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UID:EVENT-86168@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250930T092703
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T092703
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251003T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251003T173000
SUMMARY:All Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:A start of year meeting for the group to share information
LOCATION:Higgs Centre (Room 4305)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86168-all-group-meeting
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86121@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250915T160416
LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T125401
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251010T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251010T170000
SUMMARY:The physics potential of XLZD
DESCRIPTION:The XLZD underground rare event observatory\, based on liquid 
 xenon technology\, will address some of the most important open questions 
 in fundamental physics and cosmology. This talk will outline the key physi
 cs channels a next generation detector will allow us to probe\, while also
  investigating the possibility of hosting the observatory at Boulby Underg
 round Laboratory in the UK. Preliminary studies undertaken by the Edinburg
 h group\, including projected sensitivities and simulations of the veto sy
 stems\, will also be presented.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Sam Woodford (School of
  Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86121-the-physics-potential-of-xlz
 d
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86123@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250915T160629
LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T125024
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251017T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251017T170000
SUMMARY:Extending the LHC reach to very long lifetimes: the design concept
  and current status of the ANUBIS experiment
DESCRIPTION:Many beyond-the-standard model theories propose the existence 
 of new 'long-lived' particles (LLPs) with macroscopic decay lengths that m
 ay be produced in high energy collisions at the LHC. While extensive searc
 hes for LLPs have been performed by existing LHC experiments such as ATLAS
 \, CMS\, and LHCb\, their sensitivity to very long-lived models (ct>~10 m)
  is constrained by the physical size of the detectors. The proposed ANUBIS
  experiment is designed to significantly extend experimental sensitivity t
 o these very long-lived models by instrumenting the ceiling of the ATLAS d
 etector cavern with RPC detectors. In addition to extending the decay volu
 me\, the transverse positioning provides sensitivity to LLP models with hi
 gh-mass mediators\, complementing the sensitivity of existing forward dete
 ctors to lower-mass models. In this talk\, the physics case for ANUBIS pro
 posal will be presented alongside its expected backgrounds\, projected phy
 sics reach for several benchmark LLP models\, and the current status and l
 atest results from the proANUBIS demonstrator within the ATLAS cavern.\n\n
 Speaker:\n* Dr. Michael Revering (University of Cambridge)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86123-extending-the-lhc-reach-to-v
 ery-long-lifetimes-the-design-concept-and-current-status-of-the-anubis
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86125@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250915T160754
LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T124841
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251024T170000
SUMMARY:Topponium: the new physics we nearly missed!
DESCRIPTION:The greatest success of the LHC has been to dispel the myth th
 at hadron colliders are not precision physics machines. From the discovery
  of the Higgs boson\, the measurement of the W boson mass\, the discovery 
 of dozens of new bound states\, and now the observation of subtle and elus
 ive QCD pseudo-bound state of topponium\, the LHC has probed the SM to unp
 recedented precision. In this seminar I will give an overview of the histo
 ry of precision top properties measurements at the LHC and how they lead t
 o the discovery of a new pseudo-bound state at the very threshold of ttbar
  production by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. I will also use this discove
 ry as both an example and a caution about the limitations in current exper
 imental particle physics techniques and highlight the steps that must be t
 aken to exploit the forthcoming HL-LHC to it’s full potential if we are 
 to have a chance to discover physics beyond the Standard Model.\n\nSpeaker
 :\n* Dr. Jay Howarth (University of Glasgow)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86125-topponium-the-new-physics-we
 -nearly-missed
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86127@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250915T160849
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T090701
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251031T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251031T170000
SUMMARY:Towards the discovery of neutrinoless double beta decay : first re
 sults from LEGEND
DESCRIPTION:The sheer abundance of neutrinos all around us makes it hard t
 o believe that we still don’t understand so much about them. It is this 
 allusiveness that makes research into neutrino physics so fascinating\, an
 d within this unknown\, many mysteries about the universe could be unfolde
 d.\n \n A discovery of the hypothetical neutrinoless double beta decay (0$
 \\nu\\beta\\beta$) process would have profound implications. It would prov
 e that lepton number is not a conserved quantity\, prove that neutrinos ar
 e Majorana in nature\, and constrain the mass hierarchy.\n \n The LEGEND e
 xperiment is designed to search for 0$\\nu\\beta\\beta$ using Ge-76 enrich
 ed high purity germanium detectors that are immersed in liquid argon. LEGE
 ND-200 (L200)\, operating at LNGS in Italy\, builds on the successes in ba
 ckground suppression and analysis techniques from the Majorana Demonstrato
 r and GERDA experiments. L200’s first results are based on 61 kgyr of ex
 posure with an estimated background index of $0.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2}$ cts/(keV 
 ton yr). Data from GERDA and the Majorana Demonstrator were combined with 
 L200’s for a joint analysis\, yielding a 90% CL sensitivity of $2.8\\tim
 es10^{26}$ yr and setting a new lower limit of > $1.9\\times10^{26}$ yr\, 
 for the half-life of 0$\\nu\\beta\\beta$. Assuming the decay mechanism is 
 mediated by the exchange of a light Majorana neutrino\, this half-life lim
 it corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass of $m_{\\b
 eta\\beta}$ < 75-200 meV. In an attempt to encourage our nuclear theory co
 lleagues\, an additional limit has been set\, with $m_{\\beta\\beta}$< 320
  meV\, utilising the recent developments in uncertainty-quantified nuclear
  matrix elements.\n \n In this talk\, I will present L200’s first result
 s published in the recently released paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.104
 40) with some added detail about the detector technology. I will also brie
 fly showcase the outlook for the next phase of the LEGEND experiment\, L10
 00\, with some context for the UK double beta decay community.\n\nSpeaker:
 \n* Dr. Will Quinn (University College London)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86127-towards-the-discovery-of-neu
 trinoless-double-beta-decay-first-results-from-legend
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86207@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20251006T095248
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T092132
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251107T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251107T170000
SUMMARY:The land of dark matter: a collider perspective
DESCRIPTION:Dark Matter (DM) constitutes a substantial but unexplained fra
 ction of the universe\, and the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics of
 fers no viable candidate\, highlighting the need for new theories and dete
 ction strategies. Numerous theoretical models predict DM particles\, makin
 g their detection a strong pillar of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physi
 cs program. Yet\, no direct evidence has been found so far. The lack of di
 scovery indicates that if DM lies within the LHC’s reach\, its experimen
 tal signature may be subtle. New theories suggest DM isn’t just one part
 icle\, but part of a hidden dark sector (DS). This DS is governed by a new
  dark force binding DM in a way that mirrors the SM\, described by the dar
 k Quantum Chromodynamics (dark QCD) framework. This dark force mediates in
 teractions within the DS and between DS and SM particles. Dark QCD models 
 predict fundamental components\, i.e. dark quarks\, confined at an energy 
 scale comparable to that of QCD\, which hadronise to form dark hadrons dec
 aying within the detector. Depending on their lifetimes\, these dark hadro
 ns can produce unique collider signatures like prompt semi-visible jets or
  displaced emerging jets. With new particle reconstruction techniques\, ex
 periments like ATLAS and CMS are finally starting to probe this hidden sec
 tor and the unconventional signatures that come along with it. Early exper
 imental results are emerging\, and we’re only at the beginning. In this 
 talk\, I’ll start with an overview of the ATLAS dark sector paradigm and
  then explore in detail what we’re searching for\, how we’re going aft
 er it\, and the kinds of unconventional signals that might appear in the d
 etector.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Sukanya Sinha (University of Manchester)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86207-the-land-of-dark-matter-a-co
 llider-perspective
END:VEVENT
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86129@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250915T161031
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T091545
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251114T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251114T170000
SUMMARY:Mirages\, Oases\, Mountains: a journey through the Standard Model
DESCRIPTION:Success has been hard on particle physics. In one century we h
 ave gone from learning that atoms consist of nucleons to a complete and se
 lf-consistent description of microscopic nature which is able to accuratel
 y predict the properties of fundamental particles to the twelfth decimal p
 lace. And yet this Standard Model\, which stretches out as far as the eye 
 can see in our laboratories\, is manifestly at odds with our best descript
 ions of the very macroscopic universe and its beginnings. Are we one ascen
 t away from seeing a new world\, or will we reach the top of the next ridg
 e merely to better appreciate the plateau of knowledge which has become ou
 r home? I will reflect on the decades-long experimental quest for a more c
 omplete theory beyond the Standard Model and the machines and tools which 
 are our essential companions on this journey.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Vava Glig
 orov (CNRS)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86129-mirages-oases-mountains-a-jo
 urney-through-the-standard-model
END:VEVENT
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86534@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20251027T154242
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T092535
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251121T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251121T170000
SUMMARY:Opportunities and challenges to study solar neutrinos with a Q-Pix
  pixel readout
DESCRIPTION:The study of solar neutrinos presents significant opportunitie
 s in astrophysics\, nuclear physics\, and particle physics. However\, the 
 low-energy nature of these neutrinos introduces considerable challenges to
  isolate them from background events\, requiring detectors with low-energy
  threshold\, high spatial and energy resolutions\, and low data rate. We p
 resent the study of solar neutrinos with a kiloton-scale liquid argon dete
 ctor located underground\, instrumented with a pixel readout using the Q-P
 ix technology. We explore the potential of using volume fiducialization\, 
 directional topological information\, light signal coincidence and pulse-s
 hape discrimination to enhance solar neutrino sensitivity. We find that di
 scriminating neutrino signals below 5 MeV is very difficult. However\, we 
 show that these methods are useful for the detection of solar neutrinos wh
 en external backgrounds are sufficiently understood and when the detector 
 is built using low-background techniques. When building a workable backgro
 und model for this study\, we identify γ background from the cavern walls
  and from capture of α particles in radon decay chains as both critical t
 o solar neutrino sensitivity and significantly underconstrained by existin
 g measurements. Finally\, we highlight that the main advantage of the use 
 of Q-Pix for solar neutrino studies lies in its ability to enable the cont
 inuous readout of all low-energy events with minimal data rates and manage
 able storage for further offline analyses.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Miguel Ángel
  García-Peris (University of Manchester)
LOCATION:Room 4325B\, JCMB
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86534-opportunities-and-challenges
 -to-study-solar-neutrinos-with-a-q-pix-pixel-readout
END:VEVENT
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86131@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250915T161143
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T092732
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251128T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251128T170000
SUMMARY:Investigating the Digital Preservation of Raw Bubble Chamber Data
DESCRIPTION:Many of the defining advances in particle physics during the m
 id twentieth century were made at bubble chamber experiments. The particle
  physics group of the University of Birmingham have a rich history of invo
 lvement in bubble chamber experiments dating back to the 1950s. As part of
  this legacy\, the group hold an extensive collection of photographic film
  recorded by experiments at the CERN 2m Hydrogen Bubble Chamber (HBC)\, wh
 ich operated between 1965 and 1976. These photographic records of particle
  interactions in the chamber volume represented the primary raw data forma
 t of such experiments\, from which particle trajectories and momenta were 
 then reconstructed from careful measurements of the film. Remarkably\, nea
 rly 60 years since the chamber was commissioned\, the basic technical info
 rmation required to reconstruct particle interactions from measurements of
  2m HBC film has been comprehensively preserved by CERN and is publicly av
 ailable. This talk will describe an effort to digitally preserve this data
 set\, towards the establishment of a unique educational resource and the p
 otential revival its scientific exploitation.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Andrew St
 ephen Chisholm (University of Birmingham)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86131-investigating-the-digital-pr
 eservation-of-raw-bubble-chamber-data
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86143@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20250918T142116
LAST-MODIFIED:20251121T100101
STATUS:CANCELLED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T173000
SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] TBC
DESCRIPTION:tbc\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Lais Soares Lavra (School of Physics & A
 stronomy\, University of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre (Room 4305)\, JCMB
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86143-tbc
END:VEVENT
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86833@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T111741
LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T122437
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260120T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260120T130000
SUMMARY:LiquidO opaque scintillator detectors and their physics opportunit
 ies
DESCRIPTION:Radiation detectors enable many aspects of our modern lives\, 
 from the light sensors in our smartphone cameras to PET scanners that info
 rm treatment of cancer. Particle physicists have often led the development
  and exploitation of cutting edge radiation detectors to identify particle
 s while measuring their energies\, positions and directions. Many radiatio
 n detectors use scintillators\, which traditionally have nearly always bee
 n transparent to allow detection of the light. Our new counter-intuitive a
 pproach called “LiquidO” is to use highly scattering opaque scintillat
 or. The opacity causes the light to bounce around close to where it is pro
 duced and then optical fibres extract the light. By looking at which fibre
 s are hit and how much light each one sees\, precise particle position and
  directional information can be obtained. We've demonstrated that our appr
 oach outperforms existing scintillator technology by a factor of two. With
  further R&D the resolution is expected to improve by 5-10x\, for a simila
 r cost to existing technology. Or\, importantly for some applications\, re
 duce the detector cost by 5-10x while maintaining the resolution. There ar
 e multiple applications for high-resolution and cost-effective radiation i
 maging\, from Compton cameras for gamma ray imaging to precision muon tomo
 graphy. In particle physics\, the CLOUD neutrino experiment will pioneer n
 ew physics measurements using the novel LiquidO opaque scintillator techno
 logy.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Jeff Hartnell (University of Sussex)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86833-liquido-opaque-scintillator-
 detectors-and-their-physics-opportunities
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86835@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T111858
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T075838
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260123T170000
SUMMARY:Trigger-Level Analysis at ATLAS
DESCRIPTION:The ATLAS Collaboration recently released its full Run-2 dijet
  Trigger-Level Analysis (TLA)\, which processes an unprecedented dataset o
 f more than 60 billion events within a single analysis. By reconstructing 
 jets directly in the high-level trigger\, TLA achieves a data-taking rate 
 more than twenty times higher than the nominal ATLAS readout. This approac
 h enables searches for new physics in dijet final states that would otherw
 ise be limited by data-acquisition bandwidth. While conventional LHC dijet
  searches are typically restricted to masses above 1 TeV\, the presented a
 nalysis extends the accessible mass range down to 375 GeV. As a result\, t
 he presented analysis sets world-leading exclusion limits for simplified d
 ark matter models.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Tobias Fitschen (University of Manch
 ester)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86835-trigger-level-analysis-at-at
 las
END:VEVENT
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86837@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112054
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T093529
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260206T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260206T170000
SUMMARY:System testing for the ITk pixel detector
DESCRIPTION:In order to operate in the harsh radiation conditions of the H
 igh-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC)\, the ATLAS experiment at CE
 RN will undergo a number of upgrades over the LHC Long Shutdown 3 (2026-20
 30). Notably\, the ATLAS Inner Detector will be completely replaced with a
 n all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk)\,  designed to cope with increased occu
 pancy\, bandwidth\, and radiation damage. The ITk is comprised of a hybrid
  silicon pixel detector at its heart\, surrounded by a silicon strip detec
 tor.\n\nThe ITk Pixel system will cover an active area of approximately 13
  m2\, will have around 5 billion readout channels\, and will use innovativ
 e concepts such as serial powering and CO2 cooling to an unprecedented sca
 le. The design and prototyping period for the ITk Pixel detector is now co
 mplete\, with many detector components already in the production or pre-pr
 oduction phase. System-level tests play a crucial role in the ITk Pixel te
 sting programme\, allowing validation of the interfaces between different 
 detector components\, and preparation for detector commissioning and opera
 tion. An overview of recent system-test efforts will be presented\, includ
 ing the recent operation of a 14-module serial powering chain at CERN.\n\n
 Speaker:\n* Juliette Martin (University College London (UCL))
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86837-system-testing-for-the-itk-p
 ixel-detector
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86839@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112317
LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T102409
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260213T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260213T170000
SUMMARY:Probing the Higgs potential and beyond with multi-Higgs production
  at LHC
DESCRIPTION:Higgs boson pair production has received much attention in rec
 ent years\, in part due to the ATLAS and CMS experiments achieving much gr
 eater sensitivity to this process than was initially expected. The theoret
 ical implications are broad\, ranging from probing the form of the Higgs p
 otential (with consequences for cosmology via the electroweak phase transi
 tion) to constraining theories beyond the Standard Model that predict new 
 particles that might decay into Higgs bosons or modify known interactions 
 in ways that can be described using effective field theories. More recentl
 y\, both experiments have additionally begun studying triple Higgs boson p
 roduction to set the first constraints on the Higgs quartic coupling and f
 urther explore the space of extended scalar sector models. This talk will 
 present a view of where the field currently stands on multi-Higgs physics
  (with a few highlights from the speaker's work with ATLAS) and where it i
 s going in the HL-LHC era and beyond.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. William Balunas (
 University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86839-probing-the-higgs-potential-
 and-beyond-with-multi-higgs-production-at-lhc
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86840@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112405
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T112322
STATUS:CANCELLED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260306T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260306T170000
SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] LZ solar neutrino searches
DESCRIPTION:TBD\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Alberto Usón (School of Physics & Astr
 onomy\, University of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86840-lz-solar-neutrino-searches
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86841@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112454
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T074850
STATUS:CANCELLED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260313T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260313T170000
SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Rare Radiative B Decays
DESCRIPTION:TBD\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Lais Soares Lavra (School of Physics & A
 stronomy\, University of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86841-rare-radiative-b-decays
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86843@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112611
LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T102616
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260320T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260320T170000
SUMMARY:Magnetic Resonance Imaging: form and function
DESCRIPTION:Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is well-known as a workhorse
  medical imaging modality\, providing excellent anatomical detail for a hu
 ge range of body areas.  However\, it is at its most versatile when provi
 ding information on the function of the body tissues\, from assessment of 
 heart motion to measurement of microvascular  blood flow.  This talk wil
 l give an overview of how MR works and why it's useful.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr.
  Lucy Kershaw (University of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86843-magnetic-resonance-imaging-f
 orm-and-function
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86845@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112720
LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T103401
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T170000
SUMMARY:Charmless $B\\rightarrow VV$ decays: $B^{0}_{s} \\rightarrow \\phi
 \\phi$
DESCRIPTION:Charmless $P\\rightarrow VV$ decays are a class of decays that
  provide interesting probes of the Standard Model. Studies of these modes 
 can test for CP violation beyond the Standard Model and measurements of th
 eir decay amplitudes highlight a problem known as the polarisation puzzle.
  This talk introduces the LHCb experiment\, CP violation in the Standard M
 odel and how it may be probed with the decay $B_{s} \\rightarrow \\phi\\ph
 i$. The mode $B^{0} \\rightarrow \\phi\\phi$ is also susceptible to physic
 s beyond the Standard Model which may enhance its branching fraction. The 
 latest results for these modes from LHCb are presented\, including a new r
 esult for the search for the $B^{0} \\rightarrow \\phi\\phi$ mode which is
  currently unobserved. New techniques used to improve the sensitivity of t
 his search are also detailed."\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Mary Richardson-Slipper 
 (University of Cambridge)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86845-charmless-brightarrow-vv-dec
 ays-b0s-rightarrow-phiphi
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86849@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T113026
LAST-MODIFIED:20260511T120133
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T170000
SUMMARY:Searches for light sterile neutrinos with MicroBooNE
DESCRIPTION:MicroBooNE has recently delivered a definitive test of short-b
 aseline neutrino anomalies that have persisted for three decades\, ruling 
 out a light sterile-neutrino explanation. The power of this result stems f
 rom the simultaneous use of two muon-neutrino beams—the BNB and NuMI—w
 hich breaks a degeneracy between electron-neutrino appearance and disappea
 rance.\n\nIn this talk\, I will present this analysis in detail and outlin
 e the broader MicroBooNE physics programme\, including a wide range of sea
 rches for new physics and precision measurements of neutrino-argon interac
 tions. I will conclude by discussing the future of the short-baseline neut
 rino programme in light of these results.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Professor Justin 
 Evans (University of Manchester)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86849-searches-for-light-sterile-n
 eutrinos-with-microboone
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86847@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T112845
LAST-MODIFIED:20260511T120217
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260508T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260508T170000
SUMMARY:The MARS DAQ system for characterization of HV-MAPS for the LHCb M
 ighty Tracker
DESCRIPTION:The development of the Mighty-Pixel detector for the LHCb Upgr
 ade II requires extensive characterisation of High-Voltage Monolithic Acti
 ve Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS) across multiple prototype generations. This inc
 ludes laboratory measurements\, irradiation campaigns\, and testbeam studi
 es\, all of which demand a flexible and scalable data acquisition system c
 apable of supporting a wide range of devices and operating conditions.\n\n
 To address these requirements\, the Mighty ASIC Readout System (MARS) has 
 been developed as a dedicated DAQ platform for HV-MAPS characterisation. M
 ARS is a modular system combining custom hardware\, firmware\, and softwar
 e\, designed to provide a versatile and user-friendly environment for sens
 or testing. The architecture is based on established concepts from the BDA
 Q53 framework\, ensuring reliability while allowing adaptation to the spec
 ific needs of the MightyPix development programme.\n\nThe hardware design 
 consists of three main components: a device-under-test (DUT) carrier\, an 
 adapter board\, and an FPGA carrier board. This separation enables support
  for different sensor prototypes and configurations while maintaining a co
 mmon readout backbone. High-speed data transmission to the host system is 
 achieved via Ethernet or SFP+ links\, allowing operation at high hit rates
  and facilitating both laboratory and testbeam use cases. The system is de
 signed to handle multiple parallel data links and control channels\, refle
 cting the requirements of future multi-chip operation.\n\nThe firmware imp
 lements a modular architecture based on reusable building blocks\, providi
 ng data decoding\, communication interfaces\, and system monitoring. On th
 e software side\, a Python-based control framework enables configuration\,
  automated scan execution\, and online data analysis\, supporting efficien
 t and reproducible characterisation workflows.\n\nMARS has been successful
 ly deployed for the evaluation of MightyPix prototypes\, including measure
 ments of timing performance\, noise behaviour\, and radiation effects\, bo
 th in laboratory setups and in testbeam environments. The system is design
 ed to scale towards multi-chip operation and to interface with higher-leve
 l DAQ systems foreseen for detector integration.\n\nThis talk presents the
  design and architecture of the MARS DAQ system\, highlights key design ch
 oices and challenges\, and summarises its performance in recent measuremen
 t campaigns. The current status and planned developments towards large-sca
 le system integration are also discussed.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Klaas Padeken
  (University of Bonn)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86847-the-mars-daq-system-for-char
 acterization-of-hv-maps-for-the-lhcb-mighty-tracker
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-87020@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260213T152409
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T090953
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T170000
SUMMARY:Building the Next-Gen ML/AI Toolkit for LArTPC Experiments
DESCRIPTION:Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) deliver high-r
 esolution images of neutrino interactions and are the chosen technology fo
 r several current and upcoming experiments\, including the Short-Baseline 
 Neutrino program and DUNE. Reconstruction in these detectors has tradition
 ally relied on sophisticated pipelines of hand-engineered pattern-recognit
 ion algorithms\, often augmented with task-specific neural networks. Acros
 s the field\, there is now growing interest in approaches that integrate d
 eep learning more deeply into the chain and learn directly from data with 
 less per-task engineering.\n\nIn this talk I will survey three machine-lea
 rning developments along this direction. First\, the LANTERN reconstructio
 n chain\, which integrates deep CNNs alongside hand-engineered algorithms\
 , has been demonstrated on real MicroBooNE data with CC νₑ and νμ inc
 lusive selections competitive with the experiment's Wire-Cell and Pandora 
 frameworks — and is well positioned to play a complementary role in anal
 yses that draw on the strengths of all three. Second\, recent self-supervi
 sed work shows that a single point-native encoder\, pretrained on raw 3D c
 harge clouds\, can be reused across semantic segmentation\, particle ident
 ification\, and interaction-level partitioning — matching or beating pri
 or state-of-the-art with up to 1000× fewer labels. Third\, score-based di
 ffusion models can\, for the first time\, generate LArTPC-like images of c
 omparable quality to Geant4\, opening a path toward fast surrogate simulat
 ion\, conditional event generation\, and ML-based unfolding. I will close 
 with the role of differentiable detector simulation in tying these compone
 nts together\, and outline how this toolkit will be applied to the remaini
 ng MicroBooNE data and to the SBN and DUNE programs.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Profes
 sor Taritree Wongjirad (Tufts University)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305\, JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87020-building-the-next-gen-mlai-t
 oolkit-for-lartpc-experiments
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UID:EVENT-87108@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260303T113003
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T135841
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T170000
SUMMARY:Latest LZ results: we've measured something!
DESCRIPTION:LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment t
 hat utilises a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with 7 tonnes of a
 ctive xenon at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead\, South D
 akota. The experiment is primarily designed to detect interactions from we
 akly interacting massive particles (WIMPs)\, a well-motivated class of dar
 k matter candidate. Following the establishment of the most stringent cons
 traints on WIMP-nucleon scattering for masses between 9 GeV/c2 and 10 TeV/
 c2\, LZ has completed a dedicated search for light dark matter in the 3-9 
 GeV/c2 mass range. The latter result\, giving a world-leading limit at mas
 ses above 5 GeV/c2\, will be one of main topics of this talk.\n\nOn top of
  that\, I'll also be discussing our recent 4.5-sigma observation of solar 
 B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering (CEνNS)\, 
 demonstrating the sensitivity of large xenon detectors to keV-scale neutri
 no interactions and marking an important step toward the neutrino fog regi
 me.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr. Alberto Usón (School of Physics & Astronomy\, Univ
 ersity of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87108-latest-lz-results-weve-measu
 red-something
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-87463@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260608T090810
LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T090810
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T170000
SUMMARY:Positron Emission Tomography Imaging: Pharmacokinetic Modeling App
 lications in Health and Disease
DESCRIPTION:Positron emission tomography (PET) is a molecular imaging tool
  that enables the in vivo study of normal and pathological processes at t
 he cellular and molecular levels with high sensitivity\, in contrast to th
 e high spatial resolution that is possible using Magnetic Resonance Imagin
 g (MRI).  This presentation will provide a brief overview of PET imaging 
 fundamentals and pharmacokinetic modeling approaches that are used to quan
 tify cerebral blood flow\, glucose metabolism\, and ligand-protein binding
  (e.g.\, targeting of neuropathological protein deposits) in living humans
 . Examples of the unique value that PET kinetic data can provide will be d
 escribed in the context of human research investigations\, such as aging\,
  Alzheimer’s disease\, and obesity. Recent advances in near total body P
 ET imaging will also be discussed in the context of how this technology ca
 n extend PET kinetic research capabilities and enable new insights and und
 erstanding.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Professor Julie Price (Harvard University)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, James Clerk Maxwell Build
 ing (JCMB)
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87463-positron-emission-tomography
 -imaging-pharmacokinetic-modeling-applications-in-health-and-disease
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CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:EVENT-86850@www.ph.ed.ac.uk
DTSTAMP:20260717T211124
CREATED:20260113T113111
LAST-MODIFIED:20260612T082900
STATUS:CANCELLED
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260619T170000
SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] TBD
DESCRIPTION:TBD\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Alex Sopio (School of Physics & Astronom
 y\, University of Edinburgh)
LOCATION:Higgs Centre Seminar Room\, Room 4305\, JCMB
URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86850-tbd
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