IoP HEPP and AP joint meeting

21 Mar 2016, 08:00 → 23 Mar 2016, 20:00 Europe/London

Chichester Lecture Theatre (University of Sussex)

Antonella De Santo (University of Sussex (GB)), Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex (GB)), Fabrizio Salvatore (University of Sussex (GB)), Joanne Hemstock (Institute of Physics), Philip Harris, Simon Peeters (University of Sussex)

This is the annual joint meeting of the Institute of Physics High Energy Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics Groups. The meeting will take place at the University of Sussex, starting on Monday 21 March. An STFC town meeting will follow the conference on the afternoon of 23 March. The conference will focus on both experimental, as well as theoretical physics within the following themes: collider physics neutrino physics flavour physics non-accelerator particle physics astroparticle physics particle physics particle physics detectors particle accelerators for future projects Twitter hashtag: #IOPSUSSEX2016 The 42nd Annual Bubble Chamber HEP football tournament will be held on Sunday 20 March. Organised jointly by the IOP High Energy Particle Physics Group and the IOP Astroparticle Physics Group

Monday 21 March ¶

08:30 → 10:00 Arrival¶

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome¶

welcome_and_directions.pdf

welcome_and_directions.pptx

10:30 → 11:20 Keith Ellis (IPPP): Precision perturbative QCD¶

Precision perturbative QCD

Convener: Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Precision.pdf

11:20 → 11:55 Chris Hays (Oxford): Standard model measurements at the LHC¶

Convener: Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB))

IOP2016.pdf

11:55 → 12:30 Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (Birmingham): Higgs results at the LHC¶

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

20160421_kn_IoP.pdf

12:30 → 12:35 Becky Parker, Institute for Research in Schools: Practical Particle Physics in schools¶

Convener: Rebecca Parker (Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys (GB))

IRIS Sussex 21st March.pdf

IRIS Sussex 21st March.pptx

12:35 → 13:45 Lunch / APP AGM¶

13:45 → 14:20 Iacopo Vivarelli (Sussex): Search for supersymmetric and exotic signatures at the Large Hadron Collider with ATLAS and CMS¶

Convener: Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex (GB))

IOP_vivarelli.pdf

14:20 → 14:55 Alex Tapper (Imperial): Future upgrades to the LHC¶

Convener: Alex Tapper (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

IoP-2016.pdf

14:55 → 15:30 Stewart Boogert (RHUL/JAI): A UK perspective on future high energy colliders¶

Convener: Stewart boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London)

IOP_Accelerators_Boogert.pdf

15:30 → 16:45 Poster session 1 and refreshments¶

16:45 → 17:45 Parallel session 1: Session 1A¶

16:45 Searching for dijet resonances with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))

IOP.pdf

17:00 Pursuit of new physics in events with many jets at ATLAS¶

Speaker: William James Fawcett (University of Oxford (GB))

persuit_of_SUSY_IOP.pdf

17:15 Jet trigger performance and background studies for a dark matter search in ATLAS¶

Speaker: Valentinos Christodoulou (University College London (UK))

IoP 21-03-2016.pdf

17:30 Searches for diboson resonances at ATLAS using boson-tagged jets¶

Speaker: Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University College London)

VVJJ_IOP_0316.pdf

16:45 → 17:45 Parallel session 1: Session 1B¶

16:45 Charmless B meson decays Bs to p overline hh (h = pi,K) at LHCb¶

Speaker: Giulio Dujany (University of Manchester (GB))

B2pphh.pdf

17:00 Studies of charmless multi-body b-baryon decays at LHCb¶

Speaker: Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon (University of Warwick (GB))

20160321-IOP.pdf

17:15 Testing lepton universality in rare decays of Lb baryons using LHCb data¶

Speaker: Sean Kirwan (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Testing Lepton Universality in Rare Decays of Lb Baryons Using LHCb Data.pdf

17:30 Measurement of the forward energy flow in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb experiment¶

Speaker: Karlis Dreimanis (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOP-20160321.pdf

16:45 → 17:45 Parallel session 1: Session 1C¶

16:45 Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 with the GERDA experiment¶

Speaker: Andrea Kirsch (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)

talk.pdf

17:00 Neutrinoless double beta decay with SNO+¶

Speaker: Edward Leming (University of Sussex)

SNO+_overview.pdf

17:15 Detecting Axion-Like Particles, originating from the Sun, with large neutrino detectors such as SNO+¶

Speaker: Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))

alp_iop_presentation.pdf

17:30 Search for Majorana neutrinos in LHCb¶

Speaker: Federico Leo Redi (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

FRedi_Majorana_LHCb_IOP2016v3.pdf

16:45 → 17:45 Parallel session 1: Session 1D¶

16:45 Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory¶

Speaker: Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen)

Session1DAMvandenBerg.pdf

17:00 Interactions between ultra high-energy particles and protogalactic environments. Ellis Owen, UCL¶

eowen_HEP_APP_brighton.pdf

17:15 Results of the CASCADE microwave hidden sector photon search¶

Speaker: Ian Bailey (Lancaster University)

IoPIRB210316.pdf

17:30 Gauge-independence of tunneling rates¶

Speaker: Carlos Tamarit (IPPP Durham)

sussex.pdf

16:45 → 17:45 Parallel session 1: Session 1E¶

16:45 Testing lepton flavour universality with the R K0 ratio¶

Speaker: Luca Pescatore (University of Birmingham (GB))

IOP_RKst_pescatore.pdf

17:00 Asls and the Ds production asymmetry¶

Speaker: Suzanne Klaver (University of Manchester (GB))

Asls_Ds_IOP_Suzanne.pdf

17:15 Lifetime measurements and time dependent CP violation of B->h+h'-¶

Speaker: Sarah Karodia (University of Glasgow (GB))

b2hh.pdf

17:30 Search for CP violation in multi-body charm decays with the energy test¶

Speaker: Shanzhen Chen (University of Manchester (GB))

Shanzhen_21_3_2016_IoP.pdf

17:45 → 19:00 Welcome drinks reception¶

Tuesday 22 March ¶

09:00 → 09:35 Tom Blake (Warwick): Rare b-hadron decays¶

Convener: Thomas Blake (University of Warwick)

tblake_iop.pdf

09:35 → 10:10 Kostantinos Petridis (Bristol): Recent results from LHCb¶

Convener: Konstantinos Petridis (University of Bristol (GB))

IOPLHCbResults2016_KAPetridis.pdf

10:10 → 10:45 Refreshment break¶

10:45 → 11:20 Anna Holin (UCL): The world of accelerator neutrinos¶

Convener: Anna Holin (University College London)

IOP_plenary_22032016_Hollin.pdf

11:20 → 11:55 Kai Zuber (Dresden): Non-accelerator neutrino physics¶

Convener: Kai Zuber (Technische Universitaet Dresden)

IOPHep-zuber.pdf

11:55 → 12:30 Anne Green (Nottingham): Cosmology¶

Convener: Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex (GB))

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch / HEP AGM¶

13:45 → 15:15 Parallel session 2: Session 2A¶

13:45 Search for SM Higgs Boson decaying to two photons in run II LHC collision at CMS¶

Speaker: Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Louie Corpe IOP March 2016 2.pdf

14:00 Search for Standard Model Higgs bosons produced in association with a t quark pair and decaying to two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV in ATLAS¶

Speaker: William Dmitri Breaden Madden (University of Glasgow (GB))

2016-03-22_IOP_Will_Breaden_Madden.pdf

14:15 Search for the Higgs Boson decaying to two b-quarks, produced in association with leptonically decaying top quarks in Run 2 at ATLAS¶

Speaker: Benjamin Sowden (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16-03-22 - IOP.pdf

14:30 Search for SM Higgs bosons produced in association with a t quark pair and decaying to two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV in ATLAS, in the boosted regime¶

Speaker: Samuel Joseph Crawley (University of Glasgow (GB))

IOP_S-Crawley.pdf

14:45 Boosting Higgs pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state with multivariate techniques¶

Speaker: Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford (GB))

Issever_2H4b.pdf

Issever_2H4b.pptx

15:00 Search for rare exclusive Higgs boson decays to vector mesons and photons with ATLAS¶

Speaker: James Broughton (University of Birmingham (GB))

JBROUGHTON-IOPTALK2016.pdf

13:45 → 15:15 Parallel session 2: Session 2B¶

13:45 Measurement of the W and Z boson production cross sections at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

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

rhowen-WZxSections13Tev.pdf

14:00 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Stefan Richter (University College London (GB))

Presentation.pdf

14:15 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Jonatan Rosten (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:30 Measurement of the triple differential cross section of Drell-Yan production at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Lewis James Armitage (University of London (GB))

3D_Slides_For_IOP.pdf

14:45 Measurements of the top quark pair production rate in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Fabian Wilk (University of Manchester (GB))

IOP2016_FabianWilk.pdf

15:00 Bs to mumu result from ATLAS¶

Speaker: Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London (UK))

bona_iop2016.pdf

13:45 → 15:15 Parallel session 2: Session 2C¶

13:45 First neutrino oscillation results from NOvA¶

Speaker: Luke Vinton (University of Sussex)

IOP_nova_vinton.pdf

14:00 Status of sterile neutrino global fits to neutrino oscillation data. Davio Cianci, Manchester¶

dcianci_IOP2016.pdf

14:15 Charged-current neutral pion events in the ND280 for T2K. David Shaw, Lancaster¶

Speaker: Dave Shaw (Lancaster University)

CCPi0PackageIOP2016Updated.pdf

14:30 Low energy physics at Hyper-Kamiokande¶

Speaker: Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford)

dealtry_2016_03_22_iop.pdf

14:45 Atmospheric-neutrino flux-integrated differential cross-section measurement in IceCube¶

Speaker: Shivesh Mandalia

SM_IC_IOP16_v2.pdf

15:00 Precision neutrino oscillation physics at the South Pole. Steven Wren, University of Manchester, UK¶

SWrenIoPPANPDeepCoreTalk2016.pdf

13:45 → 15:15 Parallel session 2: Session 2D¶

13:45 Direct Dark Matter searches with the LUX and LZ experiments. Sally Shaw, University College London, UK¶

DarkMatter_IoP2016_SShaw.pdf

14:00 Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment¶

Speaker: Paolo Beltrame (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

14:15 Multiple interaction event rejection in the LZ dark matter detector. Thomas Davison, University of Edinburgh, UK¶

IOP TALK - Tom.pdf

14:30 DEAP-3600 dark matter detector¶

Speaker: Dr Nasim Fatemighomi (Royal Holloway University of London)

NasimFatemighomiIOPMarch2016.pdf

14:45 Position reconstruction in DEAP-3600¶

Speaker: Navin Seeburn (Royal Holloway, University of London)

2016-03-22-NSeeburn-IOP-Sussex2016.pdf

13:45 → 15:15 Parallel session 2: Session 2E¶

13:45 The ATLAS muon trigger in Run-2¶

Speaker: Savanna Marie Shaw (University of Manchester)

sshaw_iop2016.pdf

14:00 Generalisation in machine learning for HEP¶

Speaker: Thomas James Stevenson (University of London (GB))

iop_2016_generalisation.pdf

14:15 Gaseous photomultiplier development for position-sensitive VUV light detection in liquid argon¶

Speaker: Matthew Thiesse

GPM_Thiesse.pdf

14:30 Development of a 3He-based absolute calibration magnetometer for the muon g-2 experiment¶

Speaker: Sam Henry (University of Oxford)

g-2_magnet_IOP_2016_SH.pdf

15:15 → 16:30 Poster session 2 and refreshments¶

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel session 3: Session 3A¶

16:30 Search for new resonances decaying to a W or Z boson and a Higgs in 0,1,2 lepton channels in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Stephen Jiggins (University of London (GB))

IOP_mk4.pdf

16:45 Search for beyond SM Higgs boson decaying to two tau leptons in Run-II ATLAS¶

Speaker: Guillermo Nicolas Hamity (University of Sheffield (GB))

tautau.pdf

17:00 Perturbative unitarity bound on the parameter space in composite two Higgs doublet models. Emine Yildirim, University of Southampton, UK¶

IOP.pdf

17:15 MonoH to bb in association with dark matter¶

Speaker: Matt Baca (University of Birmingham (GB))

IoP_2016_MattBaca.pdf

17:30 Searches for neutral BSM Higgs bosons with final states containing two taus¶

Speaker: Adinda De Wit (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

IoPAdeWit2203.pdf

17:45 The search for high mass resonances in Diboson decays at ATLAS in Run-2¶

Speaker: Joseph Stanford Ennis (University of Warwick (GB))

vvjj-iop-2016.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel session 3: Session 3B¶

16:30 Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at CMS at a centre of mass energy of 13 TeV¶

Speaker: Dominic Smith (University of Bristol (GB))

HEPPConference_DSmith_220316.pdf

16:45 Summary of searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in √s=8 TeV pp collisions in ATLAS¶

Speakers: Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB)), Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB))

ItzebeltSantoyo_IoP2016_EWKSupersymmetryTalk.pdf

17:00 Data-driven background estimation techniques used in ATLAS searches for SUSY¶

Speaker: Calum Michael Macdonald (University of Sheffield (GB))

IOP_2016_ATLASSUSY_DataDriven_final.pdf

17:15 Direct stop pair production in the fully hadronic channel at ATLAS¶

Speaker: Dave Lewis (University of London (GB))

DaveLewis_IOP_2016.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel session 3: Session 3C¶

16:30 NC gamma, an exclusive channel for neutrino photo-production in GENIE neutrino event generator. Pierre Lasorak, Queen Mary, University of London, UK¶

NCGammaGenerator_lasorak.pdf

16:45 Nucleon final state interaction in NEUT¶

Speaker: Wing Yan Ma (Imperial College London)

IOP160322_ma.pdf

17:00 A truth study using transverse variables to characterise nuclear effects in neutrino–nucleus scattering¶

Speaker: Luke Pickering (Imperial College London)

lp208_IOP2016_HEPP_APP_trap.pdf

17:15 Neutrino coherent pion production¶

Speaker: Paul Martins (C)

17:30 Shower reconstruction in LAr for the detection of pi0s in the DUNE far detector. Michael Wallbank, University of Sheffield, UK¶

Speaker: Michael Wallbank

LArShowerReconstruction.pdf

17:45 Particle Identification in the 35 ton and Cosmogenic simulations. Thomas Warburton, University of Sheffield, UK¶

Speaker: Mr Thomas Warburton (University of Sheffield, UK)

PID_and_CosmicBg_IOP_2016.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel session 3: Session 3D¶

16:30 Liquid level monitoring with a differential capacitive sensor for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment. Fengting Liao, University of Oxford, UK¶

Speaker: FengTing Liao

FTLiao_IOP_LZ_LvlSensor.pdf

16:45 Simplified readout for CYGNUS-TPC: a massive directional dark matter detector. Anthony Ezeribe, University of Sheffield, UK¶

Ezeribe_IOP_JHEPP_APP_Sussex_March_2016_final.pdf

17:00 Prospects for the direct detection of dark matter with inelastic transitions of xenon¶

Speakers: Christopher McCabe, Christopher Mccabe

McCabe_Exciting.pdf

17:15 UK materials screening for the LZ dark matter direct detection experiment and future rare event searches¶

Speaker: James Edward Young Dobson

17:30 Boulby Underground Laboratory: update of science hosted and infrastructure for new projects. Chris Toth, STFC, UK¶

17:45 Radio-purity strategy for the SuperNEMO experiment. Xinran Liu, University College London, UK¶

16:30 → 18:00 Parallel session 3: Session 3E¶

16:30 Reactor monitoring with T2K anti-neutrino technology¶

Speaker: Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOP2016_ReactorMonitoring_YSchnellbach.pdf

16:45 Muon radiography for carbon storage monitoring¶

Speaker: David Woodward (University of Sheffield)

iop2016_carbon.pdf

17:00 Prototype atom interferometer for fundamental physics. David Morris, University of Liverpool, UK¶

IOP_2016_David_Morris.pdf

17:15 Fabrication and characterisation of 3D diamond detectors¶

Speaker: Steven Alexander Murphy (University of Manchester (GB))

SMurphyIoP2016.pdf

17:30 3D diamond detector development¶

Speaker: Giulio Tiziano Forcolin (University of Manchester (GB))

ForcolinIOP2016Talk3.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Break¶

19:00 → 20:00 Conference dinner¶

Wednesday 23 March ¶

09:00 → 09:35 Stéphanie Roccia (CNRS): Electric Dipole Moment experiments¶

Conveners: Stephanie Roccia (CSNSM Universite Paris Sud IN2P3 CNRS), stephanie roccia (Universite Paris Sud)

S_Roccia.pdf

09:35 → 10:35 Parallel session 4: Session 4A¶

09:35 The search for the production of four top quarks at the CMS experiment¶

Speaker: Lana Margaret Gwen Beck (University of Bristol (GB))

IOPLanaPDFfinal.pdf

09:50 Search for high mass Zgamma resonances using leptonic Z Boson decays in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Nathan Peter Readioff (University of Liverpool (GB))

NReadioff_IOP_2016_V5.pdf

10:05 Theoretical uncertainties in the search for heavy gauge bosons at the LHC¶

Speaker: Ellis Kay (University of Liverpool (GB))

pdf_uncertainty_treatment.pdf

09:35 → 10:35 Parallel session 4: Session 4B¶

09:35 Determining the standard model backgrounds of a search for new physics with jets and missing transverse momentum in 13 TeV pp collisions at the LHC¶

Speaker: Adam Christopher Elwood (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

160323_aelwood_IOP.pdf

09:50 Statistical methods for optimising the sensitivity of a search for new physics using jets and missing transverse momentum in 13 TeV pp collisions at the LHC¶

Speaker: Matthew Daniel Citron (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

MCitron_IOPTalk_160323.pdf

10:05 Search for bottom squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13TeV¶

Speaker: John Kenneth Anders (University of Liverpool (GB))

SbottomRun2_JAnders.pdf

09:35 → 10:35 Parallel session 4: Session 4C¶

09:35 The ANNIE Experiment - Measuring neutron yield from accelerator neutrino interactions. Marcus O'Flaherty, University of Sheffield, UK¶

09:50 Prototype detection unit for the CHIPS experiment. Maciej Pfutzner, University College London, UK¶

10:05 Search for short baseline oscillations with the SoLid Experiment¶

Speaker: Antonin Vacheret (University of Oxford)

SoLid-Vacheret.pdf

09:35 → 10:35 Parallel session 4: Session 4D¶

09:35 Status of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS¶

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

AngelaRomano_IoP2016.pdf

09:50 The coherent muon to electron transition experiment¶

Speaker: Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London)

20160323-IOP-Kurup.pdf

20160323-IOP-Kurup.pptx

10:05 Physics with the g-2 straw tracker. Thomas Stuttard, University College London, UK¶

10:20 Measurement of the width difference of the B_d meson with the ATLAS detector¶

Speaker: Malcolm Bruce Skinner (Lancaster University (GB))

20160323.pdf

10:35 → 11:05 Refreshment break¶

11:05 → 11:40 Neil Spooner (Sheffield): Direct searches for galactic particle dark matter¶

Convener: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

IOP2016Spoonerv1.pdf

11:40 → 12:15 Themis Bowcock (Liverpool): TBC¶

Conveners: Themis Bowcock (CERN), Themis Bowcock (University of Liverpool (GB))

IOP 7.pdf

IOP 7.pptx

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch¶

13:30 → 14:05 Giles Hammond (Glasgow): UK astroparticle physics research¶

Convener: Giles Hammond (University of Birmingham)

14:05 → 15:00 Keynote and closing remarks¶

15:00 → 16:30 STFC Town Meeting¶

15:00 Update from STFC¶

Speakers: Grahame Blair (RHUL), Grahame Blair (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London), Grahame Blair (University of London (GB)), John William Womersley (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)), John Womersley (RAL)

15:30 Update from Particle Physics Advisory Panel chair¶

15:40 Update from Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel chair¶

15:50 Update from STFC Science Board¶

16:00 Q&A¶

19:00 → 20:00 Public lecture¶