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February 2010

 

Wednesday 3 February

 

Speaker

Prof. Daniel Whiteson   (Univ. of California, Irvine)

 

Title

CDF in its prime: searches for b', nu', Z' and friends

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

January 2010

 

Wednesday 27 January

 

Speaker

Marcel Stanitzki   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Review of International Linear Collider Detector R&D

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 20 January

 

Speaker

Joe Boudreau   (University of Pittsburgh)

 

Title

CP Violation in B^0_s mesons at the Tevatron Experiments

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

December 2009

 

Wednesday 9 December

 

Speaker

Antonis Papanestis   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Summary of 'Conference on Accelerator & Large Experimental Physics Control Systems'

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 2 December

 

Speaker

Flavio Cavanna   (Physics Dep.t -University of l'Aquila)

 

Title

ArgoNeuT: Liquid Argon TPC response to a Neutrino Beam

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

November 2009

 

Wednesday 25 November

 

Speaker

Elisa Resconi

(Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)

 

Title

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory:

Opportunities for Astroparticle Physics

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 18 November

 

Speaker

Steven Biller   (Oxford)

 

Title

No Nu's is Good Nu's.

Prospects for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

 

  Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 11 November   CR12 R68

 

Speaker

Prof. Steve Cowley   (Director of UKAEA Culham)

 

Title

Fusion Power - Physics & Engineering Challenges

 

  Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 4 November

 

Speaker

Yochi Uchida   (Imperial College)

 

Title

Muon-to-Electron Conversion with COMET/PRISM

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

October 2009

 

Wednesday 14 October

 

Speaker

Sean Paling

(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield University)

 

Title

Deep Underground Science at Boulby Mine:

Dark Matter and Beyond

 

   Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 7 October

 

Speaker

John Baines   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Commissioning of the ATLAS High Level Trigger

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

September 2009

 

Wednesday 16 September

 

Speaker

Chris Damerell   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Physics and technology of silicon detectors

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 9 September

 

Speaker

Simon Hooker   (Oxford)

 

Title

Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

August 2008

 

No seminars - Summer vacation period

 

 

 

July 2009

 

Wednesday 22 July

 

Speaker

Jeff Hartnell   (Sussex)

 

Title

MINOS: Latest Results and Future Plans

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 15 July

 

Speaker

Bob Cywinski

(School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield)

 

Title

Can Thorium Save the Planet?

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 8 July

 

Speaker

Sergey Balashov   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Conference summary: Ultra-cold neutrons

 

   

 

 

 

June 2009

 

Wednesday 24 June

 

Speaker

Marcel Trimpl   (Fermilab)

 

Title

Serial Powering for Front End Electronics

 

   Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 17 June

 

Speaker

Bill Murray & Steve Worm   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Conference summary: SUSY 09

 

   Slides

 

 

 

May 2009

 

Wednesday 27 May

 

Speaker

Steven Abel   (IPPP Durham)

 

Title

Overview of string theory and its phenomenology

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 20 May

 

Speaker

Elena Aprile   (U Columbia)

 

Title

The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment

 

   Abstract

 

 

 

April 2009

 

Wednesday 29 April

 

Speaker

Piergiorgio Picozza   (INFN and University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)

 

Title

Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Antiparticles: the PAMELA Experiment

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 22 April

 

Speaker

Charles Wang   (U Aberdeen)

 

Title

Scalar Gravitational Waves, High Energy Cosmic Rays and Quantum Decoherence

 

   Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 15 April

 

Speaker

Alain Blondel   (U Geneva)

 

Title

The MICE experiment

 

   Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 1 April

 

Speaker

Rob Edgecock   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

FFAG Activities in the UK: EMMA, PAMELA and all that

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

March 2009

 

Wednesday 25 March

 

Speaker

Bill Murray   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

That Olde Boson

 

   Abstract   Slides   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 18 March

 

Speaker

Paul Seller   (TD, RAL)

 

Title

CdZnTe Imaging Detectors and their applications

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 11 March

 

Speaker

Stuart Green   (University Hospitals Birmingham)

 

Title

Physics based techniques for the treatment of cancer

 

   Abstract   Slides   AVI   AVI

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 4 March

 

Speaker

Stephen West   (Oxford)

 

Title

Dark matter models

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

February 2009

 

Wednesday 18 February

 

Speaker

Marc Weber   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Silicon detectors for the Super-LHC - at the technology frontier

 

   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 4 February

 

Speaker

Cigdem Issever   (Oxford)

 

Title

Black holes at the LHC

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

January 2009

 

Wednesday 28 January

 

Speaker

Bill Scott   (PPD, RAL)

 

Title

Conference Report from Miami-2008

 

 

 Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 21 January

 

Speaker

Tom Latham   (Warwick)

 

Title

Constraints on the CKM Unitarity Triangle from Charmless Threebody Decays at BaBar

 

   Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

December 2008

 

Wednesday 10 December

 

Speaker

Jim Hinton   (U Leeds)

 

Title

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and the CTA project

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 3 December

 

Speaker

Emily Longhi   (Diamond)

 

Title

Diamond Light Source -- Challenges of a 3rd Generation Synchrotron

 

 

Abstract   Slides   Animation: path   Animation: insertion device

 

 

 

November 2008

 

Wednesday 26 November

 

Speaker

Helen Caines   (Yale)

 

Title

Deep-Inelastic Scattering

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 19 November

 

Speaker

Maurits van der Grinten   (RAL, PPD)

 

Title

CryoEDM, a cryogenic experiment to search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron

 

 

 Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 12 November

 

Speaker

Professor Daniel Kaplan   (IIT)

 

Title

New Experiments with Antiprotons

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 5 November

 

Speaker

Stefania Riccardi   (RAL, PPD)

 

Title

Summary of CKM 2008

 

 

Slides

 

 

 

October 2008

 

Wednesday 29 October

 

Speaker

Andreas Korn   (LBNL)

 

Title

The ATLAS Pixel Detector: Overview and Commissioning

 

 

Abstract   Slides   Slides   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 8 October

 

Speaker

Sheila Rowan   (U Glasgow)

 

Title

The search for gravitational waves: status and plans

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 1 October

 

Speaker

Sinjini Sengupta   (U Minnesota)

 

Title

Results of the W and Z Boson Asymmetries at the Tevatron

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

September 2008

 

Wednesday 24 September

 

Speaker

Stephen Haywood   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

The ATLAS SCT Endcap

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 17 September

 

Speaker

David Neely   (RAL, Laser Department)

 

Title

High power lasers - a bright future

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 10 September

 

Speaker

Chris Damerell   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Detector R&D for the Linear Collider

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 3 September

 

Speaker

Pawel Majewski   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Nuclear Recoil Measurements in Dark Matter Research

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

August 2008

 

No seminars - Summer vacation period

 

 

 

July 2008

 

Wednesday 23 July

 

Speaker

 Hong-Mo Chan

(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

A Model Behind the Standard Model

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 16 July

 

Speaker

Lina Galtieri   (LBNL)

 

Title

Top properties and Higgs search at CDF

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 9 July

 

Speaker

David Bugg   (Queen Mary)

 

Title

Why some resonances synchronise on thresholds; implications for Confinement

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 2 July

 

Speaker

Tim Gershon   (U Warrick)

 

Title

SuperB - A High Luminosity Asymmetric e+e- Super Flavour Factory

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

June 2008

 

Wednesday 25 June

 

 

No seminar due to IOP 1/2 day meeting:

"Celebration of HERA and the UK role"

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 11 June

 

Speaker

Antonis Papanestis   (RAL, PPD)

 

Title

The LHCb RICH detectors

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 4 June

 

Speaker

Emmanuel Tsesmelis   (CERN)

 

Title

Commissioning the LHC Accelerator and its Physics Programme

 

 

Abstract   Slides(21Mb)

 

May 2008

 

Wednesday 28 May

 

Speaker

Frank Krauss (IPP)

 

Title

New development in Monte Carlos for the LHC

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 21 May

 

Speaker

Robert McGreevy (RAL, ISIS)

 

Title

ISIS: past, present and future

 

 

Abstract   Slides(41Mb)   Amination1   Animation2

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 14 May

 

Speaker

Jan Strube   (University of Oregon)

 

Title

Radiative Penguins at BaBar

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 7 May

 

Speaker

J. Thomas with contributions by Bode Franek, Barbara Camanzi, Tim Durkin and Giulio Villani   (RAL)

 

Title

UCL/PPD KE and all that

 

 

Slides:   J Thomas   B Camanzi   B Franek   G Villani   T Durkin

 

April 2008

 

Wednesday 30 April

 

Speaker

Veronique Boisvert   (Royal Holloway)

 

Title

The "truth" about the "top" quark from CDF

 

 

Abstract   Slides(18Mb)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 23 April

 

Speaker

Joe Incandela   (UCSB)

 

Title

CMS experiment status and preparations for early physics

 

 

Slides(15Mb)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 16 April

 

Speaker

Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

 

Title

The SiD detector concept

 

 

Abstract   Slides(17Mb)

 

March 2008

 

Wednesday 19 March

 

Speaker

Alan Watson

(School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds)

 

Title

Is the search for the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays over?

 

 

Abstract   Slides(12Mb)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 5 March

 

Speaker

Amy Connolly   (UCL)

 

Title

Closing in on Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Detection Technique

 

 

Abstract   Slides(29Mb)

 

February 2008

 

Wednesday 20 February

 

Speaker

G. Villani   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Notes on Quantum Computing

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 12 February

 

Speaker

Tom Roberts   (Muons Inc. and Illinois Inst. of Tech.)

 

Title

Prospects for an Energy-Frontier Muon Collider

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 6 February

 

Speaker

Professor William Trischuk

(University Toronto and Institute of Particle Physics)

 

Title

Canadian perspective on particle physics in the 21st Century

 

 

Abstract   Slides(17Mb)

 

January 2008

 

Wednesday 16 January

 

Speaker

Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

 

Title

Proton decay and beyond

 

 

Abstract   Slides(43Mb)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 30 January

 

Speaker

Rajendran Raja   (Fermilab)

 

Title

The MIPP Experiment- Status and Upgrade plans

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

December 2007

 

Wednesday 26 December

 

Speaker

F. Christmas   (University of Tromso, Norway)

 

Title

Renormalisation of the N0-Brain Tree-Function

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 19 December

 

Speaker

Jim Libby   (Oxford)

 

Title

Precise determination of the unitarity triangle

LHCb and the essential role of CLEOc

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 17 December   14:00 in CR8, R27

 

Speaker

Div. computing experts   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Computing Christmas Lecture

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 12 December

 

Speaker

Gagan Mohanty   (Warwick)

 

Title

Charm of the Charmless

Results of hadronic B decays from BaBar

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 5 December

 

Speaker

Marcel Stantizki, Giulio Villani   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Summary of IEEE conference NSS-MIS 2007

 

 

Abstract   Slides(4Mb)   Slides(11Mb)

 

 

 

 

November 2007

 

Wednesday 28 November

 

Speaker

Sajan Easo, Stefania Ricciardi, Antonis Papanestis

(RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Summary of RICH07

 

 

Abstract   Slides(8Mb)   Slides(11Mb)   Slides(11Mb)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 21 November

 

Speaker

Lothar Oberauer   (TU Munich)

 

Title

Borexino: First Direct Observation of Solar Be7 Neutrinos

and Prospects for low Energy Neutrino Astronomy

 

 

Abstract   Slides

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 14 November

 

Speaker

Halina Abramowicz   (Tel Aviv)

 

Title

The HERA Challenge for the LHC

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 7 November

 

Speaker

Dmitry Emeliyanov, Raja Nandakumar

(RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Summary of the CHEP 200707 Conference

 

 

Abstract   Slides   Slides

 

October 2007

 

Wednesday 31 October

 

Speaker

Gregory Hallewell   (CPP Marseille)

 

Title

KM3NeT, A Cubic Kilometre-scale Deep-sea Telescope

for Neutrino Astronomy

 

 

Abstract   Slides(47Mb)

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 30 October   at 15:00 in Conference Room 4 R1

 

Speaker

Tobias Flick   (University Wuppertal)

 

Title

Multi-Chip Modules using Deposited Interconnect Layers for Pixel Detectors

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 24 October

 

Speaker

Tobias Raufer   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

New Results from the MINOS Experiment

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 17 October

 

Speaker

Richard Gaitskell   (Brown University)

 

Title

Noble Travails: Noble Liquid Detectors

Searching for Particle Dark Matter

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 10 October

 

Speaker

Speaker: Erik Johnson, Steve Worm

(RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Title: ILC Workshop Summary

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 3 October

 

Speaker

Bob Brown, Ian Tomalin, Wilson

(RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

EPS HEP07 Summary

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 1 October   at 15:00 in R22

 

Speaker

Prof. Young-Kee Kim (FermiLab)

 

Title

RAL Lecture - Project X

 

 

Abstract

 

September 2007

 

Wednesday 26 September

 

Speaker

Sam Harper   (RAL)

 

Title

Search for New Physics in Electron-Positron Events at CDF

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 19 September

 

Speaker

Alfons Weber   (RAL, Particle Physics Department)

 

Title

Summary from the Golden 07 Workshop

 

 

Abstract   Slides(36Mb)

 

 

 

 

Friday 14 September    at 11:00 in CR12 in R68

 

Speaker

Maury Goodman (Argonne National Lab)

 

Title

New and Exciting Cosmic Ray Results from MINOS

 

 

Abstract

 

August 2007

 

Wednesday 8 August

 

Speaker

Costas Andreaopoulos

 

Title

Conference Reports from: NuINT2007, INPC2007, DBD2007

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 1 August    at 13:30 in CR12 R68

 

Speaker

Jo Cole

 

Title

HCP2007 Summary

 

 

Abstract

 

July 2007

 

Thursday 26 July   at 14:00

 

Speaker

Rainer Wallny

 

Title

Beam Condition Monitoring at CDF

CVD Diamond Detectors

 

 

Abstract

 

 

 

 

Other seminar & lecture notes   TOP
  Aug 2007 Giacomo Polesello
SuSy and Extra Dimensions (lectures 1 to 4)
PDF   PDF   PDF   PDF
  31 Oct 2007 P. Loch (University of Arizona)
Jet Reconstruction in ATLAS
PPT
  26 June 2007 Rainer Wallny
Beam Condition Monitoring at CDF (CVF Diamond Detectors
PPT(17Mb)
  9 May 2007 Raimund Stroehmer
New Particle Searches at the LHC
PPT(14Mb)
  11 Apr 2007 Ivo de Medeiros-Varzielas
Fermion Masses and Mixings from Flavour Symmetries
PDF
  07 Mar 2007 Bill Murray
Report on WIN07 ElectroWeak Symmery Breaking
PDF
  29 Nov 2006 Nigel Glover
Twistor Inspired Developments in Perturbative QCD
PDF
  08 Jun 2005 Florenca Canelli
Top Quark Mass
PDF
  01 Jun 2005 Tobias Hurth
The Importance of Flavour Factories in the LHC Era
PDF
  20 Nov 2003 Keith Mathieson
From Particle Detectors to Retinal Studies
PPT(19Mb)
  2 Nov 2003 Salvatore Mele
Experimental Constraints on Extra Dimensions
PDF
  20 Oct 2003 Tara Shears
CDF Status and Prospects
PPT
  12 Sep 2003 Gerhard Lutz
Development of Novel Silicon Detectors
PDF(17Mb)
  27 Aug 2003 Jamie Mulholland
The Boulby Underground Facility
not available
  28 May 2003 Nigel Watson QCD and FSI at LEP PPT(18Mb)
  19 May 2003 Matthew Pearson
FSI in WW Production at ALEPH
PPT
  11 Apr 2003 Hiro Sagawa
CP Violation in B-decays at BELLE
not available
  7 Jan 2003 Alfons Weber
Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments (RAL-Soton Meeting)
PPT
  29 Jan 2003 Phil Rubin
Recent Results from NA48
PDF
  18 Dec 2002 Chris Damerell
Report from Vertex 2002
not available
  22 Nov 2002 Steven Fraser
Perspectives on eXtreme Programming
PDF
  20 Nov 2002 Guilio Villani
8th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors
PPT(14Mb)
  18 Nov 2002 Mike Shaevitz
Electroweak Measurements at NuTeV
PPT
  23 Oct 2002 Alan Letchford
EPAC 2002
PPT
  23 Oct 2002 Peter Norton
EPAC 2002
PPT
  21 Oct 2002 GIan Gopal
Tau02 and Search for electron-electron -> mu-tau in BaBar
PS   PS
  Summer 2002 Ken Long, Dave Wark
ICHEP Plenary talks
HTTP link
  22 Jul 2002 Nigel Smith
Status of Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay
PPT
  28 May 2002 Lucio Cerrito
Measurement of the Polarisation of W-bosons at CDF
GZ
  22 May 2002 Achille Stocchi
Summary of the CERN Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle
PPT

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