Future of VBF measurements
Sep 21, 2016, 8:00 AM
→
Sep 23, 2016, 6:00 PM
Europe/London
OC208 (Durham)
OC208
Durham
Description
The aim of this meeting is to review the current status of VBF measurements and plan for future measurements.
Participants
Andrew Pilkington
Benjamin Pecjak
Cedric Weiland
Christan Johnson
Christian Gutschow
Christian Johnson
Claudia Bertella
Daniel Maitre
Darren Price
Dorival Goncalves
Elisabetta Pianori
Florian Bernlochner
Francesco Buciuni
Helen Brooks
James Cockburn
Jeppe Andersen
Jonas Lindert
Jonathan Crane
Julia Iturbe
Michael Rauch
Peter Richardson
Rebecca Pickles
Richard Ruiz
Simon Badger
Simon Plätzer
Stephen Menary
Tim Martin
Yacine Haddad
Wednesday, September 21
Wed, Sep 21
Thu, Sep 22
Fri, Sep 23
12:30 PM
→
1:30 PM
Lunch
1h
2:00 PM
→
5:00 PM
Session I
2:00 PM
Introduction
10m
Speakers
:
Dr
Andrew Pilkington
(
University of Manchester
)
,
Darren Price
(
University of Manchester
)
Slides
2:10 PM
Lessons from VBF W/Z from Run-I
40m
Speaker
:
Christian Gutschow
(
UCL
)
Slides
2:50 PM
Modelling of non-VBF background processes
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
Simon Plätzer
(
IPPP
)
3:20 PM
Coffee
20m
3:40 PM
Theory input: EWK corrections to non-VBF processes
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Jonas Lindert
(
University of Zurich
)
Slides
4:20 PM
Discussion: what to measure in LHC Run-II?
40m
6:30 PM
→
7:30 PM
Dinner
1h
Thursday, September 22
Wed, Sep 21
Thu, Sep 22
Fri, Sep 23
9:00 AM
→
12:00 PM
Session II
9:00 AM
ATLAS measurement of CP-properties in H->yy
30m
Speaker
:
Florian Bernlochner
(
Bonn
)
9:30 AM
ATLAS measurement of CP-invariance in H->tautau
30m
Speaker
:
Elisabetta Pianori
(
Warwick
)
Slides
10:00 AM
Discussion: pros and cons of the different approaches
30m
10:30 AM
Coffee
20m
10:50 AM
VBF and VBS: Parton shower effects
30m
Speaker
:
Michael Rauch
(
KIT
)
Slides
11:20 AM
Discussion
30m
12:30 PM
→
1:30 PM
Lunch
1h
2:00 PM
→
6:00 PM
Session III
2:00 PM
Pseudo-observables
30m
Speakers
:
Dr
Jonas Lindert
(
University of Zurich
)
,
Dr
Jonas Lindert
Slides
2:30 PM
Signal/background interference
30m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Keith Ellis
(
IPPP
)
Slides
3:00 PM
Discussion
15m
3:15 PM
Coffee
25m
3:40 PM
HERWIG 7 tutorial
45m
Speaker
:
Dr
Simon Plätzer
(
IPPP
)
Slides
6:30 PM
→
7:30 PM
Dinner
1h
Friday, September 23
Wed, Sep 21
Thu, Sep 22
Fri, Sep 23
9:00 AM
→
12:00 PM
Session IV
9:00 AM
The CONTUR method
30m
Speaker
:
Dr
David Grellscheid
(
IPPP, University of Durham
)
Slides
9:30 AM
Heavy Neutrinos from VBF
30m
Slides
10:00 AM
Discussion
20m
10:20 AM
Coffee break
30m
10:50 AM
Discussion
1h
Slides
12:30 PM
→
1:30 PM
Lunch
1h