LHCb-UK Annual Meeting 2018

Europe/London
Room 257 (Kelvin Building, Glasgow, UK)

Room 257

Kelvin Building, Glasgow, UK

Description

LHCb-UK Annual Meeting

4th & 5th January 2018

Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow, UK   

 

 

 

 

 

The 2018 LHCb-UK Annual Meeting follows previous LHCb-UK meetings, celebrating the achievements of the collaboration and looking forward to prospects for the coming 12 months.

A comprehensive and interesting programme of presentations is planned with contributions from across the LHCb analysis working groups. There will also be opportunities to discuss the preparation of the Upgrade and consider how the UK should focus its physics efforts. As is traditional at these meetings, priority will be given to junior members of the collaboration who wish to highlight their work.

The meeting will take place over two days, starting on Thursday 4th where lunch will start from 12:30pm and will take place in the physics common room in the Kelvin Building. This will be followed by two presentation sessions starting at 1:30pm in room 257. On Thursday evening, the collaboration dinner will take place near the university. Two morning sessions on Friday will conclude the meeting with a finishing time expected to be around 1pm. A closed session for the steering board is expected that afternoon from 2pm-4pm. 

Registration will close on the 15th December so that numbers for catering and the collaboration dinner can be determined in adequate time. There is no registration fee however. Those attending are encouraged to book accommodation in Glasgow as soon as possible. 

Participants
  • Thursday 4 January
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 1
      Welcome and Introduction
      Speaker: Greig Cowan (University of Edinburgh (GB))
    • 2
      Measurement of $\gamma$ using $B \to DK$ GGSZ modes
      Speaker: Nathan Philip Jurik (University of Oxford (GB))
    • 3
      $D^0 \to K_Shh$ at LHCb and BESIII
      Speaker: Evelina Mihova Gersabeck (University of Manchester (GB))
    • 4
      Lattice results
      Speaker: Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)
    • 5
      Search for $\Lambda_b \to pKη'$ decays
      Speaker: Timothy Williams (University of Birmingham (GB))
    • 6
      $b \to s\tau\tau$ transitions
      Speaker: Luiz Vale Silva (University of Sussex)
    • 7
      Laura++ fitter package
      Speaker: Thomas Edward Latham (University of Warwick (GB))
    • 8
      Student prize talk: Real-time alignment of the LHCb VELO and observation of charmless baryonic decays $B \to p\overline{p}hh'$

      The prize committee recognised Giulio's significant physics analysis work, his major contributions to the experiment and his excellent thesis. Giulio made major contributions to the real-time alignment of the vertex detector, which are essential for the success of LHCb data-taking in Run II and beyond. He also carried out a search for four-body charmless baryonic B meson decays, resulting in the first observation of three new decay modes.

      Speaker: Giulio Dujany (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
    • 15:34
      Coffee
    • 9
      $B \to \pi l \nu$ form factor lattice calculation
      Speaker: Chris Bouchard (University of Glasgow)
    • 10
      Search for $B_s \to \overline{K}{}^{*0}\mu^+\mu^-$
      Speaker: Andrew Christopher Crocombe (University of Warwick (GB))
    • 11
      LFU with $B^0 \rightarrow K_S^0 l^+ l^-$
      Speaker: Harry Victor Cliff (University of Cambridge (GB))
    • 12
      $B_c\to DD$ and $\gamma$
      Speaker: Alison Maria Tully (University of Cambridge (GB))
    • 13
      Meson mixing and lifetimes
      Speaker: Matthew John Kirk (IPPP Durham)
    • 14
      (Exotic) hadron spectroscopy at LHCb
      Speaker: Marco Pappagallo (University of Edinburgh)
    • 19:00
      Dinner
  • Friday 5 January
    • 15
      LHCb VELO upgrade
      Speaker: Vinicius Franco Lima (University of Liverpool (GB))
    • 16
      Future computing/algorithms for the upgrade reconstruction
      Speaker: Dr Manuel Tobias Schiller (University of Glasgow (GB))
    • 17
      LHCb Upgrade II
      Speaker: Chris Parkes (University of Manchester (GB))
    • 18
      RICH testbeam & TTFU upgrade
      Speaker: Floris Keizer (University of Cambridge (GB))
    • 19
      RF-foil removal for Upgrade II
      Speaker: Iwan Thomas Smith (University of Edinburgh (GB))
    • 20
      Discussion session
    • 10:40
      Coffee
    • 21
      $D_{(s)}^+ \to hll'$
      Speaker: Chris Burr (University of Manchester (GB))
    • 22
      A study of the central exclusive production of the $chi_c$ meson
      Speaker: Barak Raimond Gruberg Cazon (University of Oxford (GB))
    • 23
      Relative branching fraction measurements of $B\to3h$ decays
      Speaker: Cayo Costa Sobral (University of Warwick (GB))
    • 24
      Run 2 analysis of $B_s \to J/\psi \phi$
      Speaker: Konstantin Gizdov (University of Edinburgh (GB))
    • 25
      Search for $B\to p \overline{p} \mu \nu$
      Speaker: Matthew James Tilley (Imperial College (GB))
    • 26
      Searches for and measurements of doubly charmed baryons
      Speaker: Murdo Thomas Traill (University of Glasgow (GB))
    • 27
      $\gamma$ with $B \to DK$ , $D \to $4 body (CANCELLED)
      Speaker: Claire Prouve (University of Bristol (GB))
    • 13:09
      Lunch