Manchester Particle Physics Group Meeting

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One year in five minutes or? 1.05 ? 105

• Manchester Particle Physics Group Meeting
• Xmas 2006
• George Lafferty

Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria
University of Manchester
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Some of what Ive been doing BaBar tau physics

• Continued analysis (with Christina) of ? - ?
  p-p-pp0p0n in BaBar data
• but mainly waiting for someone else to measure
  efficiency corrections for p0p0
• Work (with Mitch) on fitting on ? - ? p-p0n
• least well known, hadronic correction for
  muon g 2
• Studies (with Kim) of p0 efficiency corrections
  for BaBar
• very important to reduce dominant
  contributions to systematic errors from p0
• Started (with Graham and Dave) involvement in
  ?- ? p-/K-hn in BaBar data
• complementary to other second-class current
  searches
• Grateful to Nick for working with Ming on B ?
  J/ypp
• Talk on Tau physics at the B factories, at
  Charm 2006, Beijing
  
• Talk on Lepton flavour violation and baryon
  number non-conservation in ? ? ? ? h, at
  Tau 2006, Pisa
• Article on lepton-flavor violation at BaBar in
  SLAC Today

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?-??-?o??
p-p0 mass / GeV
BaBar preliminary
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Some else of what Ive been doing management,
admin

• UK Spokesman for BaBar (until 1 September)
• Co-Convenor of BaBar Tau/QED Physics Analysis
  Group
• Chair BaBar search committee for physics
  analysis coordinator
• Lots of AWG and review committee work on BaBar
  tau papers
• Chair of LHC Exploitation Planning Review
  (PPARC)
• Chair of LHC MO Scrutiny Group (CERN committee
  reporting to RRB)
• Plus lots of School of Physics responsibilities
  

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Outlook

• BaBar so far has 390 fb - 1
• The expected final dataset is 1 ab - 1
• Recent improvements in muon detection, and
  ongoing work to reduce many systematic errors
• Potential for significant improvements in tau
  analyses
• Important to probe physics that will be
  inaccessible at LHC, particularly LFV in tau
  decays
• Specifically
• Finish work (with Kim) on p0 efficiency
  corrections for BaBar
• Complete and publish the analysis of ? - ?
  p-p-pp0p0n