International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC (KRUGER2016)

4 Dec 2016, 08:00 → 9 Dec 2016, 18:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Protea Hotel KrugerGate

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Biennial “Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC” (Kruger2016).

The Workshop will be held at the 4-star Protea Hotel Kruger Gate,  just 100 metres from the entrance to the Kruger National Park.  The surroundings of one of the world’s largest national parks, and the physics results presented during this workshop, will serve to inspire discussions between theorists and experimentalists on the latest LHC and Tevatron measurements as well as our expectations for the future.

For more information and enquiries, please contact us at: kruger2016@tlabs.ac.za.  

Please find details in the conference web page:  http://www.kruger2016.tlabs.ac.za

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,
Physics after the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Accommodation, registration, abstract submission and other practical details will be announced at a later stage.  Attendance will be limited to about 100 participants

 

First Announcement announce_kruger2016.pdf

Wednesday, 7 December

10:00 → 14:30 Plenary

Convener: Dr Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town)

10:00 STAR Beam Energy Sca

Speaker: Prof. Declan Keane (Kent State U)

10:45 Status of the NICA Project

Speaker: Dr grigory trubnikov (JINR)

11:30 Tea Break

12:00 Higgs Properties and Measurements in ATLAS

The LHC has delivered a large amount of data at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV. The experimental sensitivity with this data set is equivalent to the one from run-1 for the Higgs boson (125 GeV), and surpasses it for searches for higher mass Higgs-like particles. This talk will review recent ATLAS results on both of these topics.

Speaker: Lydia Roos (IN2P3/LPNHE)

12:45 The Future Collider Program

Speaker: Ms Heather Gray (CalTech)

13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Parallel Session V

Convener: Dr Sahal Yacoob (University of Cape Town)

14:30 Results from ttH/VH searches in ATLAS

Since the discovery of a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the emphasis has shifted towards measurements of its properties and the search for less sensitive channels in order to explore any deviation from the Standard Model. The WH and ZH production modes, jointly denoted as VH, provide high sensitivity channels to observe Higgs boson decays to a bottom quark pair, which allows its coupling to quarks to be directly probed, as well as measuring its dominant decay mode. The associated production of the Higgs boson with top quarks (ttH) should also allow the direct observation of its coupling to top quarks. This channel also benefits from a large cross-section enhancement when increasing the LHC centre-of-mass energy from 8 to 13 TeV. ATLAS results covering the Higgs boson searches in the VH(H->bb) and ttH (H->bb, dibosons) channels will be presented, using approximately 13.2 fb-1 of pp collision data collected at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.

Speaker: Mr Mirkoantonio Casolino (IFAE - UAB)

15:00 Exploring the top-Higgs FCNC couplings at colliders

15:30 Using integral and differential charge asymmetries in searches for BSM physics at the LHC

14:30 → 16:30 Parallel Session VI

Convener: Prof. Aldo Deandrea (IPNL - University Lyon 1)