High Energy Particle Physics Workshop 2017

from Wednesday, 1 February 2017 (09:00) to Friday, 3 February 2017 (15:00)
iThemba LABS - North

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Feb 2017
2 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017
AM
09:00
Opening Session (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Welcome from the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences - Prof. 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 ---
10:20
Session I (until 13:00) ()
10:20 Introduction to Collider Physics - Dr Jong Soo Kim (IBS)   ()
11:50 Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter - Prof. Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
09:00
Session IV (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Madgraph Tutorial - Dr Jong Soo Kim   ()
10:30 --- Tea ---
11:00
Session V (until 13:00) ()
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) - Dr Beck Geoff (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
09:00
Session VIII (until 10:30) ()
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 ---
10:50
Session IX (until 12:20) ()
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 - Mr Roger Ven Rensburg (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
12:05 Status of the TileCal phase-II upgrade Electronics - Mr Dingane Hlaluku (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))   ()
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session II (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Overview of Experimental Techniques I - Andrea Helen Knue (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))   ()
15:30 --- Tea ---
15:50
Session III (until 17:10) ()
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 - Mr Abdullah Khalil Hassan Ibrahim (University of Cape Town)   ()
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session VI (until 15:30) ()
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 - Mr Mohammed Omer Khojali (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
15:30 --- Tea ---
15:50
Session VII (until 17:20) ()
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 - Mr 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))   ()
12:20 --- Lunch ---