Kruger 2022: Discovery Physics at the LHC

from Sunday, 4 December 2022 (08:00) to Friday, 9 December 2022 (18:00)
Kruger Gate Hotel , At The Paul Kruger Gate, R536, Skukuza +27137355671

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022
AM
10:00
Session I (until 13:30) ()
10:00 Welcome from the National Research Foundation - Clifford Nxomani (NRF)   ()
10:10 iThemba LABS: a unique subatomic physics facility in the continent and the southern hemisphere - Faiҫal Azaiez (iThemba LABS)   ()
10:40 Welcome from the Department of Science and Innovation - Dr Daniel Adams (Department of Science and Innovation)   ()
10:50 Structure of the Workshop - Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS)   ()
11:00 --- Teak / Coffe break ---
11:30 The ALICE experiment: probing QCD matter at the LHC - Federico Antinori (INFN, Padova, Italy)   ()
12:30 New Physics in Flavour Observables? - B anomalies in semi-leptonic penguins - Prof. Tobias Hurth   ()
10:00
Session III (until 13:30) ()
10:00 Searches for BSM particles including BSM Higgs - Greg Landsberg (Brown University)   ()
11:00 W mass measurement - Prof. Chris Hays   ()
12:00 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
12:30 ALICE upgrades and perspectives for heavy-ion physics at the LHC - Jochen Klein (CERN)   ()
10:00
Session V (until 13:30) ()
10:00 B physics highlights from CMS - Sanjay Swain (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India)   ()
11:00 Recent searches for new phenomena with the ATLAS detector - Mohamed Zaazoua (Mohammed V University in Rabat (MA))   ()
12:00 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
12:30 Future Colliders - Jin Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science)   ()
10:00
Session VII (until 13:30) ()
10:00 Recent results on Standard Model with the ATLAS detector - Christopher Young (University of Freiburg)   ()
11:00 Dynamics of Charm Production in AA and pp Collisions using Parton Cascade Model - Dinesh Srivastava (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru (Formerly from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)   ()
12:00 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
12:30 Hunting for criticalities — NA61/SHINE results - Ludwik Turko (University Wroclaw)   ()
10:00
Session IX (until 12:00) ()
10:00 Hadronization of the QGP - Peter Braun-Munzinger (EMMI/GSI)   ()
11:00 Higgs physics 10 years after the discovery - Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck for Physics)   ()
PM
13:30
Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Session II (until 18:30) ()
14:30 Higgs measurements at CMS: Highlights and prospects - Dr Pierluigi Bortignon (University of Cagliari and INFN)   ()
14:55 Characterization of particle production through UE and very forward energy in hadronic collisions - Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Sezione di Torino)   ()
15:20 Recent results from heavy ion collisions with ATLAS - Helena Santos (LIP)   ()
15:45 Higgs boson property measurement at the ATLAS experiment - George Iakovidis (BNL)   ()
16:10 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
16:40 SM measurements at CMS: Status and Highlights - Riccardo Salvatico   ()
17:05 Performance and calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter - Michaela Mlynarikova (CERN)   ()
17:30 Heavy flavour production measurements in ALICE - Shreyasi Acharya (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))   ()
17:55 Radiation studies for the upgrade of the ATLAS detector - Dr Yuri Davydov   ()
13:30
Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Session IV (until 18:30) ()
14:30 Role of rapidity choice for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation - Matěj Vaculčiak   ()
14:55 BSM searches at CMS: Highlights and prospects - Eric Chabert (IPHC/Unistra)   ()
15:20 Extra-dimensional theory and phenomenology in the era of gravitational waves - Anna Chrysostoumou (University of Johannesburg)   ()
15:45 Upgrade of the ATLAS Hadronic Tile Calorimeter for the High Luminosity LHC - Henric Wilkens (CERN)   ()
16:10 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
16:40 Spin Physics Detector at NICA - Dr Alexey Zhemchugov   ()
17:05 Heat dissipation Improvement of ATLAS Detector Electronics by Thermal Interface Materials based on Carbon Nanomaterials - Othmane Mouane (University of Witwatersrand)   ()
17:30 First Data with FASER: A new LHC experiment for long lived particle searches - Claire Antel (Universite de Geneve (CH))   ()
17:55 Frequentist approach to quantify fake signals when using semi-supervised machine learning classifiers - Benjamin Lieberman (University of Witwatersrand)   ()
13:30
Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Session VI (until 18:30) ()
14:30 Probing the SM and beyond with top quarks, jets and photons in the ATLAS experiment - Ethan Simpson   ()
14:55 The response of gap and crack scintillators of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector to isolated muons from proton-proton collisions - Phuti Rapheeha (Wits University)   ()
15:20 Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector - Andrea Coccaro (INFN)   ()
15:45 An alternative explanation of the multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC - Anza-Tshilidzi Mulaudzi   ()
16:10 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
16:40 The Assessment of Different VAE derivatives for Data Generation and Event Classification in Zγ Final State Background Data - Finn Stevenson (University of the Witwatersrand, CERN)   ()
17:05 Photoproduction results from ALICE in ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC - Tomas Herman (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))   ()
17:30 Overview and 2022 data taking the experience of ALICE online and offline processing in Run 3 - David Rohr (CERN)   ()
17:55 Drell-Yan Production in Third-Generation Gauge Vector Leptoquark Models at NLO+PS in QCD - Luc Schnell (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   ()
13:30
Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Session VIII (until 16:30) ()
14:30 Searches for new heavy particles using the ATLAS detector - Dilia María Portillo Quintero (TRIUMF (CA))   ()
14:55 Development of TiO-0016, a web tool for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter - Betty Kibirige (University of Zululand)   ()
15:20 Two same sign and there lepton final states in four top production at the LHC - Thuso Mathaha (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
15:45 Use of kernel density estimation in searches for new resonances at the LHC - Nidhi Tripathi   ()
16:10 --- Tea / Coffee Break ---
16:30
Jean Cleymans Memorial (until 19:00) ()
16:30 Keynote - Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)   ()
17:10 Tribute - Dr Daniel Adams (Department of Science and Technology)   ()
17:30 Tribute - Dinesh Srivastava (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru (Formerly from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)   ()
18:00 Tribute - Ludwik Turko (University Wroclaw)   ()
18:30 Tribute - Peter Braun-Munzinger (EMMI/GSI)   ()
19:00
Conference Banquet (until 22:00) ()
12:00
Lunch (until 13:00) ()