Spaatind 2012 - Nordic Conference on Particle Physics

2 Jan 2012, 08:00 → 7 Jan 2012, 18:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Skeikampen (Norway)

Outline

The 22nd Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spaatind 2012) will take place at the THON Hotel in Skeikampen (Norway), from Monday, January 2 to Saturday, January 7, 2012.

The program includes lectures and overview presentations on some of the most actual topics in particle and astroparticle physics, with an emphasis on results from the LHC experiments and their interpretation.
In addition, there are contributed talks presented by the participants.

Invited Speakers

Chris Quigg (Fermilab) - Collider Phenomenology at the LHC and beyond
Albert De Roeck (CERN & Antwepen University) - Physics at the LHC Upgrade
Urs Achim Wiedemann (CERN) - Heavy Ion Physics
Paula Eerola (Helsinki) - Recent CMS results
Alex Read (Oslo) - Recent ATLAS results
David Wark (Imperial College) - Neutrino Physics

Travel Arrangements

Bus transport will be arranged from/to Oslo Airport Gardermoen on Monday January 2, and Saturday January 7, 2012.

Departure time on January 2nd: 2:00pm from Gardermoen. Don't miss this bus!
Arrival Gardermoen on January 7th before noon. Please plan your flights accordingly.
 

Accommodation

The prices for accommodation, including all meals, are 590 NOK per person per night in a double shared room and 650 NOK per person per night in a single room.

IMPORTANT NEWS: Accomodation expenses for Ph.D. and Masters students opting for shared accomodation will be covered by the Organization. Please indicate in your registration if you need this support.
 

Conference Fee

The conference fee, which will cover the transportation to and from the airport as well as wine at the Conferernce Dinner is 1000 NOK. A reduced fee of 500 NOK will be collected for accompanying persons aged 15 or more. Ph.D. and Masters students are exempt from the conference fee.


The Meeting is sponsored by the Nordforsk Research Infrastructure "LHC and Beyond" 

Organizers

Poul H. Damgaard (NBIA & Discovery Center)
Alberto Guffanti (NBIA & Discovery Center)
Troels C. Petersen (NBI & Discovery Center)

Monday, 2 January

19:00 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 3 January

08:30 → 09:30 Invited Talks

08:30 Collider Phenomenology at the LHC and Beyond

Speaker: Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

Slides CQSpaatind2012.pdf

09:30 → 15:00 Ski & Lunch Break

15:00 → 17:00 Invited Talks

15:00 Recent ATLAS results

Speaker: Prof. Alex Read (University of Oslo)

Slides RecentATLASResults.pdf

16:00 Recent CMS results

Speaker: Prof. Paula Eerola (University of Helsinki)

Slides CMS-recent-results-Jan2012.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 → 19:00 Contributed Talks

17:30 An SU(3) parton shower and orthogonal color bases

Speaker: Dr Malin Sjödahl (Lund University)

Slides MalinSjodahl_17.30.pdf

17:45 Total Cross Section Measurement with TOTEM at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Jan Welti (University of Helsinki)

Slides SpaatindJan.Welti.17.45.pdf

18:00 Resonance searches in multilepton final states

Speaker: Mr Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Ask_Spaatind_18_00.pdf

18:15 IceCube Solar Dark Matter search and Global SUSY fits with IceCube data

Speaker: Mr Matthias Danninger (Stockholm University)

Slides Matthias.18.15.pdf

18:30 All-loop amplitudes of the Reggeon Field Theory via the stochastic model

Speaker: Dr Rodion Kolevatov (University of Oslo)

Slides Kolevatov.18.30.pdf

18:45 Tuning MCs using ATLAS boson transverse momentum measurements

Speaker: Ms Elena Yatsenko (DESY)

Slides Yatsenko_18.45.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 Contributed Talks

20:00 Invariant mass distributions of SUSY cascade decays

Speaker: Mr Anders Kvellestad (University of Oslo)

Slides anders.kvellestad_20.00.pdf

20:15 Complex Triple Gauge Boson Couplings

Speaker: Ms Christine Overgaard Rasmussen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Christine.Rasmussen.18.45.ps

20:30 Tau identification in the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Ms Almut Pingel (Niels Bohr Institute)

20:45 Bs studies in the channel J/ψφ at the CMS experiment at LHC

Speaker: Mr Giacomo Fedi (University of Helsinki)

Slides fedi.20.45.pdf

Wednesday, 4 January

08:30 → 09:30 Invited Talks

08:30 Collider Phenomenology at the LHC and Beyond

Speaker: Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

09:30 → 15:00 Ski & Lunch Break

15:00 → 17:00 Invited Talks

15:00 Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Dr Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

Slides wiedemannNorway2012a.pdf

16:00 Recent ATLAS results

Speaker: Prof. Alex Read (University of Oslo)

Slides HiggsCombinationGausdal2012.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 → 19:00 Contributed Talks

17:30 Challenges and Perspectives in Quarkonium Polarization Measurements

Speaker: Ms Ilse Krätschmer (Hephy Vienna)

Slides Kraetschmer.isle.17.30.pdf

17:45 Seperation of H to ZZ to 4l from the SM ZZ to 4l background

Speaker: Mr Lars Egholm Pedersen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides lars.pedersen.17.45.pdf

18:00 Diagnosis of Supersymmetry Breaking Mediation Schemes by Mass Reconstruction at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Abram Krislock (Stockholm University)

Slides Krislock.abram.18.00.pdf

18:15 Dark Matter Structures In Cosmological Simulations

Speaker: Mr Martin Sparre (Niels Bohr Institute/Dark Cosmology center)

Slides Gausdal2012Ski.pdf

18:30 Chiral symmetry at high energies

Speaker: Prof. Johan Bijnens (Lund University)

Slides bijnens.johan.18.30.pdf

18:45 Timing performance of the ATLAS calorimeters

Speaker: Mr Martin Spangenberg (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Martin_Spangenberg18.45.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 Contributed Talks

20:00 Searches for mSUGRA in τ channels at ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Ørjan DALE (University of Bergen)

Slides dale_20.00.pdf

20:15 Measurement of the W-Boson Mass with the ATLAS Detector at LHC

Speaker: Mr Bjørn Sorensen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Bjoern_Soerensen.20.15.pdf

20:30 Modeling the Impact Parameter Dependence of the nPDFs With EKS98 and EPS09 Parametrizations

Speaker: Mr Ilka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä)

Slides helenius_ilka.20.30.pdf

20:45 Search for new gauge bosons and other exotic particles with ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Magnar Kopangen Bugge (University of Oslo)

Slides Bugge.Magnar.20.45.pdf

Thursday, 5 January

08:30 → 09:30 Invited Talks

08:30 Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Dr Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

Slides wiedemannNorway2012b.pdf

09:30 → 15:00 Ski & Lunch Break

15:00 → 17:00 Invited Talks

15:00 Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Prof. Wark David (Imperial College London)

Slides dlw_Nordic_School.pptx

16:00 Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Dr Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

Slides wiedemannNorway2012c.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 → 19:00 Contributed Talks

17:30 Reconstructing the rest frame of tau+tau- resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Peter Lundgaard Rosendahl (University of Bergen)

Slides rosendahl17.30.pdf

17:45 A model for the color suppressed decay mode B^0 --> 2 \pi^0

Speaker: Dr Teresa Palmer (University of Oslo)

Slides palmer17.45.pdf

18:00 Search for light charged Higgs bosons in top-quark decays with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Mr Alexander Madsen (Uppsala University)

Slides Madsen18.00.pdf

18:15 Upper limits on the branching ratio for top decaying to a bottom and a charged Higgs boson

Speaker: Ms Silje Hattrem Raddum (University of Oslo)

Slides Silje_18.15.pdf

18:30 BSM with new Higgs limits

Speaker: Mr Helge Pettersen (University of Bergen)

Slides helge.pettersen.18.30.pdf

18:45 “Absolute Luminosity For ATLAS” – From installation to first data physics data

Speaker: Mr Sune Jakobsen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Sune.Jakobsen.20.15.pptx

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 Contributed Talks

20:00 Jets in a quark-gluon plasma

Speaker: Dr Konrad Tywoniuk (University of Lund)

Slides KTywoniuk20.00.pdf

20:15 H->gammagamma search at ATLAS

Speaker: Ms Lillian Smestad (University of Oslo)

Slides lillian.smestad.20.15.pdf

20:30 Measuring the 3D shape of galaxy clusters

Speaker: Mr Andreas Skielboe (Dark Cosmology center)

Slides andreas.skilboe.20.30.pdf

20:45 IPPOG - outreach activites and resources

Speakers: Prof. Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo), Prof. Johan Rathsman (Lund University)

Slides rathsman.20.45.pdf

Friday, 6 January

08:30 → 10:15 Invited Talks

08:30 Physics at the LHC Upgrade

Speaker: Prof. Albert De Roeck (CERN & Antwerpen)

Slides deroeck_Nordic2.ppt

09:15 Break

09:25 Physics at the LHC Upgrade

Speaker: Prof. Albert De Roeck (CERN & Antwerpen)

10:15 → 15:00 Ski & Lunch Break

15:00 → 17:00 Invited Talks

15:00 Collider Phenomenology at the LHC and Beyond

Speaker: Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

16:00 Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Prof. Wark David (Imperial College London)

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 → 19:00 Contributed Talks

17:30 Tau Polarisation Measurement in Z Decays in ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Ingrid Deigaard (HEHI)

Slides ingrid.deigaard.17.30.pdf

17:45 Muon Performance of the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Dr Wofgang Liebig (University of Bergen)

Slides WLiebig_17.45.pdf

18:00 Data driven background estimation in SM H to tau tau

Speaker: Mr Gorm Galster (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides gorm.18.00.pdf

18:15 Search for supersymmetry in 2 lepton final states

Speaker: Mr Eirik Gramstad (University of Oslo)

Slides Gramstad.18.15.pdf

18:30 ZZ anomalous triple gauge couplings in ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Kristian Gregersen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides Kristian.Gregersen.18.30.pdf

18:45 Why and how develop new accelerators?

Speaker: Prof. Tord Ekelöf (Uppsala University)

Slides Spåtind_2012_Ekelof.ppt

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 7 January

08:15 → 08:30 Departure of the bus to Oslo Airport