Conveners
Parallel Session: II
- Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)
Parallel Session: IV
- William Horowitz (University of Cape Town)
Parallel Session: VI
- There are no conveners in this block
Parallel Session: IX
- There are no conveners in this block
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
Mr
Guillermo Hamity
(University of the Witwatersrand)
01/12/2014, 16:00
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.
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...
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
Joerg Aichelin
(SUBATECH)
03/12/2014, 16:00
Prof.
Andrew Ivanov
(Kansas State University)
05/12/2014, 14:30
Dr
Otman CHARAF
(University of Alabama Tuscaloosa)
05/12/2014, 15:00
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
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...
