Conveners
W1-2 Energy Frontier: Standard Model and Higgs Boson (PPD) / Frontière d'énergie: modèle standard et boson de Higgs (PPD)
- Richard Ford (SNOLAB)
Joany Manjarres
(York University (CA))
15/06/2016, 08:30
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
After about two years of operation, the excellent performance of the LHC and the ATLAS
detector made possible, a number of important experimental results, including precision
test of the Standard Model and the discovery of a new scalar particle compatible with the Higgs boson. The ATLAS experiment has been enthusiastically analyzing the LHC data recorded a centre of mass energy of 8 TeV and...
Laurelle Maria Veloce
(University of Toronto (CA))
15/06/2016, 09:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The Phase-II upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will increase the luminosity of the machine by a factor of 10, providing an additional integrated luminosity of 3000 fb-1 over the course of 10 years. The present ATLAS inner detector must therefore be completely replaced in order to cope with the high pileup and radiation environment of the HL-LHC. The new all-silicon tracker (ITk)...
Stephen Weber
(Carleton University (CA))
15/06/2016, 09:15
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The muon detector subsystem known as the small wheel of the ATLAS experiment will be completely replaced during the long shut down of the LHC starting in 2019. The replacement New Small Wheel (NSW) will have 16 sensitive layers, these layers are comprised of 2 different detector technologies: 2 quadruplet layers of small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC) and 2 quadruplet layers of MicroMegas...
Ewan Chin Hill
(University of Victoria (CA))
15/06/2016, 09:30
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
A search for direct pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in events with two tau leptons has been performed using proton-proton collision data. The 20 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV data were collected in 2012 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The search is optimised for a model where both top squarks decay via a scalar tau to a nearly massless gravitino. No...
Louis-Guillaume Gagnon
(Universite de Montreal (CA))
15/06/2016, 09:45
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)
Supersymmetry, a generalisation of the space-time symmetries which
associates a new boson to each Standard Model fermion and vice-versa,
must be obervable near the weak scale in order to solve the hierarchy
problem. If the lepton and baryon numbers are conserved, the lightest
supersymmetric particle is stable and interacts only weakly providing
a viable dark matter candidate. Searches for...
Torben Ferber
(University Of British Columbia)
15/06/2016, 10:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The next-generation B-factory Belle II at the upgraded KEKB accelerator, SuperKEKB, is aiming to start physics data taking in 2018. It is an asymmetric e+e- collider that will operate with 40x the instantaneous luminosity of KEKB/Belle. The broad physics program will cover physics with B and D mesons, muon and tau leptons as well as measurements using the method of radiative returns and direct...
