The workshop will concentrate on four different topics:
- Extraction of the VBF signal
- Precision VBF measurements
- Higgs VBF measurement
- Novel VBF searches
Session 1: VBF signal extraction and associated data-driven background constraints
Experimental input:
- Lessons from ATLAS for VBF W/Z
- Multivariate techniques in Higgs boson studies
Theory input:
- Modelling of non-VBF processes
- Signal/background interference
- EW corrections to signal/background processes
Session 2: Precision measurements of VBF Standard Candle Processes
Experimental input:
- experimental VBF W/Z results
Theory input:
- can we extract VBF processes cleanly (EWK vs EWK+QCD measurements)
- observables of interest
Session 3: Higgs properties in VBF
Experimental input:
- ATLAS measurement of CP-invariance in H->tautau
- ATLAS measurement of CP-properties in H->yy
- General discussion: pros and cons of previous approaches
Theory input:
- What can VBF do for Higgs measurements?
Session 4: Novel searches for new physics via VBF:
Theory input
-
the dark sector [input on DM, dark energy?, simplified model vs EFT in VBF, etc]
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lepton flavour/number violation in VBF processes?
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the CONTUR method
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From FeynRules -> MC: what is possible and what is not.
