ATLAS-UK Physics Meeting

18 Sept 2006, 09:00 → 20 Sept 2006, 14:00 Europe/London

IPPP

Dan Tovey

All sessions available in the Moon virtual room via VRVS

Monday, 18 September

09:00 → 09:25 Introduction

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

09:05 Introduction: aims of meeting

Speaker: Dr Dan Tovey (Sheffield PPPA)

Slides ukphys_180906.ppt

09:15 → 14:00 Combined Performance

09:15 Egamma Performance

Speaker: Monika Wielers (RAL)

Slides egamma_wielers_180906.ppt

09:45 Jet/ETmiss/Tau Performance

Speaker: Peter Loch (Arizona)

Slides AtlasJets.ppt

10:15 Flavour Tagging Performance

Speaker: Laurent Vacavant (Marseilles)

Slides btagAtlasUK18092006.ppt

10:45 Coffee

11:00 Muon Performance

Speaker: Nectarios Benekos (MPI)

Slides Atlas_UK_06_nectar.pdf

11:30 Trigger Performance

Speaker: Ricardo Goncalo (RHUL)

Slides Trigger.ppt

12:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:10 Standard Model

14:00 Standard Model Overview

Speaker: Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides atlasthorne.pdf

14:30 Theory Overview: MC tools

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Dresden)

Slides UK_Atlas06.pdf

15:00 ATLAS Summary

Speaker: Craig Buttar (Glasgow)

Slides ATLAS-UK_Durham_meeting.ppt

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Introduction

Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)

Slides intro_durham.ppt

16:10 W production

Speaker: Alessandro Tricoli (RAL)

Slides Tricoli_WSigBkgCuts_18Sept06Durham.ppt

16:30 High pT Jets and PDFs

Speaker: Dan Clements (Glasgow)

Slides durham06_4.pdf durham06_4.ppt

16:50 W's and D* search

Speaker: Laura Gilbert (Oxford)

Slides WandDstar2.ppt

17:10 Diboson WW

Speaker: Chris Hays (Oxford)

Slides ukwwhww.pdf

17:30 W/gamma channel for TGC

Speaker: Richard Booth (Birmingham)

Slides Dur06TGC_jrab.ppt

17:50 MInimum Bias

Speaker: Craig Buttar (Glasgow)

Slides Minimum_bias_on_day_zero_v2.ppt

Tuesday, 19 September

09:00 → 12:40 Higgs Physics

09:00 Theory Overview

Speaker: Dieter Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe)

Slides atlasuk_zeppenfeld.pdf

09:30 ATLAS Summary

Speaker: Markus Schumacher (Bonn)

Slides atlasuk.ppt

10:00 Search for the Higgs in ttH, H-->bb

Speaker: Chris Collins-Tooth (Glasgow)

Slides durham-tth-19-9-2006.pdf durham-tth-19-9-2006.ppt

10:20 Higgs search and CP parity measmt. in ttH, H-->2 photons

Speaker: Pedro Teixeira-Dias (RHUL)

Slides tth_CP_AUKHiggs180906.ppt

10:40 Coffee

10:55 Search for invisible Higgs in ttH production

Speaker: Ricardo Goncalo (RHUL)

Slides tthInvHiggs.ppt

11:15 ttH production in FeynHiggs

Speaker: Bill Murray (RAL)

Slides tth.odp tth.pdf

11:35 The H-->4l search

Speaker: Stathes Paganis (Sheffield)

Slides AUK_H4l.ppt

11:55 The H-->2 photons search

Speaker: Hongbo Zhu (Sheffield)

Slides AUK_H2g.ppt

12:00 → 14:15 Top Physics

12:15 Theory Overview

Speaker: Adrian Signer (IPPP)

Slides TopThSum.pdf

12:45 Lunch

14:00 → 16:15 Top Physics (contd)

14:00 ATLAS Summary

Speaker: Stan Bentvelsen (NIKHEF)

Slides DurhamTopSB.ppt

14:30 Triggering Top Events

Speaker: Simon Head (Manchester)

Slides Simon_Trigger_Tops_v11.ppt

15:00 Top mass measurement using B hadron decay length

Speaker: Dimitrios Typaldos (Birmingham)

Slides DurhamTopTalk.pdf

15:15 Direct Measurement of Top Polarization

Speaker: Akira Shibata (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides UKPhysMeeting.pdf

15:30 Search for anomalous FCNC single top quark production with ATLAS

Speaker: Teh Lee Cheng (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Slides durham_060919.pdf

15:45 Anomalous Chromo-magnetic moment of the Top

Speaker: Paul Dervan (Liverpool)

Slides Durham.ppt

16:00 Coffee

16:15 → 18:30 SUSY/Exotics

16:15 Theory Overview

Speaker: Ben Allanach (Cambridge)

Slides SUSY overview

16:45 ATLAS Summary: SUSY

Speaker: Alan Barr (UCL)

Slides Barr-SUSY-Durham06.ppt

17:05 ATLAS Summary: Exotics

Speaker: Samir Ferrag (Glasgow)

Slides Is_it_Exotics.ppt

17:25 QCD background to SUSY from data

Speaker: Rob Duxfield (Sheffield)

Slides QcdBkgdEst.pdf QcdBkgdEst.ppt

17:45 Susy search strategy in trilepton channel

Speaker: Tina Potter (RHUL)

Slides Talk_Durham.pdf

Wednesday, 20 September

09:00 → 12:05 B-Physics

09:00 Theory Overview

Speaker: Patricia Ball (IPPP)

Slides ATLAS.pdf

09:30 ATLAS Summary

Speaker: Maria Smizanska (Lancaster)

Slides Presentation.ppt

10:00 B-Physics Triggers

Speaker: Dr John Baines (RAL)

Slides B-triggerStrategy.ppt

10:15 ROI-Guided B-triggers

Speaker: Dr Julie Kirk (RAL)

Slides B-trigger_Durham.ppt

10:30 Onium production in early data

Speaker: Mr Darren Price (Lancaster)

Slides auk06meeting-sept06.ppt

10:50 Coffee

11:05 J/Psi -> ee

Speaker: Dr Evelina Bouhova-Thacker (Lancaster)

Slides jpsiee-200906.pdf jpsiee-200906.ps

11:25 Analysis tools and frameworks

Speaker: Mr James Catmore (Lancaster)

Slides durham2006.ppt

11:45 UK Computing Resources

Speaker: Dr Roger Jones (Lancaster)

Slides ATLASAnalysisComputing_IPPSep06.ppt

12:00 → 12:30 Closing Session

12:00 ATLAS Physics: Highlights and Challenges with Early Data

Speaker: Giacomo Polesello (Pavia)

Slides aukpolesello.pdf