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

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

1 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

Introductory Session: Setting the scene

2 Welcome and Coffee

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

3 Brief review of best motivated new Heavy bosons to hunt

4 Brief review of existing experimental searches

5 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 (?)

Lunch and distillery tour

Session II: The toolbox

6 Separating heavy bosons from the backgrounds (experimental)

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

7 Theoretical aspects of substructure and mass reconstruction

8 MC aspects of heavy boson simulation

9 Tea/Coffee

10 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?

11 Transit to Glasgow University

12 Transit to Dinner

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

Workshop Dinner

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

Tuesday 26 August

13 Coffee/tea

Session III: Embracing uncertainty

14 Experimental treatment of MC/ theory systematic uncertainties (review))

15 Discussion

16 Lunch

Session IV: A matter of interpretation

17 Experimental presentation of new boson search results

18 Reinterpreting experimental search results (Theorists perspective)

19 Discussion

20 Coffee/Tea

Concluding Session

21 Experimental Summary

22 Theoretical summary