The case of a large-mass Higgs

Europe/Zurich
TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Charalampos Anastasiou (Unknown), Stefano Frixione (CERN)
Description
We plan to review the scope of the searches for a heavy Higgs boson and the current strategies used to compute Higgs cross sections, in the case when the Higgs mass grows large, and width effects become significant. We hope this will foster a discussion on how to improve such searches and strategies. We shall also consider how theoretical results are affecting and will affect experimental searches and their interpretations. Although the SM Higgs case will be our benchmark, we shall address the question of the current significance of these searches also in the context of BSM scenarios. EVO connection will be available: the link will appear on the agenda page 30' before the start of the meeting
Participants
  • Achilleas Lazopoulos
  • Adrian Signer
  • andrea wulzer
  • Antoine Laureys
  • Antonio Dobado
  • Apostolos Pilaftsis
  • Babis Anastasiou
  • Bernhard Mistlberger
  • Cen Zhang
  • Chiara Mariotti
  • Christian Schwinn
  • Christian Speckner
  • Chung Kao
  • Diogo Buarque Franzosi
  • Falko Dulat
  • Franz Herzog
  • Giampiero Passarino
  • Giuliano Panico
  • Heidi Rzehak
  • Julián Cancino
  • Marco Bonvini
  • Marta Felcini
  • Michael Spira
  • michelangelo mangano
  • Reisaburo Tanaka
  • Rogerio Rosenfeld
  • Romain Mueller
  • Sara Bolognesi
  • Sara Diglio
  • Stefano Frixione
  • Stephan Buehler
    • 14:00 18:00
      Session 1
      • 14:00
        Resonances in S-matrix theory 35m
        Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik-Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschu)
        Slides
      • 14:35
        Approaching Higgs production from an effective-theory point of view 35m
        Speaker: Adrian Signer (PSI)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        Interference effects in heavy Higgs production through gauge boson fusion 25m
        Speaker: Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg)
        Slides
      • 15:35
        Coffee break 30m
      • 16:05
        Interference effects in Higgs to W pairs (in MCFM) 35m
        Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        Results on a heavy standard model Higgs boson 35m
        Speaker: Jochum Van Der Bij (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
        Slides
      • 17:15
        Discussion 20m
    • 09:00 14:00
      Session 2
      • 09:00
        Remarks on Dyson summation of the Higgs propagator 35m
        Speaker: Christian Schwinn (Freiburg University)
        Slides
      • 09:35
        Higgs width effects in event generators 35m
        Speaker: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Higgs Decays and HDECAY 35m
        Speaker: Michael Spira (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))
        Slides
      • 10:45
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:15
        Total Higgs boson production cross-section 35m
        Speaker: Charalampos Anastasiou (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        aMC@NLO: strategy for heavy-Higgs production and interference effects 35m
        Speaker: Stefano Frixione (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:25
        Discussion 25m