Name: HEPP2020
Start: 2020-01-29T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2020-01-31T19:10:00+02:00
Location: University of Venda

HEPP2020

from Wednesday, 29 January 2020 (08:45) to Friday, 31 January 2020 (19:10)

Monday, 27 January 2020
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
08:45 Session I
Session I
08:45 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 Greetings from the DVC Academic - J.E. Crafford (University of Venda)

09:15 Greetings from the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences - N. Potgieter (University of Venda)

09:30 Greetings from the Head of the School of Physics - Eric Maluta (University of Venda)

09:45 Overview and goals of the workshop - Alan Stanley Cornell (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)

10:30 The Standard Model of Particle Physics I and II - Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 17:30
Contributions

13:30 Fluctuating Open Heavy Flavour Energy Loss in a Strongly Coupled Plasma with Observables from RHIC and the LHC - Blessed Blessed Ngwenya (University of Cape Town) William Horowitz (University of Cape Town)

13:45 A step-by-step analysis of the Equilibration of Hadron matter from the microscopic model - Thendo Emmanuel Nemakhavhani ( UJ)

14:00 Computation of the effective potential in the gauge-Higgs unification models - Alan Stanley Cornell (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

14:20 Searches for a ubiquitous U(1) pseudo-scalar at future lepton colliders - Lara Mason (University of Johannesburg/IPNL)

14:35 Measuring the tWZ process with full Run-II ATLAS data - Benjamin William Warren (University of Cape Town (ZA))

15:20 Top Tagging Using Spatial Distribution of Subjets - Danielle Wilson (University of the Witwatersrand)

15:35 Constraining Stealth SUSY with illuminated fat jets at the LHC - Marvin Flores (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

15:50 Dark Matter Search using Semi-visible jets - Sukanya Sinha (University of Witwatersrand)

16:05 Electrons in Dense environment in ATLAS - Lawrence Davou Christopher (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:20 Implications of the anomalous production of leptons at the LHC - Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:40 The anomalous production of multi-leptons and its impact on the measurement of $Wh$ production at the LHC - Yesenia Hernandez Jimenez (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:55 An exploration of the anomalous ttV rate at the LHC - Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
Thursday, 30 January 2020
09:00 Season III
Season III
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Standard Model of Particle Physics III and IV - Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)

11:00 New Physics Simulations at Colliders I - Benjamin Fuks (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

11:45 Heavy Ion Physics I - William Alexander Horowitz (University of Cape Town (ZA))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session IV
Session IV
14:00 - 17:35
Contributions

14:00 BSM searches using SM measurements! - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:20 Implementing a robust anti-QCD tagger with mass de-correlated jet image data - Kokotla Rapetsoa (University of Venda (ZA))

14:35 Application of a novel Machine Learning approach for the search of heavy resonances with topological features at the LHC - Salah-Eddine Dahbi (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:50 Testing the search for new resonances in the di-photon channel with topological requirements on the production of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the LHC - Nalamotse Joshua Choma (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

15:05 An Alternative to Monte Carlo Generators with Deep Generative Models - Thabang Lebese (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

15:20 Applications of Weakly-Supervised Machine Learning Techniques in the Search for New Bosons Focusing on Dilepton Final States at the ATLAS Experiment. - Benjamin Lieberman (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:05 Searching for heavy scalar resonances in the LHC run 2 dataset in the $Z\gamma$ final states using machine learning techniques. - Ntsoko Phuti Rapheeha (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:20 Application of Machine Learning to satellite data - Ayanda Thwala (University of Eswatini)

16:35 Search for a resonance decaying into two photons in association with $b$ jets - Esra Mohammed Shrif (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:50 Background determination of the control region of the $R\rightarrow SH\rightarrow 4\ell+E^{miss}_{T}$ signal at the ATLAS detector - Abdualazem Fadol Mohammed (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
Friday, 31 January 2020
09:00 Session V
Session V
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 New Physics Simulations at Colliders II - Benjamin Fuks (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:45 Heavy Ion Physics II - William Alexander Horowitz (University of Cape Town (ZA))

11:00 The Technology and Innovation Platform - Paul Papka (Stellenbosch University)

11:45 Application of classroom fundamentals in industry - Rinae Nnduvheni (Deloitte)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session VI
Session VI
14:00 - 17:45
Contributions

14:00 Visualising Event Data from the Transition Radiation Detector in ALICE at CERN - Sameshan Perumal (University of Cape Town (ZA))

14:15 Gamma Irradiation of possible photocathode materials - Joyful Elma Mdhluli (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:30 Assembly, quality checks and installation of the scintillator detector modules for phase I upgrade of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment - Gaogalalwe Mokgatitswane (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

14:45 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFF-DETECTOR ELECTRONICS FOR THE PHASE-II UPGRADE OF THE ATLAS TILE CALORIMETER - Mpho Gift Doctor Gololo (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

15:00 Development of high speed electronics for the off-detector readout of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Daniel Edwards (University of the Witwatersrand)

15:15 DAQ software implementation in the TileCal ALTI Module - Humphry Tlou (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:00 Low Voltage Power Supply production, hardware upgrade and testing for the ATLAS TileCal Front-End Electronics system - Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:15 Characterization and Functionality of Burn-in station for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Low Voltage Power Supplies. - Thabo James Lepota (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:30 Testing of new low-voltage power supplies for the ATLAS tile-calorimeter front-end electronics - Ryan Peter Mckenzie (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

16:45 Heat Transfer Improvement of a Thermal Interface Material for Heat Sink Applications Using Carbon Nanospheres. - Othmane Mouane

17:00 Bridging the gap between industry and academia - Dingane Hlaluku (IBM)