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IoP HEPP and AP joint meeting

from Monday, 21 March 2016 (08:00) to Wednesday, 23 March 2016 (20:00)
University of Sussex (Chichester Lecture Theatre)

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21 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016
23 Mar 2016
AM
08:30
Arrival (until 10:00) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
10:00
Welcome (until 10:30) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
10:30
Keith Ellis (IPPP) - Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 11:20) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
11:20
Chris Hays (Oxford) - Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 11:55) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
11:55
Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (Birmingham) - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB)) (until 12:30) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:00
Tom Blake (Warwick) - Thomas Blake (University of Warwick) (until 09:35) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:35
Kostantinos Petridis (Bristol) - Konstantinos Petridis (University of Bristol (GB)) (until 10:10) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
10:10
Refreshment break (until 10:45) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
10:45
Anna Holin (UCL) - Anna Holin (University College London) (until 11:20) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
11:20
Kai Zuber (Dresden) - Kai Zuber (Technische Universitaet Dresden) (until 11:55) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
11:55
Anne Green (Nottingham) - Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex (GB)) (until 12:30) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:00
Stéphanie Roccia (CNRS) - stephanie roccia (Universite Paris Sud) Stephanie Roccia (CSNSM Universite Paris Sud IN2P3 CNRS) (until 09:35) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:35
Parallel session 4 (until 10:35) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:35 The search for the production of four top quarks at the CMS experiment - Lana Margaret Gwen Beck (University of Bristol (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:50 Search for high mass Zgamma resonances using leptonic Z Boson decays in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Nathan Peter Readioff (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
10:05 Theoretical uncertainties in the search for heavy gauge bosons at the LHC - Ellis Kay (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
09:35
Parallel session 4 (until 10:35) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
09:35 Determining the standard model backgrounds of a search for new physics with jets and missing transverse momentum in 13 TeV pp collisions at the LHC - Adam Christopher Elwood (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
09:50 Statistical methods for optimising the sensitivity of a search for new physics using jets and missing transverse momentum in 13 TeV pp collisions at the LHC - Matthew Daniel Citron (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
10:05 Search for bottom squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13TeV - John Kenneth Anders (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
09:35
Parallel session 4 (until 10:35) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
09:35 The ANNIE Experiment - Measuring neutron yield from accelerator neutrino interactions. Marcus O'Flaherty, University of Sheffield, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
09:50 Prototype detection unit for the CHIPS experiment. Maciej Pfutzner, University College London, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
10:05 Search for short baseline oscillations with the SoLid Experiment - Antonin Vacheret (University of Oxford)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
09:35
Parallel session 4 (until 10:35) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
09:35 Status of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS - Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
09:50 The coherent muon to electron transition experiment - Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
10:05 Physics with the g-2 straw tracker. Thomas Stuttard, University College London, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
10:20 Measurement of the width difference of the B_d meson with the ATLAS detector - Malcolm Bruce Skinner (Lancaster University (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
10:35
Refreshment break (until 11:05) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
11:05
Neil Spooner (Sheffield) - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield) (until 11:40) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
11:40
Themis Bowcock (Liverpool) - Themis Bowcock (CERN) Themis Bowcock (University of Liverpool (GB)) (until 12:15) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
PM
12:30
Becky Parker, Institute for Research in Schools - Rebecca Parker (Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys (GB)) (until 12:35) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
12:35
Lunch / APP AGM (until 13:45) ()
13:45
Iacopo Vivarelli (Sussex) - Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex (GB)) (until 14:20) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:20
Alex Tapper (Imperial) - Alex Tapper (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)) (until 14:55) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:55
Stewart Boogert (RHUL/JAI) - Stewart boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London) (until 15:30) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:30
Poster session 1 and refreshments (until 16:45) ()
16:45
Parallel session 1 (until 17:45) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
16:45 Searching for dijet resonances with the ATLAS detector - Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:00 Pursuit of new physics in events with many jets at ATLAS - William James Fawcett (University of Oxford (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:15 Jet trigger performance and background studies for a dark matter search in ATLAS - Valentinos Christodoulou (University College London (UK))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:30 Searches for diboson resonances at ATLAS using boson-tagged jets - Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University College London)   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
16:45
Parallel session 1 (until 17:45) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
16:45 Charmless B meson decays Bs to p overline hh (h = pi,K) at LHCb - Giulio Dujany (University of Manchester (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
17:00 Studies of charmless multi-body b-baryon decays at LHCb - Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon (University of Warwick (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
17:15 Testing lepton universality in rare decays of Lb baryons using LHCb data - Sean Kirwan (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
17:30 Measurement of the forward energy flow in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb experiment - Karlis Dreimanis (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
16:45
Parallel session 1 (until 17:45) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
16:45 Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 with the GERDA experiment - Andrea Kirsch (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:00 Neutrinoless double beta decay with SNO+ - Edward Leming (University of Sussex)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:15 Detecting Axion-Like Particles, originating from the Sun, with large neutrino detectors such as SNO+ - Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:30 Search for Majorana neutrinos in LHCb - Federico Leo Redi (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
16:45
Parallel session 1 (until 17:45) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
16:45 Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:00 Interactions between ultra high-energy particles and protogalactic environments. Ellis Owen, UCL   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:15 Results of the CASCADE microwave hidden sector photon search - Ian Bailey (Lancaster University)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:30 Gauge-independence of tunneling rates - Carlos Tamarit (IPPP Durham)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
16:45
Parallel session 1 (until 17:45) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
16:45 Testing lepton flavour universality with the R K0 ratio - Luca Pescatore (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:00 Asls and the Ds production asymmetry - Suzanne Klaver (University of Manchester (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:15 Lifetime measurements and time dependent CP violation of B->h+h'- - Sarah Karodia (University of Glasgow (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:30 Search for CP violation in multi-body charm decays with the energy test - Shanzhen Chen (University of Manchester (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:45
Welcome drinks reception (until 19:00) ()
12:30
Lunch / HEP AGM (until 13:45) ()
13:45
Parallel session 2 (until 15:15) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
13:45 Search for SM Higgs Boson decaying to two photons in run II LHC collision at CMS - Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:00 Search for Standard Model Higgs bosons produced in association with a t quark pair and decaying to two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV in ATLAS - William Dmitri Breaden Madden (University of Glasgow (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:15 Search for the Higgs Boson decaying to two b-quarks, produced in association with leptonically decaying top quarks in Run 2 at ATLAS - Benjamin Sowden (Royal Holloway, University of London)   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:30 Search for SM Higgs bosons produced in association with a t quark pair and decaying to two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV in ATLAS, in the boosted regime - Samuel Joseph Crawley (University of Glasgow (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:45 Boosting Higgs pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state with multivariate techniques - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:00 Search for rare exclusive Higgs boson decays to vector mesons and photons with ATLAS - James Broughton (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
13:45
Parallel session 2 (until 15:15) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
13:45 Measurement of the W and Z boson production cross sections at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Rhys Edward Owen (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
14:00 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Stefan Richter (University College London (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
14:15 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Jonatan Rosten (University of Cambridge (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
14:30 Measurement of the triple differential cross section of Drell-Yan production at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Lewis James Armitage (University of London (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
14:45 Measurements of the top quark pair production rate in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Fabian Wilk (University of Manchester (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
15:00 Bs to mumu result from ATLAS - Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London (UK))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
13:45
Parallel session 2 (until 15:15) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
13:45 First neutrino oscillation results from NOvA - Luke Vinton (University of Sussex)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
14:00 Status of sterile neutrino global fits to neutrino oscillation data. Davio Cianci, Manchester   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
14:15 Charged-current neutral pion events in the ND280 for T2K. David Shaw, Lancaster - Dave Shaw (Lancaster University)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
14:30 Low energy physics at Hyper-Kamiokande - Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
14:45 Atmospheric-neutrino flux-integrated differential cross-section measurement in IceCube - Shivesh Mandalia   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
15:00 Precision neutrino oscillation physics at the South Pole. Steven Wren, University of Manchester, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
13:45
Parallel session 2 (until 15:15) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
13:45 Direct Dark Matter searches with the LUX and LZ experiments. Sally Shaw, University College London, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
14:00 Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - Paolo Beltrame (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
14:15 Multiple interaction event rejection in the LZ dark matter detector. Thomas Davison, University of Edinburgh, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
14:30 DEAP-3600 dark matter detector - Dr Nasim Fatemighomi (Royal Holloway University of London)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
14:45 Position reconstruction in DEAP-3600 - Navin Seeburn (Royal Holloway, University of London)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
13:45
Parallel session 2 (until 15:15) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
13:45 The ATLAS muon trigger in Run-2 - Savanna Marie Shaw (University of Manchester)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
14:00 Generalisation in machine learning for HEP - Thomas James Stevenson (University of London (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
14:15 Gaseous photomultiplier development for position-sensitive VUV light detection in liquid argon - Matthew Thiesse   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
14:30 Development of a 3He-based absolute calibration magnetometer for the muon g-2 experiment - Sam Henry (University of Oxford)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
15:15
Poster session 2 and refreshments (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Parallel session 3 (until 18:00) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
16:30 Search for new resonances decaying to a W or Z boson and a Higgs in 0,1,2 lepton channels in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Stephen Jiggins (University of London (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
16:45 Search for beyond SM Higgs boson decaying to two tau leptons in Run-II ATLAS - Guillermo Nicolas Hamity (University of Sheffield (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:00 Perturbative unitarity bound on the parameter space in composite two Higgs doublet models. Emine Yildirim, University of Southampton, UK   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:15 MonoH to bb in association with dark matter - Matt Baca (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:30 Searches for neutral BSM Higgs bosons with final states containing two taus - Adinda De Wit (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
17:45 The search for high mass resonances in Diboson decays at ATLAS in Run-2 - Joseph Stanford Ennis (University of Warwick (GB)) Joseph Stanford Ennis (University of Warwick (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
16:30
Parallel session 3 (until 18:00) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
16:30 Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at CMS at a centre of mass energy of 13 TeV - Dominic Smith (University of Bristol (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
16:45 Summary of searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in √s=8 TeV pp collisions in ATLAS - Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB)) Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
17:00 Data-driven background estimation techniques used in ATLAS searches for SUSY - Calum Michael Macdonald (University of Sheffield (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
17:15 Direct stop pair production in the fully hadronic channel at ATLAS - Dave Lewis (University of London (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06))
16:30
Parallel session 3 (until 18:00) (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
16:30 NC gamma, an exclusive channel for neutrino photo-production in GENIE neutrino event generator. Pierre Lasorak, Queen Mary, University of London, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
16:45 Nucleon final state interaction in NEUT - Wing Yan Ma (Imperial College London)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:00 A truth study using transverse variables to characterise nuclear effects in neutrino–nucleus scattering - Luke Pickering (Imperial College London)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:15 Neutrino coherent pion production - Paul Martins (C)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:30 Shower reconstruction in LAr for the detection of pi0s in the DUNE far detector. Michael Wallbank, University of Sheffield, UK - Michael Wallbank   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
17:45 Particle Identification in the 35 ton and Cosmogenic simulations. Thomas Warburton, University of Sheffield, UK - Mr Thomas Warburton (University of Sheffield, UK)   (Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07))
16:30
Parallel session 3 (until 18:00) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
16:30 Liquid level monitoring with a differential capacitive sensor for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment. Fengting Liao, University of Oxford, UK - FengTing Liao   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
16:45 Simplified readout for CYGNUS-TPC: a massive directional dark matter detector. Anthony Ezeribe, University of Sheffield, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:00 Prospects for the direct detection of dark matter with inelastic transitions of xenon - Christopher McCabe Christopher Mccabe   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:15 UK materials screening for the LZ dark matter direct detection experiment and future rare event searches - James Edward Young Dobson   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:30 Boulby Underground Laboratory: update of science hosted and infrastructure for new projects. Chris Toth, STFC, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
17:45 Radio-purity strategy for the SuperNEMO experiment. Xinran Liu, University College London, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10))
16:30
Parallel session 3 (until 18:00) (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
16:30 Reactor monitoring with T2K anti-neutrino technology - Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
16:45 Muon radiography for carbon storage monitoring - David Woodward (University of Sheffield)   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:00 Prototype atom interferometer for fundamental physics. David Morris, University of Liverpool, UK   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:15 Fabrication and characterisation of 3D diamond detectors - Steven Alexander Murphy (University of Manchester (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
17:30 3D diamond detector development - Giulio Tiziano Forcolin (University of Manchester (GB))   (Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11))
18:00
Break (until 19:00) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
19:00
Conference dinner (until 20:00) ()
12:15
Lunch (until 13:30) ()
13:30
Giles Hammond (Glasgow) - Giles Hammond (University of Birmingham) (until 14:05) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
14:05
Keynote and closing remarks (until 15:00) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:00
STFC Town Meeting (until 16:30) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:00 Update from STFC - John Womersley (RAL) John William Womersley (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)) Grahame Blair (RHUL) Grahame Blair (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London) Grahame Blair (University of London (GB))   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:30 Update from Particle Physics Advisory Panel chair   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:40 Update from Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel chair   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
15:50 Update from STFC Science Board   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
16:00 Q&A   (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
19:00
Public lecture (until 20:00) (Chichester Lecture Theatre)
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