Heavy Particles at the LHC

5 Jan 2011, 08:30 → 7 Jan 2011, 21:30 Europe/Zurich

HG F5 (ETH Zürich)

Babis Anastasiou, Charalampos Anastasiou (Unknown)

The LHC is exploring a new energy frontier, with heavy particles being the epicenter of the experimental analysis. Early LHC data already offer new opportunities for precise studies of the top-quark, the heaviest particle in the Standard Model, and electroweak gauge bosons. Heavy colored particles postulated in benchmark extensions of the Standard Model may also be discovered. In this workshop, we shall compare Tevatron and novel LHC measurements of heavy particle production cross-sections against theory predictions from calculations at the forefront of perturbative QCD. We will study the implications of the new data for physics beyond the Standard Model, and develop efficient strategies for discriminating the rich decay pattern of heavy particles from mundane background processes. The workshop will bring together specialists in perturbative QCD, model building, and experimental particle physics. We are in exciting times, where a wealth of theoretically motivated predictions for new heavy particles, powerful methods for precise theory cross-section calculations, and high quality data amalgamate. We hope that this workshop will stimulate further progress in a field at the front of particle physics phenomenology.

Wednesday 5 January

08:30 → 09:15 Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Opening address by the pro-rector of Medicine and Natural Sciences of the University of Zurich

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Wyler

09:30 → 10:00 NLO QCD corrections to WWbb production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Stefano Pozzorini

Slides pozzorini_hplhc.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Off-shell effects in top production at NLO: the lvlvbb case

Speaker: Costas Papadopoulos (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides zurich.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Next-to-leading order corrections in Higgs boson production in association of a photon in weak boson fusion

Speaker: Dr Terrance Figy (University of Durham)

Slides NLO_HAjj_talk.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 A view from the top

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix

Slides frederix.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Higher order threshold effects for top and squark pair production

Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg University)

Slides resum_zurich.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 Soft-gluon resummation for coloured SUSY production

Speaker: Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)

Slides 6_Kulesza.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Resonant single top production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Adrian Signer

Slides 7_Signer.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 High-precision predictions for Higgs and top-quark pair production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Matthias Neubert

Slides 8_Neubert.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 NLO top anti-top pair production plus one jet matched with shower in POWHEG

Speaker: Simone Alioli (DESY, Zeuthen)

Slides alioli_ETH.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 W, Z and exclusion dimuon final states at LHCb

Speaker: Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

Slides

• backup.pdf
• z_backup.pdf
• z_backup.ppt
• zurich2.pdf
• zurich2.ppt
• zurich.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Update on the top quark charge asymmetry

Speaker: Dr Germán Rodrigo (IFIC Valencia)

Slides 11_Rodrigo.pdf 11_Rodrigo.pptx

17:30 → 18:00 Effective Field Theory for Top Quark Physics

Speaker: Scott Willenbrock

Slides 12_Willenbrock.pdf

Thursday 6 January

09:00 → 09:30 Defending a Non Standard Supersymmetric Spectrum

Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Slides barbieri.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Finding New Physics Using Jet Substructure: Two Examples

Speaker: David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Kaplan-talk.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Seesaw-predicted heavy leptons at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Ivica Picek (Phys. Dept., University of Zagreb)

Slides Picek-ETH'11.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Measurements of b-quark production with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Vincenzo Chiochia (Universitat Zurich)

Slides chiochia.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Top quark physics at hadron colliders with QCD corrections to production and decay

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov

Slides melnikov_zurich.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 SUSY Yukawa sum rule - a road towards testing weak scale naturalness

Speaker: Monika Blanke (Technucal University Munich)

Slides Zuerich2011-Blanke.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Rainer Wallny (UCLA)

Slides wallny.pdf wallny.ppt

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:00 Parton distributions, with special emphasis on uncertainties on top and BSM cross sections

Speaker: James Stirling (Cambridge University)

Slides ETH_Stirling_final.pdf ETH_Stirling_final.ppt

15:00 → 15:30 TBA

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (Unknown)

Slides moch.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Heavy particles at ATLAS

Speaker: Kevin Kroeninger (University of Goettingen)

Slides kroeninger.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:30 Antenna subtraction for the production of massive final state fermions at hadron colliders

Speaker: Gabriel Abelof

Slides Abelof_Talk.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Double-real radiation in top quark pair hadroproduction

Speaker: Michal Czakon (University of Wuerzburg)

Slides czakon.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 Top-quark pair production beyond NLO

Speaker: Dr Andrea Ferroglia (U. di FRiburgo)

Slides ferroglia.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Conference dinner

Friday 7 January

09:00 → 09:30 Tagging Tops

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

Slides plehn.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Jacob Wacker (SLAC)

Slides wacker.key

10:00 → 10:30 Giant K factors

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Unknown)

Slides salam.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 CMS top quarks

Speaker: Slava Krutelyov (Physics Department - University of California)

Slides cms_topQuarks_HPLHCZurich_010711.key.tgz cms_topQuarks_HPLHCZurich_010711.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Precision constraints on models with split UED and predictions for sUED KK mass spectrum

Speaker: Thomas Flacke

Slides flacke.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM scenarios

Speaker: Elisabetta Furlan (ETH Zurich)

Slides Furlan.pdf

12:30 → 12:31 Color sextet bosons and same-sign top quark pairs at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Edmond Berger (ANL)

Slides Berger.pdf

12:31 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 Searching for Lepton Jets in Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Adam Falkowski (Unknown)

Slides adam_110107.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Summary talk

Speaker: Sally Dawson (BNL)

Slides dawson_zurich.pdf