Future challenges for precision QCD

25 Oct 2016, 12:00 → 28 Oct 2016, 13:50 Europe/London

IPPP, Durham

Fabrizio Caola (CERN), Simon Badger (Edinburgh/Durham IPPP)

Precision measurements at Run II of the LHC continue to demand smaller theoretical uncertainties. In this meeting we aim to bring together experts in the field to discuss current issues in the theoretical models. Topics of particular interest are Higgs and Top quark physics, new techniques for infrared subtraction and loop integrals as well as fixed order and parton shower matching beyond NLO. Organisers: Simon Badger, Fabrizio Caola

Tuesday, 25 October

12:00 Lunch and Registration

1 Precision predictions for Higgs boson phenomenology

Speaker: Dr Bernhard Mistlberger

Slides Mistlberger.pdf

2 Higgs boson production in association with jets: NLO corrections vs mass effects

Speaker: Dr Gionata Luisoni

Slides luisoni_Hjets.pdf

15:00 Coffee

3 VBF Higgs production in the structure function approach and beyond

Speaker: Dr Alexander Karlberg

Slides FUTURE25102016.pdf

4 Higgs pair production with full top-quark mass dependence

Speaker: Dr Sofia Borowka

Slides sborowka.pdf

Wednesday, 26 October

5 Problems in PDF determination

Speaker: Prof. Stefano Forte

Slides forte.pdf

11:00 Coffee

6 The last light parton: the photon parton density

Speaker: Dr Paolo Nason

Slides LUX-PDF4LHC-9-2016.pdf

7 Precision predictions for ttbar production. Status and prospects.

Speaker: Dr David Heymes

Slides Durham_DavidHeymes.pdf

12:30 Lunch

8 Exploring the top quark electroweak interactions

Speaker: Dr Markus Schulze

Slides IPPP_schulze.pdf

9 NNLO+PS with MiNLO+POWHEG

Speaker: Dr Emanuele Re

Slides 2016_10_26.pdf

15:30 Coffee

10 Drell-Yan production at NNLL'+NNLO in Geneva

Speaker: Dr Simone Alioli

Slides IPPP_2016-1.pdf

11 Transverse momentum distributions and jet cross sections at NNLO precision

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Gehrmann

Slides gehrmann_durham16.pdf

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, 27 October

12 Resummation of global and non-global logarithms

Speaker: Dr Thomas Becher

Slides becher_Durham16.pdf

11:00 Coffee

13 Resummation and phenomenology of the Higgs pt distribution

Speaker: Dr Pier Monni

Slides Durham.pdf

12:30 Lunch

14 A novel approach to the cuts of Feynman integrals

Speaker: Dr Claude Duhr

Slides Duhr.pdf

15 Forest Formula, IR-divergences and 2pt functions

Speaker: Dr Franz Herzog

Slides FHerzog_forest.pdf

15:30 Coffee

16 A journey beyond multiple polylogarithms. What is there and how do we handle it?

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Tancredi

Slides tancredi_Durham2016.pdf

17 Precise theory predictions for a threshold scan of top pair production at a lepton collider

Speaker: Dr Thomas Rauh (IPPP)

Slides Rauh.pdf

19:00 Dinner

Lebaneat: https://goo.gl/maps/ZSdBb32ZdLT2

Friday, 28 October

18 Towards 1% precision at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam

Slides Durham-precision.pdf

11:00 Coffee

19 Collider theory at Run II and beyond

Speaker: Prof. Kirill Melnikov

12:30 Lunch