Spåtind 2016 - Nordic Conference on Particle Physics

2 Jan 2016, 14:00 → 7 Jan 2016, 12:00 Europe/Oslo

Skeikampen, Norway

Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo (NO)), Juska Pekkanen (University of Helsinki (FI)), Kimmo Tuominen (University of Helsinki), Mikko Voutilainen (University of Helsinki (FI)), Paula Eerola (University of Helsinki (FI)), Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyväskylä)

Outline

The 24th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spåtind 2016) will take place at the Thon Hotel in Skeikampen (Norway), from Saturday, January 2 to Thursday, January 7, 2016. The program consists of lectures and overview presentations on some of the most topical subjects in particle physics. In addition, participants are invited to give contributed talks at the conference.

The lectures will include the following topics:

• Dynamics of the early universe, Mark Hindmarsh (Sussex/ HIP)
• Dark matter and its (in)direct detection, Stephen West (Holloway)
• Particle physics phenomenology, Mads Frandsen (CP3, SDU)
• High energy QCD and relativistic heavy ion colliders, Raju Venugopalan (BNL)
• BSM physics at the LHC, Freya Blekman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
• Higgs physics, Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef)
• Proton therapy, Sytze Brandenburg (Groningen)
• ESS/n-nbar oscillations, David Milstead (Fysikum)

Registration and Contributions

Registration for the meeting starts on Friday Sept 11 2015 and will be closed on Tuesday Dec 15 2015. The registration form will be found from the menu on the left.

Deadline for abstracts for contributed talks is also Dec 15 2015. Abstract may be provided already at the time of registration or submitted later as plain text to spatind2016 [at] hip.fi.

Travel Arrangements

Bus transport is arranged from/to Oslo Airport Gardermoen on Saturday January 2 and Thursday January 7, 2016. There will be two buses seating 50 people each.

The first bus leaves Gardermoen on January 2nd after 2pm (when full), and the second bus leaves at 4pm. Don't miss this bus! On return, both buses leave Skeikampen at 8am and arrive to Gardermoen on January 7th before noon. Please plan your flights accordingly.

Accommodation

The prices for accommodation, including all meals, are 695 NOK per person per night in a double shared room and 845 NOK per person per night in a single room.  For kids under 12 years old the price is 390 NOK. Also family rooms are available.

Rooms reserved for the conference guests should be booked by the participants at skeikampen.booking3 [at] thonhotels.no mentioning the reference code Helsinki 2016. Our contact person Anne Beate Mosenget can be also reached at +4761285007. The hotel homepage is http://www.thonhotels.com/hotels/countrys/norway/skeikampen/thon-hotel-skeikampen/. Please book your room at Dec 1 2015 the latest.

 

Conference Fee

The conference fee is  120 € (euro). A reduced fee of 60 € due to discounted conference dinner will be collected for accompanying persons aged 15 to 17. The fee covers the transportation to and from the airport. Please add a note to the registration form when registering a person eligible to the reduced fee. No fee is collected for persons aged 14 and less.

Accompanying adults are subject to the full conference fee and the registration form should be filled normally by/for them. It is important that the form is filled for all the persons who wish to use the bus transportation from Oslo to Skeikampen and back.

You can pay the conference fee by making a bank transfer to Helsinki Institute of Physics, or in exceptional cases by cash at the conference. Please make sure to accompany the transfer with the correct message.

Bank account for transfers:

• Helsingin yliopisto
• Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj
• SWIFT (BIC): NDEAFIHH
• IBAN: FI23 1660 3000 0777 20
• Message: H915/7915747

 

spatind_bells_2016_v1.pdf

Saturday, 2 January

14:00 → 17:00 Buses from Oslo to Skeikampen (time TBC, about 2pm)

17:00 → 18:00 Welcome and reception

Sunday, 3 January

09:00 → 09:45 Invited talks: Higgs Precision Measurements

Convener: Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

09:00 HIggs precision measurements lecture 1

Speaker: Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

higgs-spatind-lecture1.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Invited talks: Physics of the Big Bang

Convener: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

09:45 Physics of the Big bang lecture 1

Speaker: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

CosmologySpatind16_1.pdf

10:30 → 15:30 Lunch break: Lunch + Ski

15:30 → 16:15 Invited talks: Dark Matter Detection

Convener: Stephen West (Royal Holloway, University of London)

15:30 Dark matter detection 1

Speaker: Stephen West (Royal Holloway, University of London)

dm_lectures.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Invited talks: QCD / Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Convener: Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:15 QCD / heavy ions 1

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

raju_Spatind1.pdf

raju_Spatind1.ppt

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:15 Contributed talks

17:30 Discovery strategies for new resonant and non-resonant phenomena with hadronic jets at the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE))

20160103_Doglioni_JetSearchesWithATLAS.pdf

17:45 Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Monojet Signatures with ATLAS

Speaker: Olof Lundberg (Stockholm University (SE))

spaatind_OL.pdf

18:00 Search for narrow resonances decaying to dijets in proton-proton collisions with the CMS detector at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

Speaker: Juska Pekkanen (University of Helsinki (FI))

juska_spatind_dijet_v2.pdf

18:15 Jet Fragmentation Transverse Momentum Distributions In Proton-Lead Collisions Measured By The ALICE Experiment At LHC

Speaker: Tomas Wilhelm Snellman (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))

talk.pdf

18:30 Early atmospheric muon rejection with PINGU - the low energy extension to IceCube

Speaker: Eva Hansen

eva_hansen_Spaatind2.pdf

18:45 Measuring pancakes in space

Speaker: Steen H Hansen

Monday, 4 January

09:00 → 09:45 Invited talks: Physics of the Big Bang

Convener: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

09:00 Physics of the Big Bang lecture 2

Speaker: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

CosmologySpatind16_2.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Invited talks: Dark Matter Detection

Convener: Stephen West (Royal Holloway, University of London)

09:45 Dark Matter Detection lecture 2

Speaker: Stephen West (Royal Holloway, University of London)

10:30 → 15:30 Lunch break

15:30 → 16:15 Invited talks: Higgs Precision Measurements

Convener: Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

15:30 Higgs Precision Measurements lecture 2

Speaker: Wouter Verkerke (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

higgs-spatind-lecture2.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Invited talks: QCD / Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Convener: Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:15 QCD, heavy ions lecture 2

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

raju_Spatind2.ppt

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:05 Contributed talks

Convener: Are Raklev (University of Oslo (NO))

17:30 Observational signatures of Higgs inflation

Speaker: Vera-Maria Enckell

enckell_puhe.pdf

17:45 Characterisation, plans and prospects of positronium formation in the AEgIS experiment

Speaker: Lillian Smestad (The Research Council of Norway)

Spatind2016_LillianSmestad.pdf

18:00 Study of antiproton annihilation in silicon with a hybrid pixel detector using the TimePix3 readout

Speaker: Helga Holmestad (University of Oslo (NO))

18:15 Plasmon mass in classical Yang-Mills theory

Speaker: Jarkko Peuron (University of Jyväskylä)

peuron.pdf

18:30 Yang-Mills condensates in Cosmology

Speaker: Roman Pasechnik (Lund University)

Pasechnik-Spatind16.pdf

18:45 Trials factors and the significance of the diphoton mass peaks at 750 GeV seen by ATLAS and CMS in the 2015 data

Both ATLAS and CMS observed small deviations from the background expectation at 750 GeV in the diphoton mass spectrum of the proton-proton collision data collected during 2015. The calculation of the trials factors that account for the look - elsewhere effect will be discussed as will a "hallway-statistics" combination of the results.

Speaker: Alexander Lincoln Read (University of Oslo (NO))

Spåtind2016-ALR-TrialFactorsandDiphotons.key

Spåtind2016-ALR-TrialFactorsandDiphotons.pdf

Tuesday, 5 January

09:00 → 09:45 Invited talks: Searches for BSM Physics

Convener: Prof. Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

09:00 Searches for BSM Physics lecture 1

Speaker: Prof. Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

09:45 → 10:30 Invited talks: Particle Physics Phenomenology

Convener: Mads Toudal Frandsen (Unknown)

09:45 Particle Physics Phenomenology lecture 1

Speaker: Mads Frandsen (Oxford University)

10:30 → 15:30 Lunch break

15:30 → 16:15 Invited talks: Proton Therapy

Convener: Sytze Brandenburg (University of Groningen)

15:30 Proton therapy

Speaker: Sytze Brandenburg (University of Groningen)

brandenburg.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Invited talks: Physics of the Big Bang

Convener: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

16:15 Physics of the Big Bang, lecture 3

Speaker: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

AHmovie256_mat.mpg

CosmologySpatind16_3.pdf

Fluid_KE_David_Weir.mp4

LAH.mov

scalar_bubble_David_Weir.mp4

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:00 Contributed talks

Convener: Stefania Xella (University of Copenhagen (DK))

17:30 Supersymmetry Searches with the ATLAS detector: Electroweak gauginos, sleptons and Dark Matter (aka SUSY around the corner)

Speaker: Knut Oddvar Hoie Vadla (University of Oslo (NO))

Spåtind_susy_presentation.pdf

17:45 Search for new phenomena in the dilepton final state using proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Vanja Morisbak (University of Oslo (NO))

VanjaMorisbak_Spaatind2016.pdf

18:00 Search for new resonances in events with one lepton and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Magnar Kopangen Bugge (University of Oslo (NO))

BUGGE_Spaatind_2016.pdf

18:15 Self-interacting dark matter and cosmology of a light scalar mediator

Speaker: Ville Vaskonen

vaskonen_sidmtalk.pdf

18:30 Dark matter seen from kimberlite pipes vulcanoes

Speaker: Holger Bech Nielsen

hb_nielsen_Skeikampenreduced26.pdf

19:30 → 21:30 Conference dinner

Wednesday, 6 January

09:00 → 09:45 Invited talks: ESS / n-nbar Oscillations

Convener: David Anthony Milstead (Stockholm University (SE))

09:00 ESS / n-nbar Oscillations

Speaker: David Anthony Milstead (Stockholm University (SE))

nnbar-spaatind.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Invited talks: Particle Physics Phenomenology

Convener: Mads Toudal Frandsen (Unknown)

09:45 Particle physics phenomenology lecture 2

Speaker: Mads Frandsen (Oxford University)

10:30 → 15:30 Lunch break

15:30 → 16:15 Invited talks: Searches for BSM Physics

Convener: Prof. Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

15:30 Searches for BSM physics lecture 2

Speaker: Prof. Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

NordicPhysicalSociety-LHCBSM-part2.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Invited talks: Education and Outreach session

16:15 LHC discoveries and particle physics concepts for education

Speaker: Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo (NO))

LHC discoveries & particle physics concepts for education.pdf

16:40 Physics concepts and education related to LHC-physics seen by a high school teacher and masterclass author

Speakers: Maiken Pedersen (University of Oslo (NO)), Maiken Pedersen

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 19:15 Contributed talks

Convener: Alexander Lincoln Read (University of Oslo (NO))

17:30 ESSnuSB: an opportunity to measure the higher leptonic CP violation signal at the second oscillation maximum

Speaker: Maja Olvegaard (Uppsala University (SE))

Olvegard_ESSnuSB_Spatind2016.pdf

17:45 Wavelets

Speaker: Freja Thoresen (University of Copenhagen (DK))

Freja_Thoresen_Spaatind.pdf

18:00 Model Building in Grand Unified Theories

Speaker: Tomas Gonzalo

gonzalo_Spaatind16.pdf

18:15 An introduction to GAMBIT

Speaker: Dr Anders Kvellestad (Nordita)

Kvellestad_Spaatind_2016.pdf

18:30 Radiatively Induced Fermi Scale in Grand Unified Theories

Speaker: Tommi Alanne

Alanne_spaatind2016.pdf

18:45 Measuring Higgs properties in proton-proton collisions with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Jaana Kristiina Heikkilae (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

SpaatindHeikkilae.pdf

Thursday, 7 January

08:00 → 11:00 Bus from Skeikampen to Oslo (8:00)