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, January 29, 2020 (8:45 AM) to Friday, January 31, 2020 (7:10 PM)

Monday, January 27, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
8:45 AM Session I
Session I
8:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Greetings from the DVC Academic - J.E. Crafford (University of Venda)

9:15 AM Greetings from the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences - N. Potgieter (University of Venda)

9:30 AM Greetings from the Head of the School of Physics - Eric Maluta (University of Venda)

9:45 AM Overview and goals of the workshop - Alan Stanley Cornell (University of Johannesburg (ZA)) Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)

10:30 AM The Standard Model of Particle Physics I and II - Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM 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)

1:45 PM A step-by-step analysis of the Equilibration of Hadron matter from the microscopic model - Thendo Emmanuel Nemakhavhani ( UJ)

2:00 PM Computation of the effective potential in the gauge-Higgs unification models - Alan Stanley Cornell (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

2:20 PM Searches for a ubiquitous U(1) pseudo-scalar at future lepton colliders - Lara Mason (University of Johannesburg/IPNL)

2:35 PM Measuring the tWZ process with full Run-II ATLAS data - Benjamin William Warren (University of Cape Town (ZA))

3:20 PM Top Tagging Using Spatial Distribution of Subjets - Danielle Wilson (University of the Witwatersrand)

3:35 PM Constraining Stealth SUSY with illuminated fat jets at the LHC - Marvin Flores (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

3:50 PM Dark Matter Search using Semi-visible jets - Sukanya Sinha (University of Witwatersrand)

4:05 PM Electrons in Dense environment in ATLAS - Lawrence Davou Christopher (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

4:20 PM Implications of the anomalous production of leptons at the LHC - Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of the Witwatersrand)

4:40 PM 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))

4:55 PM An exploration of the anomalous ttV rate at the LHC - Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))
Thursday, January 30, 2020
9:00 AM Season III
Season III
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Standard Model of Particle Physics III and IV - Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)

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

11:45 AM Heavy Ion Physics I - William Alexander Horowitz (University of Cape Town (ZA))
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session IV
Session IV
2:00 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM BSM searches using SM measurements! - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

2:20 PM Implementing a robust anti-QCD tagger with mass de-correlated jet image data - Kokotla Rapetsoa (University of Venda (ZA))

2:35 PM 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))

2:50 PM 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))

3:05 PM An Alternative to Monte Carlo Generators with Deep Generative Models - Thabang Lebese (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

3:20 PM 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))

4:05 PM 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))

4:20 PM Application of Machine Learning to satellite data - Ayanda Thwala (University of Eswatini)

4:35 PM Search for a resonance decaying into two photons in association with $b$ jets - Esra Mohammed Shrif (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

4:50 PM 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, January 31, 2020
9:00 AM Session V
Session V
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM New Physics Simulations at Colliders II - Benjamin Fuks (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:45 AM Heavy Ion Physics II - William Alexander Horowitz (University of Cape Town (ZA))

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

11:45 AM Application of classroom fundamentals in industry - Rinae Nnduvheni (Deloitte)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session VI
Session VI
2:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Visualising Event Data from the Transition Radiation Detector in ALICE at CERN - Sameshan Perumal (University of Cape Town (ZA))

2:15 PM Gamma Irradiation of possible photocathode materials - Joyful Elma Mdhluli (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

2:30 PM 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))

2:45 PM 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))

3:00 PM Development of high speed electronics for the off-detector readout of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector - Daniel Edwards (University of the Witwatersrand)

3:15 PM DAQ software implementation in the TileCal ALTI Module - Humphry Tlou (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

4:00 PM 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))

4:15 PM Characterization and Functionality of Burn-in station for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Low Voltage Power Supplies. - Thabo James Lepota (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

4:30 PM Testing of new low-voltage power supplies for the ATLAS tile-calorimeter front-end electronics - Ryan Peter Mckenzie (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))

4:45 PM Heat Transfer Improvement of a Thermal Interface Material for Heat Sink Applications Using Carbon Nanospheres. - Othmane Mouane

5:00 PM Bridging the gap between industry and academia - Dingane Hlaluku (IBM)