2nd ATLAS-UK Physics Meeting

9 Jan 2008, 12:20 → 11 Jan 2008, 14:15 Europe/London

IPPP, Durham

ALAN BARR, Dan Tovey

Wednesday, 9 January

14:00 → 14:30 Introduction

14:00 Introduction

Speaker: Dr Dan Tovey (Sheffield PPPA)

14:05 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

14:30 → 15:30 Trigger Performance

14:30 Trigger commissioning and early running strategy

Speaker: John Baines (RAL)

Slides TriggerCommisioning.ppt TriggerCommissioning.pdf

14:45 Understanding electron trigger performance using Z->ee

Speaker: Mike Flowerdew (Liverpool)

Slides FlowerdewTalk.pdf

15:00 Tag & probe method with electrons in BSM channels

Speaker: Matthew Tamsett (RHUL)

Slides tag_probe_yeti_090108.pdf

15:15 Trigger performance on ttH

Speaker: Catrin Bernius (UCL)

Slides AtlasUKDurham090108.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Tea

16:00 → 18:00 Combined Performance

16:00 Tracking performance

Speaker: Stephen Haywood (RAL)

Slides Durham08_TrackPerf.ppt

16:20 e/gamma performance

Speaker: Helen Hayward (Liverpool)

Slides AtlasUkEgamma4.pdf

16:40 Jet performance

Speaker: Dr Mark Hodgkinson (University of Sheffield)

Slides RefinedIPPP.ppt

17:00 ETmiss performance

Speaker: Ms Ellie Dobson (Oxford University)

Slides EtMiss_09-01-08.ppt

17:20 Tau performance

Speaker: Alan Phillips (Cambridge)

Slides AlanP_TauPerformance.pdf

17:40 b-tagging performance

Speaker: Carl Gwilliam (Liverpool)

Slides GwilliamBTag.odp GwilliamBTag.pdf

Thursday, 10 January

09:00 → 10:00 Top Physics

09:00 Tau Trigger in top-Antitop Events

Speaker: Neil Collins (Birmingham University)

Slides Neil_Tau_Trigger_Performance_Final_Revised.pdf Neil_Tau_Trigger_Performance_Final_Revised.ppt

09:15 Triggering Semi-Leptonic ttbar and Efficiency from Data

Speaker: Simon Head (Manchester University)

Slides SimonHead_Durham08.pdf.pdf

09:30 Top Mass Measurement through the Lepton+Jets Channel

Speaker: James Poll (Queen Mary, London)

Slides James_UK_ATLAS_10-01-08.pdf

09:45 Semi-leptonic tt+jets Comparisons

Speaker: Kenny Wraight (University of Glasgow)

Slides kw_durham08_talk.ppt

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:30 Standard Model Physics

10:30 Summary Inclusive Z/W Analyses

Speaker: Allesandro Tricoli (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides Tricoli_CSCWZinc_ATLASUKDurham_10jan08.pdf

10:50 Summary Z/W + Jets Analyses

Speaker: Maria Fiascaris (University of Oxford)

Slides Fiascaris_WZJets_Durham.pdf

11:10 Summary Di-Boson Analyses

Speaker: Tom Barber (University of Cambridge)

Slides DibosonUKATLAS2008.pdf DibosonUKATLAS2008.ppt

11:30 Summary Minimum Bias Studies

Speaker: William Bell (University of Glasgow)

Slides minbias_durham-20080110.pdf minbias_durham-20080110.ppt

11:50 Z + b-Jets

Speaker: Andrew Mehta (University of Liverpool)

Slides mehtazbjet.pdf

12:02 Direct Photon Cross Section Measurement

Speaker: Mark Stockton (University of Birmingham)

Slides MarkStocktonDirectPhotons.pdf

12:14 Controlling the neutral Drell-Yan at high mass

Speaker: Samir Ferrag (University of Glasgow)

Slides UK_DrellYan100108_.ppt

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 B-Physics

14:00 Long-term B-physics strategies in ATLAS

Speaker: Maria Smizanska (Lancaster)

Slides B-strategies-1.ppt

14:15 B-phys tools for FDR-1 and beyond

Speaker: James Catmore (Lancaster)

Slides DurhamJan08.pdf

14:30 J/psi & Upsilon production, offline monitoring, alignment & calibration

Speaker: Darren Price (Lancaster)

Slides dprice_atluk08_onia.pdf dprice_atluk08_onia.ppt

14:45 J/Psi polarization and mu10 trigger

Speaker: Vato Kartvelishvili (Lancaster)

Slides jan10.durham.pdf

14:55 Main Triggers for B-physics

Speaker: Julie Kirk (RAL)

Slides Btrigger_Kirk.ppt

15:10 B meson studies from commissioning to New Physics

Speaker: Roger Jones (Lancaster)

Slides January10th.pdf January10th.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Tea

16:00 → 17:30 SUSY/Exotics

16:00 Trilepton Analysis

Speaker: Ms Christina Potter (RHUL)

Slides Durham_Jan08.pdf

16:20 Trilepton Analysis

Speaker: Mr Oleg Brandt (Univ. of Oxford)

Slides 2008_01_10_ATLAS_UK_Durham_OBrandt.pdf 2008_01_10_ATLAS_UK_Durham_OBrandt.ppt

16:40 Dileptons / Diphotons

Speaker: samir ferrag (Glasgow)

Slides UK_DileptonsCSC100108.ppt

17:00 Dibosons

Speaker: Mr Adam Davison (University College London)

Slides AdamDavisonWWScat.pdf.pdf

Friday, 11 January

09:00 → 10:30 Higgs Physics

09:00 Semileptonic ttH Hbb search

Speaker: Chris Collins-Tooth (Glasgow)

Slides cct_tthhbb-pres2.pdf cct_tthhbb-pres2.ppt

09:18 Fully Hadronic ttH Hbb search

Speaker: Saverio d'Auria (Glasgow)

Slides Dauria_Durham_tth_hadronic.pdf

09:30 UCL Activities in the ttH(H->bb) channel

Speaker: Dr Simon Dean (University College London)

Slides SimonDean_ttH_AUK_11012008.ppt.ppt

09:42 Higgs->TauTau

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (Oxford)

Slides sinead_higgs_durham_08.ppt

10:00 Photon efficiencies for Higgs searches

Speaker: Mr Neil Cooper-Smith (Royal Holloway University Of London)

Slides PhotonRecoDurham(120108)v2.pdf PhotonRecoDurham(120108)v2.ppt

10:12 Light Higgs search: statistical combination

Speaker: Catherine Wright (Glasgow)

Slides cath_durham.pdf cath_durham.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 13:10 Overviews

Tutorial Announcement tutorial.pdf

11:00 Commissioning milestone runs

Speaker: Jamie Boyd (CERN)

Slides ukAtlasTalk.pdf ukAtlasTalk.ppt

11:40 Preparing for first physics

Speaker: Dave Charlton (Birmingham)

Slides 20080111_ATLAS_UK.pdf

12:20 ATLAS and the particle physics vision for the next decade

Speaker: John Womersley (STFC)

Slides Womersley.ppt.ppt