HeavyBos

24 Aug 2014, 08:00 → 26 Aug 2014, 18:00 Europe/London

Glasgow University

A workshop dedicated to searches for heavy bosons at the upcoming LHC run II, bringing together theoretical and experimental expertise.

Sunday, 24 August

19:00 → 21:30 Welcome drinks/dinner with early arrivals

Meet at http://www.inndeep.com/ 19:00-20:00

Dinner venue tbc : 20:15 onwards

Monday, 25 August

09:00 → 10:00 Transfer to Glengoyne Distillery

The bus departs at 9am sharp(!) in front of the Boyd Orr building at Glasgow University. You can't miss it, it's a pretty darn ugly building. But to avoid daft excuses there's a link to Google Maps in the materials section (to avoid daft excuses).

Slides https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Hillhead+(Glasgow),+Opp+Boyd+Orr+Bldg,+Universität+Glasgow,+Glasgow,+Glasgow+City+G12/@55.87328,-4.293327,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x488845ce30aeb319:0x3850293e65f0ba40

10:00 → 12:30 Introductory Session: Setting the scene

10:00 Welcome and Coffee

Speakers: Christoph Englert (Glasgow), James Ferrando (Glasgow)

10:20 Brief review of best motivated new Heavy bosons to hunt

10:50 Brief review of existing experimental searches

11:20 Discussion

Which search channels are missing? What will be possible with the upgraded (HL-)LHC that is not possible now? Is the current range of masses/parameters probed the most theoretically interesting one? Viable models (?)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch and distillery tour

14:00 → 17:00 Session II: The toolbox

14:00 Separating heavy bosons from the backgrounds (experimental)

jet substructure techniques, and mass-type variables used to distinguish signal from (ir)reducible backgrounds

14:30 Theoretical aspects of substructure and mass reconstruction

15:00 MC aspects of heavy boson simulation

15:30 Tea/Coffee

16:00 Discussion

Is the current status of boosted object reconstruction techniques sufficient for the needs of this searches? Is experimental b-tagging good enough for boosted H/ t kinematics? Do we need new techniques for leptonic and semi-leptonically decaying boosted objects? Are there better physical quantities to use for experimental discriminant distibrutions? esp. for states with missing transverse momentum To what extent can we trust our simulation of these variables?

17:00 → 18:00 Transit to Glasgow University

19:00 → 19:30 Transit to Dinner

We will travel to Drygate via subway, the Kelvinbridge subway is handy for the Heritage guest house

19:30 → 22:00 Workshop Dinner

Dinner at http://drygate.com/the-vintage

Tuesday, 26 August

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee/tea

10:00 → 12:30 Session III: Embracing uncertainty

10:00 Experimental treatment of MC/ theory systematic uncertainties (review))

10:30 Discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Session IV: A matter of interpretation

13:30 Experimental presentation of new boson search results

14:00 Reinterpreting experimental search results (Theorists perspective)

14:30 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00 → 17:30 Concluding Session

16:00 Experimental Summary

16:30 Theoretical summary