2016 CHIPP Annual Plenary Meeting and PhD/Postdoc Days

23 Aug 2016, 09:15 → 25 Aug 2016, 16:30 Europe/Zurich

USI, Lugano

Dear CHIPP colleagues,

The 2016 annual gathering of CHIPP, the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, will take place in Lugano on 23–25 August 2016. This three-day conference is preceded by a CHIPP Board meeting on Monday, 22 August in the afternoon, followed by the screening of the "Particle Fever" movie in the evening, which will be open to the public and to which you are cordially invited.

The formal plenary meeting of the CHIPP association is on Tuesday morning. The award ceremony of the CHIPP Prize will take place in the afternoon followed by the Prize talk and highlights from ICHEP 2016. This will mark the start of the "CHIPP PhD/Postdoc days", where the young members of CHIPP get a chance to present their research work, either in short talks or posters. Poster sessions are scheduled on Tuesday late afternoon and on Wednesday during buffet lunch. The three most outstanding posters among all SPS sessions will get an award on Thursday morning.

This plenary meeting of CHIPP is held in the framework of the annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS), as it was the case in Fribourg in 2014. At this occasion the CHIPP PhD/Postdoc days are merged with the so-called TASK parallel sessions of the SPS. All participants are encouraged to attend the SPS plenary sessions with high-quality invited speakers covering a wide range of physics topics and including this year a talk by Laura Baudis on the state-of-the-art in the direct search for dark matter.

The registration deadline is August 1st, 2016, but fixing accommodation early is important, as August is still holiday season in Lugano. A contingent of hotel rooms for conference participants has been reserved until 30 June, see details and modalities on accommodation.

We are looking forward to meeting you all in Lugano and wish us a pleasant and interesting joint CHIPP/SPS annual meeting.

Tatsuya Nakada (CHIPP Chair)
Hans Peter Beck (SPS-TASK section)

Tuesday, 23 August

09:15 → 11:50 CHIPP Formal Plenary

Convener: Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

09:15 Welcome, news from CHIPP Board and Executive Board

Speaker: Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Plenary2016_slides_Chair.pdf

09:30 Elections of Swiss representatives and admission of new honorary members

Speaker: Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

09:45 CHIPP Computing Board report

Speaker: Christoph Grab (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

CHIPP_Grab_230816_final.pdf

10:00 CHIPP Outreach report

Speaker: Hans Peter Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH))

HP Beck CHIPP Outreach 2016 08.pdf

HP Beck CHIPP Outreach 2016 08.pptx

10:15 Advisory Committee of CERN Users (ACCU) report

Speaker: Michael Dittmar (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

ACCU2016.pdf

10:30 European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) report

Speaker: Lenny Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

ECFAReport2016_LRivkin.pdf

10:45 Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) report

Speaker: Teresa Montaruli (Universite de Geneve (CH))

APPEC_CHIPPAug2016.pdf

11:00 Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) report

Speaker: Bernd Krusche (University of Basel)

11:15 CERN Council report

Speaker: Olivier Schneider (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

CERNcouncil_report_OS_Aug2016.pdf

11:30 The Future Circular Collider (FCC) project

Speaker: Lenny Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

FCCstudy_CHIPPPlenary_LRivkin.pdf

12:00 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 14:30 SPS Plenary: Opening, Michele Parrinello (13:00-13:45), Sibylle Günter (13:45-14:30)

14:30 → 15:30 SPS General Assembly

15:30 → 16:00 SPS Award Ceremony (Including CHIPP Prize!)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 TASK I: CHIPP Prize talk, Highlights from ICHEP 2016, ...

Convener: Tatsuya Nakada (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

16:30 CHIPP Prize talk

Speaker: Mohamed Rameez (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Prize_Talk.pdf

17:00 Highlights from ICHEP 2016

Speaker: Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

17:30 Towards a novel high-brightness low-energy muon beamline

Speaker: Ivana Belosevic

17:45 In Search of Charged Lepton Flavor Violating Decays at PSI

Speaker: Giada Rutar

SPS2016Rutar.pdf

18:00 Current status and plans of the Gerda Experiment

Speaker: Rizalina Mingazheva (UZH)

presentation.pdf

18:15 Status of the MicroBooNE Experiment

Speaker: Matthias Lüthi (University of Bern)

18:30 → 20:00 Poster session (with apéro!)

18:30 Search for the lepton flavour violating decay Bs,d → e+μ− at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Guido Andreassi (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

beamerposter.pdf

18:32 Systematics related to neutron detection in PSI nEDM

Speaker: Prajwal Mohan Murthy (PSI)

Poster-PSI.pdf

18:34 Development of a high-brightness muonium beam

Speaker: Narongrit Ritjoho (PSI)

18:36 Monitoring of the Ortho D2, tritium and HD concentrations in the moderator deuterium of the PSI UCN source

Speaker: Nicolas Hild (PSI)

18:38 T2K neutrino flux predictions using the replica target measurements by NA61/SHINE

Speaker: Muhammad Ajaz (Universite de Geneve (CH))

18:40 Flavour tagging in pp collisions at LHCb

Speaker: Vincenzo Battista (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Battista_FTposter_Lugano_August2016.pdf

18:42 The Scintillating Fibre Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade

Speaker: Axel Kevin Kuonen (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Poster_Lugano_Axel_v3.pdf

18:44 Performance of missing transverse momentum (MET) reconstruction at the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Marco Valente (Universite de Geneve (CH))

SPS2016-METReconstruction.pdf

SPSPoster-MarcoValente.pdf

18:46 Displaced vertex searches for sterile neutrinos at future lepton colliders

Speaker: Eros Cazzato (University of Basel)

PosterSPS16Lugano.ai.pdf

18:48 Characterisation of HV-CMOS active pixel sensors for the High Luminosity ATLAS upgrade

Speaker: Marco Rimoldi (Universitaet Bern (CH))

18:50 Performance of pixel detectors based on pCVD diamond at particle fluxes up to 7MHz/cm²

Speaker: Diego Alejandro Sanz Becerra (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

18:52 Production and quality assurance of scintillating fibre modules for the LHCb upgrade

Speaker: Plamen Hristov Hopchev (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

PHopchev_LHCb_SciFiMats_Poster.pdf

18:54 The Mu3e Fibre Sub-Detector: Readout, Integration and Sensitivity Studies

Speaker: Simon Corrodi (ETHZ (CH))

18:56 Towards accurate cesium magnetometry for the nEDM experiment at PSI

Speaker: Zoran Grujic (University of Fribourg (CH))

18:58 News on the laser based Hg Co-magnetometer at nEDM

Speaker: Sybille Komposch (PSI (CH))

19:00 Search on the associated Z+Higgs Boson Production in the leptonic+beauty Final State

Speaker: Gael Ludovic Perrin (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

SPS_2016_v2.pdf

19:02 Experiment on Positronium Invisible decay Channels (EPIC)

Speaker: Carlos Vigo Hernandez (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)

PosterSPS2016.pdf

19:04 Multiplexed XY Resistive Micromegas Tracker for NA64

Speaker: Dipanwita Banerjee (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

PosterSPS2016_NA64.pdf

20:00 → 21:15 Public lecture by Hervé le Treut : Is there a new role for science after the Paris climate conference (COP21)

Wednesday, 24 August

09:00 → 10:20 SPS Plenary: Laura Heyderman (9:00-9:40), Tilman Sauer (9:40-10:20)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:00 SPS Plenary: Aleksandra Radenovic (10:50-11:30), NN (11:30-12:00)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch buffet + Poster session (continued)

14:00 → 16:00 TASK II: Detector R&D 1

Convener: Roland Horisberger (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

14:00 Radiation hardness studies of silicon sensors for the ATLAS upgrade

Speaker: Claudia Merlassino (Universitaet Bern (CH))

sps_talk.pdf

14:15 Readout electronics and test bench for the CMS Phase I pixel detector

Speaker: Riccardo Del Burgo (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

SPS- R. Del Burgo.pdf

14:30 3D Monitoring of LHCb Inner Tracker using BCAM

Speaker: Pavol Stefko (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

pres_SPS.pdf

14:45 Reconstruction software and alignment of silicon tracker of DAMPE

Speaker: Andrii Tykhonov (Universite de Geneve (CH))

tykhonov_dampe_sps_chipp_meeting_24_08_2016.pdf

15:00 Nuclear charge measurement using the DAMPE Silicon-Tungsten Tracker

Speaker: Stefania Vitillo (Universite de Geneve (CH))

talkSPS_stefania_vitillo_DAMPE.pdf

15:15 High performance prototype SiPM camera for the single mirror small size telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array project

Speaker: Matthieu Heller (Universite de Geneve (CH))

SPS2016_Lugano_Heller.pdf

15:30 Characterization of VUV Silicon-Photomultipliers for xenon based dark matter detectors

Speaker: Julien Wulf

15:45 Development of scintillating fibre tracker technology for the next LHCb tracking system and other applications

Speaker: Olivier Goran Girard (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

OGirard_sps_lugano_lhcb_scifi.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 19:00 TASK III: Detector R&D 2, Cosmic probes

Convener: Igor Kreslo (Universitaet Bern (CH))

16:30 Muon Beam Monitoring Using Luminophore Foils at PSI

Speaker: Zachary Hodge (Paul Scherrer Institut)

hodge_sps.key

hodge_sps.pdf

16:45 A Scintillation Stopping Target for the MEG II Experiment

Speaker: Felix Berg (PSI)

SPS2016_FelixBerg_V5.pptx

17:00 Design and characterisation of the Xurich II dual-phase xenon time projection chamber

Speaker: Michelle Galloway (University of Zurich)

17:15 A versatile liquid Xenon R&D platform for future low-background detectors

Speaker: Basho Kaminsky (University of Bern)

17:30 A Pixelated readout and cold electronics for the ARGONCUBE Liquid Argon TPC

Speaker: Damian Göldi (University of Bern)

A Pixelated Liquid Argon TPC

17:45 Updates on Time-Dependent and Stacking Analyses of IceCube Data at the University of Geneva

Speaker: Tessa Lauren Carver (Universite de Geneve (CH))

sps_presentation.pdf

18:00 Precision Measurement of Nuclei Fluxes and their Ratios in Primary Cosmic Rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Speaker: Yang Li (Universite de Geneve (CH))

AMS Nuclei Fluxes Measurements

18:15 POLAR: A dedicated Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter ready to be launched

Speaker: Merlin Reynaard Kole (Universite de Geneve (CH))

talk.pdf

18:30 The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-Rays (STIX) of the ESA Solar Orbiter Mission

Speaker: Diego Casadei (FHNW (CH))

Casadei_2016-08-24_SPS.pdf

19:00 → 19:30 Transfer to dinner

19:30 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 25 August

09:00 → 10:20 SPS Plenary: Jonathan Home (9:00-9:40), Laura Baudis (9:40-10:20)

10:20 → 10:40 SPS Poster Award Session

10:40 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 13:00 TASK IV: Standard Model Measurements

Convener: Rainer Wallny (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

11:15 Real-time data analysis with the LHCb detector

Speaker: Maurizio Martinelli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

RealTimeAnalysisLHCb_SPS2016_V3.pdf

11:30 Bs⁰ lifetime measurement using semileptonic decays at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Brice Emile Maurin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Lugano_20160825_BriceMaurin.pdf

11:45 Search for the Bs → η'φ decay at LHCb

Speaker: Sebastiana Giani (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

SPS_Chipp_presentation_SGiani.pdf

12:00 Investigation of the photon polarization in B+ → K+ π- π+ γ decays at LHCb

Speaker: Violaine Bellée (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

2016_08_25_Lugano.pdf

12:15 Time-dependent measurement of CP violation in Bd → Dπ decays at LHCb

Speaker: Vincenzo Battista (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Battista_B2DPi_20160825.pdf

12:30 Search for CP violation in the charm sector at LHCb

Speaker: Maxime Schubiger (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

SPS_Schubiger.pdf

12:45 Study of the inclusive J/ψ production at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Liupan An (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

LiupanAn_JpsiProduction.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 TASK V: Beyond Standard Model Searches

Convener: Hans Peter Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH))

14:00 Search of the top quark heaviest supersymmetric partner with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Geoffrey Mullier (Universitaet Bern (CH))

GeoffreyMullier_SPS_25_08_2016.pdf

14:15 Search for direct pair production of a chargino and a neutralino in pp collisions with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Thomas Weston (Universitaet Bern (CH))

Thomas Weston - SPS talk.pdf

14:30 ATLAS searches for Supersymmetry with jets and missing transverse momentum (MET)

Speaker: Teng Jian Khoo (Universite de Geneve (CH))

SPS_Lugano_2016.pdf

14:45 Searches for SUSY with two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, jets and MET with the CMS detector

Speaker: Minna Leonora Vesterbacka (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Vesterbacka_CHIPP_Final.pdf

15:00 The search for sterile neutrinos at future particle collider

Speaker: Oliver Fischer (Unibas)

SPS2016_Lugano_Fischer.pdf

15:15 The Search for Bosonic Super-WIMPs in XENON100

Speaker: Peter Barrow (University of Zurich)

PBarrow_sps_16.pdf

15:30 The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Yuehuan Wei (University of Zurich)

SPS2016_YuehuanWei.pdf

15:45 Neutron Electric Dipole Moment experiment at PSI

Speaker: Malgorzata Kasprzak (Paul Scherrer Institut)

NeutronElectricDipoleMomentExperimentAtPSI_MK.pptx

16:00 Looking for axions with the nEDM experiments

Speaker: Michal Rawlik (ETHZ (CH))

Michał Rawlik SPS 2016 - Looking for Axions with nEDM experiments.pdf

Michał Rawlik SPS 2016 talk.pptx

16:15 Magnetic monopole searches with ATLAS and MoEDAL

Speaker: Anthony Lionti (Universite de Geneve (CH))

CHIPP_2016_08_25_Lionti.pdf