2017 US LHC Users Association Meeting

1 Nov 2017, 08:00 → 3 Nov 2017, 19:20 US/Central

CDF Big Room in Building 327 (Fermilab)

Harvey Newman (Caltech)

We are pleased to announce that Fermilab has kindly agreed to host our 2017 Annual US LHC Users Association Meeting Wednesday - Friday November 1-3, 2017.

There will be an arrival reception and Executive Committee meeting in the late afternoon and early evening of Wednesday November 2, followed by the main sessions on Thursday and Friday.

Slides LR_2017_winners.pdf

Wednesday, 1 November

16:00 → 17:30 Executive Committee Meeting

Convener: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

slides USLUECMeeting2017_hbnFermilab110117.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday, 2 November

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome to Fermilab

Speaker: Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab)

09:10 → 09:20 Meeting Logistics

Speakers: Boaz Klima (Fermilab), Prof. Cecilia Gerber (UIC)

Slides USLOA.pdf

09:20 → 09:45 US LUA Chair's Report

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

Slides USLUAChairReport2017_hbnFermilab110217.pptx

09:45 → 10:15 Status and Outlook of the LHC

Speaker: Rende Steerenberg (CERN)

Slides rs20171102_LHC_StatusPlans.pptx

10:15 → 10:35 Coffee Break

10:35 → 11:00 LARP Report

Speaker: Dr Giorgio Apollinari (Fermilab)

Slides USLUA_2017_AUP_LARP_Status_v3.pptx

11:00 → 11:25 ATLAS Status and Outlook

Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

Slides ATLAS-Status-US-LHC-Users-Meeting-fnal2017.pdf ATLAS-Status-US-LHC-Users-Meeting-fnal2017.pptx

11:25 → 11:50 CMS Status and Outlook

Speaker: Roberto Carlin (Padova)

Slides USLUA-CMS-RC-V5.pdf

11:50 → 12:15 LHCb Status and Outlook

Speaker: Hassan Jawahery (Maryland)

Slides Jawahery-USLUA-2017.pdf

12:15 → 12:20 Group Photo

12:20 → 13:20 Lunch

13:20 → 13:50 ALICE Status and Run2 Results

Speaker: Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Slides LHCUSACunqueiro.pdf

13:50 → 14:50 Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 1

13:50 Search for vector-like T quarks with oppositely-charged dilepton pairs and jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

Speaker: Dalath Mendis (Kansas State Univ)

Slides VLQTTanalysis.pdf

14:00 Hollow electron beam collimation for HL-LHC

Speaker: Miriam Fitterer (FNAL)

Slides LHCUserAssociationMeeting2017_11_02.pdf LHCUserAssociationMeeting2017_11_02.pptx

14:10 Search for production of supersymmetric particles in final states with missing transverse momentum and multiple b-jets at s√=13~TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Giordon Stark (University of Chicago)

Slides USLUA2017_SUSYMBJ.pdf

14:20 Multiplicity evolution of identified particle charge-dependent correlations in Pb-Pb, p-Pb and pp collisions at the LHC with ALICE

Speaker: Jinjin Pan (Wayne State University)

Slides AuAu_20171102_LHC_Users_Meeting_PID_BF_v1.pdf

14:30 The High Granularity Calorimeter for HL-LHC Upgrade

Speaker: Ms Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)

Slides USLUA_Bhattacharya_HGCAL_HLLHC.pdf

14:40 Compressed Kinematics in SUSY Searches

Speaker: Ms Julia Gonski (Harvard University)

Slides 112_usluaLR_compressed.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 CMS Run2 Results

Speaker: Nathaniel Pastika (Baylor University)

Slides USLUA_CMS_Run_2_Results.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 ATLAS Run2 Results

Speaker: David Miller (University of Chicago)

Slides Miller_ATLASRun2Results_2Nov2017.pdf Miller_ATLASRun2Results_2Nov2017.pptx

15:30 → 15:50 LHCb Run 2 Results

Speaker: Prof. Sheldon Stone (Syracuse University)

Slides USULA-2017.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Afternoon Break

16:10 → 16:35 Physics at Future Colliders

Speaker: Kerstin Borras (DESY/RWTH Aachen)

Slides Borras-Future-Physics-Exp_v3.pptx

16:35 → 17:00 DOE Office of HEP Report

Speaker: Dr Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)

Slides 2017-11-01_US_DOE_Status_for_USLUA-Fermilab-FINAL-FINAL3.pdf

17:00 → 17:25 DOE Office of NP Report

Speaker: Timothy Hallman (DOE/NP)

Slides USLUA2017DOENPProgram_TimHallman110217.pptx

17:30 → 19:00 Careers Session (Panel, Q&A)

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (Tennessee)

19:15 → 21:15 Courtyard Banquets

Friday, 3 November

08:30 → 08:40 Introduction

Speaker: Harvey Newman (Caltech)

08:40 → 09:00 CERN and US LUA

Speaker: Charlotte Warakaulle (CERN)

09:00 → 09:30 HEP Trips to the US Congress

Speaker: Dr Breese Quinn (University of Mississippi)

Slides HEP_DCTrips_USLUA_110317.pdf

09:30 → 09:50 APS and US LUA

Speaker: Ms Julia Gonski (Harvard University)

Slides 113_usluaAndAps_jgonski.pdf

09:50 → 11:00 Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 2

09:50 Search for low mass resonances decaying to quark pairs with the CMS detector at 13 TeV

Speaker: Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides CMS_USLUA.pdf

10:00 Phase-2 pixel upgrade simulations

Speaker: Mr Andres Nazario (University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez)

Slides Phase_2_Tracker_Upgrade_Simulation.pdf

10:10 Azimuthally differential pion femtoscopy relative to the second and third harmonic in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV from ALICE

Speaker: Mohammad Saleh (Wayne State)

Slides

• US_LHC_MohammadSaleh.pptx
• US_LHC_MohammadSaleh_v3.pdf
• US_LHC_MohammadSaleh_v3.pdf

10:20 Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair

Speaker: Sean Jiun Wang (Univ. of Florida)

Slides USLUA_SeanWang_VHbb_110317.pdf

10:30 Measurement of the calorimeter response to single hadrons with ATLAS at 13 TeV

Speaker: Mr Joakim Olsson (University of Chicago)

Slides olsson_USLUA2017_ATLAS_EoverP.pdf

10:40 Ultra-peripheral collisions in ALICE experiment

Speaker: Dr Jaroslav Adam (Creighton University)

Slides Jaroslav_Adam-UPC_in_ALICE.pdf

10:50 Search for new physics with dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV at CMS

Speaker: Jingyu Zhang (University of Illinois Chicago)

Slides Nov-3-2017-USLUA.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 11:40 Supporting Young Physicists

Speaker: Prof. Usha Mallik (The University of Iowa)

Slides USLUA2017QualityofLifeCommittee_UshaMallik110317.pptx

11:40 → 12:40 Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 3: (by Vidyo)

11:40 Analysis preservation and reinterpretation infrastructure

Speaker: Lukas Heinrich (NYU)

Slides RECSAT_USLUA.pdf

11:50 Neutral pion and eta meson production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

Speaker: Nicholas Schmidt (ORNL)

Slides nschmidt_2017_11_FlashTalkUSLHCMeeting_v2.pdf

12:00 Fast Simulation with Generative Adversarial Networks

Speaker: Ms Michela Paganini (Yale)

Slides USLUA_lightning_talk.pdf

12:10 Silicon Test Beam Results for the LHCb-UT Detector

Speaker: Scott Edward Ely (Syracuse University)

Slides USLUA_Ely.pdf

12:20 BSM Searches with 2-Leptons & ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Upgrades

Speaker: Daniel Antrim (UC Irvine)

Slides uslua_lighting_dantrim_1PDF.pdf

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch and Discission with HEPAP and Agency Reps.

13:40 → 14:30 US LUEC Committee Reports (Committee Chairs)

14:30 → 15:50 Young Physicists' Lightning Round Session 4

14:30 Machine learning to identify top quarks for top squark searches

Speaker: Kenneth Remington Call (Baylor University)

Slides USLUA-KenCall_v6.pdf

14:40 HL-LHC Tile Calorimeter Upgrade

Speaker: Kevin Hildebrand (UChicago)

Slides US_LUA_2017(1).pdf US_LUA_2017(1).pdf

14:50 Photon Photon Physics in CT-PPS

Speaker: Justin Andrew Williams (Univ. of Kansas)

Slides JWilliams_USLUA.pdf

15:00 Search for compressed Supersymmetry with a soft tau lepton and a highly energetic ISR jet

Speaker: Savanna Rae Starko (Vanderbilt University)

Slides Starko_USLUAfinal_11.3.pdf

15:10 Identifying object in ATLAS through machine learning techniques

Speaker: Wasikul Islam (Oklahoma State University)

Slides Wasikul's_talk_in_USLUA_meeting_2017.pdf

15:20 HH searches at CMS

Speaker: Luca Cadamuro (Univ. Florida)

Slides HH_Cadamuro_USLUA17.pdf

15:30 Solutions and Improvements for VH to tau tau Run 2 Analysis

Speaker: Savannah Thais (Yale)

Slides new_uslua_17_talk.pdf

15:40 Search for SUSY with a customized top tagger

Speaker: Hui Wang

Slides USLUA_lightening_talk_Hui_Wang.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Afternoon Break

16:10 → 16:50 Q&A and Discussion of US LHC Community Issues and US LUA

16:50 → 17:05 Lightning Round Winners Announcement

17:05 → 17:20 AOB

17:20 → 17:25 Adjourn