Future of VBF measurements

Sep 21, 2016, 8:00 AM → Sep 23, 2016, 6:00 PM Europe/London

OC208 (Durham)

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

Wednesday, September 21

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Session I

2:00 PM Introduction

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

Slides VBF.pdf

2:10 PM Lessons from VBF W/Z from Run-I

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (UCL)

Slides cg_vbfRun1lessons.pdf

2:50 PM Modelling of non-VBF background processes

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (IPPP)

3:20 PM Coffee

3:40 PM Theory input: EWK corrections to non-VBF processes

Speaker: Dr Jonas Lindert (University of Zurich)

Slides JL_EW_VBF_Durham.pdf

4:20 PM Discussion: what to measure in LHC Run-II?

6:30 PM → 7:30 PM Dinner

Thursday, September 22

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Session II

9:00 AM ATLAS measurement of CP-properties in H->yy

Speaker: Florian Bernlochner (Bonn)

9:30 AM ATLAS measurement of CP-invariance in H->tautau

Speaker: Elisabetta Pianori (Warwick)

Slides IPPPVBFWorkshop.pdf

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

10:30 AM Coffee

10:50 AM VBF and VBS: Parton shower effects

Speaker: Michael Rauch (KIT)

Slides Rauch_VBFDurham.pdf

11:20 AM Discussion

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM Session III

2:00 PM Pseudo-observables

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

Slides JL_PO_VBF_Durham.pdf

2:30 PM Signal/background interference

Speaker: Prof. Keith Ellis (IPPP)

Slides VBF.pdf

3:00 PM Discussion

3:15 PM Coffee

3:40 PM HERWIG 7 tutorial

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (IPPP)

Slides slides.pdf

6:30 PM → 7:30 PM Dinner

Friday, September 23

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Session IV

9:00 AM The CONTUR method

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

Slides DurhamVBF2016.pdf

9:30 AM Heavy Neutrinos from VBF

Slides rruiz_IPPP_HeavyNfromVBF.pdf

10:00 AM Discussion

10:20 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM Discussion

Slides TheoryModels.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch