Dr
Daniel Adams
(Department of Science and Technology)
01/12/2014, 09:00
Prof.
Zeblon Vilakazi
(University of the Witwatersrand)
01/12/2014, 09:15
Dr
Rüdiger Voss
(CERN)
01/12/2014, 09:30
Prof.
Sergio Bertolucci
(CERN)
01/12/2014, 10:00
Paolo Giubellino
(CERN PH and INFN Torino)
01/12/2014, 10:45
The ALICE experiment at the LHC is continuing its harvet of results from RUN1, while preparing for the second LHC RUN which will start next spring. In parallel, we are preparing for the long-term future, with a major upgrade to be installed during LS2 and which will allow a rich physics program in RUN3 and RUN4 of the LHC. The main items will be reviewed.
Dr
Hans Peter Beck
(University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)
01/12/2014, 12:00
Dr
Albert De Roeck
(CERN/Wagon Lits)
01/12/2014, 12:45
Oral
As an introduction to sessions to follow, this contribution will make a tour of a
number of selected highlights of results from the CMS experiment, from the first run of the LHC: the so called Run-I. A few outstanding Standard Model measurement results will be discussed, as well as a summary of searches for new physics. Emphasis will be given
on the present understanding of the newly found...
Dr
Ketevi Assamagan
(BNL)
01/12/2014, 14:30
Dr
Giacomo Cacciapaglia
(IPN Lyon)
01/12/2014, 14:30
The nature of the 126 GeV Higgs recently discovered at CERN has not been established yet. One intriguing possibility is that it may arise as a light composite state from a confining dynamics at the TeV scale. I will review the recent progress in understanding the dynamics that may be behind this mechanism, focusing on what we can learn by knowing its details. The masses of the spin-1...
Prof.
Guenakh Mitselmakher
(University of Florida)
01/12/2014, 15:00
Dr
Nadir Daci
(IIHE - VUB)
01/12/2014, 15:00
This talk reviews the latest Dark Matter (DM) results from the CMS experiment, consisting in searches for DM particles under the form of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles.
The search for directly produced DM particles exploits final states containing a high momentum object and missing transverse energy, such as monojet, monophoton, monolepton and monotop.
The production of DM particles...
Kazuya Mochizuki
(CPPM)
01/12/2014, 15:30
Prof.
Aldo Deandrea
(IPNL - University Lyon 1)
01/12/2014, 15:30
Oral
We consider a model-independent and general framework to study the LHC phenomenology of vector-like quarks, including particles with different electro-magnetic charge. We consider vector-like quarks embedded in general representations of the weak SU(2)L, coupling to all Standard Model quarks via Yukawa mixing. We show that, with very minimal and quite general assumptions, they can be studied...
Mr
Guillermo Hamity
(University of the Witwatersrand)
01/12/2014, 16:00
Dr
Helmut Oeschler
(University of Heidelberg)
01/12/2014, 17:00
Oral
The production of hadrons, mainly of strange particles, has been studied intensively over the last decades as they are very powerful probes to study the dynamics of the high-density state created in heavy-ion collisions. With the new results from the LHC the energy range has been further extended and allows for a study of the various observables in a large energy range. Emphasis is put in...
Prof.
Horst Stöcker
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
02/12/2014, 09:15
Prof.
Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India)
02/12/2014, 10:00
The existing status of supersymmetry (SUSY) will be surveyed, with emphasis on the
LHC data. The main line of discussion will be: (a) a quick recapitulation of the
desirability of SUSY, (b) The viabiliy of testable supersymmetric scenarios in view
of current data, and (c) certain possibilities that are less emphasized in most discussions.
fabio maltoni
(CP3-UCLouvain)
02/12/2014, 10:45
Dr
Airton Deppman
(University of São Paulo)
02/12/2014, 12:00
Oral
The use of Tsallis distributions in the analysis of High Energy Physics data has increased in recent years. These distributions are related on a Thermodynamics description of the hot hadronic-system produced at ultra-relativistic collisions, proposed by Hagedorn several years ago.
In this talk a brief review on the Thermodynamics description of HEP data and on the role that Tsallis...
Dr
Natasha Sharma
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
02/12/2014, 12:45
Oral
In ultra-relativistic collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
light (anti-)(hyper-)nuclei are produced with significant yields,
especially in collisions between lead nuclei. In addition, these
collisions give the possibility to search for light exotic bound
states of baryons. Light nuclei are identified using the excellent
particle identification capabilities of the Time Projection...
Prof.
Domenec Espriu
(University of Barcelona)
02/12/2014, 14:30
We investigate how local parity breaking due to fluctuations of the topological charge may affect hadron physics in heavy ion collisions. A distorted dispersion relation is derived for the lightest vector mesons ρ and ω and compared to the experimental results. The main characteristic of LPB is an invariant mass splitting that depends on the polarization. We present a detailed analysis of the...
Prof.
Alan Cornell
(National Institute for Theoretical Physics)
02/12/2014, 14:30
Two-loop renormalization is introduced and discussed within the context of the Universal Extra-dimension (UED) models. Various issues will be discussed, in the minimal UED model, and its possible extensions to higher numbers of extra-dimensions and supersymmetry. An attempt will be made to define the running of the coupling constants at the two-loop level.
Dr
Stefania Bufalino
(Inst. for Scint. Materials of Nat. Acad. of Science of Ukraine)
02/12/2014, 15:00
One of the main design goals of the ALICE experiment is hadron identification at mid-rapidity over a wide range of transverse momenta. Thanks to its excellent PID capabilities and pT coverage, ALICE offers an ideal test-bench for the measurement of transverse momentum distributions, dN/dy and <pT> of identified light flavor hadrons. In the present contribution those measurements are reported...
Dr
Ionut Cristian Arsene
(University of Oslo)
02/12/2014, 15:30
The hot and dense nuclear matter created in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies consists in its early stage
of a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons (QGP).
Charmonium production is a very sensitive probe to both the conditions of the QGP medium, such as energy density and temperature,
and to non-medium conditions like total charm cross-section production and cold nuclear...
Dr
Richard Jacobsson
(CERN)
02/12/2014, 15:30
Dr
Hongyan Yang
(Utrecht University)
02/12/2014, 16:00
Low mass dileptons are powerful tools to study the evolution of the system created in relativistic heavy ion collisions because (i) they are produced in all stages the collision, and (ii) they do not interact strongly thus leave the collision area unaffected by the final state interactions. Low mass dileptons provide also an ideal way to access the thermal photon radiation from the hot and...
Dr
Kenji Hamano
(University of Victoria)
02/12/2014, 17:00
Kyle Cranmer
(New York University)
03/12/2014, 09:15
Silvia Masciocchi
(GSI)
03/12/2014, 10:00
Oral
Charm and beauty quarks are important probes to study the characteristics and the evolution of the strongly interacting, deconfined matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. ALICE at the LHC is well equipped to reconstruct heavy-flavor hadrons and many measurements were performed since the LHC startup in proton-proton, proton-lead and lead-lead collisions. Hadronic and semileptonic...
Philip Clark
(University of Edinburgh)
03/12/2014, 10:45
Dr
Elena Bratkovskaya
(ITP, FIAS, Uni. Frankfurt)
03/12/2014, 12:00
Oral
We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of heavy-ion
collisions from SIS to LHC energies within the Parton-Hadron-String
Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach, which incorporates explicit
partonic degrees of freedom in terms of strongly interacting
quasiparticles (quarks and gluons) in line with an equation of state
from lattice QCD as well as the dynamical hadronization and...
Dr
Katharina Mueller
(University of Zurich)
03/12/2014, 12:45
Oral
The LHCb collaboration studied the production of J/ψ and Upsilon mesons in proton-lead collisions at a proton nucleon centre-of-mass energy √sNN = 5 TeV. The measurements have been used to determine the nuclear modification factor and to compare the results with theoretical predictions. A measurement of Z boson production in proton-lead collisions is presented as well. The analyses are based...
Mr
Maximilian Schlupp
(TU Dortmund)
03/12/2014, 14:30
Tiesheng Dai
(University of Michigan)
03/12/2014, 14:30
Prof.
Massimo Masera
(INFN and University of Torino)
03/12/2014, 15:00
A hot and dense medium, made of deconfined quarks and gluons, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), can be created in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Charm and beauty quarks are excellent probes to investigate its properties and its evolution, since they are mainly produced at the early stages of the collisions in hard partonic scattering processes. Hot and dense nuclear matter effects can be...
Giuseppe Salamanna
(INFN Roma Tre)
03/12/2014, 15:00
Dr
Razieh Morad
(University of Cape Town)
03/12/2014, 15:30
We define a novel definition of the holographic light hadron jet by a separation of scales from plasma to jet, which leads to the re-emergence of the late-time Bragg peak in the instantaneous jet energy loss rate. We use the holographic energy loss of light quark and our new jet prescription in AdS/CFT to calculate the nuclear modification factor of jet for a brick of plasma (both static and...
Louise Heelan
(University of Texas at Arlington)
03/12/2014, 15:30
The ATLAS Tile hadronic calorimeter (TileCal) provides highly-segmented energy measurements of incoming particles. It is a key detector for the measurement of hadrons, jets, tau leptons and missing transverse energy. It is also useful for identification and reconstruction of muons due to good signal to noise ratio. The calorimeter consists of thin steel plates and 460,000 scintillating tiles...
Dr
Cunfeng FENG
(Shandong university)
03/12/2014, 16:00
Measurements of single top-quark production cross section in proton proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV are presented. In the leading order process, a W boson is exchanged in the t-channel. For this process, for the first time a fiducial cross section measured within the detector acceptance is presented and the modelling uncertainty when extrapolating to the total inclusive cross section is...
Dr
Joerg Aichelin
(SUBATECH)
03/12/2014, 16:00
Prof.
Ulrich Heinz
(The Ohio State University)
03/12/2014, 17:00
Oral
This talk will give an update of our understanding of the physics of the "Little Bang" -- the explosive evolution of the hot and dense QCD matter created in heavy-ion collisions. Its collective flow, color opacity and brilliance in the electromagnetic spectrum will be discussed. Special emphasis will be given to new insights arising from the recent proton-lead run at the LHC and the Beam...
Prof.
Vincenzo Chiochia
(University of Zurich)
04/12/2014, 10:00
Mr
Donal Hill
(University of Oxford)
04/12/2014, 12:00
Dr
Christian Autermann
(RWTH Aachen University)
04/12/2014, 12:45
Mr
Ben Meiring
(University of Cape Town)
04/12/2014, 14:30
Particle physics has had remarkable success in describing collider data using usual Feynman diagram techniques, but little is understood regarding particles during the time of interaction. We use the Schwinger-Keldysh finite-time formalism applied to an interacting scalar field theory to derive a perturbative expression for the energy momentum tensor associated with hard particle production....
Dr
Silvia Costantini
(University of Ghent)
04/12/2014, 14:30
Ms
Claire Antel
(University of Cape Town)
04/12/2014, 14:50
Dr
Katharina Mueller
(University of Zurich)
04/12/2014, 15:00
The LHCb detector and LHC running conditions are ideally suited for measuring central exclusive production. Measurements of inclusive and differential
cross-sections of the exclusive production of J/Psi and Psi(2S), as well as double charmonium, are presented. The measurements are compared to different models as well as to photoproduction results from HERA and fixed target experiments.
Mr
Ammar Abdalgabar
(Wits University, School of Physics, Johannesburg)
04/12/2014, 15:10
Even if the unification and supersymmetry breaking scales are around $10^6$ to $10^9$ TeV, a large $A_t$ coupling may be entirely generated at low energies through RGE evolution in the 5D MSSM. Independent of the precise details of supersymmetry breaking, we take advantage of power law running in five dimensions and a compactification scale in the 10 − $10^3$ TeV range to show how the gluino...
Dr
Richard Jacobsson
(CERN)
04/12/2014, 15:30
Kgotlaesele Senosi
(iThemba LABS (University of Cape Town))
04/12/2014, 15:30
Oral
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is designed and optimized to
study ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, where a hot and dense strongly-interacting medium is created. W± bosons are produced in hard scattering
processes occurring at the early stage of the collision and, not being affected by
the strong interaction, they can be used as a benchmark for medium induced
effects. In...
Ms
Harshna Jivan
(University of the Witwatersrand)
04/12/2014, 15:50
Ilse Kratschmer
04/12/2014, 16:00
Dr
Lawrence Lee
(The University of Adelaide)
05/12/2014, 10:00
Despite the absence of experimental evidence, weak scale supersymmetry remains one of the best motivated and studied Standard Model extensions. This talk summarises recent ATLAS results for searches for supersymmetric (SUSY) particles. Weak and strong production in both R-Parity conserving and R-Parity violating SUSY scenarios are considered. The searches involved final states including jets,...
Dr
Klaus Reygers
(University of Heidelberg)
05/12/2014, 10:45
Oral
Direct-photons produced in the hot fireball of a heavy-ion collision leave the medium unscathed. They are therefore believed to provide information about the very early stage of the collisions. In particular, the direct photon pT spectrum at low pT (1 < pT < 4 GeV/c) might contain information about the initial temperature of the quark-gluon plasma. A further diagnostic tool is the azimuthal...
Prof.
John Harris
(Yale University)
05/12/2014, 12:00
Oral
The LHC has run p-Pb collisions at √s_{NN} = 5.02 TeV in addition to √s_{NN} = 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and the pp physics program. The p-Pb program was conceived originally to investigate initial-state effects in the collisions of nuclei. The p-Pb results appear to exhibit a lack of strong initial-state effects, but are surprising in that they reveal a strong similarity to the final-state hydrodynamic...
Prof.
Greg Landsberg
(Brown University)
05/12/2014, 12:45
I'll present the current status of CMS, with some highlights from the very successful first run of the CERN LHC, which culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. I'll talk about detector upgrade and commissioning work being done in preparation for Run 2 and also cover plans for long-term upgrade of the CMS detector for future high-luminosity runs.
Ludwik Turko
(University Wroclaw)
05/12/2014, 14:30
The NA61/SHINE experiment performs a detailed study of the onset of deconfinement and search for critical point of hadronic matter by colliding nuclei of different size at various beam momenta from 13A to 158A GeV/c. Experimental setup and results on the theoretically expected signatures we’ll be discussed.
Prof.
Andrew Ivanov
(Kansas State University)
05/12/2014, 14:30
Mr
Marc Dunser
(ETH Zurich)
05/12/2014, 15:00
Dr
Otman CHARAF
(University of Alabama Tuscaloosa)
05/12/2014, 15:00
Dr
Mukesh Kumar
(University of the Witwatersrand)
05/12/2014, 15:30
The measurement of the triple Higgs boson coupling is one of the most important goals of Higgs physics in the present and future collider experiments, which provide the first direct information on the Higgs potential that is responsible for EWSB.
In this talk we present double-higgs production scenario at the LHeC/FCC-he through $e^-p$ collision which will provide information about...
Dr
David Morse
(Northeastern University)
05/12/2014, 15:30
Searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) are presented based on the electroweak pair production of neutralinos and charginos, leading to decay channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons and undetected lightest SUSY particles (LSPs) using 8 TeV collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC. Neutralino pair production leading to hh, hZ, and ZZ states with missing transverse energy ($E_T^{miss}$) is...
Dr
Will Horowitz
(University of Cape Town)
05/12/2014, 16:00
We present new predictions for the suppression of heavy quark decay products at RHIC and LHC from a NLO AdS/CFT energy loss model. Previous predictions from a tomographic model based on only the leading order AdS/CFT contribution to energy loss and constrained by RHIC data disagreed with LHC D meson measurements. In this work we include for the first time a correct treatment of the momentum...
Dr
Johannes Albrecht
(TU Dortmund)
05/12/2014, 16:00
The current LHCb trigger system consists of a hardware level, which reduces the LHC inelastic collision rate of 30 MHz to 1 MHz, at which the entire detector is read out. In a second level, implemented in a farm of 20k parallel-processing CPUs, the event rate is reduced to about 5 kHz. The major bottleneck in LHCb's trigger efficiencies for hadronic heavy flavour decays is the hardware...
Dr
Jurgen Schukraft
(CERN)
05/12/2014, 17:00
Oral
This talk will give a brief 'high level' overview for non-experts of Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ion Physic, the study of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. First experiments started in the mid '80s with light ions and at low energy fixed target accelerators; with the advent of the ion colliders RHIC and LHC the available energy in the center of mass system has increased by...
