is not observed, we will improve the current limit by a factor 10,000.
In order to reach our goal,...
Domenico Elia
(INFN Bari)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Heavy Ions
Poster
The ALICE experiment at CERN was designed to study the properties of the strongly-interacting hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC energies. Hard partons propagating through such a medium are predicted to lose energy via multiple scattering and gluon radiation. As a result, the yield of final-state hadrons at high transverse momentum will be suppressed compared to...
Suprabh Prakash
(Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou), Prof.
Wei Wang
(Sun Yat-Sen University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is designed to resolve the neu-
trino mass hierarchy by observing the survival spectrum of antineutrinos from multiple nu-
clear reactors that are ∼ 53 km away in its 20 kt liquid scintillator detector. To be able to
resolve the subtle oscillation cycle shifts in the survival spectrum caused by different neu-
trino mass hierarchies, the JUNO...
Roberto Rossi
(CERN; Università 'La Sapienza' and INFN, Roma I (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
UA9 collaboration is investigating the feasibility of a crystal-assisted collimation system for future high luminosity upgrade of the CERN LHC.
During a dedicated machine test in 2015, bent silicon crystals were exposed to a proton and an ion circulating beam.
Two high-accuracy goniometers equipped with one bent silicon crystal each were installed in the betatron cleaning insertion of the LHC...
Mr
Tommi Tenkanen
(University of Helsinki)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Can dark matter properties be constrained or detected if dark matter particles do not interact with the Standard Model fields? The answer is yes. By studying both cosmological and astrophysical constraints, we show that stringent constraints on dark matter particle mass
and coupling values can be derived even if the dark matter sector is uncoupled from the
Standard Model sector.
By taking the...
Dr
Mohamed Chabab
(Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
In the type II seesaw model, we derive the modified Veltman Conditions and show that quadratic divergencies at one loop can be driven to zero within a region of the parameter space of the model. The latter is severely constrained by a full set of unitarity and boundedness from below conditions, and by consistency with LHC measurements of Higgs decay to diphoton. Furthermore, we analyse the...
Andrey Grabovskiy
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Calculation of the impact factors for 2 and 3 jet diffractive photoproduction within the high energy OPE will be discussed. Results will be presented.
Gabriele Benelli
(Brown University (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS tracker consists of two tracking devices utilizing semiconductor technology. The pixel detector comprises 66 million pixels in about 1 m2 total area. It is surrounded by the strip tracker with 10 million read-out channels in 200 m2 total area. The tracker detectors occupy the region around the center of CMS, where the LHC beams are crossed, between 4 cm and 110 cm in radius and up to...
Laura Fields
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Conventional neutrino beams are created by directing a high energy proton beam onto a target, focusing the resulting pions and kaons through one or more magnetized focusing horns, and allowing the focused hadrons to decay to produce neutrinos. This type of beam has many configurable parameters such as horn shapes and positions, which can be changed to create a wide variety of neutrino energy...
Mr
Ayan Batyrkhanov
(Nazarbayev University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Nowadays, many particle detectors use the liquid scintillator (LS) as a detection medium. In particular, Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) that is a new material currently under development. It is based on the idea of dissolving the organic scintillator in water using special surfactants. This material strives to achieve the novel detection techniques by combining the Cerenkov rings and...
Markus Roehrken
(California Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The Mu2e experiment being constructed at Fermilab will search for the coherent neutrino-less conversion of muons to electrons in the field of an atomic nucleus. Mu2e aims to achieve a sensitivity four orders of magnitude better than previous experiments searching for this same charge lepton flavor violating transition. An essential part of the Mu2e experiment is the aluminum muon stopping...
Dominik Steffen
(Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
COMPASS is a fixed-target experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN dedicated to the study of hadron structure and spectroscopy. In 2014, an intelligent, FPGA-based data acquisition system (iFDAQ) was deployed. Its hardware event builder consisting of nine custom designed FPGA-cards replaced 30 distributed online computers and around 100 PCI cards increasing compactness and...
Ianthe Michiels
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
SoLid is a very short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment, designed to investigate the sterile neutrino hypothesis. The measurement of the reactor antineutrino
flux is based on the detection of an inverse beta decay (IBD) reaction in which the antineutrinos interact with a proton from the detector material. This IBD event results in a positron that creates scintillation light in the...
John Strologas
(University of Ioannina (GR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We report on the performance of jet reconstruction, both offline and online, in CMS during the LHC Run 2. The jet energy scale and resolution measurements are performed on a data sample collected from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The calibration is extracted from data and simulated events and employs combination of several channels and methods. We also report...
Christian Gutschow
(TU Dresden (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The Monte Carlo setups used by ATLAS to model boson+jets and multi-boson processes in 13 TeV pp collisions are described. Comparisons between data and several events generators are provided for key kinematic distributions at 7 TeV, 8 TeV and 13 TeV. Issues associated with sample normalization and the evaluation of systematic uncertainties are also discussed.
Blake Oliver Burghgrave
(Northern Illinois University (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) is equipped with electromagnetic and hadronic liquid-argon (LAr)
calorimeters and a hadronic scintillator-steel sampling calorimeter
(TileCal) for measuring energy and direction of final state particles
in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta| < 4.9$.
The calibration and performance of the calorimetry system was
established during beam tests,...
Geert Jan Besjes
(University of Copenhagen (DK))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Tau leptons are used in a range of important ATLAS physics analyses, including the measurement of the SM Higgs boson coupling to fermions and searches for Higgs boson partners or heavy resonances decaying into pairs of tau leptons. Events for analyses are provided by a number of single and di-tau triggers, as well as triggers requiring tau lepton in combination with other objects.
As the...
Jane Nachtman
(University of Iowa (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In preparation for collecting proton-proton collisions from the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and rate of 40MHz with increasing instantaneous luminosity, the CMS collaboration prepared an array of triggers utilizing jets and missing transverse energy for searches for new physics at the energy frontier as well as for SM precision measurements. The CMS trigger system must be able to...
Ruslan Asfandiyarov
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer), one of the five satellite missions in the framework of the Strategic Pioneer Research Program in Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), was successfully launched on December 17 last year.
DAMPE is a powerful space telescope which has as main scientific objective the identification of possible Dark Matter signatures thanks to the...
Dr
Grigory Kazakevich
(Muons, Inc.)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
This report describes requirements for phase and power control in the high-power magnetron transmitters allowing the suppression of parasitic phase and amplitude modulations in the Superconducting RF (SRF) cavities of accelerators. The modulations are caused by microphonics, Lorentz Force detuning (LFD), dynamic tuning errors, beam loading, etc. The methods of control in magnetron...
Alain Blondel
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
One of the focusses of the Future Circular Collider design study is a high-luminosity and high-precision e+e- collider (FCC-ee), with energies ranging from below the Z peak to above the top quark pair production threshold. The FCC-ee is also the possible first step towards the ultimate goal, a 100 TeV hadron collider. The high luminosity allows 1012-13 Z decays, 108 W pairs, 2.106 Higgs bosons...
Alejandro Ramirez
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Pion production is the primary process by which neutrinos
are identified in running oscillation experiments such as Nova
and proposed experiments such as DUNE. MINERvA has completed
a variety of charged current cross section measurements of this
type for CH targets. The coherent pion measurements have the final state
nucleus in the ground state. This process becomes an important...
Caleb Arthur Fangmeier
(University of Nebraska (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In 2023, the LHC will be upgraded to the HL-LHC, increasing the luminosity to 5 x 10^34 cm−2 s−1. The increased luminosity will present new challenges in higher data rates and increased radiation. The CMS Phase 2 Pixel upgrade will require a high bandwidth readout system and high radiation tolerance for sensors and on-detector ASICs. Several geometries for the upgrade sensors are being...
Xianyi Zhang
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a multiphase
short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment that aims to probe eV-scale sterile neutrinos
and precisely measure the antineutrino spectrum generated from a Highly Enriched
U-235 (HEU) reactor. In Phase-I, a 3-ton movable optically segmented Li-6 loaded liquid
scintillator detector will be deployed at the...
Dr
Alex Tapia
(Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad de Medellín)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Muon radiography is based on the observation of the absorption of muons in matter, as the
ordinary radiography does by using X-rays. The interaction of cosmic rays with the atmosphere
produce Extensive Air Showers (EAS), which provide abundant source of muons. These particles can be used for various applications of muon radiography, in particular to study the internal structure of different...
Leonid Tkachev
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
The orbital NUCLEON experiment is designed to measure Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum and charge composition at 100 GeV – 1000 TeV and Z = 1-30 respectively. The NUCLEON apparatus structure, methods of primary CR charge and energy measurements are described. The possible systematic uncertainty sources are discussed. Preliminary CR energy spectra and charge composition are presented from the...
Benjamin Barber
(The University of Chicago)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Oxygen plasmas have shown promise for removing surface and diffused hydrocarbons from niobium in superconducting RF cavities. These techniques are strong candidates for in-situ cleaning techniques for installed accelerating cavities. The goal is to improve the performance of cavities that have degraded over time, without removing them from their cryomodule. By varying the governing parameters...
Sungbin Oh
(Seoul National University (KR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Observing a Lepton Number Violation process (Delta L = 2) is a clear way to establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino mass. We search for a signature of same-sign dileptons and two jets from heavy neutrino decay. The latest search results for heavy Majorana neutrinos at the LHC using the CMS detector will be presented.
Marcella Bona
(Queen Mary University of London (UK))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Diversity and Inclusion
Poster
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has a longstanding interest in diversity issues, particularly around the participation of girls and women in physics, who are under-represented in physics education and employment. In 2003, the Institute introduced a Site Visit scheme, in which selected panels visited physics departments and produced a dedicated report on their “gender inclusiveness”. After two...
Luis Roberto Flores Castillo
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
Agnes Chavez is a media artist based in the US (New Mexico) and involved in STEM Art Labs. An informal partnership initiated with some ATLAS physicists will develop further in 2016 through a series of workshops where Virtual Visits, Master Class material and the presence of a physicist will be gradually integrated. The project can be seen as an illustration of constructive and long term...
SANG YONG KIM
(Seoul National University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) has obtained the first measured value of effective neutrino mass difference from a spectal analysis of reactor neutrino disappearance. The measurement absolutely relies on the accurate energy calibration. Several radioactive sources such as Cs137, Mn54, Ge68, Zn65, Co60 Po-Be, Am-Be, and Cf-Ni, are used for the energy calibration of the RENO...
Alexander Glazov
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
An accurate knowledge of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDF) plays a
critical role for the precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) and impact substantially the theory predictions of Beyond SM high mass production.
We present the xFitter project (former HERAFitter) which provides a unique open-source software framework for the determination of the proton's
PDFs and for the...
Hannes Jung
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We describe a new approach to solve the coupled quark and gluon evolution DGLAP evolution equations with a Monte Carlo method. We show that this method is equivalent to other methods. We apply this method to extract quark and gluon parton densities collinear and as transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions using the precision HERA DIS data.
The Monte Carlo method for the solution of...
Dr
Jeffrey Yen
(Stanford Physics)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Phonon energy generated by an incident particle that scatters in a CDMS Si or Ge crystal gets absorbed by Transition Edge Sensors patterned on the surfaces of the crystals. These phonon sensors (TES/QETs) consist of overlapping thin films of superconducting aluminum and tungsten. Phonons created in the bulk of the detector propagate to the detector surfaces where they break Cooper pairs in the...
Gabriella Pugliese
(Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS experiment, located at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, has a redundant muon system composed by three different detector technologies: Cathode Strip Chambers (in the forward regions), Drift Tubes (in the central region), and Resistive Plate Chambers (both its central and forward regions). All three are used for muon reconstruction and triggering.
However the high pseudo-rapidity region...
Sarah Eno
(University of Maryland (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The experiments at the LHC are expected to accumulate up to 300 fb-1 of data before the major upgrades, known as the “phase II “ upgrades, are installed. In this talk, we present studies on the longevity of the active materials used in the barrel and endcap hadronic calorimeters. We present results of in situ measurements of the light output as a function of integrated luminosity and studies...
Josh Bryant
(University of Texas at Austin), Mr
Ramon Salazar
(University of Texas at Austin)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
An automatic source deployment system has been developed to introduce radioactive sources into the SuperNEMO detector for the purpose of calibration. A series of 6 plumb bobs are hung from long wires which contain a number of well characterized sources throughout their length. These sources are introduced using 6 stepper motors in a fully automated process which is both prompt and accurate....
Daniel Kaplan
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Recently, a new generation of reactor-based neutrino experiments aiming to measure the ɵ13 mixing angle characterizing the neutrino oscillation phenomena was developed. For this purpose, the Double Chooz experiment is looking for a disappearance of the antineutrinos emitted by the two 4.25 GWth Pressurized Water Reactor cores of the Chooz power plant in the French Ardennes. In this view, two...
John Alison
(University of Chicago (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In high-energy physics experiments, online selection is crucial to select interesting collisions from the large data volume. ATLAS b-jet triggers are designed to identify heavy-flavour content in real-time and provide the only option to efficiently record events with fully hadronic final states containing b-jets. In doing so, two different, but related, challenges are faced. The physics goal...
Prof.
Arturo Fernández Téllez
(Universidad Autonoma de Puebla)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Recent astroparticle physics results from ALICE-LHC at CERN
Abstract
A. Fernández Téllez*, for the ALICE Collaboration
ALICE is one of four large experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Located 52 meters underground with 28 meters of overburden rock, it has also been used to detect atmospheric muons produced by cosmic-ray interactions in the upper atmosphere. We present the...
Colin Barschel
(CERN)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Measuring cross-sections at the LHC requires the luminosity to be
determined accurately at each centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$.
The ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments use the Van der Meer (VDM)
method to determine the luminosity. In addition, LHCb uses a novel
method based on beam-gas imaging (BGI) to perform a complementary
calibration.
Considerable effort has been invested at the LHC...
Shao-Hsuan Chiu
(Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
It was pointed out that six rephasing invariant combinations can be constructed
from elements of the CKM matrix $V$: $\Gamma_{ijk}=V_{1i}V_{2j}V_{3k}=R_{ijk}-iJ$,
where $(i,j,k)$ is cyclic permutation of $(1,2,3)$, $R_{ijk}$ is the real part,
and the common imaginary part $J$ is identified with the Jarlskog invariant.
In terms of this rephasing invariant parametrization,
the set of...
Varun Sharma
(University of Delhi (IN))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We conduct a study for the search of new physics in the γ + jet final state using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. We select events containing at least one high transverse momentum photon and one jet to search for a resonance peak in the γ + jet invariant mass distribution.
John Quirk
(Boston University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
Observation of neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the presence of a nucleus would be unambiguous evidence of physics Beyond the Standard Model. Two experiments, COMET at J-PARC and Mu2e at Fermilab, will search for this process in the coming decade. Barring discovery, these experiments will provide upper-limits on this branching ratio up to 10,000 times better than previously...
Henoch Wong
(UC Berkeley)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment's unique configuration of multiple baselines from six 2.9 GW$_{th}$ nuclear reactors to eight antineutrino detectors deployed in two near (effective baselines $\sim$500 m and $\sim$600 m) and one far ($\sim$1600 m) underground experimental halls makes it possible to test for oscillations to a fourth (sterile) neutrino in the $10^{-3}$ eV$^{2}<|\Delta...
Vallary Shashikant Bhopatkar
(Florida Institute of Technology (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying into a pair of tau leptons
is presented. The analysis is performed with proton-proton collision
data collected with the CMS experiment in 2015 using, 2.3 fb-1 of
integrated luminosity. Results are interpreted within the context of
the minimal supersymmetric extension to the standard model.
Stephane Brunet Cooperstein
(Princeton University (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
Latest results are presented on the search for a Standard Model Higgs
boson in the WH- and ZH-associated production channel decaying to bottom
quarks in the CMS detector at center-of-mass energy 13 TeV. The search
is split among five channels, W(e$\nu$)H, W($\mu\nu$)H, Z($\mu\mu$)H,
Z(ee)H, and Z($\nu\nu$)H. The analysis strategy and sensitivity of each
individual decay channel is discussed,...
Eleni Ntomari
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
The top-Higgs coupling is one of the most important properties of the Higgs boson to be measured directly at the LHC. This coupling is most easily accessible through observation of Higgs production in association with pairs of top-quarks, or ttH production -- a process that has yet to be observed. Deviations from the expected ttH production cross section could indicate the influence of new...
Kyungwook Nam
(Seoul National University (KR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
A search for a heavy resonance decaying to Zgamma, with the Z boson
further decaying to pairs of electrons or muons is presented. The search
strategy is to look for an excess above the non-resonant background on the
ll+gamma invariant mass spectrum. The search is based on the data collected
with the CMS detector during Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 13 TeV run.
Cesar Bernardes
(UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present the final results of a search in the CMS detector at LHC for high-mass and narrow resonances decaying into a Higgs and a Z SM bosons in the final state with a pair of tau leptons and a pair of quarks. In the resonance mass range of interest 1.0 - 2.5 TeV, the Z and Higgs bosons are produced with large momenta compared with their masses, which implies that the final products of the...
Jose Cupertino Ruiz Vargas
(UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present a search for resonances decaying into pairs of vector bosons with the latest proton-proton data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV delivered by the LHC and collected by the CMS experiment. This analysis focus on the search for resonances decaying into WZ and ZZ final states, where one of the bosons decays into dimuon/dielectron final states, and the other boson decays into a fully...
Collaboration H1
(DESY)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Signals of QCD instanton-induced processes are searched for in
deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at the electron-proton collider HERA in the kinematic region defined by the Bjorken-scaling variable $x> 0.001$, the inelasticity $0.2< y< 0.7$ and the photon virtuality $150< Q^2<15000$ GeV$^2$. The search is performed using H1 data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 350 pb$^{-1}$. Several...
Koushik Mandal
(National Institute of Science Education and Research (IN))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present the result of a search for production of scalar top quark in fully hadronic final states using 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity 2.3fb^-1 . We search for scalar top quarks decaying directly to stable neutralinos and top quarks which subsequently decay in all-hadronic state with multiple jets and...
Jesse Alan Heilman
(University of California Riverside (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
A search is presented for standard model (SM) production of four top quarks in pp collisions at the LHC. Using Run-2 data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.6$fb^{-1}$, a combination of kinematic reconstruction and multivariate techniques is used to distinguish between the small signal ($\sigma^{SM}_{t \bar{t} t \bar{t}} \sim 9 fb$) and backgrounds in the dilepton + jets channel. A...
Ryan Edward Heller
(Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Results are reported from a search for supersymmetric particles in pp collisions in the final state with a single, high pT lepton; multiple jets, including at least one btagged jet; and large missing transverse momentum. The data sample corresponds to 2.1 fb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment at ps = 13 TeV. The search focuses on processes leading to high jet multiplicities, such as gluino pair...
Varun Sharma
(University of Delhi (IN))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) topology offers a promising avenue for the study of electroweak sector of supersymmetry. The first search for supersymmetry with VBF topology is presented using 19.7$fb^{-1}$ of pp collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV collected with the CMS detector. The search targets the final states with at least two leptons, large missing transverse momentum, and two jets with a...
Andrew Hard
(The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
Some theories predict the production of Higgs bosons in association with invisible particles. The signature of such events would be a Higgs boson associated to a large missing transverse energy. Such events are searched for in different decay modes of the Higgs boson, using about 10 fb-1 of p-p collisions at 13 TeV.
Christine Angela Mc Lean
(University of California Davis (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present a search for new massive particles decaying to a pair of top quarks with the CMS detector at the LHC. Proton-proton collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are used. The search is performed by measuring the invariant mass distribution of the top-quark pair and testing for deviations from the expected Standard Model background. Final states with 0 or 1 leptons...
Dr
Anthony Barker
(Purdue University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present a search for pair production of a new massive vector-like top quark with charge 2/3 in single, double, and multi-lepton final states. Vector-like tops of this type have three decay channels: T → Wb, T→ tH(125GeV), T → tZ. Data were collected by the CMS detector in 2015-2016 from 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We set 95% confidence limits on the lower limit of...
Karim Massri
(University of Liverpool (GB))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected in 2003-2004 a large sample of charged kaon decays with multiple charged particles in the final state.
A new upper limit on the rate of the lepton number violating decay K+- --> pi-+ mu+- mu+- obtained from this sample is reported.
Searches for two-body resonances in the K+- -->pi mu mu decays (including heavy neutral leptons and inflatons) in the...
Dr
Gavin Davies
(Indiana University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Merged the following:
Contradictory evidence has been presented on the issue of neutrino mixing between the three known active neutrinos and light sterile neutrino species. Short-baseline neutrino oscillations observed by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments, the collective evidence of the reactor neutrino anomaly, and the gallium anomaly all point towards sterile neutrinos with mass at the 1 eV...
Luisa Fernanda Chaparro Sierra
(Universidad de los Andes (CO))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Higgs Physics
Poster
In this talk a summary of the analyses searches for Higgs boson decaying to a pair of leptons and a photon will be presented.
Karin Gilje
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a phased experiment at the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Phase I will consist of a movable 3-ton Li-6 loaded liquid scintillator detector with a baseline coverage from 7 to 12 meters from the reactor core. A larger, second detector during Phase II extends the baseline range to 19 meters. One...
Artur Apresyan
(California Institute of Technology (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Future calorimeters and shower maximum detectors at high luminosity colliders need to be highly radiation resistant and very fast. One exciting option for such a detector is a calorimeter composed of a secondary emitter as the active element. In this report we outline the study and development of a secondary emission calorimeter prototype using micro-channel plates (MCP) as the active element,...
Ian Allan Connelly
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The Monte Carlo setups used by ATLAS to model the $t\overline t$ and single-top production in 13 TeV pp collisions are described. The performance of different event generators is assessed by comparing measurements at 7 TeV, 8 TeV and 13 TeV to predictions from simulated data. The evaluation of systematic uncertainties and the dependence of generator predictions on the tuning parameters are...
Mr
Alisher Duspayev
(Nazarbayev University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In the field of High Energy Physics today there are several open topics that are left. The Higgs boson has been recently discovered, neutrino oscillations are being studied, and some hints of the dark matter have been detected as well. Another remaining mystery is the origin and the nature of the Ultra-high energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR).
There is an active project at Nazarbayev University to...
Taylan Sipahi
(Colorado State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Both the NuMI beam line that has been providing intense neutrino beams for several experiments (MINOS, MINERVA, NOVA) and the newly proposed LBNF beam line which plans to produce the highest power neutrino beam in the world for the DUNE experiment need pulsed magnetic horns to focus the mesons which decay to produce the neutrinos. The high current horn and stripline design has been evolving as...
Rui An
(IIT)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment that utilizes a 170 t liquid argon TPC situated on the Booster Neutrino
Beam line at Fermilab. The first operational part of Fermilab’s SBN program, MicroBooNE started to take beam data in October 2015. The experiment aims to unambiguously probe the nature of the low-energy excess of showering events observed by MiniBooNE. This
poster describes the...
Dr
Clara Nellist
(CERN)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
The ATLAS collaboration uses various social media platforms to communicate the research and achievements of the collaboration to a wider public audience. The strategy to achieve this goal will be presented, with an analysis of the effectiveness as a function of certain factors. A specific focus on the social media approach during the LHC Run II time period in 2015 will be explored.
Cesar A RODRIGUEZ
(Universidad Antonio Narino),
Rafael M Gutierrez
(Universidad Antonio Nariño)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is one of the best popular and potent technologies for gaseous ionization detectors used in high energy physics. One of the fundamental elements of a GEM are foils with micro perforations and quality of such holes is determinant for an ideal performance of the GEM. Regardless of the drilling method used, it is possible to find defects, imprecisions and...
Celine Moortgat
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Although the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations has been discovered more than 10 years ago, some anomalies still remain in the neutrino oscillation data [1]. One of these is the reactor antineutrino anomaly, showing a deficit of detected neutrinos from a reactor when compared to what is expected from calculated fluxes. A
possible explanation would be the existence of a sterile neutrino, which...
Sumit Basu
(Department of Atomic Energy (IN))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Heavy Ions
Poster
We report the excitation energy dependence of specific heat ($c_{\rm v}$)
of hadronic matter at freeze-out in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions
at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies by
analyzing the published data on event-by-event mean transverse
momentum ($\langle p_{\rm{T}} \rangle$) distributions. The $\langle p_{\rm{T}} \rangle$~distributions in
finite $p_{\rm{T}}$~ranges are...
William Wester
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
The DECal spectrophotometric calibration system is in use by the Dark Energy Survey to measure the total system throughput of the Blanco telescope and DECam camera. This system will be described along with observations of CALSPEC standard stars that are used to set the absolute flux scale for the survey.
Andres Leonardo Cabrera Mora
(Universidad de los Andes (CO))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS muon system has played a key role for many physics results obtained from the LHC Run-1 and Run-2 data. During the Long Shutdown (2013-2014), as well as during the last year-end technical stop (2015-2016), significant consolidation and upgrades have been carried out on the muon detectors and on the L1 muon trigger. The algorithms for muon reconstruction and identification have also been...
Dr
Viacheslav Egorov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The common JINR (Dubna) - ITEP (Moscow) project DANSS is aimed at creating a relatively compact neutrino spectrometer which does not contain any flammable or other dangerous liquids and may therefore be located very close to the core of an industrial power reactor. As a result, high neutrino flux provides about 15,000 IBD interactions per day in the detector with a sensitive volume of 1 m$^3$....
Tsunayuki Matsubara
(Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Double Chooz is a reactor antineutrino disappearance experiment located in Chooz, France. By detecting the unique inverse beta decay (IBD) prompt-delayed signal, antineutrinos can be precisely identified. A far detector at a distance of about 1 km is operating since 2011; a near detector of identical design at a distance of about 400 m is operating since the end of 2014. This double-detector...
Ahmed Ismail
(Argonne National Laboratory/University of Illinois at Chicago)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Light stops and Higgsinos are preferred in supersymmetry from electroweak naturalness considerations. In a well-motivated region of parameter space, stops are significantly heavier than Higgsinos, and the cross section for stop-Higgsino associated production can be significant due to the large top Yukawa coupling. In this case, searches for associated production can compete with traditional...
Bernd Stelzer
(SFU Simon Fraser University (CA))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five with respect to the design value by undergoing an extensive upgrade program over the coming decade. The largest upgrade project for the ATLAS Muon System is the replacement of the present first station in the forward regions with the so-called New Small Wheels (NSWs), to be installed...
Iuri Oksuzian
(UVa)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Mu2e experiment will search for a neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion process with almost four orders of magnitude of sensitivity improvement relative to the current best limit. One important background is caused by cosmic-ray muons and their secondaries faking the conversion electron signature. In order to reach the designed sensitivity, Mu2e needs to identify cosmic-ray muons with...
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Study of the effect of solenoid field uncertainties on the physics goals of the Mu2e experiment
Ms
Federica Bradascio
(University of Pisa)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab proposes to measure the ratio of the rate of neutrinoless coherent conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus, relative to the rate of muon capture on the nucleus. The conversion process is an example of charged lepton flavor violation. Observation of this process would provide unambiguous evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. The...
Paolo Fessia
(CERN)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The presentation summaries the planned new underground civil engineering work for the HL-LHC upgrade project. The related work implies significant underground excavation work and studies were launched to study the impact of such underground work on the operation of the running LHC machine. The studies involved test drills, vibration excitations using shakers and the analysis of the impact of...
Amy Bender
(Argonne National Laboratory)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers continue to enable exceptionally sensitive observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB contains the imprint of physical mechanisms occurring in both the early and late universe, making it a powerful probe of our cosmological model. CMB experiments are currently focused on measuring the B-mode polarization signature, as it has the...
Prof.
Satyanarayan Nandi
(Oklahoma State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
It is a possibility that the superworld (supersymmetric partners of our world) does exist without supersymmetry. The two worlds are being distinguished by an unbroken discrete Z_2 symmetry (similar to R-parity in supersymmetry). We lose the solution to the hierarchy problem. However, such a scenario has several motivations. For example, the lightest neutral superworld particle will be a...
Darren Veit
(University of Chicago)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) technology is the key enabler for current and future high-energy and high-beam-power accelerators. Performance of SRF cavities for accelerators is characterized by their quality factor, Q0, a measure of their efficiency of operation, and the maximum accelerating field, Eacc, that they can sustain before their quality factor degrades. Chemical and...
Sergio Sanchez Cruz
(Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
A search is presented for physics beyond the standard model in final states with two opposite-sign same-flavor leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 inverse fb of proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s}=13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2015. The analysis focuses on the invariant mass distribution of...
Dr
Bjorn Herrmann
(Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We discuss a recently found relation confined to the sector of up-type (s)quarks within supersymmetric SU(5) theories. We show that this relation remains stable under renormalization group evolution between the unification and the TeV scales. It thus allows to test the SU(5) hypothesis based on the observation of squarks at the LHC. We investigate the possibilities opened by this new window on...
Si Xie
(California Institute of Technology (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN is expected to provide instantaneous luminosities of 5 × 10^34 cm^−2 s^−1. The high luminosities expected at the HL-LHC will be accompanied by a factor of 5 to 10 more pileup compared with LHC conditions in 2015, causing general confusion for particle identification and event reconstruction. Precision timing allows to...
Vit Vorobel
(Charles University (CZ))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The operation experience with ATLAS ALFA detectors in the LHC environment during the Run1 period has shown significant beam-induced heating. Subsequent comprehensive studies revealed that heating effects could be disastrous in the case of the larger beam intensities foreseen for higher luminosities in the LHC Run2. During the first LHC long shutdown (LS1) all ALFA detectors have been removed...
Karol Krizka
(University of Chicago (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Fast Tracker is a hardware upgrade to the ATLAS trigger and data-acquisition system, with the goal of providing global track reconstruction by the start of the High Level Trigger starts. The Fast Tracker can process incoming data from the whole inner detector at full first level trigger rate, up to 100 kHz, using custom electronic boards. At the core of the system is a Processing Unit...
Tomas Sykora
(Charles University (CZ))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The ATLAS collaboration is currently installing the ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) detector to measure protons scattered under a small angle from the ATLAS proton-proton interaction point. A combination of 3D Silicon pixel tracking modules and Quartz-Cherenkov time-of-flight (ToF) detectors are placed in Roman Pots 210 m away from the interaction point, at both sides of ATLAS.
Beam tests with a...
Roberta Arcidiacono
(Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS experiment has been designed with a 2-level trigger system: the Level 1 Trigger, implemented on custom-designed electronics, and the High Level Trigger, a streamlined version of the CMS offline reconstruction software running on a computer farm. In this presentation we will give an overview of the specific algorithms developed to cope with the increasing LHC pile-up and bunch crossing...
Maral Alyari
(State University of New York (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In 2017 the luminosity of the LHC will also be upgraded to 2E34 cm-2s-1, providing physicists a greater opportunity to seek answers to some of the particle physics mysteries we have encountered since the inception of the LHC. A new pixel detector for the CMS experiment is currently under construction, to be installed during the extended year end shutdown 2016/2017. The pixel detector, the core...
Deepak Kar
(University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
After the discovery of the Higgs boson in LHC Run 1, a number of excesses were seen by ATLAS and CMS collaborations. A minimalistic model with a heavy scalar $H$, predicts the kinematics of these final states and compare the prediction against data directly. A statistical combination of these results shows that a best fit point is found for a heavy scalar having a mass of $272^{+12}_{-9}$ GeV....
Ed Hungerford
(University of Houston)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
Ed V. Hungerford for the DarkSide 20k Collaboration
DarkSide-20k having a fiducial mass of 20 t, is a direct dark matter search using a 2-phase liquid argon time projection chamber. It will be surrounded by active liquid-scintillator and water-Cherenkov vetoes. Like its processor DS-50 which has demonstrated extraordinary background discrimination, DS-20k is designed for ultra-low background...
Fabrizio Miano
(University of Sussex (GB))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
LHC Run 2 presents challenging high rate conditions for data analysis and processing within
the ATLAS trigger systems. The ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) trigger implements the algorithms
used for identification of tracks in nearly all physics signatures within the ATLAS trigger.
The ID trigger was updated and redesigned during the 2013-2015 long shutdown to meet the
challenging conditions of Run...
Mr
Thomas Warburton
(University of Sheffield, UK)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), will look for CP violation in the neutrino sector, attempt to measure neutrino mass hierarchy and determine the quadrant of θ23, in addition to searching for proton decay and supernovae neutrinos. The total fiducial mass will be 40 kt of Liquid Argon (LAr), built in 4 staged 10 kt modules, each representing a ~15 times increase in mass from...
Amanda Weinstein
(Iowa State University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The process of event-building---i.e gathering and associating data from multiple sensors or sub-detectors that arises from a common physical event---is used in many fields, including high-energy physics and gamma-ray astronomy. The problem of fault tolerance in event-building is a difficult one, and one that becomes increasingly difficult with higher data throughput rates and increasing...
Paolo Valente
(Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Test beam and irradiation facilities are the key enabling infrastructures for research in HEP and astro-particles.
In the last 11 years, the Beam-Test Facility (BTF) of the DAΦNE accelerator complex, in the Frascati laboratory, has gained an important role in the European infrastructures devoted to the development and testing of particle detectors. Electron or positron beam can be extracted...
Tanaz Angelina Mohayai
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well characterised
neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at the Neutrino Factory and to providelepton-antilepton collisions up to several TeV at the Muon Collider.
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will demonstrate muon ionization cooling, the technique proposed to reduce the...
Dan Ambrose
(University of Minnesota)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Mu2e experiment will search for neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons
In the field of an aluminum nucleus. The signature of this process is an electron with
energy nearly equal to the muon mass. Precise and robust measurement of the outgoing
electron momentum, combined with other background rejection methods, is essential to the
experiment. We rely on a low-mass straw tube...
Josh Albert
(nEXO)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The nEXO Collaboration is designing a very large detector to search for neutrinoless
double beta decay of Xe$^{136}$. The nEXO detector is rooted in the
current EXO-200 program, which has reached a sensitivity for the half-life of
the decay of $1.9\times10^{25}$\,y with an exposure of 99.8 kg-y. The baseline
nEXO design assumes 5 tonnes of liquid xenon, enriched in the mass 136 isotope,...
shulin Liu
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In Jiangmen neutrino experiment（JUNO），we developed 20 inch electrostatic focusing micro-channel plate photomultiplier tube(MCP-PMT). In the MCP-PMT, we used the chevron micro-channel plate to collect and multiply photoelectrons from photocathode.. In order to obtain a higher collection efficiency and the best single photoelectron peak valley ratio, in addition to making a good single micro-...
Dr
Olga Piskounova
(LPI Moscow)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Characteristics of baryon production at high energy proton collisions have important implications for QCD theory and astrophysics. The detailed investigation of baryon spectra in Quark-Gluon String Model leads to the following conclusions: a) the average transverse momenta are slowly growing with energy, b) the mass dependence of Pt reveals an interesting sequence of hadron states that can be...
Brenda Fabela Enriquez
(Autonomous University of Puebla (MX)),
Corrado Gatto
(INFN),
Maria Isabel Pedraza Morales
(Autonomous University of Puebla (MX))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The $\eta$ meson is almost unique in the particle universe since it is
a Goldstone boson and the dynamics of its decay are strongly constrained.
Because the eta has no charge, decays that violate conservation laws can occur
without interfering with a corresponding current. The integrated eta meson
samples collected in earlier experiments have been less than ~$10^8$ events,
limiting...
Cristina Lazzeroni
(University of Birmingham (GB))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The data acquisition control program (RunControl) of the NA62 experiment, which started physics data-taking this year, is the result of a collaboration between NA62 and the CERN EN-ICE group. The standard CERN control technologies used, WinCC Open Architecture with the addition of the UNICOS and JCOP common framework, allowed for a fast initial development with scarce manpower and will help...
Dr
Shreyashi Chakdar
(University of Virginia)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Observation of non-zero neutrino masses at a scale $\sim 10^{-1} - 10^{-2}$ eV is a major problem in otherwise highly successful Standard Model. The most elegant mechanism to explain such tiny neutrino masses is the seesaw mechanism with right handed neutrinos. However, the required seesaw scale is so high ($\sim 10^{14}$ GeV), it will not have any direct collider implications. Recently, in...
David Schmitz
(University of Chicago)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the ability to resolve a class of existing experimental anomalies in neutrino physics and to perform the most sensitive search to date for sterile neutrinos at the 1 eV^2 mass-scale. SBN will consist of three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) detectors located along...
Xin Wu
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer), a satellite mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences dedicated to high energy particle detections in space, was successfully launched on December 17 2015. The main scientific objective of DAMPE is to detect electrons and photons in the range of 5 GeV-10 TeV with unprecedented energy resolution in order to identify possible Dark Matter signatures. It...
Michael McEvoy
(Northern Illinois University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
The Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion (ppb), which represents a four- fold improvement over the Brookhaven E821 measurement. Central to the measurement are a system of 24 calorimeters and 3 straw tracking detectors, as well as a magnetic field in the muon storage volume that must be known to 100 ppb. The...
Giulia Ucchielli
(Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The main ATLAS luminosity monitor LUCID and its read-out electronics has been completely rebuilt for the 2015 LHC run in order to cope with a higher center of mass energy (13 TeV) and with 25 ns bunch-spacing. The LUCID detector is measuring Cherenkov light produced in photomultiplier quartz windows and in quartz optical fibers. It has a novel calibration system that uses radioactive Bi-207...
Prof.
Randy Ruchti
(University of Notre Dame)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We have been developing a readout method for Shashlik Electromagnetic Calorimetry based upon liquid-filled capillaries fabricated from radiation hard (high OH content) fused silica. The liquids are waveshifters, capable of shifting scintillation light from 425nm (emission from LYSO (Ce) crystals or conventional plastic scintillator) to wavelengths in the green (500nm). While the liquid in...
Lennaert Bel
(Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
Overconstraining the unitarity triangle is a key goal of LHCb. The excellent time resolution of the detector lends itself to high precision time dependent CP violation measurements. CP observables in $B^0 \to D_{(s)}^{(*)+}D^{(*)‐}$ decays are of great interest as they have the potential to be sensitive to new physics contributions. There is a long‐existing tension between results from BaBar...
Thiago Tomei Fernandez
(UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS on-line selection system is implemented in two steps: the Level-1 Trigger, implemented on custom-made hardware and dedicated to analyse the detector information at a coarse-grained scale; and the High Level Trigger (HLT), implemented as a series of software algorithms, running in a processor farm, that have access to the full detector information. A dedicated set of HLT algorithms is...
Joshua Einstein
(Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University; Fermilab)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Fermilab has teamed with Colorado State University on several projects in LLRF controls and architecture. These projects include new LLRF hardware, updated controls techniques, and new system architectures. Here were present recent work.
Jessica Metcalfe
(Argonne National Laboratory (US))
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The impact of several scenarios for a future upgraded ATLAS detector is evaluated for the electroweak production of same-electric-charge WW boson pairs through vector boson scattering, ssWWjj-EW, at a High-Luminosity LHC at sqrt(s) = 14 TeV. Pileup suppression and identification of jets and leptons are evaluated for their impact on the precision of the ssWWjj-EW cross-section measurement. An...
Dr
Vladimir Shiltsev
(FNAL)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Accelerator: Physics, Performance, R&D and Future Accelerator Facilities
Poster
Challenges, status and plans of the US accelerator R&D program toward intensity frontier machines will be presented. The main thrusts will be discussed, including high current synchrotron R&D (IOTA), high power targetry, cost-effective SC RF and the PIP-III pre-design beam physics studies.
Ms
AMBALIKA BISWAS
(S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We study the implication of a criterion of naturalness for a broad class of two Higgs doublet models (2HDMs). In particular, we assume the cancellation of quadratic divergences in what are called the type I, type II, lepton-specific and flipped 2HDMs. This results in a set of relations among masses of the physical scalars and coupling constants, a generalization of the Veltman conditions of...
Dr
Shreyashi Chakdar
(University of Virginia)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
In this work, we show that a neutral scalar field, $\sigma$, of two Higgs doublet extensions of the Standard Model incorporating the
seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses can be identified as a consistent `warm' dark matter candidate with a mass of order keV. The relic density of $\sigma$ is correctly reproduced by virtue of the late decay of a right-handed neutrino $N$ participating in the...
Karen Gibson
(Case Western Reserve University)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Education and Outreach
Poster
While many physicists seem to believe that particle physics is too complicated for young children to comprehend and prefer to reach out to students at the middle school level or higher, my observations suggest that by the time children are in their early teens, many have already been "lost" to the hard sciences, especially girls. I will present my experiences talking with preschool classrooms...
Dr
Cecilia Levy
(University at Albany, SUNY)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The search for dark matter, which makes up to 25% of the mass of the universe, is one of today's most exciting fields of particle physics. As bigger detectors are being built to increase their sensitivity, background reduction is an ever more challenging issue. To this end, a new type of dark matter detector is being developed, a liquid xenon bubble chamber, which would combine the strengths...
Jacob Julian Kempster
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
06/08/2016, 18:00
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Top pair events provide a source of b-bbar pairs, which can be used to probe CP violation in heavy-flavour mixing and decay. In events where one of the W bosons decays leptonically to an electron or muon, the charge of the W boson can be used to determine unambiguously the flavour charge of the accompanying b quark at the time of its production. In cases where the b also decays...
Saverio D'Auria
(University of Glasgow (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
At the Large Hadron Collider accelerator beam halo cleaning losses on the upstream collimators, or proton collisions with residual gas in the beam pipe can create particle showers that have sufficient energy to reach the ATLAS detector. In some cases the beam-induced particles may mimic physics objects in the calorimeter and as such can create a source of background in the physics analyses....
Ms
Elizabeth Boulton
(Yale University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Particle Identification in Xenon at Yale (PIXeY) experiment is a three kg active-mass, two-phase (liquid and gas) xenon detector. Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter often employ two-phase xenon detectors. PIXeY has been designed and built to investigate and optimize properties of this class of detectors. To this end, the drift field (applied between the cathode and gate...
James Annis
(Fermilab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
We, in conjunction with the Dark Energy Survey, are
using the large DECam on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope for a program of
identifying the optical counterparts of the sources of gravitational waves
detected by the Advanced Ligo and Advanced Virgo network.
The most likely optical counterparts are the fascinating kilonova,
the light from decompressing neutron star matter undergoing...
Nicolas Arnaud
(LAL (CNRS-IN2P3))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Education and Outreach
Poster
Following the example of the successful International Masterclasses “Hands on particle physics” (IMC) which are using LHC data, we are developing an IMC-like session based on data from the LIGO-Virgo network of interferometric gravitational wave detectors. The fact that the instruments members of this network share their data and analyze them jointly for almost a decade can be directly...
Tianlu Yuan
(University of Colorado)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a 295-km long-baseline
neutrino experiment aimed towards the measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters $\theta_{13}$ and $\theta_{23}$. Precise measurement of these parameters requires accurate knowledge of neutrino cross sections. We present
a flux-averaged double differential measurement of the charged-current
cross section on water with zero...
Florian Urs Bernlochner
(Universitaet Bonn (DE)),
Jan Hasenbusch
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The search for new physics involving semileptonic decays requires often the use of dedicated Monte Carlo samples, as acceptance and selection efficiencies depend on the kinematics of the sought for signal process. We present a new tool that allows to reweigh exclusive semileptonic B, Bs and Lambda_b decays with kinematic weights into a range of models of interest, such as for instance...
Lauren Alexandra Tompkins
(Stanford University (US)),
Yongsheng Gao
(California State University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Diversity and Inclusion
Poster
Professional physicists are a largely homogeneous group. According to the American Institute of Physics's Statistical Research Center, only 17% of bachelor's degrees and 12% of PhDs in the US go to women; 8% of bachelors and 1% PhDs go to Hispanic, African American and Native American students. In contrast, the college age US population is 50% women and 28% Hispanic, African American and...
Dr
Nameeqa Firdous
(Royal group of Colleges)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Minimum bias and underlying event data from the LHC and Tevatron have been used to tune the PYTHIA. We tune Multiple Parton Interaction (MPI) parameters including three Lambda parameters. It is shown that these tunings describe selected distributions quite well, especially pt distribution at three collision energies, 0.9 TeV , 1.9 TeV and 7 TeV provided that charge particles with pT > 500MeV...
Prof.
Satyanarayan Nandi
(Oklahoma State University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Most of the theoretical work for the models of neutrino masses and mixings uses the neutrinos to be of Majorana type. This is due to the fact that the most elegant mechanism for the neutrino mass generation is the see-saw mechanism in which the neutrinos are indeed Majorana particles. However, experimentally it is not yet established whether the neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles. In...
Nicolas Arnaud
(LAL (CNRS-IN2P3))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
A worldwide network of second generation, more sensitive, gravitational-wave detectors is being setup. Its first two members are the Advanced LIGO detectors (aLIGO) who started taking data in September 2015 and detected the signal known as GW150914, a binary black hole coalescence. The upgrade of the Advanced Virgo detector (AdV) is about to come to an end. After its commissioning phase, AdV...
Dr
David Brown
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Dr
Richard Bonventre
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
We will describe the design, construction, operational experience, and performance results from an 8-straw prototype of the Mu2e tracker. The Mu2e experiment will search for muon to electron conversion in the field of a nucleus with 4 orders of magnitude more sensitivity than previous experiments. The Mu2e experiment relies on a precision (~1/1000) measurement of the daughter electron...
Isaac Harris
(Fermilab, currently University of Chicago)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Real-time Systems Engineering (RSE) Department at Fermilab is responsible for the delivery of a new optical transmitter module for the Phase 1 upgrades of the Forward Pixel Detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The delivery of these modules was made possible by an automated test stand developed by RSE. This test stand employs...
Nicole Larsen
(University of Chicago)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search is a 370-kg dual-phase xenon-based time projection chamber that operates by detecting light and ionization signals from particles incident upon a xenon target. With its 2013 report of the world’s first sub-zeptobarn spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section limit, LUX emerged as a frontrunner in the field of dark matter direct detection. ...
eric oberla
(uchicago)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Radio detector arrays such as RICE, ANITA, ARA, and ARIANNA target the discovery of both cosmogenic neutrinos and the sources of the PeV-scale astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube. These radio arrays exploit the Askaryan effect and the radio transparency of glacial ice, which together enables the economical instrumentation of necessarily large volumes of ice. We describe here the...
Dr
Michael Hoch
(The CMS Experiment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Education and Outreach
Poster
art@CMS SciArt Workshops are interdisciplinary workshops designed to introduce school, college, and university art and science students to the scientific world of particle physics and fundamental research through artistic enquiry. They incorporate an introduction to particle physics, CERN and CMS, followed by a philosophical reflection and discussion session designed to inspire the students to...
Babar Ali
(Czech Technical University (CZ))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
The measurement of the associated production of a Higgs boson with a pair
of top quarks is a direct determination of the top-Yukawa coupling at
tree-level, which can be compared with the indirect determination in the
loop-production in gluon-gluon fusion. The decay channel of the system
with several leptons (multi-lepton channel), and jets, gives high
sensitivity. The focus of the analysis is...
Ewan Chin Hill
(University of Victoria (CA))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Education and Outreach
Poster
The goal of this project is to transform ATLAS data into sound and explore how ATLAS audio can be a source of inspiration and education for musicians and for the general public. Real-time ATLAS data is sonified and streamed as music on a dedicated website. Listeners may be motivated to learn more about the ATLAS experiment and composers have the opportunity to explore the physics in the...
David DeMarco
(University of Toronto (CA))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The performance of the reconstruction and calibration of the jet energy scale and missing
transverse energy scale with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is a key component to realize
the ATLAS full physics potential, both in the searches for new physics and in precision
measurements. New algorithms used for the reconstruction and calibration of jets and
missing energy with the ATLAS detector...
Alexander Khanov
(Oklahoma State University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Run-I at the LHC was very successful with the discovery of a new boson
of about 125 GeV mass with properties compatible with those of the Higgs
boson predicted by Standard Model.Precise measurements of the properties of this new boson, and the
search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, are primary goals of
the just restarted LHC running at 13 TeV collision energy and all future
running...
Mr
Prabhjot Singh
(University of Delhi)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
NO$\nu$A is a two detector, long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study $\nu_{e}$ ($\bar\nu_{e}$) appearance and $\nu_{\mu}$ ($\bar\nu_{\mu}$) disappearance in a $\nu_{\mu}$ ($\bar\nu_{\mu}$) beam produced at Fermilab. The near detector
(ND) is located 100 meters underground at a distance of 1 km from the target whereas the far
detector (FD) is located on the surface, 810...
Shohei Nishida
(KEK)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Education and Outreach
Poster
B-Lab is an open data analysis program to give members of the public a taste of particle physics by presenting tools to search real experimental data for particle decays. This program started as an outreach program for Belle experiment, targeting high school students. It utilizes an adapted data sample of 1.3 /fb of the real experimental e+e- collisions accumulated at KEK by the Belle...
Thomas Warburton
(University of Sheffield, UK)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will search for nucleon decay as one of its primary physics goals. Understanding the processes that mimic nucleon decay is critical, as these backgrounds affect the experiment’s reach and sensitivity. The backgrounds to nucleon decay can arise from atmospheric neutrino interactions and from cosmic ray interactions that result in neutral...
Ben Jones
(UT Arlington)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Realization of ton-scale experiments capable of a robust detection of neutrinoless double beta decay, given an inverted neutrino mass ordering and Majorana neutrino nature, is a high priority for nuclear and particle physics. To achieve the required sensitivity these experiments must have high signal efficiency and be virtually background free, with rates <0.1 counts per ton per year.
At...
Alberto Lusiani
(Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN Pisa)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The Bc meson is the heaviest state in the Standard Model decaying only through weak interaction. The large production cross-section at the LHC and the efficient trigger strategy at LHCb, enable world's leading measurements of the Bc properties and the exploration of new decays to be performed. Recent Bc measurements at LHCb will be presented.
Merve Sahinsoy
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Several searches for Higgs bosons decaying to bquark pairs benefit from the
increased Run II centreofmass energy by exploiting the large transversmomentum
(boosted) Higgs boson regime, where the two bjets are merged into one largeradius jet.
ATLAS uses a boosted H>bb tagger algorithm to separate the Higgs signal from the
background processes (QCD, W and Z bosons, top quarks). The tagger...
Prof.
Daniela Bortoletto
(University of Oxford (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
The measurement of Higgs pair production will be a cornerstone of the LHC
program in the coming years. Double Higgs production provides a crucial window upon
the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and has a unique sensitivity to the Higgs
trilinear coupling. We study the feasibility of a measurement of Higgs pair production in
the bbbb final state at the LHC. Our analysis is based on a...
Matt Dunkman
(Penn State University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Modern neutrino interaction models describe the nuclear target
more precisely than the simple relativistic Fermi gas model with impulse
approximation that has been the standard in neutrino event generators for
decades. In this poster, we present the impact of these model differences on
the outgoing lepton kinematics that are observable in detectors.
Yu Bai
(Southeast University (SEU, Nanjing, China))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
Based on a sample of 1M Higgs bosons produced at CEPC Higgs run, the branching fractions Br(H->bb, cc, gg) can be measured to percentage levels. These measurements require excellent jet clustering, jet energy resolution, and flavor tagging performances of the detector, which in turn demand dedicated detector design and the development of efficient and high performing event reconstruction...
Srinidhi Bheesette
(University of Canterbury (NZ))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
**Significance**
The purpose of this research is to extend the use of Medipix3RX detectors fabricated by the European Centre for Nuclear Physics (CERN), Switzerland to characterise mixed radiation fields which includes particles like neutrons (thermal, intermediate, and fast), alphas, betas, photons, and muons and then use this as the base study for personalised dosimetry in medical...
Ladislav Andricek
(MPS Semiconductor Lab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The DEPFET collaboration is in the final construction phase of a highly granular, ultra-transparent active pixel detector for high-performance vertex reconstruction at the Belle II experiment, KEK, Japan. A complete detector system is being developed, including solutions for ultra-thin sensors and their mechanical support, r/o ASICs, cooling, services, and a DAQ system capable of handling the...
Ben Messerly
(University of Pittsburgh)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Charged kaon production by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the SUSY-favored proton decay $p \rightarrow K^{+} \bar{\nu}$. MINERvA identifies $K^{+}$ events by reconstructing the timing signature of a $K^{+}$ decay-at-rest. We present differential cross sections for charged-current and neutral-current neutrinoproduction of $K^{+}$ as a function of kaon energy, and discuss...
Tamer Elkafrawy
(ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
It has been a high demand for the investigation of charged particle tracking making use of pattern recognition and event reconstruction [1], which have been of high significance towards the design, efficiency and resolution of tracking detectors. Special demand is directed to the detectors upgrade during the Long shutdown 2 (LS2) over 2018-2020 at CMS, CERN following the current RUN 2...
Ms
Afifa Hussain
(UET Texila , Pakistan), Dr
Nameeqa Firdous
(RGC, Pakistan)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next generation ground based very high energy gamma ray observatory. High energy gamma-rays, the most energetic form of the electromagnetic radiations, do not originate in our solar system and are important in the study of extrasolar, and especially extra-galactic astronomy. Thus CTA is believed to serve as an open observatory for a broad astrophysics...
Mr
Maciej Pfuzner
(UCL)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
CHIPS (CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS) has been proposed to drastically cut the cost of neutrino beam water Cherenkov detectors, focused on measuring the CP-violating neutrino mixing phase (δCP). A single detector module would contain an enclosed volume of purified water submerged in an existing lake, located in a neutrino beam. The staged detector would be deployed in a flooded mine pit in...
Erica Brondolin
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
With the start of Run II in June 2015, LHC has re-started delivering pp collisions. LHC has ultimately exceed a center of mass energy of 13 TeV and a bunch time separation of 25 ns with a mean of more than 25 inelastic collisions superimposed on the event of interest. In these new conditions, the CMS collaboration has re-calibrated and verified the performances of the whole detector.
In...
Irais Bautista Guzman
(Autonomous University of Puebla (MX))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Heavy Ions
Poster
We study the collective effects measured on high multiplicity events on p-Pb and p-p collisions at LHC energies. By using the framework of the color string percolation model, which had described quantitatively good the collectivity and change on phase on nucleus-nucleus collisions from RHIC to LHC energies. We observed that the measurements are likely to correspond to a phase transition, and...
Burak Bilki
(University of Iowa (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The high flux of charged particle interacting with the CMS Forward Hadron (HF) Calorimeter PMT windows introduced a significant background for the trigger and offline. During Long Shutdown 1, all of the original PMTs were replaced with multi-anode, thin window photomultipliers. At the same time, the back-end readout system was upgrade to uTCA readout. The experience with commissioning and...
Amir Farbin
(University of Texas at Arlington (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The DUNE experiment will aim to study fundamental parameters of neutrino
oscillations with high precision. It will employ a uniquely large (40kt) Liquid Argon Time Projection chamber as the main component of its Far Detector. In order to validate major design elements and characterize the detector performance for various event types, an ambitious experimental program has been created which...
Jun Su
(University of Pittsburgh (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The t-channel production and decay of single top quarks is a unique probe of the Wtb vertex, providing simultaneous sensitivity to all of the "anomalous couplings", V_L, V_R, g_L and g_R. These four effective anomalous couplings have a direct connection with dimension-six operators coefficients in the effective field theory framework. To obtain constraints in the space of these parameters the...
Kazumasa OHKUMA
(Okayama University of Science)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The most general analysis of top-bottom-W boson ($tbW$) interactions is performed based on an effective lagrangian constructed by dimension 6 effective operators invariant under $SU(3) \times SU(2) \times U(1)$ symmetry. Since the lagrangian includes four kinds of effective operators, four kinds of nonstandard couplings parameterizing contributions from those operators exist, which are...
Mr
Carlos Alberto Gomez Tarazona
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The confirmation of the neutrino masses by oscillation phenomena, makes interesting the study of the magnetic moment (MDM) of the neutrinos in regions where exist magnetic fields, because of the implications of such phenomena on cosmology and astrophysics. The existence of a charged Higgs coming from a two Higgs doublet model in presence of a magnetic field, induces additional corrections to...
Arie Bodek
(University of Rochester (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Electron scattering data on nuclear targets are used to to model nuclear binding corrections to the scattering of neutrinos from neutrons and protons in nuclei. Recently, Coulomb corrections have been applied in the analysis of electron scattering experiments from nuclear targets at Jefferson lab. These corrections account for the changes in the energy of initial and final state electrons in...
Prof.
Tareq AbuZayyad
(University of Utah)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
We report on a cosmic ray energy spectrum measurement by the Telescope Array Low-Energy extension (TALE) fluorescence detector (FD). The TALE FD is an air fluorescence detector which is also sensitive to the Cerenkov light produced by shower particles. Low energy cosmic rays, in the PeV energy range, are detectable by TALE as "Cerenkov Events". Using these events, we measure the energy...
Alexander Radovic
(College of William and Mary), Dr
Kanika Sachdev
(Fermilab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Merged the following:
The observation of neutrino oscillation provides evidence of physics beyond the standard model, and the precise measurement of those oscillations remains an important goal for the field of particle physics. NOνA will soon be one of the foremost experiments in that field. Taking advantage of a tightly focused off-axis view of the NuMI neutrino beam, and a finely...
pyungwon ko
(Korea Inst. for Advanced Study (KIAS))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Dark Higgs is very generic in dark matter models where DM is stabilized by some spontaneously broken dark gauge symmetries. Motivated by the FERMI observation of ∼GeV scale γ-ray excess from the galactic center (GC), we investigate a scenario that a pair of dark matter X annihilates into a pair of dark Higgs H2, which subsequently decays into standard model particles through its mixing with SM...
Noah Kurinsky
(SLAC/Stanford)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
CDMSlite, the low-mass SuperCDMS Soudan Dark Matter search, operated detectors at high crystal voltages to exploit the large Luke-Neganov phonon energy gain, allowing for higher statistics due to lower energy thresholds. The first runs of this search were able to push cross-section limits to sub 10 GeV masses, leading the field in this regime. To push to even lower masses and cross section...
C Eric Dahl
(Northwestern University), Dr
Jianjie Zhang
(Northwestern University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The bubble chambers developed by the PICO collaboration for dark matter detection feature both unmatched electron recoil background rejection and the unique ability to work with a variety of target liquids, properties that have led to several world-leading direct detection limits on the WIMP-proton spin-dependent cross section. Existing bubble chambers, however, are threshold detectors with...
Dr
Gang LI
(Institute of high energy physics)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The detector optimization is a critical task in the design of the CEPC detector to ensure that the physics goals of the CEPC project will be achieved. On one hand, in order to make the best use of all Higgs bosons generated at CEPC, the detector design should consider high-efficiency reconstruction and precision measurement of all the physics objects including leptons and jets, and of other...
Bruce Howard
(Indiana University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The concept for the 10-kiloton scale Far Detector modules for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) utilizes liquid argon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). To fully exploit the physics opportunities (measurement of CP violation in oscillations of beam neutrinos, plus non-beam based investigations including studies of supernova neutrino bursts and searches for nucleon decay), the...
Javier Fernando Castaño Forero
(Universidad Antonio Nariño)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Technology Applications and Industrial Opportunities
Poster
Abstract: supported by a common funded project RD51-CERN, a groundbreaking laboratory for training, development, fabrication, applications and innovation with SiPMs and MPGDs and their related technology has been finally commissioned at Universidad Antonio Narin ̃o (UAN) in Colombia.
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) and Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) are featured by their remarkable...
Emrah Tiras
(University of Iowa (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Modern high-energy physics experiments are in ever increasing need for radiation hard scintillators and detectors. In this regard, we have studied various radiation-hard scintillating materials such as Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN), Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), our prototype material Scintillator X (SX) and Eljen (EJ). Scintillation and transmission properties of these scintillators are...
Emmanuel Chauveau,
Frédéric Perrot
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The **SuperNEMO demonstrator**'s unique design, combining both tracking and
calorimetry techniques, provides essential **topological informations**. Indeed,
fully reconstructing the event kinematics not only allows a powerful background
discrimination but also gives access to a variety of event topologies which can
be used to measure the different background contributions.
The SuperNEMO...
Dr
Ajaykumar Rai
(Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India), Mr
Dharmesh P. Rathaud
(Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute, Surat, India)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We have studied the dimesonic (meson-antimeson) loosely bound states
with heavy flavor meson combination. We have applied the potential
model approach to extract the mass spectra and various decay properties
of the dimesonic system. Our loosely bound system approximated as
of deuteron-like system. The Hellmann potential of the form...
Curt Nehrkorn
(University of California Santa Barbara)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
Of the four fundamental interactions, only gravity has hinted at the existence of dark matter. Yet the astrophysical evidence gleaned from this interaction is now overwhelming, and its implications striking: dark matter constitutes nearly 6/7 of the universe’s matter composition, a ratio that holds true in our own Milky Way. The evidence further indicates that this mysterious substance...
Giuseppe Salamanna
(Roma Tre Universita Degli Studi (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
JUNO is a Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector (LAND) currently under construction in the south of China (Jiangmen city, Guangdong province). Once completed, it will be the largest LAND ever built, consisting in a 20 kt target mass made of Linear Alkyl-Benzene liquid scintillator, monitored by roughly ~18000 twenty-inch high-QE photomultipliers (PMTs) providing a ~80% photo-coverage....
Kyeongpil Lee
(Seoul National University (KR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Measurement of the differential Drell–Yan cross sections in the dimuon channel is presented. It is based on proton– proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. The differential cross section in the dilepton mass range 15 to 3000 GeV is measured and corrected to the full phase space.
Richard Hill
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
A new framework for computing electromagnetic radiative corrections to precision measurements involving lepton-nucleon interactions is presented. A class of two-loop corrections to elastic electron-proton scattering is implemented and the status of the proton radius puzzle is reviewed. Related applications to long-baseline neutrino oscillation measurements, muon-electron conversion, and...
Prof.
Abdel Nasser Tawfik
(Egyptian Center for Theoretical Physics (ECTP) and World Laboratory for Cosmology And Particle Physics (WLCAPP))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Heavy Ions
Poster
After a short review on the status of QGP, we present a systematic analysis for the electromagnetic and the transport properties of this new-state-of-matter under extreme conditions of high temperature and density and finite magnetic and electric fields. The possible influences on the hadron-quark phase transition(s) and the QCD equations of state are determined from the mean field...
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The fine-grained tracker (FGT), the reference near detector for DUNE, is designed to provide a precise determination of the electron/positron identification, momentum, and energy. The particle identification involves measurements of the transition-radiation in the high-resolution straw tube tracker (STT) and the profile of the energy deposition in the ECAL; the momentum is determined from the...
Dr
Shoaib Munir
(KIAS, Seoul)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
One of the main features of a two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) is the presence of two additional neutral Higgs states besides the one mimicking the recently observed ~125 GeV state. These additional Higgs bosons can be produced at the LHC either singly via gluon fusion or in pairs with each other and with the SM-like state. When studying the pair production of Higgs bosons, generally the...
Jon Paul Lundquist
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
An Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) anisotropy search has been done using apparent originating position and the incident particle energy using seven years of Telescope Array data. The result indicates evidence for a source in the vicinity of the previously reported Northern hotspot. Cosmic ray particle deflection away from sources by magnetic fields, are expected to create correlations...
Konstantin Cherevko
(Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiyv)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
A new method to evaluate the curvature correction term to the surface tension coefficient based on the nuclear equation of state, is suggested. Among the advantages of the introduced approach one can mention the minimal set of assumptions used and the possibility to link the bulk and surface properties of the nuclear matter. In the present work it is shown that the “gedanken” experiment with...
Dr
Leigh Whitehead
(UCL)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The proposed CHIPS water Cherenkov detector faces some unique design challenges that arise from the aim to reduce the cost by two orders of magnitude compared to previous water Cherenkov detectors. Reconstruction algorithms have been developed using charge and time information from all PMTs. The charge component is based on a technique used by MiniBooNE whereas the time component has been...
Zhaoru Zhang
(Peking University (CN))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Evidence for electroweak associated production of a Z boson, a photon and two jets, where the Z boson decays into electron or muon pairs, is presented. The measurement is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS detector at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb−1. Limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set with...
Simon Viel
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The design of the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade is currently underway. This tracking detector, consisting of silicon pixel and strip modules, will replace the current ATLAS Inner Detector in order to successfully reconstruct tracks originating from charged particles produced at the high collision rate expected from the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. The expected performance of the most...
Frank Deppisch
(University College London (UK))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
The presence of $ (B-L) $ violating interactions is a necessary ingredient in many models trying to explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe, but if they are found to be strong they herald the occurrence of a temperature range where any pre-existing $ (B-L) $ asymmetry is washed out.
We demonstrate in a model-independent approach that the observation of lepton number violating...
Prof.
Vladimir Kekelidze
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Heavy Ions
Poster
The project NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) is aimed to study hot and baryon rich QCD matter in heavy ion collisions in the energy range up to √s_NN = 11 GeV. The heavy ion program includes the study of collective phenomena, dilepton, hyperon and hypernuclei production under extreme conditions of highest baryonic density. This program will be performed at the Nuclotron accelerator...
Cong Peng
(Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
In this poster measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections are presented for Higgs boson production in the diphoton channel at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$. Diphoton candidate events from proton-proton collisions recorded in 2015 and 2016 are analyzed by a fit to the diphoton invariant mass spectrum. The extracted signal yields are corrected for effects of detector...
Alireza Kokabi
(School of Particles and Accelerator Inst. for Res. in Fundam. S)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
For the CMS and TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer Project, a firmware that controls the digital readout board was designed to perform the data readout from the front-end electronics of the Quartz Timing Cherenkov Detectors and the Diamond Detectors. Since the readout board and the corresponding FPGA is Rad-Hard, the firmware is designed to be protected with a Triple Module Redundancy. The...
Shaomin Chen
(Tsinghua University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Cosmic-ray-muon spallation-induced radioactive isotopes with β decays are one of the major backgrounds for solar, reactor, and supernova relic neutrino experiments. Unlike in scintillator, production yields for cosmogenic backgrounds in water have not been exclusively measured before, yet they are becoming more and more important in next generation neutrino experiments designed to search for...
Stephane Monteil
(Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
A possible long-term strategy for high-energy physics at colliders considers a tunnel of about 100 km circumference, which takes advantage of the present CERN accelerator complex. A possible first step of the project is high-luminosity e+e− collider aimed at studying comprehensively the electroweak scale with centre-of-mass energies ranging from the Z pole up to and beyond the tt¯ production...
Abdel Nasser Tawfik
(ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The dependence of different particle ratios on nucleus-nucleus center-of-mass energy, which can be related to the chemical potential, is studied within the hadron resonance gas (HRG) and Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamic (UrQMD) approach. For UrQMD two different types of phase transitions are taken into consideration, namely crossover and first order, while HRG implements fully...
Ko Abe
(ICRR, the University of Tokyo)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
XMASS is a single phase liquid xenon (LXe) detector,
designed for a program of physics targets.
As a first step in the program,
the XMASS-I detector started operation for direct Dark Matter search
with 832 kg of LXe in the sensitive volume from Sep. 2010.
Various dark matter results have been provided by the XMASS-I so far.
As a future project to improve its Dark Matter sensitivity,
we are...
Mr
Fei Teng
(University of Utah)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
In order to reconcile the tension between the collider SUSY particle search and the dark matter relic density constraint, we free ourselves from the simplest CMSSM model and find a large parameter space in which a sub-TeV bino dark matter may comply with all the current experimental constraints. In this so-called incredible bulk region, sleptons have a nonzero mixing angle while the dominant...
Katsuya Yonehara
(Fermilab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
MW-class beam facilities are being considered all over the world to produce an intense neutrino beam for fundamental particle physics experiments. A radiation-robust beam monitor system is required to diagnose the primary and secondary beam qualities in high-radiation environments. We have proposed a novel gas-filled RF-resonator hadron beam monitor in which charged particles passing through...
Rolland Johnson
(Muons, Inc.)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Technology Applications and Industrial Opportunities
Poster
Operation of high-power SRF particle accelerators at two US national laboratories allows us to consider a less-expensive nuclear reactor that operates without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing. A multipurpose reactor design that takes advantage of this new accelerator capability includes an internal spallation neutron target and high-temperature molten-salt fuel...
David Miller
(University of Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Global Feature Extractor (gFEX) module is a component of the Level I trigger system for the ATLAS experiment planned for installation during the Phase I upgrade in 2018. This unique single ATCA board with multiple high speed processors on board will receive coarse-granularity information from all the ATLAS calorimeters enabling the identification in real time of large radius jets for...
Yufeng Li
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Sterile neutrinos are singlets of the Standard Model gauge symmetries which do not have the standard weak interactions but can couple to the active neutrinos through the Lagrangian mass term. The possible existence of sterile neutrinos is currently a hot topic of theoretical and experimental research which could provide valuable information on the physics beyond the Standard Model.
I shall...
Sean Dobbs
(Northwestern University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab is a fixed target photoproduction experiment located in the newly-constructed Hall D. It is designed to study the spectroscopy of a variety of hadrons, with special emphasis on hybrid mesons. The experiment uses a 12 GeV electron beam incident on a diamond radiator to produce a linearly-polarized tagged bremsstrahlung photon beam of energies up to 12 GeV,...
Andrey Elagin
(University of Chicago),
Bernhard Adams
(Incom, Inc.),
Eric Spieglan
(University of Chicago),
Evan Angelico
(University of Chicago),
Todd Seiss
(University of Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detector (LAPPD$^\text{TM}$) is a planar, 20 $\times$ 20 cm$^2$ photo-tube that is being developed for sub-pico second timing resolution and large area detector coverage. The first generation LAPPD$^\text{TM}$ uses transmission line anode strips to carry amplified signals from the inside of the vacuum-tube to external electronics. A second generation design has...
Dr
Huirong Qi
(Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
A study group was formed in Beijing in September 2013 to investigate the feasibility of a high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), the CEPC provides a much cleaner environment than the LHC, and it is ideally suited for studying the Higgs. For the preliminary Concept Design Report (CDR) initial study, the International Linear Detector (ILD) has been chosen as the starting point...
Daniel Baxter
(Northwestern University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The PICO Collaboration continues to produce the most stringent direct detection limits on spin-dependent WIMP-proton dark matter interactions. This success is due to the unparalleled capability of bubble chamber detectors to reject radioactive backgrounds and their unique ability to use target nuclei unavailable to other technologies. Despite this success, past runs with PICO detectors have...
Katarzyna Frankiewicz
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector has performed searches for neutrinos from dark matter annihilation from possible sources of concentration such as the center of the sun, center of the earth, and center and halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The SK detector is sensitive to neutrino energies below 10 GeV, allowing unique sensitivity to low WIMP masses. Updated results on indirect dark matter...
Suprabh Prakash
(Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The existence of non-baryonic Dark Matter (DM) has been very well
established by various astronomical observations; and finding out a
viable DM candidate is one of the most important open-ended problems
in beyond Standard Model physics today. The Jiangmen Underground
Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multi-purpose underground
liquid scintillator detector with the main objective to...
Miroslav Myska
(Czech Technical University (CZ))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The inelastic cross-section is a basic property of the proton, yet it cannot be calculated from theory. In 1973 experiments at CERN discovered that it rises with energy—as Heisenberg predicted. Today, the LHC sets the energy frontier at 13 TeV, and theory predicts an asymptotic "black-disk" limit.
I will present a recent measurement of the inelastic cross-section at 13 TeV with the ATLAS...
Miguel Ignacio Arratia Munoz
(University of Cambridge (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The inelastic cross-section is a basic property of the proton, yet it cannot be calculated from theory. In 1973 experiments at CERN discovered that it rises with energy—as Heisenberg predicted. Today, the LHC sets the energy frontier at 13 TeV, and theory predicts an asymptotic "black-disk" limit. I will present a recent measurement of the inelastic cross-section at 13 TeV with the ATLAS...
Arturo Sanchez
(Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Universidad de Los Andes)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The latest developments in the integration of the ROOT data analysis framework with the Jupyter Notebook technology presents an incredible potential in the enhance and expansion of educational and training programs at any level of education: starting from university students in their early years, passing to new ATLAS PhD students and post doctoral researches, to those senior analysers and...
Mr
Bahram Shakerin
(Baylor University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We use recently introduced MC realizations of IR-improved DGLAP-CS parton showers to study the attendant improvement effects in W+n jets at the LHC in the MG5_aMC@NLO framework for the exact ${\cal O}(\alpha_s)$ corrections. We compare our results with the available LHC data and discuss the corresponding phenomenological implications.
Zhe Wang
(Tsinghua University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
* We will present a preliminary R&D study of a low energy neutrino experiment (arxiv:1602.01733), which is proposed to be at China JinPing Laboratory, a laboratory with the thickest overburden and lowest reactor neutrino background. Based on about 4 kiloton of liquid scintillator or water-based liquid scintillator and the assessments of the site and potential detector designs, we will give...
Greg Kalicy
(ODU/JLab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is planned to be the next large U.S. project for nuclear physics research. It will be the world’s first collider with polarized electron- and light ion beams, and capable of accelerating nuclei up to uranium. In this talk, the Jefferson Lab full-acceptance detector concept will be presented, with physics emphasis on integrated particle identification (PID)...
Mr
Javier Fernando Castaño Forero
(Universidad Antonio Nariño), Mr
LUIS FERNANDO CASTAÑEDA MELO
(Universidad Antonio Nariño)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Education and Outreach
Poster
In this work we present the process of construction, development, some
results and further advances of the “Laboratorio de Detectores”
(Detectors Laboratory), of the UAN, as a R&D laboratory for training,
development, fabrication, applications and innovation particularly with
SiPMs and MPGDs and their related technologies. The goal of this lab-
facility is to support the training of...
Ms
Deepanjali Goswami
(Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The Left Right Symmetric Model (LRSM) presents a very promising beyond
standard model scenario with a rich scalar sector. The minimal version has
additional triplet and bidoublet scalar fields resulting in doubly
charged, singly charged and neutral scalar particles in the physical
spectrum. The doubly-charged scalars provide a distinct phenomenology
compared to many other multi-Higgs models...
Mrs
Prativa Pritimita
(Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar 751030, India)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
We consider the TeV scale left-right symmetric theory which can accommodate low scale seesaw mechanisms consistent with neutrino oscillation data originally proposed to provide a natural explanation for maximal parity violation of weak interaction. This class of theories permits lepton number violating processes like neutrinoless double beta decay, same-sign dilepton events and candidates for...
Adam Davis
(University of Cincinnati (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The LHCb tracking system consists of a Vertex Locator around the interaction point, a tracking station with four layers of silicon strip detectors in front of the magnet, and three tracking stations, using either straw-tubes or silicon strip detectors, behind the magnet. This system allows to reconstruct charged particles with a high efficiency (typically > 95% for particles with momentum > 5...
David Murphy
(Columbia University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
Lattice calculations of low energy QCD matrix elements are an important ingredient in precision tests of Standard Model physics. In this talk we will report on some of the RBC-UKQCD collaboration's recent calculations with physical quark masses, relevant to light flavor physics --- including the pion and kaon decay constants, the Kl3 form factors, and the kaon bag parameter --- and their...
Michael Kohl
(Hampton University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Hidden-sector light bosons can provide simultaneous explanations
of dark matter and solutions of recent puzzles in particle physics such as
the muon anomalous magnetic moment or the proton charge radius. The TREK
program at J-PARC, Japan, provides opportunity to search for light bosons in
the mass region below 200 MeV/$c^2$ via rare decay of positively charged kaons
in several decay modes. A...
Victor Kim
(St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute - PNPI, Gatchina)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
A brief overview of searches for manifestations of BFKL-evolution, a high-energy QCD asymptotics, at high energies is presented. Comparison of the data from Tevatron, LEP2 and LHC with the predictions of BFKL-evolution in the leading logarithmic (LL) and next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) approximations are discussed.
Brendan Kiburg
(Fermilab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The Muon $g-2$ experiment at Fermilab will measure the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment, $a_{\mu}$, to 140 parts-per-billion. Modern calculations for $a_{\mu}$ differ from the current experimental value by 3.6$\sigma$. Our effort will test this discrepancy by collecting 20 times more muons and implementing several upgrades to the well-established storage ring technique. The experiment stores...
Emily Marie Duffield
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Reconstruction of charged particles in dense environments is paramount for a number of applications including jet energy and mass calibration, jet flavour tagging, and the reconstruction of hadronic decays from high momentum taus. With the center of mass energy increase for Run 2 of the LHC, all of these are of special importance, for example in the reconstruction of high transverse momentum...
Anna Shcherbakova
(Stockholm University (SE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The identification of jets originating from b quarks (b-tagging) is a crucial tool for many physics analyses at the LHC. It is especially important for measurements involving top quarks, in searches for new physics, and in Standard Model and beyond the Standard Model Higgs boson searches. The b-tagging algorithms need to be calibrated in data to account for possible differences between data...
Alessandro Lapertosa
(Universita e INFN Genova (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The correct identication of the jet quark flavour (flavour tagging) is of fundamental importance for hadron collider experiments, such as ATLAS and CMS at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, it is an important tool for many physics analyses with heavy flavour jets in the final state (b-quarks from top quark decays, H to bb decays and new physics searches). The ATLAS experiment developed...
Yichen Li
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The fundamental properties of LAr are of particular interests for experimentalists as LArTPCs are now the preferred technology for many accelerator neutrinos and dark matter experiments. The electron longitudinal diffusion coefficients in Liquid Argon (LAr) are measured for electric fields range from 0.1-2.0 kV/cm at different drift distances up to 25 cm using the two experimental setup with...
Youn Jung Roh
(Korea University (KR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Differential cross sections of top-quark pair production are measured in the dilepton decay channel with proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measurement is performed with Run II data using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In this analysis, we measure the differential cross sections with respect to the kinematic variables of leptons, bjets, and...
Michel Hernandez Villanueva
(Cinvestav)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The lifetime of the $B^0_s$ meson is measured in the decay channel $B^0_s\to J/\psi \pi^+\pi^-$ with $|M_{ \pi^+\pi^-} -980|<100\, $MeV, which is mainly CP-odd and dominated by the $f_0(980)$ resonance. Usnig $10.4\ \rm fb^{−1}$ of data collected with the D0 detector in Run II of the Tevatron, the lifetime of the $B^0_s$ meson is measured to be $\tau(B^0_s) = (1.696 \pm 0.141\, {\rm(stat)}\,...
Cristovao Vilela
(Stony Brook University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NEMO-3 detector, which had been operating in the Modane Underground Laboratory from 2003 to 2010, was designed to search for neutrinoless double-β (0νββ) decay. We report the final results of a search for 0νββ decays with 6.914 kg of Mo100 using the entire NEMO-3 data set with a detector live time of 4.96 yr, which corresponds to an exposure of 34.3 kg⋅yr. We perform a detailed study of...
Ruchika Nayyar
(University of Arizona (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
A measurement of the jet mass scale and jet mass resolution uncertainty for large radius jets
using the full sqrt(s) = 8 TeV dataset from the ATLAS experiment is presented. Large radius
jets are calibrated so that on average the reconstructed jet transverse momentum is the
same as the corresponding particlelevel jet transverse momentum in simulation. The ratio of
the reconstructed jet mass to...
Samuel Lloyd Higginbotham
(Purdue University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Measurements of the correlation of the spins of the top quark and top antiquark for top quark-antiquark pairs in pp collisions are discussed. Spin correlations are sensitive to a variety of new physics contributions and could be enhanced compared to the standard model expectation. Dilepton final states are employed to measure angular distributions in data accumulated with the CMS detector at a...
James Mott
(Boston University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The world's most precise measurement of the double beta decay half-life of $^{82}$Se is presented. This measurement was made using a 932 g sample with the total exposure of the NEMO-3 data (5.25 yrs). In addition, a search for neutrinoless double beta decay in the same isotope has been conducted and no evidence for a signal has been observed. The resulting half-life limits for different...
Mr
ChangDong Shin
(RENO collaboration, Chonnam National University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
RENO has been taking data since August, 2011 and successfully measured the smallest neutrino mixing angle, theta13. This measurement was based on observed reactor neutrino events with neutron captures on gadolinium (n-Gd) in the target detector region. RENO also successfully measures the mixing angle from a reactor neutrino sample with neutron captures on hydrogen (n-H) in the gamma-catcher...
Young-Kwon Jo
(Korea University (KR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
We present the measurement of the cross section ratio σ(ttbarbbbar)/σ(ttbarjj) in the lepton plus jets and the dilepton decay mode, using a data sample collected in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The cross section ratio σ(ttbarbbbar)/σ(ttbarjj) is measured in the visible phase space corresponding to the detector acceptance, and corrected to particle level. In the...
Bhawandeep Bhawandeep
(Panjab University (IN))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The measurement of the differential cross-sections for a W (-> mu nu)
boson produced in association with jets is presented using 8 TeV
proton-proton collisions data recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC,
corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb-1. The differential
cross sections are measured as a function of jet multiplicity, the jet
pT and pseudorapidity, total hadronic activity...
Bing Guo
(University of South Carolina)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The reference design of the near detector for the LBNE/F experiment is a high-resolution Fine-Grained Tracker (FGT) capable of precisely measuring all four species of neutrinos: νμ, νe, ν ̄μ and ν ̄e. The goal of the FGT is to constrain the systematic errors, below the corresponding statistical error in the far detector, for all oscillation studies; and to conduct a wide range of precision...
Charanjit Kaur
(Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
We consider the measurement of the trilinear couplings
of the neutral Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM) at a high energy $e^+ e^-$ linear
collider in the light of the discovery of a Higgs
boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider~(LHC). We identify the state
observed at the LHC with the lightest Higgs boson ($h^0$) of the MSSM,
and impose the constraints...
Vitor Gigante
(ITA)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The Nakanishi integral representation of the
Bethe-Salpeter amplitude is used in order to derive a workable framework for bound states,
solutions of the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation, in Minkowski space.
The projection onto the null-plane of the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation is used to
derive an equation for the Nakanishi weight function for bound states. We study the bound...
Maria Moreno Llacer
(Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Production of top quark pairs in association with heavy Standard Model bosons or with heavy flavor quark-pairs is important both as a signal and a background in several ATLAS analyses. Strong constraints on such processes cannot at present be obtained from data, and therefore their modelling by Monte Carlo simulation as well as the associated uncertainties are important. This poster documents...
Stefan Soldner-Rembold
(University of Manchester (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The possible existence of sterile neutrinos is an important unresolved question for both particle physics and cosmology. Data sensitive to a sterile neutrino is coming from both particle physics experiments and from astrophysical measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background. In this study, we address the question whether these two contrasting data sets provide complementary information...
Alexander Radovic
(College of William and Mary)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The observation of neutrino oscillation provides evidence of physics beyond the standard model, and the precise measurement of those oscillations remains an important goal for the field of particle physics. NOνA will soon be one of the foremost experiments in that field. Taking advantage of a two-detector technique, a tightly focused off-axis view of the NuMI neutrino beam, and a pair of...
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure the rate of electron neutrinos appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the NuMI beam. The NOvA Near Detector, located at Fermilab, provides an excellent opportunity to study neutrino-nucleus interactions which are...
Son Cao
(T)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is the world's first off-axis designed long-baseline
experiment that was built for precision measurements of neutrino oscillations.
The T2K experiment uses a high intensity, highly-pure beam of muon (anti)neutrinos
produced at J-PARC in Tokai, Japan. A Near Detector complex, 280 m downstream
of the target, is operated to monitor and characterize the (anti)neutrino
beam...
Yuan MEI
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
High pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) provides a unique
combination of excellent energy resolution, event tracking for
background discrimination, and scalability, which are ideal for
neutrinoless double-beta decay searches. To harness the power of such
a TPC, a suitable charge readout scheme has to be realized. We are
developing a pixelated charge readout plane filled with an...
Ardavan Ghassemi
(Hamamatsu Photonics USA)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., a major manufacturer of a wide variety of silicon photodetectors including the Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC), has developed MPPCs that are capable of detecting light down to 120 nm, covering scintillation wavelengths of liquid xenon and argon. Following the development efforts that we outlined in our presentation at TAUP 2015, we will provide an update on the...
Christian Schwanenberger
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)),
Max Klein
(University of Liverpool (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Energy-frontier deep inelastic scattering at 1000 times higher luminosity than HERA is considered with the LHeC and further the FCC-he. These collider configurations provide steps in the kinematic range, characterised by the 4-momentum squared $Q^2$ and Bjorken-$x$, which are so huge that qualitatively new phenomena are expected to appear and much more thorough and precise measurements can be...
Melanie Day
(IceCube)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The IceCube detector is the world's largest neutrino observatory, a cubic kilometer of deep ice at the South Pole outfitted with an array of pressure vessels containing photomultipliers and associated electronics. The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of muon neutrino disappearance using the more densely instrumented subdetector DeepCore that is competitive with other...
Felix Klitzner
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Floating strip Micromegas detectors with one-dimensional readout are
high-rate capable particle detectors with excellent spatial and temporal
resolution, allowing single particle tracking for particle fluxes up to
7\,MHz/cm$^2$. A floating strip Micromegas detector collects the
amplified ionization charge on copper anode strips on high voltage, so
called floating strips. The charge signal is...
Gabriel Santucci
(Stonybrook)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Despite the enormous success of the Standard Model explaining many experimental results, it sheds no light on the unification of the strong and electroweak forces. Different attempts at unifying these forces into a single larger group have been made in Grand Unified Theories (GUT). In most GUTs, the proton is not a stable particle and the predicted lifetime is within reach of kiloton-scale...
Darius Jurciukonis
(Vilnius University (LT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Formal Theory Developments
Poster
We consider a supersymmetric $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theory (GUT)
in which the fermion masses are generated by renormalizable Yukawa couplings. Consequently, the scalar multiplets under consideration belong to the irreps $\mathbf{10}$,
$\overline{\mathbf{126}}$,
and $\mathbf{120}$ of $SO(10)$.
We perform a complete investigation of the possibilities
of imposing flavour symmetries in this...
Miles Wu
(University of Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
This talk presents the observation and differential measurement of collinear W emission from jets with high transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The measurement is performed in the muon decay channel and the cross-section is reported as a function of the distance between the muon and the closest jet, since a notable signature of...
Dr
Kalpana Bora
(Gauhati University, Assam, INDIA)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
In a recent work, we have studied, how CP violation discovery potential can be
improved at long baseline neutrino experiments (LBNE/DUNE), by combining with its ND (near
detector) and reactor experiments. In this work, we discuss how this study can be further analysed to resolve entanglement of the quadrant of CPV phase and Octant of atmospheric mixing angle θ23, at LBNEs. The study is done...
Jiaheng Zou
(IHEP),
Weidong Li
(Weidong Li),
Xing-Tao Huang
(Shandong University (CN))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
on behalf of JUNO collaboration
JUNO is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment mainly designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters. Its offline data processing is based on a newly developed framework, SNiPER, which provides flexible event management, efficient event execution controlling, user-friendly interfaces and so on. The design and...
Preston Hansen
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The Real-time Systems Engineering Department of the Scientific Computing Division at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is in the process of integrating the instrumentation of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility into a common framework. Using *otsdaq* (Off-the-Shelf Data Acquisition System), a highly-scalable flexible data acquisition system, facility instrumentation, (such as scintillator...
Sijia Wu
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The Real-time Systems Engineering Department of the Scientific Computing Division at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is participating in a test beam run for the CMS phase II upgrade at the Fermi Test Beam Facility. The goal of the test beam run is to allow different CMS sub-detectors to use the same test beam facility precision tracking and data acquisition infrastructure, which is...
Irving Daniel Sandoval Gonzalez
(University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
During Run II of the LHC, the instantaneous luminosity will increase to near 2.5×10E34 cm−2 s−1. This increase in luminosity will create a high-pileup environment with a large charged particle flux near the interaction point. Operating in such challenging conditions requires high-efficiency tracking and vertexing in order to maintain the physics performance of Run I. The phase 1 pixel upgrade...
Gordon Watts
(University of Washington (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The identification of b-flavoured jets is key to many physics analyses at the LHC, including measurements involving Higgs bosons or top quarks, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. The capacity of ATLAS to efficiently tag b-jets has been enhanced for Run-2 with the addition of the Insertable B Layer (IBL), and improvements in the tracking and b-tagging algorithms. In the...
Hans Van Haevermaet
(University of Antwerp (BE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We present the performance of the CMS-CASTOR forward calorimeter
during LHC Run2 data taking at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.
Results on alignment and calibration are shown, together with a
summary of produced physics output.
Mr
Florent Bonnet
(Canberra (FR)), Mr
Vincenzo Paradiso
(CERN)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Gamma imaging allows operators to determine the position of radioactive sources or hotspots from greater distances than conventional rate meters, better aligning with ALARA principles, which are a common priority for all fields in the nuclear domain.
A panoramic prototype gamma imager has recently been developed, based on a hybrid pixel detector, which consists of a 1 mm thick CdTe substrate,...
Steven Randolph Schramm
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Hadronic decays of heavy particles with momenta much larger than their mass result in their
decay products being reconstructable as a single largeradius jet. The study of the
substructure of these jets allows the separation of these boosted decays with respect to
more common jets from lightquarks and gluons. Several techniques have been developed
by the phenomenology and experimental...
Matt Zhang
(Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The reconstruction of primary vertices in the busy, high pile up environment of the LHC is a challenging task. The challenges and novel methods developed by the ATLAS experiment to reconstruct vertices in such environments will be presented. Such advances in vertex seeding include methods taken from medical imagining, which allow for reconstruction of very nearby vertices will be highlighted....
Ourania Sidiropoulou
(Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Radiation studies on several resistive bulk-micromegas chambers produced at the CERN will be overviewed in this presentation. These resistive bulk-micromegas chambers have been installed at the new CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++) exposed to an intense gamma irradiation with the aim of carrying out a long-term ageing study in order to evaluate the detector behaviour under high...
Dr
Cosmin Deaconu
(UChicago/ KICP)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Radiodetection of Askaryan emission in dielectric media, such as polar ice, is one of the most promising avenues of detecting the expected extremely-high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical and cosmogenic origin. A phased array of antennas enables an increase effective gain (and therefore sensitivity) while maintaining a small profile to facilitate deployment down a borehole in the ice. Recent...
Leonor Cerda Alberich
(Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The identification of prompt photons and the rejection of background, originating mostly from photons
from hadron decays, relies on the high granularity of the ATLAS calorimeter. The electron identification is based on a likelihood discriminant to separate isolated electron from background electron originating from photon conversions, hadron misidentification and heavy flavour decays....
Juri Fiaschi
(University of Southampton)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We explore the effects of Photon Induced (PI) production of a dilepton final state in the Large
Hadron Collider environment. Using QED Parton Distribution Function (PDF) sets we can treat
the photons as real partons inside the protons and compare their yield directly to that of the Drell-
Yan (DY) process. In particular, we concentrate on an error analysis of the two mechanisms. In
order to do...
Salvatore Di Guida
(Universita degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a very complex apparatus with more than 70 million acquisition channels. To exploit its full physics potential, a very careful calibration of the various components, together with an optimal knowledge of their position in space, is essential. The CMS Collaboration has set up a powerful infrastructure to allow for the best knowledge of...
William Patrick Mccormack
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
A precision measurement of the delivered luminosity is a key component of the ATLAS physics program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A fundamental ingredient of the strategy to control the systematic uncertainties affecting the absolute luminosity has been to compare the measurements of several luminometers, most of which use more than one counting technique. The level of consistency across...
Dr
JUNE HO CHOI
(RENO Collaboration)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The RENO(Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) experiment is to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle theta13 and |dm^2_ee| using anti-neutrinos emitted from the Hanbit nuclear power plant in korea. Due to unprecedentedly copious data and an accurate energy calibration, the experiment has measured the flux and energy spectrum of reactor electron antineutrinos quite precisely. It is...
Michael Sokoloff
(University of Cincinnati)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
We present a high precision measurement of the mass difference between
the D*(2010)+ and D+ mesons using the decay chain D*(2010)+ -> D+ pi0, with D+ -> K- pi+ pi+ .
The analysis has been performed on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity
of about 477 fb-1, collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider.
We additionally combine this result with a previous...
David Flay
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab (E989) has been designed to determine the muon anomalous magnetic moment to a precision
of 140 parts per billion (ppb), a four-fold improvement over the Brookhaven E821 measurement. Key to this precision
goal is the absolute determination of the magnetic field of the experiment's muon storage ring to better than 100 ppb.
The magnetic field will be...
Keith Pedersen
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
We present the discovery potential for a TeV-scale charged Higgs using
100--300 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$ of 13--14 TeV LHC data. While $H^+$ is predicted
by a generic two Higgs doublet model, strong phenomenological constraints
restrict our focus to type-II models in the alignment limit.
We examine $H^+$ produced in association with, and decaying to, 3rd
generation quarks ($pp\to \bar{t} b (H^+\to t...
Mr
Derek Hazard
(Wayne State University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
We study lepton-flavor violating two and three-body quarkonium decays $H_{qq} \to \bar \ell_2\ell_2$ and $H_{qq} \to \gamma \bar \ell_1 \ell_2$ in effective field theory. By combining data from different decay modes, we extract Wilson coefficients of effective operators with quark flavors $q=u, d, s, c$, and $b$ and leptons $\ell_i = e, \mu, \tau$. We use this information to constrain several...
Dr
Bithika Jain
(Korea Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Fermionic and vector resonances are a generic prediction of theories where electroweak
symmetry breaking is triggered by new strongly interacting dynamics at the TeV scale.
We work in a concrete, predictive "discrete" **two site** prescription of the **Composite Higgs model** where the spontaneous breaking of the SO(5)/SO(4) coset gives the Standard Model gauge bosons and six heavy vector...
Ms
Nada EZZELARAB
((Researcher and teaching assistant at MTI univ.))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Heavy Ions
Poster
The Polyakov linear-sigma model (PLSM) and Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model are considered to study the hadronic and partonic equation(s) of state for the case of nonzero external magnetic fields. Thermodynamic quantities including the pressure, interaction rate, entropy density, magnetization and the speed of sound are presented as function of the temperature and the magnetic field and...
David d'Enterria
(CERN),
Peter Skands
(Monash University (AU))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The current status of the theoretical and experimental uncertainties associated with the extraction of the strong coupling constant is reviewed, as well as the improvements expected from LHC data in the coming years, and future perspectives achievable in e+e− collisions at the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) with O(1--100 ab−1) integrated luminosities yielding 1012 Z bosons and jets, and 108...
Ulf Stolzenberg
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The construction of low mass vertex detectors is of high interest for next generation collider experiments like Belle II. Test beam experiments with multi GeV particle beams and high resolution tracking telescopes provide an opportunity to obtain precise 2D images of the radiation length X/X0 of thin planar targets like detector modules. The method devel- oped to measure the radiation length...
Taushif Ahmed
(The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Precise theoretical predictions for the Higgs boson production in gluon fusion and the
Drell-Yan production of a pair of leptons at NNLO in pQCD play an important role in testing the Standard Model. The recent computation of the full threshold contribution to the inclusive production cross section of the Higgs boson at N$^3$LO by Anastasiou. et. al. contains valuable information about the...
ATLAS Collaboration
(CERN)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
At the LHC, the Missing Transverse Energy (E_{T}^{miss}) is defined as the
transverse component of the energy of particles that do not leave any detectable signatures.
As such it is a vital component in many searches for SUSY or dark matter. In 2015, the
ATLAS detector collected good quality data corresponding to 3.21 fb^{1} of integrated
luminosity, which provides an excellent test of the...
Blake Oliver Burghgrave
(Northern Illinois University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Tau leptons play an important role in many Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model physics processes that are being investigated at the LHC. This poster describes the reconstruction, identification and energy calibration algorithms for hadronic tau decays employed for the data collected from proton-proton collisions in 2015-2016 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC center-of-mass energy...
Mr
Hideyoshi Ozaki
(Tohoku university)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) at Kamioka-mine in Japan, witch has been taking data since Jan 2002, has detected reactor neutrinos and geo-neutrinos using 1,000ton ultra-pure liquid scintillator. The Outer Detector (OD) is a 3,200ton water Cherenkov detector with 225 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The OD is a cosmic ray-muon veto counter and suppresses...
Carlos Contreras
(Departamento de Fisica-Univ. Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
In this talk I will discuss if in the Regge limit , Reggeon field theory might serve as an effective theory of high energy scattering for strong interaction. Using the Functional Renormalization approach I will present results about the critical properties of the RFT : Flow equation, fixed points conditions, critical exponents evaluation and discuss the effect of the...
Collaboration BOREXINO
(LNGS)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Borexino has recently updated the electron antineutrino measurement with 906 ton-year exposure. In the whole dataset 77 antinu candidates have been identified after the application of the selection cuts. Exploiting the selected sample, Borexino alone has been in condition to prove the detection of the geo-neutrino signal with a significance as high as 5.9 sigma.
Moreover, from the same data a...
Jay Hyun Jo
(Yale University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
DM-Ice is a phased experimental program using low-background NaI(Tl) crystals aimed at unambiguously testing the claim of dark matter detection by the DAMA experiments. DM-Ice17, consisting of 17 kg of NaI(Tl), has been continuously operating at a depth of 2457 m in the South Pole ice for over five years, demonstrating the feasibility of a low-background experiment in the Antarctic ice. ...
Renato Quagliani
(Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The LHCb detector will be upgraded during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC in order
to cope with higher instantaneous luminosities and to read out the data at 40MHz using a
trigger-less read-out system. All front-end electronics will be replaced and several sub-detectors must be redesigned to cope with higher occupancy. The current tracking detectors downstream of the LHCb dipole magnet...
Karol Krizka
(University of Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The ATLAS experiment has a rich program of searches for Dark Matter
candidates. Most of them use a simplified model, where the colliding partons
produce a mediator particle that decays into Dark Matter. For vector
mediators, this approach produces limits competitive with direct detection
experiments. However the limits become weaker for Dark Matter masses above 500
GeV, when the heaviest...
Prof.
Romulus Godang
(University of South Alabama)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We report searches for a new muonic dark force mediated by a gauge boson (Z') coupling only to the second and third lepton families. The existence of the Z' boson is probed in e+e- -> mu+mu- Z', Z' -> mu+ mu- events, with an analysis based on the full data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider. No significant signal is observed. Limits on dark-sector coupling...
Dayong Wang
(Peking University (CN))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Low energy, high luminosity e+ e- colliders are believed to be good places to search for some exotic particles predicted in new physics models with dark sector phenomenology. BESIII as the only currently running tau-charm factory has great potential to probe these particles and models, with the largest samples of directly produced charmonia and some other unique datasets. In this talk, we will...
Tae Jeong Kim
(Hanyang University (KR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
Searches for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) in top production and decay in CMS using Run I and Run II data are presented. FCNC searches are conducted to probe tqZ, tqGamma, tqH, and tgq interactions.
Stefano Zambito
(Harvard University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
This poster presents the search for gluinos in final states with jets, missing transverse momentum an exactly one isolated electron or muon using 3.2 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s)=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector during 2015. The targeted signal models, the expected background physics processes and the overall analysis strategy are outlined. The results obtained in the...
Puja Saha
(Northern Illinois University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
A search for Higgs pair-production where one Higgs decays to bbbar and other Higgs to two tau leptons at the ATLAS experiment is presented. Both the lephad and hadhad decay modes of the final state taus are included. Results are interpreted in the context of Randall-Sundrum graviton and 2HDM models in the case of resonant production, and as enhancements compared to SM predictions of...
Cristiana Principato
(University of Virginia)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
In this work we investigate the possibility to search for highly-ionizing particles, such as strangelets (hypothetical stable lumps of strange quark matter), with the NOvA Far Detector. The NovA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, designed to observe electron neutrino appearance, but it may also be used to detect highly ionizing particles of astrophysical origin. The...
Antonio Policicchio
(INFN Cosenza)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Several models of elementary particle physics beyond the Standard Model,
predict the existence of neutral particles that can also be long lived and
decay in collimated jets of light leptons and hadrons (lepton-jets). The
present contribution refers to the search for displaced lepton-jets in
proton-proton collision data sample recorded at $sqrt{s}$=13 TeV during
2015 and 2016 data tacking...
enhao song
(university of virginia)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The NOνA experiment aims to study the mixing behavior of neutrinos and will attempt to resolve the neutrino mass hierarchy. The construction and instrumentation of the 14 kT far detector finished in 2014. Due to its surface proximity, large surface area, and continuous readout, the NOνA far detector is sensitive to the detection of magnetic monopoles which would be highly ionizing particles...
Bradley Dean Axen
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged, very massive, and long-lived particles. Because of their high masses these particles would propagate non-relativistically through the ATLAS pixel detector and are therefore identifiable through a measurement of large specific energy loss. Measuring heavy, long-lived particles through their track parameters in the pixel...
John Alison
(University of Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider motivates an
enhanced effort to search for new physics via the Higgs sector. Many new
physics models predict rates of Higgs boson pair production significantly
higher than the SM rate.
TeV-scale resonances such as the first Kaluza-Klein excitation of the
graviton predicted in the bulk Randall-Sundrum model or a heavy neutral
scalar...
Mr
Jonathan Richardson
(University of Chicago)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Measurements are reported of high-frequency cross-spectra of signals from the Fermilab Holometer, a pair of co-located 39-m, high-power Michelson interferometers. The instrument obtains differential position ensitivity to cross-correlated signals far exceeding any previous measurement in a broad frequency band extending to 7.6 MHz, twice the inverse light crossing time of the apparatus....
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Search for Stable Massive Particles with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV
Sascha Mehlhase
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
A search for heavy long-lived charged R-Hadrons is performed using data from proton--proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The analysis utilises both time-of-flight and specific-ionisation energy-loss measurements to derive the velocity and subsequently the mass of the particles and places upper cross-section limits in a...
insung yeo
(RENO collaboration, Chonnam Natinoal University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The RENO experiment was designed to measure a neutrino mixing angle of theta13, by detecting electron antineutrinos emitted from the Hanbit nuclear reactors in Korea. It succeeded in measuring the mixing angle by their disappearance in three neutrino framework. We have searched for sterile neutrinos in the disappearance of reactor neutrinos at RENO experiment. In this talk, we present a result...
Othmane Rifki
(University of Oklahoma (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
A search for strongly produced supersymmetric particles decaying into final states with multiple energetic jets and either two isolated leptons (e or μ) with the same electric charge or at least three isolated leptons will be presented. To extend its sensitivity, the search uses jets originating from b-quarks, missing transverse momentum, and other observables. The analysis uses proton-proton...
Tova Ray Holmes
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
A search for supersymmetric particles decaying to a Z boson, jets, and invisible particles is presented. The search is performed using 13 TeV proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The results are interpreted using a simplified model in which gluinos are produced and subsequently decay via the second lightest neutralino to Z bosons and lightest...
John William Bradmiller-Feld
(Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present results from a generic search for strongly-produced supersymmetric particles in pp collisions in the multijet + missing transverse momentum final state. The data sample corresponds to 2.3 fb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment at 13 TeV. This search is highly motivated by both theoretical and experimental considerations. In supersymmetry (SUSY) theories disfavoring fine-tuning of the...
Leonid Serkin
(INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine and ICTP Trieste (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
A search for the Standard Model four top quark production in proton-proton
collision data at √s=13TeV, collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large
Hadron Collider is presented. Data is analysed in the single lepton channel
which is characterised by an isolated electron or muon with high transverse
momentum, large missing transverse energy and multiple jets. The search
exploits the...
Ming-Chung Chu
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
We discuss a search for time-varying $\bar{nu}_{e}$ oscillation probability
and Lorentz-CPT violation at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in the
framework of the Standard Model Extension (SME). The experiment’s unique
configuration of multiple baselines to three groups of nuclear reactors
allows to constrain individual Lorentz-violating coefficients for the first
time. In addition we...
Harish Potti
(University of Texas (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
Precise measurements of the top quark-Higgs boson Yukawa coupling may provide insights about the underlying mechanisms of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking. Measurements of Higgs boson production in association with top quarks provide a powerful probe of the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling. The current status of the search for ttH production in the 4lepton+Jets final state using the data collected by...
John Stakely Keller
(DESY (DE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
Observing Higgs boson production in association with a pair of top quarks would allow a direct measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling and provide an important test of the Higgs mechanism within the Standard Model. A search for this process is presented using pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV, collected with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016. Higgs boson decays to two b quarks, and top...
Adam Schreckenberger
(University of Texas at Austin)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The MINOS experiment made precision measurements of the neutrino
oscillation parameters that are governed by the atmospheric
mass-squared splitting. These measurements were made with data that
were collected while the NuMI muon neutrino beam operated in a low
energy mode that peaks around 3 GeV. Today the NuMI beam is running
with a higher energy mode that produces a neutrino energy...
Angelo De Souza Santos
(UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
We present a search for narrow resonances production in gluon-gluon fusion followed by a decay into two Higgs bosons at 8 and 13 TeV. Decays of Higgs bosons into bottom quark pairs are considered for resonance masses above 1 TeV, where each Higgs boson is produced with large momentum, and the hadronization products of the pair of bottom quarks can usually be reconstructed as single large jets....
Gordon Watts
(University of Washington (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The ATLAS detector is sensitive to the decay of neutral, weakly
interacting, long-lived particles. Such decays can leave unique,
detectable, signatures. This poster concentrates on preliminary results
from a search for decays in the hadronic calorimeter in Run II: the search
strategy looks for hadronic-only-calorimeter jets that have little or no
tracks pointing at them. Many models can...
Mr
John Cesar
(The University of Texas at Austin)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The NEMO-3 experiment searched for neutrinoless ββ decay over the course of more than seven years utilizing various different candidate isotopes. Due to its multi-observable design it was able to distinguish, with high fidelity, a number of auxilary processes including single β decays, α decays and more. Using this rich data set and capitalizing on its long observation period, a search for...
Thibaud LE NOBLET
(LAPP)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Based on the well-known NEMO-3 technique, the SuperNEMO detector combines tracking and calorimetric measurements to search for the hypothetical 0$\nu\beta\beta$ process. These unique features allow a full reconstruction of the kinematic of events and discrimination among different mechanisms behind 0$\nu\beta\beta$. The knowledge of the complete topology of the events also allows to have...
Monireh Kabirnezhad
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
This work represents an extension of the single pion production model proposed by [D. Rein][3]. The model consists of resonant pion production ([Rein-Sehgal][1] model and based on helicity amplitudes) and non-resonant background contributions coming from three born diagrams in the helicity basis.
The new work includes **lepton mass effects**, and non-resonance interaction is described by...
Giuseppe Salamanna
(Roma Tre Universita Degli Studi (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Aside from its primary purpose of shedding light on the mass hierarchy (MH) using reactor anti-neutrinos, the JUNO experiment in Jiangmen (China) will also contribute to a series of measurements on neutrinos from non-reactor sources.
In this poster we will review JUNO's goals in the realms of Supernova (SN), atmospheric, solar and geo-neutrinos; present the related experimental issues and...
Masroor Bukhari
(Jazan University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
Some ideas and designs are reported here for simplified and modified resonant signal detection scheme to aid in cavity-based Dark Matter searches, especially for Skivie axions. An enhanced and more sensitive on-resonance signal detection scheme is proposed incorporating a modified Colpitts oscillator and simple read-out electronics which simplifies the electronics associated with usual DM...
Robert Moffatt
(Stanford University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Both silicon and germanium exhibit non-trivial charge transport at cryogenic (sub-kelvin) temperatures. Due to the anisotropic mass-tensors of the energy minima in the conduction bands, free electrons travel obliquely to the applied electric field. This oblique motion causes the carriers which occupy different energy minima to spatially separate as they move through the crystal.
The purpose...
Enrico Rinaldi
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
One of the open questions in theoretical physics is the real origin of mass and it is related to electroweak symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism. The dynamical origin of electroweak symmetry breaking can have several viable explanations, many of which require new strongly coupled physics. In these systems, the Higgs boson appears as a composite bound state in a new gauge...
Dr
Kurt Francis
(Northern Illinois University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the coherent neutrinoless conversion of a muon to an electron in the field of an atomic nucleus with a sensitivity of four orders of magnitude better than previous experiments. The Mu2e detector is surrounded by a cosmic ray veto system (CRV) that is required to reduce the cosmic-ray background to 0.10 events over the course of the run with an...
Maria Dolgareva
(Daya Bay)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
It is well known that the standard formula for neutrino oscillation probability is approximate because of a number of assumptions in its derivation, such as the plane wave approximation. The wave-packet treatment provides a self-consistent way to describe the phenomenon of interference of coherent mass neutrino eigenstates and predicts a number of potentially observable effects like loss of...
Luke Corwin
(South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The 40kt DUNE Far Detector, located at the Sanford Underground
Research Facility, will offer unique capabilities for the study of
atmospheric neutrinos. Due to the detector¹s excellent energy resolutions,
angular resolutions, and particle ID capabilities, atmospheric neutrino
analyses in DUNE can provide valuable information about 3-flavor
oscillations, despite the relatively modest...
Akash Dixit
(University of Chicago)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) aims to detect dark matter axions converting to single photons in a resonant cavity bathed in a uniform magnetic field. A qubit (two level system) operating as a single microwave photon detector is a viable readout system for ADMX and may offer advantages over the quantum limited amplifiers currently used. When weakly coupled to the detection cavity, the...
Jonathan Hays
(University of London (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
We review the concept of support vector machines (SVMs) and discuss examples of their use in a number of scenarios.
One of the benefits of SVM algorithms, compared with neural networks and decision trees is that they can be less susceptible to over fitting than those other algorithms are to over training. This issue is related to the generalisation of a multivariate algorithm (MVA); a...
Bennie Ward
(Baylor University (US)),
Staszek Jadach
(Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)),
Zbigniew Andrzej Was
(Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
With an eye toward the precision physics of the LHC, we present here some systematic studies relevant to the assessment of the expected size of multiple photon radiative effects in heavy gauge boson production with decay to charged lepton pairs. We use the new version 4.22 of \KK~MC so that we have CEEX exact ${\cal O}(\alpha^2 L)$ corrections and control over the corresponding initial-final...
Evan Niner
(Fermilab)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that uses two functionally identical detectors separated by 809 kilometers at locations 14 milliradians off-axis from the NuMI muon neutrino beam at Fermilab. At these locations the beam energy peaks at 2 GeV. This baseline is the longest in the world for an accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment, which enhances the sensitivity...
Mr
Prajwal Mohanmurthy
(PSI / MIT)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
The Paul Scherrer Institute Neutron Electric Dipole Moment (PSI nEDM) experiment is a room temperature experiment using the Ramsey technique for separation of oscillating fields. In an experiment which relies on neutron counts heavily, it is vital to understand the backgrounds completely. The greater fear of not understanding the backgrounds thoroughly is that, variations in the background...
Arnaud Steen
(National Taiwan University (TW)),
Coralie Neubuser
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)),
Huong Lan Tran
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)),
Marina Chadeeva
(National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU)),
Oskar Hartbrich
(D),
Remi Ete
(Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The highly granular calorimeters developed and tested by the CALICE collaboration have provided large data samples with precise three-dimensional information on hadronic showers with steel and tungsten absorbers and silicon, scintillator and gas detector readout. We will discuss the performance of the RPC-based Semi-Digital Hadron Calorimeter in terms of energy resolution and pattern...
Gerald Eigen
(University of Bergen)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
Using the Ci and Si values of the eight rates Ni ~ exp(-Gamma t) (1 + Ci cos(Delta m t) + Si sin(Delta m t)) for the decays Upsilon(4S) -> B0 B0bar -> f_1 f_2, with f_1 = l nu X before and after f_2 = c cbar KS (KL) as measured by the BABAR experiment with the full data set of 470 million B Bbar events [PRL 109, 211801 (2012)], we determine the three CPT-sensitive parameters Re(z), ...
Zhonghua Qin
(Institute of High Energy Physics, China)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment currently under the stage of civil construction. The primary goal is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure the oscillation parameters by detecting reactor anti-neutrinos. There will be around 20000 PMTs with a large photo-cathode of 20-inch equipped for the JUNO experiment,...
ATLAS Collaboration
(CERN)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
ATLAS is a multipurpose experiment at the LHC proton-proton collider. Its physics goals require
high resolution, unbiased measurement of all charged particle kinematic parameters. These critically
depend on the layout and performance of the tracking system and the quality of its offline alignment.
For the LHC Run II, the system has been upgraded with the installation of a new
pixel layer, the...
Gustavo Valdiviesso
(Universidade Federal de Alfenas)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
*Neutrinos Angra* is a compact surface detector developed with the purpose of monitoring the Angra II nuclear reactor at Angra dos Reis city, Brazil. About 5 thousand inverse beta decay interactions are expected per day in its Water-Gadolinium Cherenkov target, positioned 30 m from the reactor's core, with a fiducial volume of 1.4 ton and equipped with 32 8-inches PMTs. In this presentation,...
Arthur Bolz
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)),
Arthur Bolz
(University of Heidelberg)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The ATLAS Fast Tracker is a hardware processor built to reconstruct tracks at a rate of up to 100 kHz and provide them to the high level trigger system. The Fast Tracker will allow the trigger to utilize tracking information from the entire detector at an earlier event selection stage than ever before, allowing for more efficient event rejection. The connection of the system from to the...
Baptiste Abeloos
(Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
The measurement of the jet energy scale using data from sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collisions is
presented. A sequence of MonteCarlo based calibrations restore jets to the particle scale and
use jet properties to significantly improve the jet resolution. A combination of measurements
using Z+jet, gamma+jet, and multijet events is used to calibrate jets in data and to measure
systematic uncertainties....
Jianming Bian
(UC Irvine)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutrino physics and physics topics that will be explored by large underground detectors. The experiment employs two liquid Argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), CAPTAIN and Mini-CAPTAIN. The CAPTAIN detector is a...
Aaron Epps
(Northern Illinois University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will also extend the search for the muon’s electric dipole moment (EDM) by approximately two orders of magnitude with a sensitivity down to 10$^{-21}$ e.cm. Both of these measurements are made by an analysis of the modulation of the decay rate of the higher-energy positrons from the (anti-)muon decays recorded by 24...
Thomas Langford
(Yale University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
PROSPECT is a phased experiment consisting of segmented $^6$Li-loaded liquid scintillator antineutrino detectors designed to probe short-baseline neutrino oscillations and precisely measure the reactor antineutrino spectrum.
The experiment will be located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The first phase is a movable 3 tonne antineutrino detector...
Barbara Sciascia,
Jonas Rademacker
(University of Bristol (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Diversity and Inclusion
Poster
Numerous surveys of modern particle physics indicate that the discipline is still largely a male pursuit, and one in which women and other marginalised groups continue to face discriminatory practices. The fraction of female particle physicists reduces with each career stage. Early career particle physicists face precarious employment conditions with serial short term contracts, long working...
Eiji Kido
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
TAx4, Telescope Array Low Energy extension (TALE) and the Non-Imaging CHErenkov Array (NICHE) are extension plans of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment.
The TA experiment was originally designed to study ultra-high energy cosmic rays with energies above about 1 EeV (1 EeV = $10^{18}$ eV) using surface detectors (SDs) and fluorescence detectors (FDs). These extension plans will enable us to...
Dr
Patrice Perez
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The GBAR experiment (Gravitational Behaviour of Anti hydrogen at Rest) at CERN, aims to measure the free fall acceleration of ultracold neutral anti hydrogen atoms in the gravity field of the Earth [1]. Anti hydrogen ions (one antiproton and two positrons) are produced in the interaction of antiprotons and positronium in two subsequent charge exchange reactions. These ions will be...
Tania Robens
(TU Dresden)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
I discuss the current status of theoretical and experimental constraints on the real Higgs singlet extension of the Standard Model. For the second neutral (non-standard) Higgs
boson the full mass range from 1 GeV to 1 TeV accessible at past and current collider experiments is considered. I present benchmark scenarios for searches for an additional Higgs
state in the real Higgs singlet...
Kostiantyn Shpak
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Particle Flow Algorithms adopted for future Lepton Colliders detectors and phase-II LHC experiment upgrades require very high granularity calorimeters to deconvolve the individual contributions of particles in jets. This is especially true for electromagnetic calorimeters (ECAL). For a realistic large detector however many technological requirements have to be fulfilled: modularity for...
Todd Seiss
(University of Chicago (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors are very fast-timing photodetectors with a photosensitive area of 20 cm by 20 cm. Picosecond timing could be useful in the High Luminosity LHC for pileup mitigation. In particular, I examine their possible use for the ATLAS High-Granularity Timing Detector, which would be placed in front of the forward electromagnetic calorimeter in the Phase II upgrade....
Antonio Di Domenico
(Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The KLOE-2 experiment at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) is currently taking data at the upgraded e+e- DAFNE collider.
Present Run II follows a development phase to assess the feasibility of a long term acquisition program, Run I, which successfully ended in July 2015 with 1 fb-1 integrated luminosity collected in less than eight months. For the first time the “crab-waist”...
Dr
Bernhard Adams
(Incom, Inc.)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The large-area picosecond photodetector (LAPPD$^{\text{TM}}$) is an ultrafast imaging detector with single-photon sensitivity.
It can supply a continuous stream of photon-detection events, resolved spatially to about 0.5 X 0.5 mm$^2$ on an area of 20 X 20 cm$^2$, and temporally to about 50 ps.
The time resolution approaches the coherence time of light filtered with dielectric-layer...
Emanuele Michielin
(Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Computing and Data Handling
Poster
The LHCb trigger system has been upgraded to exploit the real-time alignment, calibration and analysis capabilities of LHCb in Run-II.
An increase in the CPU and disk capacity of the event filter farm, combined with improvements to the reconstruction software,
mean that efficient, exclusive selections can be made in the first stage of the High Level Trigger (HLT1).
For example, this permits,...
Tao Hu
(IHEP,China)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos, observe supernova neutrinos, study the atmospheric, solar neutrinos and geo-neutrinos. The central detector will use a acrylic sphere with the diameter of 35.4 m and contain the 20...
Adrian Lee
(University of California, Berkeley)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
Poster
Inflation is the leading theory to explain the first instant of the universe. The case for inflation is building, and now we may have the opportunity to observe the signature of gravitational waves from the inflation event embedded in the cosmic microwave background. If seen, these signals would confirm inflation, point to the correct model for inflation, and, given the high energies...
James Pinfold
(University of Alberta (CA))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was unanimously approved by CERN's Research Board to start data taking in 2015. MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its groundbreaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield...
Prof.
Mary Anne Cummings
(Muons, Inc.)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
Poster
The two primary goals of an upgraded Mu2e experiment will be to provide at least an order of magnitude increase in the total number of stopped muons produced and to accommodate different stopping target materials to probe A and Z dependencies of muon conversion. The current Mu2e design uses an 8 GeV proton beam, while the proton economics of future Fermilab sources implies using an 800 MeV...
Paula Collins
(CERN),
Victor Coco
(University of Cincinnati (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
Herschel ({\bf H}igh {\bf R}apidity {\bf S}hower {\bf C}ounters for \lhcb) is a new subdetector which has been installed for the LHCb experiment for Run II, the 13 TeV proton-proton LHC run starting in mid 2015. It consists of $ 60 \times 60~{\rm cm^2}$ square scintillator stations installed in the LHC tunnel symmetrically around the interaction region. The stations are designed to identify...
Vittorio Raoul Tavolaro
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The CMS experiment at the LHC will substitute its pixel detector during
the extended winter shutdown in 2016-17, with an upgraded detector which
is now being built. An additional layer in the barrel region and an
additional disk in each of the end caps is featured in the new geometry
introduced by the phase 1 upgrade of the pixel detector. In order to
withstand the higher rates of Runs 2 and 3...
Mr
Newton Nath
(Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
We study the proficiency of the DUNE experiment, which will be the first beam based experiment to use a baseline longer than 1000 km and a wide band flux profile, to unmask the octant of the leptonic mixing angle $\theta_{23}$ i.e., to find out if $\theta_{23}$ is $< \pi/4$ or $>\pi/4$. The probability channels relevant for octant study are the muon neutrino survival probability $P_{\mu...
Ms
Indrani Chakraborty
(University of Calcutta)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Higgs Physics
Poster
The Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) potential may accommodate more than one minima at the tree-level, one of them being the electroweak (EW) minimum where the universe lives. We make a detailed study of the nature of the most general 2HDM potential, including one-loop corrections, and also focus on the stability issues of the EW vacuum. We also discuss the naturalness issues in the context of...
James Mott
(Boston University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion, which is a factor of four improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will also extend the search for the muon’s electric dipole moment (EDM) by approximately two orders of magnitude with a sensitivity down to 10$^{-21}$ e.cm. Both of...
Paul Douglas Jackson
(University of Adelaide)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Signal events where multiple missing neutral particles are present in
a final state represent challenging topologies to search for new
physics at the LHC. The key to any search is the ability to separate
background-like events from signal-like events. Identifying such
signal-like events, and extracting their properties, is exacerbated by
a lack of knowledge of the particle masses and some...
Marina Artuso
(Syracuse University (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
A comprehensive upgrade of the LHCb detector is foreseen for Long Shutdown 2 of the LHC.
As part of the upgrade, the existing TT tracking station in front of the LHCb dipole magnet will be replaced by a new silicon micro-strip detector, the Upstream Tracker (UT).
Similar to the TT, the UT will consist of four planar detection layers covering the full acceptance of the experiment. In total, the...
Hiroyuki Sekiya
(University of Tokyo)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium (SK-Gd) Project is the upgrade of the SK detector via the addition of water-soluble gadolinium (Gd) salt. This modification will enable it to efficiently identify low energy anti-neutrinos. SK-Gd will pursue low energy physics currently inaccessible to SK due to backgrounds. The most important will be the world's first observation of the diffuse supernova...
Alberto Remoto
(Laboratoire d'Anncecy-le-Vieux de physique des particules),
Andrea Jeremie
(Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
SuperNEMO takes advantage of the tracking calorimetry technique successfully launched by NEMO3. This technique reduces the backgrounds and allows for excellent discrimination of different $0\nu\beta\beta$ mechanisms. SuperNEMO can simultaneously observe different double beta emitters, $^{48}$Ca, $^{82}$Se and $^{150}$Nd are currently under consideration. The demonstrator will employ 7~kg of...
Christine Marquet
(CENBG/CNRS)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
The SuperNEMO double beta decay project is a modular tracker-calorimeter based experiment that will reach a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double beta decay half-life of the order of $10^{26}$ years, corresponding to a Majorana neutrino mass of 50-100 meV. The main calorimeter is based on 520 Optical Modules made of large volume plastic scintillators (10L) coupled with ...
Thibaud LE NOBLET
(LAPP)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
SuperNEMO is the successor of the NEMO-3 experiment and will search for the hypothetical process of $0\nu\beta\beta$ by combining tracking and calorimetric measurements. The SuperNEMO calorimeter consists of 712 optical modules made of scintillator blocks directly coupled to photomultiplier tubes. $^{207}$Bi sources will be used to calibrate the energy scale of the calorimeter in dedicated...
Daniel Martin Saunders
(University of Bristol (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Vertex Locator (VELO) is the silicon detector surrounding the interaction region of the LHCb experiment. At the LHCb upgrade, planned for the LHC Long Shutdown 2, the VELO detector will be upgraded to a pixel system designed to withstand a radiation dose up to 370 MRad or $8\times 10^{15} $ 1 MeV n$_{eq}$ $cm^{-2}$. An additional challenge is the non uniform nature of the radiation...
Stuttard Tom
(UCL)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion, which is a factor of four improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will also extend the search for the muon’s electric dipole moment (EDM) by approximately two orders of magnitude with a sensitivity down to 10$^{-21}$ e.cm. Both of...
Zuo-tang Liang
(S)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
After a brief description of the three-dimensional fragmentation functions defined via quark-quark correlator for hadrons with different spins (0, 1/2 and 1) at leading and higher twists, we discuss how to study them in hadron production processes in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. We first present the general framework to express the cross section in terms of the corresponding structure functions then...
Rahmat Rahmat
(University of Iowa (US))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
State-of-the-art theoretical predictions accurate to next-to-leading order QCD interfaced with Pythia8 and Herwig++ event generators are tested by comparing the unfolded ttbar differential data collected with the CMS detector at 8 TeV. These predictions are also compared with the underlying event activity distributions in ttbar events using CMS proton-proton data collected in 2015 at a center...
Hans Van Haevermaet
(University of Antwerp (BE))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics
Poster
Experiments in the high-luminosity runs at the Large Hadron Collider face the challenges of very large pile-up. Primary techniques to deal with this are based on precise vertex and track reconstruction. Outside tracker acceptances, however, lie regions of interest for many aspects of the LHC physics program. We explore complementary approaches to pile-up treatment and propose a data-driven...
Luigi Calligaris
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
A new tracking system is under development for operation in the CMS
experiment at the High Luminosity LHC. It includes an outer tracker which
will construct stubs, built by correlating clusters in two closely spaced
sensor layers for the rejection of hits from low transverse momentum tracks,
and transmit them off-detector at 40 MHz. If tracker data is to contribute
to keeping the Level-1...
Mariel Pettee
(Yale University)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab aims to detect charged lepton flavor violation by observing neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the field of an aluminum nucleus. Within the Mu2e apparatus, low-energy muons are captured in the atomic orbits in an aluminum stopping target. Isolating the desired excess of monoenergetic 105 MeV electrons will require precise suppression of primary...
Dr
Sergey Sukhoruchkin
(Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Beyond the Standard Model
Poster
Recent analysis of nuclear binding energies and nuclear excitations of the
broad scope of nuclei allowed a conclusion that there exists a discreteness
in both values with stable mass/energy intervals coinciding or rationally
connected with charge mass splitting of the nucleon $\delta m_N$=1293.3~keV and
the lepton $m_e$=511~keV. For example, periods $\delta m_N$/8=161~keV and
$m_e$/3=171~keV...
Daniel Bowring
(FNAL)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Dark Matter Detection
Poster
The axion is a proposed solution to the strong CP problem and is a dark matter candidate. The search for dark matter axions may be aided by haloscopes: tunable, passive, high-Q microwave resonators, placed inside multi-tesla magnetic fields and operating at cryogenic temperatures. (The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, ADMX, is an example of this technique.) In the presence of strong B-fields,...
Mark Ross-Lonergan
(U of Durham)
08/08/2016, 18:30
Neutrino Physics
Poster
Unitarity is a fundamental property of any theory required to ensure we work in a theoretically consistent framework. In comparison with the quark sector, experimental tests of unitarity for the 3x3 neutrino mixing matrix are considerably weaker. We perform a reanalysis to see how global knowledge is altered when one refits oscillation results without assuming unitarity, and present 3σ ranges...
Dinyar Rabady
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Detector: R&D and Performance
Poster
To continue triggering with the LHC Run-1 performance in the LHC’s Run-2 the Level-1 Trigger of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment underwent a significant upgrade. One part of this upgrade was the reorganisation of the muon trigger path from a subsystem-centric view in which hits in the Drift Tubes (DT), the Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC), and the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) were treated...
Nacho Suarez Andres
(Universidad de Oviedo (ES))
08/08/2016, 18:30
Top Quark and Electroweak Physics
Poster
The inclusive cross section for WZ production is measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7, 8 and 13 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC using the data samples collected in Run I, 2015 and the first data collected in 2016. The measurement is performed with events containing exactly three charged leptons, with an opposite-sign same-flavour pair. Background...
