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High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2016

from Monday 8 February 2016 (09:00) to Wednesday 10 February 2016 (15:00)
iThemba LABS - North

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Feb 2016
9 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016
AM
09:00
Opening Session (until 10:00)
09:00 Welcome by the Wits DVC Research and Physics HoS - Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Joao Rodrigues (University of the Witwatersrand)  
09:10 Welcome by the DST - Dr 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 Monte Carlo generator and data analysis tutorial - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (until 13:30) (Main auditorium)
10:00
QFT Lectures - William Horowitz (University of Cape Town) (until 13:30) (Boardroom)
09:00
Presentation session I - Azwinndini Muronga (University of Johannesburg) Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town (ZA)) (until 10:40)
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
Break (until 11:00)
11:00
Presentation session II - Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town (ZA)) (until 12:40)
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)  
09:00
Presentation session V - Dino Giovannoni (Rhodes University) (until 10:40)
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
Break (until 11:00)
11:00
Presentation session -Dr Betty Kibirige (University of Zululand) (until 13:00)
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)  
PM
13:30
Lunch (until 14:30) (PDH atrium)
14:30
Advanced QFT lectures - William Horowitz (University of Cape Town) (until 17:30) (Boardroom)
14:30
Lectures on Statistics - Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)) (until 17:30) (Main auditorium)
12:40
Lunch (until 14:00) (Atrium)
14:00
Presentation session III - Elias Sideras Haddad (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (until 15:40)
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
Break (until 16:00)
16:00
Presentation session IV - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (until 17:40)
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)  
13:00
Lunch (until 14:00) (Atrium)
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