Future of VBF measurements

21 Sept 2016, 08:00 → 23 Sept 2016, 18:00 Europe/London

OC208 (Durham)

The aim of this meeting is to review the current status of VBF measurements and plan for future measurements.

Wednesday 21 September

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:00 → 17:00 Session I

14:00 Introduction

Speakers: Dr Andrew Pilkington (University of Manchester), Darren Price (University of Manchester)

Slides VBF.pdf

14:10 Lessons from VBF W/Z from Run-I

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (UCL)

Slides cg_vbfRun1lessons.pdf

14:50 Modelling of non-VBF background processes

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (IPPP)

15:20 Coffee

15:40 Theory input: EWK corrections to non-VBF processes

Speaker: Dr Jonas Lindert (University of Zurich)

Slides JL_EW_VBF_Durham.pdf

16:20 Discussion: what to measure in LHC Run-II?

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Thursday 22 September

09:00 → 12:00 Session II

09:00 ATLAS measurement of CP-properties in H->yy

Speaker: Florian Bernlochner (Bonn)

09:30 ATLAS measurement of CP-invariance in H->tautau

Speaker: Elisabetta Pianori (Warwick)

Slides IPPPVBFWorkshop.pdf

10:00 Discussion: pros and cons of the different approaches

10:30 Coffee

10:50 VBF and VBS: Parton shower effects

Speaker: Michael Rauch (KIT)

Slides Rauch_VBFDurham.pdf

11:20 Discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Session III

14:00 Pseudo-observables

Speakers: Dr Jonas Lindert (University of Zurich), Dr Jonas Lindert

Slides JL_PO_VBF_Durham.pdf

14:30 Signal/background interference

Speaker: Prof. Keith Ellis (IPPP)

Slides VBF.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:15 Coffee

15:40 HERWIG 7 tutorial

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (IPPP)

Slides slides.pdf

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Friday 23 September

09:00 → 12:00 Session IV

09:00 The CONTUR method

Speaker: Dr David Grellscheid (IPPP, University of Durham)

Slides DurhamVBF2016.pdf

09:30 Heavy Neutrinos from VBF

Slides rruiz_IPPP_HeavyNfromVBF.pdf

10:00 Discussion

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 Discussion

Slides TheoryModels.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch