Name: IoP APP / HEPP Conference 2018
Start: 2018-03-25T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-03-28T13:35:00+01:00
Location: University of Bristol

Sunday 25 March
- Drinks reception Zero Degrees
  
  Zero Degrees
  
  53 Colston St Bristol BS1 5BA
Monday 26 March
- Plenary: Session I Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Holding page slide APP HEPP 2018.pdf
    
    Time_Notices.pdf
  - 2
    
    Multi-Messenger Physics
    
    Speaker: Prof. Patrick Sutton
    
    Sutton_HEP-APP_20180326.pdf
    
    Sutton_HEP-APP_20180326.pptx
  - 3
    
    Gamma Ray Astronomy
    
    Speaker: Anthony Brown (Durham University)
    
    Gammaray_astronomy_Brown_IoP_APPHEPP2018.pdf
    
    Gammaray_astronomy_Brown_IoP_APPHEPP2018.pptx
  - 4
    
    Dark Matter: Status and Prospects
    
    Speaker: Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)
    
    Dark Matter, IOP APP%2FHEPP, Bristol, March 2018.pdf
    
    The Status of Dark Matter Searches
- 11:00
  
  Coffee
- Parallel I: TBC Mott Theatre
  
  Mott Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 5
    
    Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons decaying to di-tau in the ATLAS detector produced with 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Theodore Zorbas (University of Sheffield (GB))
    
    IoP_Presentation_2018-03-26-Final.pdf
  - 6
    
    Search for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays to φγ and ργ with the ATLAS detector
    
    Speaker: Rhys Edward Owen (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    rhowen-HiggsPhiRhoATLAS.pdf
  - 7
    
    Search for boosted ttH(H→bb) with the ATLAS detector
    
    Speaker: Emma Winkels (University of Sussex (GB))
    
    EWinkels_Boosted_ttHbb_IOP_March18.pdf
  - 8
    
    Searching for decays of the Higgs boson to charm quarks at ATLAS
    
    Speaker: Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    ZHccTalk_IoP2018_ElliotReynolds.pdf
  - 9
    
    Searches for additional neutral Higgs bosons in the di-tau final state with the CMS experiment
    
    Speaker: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))
    
    winterbottom.pdf
- Parallel II: TBC Frank Theatre
  
  Frank Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 10
    
    Measurement of the CP violating phase, φs, in Run 2 using B⁰s→J/ψK+K−
    
    Speaker: Konstantin Gizdov (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
    
    Bs2JpsiKK.pdf
  - 11
    
    Prospects for K±→π±μ+μ- at the LHCb Experiment
    
    Speaker: Kristian Alexander Zarebski (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    KZarebski_ProsKPMM_IOP_HEPP_Conf.pdf
  - 12
    
    Status and prospects of the measurement of the pi+mu+mu- form factor with the NA62 experiment at CERN
    
    Speaker: Christopher John Parkinson (University of Birmingham)
    
    ChrisParkinson_IOP2018.pdf
  - 13
    
    Measurement of the branching fractions and form factors of K+→π⁰l+ν decays
    
    Speaker: Mr Stoyan Trilov (University of Bristol (GB))
    
    kl3_br_ff_measurement_trilov.pdf
  - 14
    
    Measurement of the K+ -> pi+ gamma gamma decay at NA62
    
    Speaker: Maria Brigida Brunetti (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    Brunetti_iop_presentation.pdf
- Parallel III: TBC 3.34
  
  3.34
  
  University of Bristol
  - 15
    
    Vertex finding for pile-up mitigation in the Phase-2 upgrade of the Level-1 Trigger of CMS
    
    Speaker: Antoni Shtipliyski (Imperial College (GB))
    
    cms-vertexing-phase2-iop.pdf
  - 16
    
    Gaussian Processes for High Energy Physics
    
    Speaker: Adam Bozson (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))
    
    ABozson_IOP_GP.pdf
  - 17
    
    Perspectives for SUSY in light of current LHC constraints
    
    Speaker: Jonathan Costa (Imperial College London)
    
    iop2018_jonathan.pdf
  - 18
    
    QED Parton Distribution Functions
    
    Speaker: Ricky Nathvani
    
    Nathvani.pdf
  - 19
    
    Positivity Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter
    
    Speakers: Scott Melville (Imperial College London), Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)
    
    Melville_IoP_26Mar18.pdf
    
    Melville_IoP_26Mar18.pptx
- Parallel IV: TBC Berry Theatre (3.21)
  
  Berry Theatre (3.21)
  
  University of Bristol
  - 20
    
    Measuring the Effective Longitudinal Electron Diffusion Coefficient at MicroBooNE
    
    Speaker: Adam Lister
    
    diffusionIOP2018.pdf
  - 21
    
    Calorimetric Energy Scale in the NOvA Detectors
    
    Speaker: Tyler Alion (University of Sussex)
    
    NOvA_EnergyCalibration_IOP.pdf
  - 22
    
    MicroBooNE NC Delta Radiative Single-Photon Search
    
    Speaker: Robert Murrells
    
    Murrells_iopbristol.pdf
  - 23
    
    Latest muon neutrino disappearance results from the NOvA experiment
    
    Speaker: Diana Patricia Mendez (University of Sussex)
    
    IOP2018_NOvA__DianaMendez__Anime.pdf
  - 24
    
    Comparison of Binned vs. Unbinned Likelihood Analyses for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements in NOvA
    
    Speaker: Sebastian Bending
    
    sbending_IOP_talk.pdf
- APP AGM Frank Theatre (University of BristolF)
  
  Frank Theatre
  
  University of BristolF
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- Parallel I: TBC Mott Theatre
  
  Mott Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 25
    
    Measurement of Z+bb kinematic variables with ATLAS
    
    Speaker: Chloe Gray (University of Glasgow (GB))
    
    IOPTalk_CG_Zbb.pdf
  - 26
    
    Searching for invisible phenomena through measurement of events with jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at ATLAS
    
    Speaker: Rebecca Hayley Pickles (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    IOPTalk_RebeccaPickles.pdf
  - 27
    
    Measurements of boosted top-quark differential cross-sections in the lepton+jets channel at s=√13 TeV using pp collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector
    
    Speaker: Michael James Fenton (University of Glasgow (GB))
    
    MFenton_IoPBristol_v2.pdf
  - 28
    
    Higgsinos and compressed sleptons: opening the soft lepton frontier for new physics at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Jesse Liu (University of Oxford)
    
    IoP_JL_26Mar2018.pdf
  - 29
    
    Dark Matter Searches at CMS
    
    Speaker: Shane Davy Breeze (Imperial College (GB))
    
    DarkMatterSearchesatCMS.pdf
  - 30
    
    Search for single top production in association with a Z boson for the dilepton final state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV in the CMS detector
    
    Speaker: Corin James Keir Hoad (Brunel University (GB))
    
    tZq_at_13TeV.pdf
- Parallel II: TBC Frank Theatre
  
  Frank Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 31
    
    Search for the decay B → p+p-μν
    
    Speaker: Matthew James Tilley (Imperial College (GB))
    
    IOP_TALK.pdf
  - 32
    
    Measuring the WW Production Cross-Section at LHCb
    
    Speaker: Heather Mckenzie Wark (University of Liverpool (GB))
    
    WW_hwark.pdf
    
    WW_hwark.pptx
  - 33
    
    Search for Bc→DD decays with the LHCb detector
    
    Speaker: Alison Maria Tully (University of Cambridge (GB))
    
    IOP_Tully.pdf
  - 34
    
    Searching for lepton universality violation and New Physics in rare decays of Lambda baryons at the LHCb.
    
    Speaker: Ross John Glew (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
    
    IOP.pdf
  - 35
    
    Search for K+ to pi+ nu nu at NA62
    
    Speaker: Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    AngelaRomano_IoP2018.pdf
  - 36
    
    Search For Heavy Neutral Lepton Decays At NA62 Experiment At CERN
    
    Speaker: Lorenza Iacobuzio (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    HNL.pdf
- Parallel III: TBC 3.34
  
  3.34
  
  University of Bristol
  - 37
    
    Sensor Characterisation and Readout for the LHCb VELO Upgrade
    
    Speaker: Vinicius Franco Lima (University of Liverpool (GB))
    
    IOP_2018_vfrancolima.pdf
  - 38
    
    3D Printing Gaseous Radiation Detectors
    
    Speaker: Samuel Fargher
    
    Fargher_IOP_TALK.pdf
    
    Fargher_IOP_TALK.pptx
  - 39
    
    ATLAS inner detector decommissioning: Tolerance study of robotic components for use in high radiation environment
    
    Speaker: Alice Cryer (University of Sheffield (GB))
    
    Bristol_IOP-3 (1).pptx
    
    Finger 1st Irrad.mp4
    
    Finger 2nd Irrad.mp4
  - 40
    
    The LHCb VELO Upgrade
    
    Speaker: Dutta Deepanwita
    
    IOPTalk@dd.pdf
  - 41
    
    Bayesian optimisation of the SHiP muon shield
    
    Speaker: Oliver Lantwin (Imperial College (GB))
    
    talk.slides.pdf
  - 42
    
    Towards the highest precision detector at the LHC - The LHCb Upgrade VELO and Its Performance
    
    Speaker: Chris Burr (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    chris_burr.pdf
- Parallel IV Berry Theatre (3.21)
  
  Berry Theatre (3.21)
  
  University of Bristol
  - 43
    
    Overview of the ANITA experiment
    
    Speaker: Linda Cremonesi (Queen Mary University of London)
    
    LCremonesi_ANITA_iop2018.pdf
  - 44
    
    Hunting Axionlike Dark Matter by Searching for an Oscillating Neutron Electric Dipole Moment
    
    Speaker: Nick Ayres (University of Sussex)
    
    IOP_HEPP_2018_ayres.pdf
  - 45
    
    Search for New Physics in Astrophysical Flavor at IceCube
    
    Speaker: Shivesh Mandalia (Queen Mary University of London)
    
    SM_IOP_180326.pdf
  - 46
    
    Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube
    
    Speaker: Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London)
    
    TK_LV_IoP18.pdf
  - 47
    
    Searching for WIMP dark matter with the LZ experiment
    
    Speaker: Ibles Olcina
    
    Olcina_LZsensitivity_IOP_Bristol_Ibles.pdf
- 15:45
  
  Coffee
- Plenary: Session II Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL
  - 48
    
    Particle Beam Therapy in the UK
    
    Speaker: Dr Michael Taylor (University of Manchester)
    
    Particle therapy in the UK.pdf
    
    Particle therapy in the UK.pptx
  - 49
    
    Promoting Physics in Developing Countries
    
    Speaker: Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))
    
    2018_03March_HEPPIOP_PPDC.pdf
  - 50
    
    ECR prize talk. Gravitational-wave astronomy, and the discoveries of LIGO and Virgo
    
    Speaker: Christopher Berry
    
    O2.pdf
  - 51
    
    Status of Neutrino Physics
    
    Speaker: Dr Frank Deppisch
    
    FrankDeppisch_IOP_Bristol.pdf
- 52
  
  Poster reception
Tuesday 27 March
- Plenary: Session III Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL
  - 53
    
    Flavour Physics
    
    Speaker: Greig Cowan (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
    
    gcowan_iop_flavour.pdf
  - 54
    
    Lepton Flavour Physics
    
    Speaker: Phillip Litchfield (UCL)
    
    ChargedLeptons_IOP_16-9_rpl27032018.pdf
  - 55
    
    Who ordered that? Interpreting LFUV and other new physics signals from flavour.
    
    Speaker: Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)
    
    Lenz_Bristol_2018.pdf
- 11:00
  
  Coffee
- Parallel I: TBC Mott Theatre
  
  Mott Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 56
    
    Tagging boosted jets from top quarks and heavy vector bosons using jet substructure and multivariate techniques
    
    Speaker: Amal Vaidya (University of London (GB))
    
    IOP_talk_AV5.pdf
  - 57
    
    Searches for Resonant and Non-Resonant Higgs Pair Production in the bbtautau Decay Channel with the ATLAS Detector
    
    Speaker: Emily Charlotte Graham (University of Liverpool (GB))
    
    egraham_iop.pdf
  - 58
    
    Searches for heavy ZZ and ZW resonances in the llqq and ννqq final states at 13 TeV in the ATLAS detector
    
    Speaker: David Philip John Lack (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    DLack_IOPSlides.pdf
  - 59
    
    Measurements of Higgs boson cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel with the CMS experiment
    
    Speaker: Edward Scott (Imperial College (GB))
    
    Hgg_EdScott.pdf
  - 60
    
    Higgs-to-Invisible Searches for the CMS experiment at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mr Riccardo Di Maria (Imperial College (GB))
    
    20180327DiMaria_VBFH(inv)_IOP_Bristol_v1.pdf
- Parallel II: TBC Frank Theatre
  
  Frank Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 61
    
    Relative branching fraction measurements of B→3h decays
    
    Speaker: Cayo Costa Sobral (University of Warwick (GB))
    
    b3h_IOP_new.pdf
  - 62
    
    A search for the decay Λb ->pKη' using the LHCb Run I dataset.
    
    Speaker: Timothy Williams (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    IOP2018TimWilliams.pdf
  - 63
    
    Anti-deuteron measurements at LHCb
    
    Speaker: Sophie Katherine Baker (Imperial College (GB))
    
    SKBaker_IOP2018.pdf
  - 64
    
    Searches for doubly charmed baryons at LHCb
    
    Speaker: Murdo Thomas Traill (University of Glasgow (GB))
    
    IOP_Talk_MTraill.pdf
  - 65
    
    Angular analysis of the decay $\Lambda_{b}^{0}\rightarrow \Lambda \mu^{+}\mu^{-}$
    
    Speaker: Georgios Chatzikonstantinidis (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    Lb2Lmumu.pdf
- Parallel III: TBC 3.34
  
  3.34
  
  University of Bristol
  - 66
    
    Optical Calibration of the Hyper-Kamiokande Detector with Test Data in Super-Kamiokande
    
    Speaker: Lauren Anthony
    
    HKOpticalCalibrationOverview_Lanthony.pdf
  - 67
    
    Gadolinium radiopurity assay programme for Super-Kamiokande
    
    Speaker: Matthew Thiesse
    
    sk_gd_thiesse.pdf
  - 68
    
    The Hyper-Kamiokande Outer-Detector : design, performance estimation of background rejection and physics potential
    
    Speaker: Stephane Alexandre Zsoldos (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  - 69
    
    Supernova Neutrino Simulations in Hyper-Kamiokande
    
    Speaker: Jost Migenda (University of Sheffield)
    
    SNnu simulations in HK.pdf
  - 70
    
    Innovation and Non-Proliferation - Particle Physics for Nuclear Threat Reduction
    
    Speaker: Elisabeth Kneale
    
    EKHEPP&APP.pdf
- Parallel IV: TBC Berry Theatre (3.21)
  
  Berry Theatre (3.21)
  
  University of Bristol
  - 71
    
    Status of the SuperNEMO double-beta decay experiment
    
    Speaker: Cheryl Patrick (Northwestern University)
    
    CPatrick_SuperNEMO_Status_IOP18.pdf
  - 72
    
    Recent Developments in the Spherical Proportional Counter for NEWS-G
    
    Speaker: Patrick Knights
    
    pk_IOP_HEPP_APP_2018.pdf
  - 73
    
    Sensitivity Studies and Development of the Gas Supply System for the SuperNEMO Experiment
    
    Speaker: Lauren Dawson
    
    LaurenDawsonIoP.pdf
  - 74
    
    Radon Background Mitigation Strategy for the SuperNEMO Experiment
    
    Speaker: Fang Xie
    
    XF_IOP_2018_WideScreen_V4.3.pdf
  - 75
    
    Search for light Dark Matter with NEWS-G
    
    Speaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    20180327_kn_IoP.pdf
- HEPP AGM Frank Theatre
  
  Frank Theatre
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- Plenary: Session IV Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL
  - 76
    
    Standard Model Measurements at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Ulla Blumenschein (University of London (GB))
  - 77
    
    Higgs Physics at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College (GB))
    
    nwardle_HiggsAtLHC.pdf
  - 78
    
    New Physics Searches at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Jim Brooke (University of Bristol (GB))
    
    IoP2018-LHC-BSM.pdf
- 15:30
  
  Coffee
- STFC Town Meeting Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Ave Bristol]BS8 1TL
  
  HEPP18-FINAL.pptx
  
  SBUpdate_PP_Town_2018.pdf
  
  SBUpdate_PP_Town_2018.pptx
- 19:00
  
  Dinner
  
  Dinner will be held at xxx, arrival 19:00 for 19:30
Wednesday 28 March
- Plenary: Session V Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL
  - 79
    
    Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
    
    Speaker: Andrzej Michal Szelc (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    szelc_bristol.pdf
  - 80
    
    Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
    
    Speaker: Asher Kaboth (RHUL/RAL)
    
    IOP2018_LBLnu.pdf
  - 81
    
    Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Absolute Mass
    
    Speaker: Elisabeth Falk (University of Sussex (UK))
    
    180328 IOP HEPP APP 0nubb and nu mass E Falk.pdf
- 10:35
  
  Coffee
- Parallel I Mott Theatre
  
  Mott Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 82
    
    Search for low mass dijet resonances in association with ISR in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    
    Speaker: Andreas Sogaard (University of Edinburgh (GB))
    
    2018-03-28_IOP2018_AndreasSogaard.pdf
  - 83
    
    ATLAS Measurement of the Dynamics of Single Proton Dissociation at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Andrew Geoffrey Foster (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    IOP2018_AF_SD.pdf
  - 84
    
    The Quest for New Physics, motivated with strong-supersymmetric models, in final states with many hadronic jets in 13 TeV pp collisions at the ATLAS detector
    
    Speaker: Michael Edward Nelson (University of Oxford (GB))
    
    IOP_MNelson_March2018.pdf
- Parallel II Frank Theatre
  
  Frank Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  - 85
    
    Search for hidden sectors in kaon decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN
    
    Speaker: Dr Viacheslav Duk (University of Birmingham)
    
    duk_hidden_sectors_iop18.pdf
  - 86
    
    Charged Higgs Bosons in Naturally Aligned Two Higgs Doublet Models at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Emily Orgill (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    APPHEPP_EOrgill_ChargedHiggs.pdf
  - 87
    
    Constraining new physics with standard model measurements
    
    Speaker: David Yallup (University College London)
    
    DY_IOP.pdf
- Parallel III Berry Lecture Theatre (3.21)
  
  Berry Lecture Theatre (3.21)
  
  University of Bristol
  - 88
    
    Commissioning of a Laser Calibration System for SNO+ Berry Theatre (3.21)
    
    Berry Theatre (3.21)
    
    Speaker: Esther Turner
    
    ETIOP2018Talk-Compressed-Version2.pdf
  - 89
    
    The physics of SNO+ Berry Theatre (3.21)
    
    Berry Theatre (3.21)
    
    Speaker: Dr Edward Leming (University of Oxford)
    
    Physics_of_SNO+.pdf
  - 90
    
    Cosmic Muon Induced Neutrons in SNO+ Berry Theatre (3.21)
    
    Berry Theatre (3.21)
    
    Speaker: Billy Liggins
- Plenary: Session VI Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  Tyndall Lecture Theatre
  
  University of Bristol
  
  H H Wills Physics Lab Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL
  - 91
    
    IoP Prize Lecture: Charm Physics
    
    Speaker: Marco Gersabeck (University of Manchester (GB))
    
    Charm_Gersabeck.pdf
  - 92
    
    Collider Physics Beyond the LHC
    
    Speaker: Victoria Jane Martin (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

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