Name: High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2017
Start: 2017-02-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-02-03T15:00:00+02:00
Location: iThemba LABS - North

High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2017

from Wednesday 1 February 2017 (09:00) to Friday 3 February 2017 (15:00)

Monday 30 January 2017
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Wednesday 1 February 2017
09:00 Opening Session
Opening Session
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Welcome from the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences - Helder Marques (University of the Witwatersrand)

09:20 Welcome from the Chair of the SA-CERN Consortium - Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town (ZA))

09:40 Structure of the workshop - Alan Cornell Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)
10:00 Tea
Tea
10:00 - 10:20
10:20
10:20 - 13:00
Contributions

10:20 Introduction to Collider Physics - Jong Soo Kim (IBS)

11:50 Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter - Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Overview of Experimental Techniques I - Andrea Helen Knue (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))
15:30 Tea
Tea
15:30 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 17:10
Contributions

15:50 Thermal Field Theory in Small System - William Horowitz (University of Cape Town)

16:20 The anisotropy effect on jet using AdS/CFT Correspondence - Razieh Morad

16:35 A pQCD sized problem in small systems - Isobel Kolbe (University of Cape Town (ZA))

16:55 Initial State Factorization and the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg Theorem - Abdullah Khalil Hassan Ibrahim (University of Cape Town)
Thursday 2 February 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Madgraph Tutorial - Jong Soo Kim
10:30 Tea
Tea
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Overview of Experimental Techniques II - Andrea Helen Knue (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

12:30 Particle Physics in Space (Dark Matter and the LHC) - Beck Geoff (University of the Witwatersrand)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Performance of a resistive plate chamber equipped with a new prototype of amplified front-end electronics - Massimiliano Marchisone (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:30 Measurement of visible cross sections at the LHC - Sibaliso Mhlanga (University of Cape Town (ZA))

14:45 AdS/CFT predictions for partonic and fragmented momentum, azimuthal, and rapidity correlations of heavy flavors in heavy ion collisions - Robert Hambrock (University of Cape Town)

15:00 Computing the qg to qg cross section using BCFW on-shell recursion - Tanjona Radonirina Rabemananjara (CERN)

15:15 Evolution of gauge couplings and Weinberg angle in 5-dimension for G2 gauge group - Mohammed Omer Khojali (University of the Witwatersrand)
15:30 Tea
Tea
15:30 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 17:20
Contributions

15:50 Non abelian correction to the induced gluon radiation - Andriniaina Narindra Rasoanaivo (University of Cape Town)

16:05 Absorption probabilities and QNMs associated with spin-3/2 particles near N-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes - Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:20 Quasinormal modes for a spin-3/2 field in a 4-dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom background - Xolane Ngcobo (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:35 Two Higgs doublet model in future colliders - Chuene Johannes Mosomane (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:50 Studies of the b-tagged control region for same sign WW production in proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS Detector - Raynette Van Tonder (University of Cape Town (ZA))
Friday 3 February 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The Madala hypothesis - Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

09:15 The Madala Hypothesis with Run I and Run II data at the LHC - Stefan Erich Von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

09:30 Physics with 4 leptons at the LHC - Yesenia Hernandez Jimenez (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

09:45 Search for new physics with di-photon events with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Robert Graham Reed (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Tshidiso Sydwell Molupe (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

10:00 Search for Higgs in association with MET with the ATLAS detector - Kehinde Gbenga Tomiwa (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

10:15 The search for WW gamma gamma with the ATLAS detector - Abdualazem Fadol
10:30 Tea
Tea
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:20
Contributions

10:50 A characterisation of the ATLAS ITk high rapidity modules in Allpix and EUTelescope - Ryan Justin Atkin (University of Cape Town (ZA))

11:05 High fluence neutron radiation of plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Joyful Elma Mdhluli (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

11:20 Light yield studies with the plastic scintillators radiated with neutrons - Skhathisomusa Mthembu (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

11:35 Raman Spectroscopy analysis of plastic scintillators radiated with neutrons - Humphry Tlou

11:50 Low consumption RF devices and applications in system control - Roger Ven Rensburg (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:05 Status of the TileCal phase-II upgrade Electronics - Dingane Hlaluku (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20

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