Higgs + Jets

8 Dec 2014, 08:00 → 10 Dec 2014, 18:00 Europe/London

OC218 (IPPP Durham)

Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham), Joey Huston (Michigan State), Nicholas Chanon, Nigel Glover (IPPP Durham)

A workshop dedicated to a discussion of recent results on Higgs boson production in association with jets, and comparisons to state-of-the-art theory calculations and MC tools.

Poster Karting_NNLO.jpg team_rivet.JPG

Monday 8 December

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch and Registration

14:00 → 15:45 Review of experimental results

Review of latest experimental results for H+jets

14:00 Fiducial and differential cross section results from ATLAS

Speaker: Dag Gilberg (CERN)

Slides Durham_IPP_Dec8_2014.pdf

14:45 Compatibility test between theoretical predictions and ATLAS results

Speaker: Florian Bernlochner (Bonn)

Slides IPPP2_081214.pdf

15:15 Modelling of VV+jets and Higgs+jets at CMS

Speaker: Nicolas Chanon (IPHC Strasbourg)

Slides NC_CMS_VVJets_HiggsJets_Durham2014.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 18:00 V+jets

Latest news from MC tools

16:15 V+jets in ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides huston_Wjets_IPPP_Higgs_jets.pptx

16:45 V+jets in CMS

Speaker: Konstantinos Theofilatos (ETH Zurich)

Slides higgsjetsDurham_kostas_v1.pdf

17:15 V+jets at high multiplicities

Speaker: Dr Daniel Maitre (IPPP)

Slides Wmultiplicities.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Surprise

Tuesday 9 December

10:00 → 12:00 Precision MC

Experimental results and lessons

10:00 Higgs at NLO with Herwig++

Speaker: Simon Plaetzer (IPPP)

10:30 Higgs production at NLO with Sherpa

Speaker: Mr Marek Schoenherr (University of Zurich)

Slides Sherpa-HJets-MSchoenherr.pdf

11:00 gg->H in aMC@NLO

Speaker: Dr Olivier Mattelaer (IPPP)

Slides 14_12_09_H_plus_j.pdf

11:20 Mass effects in gluon fusion: MC treatment

Speaker: Silvan Kuttimalai (IPPP)

Slides slides_kuttimalai.pdf

11:40 Mass effect in gluon fusion: fixed order

Speaker: Ms Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)

Slides Hjets14_GH.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Higgs + jets: multijets

Update(s) from NLO calculations

14:00 H+jets at NLO with GoSam

Speaker: Gionata Luisoni (MPI Munich)

Slides luisoni_H3jets.pdf

14:30 H + dijets with HEJ

Speaker: Dr Jeppe R. Andersen (IPPP)

Slides Andersen.pdf

15:00 Scaling properties in multijet events

Speaker: Dr Peter Schichtel (IPPP Durham)

Slides schichtel_higgsplusjets.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 18:00 Theory: Fixed Order 1: H+jet @ NNLO

Review of recent (N)NNLO calculations on gg->H, H+jet

16:15 H+jet at NNLO

Speaker: Matthieu Jaquier (University of Zurich)

Slides Jaquier.pdf

16:45 Resummation in Higgs boson production

Speaker: Xiaohiu Liu (Maryland)

Slides ippp-talk-xliu.pdf

17:15 Towards H+2 jets at NNLO

Speaker: James Currie (IPPP Durham)

Slides HJJ.pdf

19:30 → 22:00 Workshop dinner

Wednesday 10 December

10:00 → 12:00 Famous last words

Final discussion

10:00 EFT in WBF and VH production

Speaker: Veronika Sanz (University of Sussex)

Slides IPPP_Higgs_jets.pdf

10:30 hVV anomalous coupling

Speaker: Predrag Milenovic

Slides HiggsJets2014_HVVAnomalousCouplings_v1.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch & Goodbye