The Zurich phenomenology workshop: Higgs search confronts theory

from Monday, 9 January 2012 (08:30) to Wednesday, 11 January 2012 (16:30)
ETH Zurich, Main Building

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