Name: IoP HEPP and AP joint meeting
Start: 2016-03-21T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2016-03-23T20:00:00+00:00
Location: University of Sussex

IoP HEPP and AP joint meeting

from Monday 21 March 2016 (08:00) to Wednesday 23 March 2016 (20:00)

Monday 21 March 2016

08:30

08:30 - 10:00
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

10:30 Precision perturbative QCD
Precision perturbative QCD
10:30 - 11:20
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:20 Standard model measurements at the LHC
Standard model measurements at the LHC
11:20 - 11:55
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:55 Higgs results at the LHC
Higgs results at the LHC
11:55 - 12:30
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:30 Practical Particle Physics in schools
Practical Particle Physics in schools
12:30 - 12:35
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:35

12:35 - 13:45

13:45 Search for supersymmetric and exotic signatures at the Large Hadron Collider with ATLAS and CMS
Search for supersymmetric and exotic signatures at the Large Hadron Collider with ATLAS and CMS
13:45 - 14:20
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

14:20 Future upgrades to the LHC
Future upgrades to the LHC
14:20 - 14:55
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

14:55 A UK perspective on future high energy colliders
A UK perspective on future high energy colliders
14:55 - 15:30
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

15:30

15:30 - 16:45
16:45 Session 1A
Session 1A
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:45 Searching for dijet resonances with the ATLAS detector - Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))

17:00 Pursuit of new physics in events with many jets at ATLAS - William James Fawcett (University of Oxford (GB))

17:15 Jet trigger performance and background studies for a dark matter search in ATLAS - Valentinos Christodoulou (University College London (UK))

17:30 Searches for diboson resonances at ATLAS using boson-tagged jets - Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University College London)
Session 1B
Session 1B
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

16:45 Charmless B meson decays Bs to p overline hh (h = pi,K) at LHCb - Giulio Dujany (University of Manchester (GB))

17:00 Studies of charmless multi-body b-baryon decays at LHCb - Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon (University of Warwick (GB))

17:15 Testing lepton universality in rare decays of Lb baryons using LHCb data - Sean Kirwan (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

17:30 Measurement of the forward energy flow in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb experiment - Karlis Dreimanis (University of Liverpool (GB))
Session 1C
Session 1C
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

16:45 Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 with the GERDA experiment - Andrea Kirsch (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)

17:00 Neutrinoless double beta decay with SNO+ - Edward Leming (University of Sussex)

17:15 Detecting Axion-Like Particles, originating from the Sun, with large neutrino detectors such as SNO+ - Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))

17:30 Search for Majorana neutrinos in LHCb - Federico Leo Redi (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Session 1D
Session 1D
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

16:45 Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen)

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

17:15 Results of the CASCADE microwave hidden sector photon search - Ian Bailey (Lancaster University)

17:30 Gauge-independence of tunneling rates - Carlos Tamarit (IPPP Durham)
Session 1E
Session 1E
16:45 - 17:45
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11)
Contributions

16:45 Testing lepton flavour universality with the R K0 ratio - Luca Pescatore (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:00 Asls and the Ds production asymmetry - Suzanne Klaver (University of Manchester (GB))

17:15 Lifetime measurements and time dependent CP violation of B->h+h'- - Sarah Karodia (University of Glasgow (GB))

17:30 Search for CP violation in multi-body charm decays with the energy test - Shanzhen Chen (University of Manchester (GB))
17:45

17:45 - 19:00
Tuesday 22 March 2016

09:00 Rare b-hadron decays
Rare b-hadron decays
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

09:35 Recent results from LHCb
Recent results from LHCb
09:35 - 10:10
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

10:10

10:10 - 10:45
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

10:45 The world of accelerator neutrinos
The world of accelerator neutrinos
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:20 Non-accelerator neutrino physics
Non-accelerator neutrino physics
11:20 - 11:55
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:55 Cosmology
Cosmology
11:55 - 12:30
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:30

12:30 - 13:45
13:45 Session 2A
Session 2A
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

13:45 Search for SM Higgs Boson decaying to two photons in run II LHC collision at CMS - Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

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 - William Dmitri Breaden Madden (University of Glasgow (GB))

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 - Benjamin Sowden (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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 - Samuel Joseph Crawley (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:45 Boosting Higgs pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state with multivariate techniques - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford (GB))

15:00 Search for rare exclusive Higgs boson decays to vector mesons and photons with ATLAS - James Broughton (University of Birmingham (GB))
Session 2B
Session 2B
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

13:45 Measurement of the W and Z boson production cross sections at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Rhys Edward Owen (University of Birmingham (GB))

14:00 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Stefan Richter (University College London (GB))

14:15 Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - 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 - Lewis James Armitage (University of London (GB))

14:45 Measurements of the top quark pair production rate in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Fabian Wilk (University of Manchester (GB))

15:00 Bs to mumu result from ATLAS - Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London (UK))
Session 2C
Session 2C
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

13:45 First neutrino oscillation results from NOvA - Luke Vinton (University of Sussex)

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

14:15 Charged-current neutral pion events in the ND280 for T2K. David Shaw, Lancaster - Dave Shaw (Lancaster University)

14:30 Low energy physics at Hyper-Kamiokande - Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford)

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

15:00 Precision neutrino oscillation physics at the South Pole. Steven Wren, University of Manchester, UK
Session 2D
Session 2D
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

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

14:00 Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - 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

14:30 DEAP-3600 dark matter detector - Nasim Fatemighomi (Royal Holloway University of London)

14:45 Position reconstruction in DEAP-3600 - Navin Seeburn (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Session 2E
Session 2E
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11)
Contributions

13:45 The ATLAS muon trigger in Run-2 - Savanna Marie Shaw (University of Manchester)

14:00 Generalisation in machine learning for HEP - Thomas James Stevenson (University of London (GB))

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

14:30 Development of a 3He-based absolute calibration magnetometer for the muon g-2 experiment - Sam Henry (University of Oxford)
15:15

15:15 - 16:30
16:30 Session 3A
Session 3A
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

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 - Stephen Jiggins (University of London (GB))

16:45 Search for beyond SM Higgs boson decaying to two tau leptons in Run-II ATLAS - Guillermo Nicolas Hamity (University of Sheffield (GB))

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

17:15 MonoH to bb in association with dark matter - Matt Baca (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:30 Searches for neutral BSM Higgs bosons with final states containing two taus - Adinda De Wit (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

17:45 The search for high mass resonances in Diboson decays at ATLAS in Run-2 - Joseph Stanford Ennis (University of Warwick (GB))
Session 3B
Session 3B
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

16:30 Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at CMS at a centre of mass energy of 13 TeV - Dominic Smith (University of Bristol (GB))

16:45 Summary of searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in √s=8 TeV pp collisions in ATLAS - Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB)) Itzebelt Santoyo Castillo (University of Sussex (GB))

17:00 Data-driven background estimation techniques used in ATLAS searches for SUSY - Calum Michael Macdonald (University of Sheffield (GB))

17:15 Direct stop pair production in the fully hadronic channel at ATLAS - Dave Lewis (University of London (GB))
Session 3C
Session 3C
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

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

16:45 Nucleon final state interaction in NEUT - Wing Yan Ma (Imperial College London)

17:00 A truth study using transverse variables to characterise nuclear effects in neutrino–nucleus scattering - Luke Pickering (Imperial College London)

17:15 Neutrino coherent pion production - 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 - Michael Wallbank

17:45 Particle Identification in the 35 ton and Cosmogenic simulations. Thomas Warburton, University of Sheffield, UK - Thomas Warburton (University of Sheffield, UK)
Session 3D
Session 3D
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

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

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

17:00 Prospects for the direct detection of dark matter with inelastic transitions of xenon - Christopher McCabe Christopher Mccabe

17:15 UK materials screening for the LZ dark matter direct detection experiment and future rare event searches - 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
Session 3E
Session 3E
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11)
Contributions

16:30 Reactor monitoring with T2K anti-neutrino technology - Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:45 Muon radiography for carbon storage monitoring - David Woodward (University of Sheffield)

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

17:15 Fabrication and characterisation of 3D diamond detectors - Steven Alexander Murphy (University of Manchester (GB))

17:30 3D diamond detector development - Giulio Tiziano Forcolin (University of Manchester (GB))
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

19:00

19:00 - 20:00
Wednesday 23 March 2016

09:00 Electric Dipole Moment experiments
Electric Dipole Moment experiments
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
09:35 Session 4A
Session 4A
09:35 - 10:35
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:35 The search for the production of four top quarks at the CMS experiment - Lana Margaret Gwen Beck (University of Bristol (GB))

09:50 Search for high mass Zgamma resonances using leptonic Z Boson decays in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Nathan Peter Readioff (University of Liverpool (GB))

10:05 Theoretical uncertainties in the search for heavy gauge bosons at the LHC - Ellis Kay (University of Liverpool (GB))
Session 4B
Session 4B
09:35 - 10:35
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

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

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

10:05 Search for bottom squark pair production with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13TeV - John Kenneth Anders (University of Liverpool (GB))
Session 4C
Session 4C
09:35 - 10:35
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

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 - Antonin Vacheret (University of Oxford)
Session 4D
Session 4D
09:35 - 10:35
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

09:35 Status of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS - Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))

09:50 The coherent muon to electron transition experiment - Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London)

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 - Malcolm Bruce Skinner (Lancaster University (GB))
10:35

10:35 - 11:05
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:05 Direct searches for galactic particle dark matter
Direct searches for galactic particle dark matter
11:05 - 11:40
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:40 TBC
TBC
11:40 - 12:15
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:15

12:15 - 13:30

13:30 UK astroparticle physics research
UK astroparticle physics research
13:30 - 14:05
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

14:05

14:05 - 15:00
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

15:00 Update from STFC - 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

19:00 - 20:00
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

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