Mr
Ben Blomberg
(Northern Illinois University)
6/10/13, 1:00 PM
Channeling radiation is an appealing radiation process to produce X-ray radiation with low energy electron beams. We plan to use our novel photo and field emission cathodes to generate very small emittance electron beams to make channeling radiation X-ray sources. In this contribution we discuss the anticipated performance and construction status of a channeling radiation experiment to produce...
Sarah Freed
(SUNY at Buffalo)
6/10/13, 1:36 PM
The CMS pixel detector is a tracking device located closest to the interaction point. The present detector was designed for a maximum luminosity of 1×10^34 cm^−2s^−1. Following the Phase 1 upgrade of the LHC, the peak luminosity is foreseen to reach 2×10^34 cm^−2s^−1 or higher. Due to the radiation damage and significant data losses in the readout chip, the present pixel system must be...
Brendan Smith
(University at Buffalo SUNY)
6/10/13, 1:54 PM
The CMS pixel detector is an all-silicon tracking device located
closest to the interaction point. Following the first long shut down
of the LHC, in order to maintain the high performance of the tracker,
the pixel detectors must be upgraded to handle the increased amounts
of event pileup. One of the components of the upgrade is the forward
pixel detector, which uses a High Density...
Andrew Godshalk
(SUNY at Buffalo)
6/10/13, 2:12 PM
At the core of the CMS all-silicon tracking system is the silicon pixel detector, comprising three barrel layers and two pixel disks in the forward and backward regions, accounting for a total of 66 million channels. The pixel detector provides high-resolution 3D coordinates of the tracks produced in high energy pp collisions. Under the combined action of electric and magnetic fields, the...
Dr
Nitish Dhingra
(Panjab University, Chandigarh (India))
6/10/13, 3:00 PM
A search for heavy resonances decaying into $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$ is performed using 4.94 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at 7 TeV recorded by the CMS detector during LHC Run2011. The estimation of major backgrounds is performed using data-driven methods wherever possible. A cut and count approach is followed to look for excess of observed events over the Standard Model background...
Jia Fu Low
(University of Florida)
6/10/13, 3:18 PM
One of the most important decay channels of the standard model Higgs is its decay into a pair of bottom quarks. For the highest signal significance, the associated production of the Higgs with a W or Z boson is investigated. Six different channels are used: $W(\mu\nu)H, W(e\nu)H, W(\tau\nu)H, Z(\mu\mu)H, Z(ee)H$ and Z(\nu\nu)H$. A data sample, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC,...
Mr
Patrick True
(Michigan State University)
6/10/13, 3:36 PM
We present the search for W' -> tb using the LHC pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at a center-of- mass energy of 8 TeV. The primary backgrounds to this search are ttbar, W+jets, and multijets processes. To reduce the contributions of these backgrounds we require a leptonic final state and use Boosted Decision Trees to discriminate against background-like events. This...
Mr
Joseph Zennamo
(SUNY at Buffalo, D0)
6/10/13, 3:54 PM
Associated production of a Z boson with a charm or bottom quark
can serve as an important test of perturbative quantum chromodynamic
calculations. The ratios of cross sections,
\sigma(Z+c-jet)/\sigma(Z+jet) and \sigma(Z+c-jet)/\sigma(Z+b-jet)
are measured for associated production of a Z boson with jets
as a function of the jet and Z boson transverse momentum.
Measurements use data...
Ms
Sonam Mahajan
(Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
6/10/13, 4:19 PM
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) experiment at Fermilab is a fixed target hadron production experiment. It measures particle production in interactions of 120 GeV/c primary protons from the Main Injector and secondary beams of $\pi^{\pm}, \rm{K}^{\pm}$, p and $\bar{\rm{p}}$ from 5 to 90 GeV/c on nuclear targets which include H, Be, C, Bi and U, and a dedicated run with the NuMI...
Mr
Amandeep Singh
(Punjab University, Chandigarh)
6/10/13, 4:37 PM
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) experiment at Fermilab is a full acceptance spectrometer to measure hadronic particle production using beams of $\pi^{\pm}$, $\rm{K^{\pm}}$, p and $\rm{\bar{p}}$ ranging in momentum from 5 to 120 GeV/c incident on Liquid-Hydrogen, Beryllium, Carbon, Bismuth, Uranium and NuMI targets. The experiment has excellent charged particle identification...
Gabriel Lee
(University of Chicago)
6/11/13, 9:00 AM
The parity and time-reversal invariant effective Lagrangian
for a heavy fermion interacting with an Abelian gauge field, i.e.,
NRQED, is constructed through order $1/M^4$. The implementation of
Lorentz invariance in the effective theory becomes nontrivial at this order,
and a complete solution for Wilson coefficient constraints is obtained. Matching
conditions in the one-fermion...
Mr
Jonathan Richardson
(University of Chicago)
6/11/13, 9:18 AM
The standard model of particle physics has been remarkably successful in accounting for every experimental result to date, with the exception of the acceleration of the universe. However, this theory becomes inconsistent at intervals shorter than the Planck scale, where quantum mechanics and general relativity collide, unless the geometry of space-time itself also acquires some quantum...
Matthew Wiesner
(Northern Illinois University)
6/11/13, 9:36 AM
In order to study a sample of galaxy clusters exhibiting strong gravitational lensing, we took images of ten galaxy clusters at Kitt Peak National Observatory. In our analysis, we extrapolated the total number of galaxies in the outer regions of the clusters because some sections of the clusters were outside of our original images. In early 2012, we took new observations of some of these...
Mr
Ritoban Basu Thakur
(Fermilab/ UIUC)
6/11/13, 10:12 AM
I will discuss the new Silicon results from the CDMS experiment. I will primarily talk about the observed events and their statistical significance as light WIMP candidates. In the paradigm of light WIMPs we will see how the SuperCDMS experiment intends to search for light WIMP dark matter using the CDMSlite experiment.
Mr
Ryan Grosso
(University of Cincinnati)
6/11/13, 12:01 PM
The MicroBooNE Experiment is a 170-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) that will commence
running in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab in early 2014. LArTPC detectors provide powerful
electron/photon discrimination and will allow MicroBooNE to investigate low energy electron-like events. The
experiment will also improve neutrino cross section measurements and serve as an...
Mr
David Kaleko
(Columbia University/Nevis Labs)
6/11/13, 1:48 PM
MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment under construction at Fermi National Lab. It employs a 10m*2.6m*(2.5m drift length) 86 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) active volume to record ionization signals from particles produced in neutrino interactions, and uses scintillation light detected by a PMT array to provide precise interaction timing information. The MicroBooNE readout...
Mr
Navaneeth Poonthottathil Poonthottathil
(CUSAT/Fermilab)
6/11/13, 2:06 PM
The MINOS experiment uses two detectors separated by 734 km to study neutrino oscillations between Fermilab and the Soudan Underground Laboratory. The MINOS detectors are steel-scintillator sampling tracking calorimeters and are calibrated based on the information obtained from an in-situ light injection system and cosmic ray muons.The Stability of the detectors monitored during the entire...
Mr
Alexander Radovic
(University College London)
6/11/13, 2:24 PM
"The observation of neutrino oscillation provided the first evidence for physics beyond the standard model. MINOS has been one of the foremost experiments in the field. Pioneering the two-detector technique, the MINOS long-baseline oscillation experiment has made several world-class neutrino oscillation measurements, not only making the most precise measure of the largest neutrino mass...
Ms
Michelle Mesquita de Medeiros
(Federal University of Goias)
6/11/13, 2:42 PM
The MINOS detectors are used to collect data from the NuMI neutrino beam as well as atmospheric neutrino data. The atmospheric data taken by the Far Detector, located underground at a depth of 2070 meters-water-equivalent and at 735 km from the neutrino production target, is combined with beam data from both Near and Far Detectors to measure the neutrino and antineutrino mixing parameters....
Minerba Betancourt
(University of Minnesota)
6/11/13, 3:30 PM
NOvA is a 14 KTon long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently
being installed in the NUMI off-axis neutrino beam produced at Fermilab.
A 222 Ton prototype NOvA detector (NDOS) was built and
operated in the neutrino beam for over a year to understand the the
response of the detector and its construction. Muon neutrino interaction
data collected in this test are being...
Mr
Leonidas Aliaga Soplin
(College of William and Mary)
6/11/13, 3:48 PM
The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) delivers an intense muon neutrino beam in an energy range of 2-20 GeV. A well known neutrino flux is crucial to make absolute cross sections in experiments like Minerva. Several techniques are currently using to constraint the flux and one of then is to use the existing external hadron production data to reduce the NuMI hadron production uncertainties...
Mr
Kenyi Paolo Hurtado Anampa
(CBPF)
6/11/13, 4:06 PM
Finite detector resolution and limited acceptance require experiments to apply unfolding methods in any particle physics experiment. The MINERvA UnfoldUtils package is an interface to the RooUnfold Framework [1] used to apply different unfolding algorithms for this purpose and incorporates the ability to use specific MINERvA classes for handling the different systematic errors in the...
Tammy Walton
(Hampton University)
6/11/13, 4:24 PM
MINERvA is a few-GeV neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment, stationed in the high intensity NuMI beam line at Fermilab. It has been taking data since November 2009 and completed construction in March 2010. MINERvA aims to make precision cross section measurements of both the electron neutrino and muon neutrino interactions, both in support of neutrino oscillation experiments and as a pure...
Jeremy Wolcott
(University of Rochester)
6/11/13, 4:44 PM
The electron-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) cross-section on nuclei is an important input parameter to appearance-type neutrino oscillation experiments, where it affects both the signal and predicted background rates. Current experiments typically work from the muon neutrino cross-section and apply corrections from theoretical arguments to obtain a prediction for the electron...
Aaron Higuera
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
6/11/13, 5:02 PM
MINERvA (Main Injector Experiment for v-A) is a neutrino scattering
experiment in the 1-10 GeV energy range in the NuMI high-intensity neutrino beam at
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. MINERvA is measuring neutrino/antineutrino
scattering off a variety of different nuclear materials (C, Fe, Pb, He, H2O). This talk
will describe the current analysis on charged current coherent pion...