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, March 21, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, March 23, 2016 (8:00 PM)

Monday, March 21, 2016

8:30 AM Arrival

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

10:00 AM Welcome

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

10:30 AM Keith Ellis (IPPP): Precision perturbative QCD
Precision perturbative QCD
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:20 AM Chris Hays (Oxford): Standard model measurements at the LHC
Standard model measurements at the LHC
11:20 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:55 AM Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (Birmingham): Higgs results at the LHC
Higgs results at the LHC
11:55 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:30 PM Becky Parker, Institute for Research in Schools: Practical Particle Physics in schools
Practical Particle Physics in schools
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:35 PM Lunch / APP AGM

12:35 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM Iacopo Vivarelli (Sussex): 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
1:45 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

2:20 PM Alex Tapper (Imperial): Future upgrades to the LHC
Future upgrades to the LHC
2:20 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

2:55 PM Stewart Boogert (RHUL/JAI): A UK perspective on future high energy colliders
A UK perspective on future high energy colliders
2:55 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

3:30 PM Poster session 1 and refreshments

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM Parallel session 1: Session 1A
Session 1A
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:45 PM Searching for dijet resonances with the ATLAS detector - Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))

5:00 PM Pursuit of new physics in events with many jets at ATLAS - William James Fawcett (University of Oxford (GB))

5:15 PM Jet trigger performance and background studies for a dark matter search in ATLAS - Valentinos Christodoulou (University College London (UK))

5:30 PM Searches for diboson resonances at ATLAS using boson-tagged jets - Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University College London)
Parallel session 1: Session 1B
Session 1B
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

4:45 PM Charmless B meson decays Bs to p overline hh (h = pi,K) at LHCb - Giulio Dujany (University of Manchester (GB))

5:00 PM Studies of charmless multi-body b-baryon decays at LHCb - Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon (University of Warwick (GB))

5:15 PM Testing lepton universality in rare decays of Lb baryons using LHCb data - Sean Kirwan (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

5:30 PM 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))
Parallel session 1: Session 1C
Session 1C
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

4:45 PM Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 with the GERDA experiment - Andrea Kirsch (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics)

5:00 PM Neutrinoless double beta decay with SNO+ - Edward Leming (University of Sussex)

5:15 PM Detecting Axion-Like Particles, originating from the Sun, with large neutrino detectors such as SNO+ - Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))

5:30 PM Search for Majorana neutrinos in LHCb - Federico Leo Redi (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
Parallel session 1: Session 1D
Session 1D
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

4:45 PM Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen)

5:00 PM Interactions between ultra high-energy particles and protogalactic environments. Ellis Owen, UCL

5:15 PM Results of the CASCADE microwave hidden sector photon search - Ian Bailey (Lancaster University)

5:30 PM Gauge-independence of tunneling rates - Carlos Tamarit (IPPP Durham)
Parallel session 1: Session 1E
Session 1E
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11)
Contributions

4:45 PM Testing lepton flavour universality with the R K0 ratio - Luca Pescatore (University of Birmingham (GB))

5:00 PM Asls and the Ds production asymmetry - Suzanne Klaver (University of Manchester (GB))

5:15 PM Lifetime measurements and time dependent CP violation of B->h+h'- - Sarah Karodia (University of Glasgow (GB))

5:30 PM Search for CP violation in multi-body charm decays with the energy test - Shanzhen Chen (University of Manchester (GB))
5:45 PM Welcome drinks reception

5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

9:00 AM Tom Blake (Warwick): Rare b-hadron decays
Rare b-hadron decays
9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

9:35 AM Kostantinos Petridis (Bristol): Recent results from LHCb
Recent results from LHCb
9:35 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

10:10 AM Refreshment break

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

10:45 AM Anna Holin (UCL): The world of accelerator neutrinos
The world of accelerator neutrinos
10:45 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:20 AM Kai Zuber (Dresden): Non-accelerator neutrino physics
Non-accelerator neutrino physics
11:20 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:55 AM Anne Green (Nottingham): Cosmology
Cosmology
11:55 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:30 PM Lunch / HEP AGM

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Parallel session 2: Session 2A
Session 2A
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

1:45 PM 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))

2:00 PM 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))

2:15 PM 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)

2:30 PM 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))

2:45 PM Boosting Higgs pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state with multivariate techniques - Cigdem Issever (University of Oxford (GB))

3:00 PM Search for rare exclusive Higgs boson decays to vector mesons and photons with ATLAS - James Broughton (University of Birmingham (GB))
Parallel session 2: Session 2B
Session 2B
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

1:45 PM 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))

2:00 PM 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))

2:15 PM Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Jonatan Rosten (University of Cambridge (GB))

2:30 PM 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))

2:45 PM Measurements of the top quark pair production rate in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Fabian Wilk (University of Manchester (GB))

3:00 PM Bs to mumu result from ATLAS - Marcella Bona (Queen Mary University of London (UK))
Parallel session 2: Session 2C
Session 2C
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

1:45 PM First neutrino oscillation results from NOvA - Luke Vinton (University of Sussex)

2:00 PM Status of sterile neutrino global fits to neutrino oscillation data. Davio Cianci, Manchester

2:15 PM Charged-current neutral pion events in the ND280 for T2K. David Shaw, Lancaster - Dave Shaw (Lancaster University)

2:30 PM Low energy physics at Hyper-Kamiokande - Thomas Dealtry (RAL & University of Oxford)

2:45 PM Atmospheric-neutrino flux-integrated differential cross-section measurement in IceCube - Shivesh Mandalia

3:00 PM Precision neutrino oscillation physics at the South Pole. Steven Wren, University of Manchester, UK
Parallel session 2: Session 2D
Session 2D
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

1:45 PM Direct Dark Matter searches with the LUX and LZ experiments. Sally Shaw, University College London, UK

2:00 PM Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - Paolo Beltrame (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

2:15 PM Multiple interaction event rejection in the LZ dark matter detector. Thomas Davison, University of Edinburgh, UK

2:30 PM DEAP-3600 dark matter detector - Nasim Fatemighomi (Royal Holloway University of London)

2:45 PM Position reconstruction in DEAP-3600 - Navin Seeburn (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Parallel session 2: Session 2E
Session 2E
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11)
Contributions

1:45 PM The ATLAS muon trigger in Run-2 - Savanna Marie Shaw (University of Manchester)

2:00 PM Generalisation in machine learning for HEP - Thomas James Stevenson (University of London (GB))

2:15 PM Gaseous photomultiplier development for position-sensitive VUV light detection in liquid argon - Matthew Thiesse

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

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Parallel session 3: Session 3A
Session 3A
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:30 PM 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))

4:45 PM Search for beyond SM Higgs boson decaying to two tau leptons in Run-II ATLAS - Guillermo Nicolas Hamity (University of Sheffield (GB))

5:00 PM Perturbative unitarity bound on the parameter space in composite two Higgs doublet models. Emine Yildirim, University of Southampton, UK

5:15 PM MonoH to bb in association with dark matter - Matt Baca (University of Birmingham (GB))

5:30 PM Searches for neutral BSM Higgs bosons with final states containing two taus - Adinda De Wit (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

5:45 PM The search for high mass resonances in Diboson decays at ATLAS in Run-2 - Joseph Stanford Ennis (University of Warwick (GB))
Parallel session 3: Session 3B
Session 3B
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

4:30 PM Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at CMS at a centre of mass energy of 13 TeV - Dominic Smith (University of Bristol (GB))

4:45 PM 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))

5:00 PM Data-driven background estimation techniques used in ATLAS searches for SUSY - Calum Michael Macdonald (University of Sheffield (GB))

5:15 PM Direct stop pair production in the fully hadronic channel at ATLAS - Dave Lewis (University of London (GB))
Parallel session 3: Session 3C
Session 3C
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

4:30 PM NC gamma, an exclusive channel for neutrino photo-production in GENIE neutrino event generator. Pierre Lasorak, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

4:45 PM Nucleon final state interaction in NEUT - Wing Yan Ma (Imperial College London)

5:00 PM A truth study using transverse variables to characterise nuclear effects in neutrino–nucleus scattering - Luke Pickering (Imperial College London)

5:15 PM Neutrino coherent pion production - Paul Martins (C)

5:30 PM Shower reconstruction in LAr for the detection of pi0s in the DUNE far detector. Michael Wallbank, University of Sheffield, UK - Michael Wallbank

5:45 PM Particle Identification in the 35 ton and Cosmogenic simulations. Thomas Warburton, University of Sheffield, UK - Thomas Warburton (University of Sheffield, UK)
Parallel session 3: Session 3D
Session 3D
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

4:30 PM Liquid level monitoring with a differential capacitive sensor for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment. Fengting Liao, University of Oxford, UK - FengTing Liao

4:45 PM Simplified readout for CYGNUS-TPC: a massive directional dark matter detector. Anthony Ezeribe, University of Sheffield, UK

5:00 PM Prospects for the direct detection of dark matter with inelastic transitions of xenon - Christopher McCabe Christopher Mccabe

5:15 PM UK materials screening for the LZ dark matter direct detection experiment and future rare event searches - James Edward Young Dobson

5:30 PM Boulby Underground Laboratory: update of science hosted and infrastructure for new projects. Chris Toth, STFC, UK

5:45 PM Radio-purity strategy for the SuperNEMO experiment. Xinran Liu, University College London, UK
Parallel session 3: Session 3E
Session 3E
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D11 (2D11)
Contributions

4:30 PM Reactor monitoring with T2K anti-neutrino technology - Yan Jie Schnellbach (University of Liverpool (GB))

4:45 PM Muon radiography for carbon storage monitoring - David Woodward (University of Sheffield)

5:00 PM Prototype atom interferometer for fundamental physics. David Morris, University of Liverpool, UK

5:15 PM Fabrication and characterisation of 3D diamond detectors - Steven Alexander Murphy (University of Manchester (GB))

5:30 PM 3D diamond detector development - Giulio Tiziano Forcolin (University of Manchester (GB))
6:00 PM Break

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

7:00 PM Conference dinner

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

9:00 AM Stéphanie Roccia (CNRS): Electric Dipole Moment experiments
Electric Dipole Moment experiments
9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
9:35 AM Parallel session 4: Session 4A
Session 4A
9:35 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:35 AM The search for the production of four top quarks at the CMS experiment - Lana Margaret Gwen Beck (University of Bristol (GB))

9:50 AM 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 AM Theoretical uncertainties in the search for heavy gauge bosons at the LHC - Ellis Kay (University of Liverpool (GB))
Parallel session 4: Session 4B
Session 4B
9:35 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A06 (1A06)
Contributions

9:35 AM 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))

9:50 AM 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 AM 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))
Parallel session 4: Session 4C
Session 4C
9:35 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 1 A07 (1A07)
Contributions

9:35 AM The ANNIE Experiment - Measuring neutron yield from accelerator neutrino interactions. Marcus O'Flaherty, University of Sheffield, UK

9:50 AM Prototype detection unit for the CHIPS experiment. Maciej Pfutzner, University College London, UK

10:05 AM Search for short baseline oscillations with the SoLid Experiment - Antonin Vacheret (University of Oxford)
Parallel session 4: Session 4D
Session 4D
9:35 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: Pevensey 1, Level 2 D10 (2D10)
Contributions

9:35 AM Status of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS - Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))

9:50 AM The coherent muon to electron transition experiment - Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London)

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

10:20 AM Measurement of the width difference of the B_d meson with the ATLAS detector - Malcolm Bruce Skinner (Lancaster University (GB))
10:35 AM Refreshment break

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

11:05 AM Neil Spooner (Sheffield): Direct searches for galactic particle dark matter
Direct searches for galactic particle dark matter
11:05 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

11:40 AM Themis Bowcock (Liverpool): TBC
TBC
11:40 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

12:15 PM Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Giles Hammond (Glasgow): UK astroparticle physics research
UK astroparticle physics research
1:30 PM - 2:05 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

2:05 PM Keynote and closing remarks

2:05 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
3:00 PM STFC Town Meeting
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre
Contributions

3:00 PM 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)

3:30 PM Update from Particle Physics Advisory Panel chair

3:40 PM Update from Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel chair

3:50 PM Update from STFC Science Board

4:00 PM Q&A
7:00 PM Public lecture

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Chichester Lecture Theatre

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