The Zurich phenomenology workshop: Higgs search confronts theory
from
Monday, 9 January 2012 (08:30)
to
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 (16:30)
Monday, 9 January 2012
09:30
Registration and coffee
Registration and coffee
09:30 - 10:10
10:10
Opening address
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Ralph Eichler
(
ETH Zurich
)
Opening address
Ralph Eichler
(
ETH Zurich
)
10:10 - 10:20
10:20
Higgs, more Higgs, less Higgs or Higgsless?
-
John Ellis
(
CERN
)
Higgs, more Higgs, less Higgs or Higgsless?
John Ellis
(
CERN
)
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
Higgs Boson Searches in the ATLAS experiment -recent results-
-
Karl Jakobs
(
Freiburg
)
Higgs Boson Searches in the ATLAS experiment -recent results-
Karl Jakobs
(
Freiburg
)
10:50 - 11:35
11:35
Recent Results from Higgs Searches with the CMS Detector
-
Christoph Paus
(
MIT
)
Recent Results from Higgs Searches with the CMS Detector
Christoph Paus
(
MIT
)
11:35 - 12:20
12:20
Lunch break
Lunch break
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
Higgs results from the Tevatron
-
Gregorio Bernardi
(
LPNHE-Paris/IN2P3
)
Higgs results from the Tevatron
Gregorio Bernardi
(
LPNHE-Paris/IN2P3
)
14:00 - 14:45
14:45
Combination techniques for Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron and the LHC
-
Benjamin Kilminster
(
Fermilab
)
Combination techniques for Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron and the LHC
Benjamin Kilminster
(
Fermilab
)
14:45 - 15:15
15:15
Searches for new physics at the LHC outside the Higgs sector
-
Paris Sphicas
(
Athens
)
Searches for new physics at the LHC outside the Higgs sector
Paris Sphicas
(
Athens
)
15:15 - 16:00
16:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Higgs searches: validation and assessment of the simulation tools
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Michelangelo Mangano
(
CERN
)
Higgs searches: validation and assessment of the simulation tools
Michelangelo Mangano
(
CERN
)
16:30 - 17:15
17:15
EWSB after the first hints of a Higgs
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Riccardo Rattazzi
(
EPF Lausanne
)
EWSB after the first hints of a Higgs
Riccardo Rattazzi
(
EPF Lausanne
)
17:15 - 18:00
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
09:00
Modeling and Testing a Composite Higgs
-
Andrea Wulzer
(
Padova
)
Modeling and Testing a Composite Higgs
Andrea Wulzer
(
Padova
)
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
New Higgs Production Mechanism in Composite Higgs Models
-
Jose Santiago
(
Granada University
)
New Higgs Production Mechanism in Composite Higgs Models
Jose Santiago
(
Granada University
)
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
Electroweak corrections in Higgs boson production & uncertainties in Higgs boson decays
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Ansgar Denner
(
Wuerzburg
)
Electroweak corrections in Higgs boson production & uncertainties in Higgs boson decays
Ansgar Denner
(
Wuerzburg
)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Parton distributions and their impact on Higgs searches
-
James Stirling
(
Cambridge
)
Parton distributions and their impact on Higgs searches
James Stirling
(
Cambridge
)
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
High precision on the total Higgs production rate channel by channel
-
Robert Harlander
(
Wuppertal
)
High precision on the total Higgs production rate channel by channel
Robert Harlander
(
Wuppertal
)
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
Resummation methods and Higgs boson production
-
Thomas Becher
(
Bern
)
Resummation methods and Higgs boson production
Thomas Becher
(
Bern
)
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Higgs to two-photons : signal and background
-
Daniel De Florian
(
Buenos Aires
)
Higgs to two-photons : signal and background
Daniel De Florian
(
Buenos Aires
)
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
Transverse momentum resummation for Higgs production
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Giulia Zanderighi
(
Oxford
)
Transverse momentum resummation for Higgs production
Giulia Zanderighi
(
Oxford
)
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Fully differential NNLO cross-sections for Higgs boson production
-
Achilleas Lazopoulos
(
ETH Zurich
)
Fully differential NNLO cross-sections for Higgs boson production
Achilleas Lazopoulos
(
ETH Zurich
)
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
cofee break
cofee break
15:30 - 16:30
16:30
Parton-showers with matching to fixed order and their impact on Higgs searches
-
Stefano Frixione
(
EPFL, CERN
)
Parton-showers with matching to fixed order and their impact on Higgs searches
Stefano Frixione
(
EPFL, CERN
)
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Higgs searches and their sensitivity on hadronization, underlying event, pile up and Monte-Carlo tunings
-
Peter Skands
(
CERN theory
)
Higgs searches and their sensitivity on hadronization, underlying event, pile up and Monte-Carlo tunings
Peter Skands
(
CERN theory
)
17:00 - 17:30
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
09:00
Flavour Physics and Recent Results from the LHCb Experiment
-
Tatsuya Nakada
(
EPF Lausanne
)
Flavour Physics and Recent Results from the LHCb Experiment
Tatsuya Nakada
(
EPF Lausanne
)
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
The interplay of Higgs and Flavor physics
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Uli Haisch
(
Oxford
)
The interplay of Higgs and Flavor physics
Uli Haisch
(
Oxford
)
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
Direct and indirect bounds on Higgs bosons
-
Georg Weiglein
(
DESY Hamburg
)
Direct and indirect bounds on Higgs bosons
Georg Weiglein
(
DESY Hamburg
)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
NLO predictions for signal and background processes in the Higgs search
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Keith Ellis
(
Fermilab
)
NLO predictions for signal and background processes in the Higgs search
Keith Ellis
(
Fermilab
)
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
Beyond Discovery: Exploring Higgs Properties
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Sally Dawson
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
Beyond Discovery: Exploring Higgs Properties
Sally Dawson
(
Brookhaven National Laboratory
)
11:30 - 12:00
12:00
The Higgs and the Terascale: an Outlook
-
Guido Altarelli
(
Rome and CERN theory
)
The Higgs and the Terascale: an Outlook
Guido Altarelli
(
Rome and CERN theory
)
12:00 - 12:45