Name: IoP APP / HEPP Conference 2018
Start: 2018-03-25T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-03-28T13:35:00+01:00
Location: University of Bristol

IoP APP / HEPP Conference 2018

from Sunday 25 March 2018 (18:00) to Wednesday 28 March 2018 (13:35)

Monday 19 March 2018
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Wednesday 21 March 2018
Thursday 22 March 2018
Friday 23 March 2018
Saturday 24 March 2018
Sunday 25 March 2018

18:30

18:30 - 19:30

Monday 26 March 2018
09:00 Session I
Session I
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Multi-Messenger Physics - Patrick Sutton

09:55 Gamma Ray Astronomy - Anthony Brown (Durham University)

10:25 Dark Matter: Status and Prospects - Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Mott Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons decaying to di-tau in the ATLAS detector produced with 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC - Theodore Zorbas (University of Sheffield (GB))

11:45 Search for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays to φγ and ργ with the ATLAS detector - Rhys Edward Owen (University of Birmingham (GB))

12:00 Search for boosted ttH(H→bb) with the ATLAS detector - Emma Winkels (University of Sussex (GB))

12:15 Searching for decays of the Higgs boson to charm quarks at ATLAS - Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham (GB))

12:30 Searches for additional neutral Higgs bosons in the di-tau final state with the CMS experiment - Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))
TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Frank Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Measurement of the CP violating phase, φs, in Run 2 using B⁰s→J/ψK+K− - Konstantin Gizdov (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:45 Prospects for K±→π±μ+μ- at the LHCb Experiment - Kristian Alexander Zarebski (University of Birmingham (GB))

12:00 Status and prospects of the measurement of the pi+mu+mu- form factor with the NA62 experiment at CERN - Christopher John Parkinson (University of Birmingham)

12:15 Measurement of the branching fractions and form factors of K+→π⁰l+ν decays - Stoyan Trilov (University of Bristol (GB))

12:30 Measurement of the K+ -> pi+ gamma gamma decay at NA62 - Maria Brigida Brunetti (University of Birmingham (GB))
TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 3.34
Contributions

11:30 Vertex finding for pile-up mitigation in the Phase-2 upgrade of the Level-1 Trigger of CMS - Antoni Shtipliyski (Imperial College (GB))

11:45 Gaussian Processes for High Energy Physics - Adam Bozson (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

12:00 Perspectives for SUSY in light of current LHC constraints - Jonathan Costa (Imperial College London)

12:15 QED Parton Distribution Functions - Ricky Nathvani

12:30 Positivity Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Scott Melville (Imperial College, London) Scott Melville (Imperial College London)
TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Berry Theatre (3.21)
Contributions

11:30 Measuring the Effective Longitudinal Electron Diffusion Coefficient at MicroBooNE - Adam Lister

11:45 Calorimetric Energy Scale in the NOvA Detectors - Tyler Alion (University of Sussex)

12:00 MicroBooNE NC Delta Radiative Single-Photon Search - Robert Murrells

12:15 Latest muon neutrino disappearance results from the NOvA experiment - Diana Patricia Mendez (University of Sussex)

12:30 Comparison of Binned vs. Unbinned Likelihood Analyses for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements in NOvA - Sebastian Bending
13:00 APP AGM
APP AGM
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Frank Theatre

Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 TBC
TBC
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Mott Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Measurement of Z+bb kinematic variables with ATLAS - Chloe Gray (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:15 Searching for invisible phenomena through measurement of events with jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at ATLAS - Rebecca Hayley Pickles (University of Manchester (GB))

14:30 Measurements of boosted top-quark differential cross-sections in the lepton+jets channel at s=√13 TeV using pp collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector - Michael James Fenton (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:45 Higgsinos and compressed sleptons: opening the soft lepton frontier for new physics at the LHC - Jesse Liu (University of Oxford)

15:00 Dark Matter Searches at CMS - Shane Davy Breeze (Imperial College (GB))

15:15 Search for single top production in association with a Z boson for the dilepton final state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV in the CMS detector - Corin James Keir Hoad (Brunel University (GB))
TBC
TBC
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Frank Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Search for the decay B → p+p-μν - Matthew James Tilley (Imperial College (GB))

14:15 Measuring the WW Production Cross-Section at LHCb - Heather Mckenzie Wark (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:30 Search for Bc→DD decays with the LHCb detector - Alison Maria Tully (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:45 Searching for lepton universality violation and New Physics in rare decays of Lambda baryons at the LHCb. - Ross John Glew (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

15:00 Search for K+ to pi+ nu nu at NA62 - Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))

15:15 Search For Heavy Neutral Lepton Decays At NA62 Experiment At CERN - Lorenza Iacobuzio (University of Birmingham (GB))
TBC
TBC
14:00 - 15:45
Room: 3.34
Contributions

14:00 Sensor Characterisation and Readout for the LHCb VELO Upgrade - Vinicius Franco Lima (University of Liverpool (GB))

14:15 3D Printing Gaseous Radiation Detectors - Samuel Fargher

14:30 ATLAS inner detector decommissioning: Tolerance study of robotic components for use in high radiation environment - Alice Cryer (University of Sheffield (GB))

14:45 The LHCb VELO Upgrade - Dutta Deepanwita

15:00 Bayesian optimisation of the SHiP muon shield - Oliver Lantwin (Imperial College (GB))

15:15 Towards the highest precision detector at the LHC - The LHCb Upgrade VELO and Its Performance - Chris Burr (University of Manchester (GB))
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Berry Theatre (3.21)
Contributions

14:00 Overview of the ANITA experiment - Linda Cremonesi (Queen Mary University of London)

14:15 Hunting Axionlike Dark Matter by Searching for an Oscillating Neutron Electric Dipole Moment - Nick Ayres (University of Sussex)

14:30 Search for New Physics in Astrophysical Flavor at IceCube - Shivesh Mandalia (Queen Mary University of London)

14:45 Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube - Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London)

15:00 Searching for WIMP dark matter with the LZ experiment - Ibles Olcina
15:45 Coffee
Coffee
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 Session II
Session II
16:15 - 18:15
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:15 Particle Beam Therapy in the UK - Michael Taylor (University of Manchester)

16:40 Promoting Physics in Developing Countries - Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))

17:05 ECR prize talk. Gravitational-wave astronomy, and the discoveries of LIGO and Virgo - Christopher Berry

17:35 Status of Neutrino Physics - Frank Deppisch
18:15 Poster reception
Poster reception
18:15 - 19:30
Tuesday 27 March 2018
09:00 Session III
Session III
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:00 Flavour Physics - Greig Cowan (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

09:40 Lepton Flavour Physics - Phillip Litchfield (UCL)

10:20 Who ordered that? Interpreting LFUV and other new physics signals from flavour. - Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Mott Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Tagging boosted jets from top quarks and heavy vector bosons using jet substructure and multivariate techniques - Amal Vaidya (University of London (GB))

11:45 Searches for Resonant and Non-Resonant Higgs Pair Production in the bbtautau Decay Channel with the ATLAS Detector - Emily Charlotte Graham (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:00 Searches for heavy ZZ and ZW resonances in the llqq and ννqq final states at 13 TeV in the ATLAS detector - David Philip John Lack (University of Manchester (GB))

12:15 Measurements of Higgs boson cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel with the CMS experiment - Edward Scott (Imperial College (GB))

12:30 Higgs-to-Invisible Searches for the CMS experiment at the LHC - Riccardo Di Maria (Imperial College (GB))
TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Frank Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Relative branching fraction measurements of B→3h decays - Cayo Costa Sobral (University of Warwick (GB))

11:45 A search for the decay Λb ->pKη' using the LHCb Run I dataset. - Timothy Williams (University of Birmingham (GB))

12:00 Anti-deuteron measurements at LHCb - Sophie Katherine Baker (Imperial College (GB))

12:15 Searches for doubly charmed baryons at LHCb - Murdo Thomas Traill (University of Glasgow (GB))

12:30 Angular analysis of the decay $\Lambda_{b}^{0}\rightarrow \Lambda \mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ - Georgios Chatzikonstantinidis (University of Birmingham (GB))
TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 3.34
Contributions

11:30 Optical Calibration of the Hyper-Kamiokande Detector with Test Data in Super-Kamiokande - Lauren Anthony

11:45 Gadolinium radiopurity assay programme for Super-Kamiokande - Matthew Thiesse

12:00 The Hyper-Kamiokande Outer-Detector : design, performance estimation of background rejection and physics potential - Stephane Alexandre Zsoldos (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

12:15 Supernova Neutrino Simulations in Hyper-Kamiokande - Jost Migenda (University of Sheffield)

12:30 Innovation and Non-Proliferation - Particle Physics for Nuclear Threat Reduction - Elisabeth Kneale
TBC
TBC
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Berry Theatre (3.21)
Contributions

11:30 Status of the SuperNEMO double-beta decay experiment - Cheryl Patrick (Northwestern University)

11:45 Recent Developments in the Spherical Proportional Counter for NEWS-G - Patrick Knights

12:00 Sensitivity Studies and Development of the Gas Supply System for the SuperNEMO Experiment - Lauren Dawson

12:15 Radon Background Mitigation Strategy for the SuperNEMO Experiment - Fang Xie

12:30 Search for light Dark Matter with NEWS-G - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB))
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Frank Theatre

Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Session IV
Session IV
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Standard Model Measurements at the LHC - Ulla Blumenschein (University of London (GB))

14:30 Higgs Physics at the LHC - Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College (GB))

15:00 New Physics Searches at the LHC - Jim Brooke (University of Bristol (GB))
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 18:00
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Wednesday 28 March 2018
09:00 Session V
Session V
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:00 Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Andrzej Michal Szelc (University of Manchester (GB))

09:30 Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Asher Kaboth (RHUL/RAL)

10:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Absolute Mass - Elisabeth Falk (University of Sussex (UK))
10:35 Coffee
Coffee
10:35 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Mott Theatre
Contributions

11:00 Search for low mass dijet resonances in association with ISR in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Andreas Sogaard (University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:15 ATLAS Measurement of the Dynamics of Single Proton Dissociation at the LHC - Andrew Geoffrey Foster (University of Birmingham (GB))

11:30 The Quest for New Physics, motivated with strong-supersymmetric models, in final states with many hadronic jets in 13 TeV pp collisions at the ATLAS detector - Michael Edward Nelson (University of Oxford (GB))
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Frank Theatre
Contributions

11:00 Search for hidden sectors in kaon decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN - Viacheslav Duk (University of Birmingham)

11:15 Charged Higgs Bosons in Naturally Aligned Two Higgs Doublet Models at the LHC - Emily Orgill (University of Manchester (GB))

11:30 Constraining new physics with standard model measurements - David Yallup (University College London)
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Berry Lecture Theatre (3.21)
Contributions

11:00 Commissioning of a Laser Calibration System for SNO+ - Esther Turner

11:15 The physics of SNO+ - Edward Leming (University of Oxford)

11:30 Cosmic Muon Induced Neutrons in SNO+ - Billy Liggins
12:00 Session VI
Session VI
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Tyndall Lecture Theatre
Contributions

12:00 IoP Prize Lecture: Charm Physics - Marco Gersabeck (University of Manchester (GB))

12:30 Collider Physics Beyond the LHC - Victoria Jane Martin (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

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