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HEPP Workshop 2019

from Wednesday, 30 January 2019 (09:00) to Friday, 1 February 2019 (15:35)
Nelson Mandela University (Room 0017)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Jan 2019
31 Jan 2019
1 Feb 2019
AM
09:00
Session I (until 13:00)
09:00 Opening address - Azwinndini Muronga Alan Cornell Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)  
09:30 Introduction to the SM - Alan Stanley Cornell (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
10:15 --- Tea/Coffee ---
10:45 Dark Matter Detection, Models and Constraints - Prof. Ashok Goyal (University of Delhi)  
11:30 Effects of Nuclear Deformations on Particle Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions - Dr Mohammed Younus (Nelson Mandela University)  
12:00 An Application of Rubi: Series Expansion of the Quark Mass Renormalization Group Equation - Alexes Mes (University of Cape Town)  
12:20 Metrics in infinite derivative gravity theory - Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand)  
09:00
Session III (until 13:00)
09:00 Dark Matter - continued - Prof. Ashok Goyal (University of Delhi)  
09:45 Introduction to the SM - Continued - Alan Cornell  
10:30 --- Tea/Coffee ---
11:00 Discussion Session - Prof. Ashok Goyal (University of Delhi) Alan Cornell  
11:30 Search for a heavier Higgs like boson and a dark force boson using ATLAS experiment results - Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA))  
11:50 Improving the top-quark reconstruction on the W$^\prime$ search in the hadronic channel. - Fortune Nhlanhla Mhlanga (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
12:10 Probing colour reconnection in ttbar events - Dimbiniaina Rafanoharana (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
12:30 Review of Jet Substructure and Machine Learning activies - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
09:00
Session V (until 13:10)
09:00 ALICE Muon Identifier User Logic for Common Readout Unit - Mr Nathan Boyles (University o Cape Town)  
09:20 ALICE Muon Tracking Chambers low-voltage system upgrade - Mr Rony Kuriakose (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation)  
09:40 Overview of test beam campaigns for the readout electronics demonstrator of the upgrade Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Nthabiseng Miranda Lekalakala (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Mr Thabo Masuku (University of the Witwatersrand)  
10:00 The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter LVPS hardware upgrade and testing - Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
10:20 Development and data analysis of a low power radio-frequency wireless mesh network. - Mr Rorisang Sitoboli (University of the Witwatersrand)  
10:40 --- Tea/Coffee ---
11:10 Machine Learning in the search for new heavy resonances decaying to $Z\gamma$ with the ATLAS detector - Nkateko Baloyi (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
11:30 Application of Boosted Decision Trees in the search for a new boson decaying into $Z+\gamma$ final state - Ntsoko Phuti Rapheeha (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
11:50 Discriminating quark and gluon initiated jets using random forest machine learning techniques. - Kokotla Rapetsoa (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
12:10 Search for dark matter with machine learning with the ATLAS detector - Mr Audrey Thabang Magabe (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
12:30 Applications of Machine Learning techniques in mono-higgs searches - Mr Moratwe Mdluli (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
12:50 The use of Machine Learning in the search for di-photons in association with missing energy - Theodore Cwere Gaelejwe (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session II (until 17:15)
14:00 Bottomonia Suppression in Heavy-Ion Collisions from AdS/CFT - Nadia Barnard (University of Cape Town)  
14:20 Measurement of heavy-flavours as a function of charged-particle multiplicity with ALICE at the LHC - Ms Sibaliso Mhlanga (iThemba/UCT)  
14:40 Measurement of heavy-flavour production via leptonic decays in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies with ALICE. - Christine Marie Monteverdi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))  
15:00 Strangeness production in different colliding systems measured with the ALICE experiment - Silvia Delsanto (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
15:20 --- Tea/Coffee ---
15:50 Multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC and new physics at the EW scale - Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)  
16:20 Phenomenology of new scalar boson productions in the e-p collider: Challenges and Prospects - Dr Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
16:40 The Explanation of the Muon g - 2 Anomaly using the Madala Hypothesis - Danielle Dorinda Sabatta (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session IV (until 17:20)
14:00 H4l lepton isolation studies for the $H \rightarrow ZZ \rightarrow 4\ell$ channel - Onesimo Mtintsilana (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
14:20 Search for a new resonance in the diphoton decay in association with $E_{\text{T}}^{\text{miss}}$ with the ATLAS detector - Shell-May Liao (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
14:40 Top-quark background estimation for BSM search $H\rightarrow Sh\rightarrow 2\ell + >=2$ jets with the ATLAS detector - Jeremiah Kgomotso Monnakgotla (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
15:00 $W$+jets fake background estimation using the fake factor method, for the BSM search $H\rightarrow Sh \rightarrow 2\ell$ + jets with the ATLAS detector - Lehumo Mashishi (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
15:20 --- Tea/Coffee ---
15:50 Search for physics beyond the Standard Model in events with two opposite charged leptons and jets at the LHC - Yesenia Hernandez Jimenez (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
16:10 What can $3\ell$ signatures at the LHC can tell us about additional bosons? - Kehinde Gbenga Tomiwa (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
13:10 --- Lunch ---
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