Kruger 2022: Discovery Physics at the LHC

4 Dec 2022, 08:00 → 9 Dec 2022, 18:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Kruger Gate Hotel , At The Paul Kruger Gate, R536, Skukuza +27137355671

Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS)

We are pleased to announce the Sixth Biennial “Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC” (Kruger2022).

The Workshop will be held from 5-9 December 2022 at the 4-star Kruger Gate Hotel, just 100 metres from the entrance of the Kruger National Park. 

Zoom Link for conference:
https://cern.zoom.us/j/68666547405?pwd=anA5WFJJQ2RWSXpiY253NHUycWNldz09

Meeting ID: 686 6654 7405
Passcode: 222456

The hotel is located along the Sabie River in Mpumalanga, only a few hundred meters from the Paul Kruger Gate of the Kruger National Park. The ideal location from which to experience the abundant wildlife of the world-famous Kruger National Park first-hand, one of the top-rated tourist attractions in South Africa.

The conference aims to promote scientific exchange of new results and development of novel ideas and models related to the physics of the LHC. The following topics will be covered:

• Particle Physics

• Heavy Ion Physics

• Beyond the Standard Model Physics

Accommodation, registration, abstract submission and other practical details will be announced at a later stage. Attendance will be limited to about 120 participants because of the number of available rooms. Limited funding for South African students is available.

We look forward to seeing you all in South Africa and do not hesitate to contact us on: kruger2022@tlabs.ac.za

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The organizers of Kruger2022: Z Buthelezi A S Cornell T Dietel W A Horowitz D Kar JM Keaveney B Kibirige M Kumar B Mellado (Chair) A Muronga E Nkadimeng M Van Der Ventel-Bark D Worku

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As part of the Kruger 2022 conference we will be celebrating the life of Emeritus Professor Jean Cleymans.

AccommodationRequest_KRUGER2022_new.docx

Accommodation Request - KRUGER 2022_new.pdf

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Program Agenda of Kruger2022_Final.pdf

Safari Price List 01 September 2022.pdf

Monday, 5 December

10:00 → 13:30 Session I

10:00 Welcome from the National Research Foundation

Speaker: Clifford Nxomani (NRF)

10:10 iThemba LABS: a unique subatomic physics facility in the continent and the southern hemisphere

Speaker: Faiҫal Azaiez (iThemba LABS)

1. SA-CERN-2022-short.pptx

10:40 Welcome from the Department of Science and Innovation

Speaker: Dr Daniel Adams (Department of Science and Innovation)

10:50 Structure of the Workshop

Speaker: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS)

Kruger2022_structure_Mellado.pdf

11:00 Teak / Coffe break

11:30 The ALICE experiment: probing QCD matter at the LHC

Speaker: Federico Antinori (INFN, Padova, Italy)

FA-Kruger-221205-final.pdf

12:30 New Physics in Flavour Observables? - B anomalies in semi-leptonic penguins

Speaker: Prof. Tobias Hurth

5. Kruger22.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:30 Session II

14:30 Higgs measurements at CMS: Highlights and prospects

Speaker: Dr Pierluigi Bortignon (University of Cagliari and INFN)

202212-kruger-cms-higgs-highlights-prospects-bortignon-v3.pdf

14:55 Characterization of particle production through UE and very forward energy in hadronic collisions

Speaker: Chiara Oppedisano (INFN Sezione di Torino)

Kruger22-Oppedisano.pdf

15:20 Recent results from heavy ion collisions with ATLAS

Speaker: Helena Santos (LIP)

DiscoveryPhysLHC_HSantos_ver2.pdf

15:45 Higgs boson property measurement at the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: George Iakovidis (BNL)

2022_12_Higgs_Iakovidis.pdf

16:10 Tea / Coffee Break

16:40 SM measurements at CMS: Status and Highlights

Speaker: Riccardo Salvatico

SM_Salvatico.pdf

17:05 Performance and calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter

Speaker: Michaela Mlynarikova (CERN)

tile_performance_kruger.pdf

17:30 Heavy flavour production measurements in ALICE

Speaker: Shreyasi Acharya (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))

Kruger2022_Slides_Shreyasi.pdf

17:55 Radiation studies for the upgrade of the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Dr Yuri Davydov

Tuesday, 6 December

10:00 → 13:30 Session III

10:00 Searches for BSM particles including BSM Higgs

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

Kruger-2022.pdf

11:00 W mass measurement

Speaker: Prof. Chris Hays

12:00 Tea / Coffee Break

12:30 ALICE upgrades and perspectives for heavy-ion physics at the LHC

Speaker: Jochen Klein (CERN)

2022-12-06-Kruger-ALICEupgrades-jkl_small.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:30 Session IV

14:30 Role of rapidity choice for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation

Speaker: Matěj Vaculčiak

kruger_22.pdf

14:55 BSM searches at CMS: Highlights and prospects

Speaker: Eric Chabert (IPHC/Unistra)

Kruger_Chabert_v2.pdf

15:20 Extra-dimensional theory and phenomenology in the era of gravitational waves

Speaker: Anna Chrysostoumou (University of Johannesburg)

24_Chrysostomou_GravWaves.pdf

15:45 Upgrade of the ATLAS Hadronic Tile Calorimeter for the High Luminosity LHC

Speaker: Henric Wilkens (CERN)

HW202212004-Kruger.pdf

16:10 Tea / Coffee Break

16:40 Spin Physics Detector at NICA

Speaker: Dr Alexey Zhemchugov

17:05 Heat dissipation Improvement of ATLAS Detector Electronics by Thermal Interface Materials based on Carbon Nanomaterials

Speaker: Othmane Mouane (University of Witwatersrand)

17:30 First Data with FASER: A new LHC experiment for long lived particle searches

Speaker: Claire Antel (Universite de Geneve (CH))

FASER_KrugerConf_Dec2022.pdf

17:55 Frequentist approach to quantify fake signals when using semi-supervised machine learning classifiers

Speaker: Benjamin Lieberman (University of Witwatersrand)

Kruger2022_Lieberman.pdf

Wednesday, 7 December

10:00 → 13:30 Session V

10:00 B physics highlights from CMS

Speaker: Sanjay Swain (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India)

11:00 Recent searches for new phenomena with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Mohamed Zaazoua (Mohammed V University in Rabat (MA))

MohamedZAAZOUA_Krugger2022.pdf

12:00 Tea / Coffee Break

12:30 Future Colliders

Speaker: Jin Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science)

FutureColliders_20221207.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:30 Session VI

14:30 Probing the SM and beyond with top quarks, jets and photons in the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Ethan Simpson

EthanLewisSimpson_ATLAS_Kruger2022_7Dec.pdf

14:55 The response of gap and crack scintillators of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector to isolated muons from proton-proton collisions

Speaker: Phuti Rapheeha (Wits University)

Kruger_2022_07_12_Response_of_gap_crack_cells.pdf

15:20 Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Andrea Coccaro (INFN)

2022-12-07_unconventional-signatures_Kruger_coccaro.pdf

15:45 An alternative explanation of the multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC

Speaker: Anza-Tshilidzi Mulaudzi

An alternative explanation of the Multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC.pdf

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

Speaker: Finn Stevenson (University of the Witwatersrand, CERN)

Kruger_Presentation_Finn_Stevenson_2022.pdf

17:05 Photoproduction results from ALICE in ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Tomas Herman (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

Kruger-2022.pdf

17:30 Overview and 2022 data taking the experience of ALICE online and offline processing in Run 3

Speaker: David Rohr (CERN)

2022-12-07 Kruger.pdf

17:55 Drell-Yan Production in Third-Generation Gauge Vector Leptoquark Models at NLO+PS in QCD

Speaker: Luc Schnell (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

DY VLQ – Kruger 2022.pdf

Thursday, 8 December

10:00 → 13:30 Session VII

10:00 Recent results on Standard Model with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Christopher Young (University of Freiburg)

ChrisYoung-Kruger.pdf

11:00 Dynamics of Charm Production in AA and pp Collisions using Parton Cascade Model

Speaker: Dinesh Srivastava (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru (Formerly from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)

charm_sa.pptx

12:00 Tea / Coffee Break

12:30 Hunting for criticalities — NA61/SHINE results

Speaker: Ludwik Turko (University Wroclaw)

LT Kruger2022 v3.pdf

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Session VIII

14:30 Searches for new heavy particles using the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Dilia María Portillo Quintero (TRIUMF (CA))

Dilia_Portillo_Searches for new heavy particles using the ATLAS detector_bonus.pdf

14:55 Development of TiO-0016, a web tool for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter

Speaker: Betty Kibirige (University of Zululand)

A Plugin development for Data Access, Presentation.pptx

15:20 Two same sign and there lepton final states in four top production at the LHC

Speaker: Thuso Mathaha (University of the Witwatersrand)

Kruger_2022_slides-3.pdf

15:45 Use of kernel density estimation in searches for new resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Nidhi Tripathi

Kruger_2022_Nidhi.pdf

16:10 Tea / Coffee Break

16:30 → 19:00 Jean Cleymans Memorial

16:30 Keynote

Speaker: Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)

Cleymans_tribute_ZV.pptx

17:10 Tribute

Speaker: Dr Daniel Adams (Department of Science and Technology)

17:30 Tribute

Speaker: Dinesh Srivastava (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru (Formerly from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)

62. jean.pptx

18:00 Tribute

Speaker: Ludwik Turko (University Wroclaw)

Friend and scientist LT_KR.pdf

18:30 Tribute

Speaker: Peter Braun-Munzinger (EMMI/GSI)

2022_Cleymans.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Conference Banquet

Friday, 9 December

10:00 → 12:00 Session IX

10:00 Hadronization of the QGP

Speaker: Peter Braun-Munzinger (EMMI/GSI)

2022_Kruger_hadronization_16_9.pdf

11:00 Higgs physics 10 years after the discovery

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck for Physics)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch