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Celebration of the discovery of the Higgs boson Anniversary from Africa
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Africa/Casablanca
Farida Fassi
(Universite Mohammed V (MA)),
Mohammed Attia Mahmoud Mohammed
(Center for High Energy Physics, Fayoum (CHEP-FU), University, Egypt (EG)),
Simon Connell
(University of Johannesburg (ZA))
Description
A celebration of the 10 year anniversary since the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of the Higgs boson with a full-day virtual scientific symposium themed “Celebration of the Higgs Anniversary - 4th July from Africa”. CERN is also hosting a celebration. This great achievement of the 21st Century is global and there are other celebrations in other continents, regions and countries. This is the celebration event highlighting the African participation. The talks will present an historical overview as well as the current situation and future prospects for the programmes of the African countries, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa, these being current members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.
The African Scientific Diaspora at CERN and also the African countries that do not yet have a membership of a HEP experiment at CERN will take part in this celebration as a 5th region (as in the AU terminology). There will also be speakers representing both experiments ATLAS and CMS. The Opening is by the African Physical Society followed by the Presentations by ATLAS, CMS and African Scientists and the Closing is by the African Academy of Sciences.
Committee chairs:
Farida Fassi (Mohammed V University In Rabat, Faculty of Sciences)
Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed (Fayoum University, Egypt)
Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Participants
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10:15
Opening from the African Physical Society 15m
President of the African physical Society
Speaker: Ahmadou Wague -
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Review and Prospects of Higgs physics from CMS since the discovery 30m
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.
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Review and Prospects of Higgs physics from ATLAS since the discovery 30m
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 engages 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.
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Session-2Convener: Yasser Assran (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))
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Morocco: Historical perspective up to Higgs discovery 15mSpeaker: Abdeslam Hoummada (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))
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Morocco: Current status and future perspectives 15mSpeaker: Driss Benchekroun (Universite Hassan II, Ain Chock (MA))
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Egypt: Historical perspective up to Higgs discovery 15mSpeaker: Reham Aly (Politecnico - Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
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Session-3Convener: Yasser Mohammed (Fayoum University (EG))
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Egypt: Current status and future perspectives 15mSpeaker: Ahmed Ali Abdelalim (Helwan University, also at CTP, Zewail City of Science and Tech.)
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South Africa: Historical perspective for the SA-CERN Programme 15mSpeaker: Zeblon Vilakazi (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))
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South Africa: Current status and future perspectives 15mSpeaker: Lerothodi Leonard Leeuw (University of Johannesburg (ZA))
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Break 30m
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Session-4Convener: Farida Fassi (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
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Contribution from the ASFAP Working Group on Particle Physics 15mSpeaker: Mohamed Chabab (Cadi Ayyad University)
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Selected contributions from the African diaspora 15mSpeaker: Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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Selected contributions from the Non-Member Countries 15m
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 SocietySpeaker: Oumar Ka (Cheikh Anta Diop University) -
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Closing from African Academy of Sciences 15m
The Acting Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)
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Posters
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Posters: Muon Yields from Heavy-Quark Production in Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic RaysConvener: Awadallah Mekki (CERN)
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A High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) for the Phase-II upgrade of the ATLAS detector 5mSpeaker: Asmaa Aboulhorma (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
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QCD background estimation for top-antitop resonances search in the lepton plus jets final state with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC 5mSpeaker: Badr-Eddine Ngair (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
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Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction: muon-jets overlap removal 5mSpeaker: Mr Mohamed Zaazoua (Universite Mohammed V (MA))
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UJ @ ATLAS : History, Analysis, Operations, Computing, Tech transfer, Outreach 5mSpeaker: S. Ballestrero et al.
