Charlottetown, PEI
Contact: PPD chair Manuella Vincter, University of Alberta
Phone: (780) 492-3087
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| Session chair: | William Trischuk (University of Toronto) | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Janis McKenna (i) | CP Violation in the B Meson System (abstract) (talk) | (I23) (L/mac) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Toshio Numao (i) | Status of rare kaon decay experiments at BNL (abstract) | (I8) | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! (WARNING! This is a short break!) | |||
| 11:15-11:45 | Glen Marshall (i) | First Data from the TWIST Experiment (abstract) (talk: ps.gz, pdf, ps) | (I4) (OV) | |
| 11:45-12:00 | Michael Donkers (c) (student) | Determination of alpha_s using Jet Rates at LEP2 (abstract) | (C80) | |
| 12:00-12:15 | Alakabha Datta (c) | T-Violation in B decays (abstract) | (C18) | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Andreas Warburton (c) | Measurements of the CKM Matrix Element |Vub| using the CLEO detector (abstract) (talk) | (C28) (L/W00/pp) | |
| 12:30-12:45 | Christopher Hearty (c) | Search for B to Jpsi Baryon Antibaryon (abstract) (talk) | (C165) (L/mac) | |
| 12:45-13:00 | Steven Robertson (c) | A search for B- to K- nu nubar (abstract) (talk) | (C?) | |
| Session chair: | Francois Corriveau (IPP/McGill University) | |||
| 14:15-14:45 | John Martin (i) | News and Results from ZEUS at HERA (abstract) | (I10) | |
| 14:45-15:15 | Naoko Kanaya (i) | Physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC experiments (abstract) | (I1) (L/li/pdf) | |
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! (WARNING! This is a short break!) | |||
| 15:30-16:00 | William Trischuk (i) | The CDF-II Experiment at Fermilab (abstract) (talk) | (I7) (L/li/pdf) | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin (c) (student) | Search for Graviscalar at LHC (abstract) | (C162) | |
| 16:15-16:30 | Ian Vollrath (c) (student) | Improving W Boson Mass Templates for Run II at CDF (abstract) (talk) | (C13) (OV) | |
| 16:30-16:45 | Jean-Francois Arguin (c) (student) | Prospects for Measuring the Top Quark Mass in CDF Run II (abstract) | (C52) | |
| 16:45-17:00 | Pierre Savard (c) | Top Quark Production Cross Section Results from CDF (abstract) | (C161) | |
| 17:00-17:15 | Greg Trayling (c) | W' and Z' Masses in a Geometric Approach to the Higgs Sector (abstract) | (C99) | |
| Session chair: | Janis McKenna (University of British Columbia) | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Mohsen Khakzad (i) | ATLAS Experiment and the Canadian Contribution (abstract) | (I6) (L/W00/pp) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Francois Corriveau (i) | Report on the Linear Collider (abstract) (talk) | (I19) (OV) | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! | |||
| 11:30-12:00 | Akira Konaka (i) | JHF-SuperK long baseline neutrino oscillation project (abstract) (talk) | (I3) (OV) | |
| 12:00-12:15 | Scott Menary (c) | The Status of KaNOE: Kenora Off-axis NuMI Oscillation Experiment (abstract) | (C163) (OV) | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Dean Karlen (c) | Development of a Time Projection Chamber with Gas Electron Multiplier Readout (abstract) (talk) | (C164) (L/W/pp) | |
| 12:30-12:45 | PPD business meeting: (report by Manuella Vincter) | |||
| Session chair: | Dean Karlen (University of Victoria) | |||
| 14:15-14:45 | Ranpal Dosanjh (i) | Recent Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (abstract) | (I5) | |
| 14:45-15:15 | Viktor Zacek (i) | Status of the PICASSO Dark Matter Search Project (abstract) | (I67) (L/W/pp) | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! | |||
| 15:45-16:15 | Ken Ragan (i) | Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy with STACEE and VERITAS (abstract) | (I11) (L/Wxp/pp) | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Byron Jennings (i) | SNOing on Nuclear Theory (abstract) (talk) | (I?) | |
| 16:45-17:00 | AWARD! | Award given to best PPD student presentation | ||
The Cosmic Microwave Background vs the Universe
The anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) sky contain a wealth of information about the Universe in which we live. Detailed measurement of those anisotropies with the latest experiments have launched cosmology into a new era, where it has clearly become a precision science. We now have a clear picture of exactly what sort of Big Bang model describes our Universe, and very strong clues about what might have happened before the Big Bang. Combining CMB data with other cosmological probes allows us to arrive at a model which has close to flat geometry, with the census being about 1/4 matter (most of which is cold dark matter) and the other 3/4 made of some kind of "dark energy". Several parameters, such as the expansion rate and age of the Universe are determined to a few percent accuracy. The initial perturbations appear to be adiabatic, Gaussian, and close to scale-invariant, pointing to something like inflation. The overall cosmological picture seems to be remarkably consistent, although there are a few hints of surprises to come. If we now have a "Cosmological Standard Model", then one needs to ask "Is the end in sight for cosmology?