PhD Seminar 2015

26 Aug 2015, 08:00 → 27 Aug 2015, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

WHGA/001 (PSI)

Wednesday 26 August

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1

Chair: Adrian Signer

09:00 Phase I Pixel Upgrade: system test at UZH

Speaker: Jennifer Ngadiuba

Slides ngadiuba.pdf

09:15 X-ray tests of CMS barrel pixel detector modules for Phase I upgrade

Speaker: Pirmin Berger

Slides berger.pdf

09:30 Qualification of pixel detector modules for CMS Upgrade Phase I

Speaker: Vittorio Raoul Tavolaro

Slides tavolaro.pdf

09:45 Radiation tolerance of the readout chip for the Phase I upgrade of the CMS pixel detector

Speaker: Jan Hoss

Slides hoss.pdf

10:00 Characterisation of prototype silicon sensors for the LHCb upgrade

Speaker: Federica Lionetto

Slides lionetto.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2

Chair: Massimiliano Grazzini

11:00 qt-subtraction for heavy-quark pair production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Hayk Sargsyan

Slides sargsyan.pdf

11:15 Top quark pair production in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in Run II of the LHC

Speaker: Joosep Pata

Slides pata.pdf

11:30 All hadronic ttH(bb) analysis using the Matrix Element Method

Speaker: Daniel Salerno

Slides salerno.pdf

11:45 Dark matter produced in association with top quark pair

Speaker: Deborah Pinna

Slides pinna.pdf

12:00 The XENON1T Time Projection Chamber

Speaker: Julien Wulf

Slides wulf.pdf

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:15 Session 3

Chair: Malte Hildebrandt

13:45 A High Intensity Muon Beamline Study at the Paul Scherrer Institut

Speaker: Zachary Hodge

Slides hodge.pdf

14:00 Development of a high-brightness low-energy muon beamline

Speaker: Ivana Belosevic

Slides belosevic.pdf

14:15 Towards a novel high-brightness muon beamline

Speaker: Andreas Eggenberger

Slides eggenberger.pdf

14:30 A Study of the XENON100 Electromagnetic Background

Speaker: Daniel Mayani

Slides mayani.pdf

14:45 The XENON1T light calibration system

Speaker: Payam Pakarha

Slides pakarha.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee

15:45 → 17:15 Session 4

Chair: Lea Caminada

15:45 A precise beam dynamics model for the beam transport line within the Gantry 3 project

Speaker: Valeria Rizzoglio

Slides rizzoglio.pdf

16:00 SAFIR: Towards a high-rate capable PET insert for multimodal dynamic imaging

Speaker: Jannis Fischer

Slides fischer.pdf

16:15 Studies of neutron transport and extraction at the PSI source for Ultracold Neutrons

Speaker: Dieter Ries

Slides ries.pdf

16:30 News on the mercury magnetometer for the nEDM experiment at PSI

Speaker: Sybille Komposch

Slides komposch.pdf

16:45 Active stabilization of a magnetic field for the nEDM experiment

Speaker: Michal Rawlik

Slides rawlik.pdf

17:15 → 18:00 PSI tour

Thursday 27 August

09:00 → 10:45 Session 5

Chair: Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder

09:00 NNLO corrections to jet production in deep inelastic scattering

Speaker: Jan Niehues

Slides niehues.pdf

09:15 Fully differential real-virtual corrections for diboson production at NNLO

Speaker: Simone Lionetti

Slides lionetti.pdf

09:30 Measurement of the Differential WW cross-section at 8 TeV with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Daniel Meister

Slides meister.pdf

09:45 Search for heavy resonances in the W/Z-tagged dijet mass spectrum at CMS

Speaker: Thea Aarrestad

Slides aarrestad.pdf

10:00 Search for massive resonaces decaying into boson pairs in the tautau qq final state at CMS

Speaker: Camilla Galloni

Slides galloni.pdf

10:15 Search for extra dimensions in the high mass diphoton spectrum at 13 TeV

Speaker: Milena Quittnat

Slides quittnat.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 12:45 Session 6

Chair: Klaus Kirch

11:15 Thin-disk laser multi-pass amplifier

Speaker: Karsten Schuhmann

Slides Thin-disk_laser_multi-pass_amplifier_PHD_Seminar.pptx

11:30 Searching for Bosonic SuperWIMPs in XENON100

Speaker: Peter Barrow

Slides barrow.pdf

11:45 Cosmogenic activation of xenon

Speaker: Francesco Piastra

Slides piastra.pdf

12:00 Boundary terms in the decomposition of nucleon spin

Speaker: Peter Lowdon

Slides lowdon.pdf

12:15 On the On-Off Problem: an Objective Bayesian Analysis

Speaker: Max Ahnen

Slides ahnen.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Session 7

Chair: Andreas Knecht

14:00 Luminosity determination at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Andreas Weiden

Slides weiden.pdf

14:15 Search for weakly interacting long living scalar particles in the decay $B^+ -> K^ \chi (-> \mu^+ \mu^-)$ at LHCb

Speaker: Andrea Mauri

Slides mauri.pdf

14:30 Electroweak Penguin decays at LHCb

Speaker: Espen Eie Bowen

Slides bowen.pdf

14:45 The Compact Muon Beam Line for the Mu3e Experiment

Speaker: Felix Berg

Slides berg.pdf

15:00 Prototype Studies for the Mu3e Scintillating Fiber Hodoscope

Speaker: Giada Rutar

Slides rutar.pdf

15:15 Lepton flavor violation in Composite Higgs models with partial compositeness

Speaker: Andrea Pattori

Slides pattori.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee

16:15 → 17:45 Session 8

Chair: Gino Isidori

16:15 Same-Sign Dileptons at CMS

Speaker: Constantin Heidegger

Slides heidegger-v3.pdf

16:30 Two-loop QCD corrections to the decay width $H \to Z \gamma$ and steps towards H+j production with full top quark mass dependence

Speaker: Dominik Kara

Slides kara.pdf

16:45 Effects of Beyond Standard Model physics in Effective Field Theory approach on Higgs' p_T spectrum

Speaker: Agnieszka Ilnicka

Slides ilnicka.pdf

17:00 Higgs Pseudo-observables and Radiative Corrections

Speaker: Marzia Bordone

Slides bordone.pdf

17:15 Search for new physics in the all-hadronic final state with the MT2 variable

Speaker: Myriam Schönenberger

Slides schoenenberger.pdf