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, 1 December 2018 - 09:00

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

09:00 Introduction and Welcome
Introduction and Welcome
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
09:10 Detector R&D
Detector R&D
09:10 - 09:55
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

09:10 LArPix R&D: Demonstration of large-area 3D charge readout for LArTPCs - Peter Madigan

09:25 ATLAS HGTD Upgrade - Yuzhan Zhao (UCSC)

09:40 4-Dimensional Particle Tracking with Ultra-fast Silicon Detectors - Carolyn Gee (University of California, Santa Cruz)
09:55 Silicon Detector R&D
Silicon Detector R&D
09:55 - 10:25
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

09:55 A new method for silicon sensor charge calibration using Compton scattering - William Mccormack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:55 PSD capabilities of a SiPM-based Readout Board - Jyothisraj Johnson (UC Davis)
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 12:25
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
12:25 During lunch
During lunch
12:25 - 13:15
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

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

12:50 Search For a Light Pseudoscalar Higgs Boson with Boosted Topologies at CMS - Mengyao Shi
13:15 SM and Higgs Measurements
SM and Higgs Measurements
13:15 - 14:15
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

13:15 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)

13:30 Illuminating the Hbb Discovery at ATLAS with the VBF + photon channel - Jacob Pasner (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics)

13:45 The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE): measuring the neutron multiplicity from neutrino-nucleus interactions - Teal Pershing (UC Davis, Physics)

14:00 Measurement of Neutrino Cross Section with IceCube using Earth Absorption - Sally Robertson (UC Berkeley)
14:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:15 - 14:50
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
14:50 BSM Searches
BSM Searches
14:50 - 15:20
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

14:50 A Study of Grid Electron Emission in LZ using a Gaseous Xenon Test Vessel at SLAC - Ryan Linehan (SLAC)

15:00 Probing new physics using non-pointing and delayed photons with the ATLAS detector - Sai Santpur

15:10 Search for light pseudoscalar with overlapping di-tau decays using machine learning at the CMS detector - Grace Haza (University of California Davis (US))
15:20 BSM Searches
BSM Searches
15:20 - 16:20
Room: Building 50 Auditorium
Contributions

15:20 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))

15:35 Improvement of Jet Substructure Techniques by Studying HH -> WWWW -> Hadrons with the CMS Experiment - Brendan Regnery (University of California, Davis)

15:50 Jet reclustering in Mono-S(WW) signature analysis - Congqiao Li (Peking University)

16:05 Statistical analysis in ttbar resonance search with ATLAS - Tong Ou (Nanjing University)
16:20 Close out
Close out
16:20 - 16:30
Room: Building 50 Auditorium

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