Conveners
Parallel Session: I
- Alan Cornell (National Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Parallel Session: III
- Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town)
Parallel Session: V
- Sahal Yacoob (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Parallel Session: VII
- zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS)
Parallel Session: VIII
- There are no conveners in this block
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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.
Dr
Richard Jacobsson
(CERN)
04/12/2014, 15:30
Ilse Kratschmer
04/12/2014, 16:00
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.
Mr
Marc Dunser
(ETH Zurich)
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
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...
