Name: High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2016
Start: 2016-02-08T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-02-10T15:00:00+02:00
Location: iThemba LABS - North

High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2016

from Monday, 8 February 2016 (09:00) to Wednesday, 10 February 2016 (15:00)

Monday, 8 February 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome by the Wits DVC Research and Physics HoS - Joao Rodrigues (University of the Witwatersrand) Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)

09:10 Welcome by the DST - Daniel Adams (DST)

09:25 Welcome by the President of the SAIP - Azwinndini Muronga (University of Johannesburg)

09:35 Welcome by the Chairman of the SA-CERN Consortium - Jean Cleymans (Department of Physics)

09:45 Goals and structure of the workshop - Alan Cornell Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)
10:00

10:00 - 13:30
Room: Main auditorium

10:00 - 13:30
Room: Boardroom

13:30

13:30 - 14:30
Room: PDH atrium

14:30

14:30 - 17:30
Room: Boardroom

14:30 - 17:30
Room: Main auditorium
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Short path length pQCD corrections to energy loss in the quark gluon plasma - Isobel Kolbe (University of Cape Town (ZA))

09:20 Conditional probability computations in Asymptotically free QCD - Ben Meiring (University of Cape Town)

09:40 Energy density of light quark jet using AdS/CFT - Razieh Morad (University of Cape Town)

10:00 Non-Abelian correction to the Poisson Approximation for In Medium Multi-gluon Bremsstrahlung - Andriniaina Narindra Rasoanaivo (University of Cape Town)

10:20 Production of Black Holes at the LHC - Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand)
10:40

10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Quarkonium and open heavy-flavour production at forward rapidity with ALICE at the LHC - Massimiliano Marchisone (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

11:20 Measurement of neutral pions in ALICE using the Photon Conversion Method - Andile Mothegi Whitehead (University of Cape Town (ZA))

11:40 Measurement of open heavy-flavour production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity with ALICE at the LHC - Sibaliso Mhlanga (University of Cape Town (ZA))

12:00 Vector-boson production in p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Kgotlaesele Senosi (University of Cape Town (ZA))

12:20 Gauge-Higgs Unification in 5 Dimensions for a gauge group SU(3) - Mohammed Khojali (University of the Witwatersrand)
12:40

12:40 - 14:00
Room: Atrium
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Search for resonances decaying to di-photons in 3.2 fb-1 of pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Robert Graham Reed (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:20 Two Higgs Doublet Models - Chuene Johannes Mosomane (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:40 Have we observed new physics in the LHC data?” - Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

15:00 A scalar with a mass around 270 GeV and its possible connection to the X(750) excess - Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
15:40

15:40 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Contributions

16:00 Search for dark matter candidate with ATLAS experiment in Higgs to two photons final states - Xifeng Ruan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:20 Missing transverse momentum reconstruction at ATLAS - Chad Dean Pelwan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:40 Performance of Jet Vertex Tagger in suppression of pileup jets and missing ET with ATLAS detector - Kehinde Gbenga Tomiwa (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

17:00 Study of jet substructure observables for reconstructing boosted Higgs boson - Tshidiso Sydwell Molupe (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

17:20 Investigating possible dark matter production at the LHC by studying the rapidity of the Higgs Boson - Chane Moodley (University of the Witwatersrand)
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Next-to-leading order corrections to the elastic scattering of an electron off of a static scattering center - Abdullah Ibrahim (University of Cape Town)

09:20 The production of a heavy scalar H in association with top and anti-top quarks - Skhathisomusa Mthembu (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

09:40 Search for the Higgs boson in the di-photon decay in association with intermediate missing energy with the ATLAS detector - Shell-May Liao (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

10:00 A high throughput ADC system for the PROMETEO test-bench of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter - Matthew Spoor (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

10:20 The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter hybrid demonstrator and test-beam activities at CERN - Chamunorwa Oscar Kureba (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
10:40

10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 The use of GPGPU at ATLAS - Marc Sacks (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

11:20 Radiation hardness of plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Harshna Jivan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

11:40 Studying the effects of radiation damage in plastic scintillators using electron paramagnetic resonance for the replacement of the MBTS plastics in the ATLAS detector - Chad Dean Pelwan (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

12:00 Analysis of systematic uncertainty of transmission experiment on radiation damaged material - Phuti Tjale (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:20 Neutron Irradiation and Damage Assessment of Plastic Scintillators of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector - Joyful Mdhluli (University of the Witwatersrand)
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Atrium