Name: New Perspectives 2011
Start: 2011-05-31T07:55:00-05:00
End: 2011-05-31T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Wilson Hall

New Perspectives 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 7:55 AM

Monday, May 30, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
7:55 AM
7:55 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: One West
Contributions

7:55 AM Introduction - Zeynep Isvan (GSA)

8:00 AM Ten Years of the CDF Silicon Vertex Detector: Performance and Status - Miguel Mondragon

8:20 AM Matrix Element Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in Hadronic Tau + Jets Events - Daryl Hare

8:40 AM Measuring Spin Correlations in Top Quark Pairs at D0 - Tim Head

9:00 AM Measurement of t-channel Single Top quark production cross-section at D0 - Jyoti Joshi

9:20 AM Measurement of the b-tagging efficiency using events with jets containing muons - Samvel Khalatyan

9:40 AM Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson produced in Association With a W boson - Adrian Buzatu (Higgs mini-session)

9:55 AM Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson in H -> WW -> lvjj Channel at CDF - Yuji Sudo

10:10 AM New tools for the Higgs search in tau tau channel at CDF experiment - Andey Elagin

10:25 AM Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH->llbb Channel at CDF - Justin Pilot
10:40 AM Coffee Break 1
Coffee Break 1
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: One West
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: One West
Contributions

11:00 AM Search for the Vh Production Using Like-Sign Dilepton Events at CDF - Daisuke Yamato

11:20 AM Electroweak Results from CMS - Michele de Gruttola

11:40 AM Search for Anomalous Production of Events with a W or Z Boson and Additional Leptons - Scott Wilbur

12:00 PM Search for Fourth Generation Top-like quarks at CDF - David Cox

12:20 PM Precision measurement of Bs lifetime in the channel Bs-> muDs X with the D0 dete - Jorge Martinez Ortega
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: One West
1:40 PM
1:40 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: One West
Contributions

1:40 PM A Research Study on the Impact of Relocation - Haley Pschirrer

1:50 PM Clusters and Lenses: Analyzing Ten Gravitational Lensing Systems - Matthew Wiesner

2:10 PM DM-Ice: A dark matter detector at the South Pole - Walter Pettus

2:30 PM The Primordial Lithium Problem : Can We Avoid New Physics ? - Nachiketa Chakraborty

2:50 PM The ArgoNeuT Experiment - Ellen Klein

3:10 PM R&D Effort for Plastic Scintillator Based Cosmic Ray Veto System for Mu2e - Yuri Oksuzian

3:30 PM Studies of variation of rates for nuclear decays - Martina Cancelo (Batavia High School)
3:45 PM Coffee Break 2
Coffee Break 2
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: One West
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: One West
Contributions

4:00 PM Light Detection in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers - Tess Smidt

4:20 PM A Study of the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with MINOS Far Detector Atmospheric Neutrinos - Xinjie Qiu

4:40 PM Anti-Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering in MINERvA - Jesse Chvojka

4:55 PM ART (Algebraic Reconstruction Technique) for Electron Shower - Jaewon Park

5:10 PM First steps to RES-CCPi0 - Jose Palomino Gallo

5:25 PM Tagging Michel electrons in Minerva - Dun Zhang

5:40 PM Candidate Event Formation and Readout Dead Time Accounting in MINERvA - Leonidas Aliaga Soplin