Chicago 2012 workshop on LHC physics

2 May 2012, 08:30 → 4 May 2012, 17:30 America/Chicago

300 (Gleacher Center - University of Chicago)

Florencia Maria Canelli (University of Chicago and Fermilab), Marcela Carena Lopez (Unknown)

This workshop consists of sessions organized by analysis signature, covering both measurements and searches for new physics. Discussions will be focused on exploring potential improvements to the analyses and connections between models of new physics and search strategies. The workshop participants will include theorists and experimentalists to trigger collaborations bridging the two communities. A second workshop will follow in the late fall of 2012. The workshop will be held in Chicago downtown between May 2 and 4, 2012. Details of the workshop can be found at http://lhc-workshop.uchicago.edu/

Wednesday, 2 May

08:30 → 08:40 Welcome

Convener: Edward Blucher (Enrico Fermi Institute)

08:40 → 12:00 Jets: Status of calculations, uncertainties, tools, modeling

Conveners: John Campbell, Richard Hill, Sabine Lammers

08:50 Theoretical uncertainty on cross-sections in jet bins, including new matched NLO+PS and SCET-based techniques

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

Slides chicago2012_petriello.pdf

09:10 Double parton scattering

Speaker: Dmitry Bandurin (Florida State University (US))

Slides bandurin_Chicago_May2_2012.pdf

09:25 Double parton scattering

Speaker: Dr Ed Berger (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

Slides LHCChicago.pdf

09:40 Background rejection techniques in measurements with jets

Speaker: Alexander Paramonov (High Energy Physics Division)

Slides Chicago_LHC_05_02_2012.pdf

10:00 Coffee Breack

10:30 QCD analyses for MC tuning and interesting observables

Speaker: Thomas Le Compte (High Energy Physics Division)

Slides Low_Lumi_QCD.pdf Low_Lumi_QCD.ppt

10:50 Status of MC event generators

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (University of Zurich)

Slides stefan_chicago_12-05.pdf

11:10 Interplay between EW and QCD corrections

Speaker: Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides chicago2012-radja.pdf

11:30 Jet uncertainties and measurements

Speaker: Ricardo Eusebi (Texas A & M University)

Slides LHCWorkshop_May2_2012.pdf

11:50 Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 New physics with heavy flavor

Conveners: Jim Pilcher, Liantao Wang

13:00 SUSY searches in final states with heavy flavor - CMS

Speaker: Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

Slides cavanaugh-chicago2012.pdf

13:30 ATLAS searches for new phenomena with heavy flavor

Speaker: Tobias Golling (Yale University (US))

Slides Chicago_NP_with_HF_May022012.pdf

14:00 Top signals at the LHC

Speaker: LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)

Slides top-LHC.pdf

14:30 Stop Signs at the LHC

Speaker: Matthew Reece (Harvard University)

Slides reecechicago2012.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Jet substructure

Conveners: Jim Pilcher, Liantao Wang

15:30 ATLAS measurements of jet substructure and application to searches for boosted top quarks and new particles

Speaker: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))

Slides Miller_ChicagoLHC2012_2May2012.pdf

16:00 CMS studies and application of jet substructure

Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))

Slides uchicago_substructure_rappoccio.key uchicago_substructure_rappoccio.pdf

16:30 New jet tools

Speaker: David Krohn (Harvard University)

Slides krohn_talk.pdf

Thursday, 3 May

08:30 → 10:00 EWK measurements

Conveners: Cecilia Gerber, Heidi Schellman, Paul Langacker

08:30 The current status of EW - including W mass, Z(AFB), possibly dibosons, and production mechanisms.

Speakers: Mark Lancaster (University College London (UK)), Mark Lancaster (UCL)

Slides lancaster.pdf

09:15 Future of electroweak physics at the LHC

Speaker: Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)

Slides berryhill_smpfuture_20120503.pdf berryhill_smpfuture_20120503.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Top

Conveners: Aaron Pierce, Cecilia Gerber, Mel Shochet

10:30 Studies of Top Quark Production at the LHC

Speaker: Christopher Neu (Department of Physics)

Slides top_physics_at_LHC.pdf

11:00 Studies of Top Quark Decay at the LHC

Speaker: Kevin Black (Boston University)

Slides Black.pdf

11:30 New physics in top production and decay

Speaker: Jure Zupan (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

Slides Zupan_Chicago_May12_print.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Multi-leptons

Conveners: Beate Heinemann, Bogdan Dobrescu

13:00 Multilepton Searches at CMS

Speaker: Sunil Somalwar (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides 1205-Chicago-CMS-multilep.pdf

13:30 Multilepton Searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Anadi Canepa (TRIUMF)

Slides canepa.pdf

14:00 Implications for supersymmetry

Speaker: Daniele Alves

Slides ChicagoMultiLeptons.pdf

14:30 Non-supersymmetric signals

Speaker: K.C. Kong

Slides K.C.Kong.Chicago2012LHC.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Flavor

Conveners: Enrico Lunghi, Jon Rosner, Tomasz Skwarnicki

15:30 Theoretical issues and techniques in bottom and charm physics

Speaker: Enrico Lunghi (Indiana University)

Slides lunghi.pdf

16:00 LHCb determinations of phi_s

Speaker: Liming Zhang (Department of Physics)

Slides Liming.pdf

16:15 Studies of rare B decays at LHCb

Speaker: Tomasz Skwarnicki (Department of Physics)

Slides LHCb-Rare-Chicago-May12.pdf LHCb-Rare-Chicago-May12.ppt

16:30 B-physics at the Tevatron

Speaker: Rob Harr

Slides TevatronHeavyFlavor.pdf

16:45 B-physics from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Joel Butler (Fermi National Accelerator Lab.)

Slides JB_Chicago_LHC_wkshp+May_2012_v1.pdf

Friday, 4 May

08:30 → 10:00 Higgs

Conveners: Ben Kilminster, El Carlos Wagner, Mark Oreglia

08:30 H->bb searches

Speaker: Kyle Knoepfel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides SMHbbSearches_Knoepfel.pdf

08:50 H->gamgam searches

Speaker: Vladimir Rekovic (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

Slides Chicago_Workshop_2012_Hgg.pdf

09:10 H->WW, H->ZZ searches

Speaker: Antonio Boveia (University of Chicago)

Slides 20120504_hwwzz.pdf

09:30 Higgs Identity

Speaker: Ian Low (Argonne National Lab/Northwestern Univ)

Slides HiggsID_Chicago2012.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Tau

Conveners: Sarah Demers, Tao Han

10:30 It's All About Tau's

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides taus.key taus.pdf

11:00 CMS Physics Results with Tau Final States

Speaker: Prof. Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin (US))

Slides DasuChicago2012.pdf

11:30 ATLAS physics results with tau final states

Speaker: Zofia Czyczula Rudjord (Yale University (US))

Slides TausInATLAS.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 MET

Conveners: Joe Lykken, Rick Cavanaugh (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

13:00 Experiment: Light stops

Speaker: Ximo Poveda Torres (Physics Department)

Slides Experiment_stop.pdf

13:20 Theory: Light stops

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides Martin.pdf

13:40 Experiment: Direct EWK-ino

Speaker: Sanjay Padhi (Department of Physics)

Slides spadhi_chicago03052012.pdf

14:00 Theory: Direct neutralino, other light stuff

Speaker: Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida (US))

Slides Matchev_Chicago2012.pdf

14:20 Experiment: Presentation of scientific results

Speaker: Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

Slides Exp_Intepretation.pdf

14:40 Theory: Presentation of scientific results

Speaker: Scott David Thomas (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Photons/W/Z

Conveners: Adam Yurkewicz (Northern Illinois University (US)), Paddy Fox

15:30 SUSY/exotics with Photons

Speaker: Prof. John Paul Chou (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

Slides chou.pdf

16:05 Matrix Element Calculations

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

Slides ChicagoMEM.pdf