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

1 Registration

2 Opening address by the pro-rector of Medicine and Natural Sciences of the University of Zurich

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Wyler

3 NLO QCD corrections to WWbb production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Stefano Pozzorini

Slides pozzorini_hplhc.pdf

4 Off-shell effects in top production at NLO: the lvlvbb case

Speaker: Costas Papadopoulos (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides zurich.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

5 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

6 A view from the top

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix

Slides frederix.pdf

7 Higher order threshold effects for top and squark pair production

Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg University)

Slides resum_zurich.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

8 Soft-gluon resummation for coloured SUSY production

Speaker: Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)

Slides 6_Kulesza.pdf

9 Resonant single top production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Adrian Signer

Slides 7_Signer.pdf

10 High-precision predictions for Higgs and top-quark pair production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Matthias Neubert

Slides 8_Neubert.pdf

11 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 Coffee break

12 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

13 Update on the top quark charge asymmetry

Speaker: Dr Germán Rodrigo (IFIC Valencia)

Slides 11_Rodrigo.pdf 11_Rodrigo.pptx

14 Effective Field Theory for Top Quark Physics

Speaker: Scott Willenbrock

Slides 12_Willenbrock.pdf

Thursday 6 January

15 Defending a Non Standard Supersymmetric Spectrum

Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Slides barbieri.pdf

16 Finding New Physics Using Jet Substructure: Two Examples

Speaker: David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Kaplan-talk.pdf

17 Seesaw-predicted heavy leptons at the LHC

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

Slides Picek-ETH'11.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

18 Measurements of b-quark production with the CMS experiment

Speaker: Vincenzo Chiochia (Universitat Zurich)

Slides chiochia.pdf

19 Top quark physics at hadron colliders with QCD corrections to production and decay

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov

Slides melnikov_zurich.pdf

20 SUSY Yukawa sum rule - a road towards testing weak scale naturalness

Speaker: Monika Blanke (Technucal University Munich)

Slides Zuerich2011-Blanke.pdf

21 Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Rainer Wallny (UCLA)

Slides wallny.pdf wallny.ppt

13:00 Lunch break

22 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

23 TBA

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (Unknown)

Slides moch.pdf

24 Heavy particles at ATLAS

Speaker: Kevin Kroeninger (University of Goettingen)

Slides kroeninger.pdf

16:30 Coffee break

25 Antenna subtraction for the production of massive final state fermions at hadron colliders

Speaker: Gabriel Abelof

Slides Abelof_Talk.pdf

26 Double-real radiation in top quark pair hadroproduction

Speaker: Michal Czakon (University of Wuerzburg)

Slides czakon.pdf

27 Top-quark pair production beyond NLO

Speaker: Dr Andrea Ferroglia (U. di FRiburgo)

Slides ferroglia.pdf

19:00 Conference dinner

Friday 7 January

28 Tagging Tops

Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

Slides plehn.pdf

29 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Jacob Wacker (SLAC)

Slides wacker.key

30 Giant K factors

Speaker: Gavin Salam (Unknown)

Slides salam.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

31 CMS top quarks

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

Slides cms_topQuarks_HPLHCZurich_010711.key.tgz cms_topQuarks_HPLHCZurich_010711.pdf

32 Precision constraints on models with split UED and predictions for sUED KK mass spectrum

Speaker: Thomas Flacke

Slides flacke.pdf

33 Precise predictions for Higgs production via gluon fusion in BSM scenarios

Speaker: Elisabetta Furlan (ETH Zurich)

Slides Furlan.pdf

34 Color sextet bosons and same-sign top quark pairs at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Edmond Berger (ANL)

Slides Berger.pdf

12:31 Lunch break

35 Searching for Lepton Jets in Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Adam Falkowski (Unknown)

Slides adam_110107.pdf

36 Summary talk

Speaker: Sally Dawson (BNL)

Slides dawson_zurich.pdf