Name: IoP Joint HEPP and APP Annual Conference 2019
Start: 2019-04-07T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-04-10T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Imperial College London

Monday, 8 April 2019

10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Huxley 341
11:00 Plenary: Session 1
Session 1
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

11:00 Welcome

11:10 Colliders - Jim Virdee (Imperial College (GB))

11:50 Neutrinos - Dave Wark (RAL / Imperial College London)

12:30 Electronics - Andrew William Rose (Imperial College (GB))
13:00 APP AGM

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Huxley 311

Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Huxley 341
14:00 Parallel stream 1: Session 1
Session 1
14:00 - 16:30
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

14:00 Measurement of the CP nature of the Htt Yukawa coupling using gluon fusion production in association with two jets with a Higgs boson decay to a tau lepton pair - Albert Kenneth Dow (Imperial College (GB))

14:15 Measuring the top higgs couplings CP-nature in ttH(->bb) dilepton events. - Nicolas Scharmberg (University of Manchester (GB))

14:30 Background Modelling in the ttH(H→γγ) Channel - Matthew Peter Heath (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

14:45 Prospects for top-Yukawa coupling and Higgs boson CP at the CLIC e+e- collider - Yixuan Zhang (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

15:00 A preliminary charged-current muon neutrino inclusive selection in SBND. - Tom Brooks (University of Sheffield)

15:15 An electron neutrino event selection procedure in the Short-Baseline Near Detector - Dominic Barker (University of Sheffield)

15:30 DQM4HEP: a generic online monitor for particle physics experiments - Tom Coates (University of Sussex (GB))

15:45 Integration-by-parts identities and multi-loop QCD amplitudes - Herschel Chawdhry (University of Cambridge)
Parallel stream 2: Session 1
Session 1
14:00 - 16:30
Room: Huxley 340
Contributions

14:00 Search for long-lived neutral particles that decay into displaced jets in the ATLAS detector - Alice Morris (University College London (GB))

14:15 Search for the Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Miha Zgubic (University of Oxford (GB))

14:30 Search for H->ee using 140/fb of 13 TeV pp collision data with ATLAS experiment - Russell James Turner (University of Birmingham (GB))

14:45 IceCube astrophysical neutrino 7.5-year data - Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London)

15:00 Noise Rejection Method  Using Spherical Harmonic Decomposition - Elena Massera

15:15 Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment - Brais Lopez Paredes (University of Sheffield (GB))

15:30 Radon Backgrounds in LZ - Umit Utku (University College London)
Parallel stream 3: Session 1
Session 1
14:00 - 16:30
Room: Huxley 308
Contributions

14:00 Top-Antitop Charge Asymmetry with Fully Bayesian Unfolding - Robert Adam Vallance (University of Birmingham (GB))

14:15 Single dissociative diffraction at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - James Kendrick (University of Birmingham (GB))

14:30 Top quark charge asymmetry at LHCb - James Mead (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:45 CP violation measurements in B decays with final state neutral kaons: how precise can we get? - Mikkel Bjorn (University of Oxford)

15:00 A scintillator-based range telescope for quality assurance in proton therapy - Laurent Kelleter (UCL)

15:15 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the SNO+ Experiment - Tereza Kroupova (CERN)

15:30 First physics results from the SNO+ experiment - Martti Nirkko (University of Sussex (UK))
Parallel stream 4: Session 1
Session 1
14:00 - 16:30
Room: Huxley 311
Contributions

14:00 Prospects for ttZ measurements at ATLAS with the full 140 fb-¹ Run 2 dataset - Baptiste Ravina (University of Sheffield (GB))

14:15 Low Energy? Think Positive! - Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)

14:30 Search for the supersymmetric partner to the top quark in the all-hadronic channel with the ATLAS Detector. - Matthew Thomas Anthony (University of Sheffield (GB))

14:45 Constraining Systematics at T2K with Near-Detector Fits - William Charles Parker (University of London (GB))

15:00 The High Pressure gas Time Projection Chamber: a Future Neutrino Detector - Toby Sean Nonnenmacher (Imperial College (GB))

15:15 Update on the measurement of the Unitarity Triangle angle γ using B->D(*)K(*) decays at LHCb - Alexandra Paige Rollings (University of Oxford (GB))

15:30 Angular analysis of B+→ K+ee at the LHCb experiment - Samuel William Maddrell-Mander (University of Bristol (GB))

15:45 Branching fraction measurement of B⁰→π+π-μ+μ- using Run 1 and Run 2 LHCb data - Edward James Millard (University of Warwick (GB))
16:30 Tea
Tea
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Huxley 341
17:00 Plenary: Session 2
Session 2
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

17:00 Theory - Martin Bauer (Heidelberg University)

17:30 g-2/LFV - Gavin Hesketh (University College London (UK))

18:00 CTA - Steven Leach (University of Leicester)
19:00 Evening reception and poster session

19:00 - 22:00
Room: Queen's Tower Rooms
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
09:00 Plenary: Session 3
Session 3
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

09:00 LHC - Standard Model - Yvonne Peters

09:30 LHC Searches - Christos Leonidopoulos (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

10:00 Gravitational Waves - Katherine Dooley (Cardiff University)

10:30 Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize
10:35 Coffee
Coffee
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Huxley 341
11:00 Parallel stream 1: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

11:00 Extending dark matter searches in liquid xenon to single scintillation photons - Nellie Marangou (Imperial College London)

11:15 Background model for the LUX experiment - Peter Rossiter (University of Sheffield)

11:30 Latest B → μ+ μ- results with the ATLAS detector - Fabio Tresoldi (University of Sussex (GB))

11:45 Searching for new physics with emu asymmetry at the ATLAS detector - Holly Ann Pacey (University of Cambridge (GB))

12:00 Measuring Muon Induced Neutrons in the Water Phase of the SNO+ Experiment - Mark Stringer (University of Sussex)

12:15 The Water Cherenkov Monitor for Anti-Neutrinos (WATCHMAN) at the Advanced Instrumentation Testbed. - Matthew Malek (I)
Parallel stream 2: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Huxley 340
Contributions

11:00 Modelling Backgrounds and Searching for WIMPs in DEAP-3600 - Joseph Walding (University of London (GB))

11:15 Differential measurement of the Z/γ ratio with the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 13 TeV - Giacomo Zecchinelli (Imperial College (GB))

11:30 Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks with the ATLAS detector - Edward James Thorpe (University of London (GB))

11:45 Associated production of a J/psi + photon at ATLAS - Amy Tee (Lancaster University (GB))

12:00 Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in 13 TeV pp collision with ATLAS detector - Wai Yuen Chan (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:15 Searching for dark matter in DEAP-3600 in a 758 tonne-day data set. - Ashlea Kemp (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Parallel stream 3: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Huxley 308
Contributions

11:00 Photon yield and MCP-PMTs in a prototype TORCH detector. - Emmy Pauline Maria Gabriel (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:15 Beam test studies of a prototype TORCH detector - Thomas Henry Hancock (University of Oxford (GB))

11:30 Search for chargino and neutralino production in final state with three leptons and missing transverse momentum, via WH intermediate decays - Fabrizio Trovato (University of Sussex (GB))

11:45 A search for light Higgs bosons in supersymmetric decay cascades at CMS. - Joseph Taylor (University of Bristol (GB) / Rutherford Appleton Lab (GB))

12:00 Searches for NMSSM Signatures with low Missing Transverse Energy at the CMS detector at the LHC - Alexander Titterton (University of Bristol (GB))

12:15 Approaching the neutrino mass problem with a beam dump experiment. - Tommaso Boschi
Parallel stream 4: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Huxley 311
Contributions

11:00 Matter density profile effects on neutrino oscillations at T2HK and T2HKK - Susana Molina Sedgwick (Queen Mary University of London / University of Southampton)

11:15 Optical calibration design for the Hyper-Kamiokande Outer Detector - Celeste Pidcott

11:30 A New Jet Pairing Method for Reconstructing HH -> bb̅bb̅ Events - Beojan Stanislaus (University of Oxford (GB))

11:45 Advances and challenges in the full run 2 search of boosted di-higgs decaying to bb̅bb̅ with the ATLAS detector - Santiago Rafael Paredes Saenz (University of Oxford (GB))

12:00 Angular Analysis of the B -> K* mu mu decay at the LHCb Experiment - Felix Johannes Kress (Imperial College (GB))

12:15 Determination of hadronic resonance contributions to the B0 -> K*0μμ decay - Malte Hecker (Imperial College (GB))
13:00 HEPP AGM

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Huxley 311

Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Huxley 341
14:00 Plenary: Session 4
Session 4
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

14:00 Short baseline neutrinos - ANDY BLAKE (Lancaster University)

14:30 Detector technology - Jon Coleman (University of Liverpool)

15:00 Cosmology - Eleonora Di Valentino (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
15:30 Tea
Tea
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Huxley 341
16:00 STFC Town Meeting
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

16:00 An Overview of the 2019-2022 CG Round - Jocelyn Rebecca Monroe (University of London (GB))

16:15 STFC Update - Grahame Blair

16:45 STFC External Innovations and Global Challenges Update - Jason Green (STFC)

17:00 Science Board Update - Tara Shears (University of Liverpool (GB))

17:10 PPAP Update and PP Roadmap - Roger Jones (Lancaster University (GB))

17:30 PAAP Update - Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)

17:40 General Q&A
19:00 Conference Banquet
Conference Banquet
19:00 - 23:00
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
09:00 Plenary: Session 5
Session 5
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

09:00 LHC Higgs - Trevor Vickey (University of Sheffield (GB))

09:30 HEPP Prize - Asher Kaboth (University of London (GB))

10:00 Dark Matter - Christopher McCabe (King's College London)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Huxley 341
11:00 Parallel stream 1: Session 3
Session 3
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

11:00 Measurement of CP violation parameters in B⁰ → DK*0 decays - Hannah Pullen (University of Oxford (GB))

11:15 Measurement of the CP violating phase φs originating in B⁰s→J/ψφ decays using LHCb Run 2 data - Jennifer Zonneveld (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:30 ARIADNE: A 1-ton dual-phase LArTPC with optical readout. - Jared John Vann (University of Liverpool (GB))

11:45 Recent advancements on the NEWS-G spherical proportional counter sensors - Ioannis Katsioulas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

12:00 Search for single-production of vector-like B quark decaying into a bottom quark and a Higgs in the H->bb decay mode with the ATLAS experiment. - Marco Montella (University of London (GB))

12:15 Observation of H->bb decays in the VH production mode and first differential measurement with the ATLAS detector - Luca Ambroz (University of Oxford (GB))
Parallel stream 2: Session 3
Session 3
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Huxley 340
Contributions

11:00 Searches for electroweak supersymmetry in final states containing one lepton, two b-tagged jets and missing transverse energy at the ATLAS experiment. - Matthew James Sullivan (University of Liverpool (GB))

11:15 Non-parametric Bayesian event reconstruction in Super-Kamiokande detector - Artur Sztuc (Imperial College London)

11:30 Electron neutrino selection in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using the Pandora pattern recognition reconstruction - Wouter Van De Pontseele

11:45 Applications of machine learning to the identification of particle etch pits in Moedal NTD (Nuclear Track Detector) Images. - Lewis Richard Millward (University of London (GB))

12:00 Boosting the Search for New Physics in bb Events - Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))

12:15 Search for Contact Interactions using 140fb-1 of pp collision data collected at sqrt{s}=13TeV with the ATLAS detector - Deshan Kavishka Abhayasinghe (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))
Parallel stream 3: Session 3
Session 3
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Huxley 308
Contributions

11:00 Measurement of the CP violation parameter AΓ at LHCb with D⁰→π-π+π-π+ decays. - Lauren Marie Douglas (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:15 Search for CP violation in Lb->p3pi decays - Gediminas Sarpis (University of Manchester (GB))

11:30 Hunt for Hidden Photons in the LZ Experiment - Athoy Nilima (University of Edinburgh)

11:45 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in LZ - Rob Taylor (Imperial College London)

12:00 Measuring the mass of the Higgs Boson at the ATLAS detector in the H→ZZ*→4l channel using an analytic model - Thomas Powell (University of Sheffield (GB))

12:15 Search for Decays of the Higgs Boson into a Z Boson and a Light Hadronically Decaying Resonance - Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham (GB))
Parallel stream 4: Session 3
Session 3
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Huxley 311
Contributions

11:00 Searching for the Invisible using cross-section ratios - Vasilis Konstantinides (University of London (GB))

11:15 Search for low-mass WIMPs with the DarkSide-50 experiment - Paolo Agnes (University of Houston)

11:30 The Darkside-20k experiment - Daria Santone (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

11:45 Combined Search for an Invisibly Decaying Higgs Boson in Hadronic Channels at √s = 13 TeV with CMS - Eshwen Bhal (University of Bristol (GB))

12:00 Search for decays of the Higgs Boson to bottom quarks via Associated Vector Boson production at the ATLAS experiment - Dwayne Spiteri (University of Glasgow)

12:15 The search for invisibly decaying Higgs bosons at the LHC - Vukasin Milosevic (Imperial College (GB))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Huxley 341
14:00 Plenary: Session 6
Session 6
14:00 - 16:15
Room: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley 213
Contributions

14:00 Outreach - Linda Cremonesi (University of London (GB))

14:30 Double Beta Decay - Cheryl Patrick (University College London)

15:00 LHC - Flavour - Sneha Sirirshkumar Malde (University of Oxford (GB))

15:30 LHC - Upgrades - Lars Eklund (University of Glasgow (GB))