Bulletin of the American Physical Society
13th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Section of the APS
Volume 56, Number 10
Thursday–Saturday, October 20–22, 2011; Corvallis, Oregon
Session B1: Welcome and Plenary Session I |
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Chair: Jennifer Heath, Linfield College Room: LaSells Stewart Center Construction and Engineering Hall |
Friday, October 21, 2011 8:15AM - 8:30AM |
B1.00001: Welcome |
Friday, October 21, 2011 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
B1.00002: Relativistic Dynamics of Graphene Invited Speaker: Graphene is a one-atom thick layer of carbon atoms where electrons obey an emergent Dirac equation. Only seven years after it first became available in the laboratory, graphene has captured the attention of a wide spectrum of scientists: from particle physicists interested in using graphene's emergent relativistic dynamics to study quantum field theory phenomena to condensed matter physicists fascinated by its unusual electronic propertied and technologists searching for materials for the nest generation of electronic devices. This presentation will review the basics of graphene and some questions, such as the possibility of chiral symmetry breaking, which have overlap with similar ones in strong interaction particle physics. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, October 21, 2011 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
B1.00003: Searches for the Higgs Boson and Physics Beyond the Standard Model with ATLAS at the LHC Invited Speaker: The Large Hadron Collider has rune extraordinarily weel since its first collisions in late 2009, and has already delivered more than 2.5 inverse femtobarns of dta tot ech of the multipurpose detectors, ATLAS and CMS. The detectors, unprecedented in their scale and complexity, have also been remarkably quick to commission and calibrate with beams, so that even complex capabilities requiring a detailed understanding of the detector performance, such as b-quark tagging and missing transverse energy measurements, have become routine parts of the experimental toolkit. This remarkable performance by accelerator and detector has made it possible to measure a broad range of Standard Model processes at the LHC, quickly and over vast ranges. These measurements allow for detailed studies of the backgrounds to possible new processes, as well as for quick tuning and validation of Monte Carlo simulations at LHC energies, allowing us to search for a large number of Higgs boson and new physics signatures, including Supersymmetry and other models with Dark Matter candidates, new gauge bosons, or compositeness. The results are beginning to put very severe constraints on the Standard Model, and to exclude large regions of phase space for many new physics models. It is beginning to look as if particle physics will take an interesting and unexpected turn in the near future. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, October 21, 2011 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
B1.00004: Recent Progress on Neutrino Oscillations Invited Speaker: Neutrinos make up a large part of the known Universe but are very difficult to study, as they can pass through matter without leaving a trace. Experiments have shown that neutrinos come in three types and that they oscillate from one type to another. With new experiments coming on line, a complete picture of neutrino oscillation is starting to emerge. This presentation will introduce neutrino physics and highlight recent progress from experiments around the world [Preview Abstract] |
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