Opening from the African Physical Society

• Ahmadou Wague

President of the African physical Society

Review and Prospects of Higgs physics from CMS since the discovery

• Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Professor Dr. Albert De Roeck is a senior research scientist and staff member at CERN and a professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Antwerp and then spent ten years at the German particle physics laboratory, DESY, where he and his team made very precise measurements of the quark and gluon structure of the proton, and performed precise tests of the strong force. To pursue his interest in discovering new physics at particle colliders, in particular supersymmetry and extra dimensions, he returned to CERN. During the last ten years, he has played a significant role in the preparation of one of the experiments at the LHC: the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). De Roeck is one of the leaders in the CMS physics program and was the deputy spokesperson of the experiment in 2010 and 2011. He is presently the convener of the Higgs search physics group.

Review and Prospects of Higgs physics from ATLAS since the discovery

• Bill Murray (University of Warwick (GB))

Prof. Bill Murray was the ATLAS Higgs Convener in the run-up to Higgs discovery 2012 and then Physics Coordinator. More recently he has coordinated the ATLAS Tracking In Dense Environments group and is currently Higgs and Diboson Searches Convener. He also e​ngages with future collider projects.​ The Warwick ATLAS Group, led by Prof. Bill Murray, have made substantial contributions to the ATLAS trigger and physics analysis and have held several coordination roles within the collaboration. A focus of the new appointment will be a substantial role in delivering aspects of Warwick’s responsibilities for the ATLAS upgrade.

Morocco: Historical perspective up to Higgs discovery

• Abdeslam Hoummada (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))

Morocco: Current status and future perspectives

• Driss Benchekroun (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))

Egypt: Historical perspective up to Higgs discovery

• Reham Aly (Politecnico - Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

Egypt: Current status and future perspectives

• Ahmed Ali Abdelalim (Helwan University, also at CTP, Zewail City of Science and Tech.)

South Africa: Historical perspective for the SA-CERN Programme

• Zeblon Vilakazi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))

South Africa: Current status and future perspectives

• Lerothodi Leonard Leeuw (University of Johannesburg (ZA))

Contribution from the ASFAP Working Group on Particle Physics

• Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University)

Selected contributions from the African diaspora

• Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Selected contributions from the Non-Member Countries

• Oumar Ka (Cheikh Anta Diop University)

Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal Founding member and current President of the Senegalese Physical Society Co-Vice President of the West African Physical Society

Closing from African Academy of Sciences

• Catherine Ngila (The Ag. Executive Director)

The Acting Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

A High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) for the Phase-II upgrade of the ATLAS detector

• Asmaa Aboulhorma (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

QCD background estimation for top-antitop resonances search in the lepton plus jets final state with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

• Badr-Eddine Ngair (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction: muon-jets overlap removal

• Mohamed Zaazoua (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

UJ @ ATLAS : History, Analysis, Operations, Computing, Tech transfer, Outreach

• S. Ballestrero et al.