PhD Seminar 2015

Aug 26, 2015, 8:00 AM → Aug 27, 2015, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

WHGA/001 (PSI)

Wednesday, August 26

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session 1

Chair: Adrian Signer

9:00 AM Phase I Pixel Upgrade: system test at UZH

Speaker: Jennifer Ngadiuba

Slides ngadiuba.pdf

9:15 AM X-ray tests of CMS barrel pixel detector modules for Phase I upgrade

Speaker: Pirmin Berger

Slides berger.pdf

9:30 AM Qualification of pixel detector modules for CMS Upgrade Phase I

Speaker: Vittorio Raoul Tavolaro

Slides tavolaro.pdf

9:45 AM Radiation tolerance of the readout chip for the Phase I upgrade of the CMS pixel detector

Speaker: Jan Hoss

Slides hoss.pdf

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

Speaker: Federica Lionetto

Slides lionetto.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2

Chair: Massimiliano Grazzini

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

Speaker: Hayk Sargsyan

Slides sargsyan.pdf

11:15 AM 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 AM All hadronic ttH(bb) analysis using the Matrix Element Method

Speaker: Daniel Salerno

Slides salerno.pdf

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

Speaker: Deborah Pinna

Slides pinna.pdf

12:00 PM The XENON1T Time Projection Chamber

Speaker: Julien Wulf

Slides wulf.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 3:15 PM Session 3

Chair: Malte Hildebrandt

1:45 PM A High Intensity Muon Beamline Study at the Paul Scherrer Institut

Speaker: Zachary Hodge

Slides hodge.pdf

2:00 PM Development of a high-brightness low-energy muon beamline

Speaker: Ivana Belosevic

Slides belosevic.pdf

2:15 PM Towards a novel high-brightness muon beamline

Speaker: Andreas Eggenberger

Slides eggenberger.pdf

2:30 PM A Study of the XENON100 Electromagnetic Background

Speaker: Daniel Mayani

Slides mayani.pdf

2:45 PM The XENON1T light calibration system

Speaker: Payam Pakarha

Slides pakarha.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee

3:45 PM → 5:15 PM Session 4

Chair: Lea Caminada

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

Speaker: Valeria Rizzoglio

Slides rizzoglio.pdf

4:00 PM SAFIR: Towards a high-rate capable PET insert for multimodal dynamic imaging

Speaker: Jannis Fischer

Slides fischer.pdf

4:15 PM Studies of neutron transport and extraction at the PSI source for Ultracold Neutrons

Speaker: Dieter Ries

Slides ries.pdf

4:30 PM News on the mercury magnetometer for the nEDM experiment at PSI

Speaker: Sybille Komposch

Slides komposch.pdf

4:45 PM Active stabilization of a magnetic field for the nEDM experiment

Speaker: Michal Rawlik

Slides rawlik.pdf

5:15 PM → 6:00 PM PSI tour

Thursday, August 27

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Session 5

Chair: Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder

9:00 AM NNLO corrections to jet production in deep inelastic scattering

Speaker: Jan Niehues

Slides niehues.pdf

9:15 AM Fully differential real-virtual corrections for diboson production at NNLO

Speaker: Simone Lionetti

Slides lionetti.pdf

9:30 AM Measurement of the Differential WW cross-section at 8 TeV with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Daniel Meister

Slides meister.pdf

9:45 AM Search for heavy resonances in the W/Z-tagged dijet mass spectrum at CMS

Speaker: Thea Aarrestad

Slides aarrestad.pdf

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

Speaker: Camilla Galloni

Slides galloni.pdf

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

Speaker: Milena Quittnat

Slides quittnat.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee

11:15 AM → 12:45 PM Session 6

Chair: Klaus Kirch

11:15 AM Thin-disk laser multi-pass amplifier

Speaker: Karsten Schuhmann

Slides Thin-disk_laser_multi-pass_amplifier_PHD_Seminar.pptx

11:30 AM Searching for Bosonic SuperWIMPs in XENON100

Speaker: Peter Barrow

Slides barrow.pdf

11:45 AM Cosmogenic activation of xenon

Speaker: Francesco Piastra

Slides piastra.pdf

12:00 PM Boundary terms in the decomposition of nucleon spin

Speaker: Peter Lowdon

Slides lowdon.pdf

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

Speaker: Max Ahnen

Slides ahnen.pdf

12:45 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Session 7

Chair: Andreas Knecht

2:00 PM Luminosity determination at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Andreas Weiden

Slides weiden.pdf

2:15 PM Search for weakly interacting long living scalar particles in the decay $B^+ -> K^ \chi (-> \mu^+ \mu^-)$ at LHCb

Speaker: Andrea Mauri

Slides mauri.pdf

2:30 PM Electroweak Penguin decays at LHCb

Speaker: Espen Eie Bowen

Slides bowen.pdf

2:45 PM The Compact Muon Beam Line for the Mu3e Experiment

Speaker: Felix Berg

Slides berg.pdf

3:00 PM Prototype Studies for the Mu3e Scintillating Fiber Hodoscope

Speaker: Giada Rutar

Slides rutar.pdf

3:15 PM Lepton flavor violation in Composite Higgs models with partial compositeness

Speaker: Andrea Pattori

Slides pattori.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee

4:15 PM → 5:45 PM Session 8

Chair: Gino Isidori

4:15 PM Same-Sign Dileptons at CMS

Speaker: Constantin Heidegger

Slides heidegger-v3.pdf

4:30 PM 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

4:45 PM Effects of Beyond Standard Model physics in Effective Field Theory approach on Higgs' p_T spectrum

Speaker: Agnieszka Ilnicka

Slides ilnicka.pdf

5:00 PM Higgs Pseudo-observables and Radiative Corrections

Speaker: Marzia Bordone

Slides bordone.pdf

5:15 PM Search for new physics in the all-hadronic final state with the MT2 variable

Speaker: Myriam Schönenberger

Slides schoenenberger.pdf