LPC EFT Tutorial 2026

Friday 5 Jun 2026, 08:00 → 17:00 US/Eastern

<TBC> (University of Maryland)

Andrei Gritsan (Johns Hopkins University (US)), Kelci Ann Mohrman (University of Florida (US)), Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Vasilije Perovic (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

The 2026 LPC EFT Tutorial (associated with the LPC EFT workshop series, see https://indico.cern.ch/e/lpceft2026) will take place Friday June 5 at UMD, following the annual US CMS week. 

This half-day tutorial is designed to offer a basic introduction to experimental EFT techniques and tools, including signal modeling, EFT-aware histogramming, and likelihood fitting. 

The location will be at PSC 3150, PSC 3204 at UMD. 

Workshop organizing committee:

Jonathan Wilson (Baylor)
Lindsey Gray (Fermilab)
Nick Smith (Fermilab)
Vasilije Perovic (Fermilab)
Kelci Mohrman (Florida)
Andrei Gritsan (JHU)
Jeffrey Davis (JHU)
Surjeet Rajendran (JHU)
Michael Schmitt (Northwestern)
Kevin Lannon (Notre Dame)
Andrea Piccinelli (Notre Dame)
Adam Martin (Notre Dame)
Saptaparna Bhattacharya (SMU)

Local organizing committee:

Andrei Gritsan (JHU)
Jeffrey Davis (JHU)
Mohit Srivastav (JHU)
Zhiyuan Huang (JHU)
Nick Pinto (JHU)
Michalis Panagiotou (JHU)
Ruoxi Wang (JHU)

LPC Events committee

Gabriele Benelli (Brown U., Co-Chair)
Jonathan Wilson (Baylor U., Liaison)

LPC Coordinators:

Jim Hirshauer (Fermilab)
Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton)

Previous workshops/tutorials:

2025 Fermilab
2024 Notre Dame
2023 Fermilab

 

EFT Tutorial (PSC 3150, PSC 3204)

Conveners: Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US)), Kelci Ann Mohrman (University of Florida (US)), Vasilije Perovic (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

1 Introduction: EFT concepts for experimental analyses

Speaker: Kelci Ann Mohrman (University of Florida (US))

EFT_concepts for_experimental_analyses_2026.pdf

2 EFT sample generation

14:45 Break

3 EFT aware histogramming

4 Likelihood fitting for EFT