Mr
Kgotlaesele Johnson Senosi
(University of Cape Town and iThemba Laboratory of Accelerator Based Science)
1/29/15, 5:00 PM
Short Contribution
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is designed and optimized to study ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in which a hot and dense strongly-interacting medium is created. W bosons are produced in hard scattering processes occurring at the early stage of the collision and, since they are not affected by the strong interaction, they can be used as a benchmark for medium-induced...
Mr
Matthias Holl
(Technische Universität Darmstadt)
1/29/15, 5:20 PM
Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics
Short Contribution
Single nucleon knockout and quasi-free scattering reactions are valuable tools to study single-particle properties of nuclei [1]. Particularly, it has been argued, that they can be used to study spectroscopic factors on an absolute scale [2]. Quenching of these spectroscopic factors as compared to shell-model predictions has been observed in nuclear knockout reactions [3]. While for stable...
Dr
Elisabetta Prencipe
(IKP - Forschungszentrum Juelich)
1/29/15, 5:40 PM
Short Contribution
The sector of Charm and Charmonium physics is richer than expected respect to the potential model predictions, as new resonant states with quite unusual properties have been observed. Prominent examples are the X(3872) and the charged Zc(3900)+ in the Charmonium sector, and the Ds mesons below the DK threshold in the Charm sector. Strangeness seems a topic still to be exploited, in both Charm...
Mr
Daniele Cortinovis
(DESY)
1/29/15, 6:00 PM
Short Contribution
The EndoTOFPET-US collaboration aims to integrate Time-Of-Flight PET with ultrasound endoscopy in a novel multimodal device, capable to support the development of new biomarkers for prostate and pancreatic tumors.
The detector consists in two parts: a PET head mounted on an ultrasound probe and an external PET plate, placed outside the body in coincidence with the PET head.
The gamma ray...
Ms
Lena Heijkenskjöld
(Uppsala University)
1/29/15, 6:20 PM
Short Contribution
Ongoing studies of the decays omega -> pi+ pi- pi0 and omega -> pi+ pi- will be presented. The data was collected by the WASA-at-COSY collaboration where the omega mesons were produced through the reaction p + d -> 3He + omega. The experiment allows for tagging of the recoil 3He and a full reconstruction of all decay particles.
The decay mechanism of the omega -> pi+ pi- pi0 channel can be...
Dr
Tomas Kosek
(Charles University in Prague)
1/29/15, 6:40 PM
Short Contribution
Jets provide a powerful tool for probing the dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma created in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC. The modification of high-pT parton showers as they propagate in the quark-gluon plasma, often referred to as "jet quenching", provides insight on the short-distance dynamics of the plasma. Jet quenching has been observed in a variety of single jet, dijet, and photon-jet...
