2004 CAP Congress: PPD program

(Last modified on 2004.06.24)


June 13-16, 2004

Winnipeg, Manitoba
Contact: PPD chair William Trischuk, University of Toronto

Phone: (416) 978-8095

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Monday, June 14 (10:00-12:30)

Location: Kildonan

Innovations in Instrumentation (PPD/DNP)

Session Chair: François Corriveau MO-A8
10:00-10:30 Scott Oser (i) Long-baseline Neutrino Oscillations at K2K and J-PARC (abstract) (talk) (I131)
10:30-11:00 Peter Krieger (i) The Status of the ATLAS Experiment (abstract) (talk) (I775)
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-11:45 Dean Karlen (i) The Future Linear Collider Project (abstract) (talk) (I147)
11:45-12:00 Doug Gingrich (c) Radiation Tolerant Electronics by Design (abstract) (talk) (C790)
12:00-12:15 Jérôme Gauthier (c) BaF2 Detector Development (abstract) (talk) (C878)
12:15-12:30 René Roy (c) HERACLES multi-detector Calibration (abstract) (talk) (C549)


Monday, June 14 (14:00-17:30)

Location: Ballroom A

Precision/Low Energy Physics Results

Session Chair: Dean Karlen MO-P7
14:15-14:45 Mike Roney (i) Recent Results from the BaBar Experiment (abstract) (talk) (I502)
14:45-15:15 Joe Mildenberger (i) Latest Results from the Search for K to pi nu nu-bar (abstract) (talk) (I786)
15:15-15:30 Sylvie Brunet (c)* Measurement of B to pi/pi0/eta l nu at BaBar (abstract) (talk) (C203)
15:30-15:45 David Côté (c)* Determination of |Vub| from B to X l nu decays at BaBar (abstract) (talk) (C429)
15:45-16:00 Paul Jackson (c)* Search for B to K nu nu-bar at BaBar (abstract) (talk) (C820)
16:00-16:15 Chris Brown (c)* Search for Lepton Number Violation at BaBar (abstract) (talk) (C484)
16:15-16:30 Dominique Fortin (c)* Determination of Vub at BaBar (abstract) (talk) (C212)
16:30-16:45 Sheila McLachlin (c)* Search for the Rare Decay B to J/Psi gamma at BaBar (abstract) (talk) (C869)
16:45-17:00 Maher Quraan (c) A High Precision Measurement of Muon Decay Parameters (abstract) (talk) (C252)
17:00-17:15 Konstantin Olchanski (c) Data Analysis Techniques for High Precision Measurement of Muon Decay Parameters (abstract) (talk) (C805)
17:15-17:30 Steve Robertson (c) Future High Luminosity Scenarios for the BaBar Experiment (abstract) (talk) (C483)
17:30-17:45 Aleksandrs Aleksejevs (c)* Parity-violating hard photon bremmstrahlung in electron-photon scattering (abstract) (talk) (C674)
17:45-18:00 Jiansen Lu (c) Measurements of Azimuthal Asymmetries Associated with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (abstract) (talk) (C214)


Tuesday, June 15 (10:00-12:30)

Location: Kildonan

Particles/Strings/Fields (Joint Session with DTP)

Session Chair: ? TU-A9
10:00-10:30 Bob Holdon Ghostly Tales ()
10:30-11:00 Taejin Lee Free Field Representation of Rolling Tachyon ()
11:00-11:30 Aaron Berndsen Aspects of Brane-Gas Cosmology ()
11:30-12:00 Thomas Grégoire Little Higgs Models and Electroweak Precision Merasurements ()
12:00-12:30 Maxim Pospelov Search for Dark Matter in B -> S Transition with Missing Energy ()



Tuesday, June 15 (14:00-17:30)

Location: Campaign A

The High Energy Frontier

Session Chair: Peter Krieger TU-P5
14:15-14:45 Kostas Kordas (i) Recent Results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (abstract) (talk) (I163)
14:45-15:15 Rachid Mazini (i) The ATLAS Detector Physics Potential (abstract) (talk) (movie) (I773)
15:15-15:45 François Corriveau (i) Recent ZEUS Results at HERA (abstract) (talk) (I155)
15:45-16:15 Coffee
16:15-16:30 Brigitte Vachon (c) The Search for Single Top Production at the Tevatron (abstract) (talk) (C813)
16:30-16:45 Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (c)* Measuring the W Boson Mass at CDF (abstract) (C425)
16:45-17:00 Roger Moore (c) Searching for Supersymmetry at the Tevatron (abstract) (talk) (C734)
17:00-17:15 Simon Sabik (c)* Jet Fragmentation in Top Mass Studies at CDF (abstract) (talk) (C475)
17:15-17:30 Ken Garrow (c) Observation of an S=1 Baryon at 1.528 GeV in Hermes (abstract) (talk) (C834)


Wednesday, June 16 (10:00-12:30)

Location: Victoria

Particle Astrophysics

Session Chair: William Trischuk WE-A10
10:00-10:30 Kevin Graham (i) Recent Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (abstract) (talk) (I485)
10:30-11:15 Coffee
11:15-11:30 Etienne Rollin (c)* Wavelength Shifter in the Heavy Water at SNO (abstract) (talk) (I441)
11:30-11:45 Clarence Virtue (c) SNO, SNEWS and the Next Galactic Survey (abstract) (talk) (movie) (C603)
11:45-12:00 Peter Watson (c) Possible Tests of Universal Gravitation at Short Distances (abstract) (talk) (C486)
12:00-12:30 PPD Business Meeting (presentation) (minutes)


Wednesday, June 16 (16:00-17:30)

Location: Colbourne

Dark Matter/Dark Energy (Joint Session with CASCA)

Session Chair: Douglas Scott WE-P13
16:00-16:30 Henk Hoekstra (i) Astrophysical Evidence for Dark Matter and Dark Energy (abstract) (I722)
16:30-17:00 Ubi Wichoski (i) Status of the Dark Matter Search (abstract) (I595)
17:00-17:15 Laura Parker (c) Weak Lensing by Galaxy Groups at Intermediate Red Shifts (abstract) (C512)
17:15-17:30 Michael Landry (c) Recent Results from LIGO (abstract) (C729)