BOOST2013 - 5th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction and Searches

11 Aug 2013, 17:00 → 16 Aug 2013, 13:00 US/Arizona

Little America Hotel, Grand Ballroom B (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)

Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

The fifth workshop of the BOOST series, after SLAC (2009), Oxford (2010), Princeton (2011) and Valencia (2012) is hosted by the University of Arizona, at a conference facility in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

BOOST2013 Workshop Homepage http://w3atlas.physics.arizona.edu/boost2013

Sunday 11 August

17:00 → 19:00 Registration

Conveners: Connie Potter (CERN), Vivian Knight (University of Arizona (US))

18:00 → 21:00 Reception

Monday 12 August

08:30 → 11:00 Registration

Conveners: Connie Potter (CERN), Vivian Knight (University of Arizona (US))

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction and overviews: (Part I)

Convener: Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

09:00 Welcome from the University of Arizona Physics Department

Speaker: Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US))

09:05 Welcome

Speaker: Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

Slides Welcome.pdf

09:15 Status of the BOOST2012 report

Speaker: Dr Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))

Slides boost2012report.odp boost2012report.pdf

09:55 Recent results from LHC

Speaker: Prof. Pekka Sinervo (University of Toronto (CA))

Slides LHCBoostedResults12Aug13.pdf LHCBoostedResults12Aug13.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Introduction and overviews: (Part II)

Convener: Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))

11:00 Jets at LHC in the presence of 2011 and 2012 pile-up

Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York (US))

Slides boost2013_pileupjets.pdf

11:30 Theoretical progress in disecting jets: calculations past, present, and future

Speaker: Jesse Thaler

Slides jthaler_Boost_Calc.pdf

12:00 Jets under HL-LHC conditions

Speaker: Ariel Gustavo Schwartzman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides BOOST2013_Ariel_v12.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Jet substructure theory: (Part I)

Convener: Michael Spannowsky

14:00 Towards the understanding of jet substructure

Speaker: Gavin Salam (CERN)

Slides Boost-Understanding.pdf

14:30 Jet substructure with analytical methods

Speaker: Simone Marzani (IPPP / Durham University)

Slides marzani_boost2013.pdf

15:00 Exclusive jet mass observables and non-global logarithms

Speaker: Robert Schabinger (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet, Mainz)

Slides BOOSTtalk2013.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:00 New approaches and developments: (Part I)

Convener: Michael Spannowsky

Dinner Announcement Dinner.pdf

16:00 Jets without jets

Speaker: Daniele Bertolini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides BOOST2013_Bertolini.pdf

16:30 Jet cleansing: pile-up mitigation at high luminosity

Speaker: Matthew Low (University of Chicago (US))

Slides MatthewLow-JetCleansing.pdf

Tuesday 13 August

09:00 → 10:30 Jet substructure phenomenology: Applications

Convener: Stephen Ellis (Department of Physics-University of Washington)

09:00 Jet substructure by accident

Speaker: Hou Keong Lou (Princeton University)

Slides Boost2013_accidental_substructure.pdf

09:30 A top tagger based on shower deconstruction

Speaker: Prof. Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

Slides Deconstruction.2013.pdf

10:00 Learning how to count: a high multiplicity search for the LHC

Speaker: sonia el hedri (SLAC)

Slides boost_talk.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Jet substructure phenomenology: Technologies

Convener: Stephen Ellis (Department of Physics-University of Washington)

11:00 Semi-classical approach to jet clustering and background subtraction

Speaker: Jeffrey Tseng (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides boost.pdf

11:30 Energy correlation functions in jet substructure

Speaker: Andrew Larkoski (SLAC)

Slides BOOST_Larkoski.pdf

12:00 Recent developments in boosted jet tagging with template overlap methods

Speaker: Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides BackovicTemplatesBOOST2013.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Jet substructure performance: (Part I)

Convener: Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York (US))

14:00 Pileup: impact and mitigation for jet pT and substructure in ATLAS

Speaker: Sven Menke (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

Slides boost2013.pdf

14:30 Substructure and pileup developments in CMS

Speaker: Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)

Slides PCH_BOOST_13_8_v2.pdf

15:00 Exploration of new substructure techniques in ATLAS

Speaker: Maximilian J Swiatlowski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides swiatlow_new_substructure_la_edit2.pdf

15:30 Studies of substructure and boosted objects post-LS1 (Snowmass)

Speaker: James William Dolen (State University of New York (US))

Slides BOOST_-_snowmass_substructure_-_final.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 Tutorials and demonstrations: (Part I)

16:30 Fastjet_contrib demonstration

Speaker: Gavin Salam (CERN)

Slides FJContrib.pdf

Wednesday 14 August

09:00 → 10:30 Searches with boosted reconstruction techniques

Convener: Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US))

Lowell Visit Lowell.pdf

09:00 ttbar and t+b resonances in CMS

Speaker: Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides BOOST2013-top_resonance_searches.pdf

09:30 Studies with boosted top quarks in ATLAS

Speaker: Loic Valery (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))

Transparents BOOST2013_Valery.pdf

10:00 Non-SUSY quark partners in boosted technologies in CMS

Speaker: Rebekka Hoing (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides BOOST2013.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:15 Searches with boosted reconstruction techniques

Convener: Kenneth Johns (University of Arizona (US))

Lowell Visit Lowell.pdf

11:00 Application of substructure in the ATLAS SUSY multi-jet analysis

Speaker: Christopher Young (CERN)

Slides Presentation.pdf

11:30 Boosted HH->bb bb: a new topology in searches for TeV scale resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Ben Cooper (University of London (GB))

Slides bencooper_fourbsearches.pdf

12:15 → 12:30 Workshop photo

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Jet substructure theory: (Part II)

Convener: Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

14:00 Calculating track-based observables for the LHC

Speaker: Wouter Waalewijn (UCSD)

Slides waalewijn_boost2013.pdf

14:30 Divorcing soft substructure from kinematics

Speaker: David Curtin (Cornell)

Slides boost2013_soft_substructure.pdf

15:00 Unsafe but calculable: ratio observables in perturbative QCD

Speaker: Jesse Thaler

Slides jthaler_Boost_Ratio.pdf

15:30 Scale-invariant resonance tagging in multi-jet events and new physics in Higgs pair production

Speakers: Gavin Salam (CERN), Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-boost13-restagger.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:30 Tutorials and demonstrations: (Part II)

16:30 RIVET tutorial

Speaker: Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides rivet-tutorial.pdf

Thursday 15 August

09:00 → 10:30 New approaches and developments: (Part II)

Convener: Andrew Larkoski (SLAC)

Dinner Announcement Dinner.pdf

09:00 Applying computer vision techniques to jet flavor identification: from FisherFaces to FisherJets

Speaker: Josh Cogan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides cogan_boost.pdf

09:30 Telescoping jets: multiple event interpretations with multiple R

Speaker: Yang-Ting Chien (Harvard University)

Slides telescoping_BOOST2013.pdf

10:00 Jet radiation radius and pileup

Speaker: Zhenyu Han (Harvard University)

Slides zhan.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Jet substructure measurements

Convener: Andrew Larkoski (SLAC)

11:00 H->bb and H->VV in boosted topologies in CMS

Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides ntran_BOOST2013.pdf

11:30 Non-Higgs X->VV in boosted technologies in CMS

Speaker: Petar Maksimovic (Johns Hopkins University (US))

Slides boost2013_xtovv_Maksimovic.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Jet substructure performance: (Part II)

Convener: David Lopez Mateos (Harvard University (US))

14:00 Boosted jet algorithm development in CMS

Speaker: Emanuele Usai (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides boost13_usai.pdf

14:30 Substructure performance on boosted objects in ATLAS

Speaker: Chris Pollard (Duke University (US))

Slides BOOST20130815.pdf

15:00 b-jet identification in boosted technologies in CMS

Speaker: Ivan Marchesini (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides BOOST_2013.odp BOOST_2013.pdf

15:30 Jet tagging at ATLAS

Speaker: Ayana Holloway (Duke University (US))

Slides jettag_boost.pdf jettag_boost.pptx

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:00 Open discussion: Proceedings & organization of work

Proceeding topics to be addressed, organization of work

18:30 → 21:00 Workshop dinner

Friday 16 August

09:00 → 10:30 Summary

Convener: Lily Asquith (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

09:00 Workshop summary: theory

Speaker: Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

Slides TheorySummary-Schwartz-2013.pdf

09:45 Workshop summary: experiment

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

Slides Miller_BOOST2013Summary_16Aug2013.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 BOOST2013 report workplan

Conveners: Ben Cooper (University of London (GB)), Roman Kogler (Hamburg University (DE))

slides BOOST2013-working_groups.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee