Name: Kruger2018: Discovery Physics at the LHC
Start: 2018-12-03T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-12-07T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Casa do Sol

Monday, 3 December 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and introduction - Alan Cornell (National Institute for Theoretical Physics)

09:15 Overview Talk - Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)

10:00 Large Scale Facilities in Nuclear Physics - Faiҫal Azaiez (iThemba LABS)
10:50 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
10:50 - 11:30
11:30 Session 2
Session 2
11:30 - 13:20
Contributions

11:30 Summary of results on Standard Model Higgs - Md Naimuddin (University of Delhi)

12:35 Results on Heavy Ion Physics at LHCb - Giacomo Graziani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze)
13:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:20 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:20
Contributions

15:00 Precision electroweak results from ATLAS and CMS - Riccardo Salvatico

15:20 Tests of Lepton Flavor Universality at LHCb - Katharina Mueller (University of Zurich)

15:40 Dark matter search in events with missing transverse energy and a Higgs boson decaying to two photons with the ATLAS detector - Shell-may Liao (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:00 Diboson measurements from ATLAS and CMS - Benjamin Freund (Université de Montréal)
Parallel 02
Parallel 02
15:00 - 16:20
Contributions

15:00 Hydrodynamic flow in small systems? - Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)

15:20 Small system corrections to thermal field theory and pQCD energy loss - Isobel Kolbe (University of Cape Town)

15:40 Geometrically Driven Phase Transition in Finite Size (Casimir like) Systems - Sylvain Mogliacci (Department of Physics, University of Cape Town)

16:00 Heavy flavour spectroscopy at LHCb (including exotic states) - Nicola Neri (INFN)
16:20 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
16:20 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Fake-Rate Determination for the ttH Coupling Measurement with a Signature of Two Same Electric Charge Light Leptons Associated with a Tau Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Hugo Melo

17:10 Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production - Alan Taylor (The University of Edinburgh)

17:20 Search for a Heavy Boson in ZZ→4l with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC - ATLAS Collaboartion

17:30 Search for a Higgs boson decaying through Z_dark to 4 leptons - Diallo Boye (University of Johannesburg)

17:40 Search for diboson resonances in the lvll final state - ATLAS Collaboration

17:50 A Characterisation and Reconstruction of Radial Strip Sensors in Preparation for a Higher Radiation Environment in the ATLAS Detector at CERN - Ryan Justin Atkin (University of Cape Town (ZA))
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
10:00 Session 4
Session 4
10:00 - 11:30
Contributions

10:00 The Physics of a Trillion degrees - Will Horowitz (University of Cape Town)

10:45 Summary of BSM Searches at the LHC - Kathleen Whalen
11:30 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
11:30 - 11:50
11:50 Session 5
Session 5
11:50 - 13:20
Contributions

11:50 Constraints on SM Physics from Colliders - Kristof Schmieden (CERN)

12:35 Constraining new physics with model-dependent collider measurements - Jon Butterworth (UCL)
13:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:20 - 15:00
15:00 Parallel 03
Parallel 03
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Heavy neutrino searches at ATLAS and CMS - debarati roy (PostDoc)

15:20 Searches in multilepton final states by CMS and ATLAS - YoungDo Ho (Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Korea, Republic Of)

15:40 Boosted object tagging in ATLAS and CMS - Pierre-Antoine Delsart (LPSC/CNRS (Grenoble, FR))
Parallel 04
Parallel 04
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Heavy-Ion results from the HADES experiment - Celso Franco (LIP-Lisbon)

15:20 Heavy ion results by ATLAS and CMS - David Krofcheck (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

15:40 Strongly Coupled $\Upsilon$(1S) Suppression in $\sqrt{s}_{NN}=2.76$ TeV Pb+Pb Collisions - Nadia Barnard (University of Cape Town)
16:30 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Parallel 05
Parallel 05
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Search for chargino-neutralino pairs at LHC using MT2-MAOS reconstruction - Steve Muanza (CPPM Marseille, CNRS-IN2P3 & Aix-Marseille University)

17:20 Stealth SUSY search with a large-radius jet containing a photon - Marvin Flores (University of the Witwatersrand)

17:40 Some recent developments in the area of jet substructure - Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand)
Parallel 06
Parallel 06
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Unification of gauge and Yukawa couplings - Aldo Deandrea (IPNL - University Lyon 1)

17:20 Up- and Down- Quark Masses from QCD Finite Energy Sum Rules - Alexes Mes (University of Cape Town)

17:40 Composite models on a safe road to the Planck scale - Giacomo Cacciapaglia (IPN Lyon)
Wednesday, 5 December 2018

05:30 Free Morning - Safari
Free Morning - Safari
05:30 - 13:30

13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 Session 06
Session 06
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Dark matter, collider searches and the early Universe - Nazila Mahmoudi (Lyon University)

15:45 Cornering top-philic dark matter: a comprehensive study from colliders to cosmology - Benjamin Fuks (LPTHE - CNRS - UPMC)
16:30 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Session 07
Session 07
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 MAGIC - how Matter's extreme phases can be revealed in Gravitational wave observations and in relativistic heavy Ion Collision experiments - Horst Stoecker (GSI, Goethe Universität and FiAS)

17:45 Recent ALICE results on jets and photons - Thomas Peitzmann (Utrecht University/Nikhef)
Session 08
Session 08
17:00 - 18:30
Thursday, 6 December 2018
10:00 Session 08
Session 08
10:00 - 11:30
Contributions

10:00 Collider constraints on Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Cosmology - Francesco Pandolfi (Università di Roma I e Sezione dell'INFN in Roma)

10:45 CP violation in heavy-flavour hadrons at LHCb - Donal Hill (University of Oxford)
11:30 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
11:30 - 11:50
11:50 Session 09
Session 09
11:50 - 13:20
Contributions

11:50 Highlights of the production of (Anti-)(Hyper-)Nuclei and Exotica with ALICE at the LHC - Benjamin Doenigus (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)

12:35 Decoding the nature of Dark Matter - Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
13:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:20 - 15:00
15:00 Parallel 07
Parallel 07
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Observation of Higgs in bb channel from ATLAS and CMS - Camilla Vittori

15:20 Di-Higgs searches at CMS and ATLAS - Mario Pelliccioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:40 Results on ttH by CMS and ATLAS - Djamel BOUMEDIENE (CNRS)

16:00 Results on Top Physics by ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - James Keaveney (DESY)
Parallel 08
Parallel 08
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Quarkonium results in pp and p–Pb collisions from ALICE at the LHC - Antoine Lardeux (University of Oslo)

15:20 Investigation of collectivity in small collision systems with ALICE - Katarina Gajdosova

15:40 A Comparison of p-p, p-Pb, Pb-Pb Collisions in the Thermal Model: Multiplicity Dependence of Thermal Parameters - Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)
17:00 Parallel 09
Parallel 09
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Belle II Experiment status and physics prospects - Steven Robertson (McGill University)

17:20 HL-LHC prospects from ATLAS and CMS - Catrin Bernius (Catrin.Bernius@cern.ch)

17:40 LHCb Upgrade - Olaf Steinkamp (Universitaet Zuerich)
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Heavy hadron production and quarkonia - Siim Tolk (CERN)

17:20 LHC phase one ALICE upgrades: the inner tracker silicon pixel detector - Federico Ronchetti (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

17:40 Measurement of heavy-flavours as a function of charged-particle multiplicity with ALICE at the LHC - Sibaliso Mhlanga (PhD student)
Friday, 7 December 2018
10:30 Session 10
Session 10
10:30 - 11:15
Contributions

10:30 Recent ALICE results on open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production - Grazia Luparello
11:15 Tea/coffee break
Tea/coffee break
11:15 - 11:50
11:50 Session 11
Session 11
11:50 - 13:10
Contributions

11:50 Probing beyond the Standard Model with Flavour Physics - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

12:35 iThemba LABS student prize winner talk

12:45 iThemba LABS student runner up talk

12:55 Closing Remarks