Name: NorCal HEP-EXchange 2018
Start: 2018-12-01T09:00:00-08:00
End: 2018-12-01T16:40:00-08:00
Location: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

NorCal HEP-EXchange 2018

Saturday, December 1, 2018 - 9:00 AM

Monday, November 26, 2018
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
Saturday, December 1, 2018

9:00 AM Introduction and Welcome
Introduction and Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
9:10 AM Detector R&D
Detector R&D
9:10 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

9:10 AM LArPix R&D: Demonstration of large-area 3D charge readout for LArTPCs - Peter Madigan

9:25 AM ATLAS HGTD Upgrade - Yuzhan Zhao (UCSC)

9:40 AM 4-Dimensional Particle Tracking with Ultra-fast Silicon Detectors - Carolyn Gee (University of California, Santa Cruz)
9:55 AM Silicon Detector R&D
Silicon Detector R&D
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

9:55 AM A new method for silicon sensor charge calibration using Compton scattering - William Mccormack

10:05 AM Study of Radiation Hard Dielectric Materials for the High Luminosity LHC - Derikka Bisi (UC Davis)

10:15 AM Development of Suitable Dielectrics for the High Luminosity LHC - Selene Cheung (UC Davis Physics)
10:25 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
10:45 AM Experiment R&D
Experiment R&D
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

10:45 AM Applying Deep Learning Techniques for LArTPC Data Reconstruction - Laura Domine (Stanford University/SLAC)

11:00 AM Scintillation Response Linearity of Nuclear Recoils in High Pressure Helium Gas - Andreas Biekert (UC Berkeley)

11:15 AM The Light Dark Matter eXperiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:30 AM Measurement of superradiance in liquid xenon with DireXeno - Ran Itay (SLAC)
11:45 AM Experiment R&D
Experiment R&D
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

11:45 AM The GAmmas from Nuclear Decays Hiding from Investigators (GANDHI) Experiment - Harikrishnan Ramani

11:55 AM PSD capabilities of a SiPM-based Readout Board - Jyothisraj Johnson (UC Davis)
12:05 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
12:25 PM During lunch
During lunch
12:25 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

12:25 PM Search for a Dark Photon with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment - Matthew Solt

12:50 PM Search For a Light Pseudoscalar Higgs Boson with Boosted Topologies at CMS - Mengyao Shi
1:15 PM SM and Higgs Measurements
SM and Higgs Measurements
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

1:15 PM Study of the rare decays of Bs0 and B0 into muon pairs from data collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector. - Aidan Grummer (ATLAS Collaboration)

1:30 PM Illuminating the Hbb Discovery at ATLAS with the VBF + photon channel - Jacob Pasner (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics)

1:45 PM The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE): measuring the neutron multiplicity from neutrino-nucleus interactions - Teal Pershing (UC Davis, Physics)

2:00 PM Measurement of Neutrino Cross Section with IceCube using Earth Absorption - Sally Robertson (UC Berkeley)
2:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:15 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
2:50 PM BSM Searches
BSM Searches
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

2:50 PM A Study of Grid Electron Emission in LZ using a Gaseous Xenon Test Vessel at SLAC - Ryan Linehan (SLAC)

3:00 PM Probing new physics using non-pointing and delayed photons with the ATLAS detector - Sai Santpur

3:10 PM Search for light pseudoscalar with overlapping di-tau decays using machine learning at the CMS detector - Grace Haza (University of California Davis (US))
3:20 PM BSM Searches
BSM Searches
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

3:20 PM Search for vector-like top quark partners decaying to an all-jets final state using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV - Reyer Edmond Band (University of California Davis (US))

3:35 PM Improvement of Jet Substructure Techniques by Studying HH -> WWWW -> Hadrons with the CMS Experiment - Brendan Regnery (University of California, Davis)

3:50 PM Jet reclustering in Mono-S(WW) signature analysis - Congqiao Li (Peking University)

4:05 PM Statistical analysis in ttbar resonance search with ATLAS - Tong Ou (Nanjing University)
4:20 PM Close out
Close out
4:20 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Building 50 Auditorium