2nd ATLAS-UK Physics Meeting

Jan 9, 2008, 12:20 PM → Jan 11, 2008, 2:15 PM Europe/London

IPPP, Durham

ALAN BARR, Dan Tovey

Wednesday, January 9

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Introduction

2:00 PM Introduction

Speaker: Dr Dan Tovey (Sheffield PPPA)

2:05 PM Welcome

Speaker: Dr Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Trigger Performance

2:30 PM Trigger commissioning and early running strategy

Speaker: John Baines (RAL)

Slides TriggerCommisioning.ppt TriggerCommissioning.pdf

2:45 PM Understanding electron trigger performance using Z->ee

Speaker: Mike Flowerdew (Liverpool)

Slides FlowerdewTalk.pdf

3:00 PM Tag & probe method with electrons in BSM channels

Speaker: Matthew Tamsett (RHUL)

Slides tag_probe_yeti_090108.pdf

3:15 PM Trigger performance on ttH

Speaker: Catrin Bernius (UCL)

Slides AtlasUKDurham090108.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Tea

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Combined Performance

4:00 PM Tracking performance

Speaker: Stephen Haywood (RAL)

Slides Durham08_TrackPerf.ppt

4:20 PM e/gamma performance

Speaker: Helen Hayward (Liverpool)

Slides AtlasUkEgamma4.pdf

4:40 PM Jet performance

Speaker: Dr Mark Hodgkinson (University of Sheffield)

Slides RefinedIPPP.ppt

5:00 PM ETmiss performance

Speaker: Ms Ellie Dobson (Oxford University)

Slides EtMiss_09-01-08.ppt

5:20 PM Tau performance

Speaker: Alan Phillips (Cambridge)

Slides AlanP_TauPerformance.pdf

5:40 PM b-tagging performance

Speaker: Carl Gwilliam (Liverpool)

Slides GwilliamBTag.odp GwilliamBTag.pdf

Thursday, January 10

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Top Physics

9:00 AM 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

9:15 AM Triggering Semi-Leptonic ttbar and Efficiency from Data

Speaker: Simon Head (Manchester University)

Slides SimonHead_Durham08.pdf.pdf

9:30 AM Top Mass Measurement through the Lepton+Jets Channel

Speaker: James Poll (Queen Mary, London)

Slides James_UK_ATLAS_10-01-08.pdf

9:45 AM Semi-leptonic tt+jets Comparisons

Speaker: Kenny Wraight (University of Glasgow)

Slides kw_durham08_talk.ppt

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM → 12:30 PM Standard Model Physics

10:30 AM Summary Inclusive Z/W Analyses

Speaker: Allesandro Tricoli (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides Tricoli_CSCWZinc_ATLASUKDurham_10jan08.pdf

10:50 AM Summary Z/W + Jets Analyses

Speaker: Maria Fiascaris (University of Oxford)

Slides Fiascaris_WZJets_Durham.pdf

11:10 AM Summary Di-Boson Analyses

Speaker: Tom Barber (University of Cambridge)

Slides DibosonUKATLAS2008.pdf DibosonUKATLAS2008.ppt

11:30 AM Summary Minimum Bias Studies

Speaker: William Bell (University of Glasgow)

Slides minbias_durham-20080110.pdf minbias_durham-20080110.ppt

11:50 AM Z + b-Jets

Speaker: Andrew Mehta (University of Liverpool)

Slides mehtazbjet.pdf

12:02 PM Direct Photon Cross Section Measurement

Speaker: Mark Stockton (University of Birmingham)

Slides MarkStocktonDirectPhotons.pdf

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

Speaker: Samir Ferrag (University of Glasgow)

Slides UK_DrellYan100108_.ppt

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM B-Physics

2:00 PM Long-term B-physics strategies in ATLAS

Speaker: Maria Smizanska (Lancaster)

Slides B-strategies-1.ppt

2:15 PM B-phys tools for FDR-1 and beyond

Speaker: James Catmore (Lancaster)

Slides DurhamJan08.pdf

2:30 PM J/psi & Upsilon production, offline monitoring, alignment & calibration

Speaker: Darren Price (Lancaster)

Slides dprice_atluk08_onia.pdf dprice_atluk08_onia.ppt

2:45 PM J/Psi polarization and mu10 trigger

Speaker: Vato Kartvelishvili (Lancaster)

Slides jan10.durham.pdf

2:55 PM Main Triggers for B-physics

Speaker: Julie Kirk (RAL)

Slides Btrigger_Kirk.ppt

3:10 PM B meson studies from commissioning to New Physics

Speaker: Roger Jones (Lancaster)

Slides January10th.pdf January10th.ppt

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Tea

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM SUSY/Exotics

4:00 PM Trilepton Analysis

Speaker: Ms Christina Potter (RHUL)

Slides Durham_Jan08.pdf

4:20 PM 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

4:40 PM Dileptons / Diphotons

Speaker: samir ferrag (Glasgow)

Slides UK_DileptonsCSC100108.ppt

5:00 PM Dibosons

Speaker: Mr Adam Davison (University College London)

Slides AdamDavisonWWScat.pdf.pdf

Friday, January 11

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Higgs Physics

9:00 AM Semileptonic ttH Hbb search

Speaker: Chris Collins-Tooth (Glasgow)

Slides cct_tthhbb-pres2.pdf cct_tthhbb-pres2.ppt

9:18 AM Fully Hadronic ttH Hbb search

Speaker: Saverio d'Auria (Glasgow)

Slides Dauria_Durham_tth_hadronic.pdf

9:30 AM UCL Activities in the ttH(H->bb) channel

Speaker: Dr Simon Dean (University College London)

Slides SimonDean_ttH_AUK_11012008.ppt.ppt

9:42 AM Higgs->TauTau

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (Oxford)

Slides sinead_higgs_durham_08.ppt

10:00 AM 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 AM Light Higgs search: statistical combination

Speaker: Catherine Wright (Glasgow)

Slides cath_durham.pdf cath_durham.ppt

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 1:10 PM Overviews

Tutorial Announcement tutorial.pdf

11:00 AM Commissioning milestone runs

Speaker: Jamie Boyd (CERN)

Slides ukAtlasTalk.pdf ukAtlasTalk.ppt

11:40 AM Preparing for first physics

Speaker: Dave Charlton (Birmingham)

Slides 20080111_ATLAS_UK.pdf

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

Speaker: John Womersley (STFC)

Slides Womersley.ppt.ppt