HeavyBos

Europe/London
Glasgow University

Glasgow University

Description
A workshop dedicated to searches for heavy bosons at the upcoming LHC run II, bringing together theoretical and experimental expertise.
    • Welcome drinks/dinner with early arrivals tbc

      tbc

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

      Dinner venue tbc : 20:15 onwards

    • 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
    • Introductory Session: Setting the scene
      • 2
        Welcome and Coffee Glengoyne Distillery

        Glengoyne Distillery

        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 Glengoyne distillery

      Glengoyne distillery

    • Session II: The toolbox Glengoyne Distillery

      Glengoyne Distillery

      • 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 Kelvinbridge subway station

      Kelvinbridge subway station

      We will travel to Drygate via subway, the Kelvinbridge subway is handy for the Heritage guest house
    • Workshop Dinner The Vintage @ Drygate (tbc)

      The Vintage @ Drygate (tbc)

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

    • 13
      Coffee/tea 323

      323

      Glasgow University

    • Session III: Embracing uncertainty
      • 14
        Experimental treatment of MC/ theory systematic uncertainties (review))
      • 15
        Discussion
    • 16
      Lunch 323

      323

      Glasgow University

    • 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