Boost 2011

22 May 2011, 08:00 → 26 May 2011, 18:00 US/Eastern

Princeton

Chris Tully, David Krohn, Eva Halkiadakis, Gavin Salam, James Olsen, Jay Wacker, Lian-Tao Wang, Mariangela Lisanti, Muge Karagoz, Valerie Halyo, Yuri Gershtein

Sunday 22 May

1 Overview of Boost 2010

Speaker: Marcel Vos

Slides boost2010.pdf

2 Searches for boosted particles in CMS

Speaker: Ricardo Vasquez Sierra

Slides Boost2011_CMSBoostedSearchesV2.pdf

3 Measurements of jet substructure in ATLAS

Speaker: Adam Davison

Slides AdamDavisonBOOST2011.pdf

10:30 Coffee

4 Introductory Theory Talk

Speaker: Davison Soper

Slides Boost2011.pdf

12:00 Lunch

5 Status of the ATLAS experiment and recent results

Speaker: Kirill Prokofiev

Slides ATL-COM-PHYS-2011-497.pdf

6 Status of Higgs and Top Taggers

Speaker: Tilman Plehn

Slides boost_11.pdf

14:30 Coffee

7 Template method and color flow for top

Speaker: Seung Lee

Slides Seung_Lee_Boost2011.pdf

8 Jet Substructure Without Trees

Speaker: Andrew Larkoski

Slides BOOSTMay22.pdf

9 ISR tagging

Speaker: David Krohn (dkrohn@physics.harvard.edu)

Slides isrtagging.pdf

10 Tutorials on detector simulation tools

Speaker: Peter Loch

Slides SmearedJets.pdf

18:00 Opening reception

Monday 23 May

11 Jets in ATLAS

Speaker: Mario Campanelli

Slides boost.pdf

12 Jet Shapes in ATLAS and MC modeling

Speaker: Mario Martinez

Slides BOOST2011_MMP_v2.pdf

13 Jets and Jet Shapes at CMS

Speaker: Rahmat Rahmat (University of Mississippi/CMS)

Slides Boost2011_Rahmat.pdf Boost2011_Rahmat.ppt

14 Underlying Event and Fragmentation Models Tuning

Speaker: Rick Field

Slides Boost11_RickField_5-23-11.pdf Boost11_RickField_5-23-11.ppt

10:40 Coffee

15 Vincia

Speaker: Peter Skands

Slides skands-vincia.pdf

16 Matrix Elements, Parton Showers and jet Merging

Speaker: Andrew Altheimer

Slides JetMatching.pdf

17 The Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences

Speaker: Prof. Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University)

18 Tutorial on new features in FastJet 3.0

Speaker: Gavin Salam

Slides FJ3-tutorial-boost.pdf

19 Shower deconstruction

Speaker: Michael Spannowsky

Slides spannowsky_boost2011.pdf

20 Jet substructure tools in CMS

Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio

Slides boost2011_rappoccio.pdf

15:20 Coffee

21 Boosted top at Tevatron

Speaker: Pekka Sinervo

Slides Boost2011CDFBoostedTop23May11.ppt.pdf

22 Boosted top at ATLAS

Speaker: Miguel Villaplana Perez (IFIC)

Slides MVillaplana_BoostedTop.pdf

23 Non-standard jets in ATLAS

Speaker: Lily Asquith

Slides LilyBoost.pdf

17:00 Free discussion

Tuesday 24 May

24 N-subjettiness

Speaker: Jesse Thaler

Slides jthaler_Nsub_Boost2011.pdf

25 Gluon Tagging at the LHC

Speaker: Jason Gallicchio

Slides qvsg_beamer_v05boost.pdf

26 Stop reconstruction with HEPTopTagger

Speaker: Michihisa Takeuchi

Slides Boost2011.pdf

27 FB top asymmetry at LHC with HEPTopTagger

Speaker: Jessie Shelton

Slides 110524-Boost.pdf

10:20 Coffee

28 SUSY with unconventional collider signals

Speaker: Jiji Fan

Slides boost.pdf

29 Color flow in ttbar events at D0

Speaker: Andy Haas

Slides Boost2011_D0JetPull_5-24-11.pdf

30 Dipolarity

Speaker: Martin Jankowiak

Slides dipolarity_boost_2011.pdf

31 Top Polarization

Speaker: Brock Tweedie

Slides Tweedie_BOOST2011.pdf Tweedie_BOOST2011.ppt

32 Multi-variate overview

Speaker: Matthew Schwartz

Slides Boost2011-Schwartz.pdf Boost2011-Schwartz.pptx

33 Tutorial on SpartyJet

Speaker: Chris Vermilion

Slides Boost2011.pdf

14:55 Coffee

34 Lepton jets

Speaker: Itay Yavin

Slides Yavin_Boost2011_Princeton.pdf Yavin_Boost2011_Princeton.ppt

35 Leptonic Jets at CMS

Speaker: Alexei Safonov

Slides Boost2011_Safonov.pdf Boost2011_Safonov.pptx

36 A Search for Low-Energy Leptons and Lepton Jets in W and Z Events at CDF

Speaker: Scott Wilbur

Slides WZLeps_Boost2011.pdf

37 Lepton Jets at ATLAS

Speaker: Emanuel Strauss

Slides talk.pdf

Wednesday 25 May

38 Jet Masses at the LHC

Speaker: Mrinal Dasgupta

Slides boost.pdf

39 N-Jettiness & LHC Jet Masses at NNLL

Speaker: Iain Stewart

Slides Boost_Stewart2.key Boost_Stewart.pdf

40 Logs, Non-Global Logs, and Non-Global Non-Logs in Dijet Observables

Speaker: Chris Lee

Slides BOOST2011_CLee.pdf BOOST2011.key

41 Controlling jets with SCET

Speaker: Jonathan Walsh

Slides Walsh_Boost2011.pdf

10:40 Coffee

42 Boosted Higgs from SUSY

Speaker: Graham Kribs

Slides KribsBoost2011.pdf

43 Search for New Physics in Multi-jet Final States at CDF

Speaker: Eva Halkiadakis (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy-Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jerse)

Slides Boost2011.pdf

44 Search for New Physics in Multijets at CMS

Speaker: Amit Lath

Slides amit_lath_cms_boost_2011.pdf

45 TBA

Speaker: Scott Thomas

15:00 Discussion sessions

Banquet

Thursday 26 May

46 Reports from working groups

Speakers: Iain Stewart (MIT), Jon Walsh (UC Berkeley), Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

Minutes BoostWG-list.pdf

Paper BoostWG-Summary.pdf

Slides WGsummary.pptx

47 Summary of Theoretical Progress on Jet Substructure

Speaker: Mike Seymour (CERN)

Slides BoostSummary.pdf

Video

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10:25 Coffee

48 Summary of Experimental Progress on Jet Substructure

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)

Slides exp-summary.pdf