IoP APP / HEPP Conference 2018

25 Mar 2018, 18:00 → 28 Mar 2018, 13:35 Europe/London

University of Bristol

Sunday 25 March

18:30 → 19:30 Drinks reception

Monday 26 March

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary: Session I

09:00 Welcome

Holding page slide APP HEPP 2018.pdf

Time_Notices.pdf

09:15 Multi-Messenger Physics

Speaker: Prof. Patrick Sutton

Sutton_HEP-APP_20180326.pdf

Sutton_HEP-APP_20180326.pptx

09:55 Gamma Ray Astronomy

Speaker: Anthony Brown (Durham University)

Gammaray_astronomy_Brown_IoP_APPHEPP2018.pdf

Gammaray_astronomy_Brown_IoP_APPHEPP2018.pptx

10:25 Dark Matter: Status and Prospects

Speaker: Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)

Dark Matter, IOP APP%2FHEPP, Bristol, March 2018.pdf

The Status of Dark Matter Searches

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel I: TBC

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

Speaker: Theodore Zorbas (University of Sheffield (GB))

IoP_Presentation_2018-03-26-Final.pdf

11:45 Search for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays to φγ and ργ with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Rhys Edward Owen (University of Birmingham (GB))

rhowen-HiggsPhiRhoATLAS.pdf

12:00 Search for boosted ttH(H→bb) with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Emma Winkels (University of Sussex (GB))

EWinkels_Boosted_ttHbb_IOP_March18.pdf

12:15 Searching for decays of the Higgs boson to charm quarks at ATLAS

Speaker: Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham (GB))

ZHccTalk_IoP2018_ElliotReynolds.pdf

12:30 Searches for additional neutral Higgs bosons in the di-tau final state with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

winterbottom.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel II: TBC

11:30 Measurement of the CP violating phase, φs, in Run 2 using B⁰s→J/ψK+K−

Speaker: Konstantin Gizdov (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

Bs2JpsiKK.pdf

11:45 Prospects for K±→π±μ+μ- at the LHCb Experiment

Speaker: Kristian Alexander Zarebski (University of Birmingham (GB))

KZarebski_ProsKPMM_IOP_HEPP_Conf.pdf

12:00 Status and prospects of the measurement of the pi+mu+mu- form factor with the NA62 experiment at CERN

Speaker: Christopher John Parkinson (University of Birmingham)

ChrisParkinson_IOP2018.pdf

12:15 Measurement of the branching fractions and form factors of K+→π⁰l+ν decays

Speaker: Mr Stoyan Trilov (University of Bristol (GB))

kl3_br_ff_measurement_trilov.pdf

12:30 Measurement of the K+ -> pi+ gamma gamma decay at NA62

Speaker: Maria Brigida Brunetti (University of Birmingham (GB))

Brunetti_iop_presentation.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel III: TBC

11:30 Vertex finding for pile-up mitigation in the Phase-2 upgrade of the Level-1 Trigger of CMS

Speaker: Antoni Shtipliyski (Imperial College (GB))

cms-vertexing-phase2-iop.pdf

11:45 Gaussian Processes for High Energy Physics

Speaker: Adam Bozson (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

ABozson_IOP_GP.pdf

12:00 Perspectives for SUSY in light of current LHC constraints

Speaker: Jonathan Costa (Imperial College London)

iop2018_jonathan.pdf

12:15 QED Parton Distribution Functions

Speaker: Ricky Nathvani

Nathvani.pdf

12:30 Positivity Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Speakers: Scott Melville (Imperial College, London), Scott Melville (Imperial College London)

Melville_IoP_26Mar18.pdf

Melville_IoP_26Mar18.pptx

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel IV: TBC

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

Speaker: Adam Lister

diffusionIOP2018.pdf

11:45 Calorimetric Energy Scale in the NOvA Detectors

Speaker: Tyler Alion (University of Sussex)

NOvA_EnergyCalibration_IOP.pdf

12:00 MicroBooNE NC Delta Radiative Single-Photon Search

Speaker: Robert Murrells

Murrells_iopbristol.pdf

12:15 Latest muon neutrino disappearance results from the NOvA experiment

Speaker: Diana Patricia Mendez (University of Sussex)

IOP2018_NOvA__DianaMendez__Anime.pdf

12:30 Comparison of Binned vs. Unbinned Likelihood Analyses for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements in NOvA

Speaker: Sebastian Bending

sbending_IOP_talk.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 APP AGM

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Parallel I: TBC

14:00 Measurement of Z+bb kinematic variables with ATLAS

Speaker: Chloe Gray (University of Glasgow (GB))

IOPTalk_CG_Zbb.pdf

14:15 Searching for invisible phenomena through measurement of events with jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at ATLAS

Speaker: Rebecca Hayley Pickles (University of Manchester (GB))

IOPTalk_RebeccaPickles.pdf

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

Speaker: Michael James Fenton (University of Glasgow (GB))

MFenton_IoPBristol_v2.pdf

14:45 Higgsinos and compressed sleptons: opening the soft lepton frontier for new physics at the LHC

Speaker: Jesse Liu (University of Oxford)

IoP_JL_26Mar2018.pdf

15:00 Dark Matter Searches at CMS

Speaker: Shane Davy Breeze (Imperial College (GB))

DarkMatterSearchesatCMS.pdf

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

Speaker: Corin James Keir Hoad (Brunel University (GB))

tZq_at_13TeV.pdf

14:00 → 15:45 Parallel II: TBC

14:00 Search for the decay B → p+p-μν

Speaker: Matthew James Tilley (Imperial College (GB))

IOP_TALK.pdf

14:15 Measuring the WW Production Cross-Section at LHCb

Speaker: Heather Mckenzie Wark (University of Liverpool (GB))

WW_hwark.pdf

WW_hwark.pptx

14:30 Search for Bc→DD decays with the LHCb detector

Speaker: Alison Maria Tully (University of Cambridge (GB))

IOP_Tully.pdf

14:45 Searching for lepton universality violation and New Physics in rare decays of Lambda baryons at the LHCb.

Speaker: Ross John Glew (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

IOP.pdf

15:00 Search for K+ to pi+ nu nu at NA62

Speaker: Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))

AngelaRomano_IoP2018.pdf

15:15 Search For Heavy Neutral Lepton Decays At NA62 Experiment At CERN

Speaker: Lorenza Iacobuzio (University of Birmingham (GB))

HNL.pdf

14:00 → 15:45 Parallel III: TBC

14:00 Sensor Characterisation and Readout for the LHCb VELO Upgrade

Speaker: Vinicius Franco Lima (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOP_2018_vfrancolima.pdf

14:15 3D Printing Gaseous Radiation Detectors

Speaker: Samuel Fargher

Fargher_IOP_TALK.pdf

Fargher_IOP_TALK.pptx

14:30 ATLAS inner detector decommissioning: Tolerance study of robotic components for use in high radiation environment

Speaker: Alice Cryer (University of Sheffield (GB))

Bristol_IOP-3 (1).pptx

Finger 1st Irrad.mp4

Finger 2nd Irrad.mp4

14:45 The LHCb VELO Upgrade

Speaker: Dutta Deepanwita

IOPTalk@dd.pdf

15:00 Bayesian optimisation of the SHiP muon shield

Speaker: Oliver Lantwin (Imperial College (GB))

talk.slides.pdf

15:15 Towards the highest precision detector at the LHC - The LHCb Upgrade VELO and Its Performance

Speaker: Chris Burr (University of Manchester (GB))

chris_burr.pdf

14:00 → 15:45 Parallel IV

14:00 Overview of the ANITA experiment

Speaker: Linda Cremonesi (Queen Mary University of London)

LCremonesi_ANITA_iop2018.pdf

14:15 Hunting Axionlike Dark Matter by Searching for an Oscillating Neutron Electric Dipole Moment

Speaker: Nick Ayres (University of Sussex)

IOP_HEPP_2018_ayres.pdf

14:30 Search for New Physics in Astrophysical Flavor at IceCube

Speaker: Shivesh Mandalia (Queen Mary University of London)

SM_IOP_180326.pdf

14:45 Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube

Speaker: Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London)

TK_LV_IoP18.pdf

15:00 Searching for WIMP dark matter with the LZ experiment

Speaker: Ibles Olcina

Olcina_LZsensitivity_IOP_Bristol_Ibles.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee

16:15 → 18:15 Plenary: Session II

16:15 Particle Beam Therapy in the UK

Speaker: Dr Michael Taylor (University of Manchester)

Particle therapy in the UK.pdf

Particle therapy in the UK.pptx

16:40 Promoting Physics in Developing Countries

Speaker: Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))

2018_03March_HEPPIOP_PPDC.pdf

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

Speaker: Christopher Berry

O2.pdf

17:35 Status of Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Dr Frank Deppisch

FrankDeppisch_IOP_Bristol.pdf

18:15 → 19:30 Poster reception

Tuesday 27 March

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary: Session III

09:00 Flavour Physics

Speaker: Greig Cowan (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

gcowan_iop_flavour.pdf

09:40 Lepton Flavour Physics

Speaker: Phillip Litchfield (UCL)

ChargedLeptons_IOP_16-9_rpl27032018.pdf

10:20 Who ordered that? Interpreting LFUV and other new physics signals from flavour.

Speaker: Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)

Lenz_Bristol_2018.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel I: TBC

11:30 Tagging boosted jets from top quarks and heavy vector bosons using jet substructure and multivariate techniques

Speaker: Amal Vaidya (University of London (GB))

IOP_talk_AV5.pdf

11:45 Searches for Resonant and Non-Resonant Higgs Pair Production in the bbtautau Decay Channel with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Emily Charlotte Graham (University of Liverpool (GB))

egraham_iop.pdf

12:00 Searches for heavy ZZ and ZW resonances in the llqq and ννqq final states at 13 TeV in the ATLAS detector

Speaker: David Philip John Lack (University of Manchester (GB))

DLack_IOPSlides.pdf

12:15 Measurements of Higgs boson cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Edward Scott (Imperial College (GB))

Hgg_EdScott.pdf

12:30 Higgs-to-Invisible Searches for the CMS experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Riccardo Di Maria (Imperial College (GB))

20180327DiMaria_VBFH(inv)_IOP_Bristol_v1.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel II: TBC

11:30 Relative branching fraction measurements of B→3h decays

Speaker: Cayo Costa Sobral (University of Warwick (GB))

b3h_IOP_new.pdf

11:45 A search for the decay Λb ->pKη' using the LHCb Run I dataset.

Speaker: Timothy Williams (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP2018TimWilliams.pdf

12:00 Anti-deuteron measurements at LHCb

Speaker: Sophie Katherine Baker (Imperial College (GB))

SKBaker_IOP2018.pdf

12:15 Searches for doubly charmed baryons at LHCb

Speaker: Murdo Thomas Traill (University of Glasgow (GB))

IOP_Talk_MTraill.pdf

12:30 Angular analysis of the decay $\Lambda_{b}^{0}\rightarrow \Lambda \mu^{+}\mu^{-}$

Speaker: Georgios Chatzikonstantinidis (University of Birmingham (GB))

Lb2Lmumu.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel III: TBC

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

Speaker: Lauren Anthony

HKOpticalCalibrationOverview_Lanthony.pdf

11:45 Gadolinium radiopurity assay programme for Super-Kamiokande

Speaker: Matthew Thiesse

sk_gd_thiesse.pdf

12:00 The Hyper-Kamiokande Outer-Detector : design, performance estimation of background rejection and physics potential

Speaker: Stephane Alexandre Zsoldos (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

12:15 Supernova Neutrino Simulations in Hyper-Kamiokande

Speaker: Jost Migenda (University of Sheffield)

SNnu simulations in HK.pdf

12:30 Innovation and Non-Proliferation - Particle Physics for Nuclear Threat Reduction

Speaker: Elisabeth Kneale

EKHEPP&APP.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Parallel IV: TBC

11:30 Status of the SuperNEMO double-beta decay experiment

Speaker: Cheryl Patrick (Northwestern University)

CPatrick_SuperNEMO_Status_IOP18.pdf

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

Speaker: Patrick Knights

pk_IOP_HEPP_APP_2018.pdf

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

Speaker: Lauren Dawson

LaurenDawsonIoP.pdf

12:15 Radon Background Mitigation Strategy for the SuperNEMO Experiment

Speaker: Fang Xie

XF_IOP_2018_WideScreen_V4.3.pdf

12:30 Search for light Dark Matter with NEWS-G

Speaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB))

20180327_kn_IoP.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 HEPP AGM

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary: Session IV

14:00 Standard Model Measurements at the LHC

Speaker: Ulla Blumenschein (University of London (GB))

14:30 Higgs Physics at the LHC

Speaker: Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College (GB))

nwardle_HiggsAtLHC.pdf

15:00 New Physics Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Jim Brooke (University of Bristol (GB))

IoP2018-LHC-BSM.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 STFC Town Meeting

HEPP18-FINAL.pptx

SBUpdate_PP_Town_2018.pdf

SBUpdate_PP_Town_2018.pptx

19:00 → 23:00 Dinner

Dinner will be held at xxx, arrival 19:00 for 19:30

Wednesday 28 March

09:00 → 10:35 Plenary: Session V

09:00 Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Andrzej Michal Szelc (University of Manchester (GB))

szelc_bristol.pdf

09:30 Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Asher Kaboth (RHUL/RAL)

IOP2018_LBLnu.pdf

10:00 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Absolute Mass

Speaker: Elisabeth Falk (University of Sussex (UK))

180328 IOP HEPP APP 0nubb and nu mass E Falk.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 Parallel I

11:00 Search for low mass dijet resonances in association with ISR in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Andreas Sogaard (University of Edinburgh (GB))

2018-03-28_IOP2018_AndreasSogaard.pdf

11:15 ATLAS Measurement of the Dynamics of Single Proton Dissociation at the LHC

Speaker: Andrew Geoffrey Foster (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP2018_AF_SD.pdf

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

Speaker: Michael Edward Nelson (University of Oxford (GB))

IOP_MNelson_March2018.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Parallel II

11:00 Search for hidden sectors in kaon decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN

Speaker: Dr Viacheslav Duk (University of Birmingham)

duk_hidden_sectors_iop18.pdf

11:15 Charged Higgs Bosons in Naturally Aligned Two Higgs Doublet Models at the LHC

Speaker: Emily Orgill (University of Manchester (GB))

APPHEPP_EOrgill_ChargedHiggs.pdf

11:30 Constraining new physics with standard model measurements

Speaker: David Yallup (University College London)

DY_IOP.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Parallel III

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

Speaker: Esther Turner

ETIOP2018Talk-Compressed-Version2.pdf

11:15 The physics of SNO+

Speaker: Dr Edward Leming (University of Oxford)

Physics_of_SNO+.pdf

11:30 Cosmic Muon Induced Neutrons in SNO+

Speaker: Billy Liggins

12:00 → 13:00 Plenary: Session VI

12:00 IoP Prize Lecture: Charm Physics

Speaker: Marco Gersabeck (University of Manchester (GB))

Charm_Gersabeck.pdf

12:30 Collider Physics Beyond the LHC

Speaker: Victoria Jane Martin (The University of Edinburgh (GB))