Duke Workshop: Electroweak Measurements at the Energy Frontier

18 Feb 2013, 09:00 → 20 Feb 2013, 16:00 America/New_York

1st floor conf. room,DFELL (Duke University)

Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University (US)), Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo), Michael Henry Schmitt (Northwestern University (US))

Workshop web page

Monday, 18 February

1 VV scattering

Speaker: K. Cheung (Natl Tsing Hua Univ)

Slides kingmancheung.pdf

2 Theory of anomalous couplings using EFT

Speaker: Celine Degrande (UIUC)

Slides SWMduke.pdf

10:30 Coffee break and Discussion

3 Experimental Signatures

Speaker: Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington, Seattle)

Slides AGC.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

4 Fast simulation code

Speaker: Chris Pollard (Duke University (US))

Slides Snowmass20130218.pdf

15:30 Coffee break and discussion

5 Tutorial: Madgraph for BSM physics

Speaker: Olivier Mattelaer (UIUC)

document EWDim6_1.5.8.tgz TUTO_MODEL.tgz

Slides 13_02_16_tutomg.pdf question_only.pdf

Tuesday, 19 February

6 Introduction to electroweak precision physics

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides duke_freitas.pdf

10:15 Coffee break and discussion

7 MSSM/CMSSM: Introduction and impact on electroweak precision observables

Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Santander, ES))

Slides sven.pdf

8 Electroweak precision physics and non-standard gauge bosons

Speaker: Paul Langacker (IAS)

Slides newgauge_pgl.pdf newgauge_pgl.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

9 NNPDF

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo-Wmass-snowmass.pdf

10 BSM and dark matter

Speaker: Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides MJRM_Duke_EW_13.pdf

16:00 Coffee break and discussion

11 Discussion (with Ayres and Sven)

12 W mass measurements at lepton colliders

Speaker: Graham Wilson (University of Kansas (US))

Slides GWW_Duke.pdf

Wednesday, 20 February

13 Tutorial: Madgraph (BSM)

Speaker: Olivier Mattelaer (UIUC)

14 Powheg for electroweak physics

Speaker: Simone Alioli (LBL)

Slides snowmassEW2013.pdf

10:00 Coffee break and discussion

15 Monte Carlo programs for electroweak precision physics

Speaker: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

Slides Vicini-Duke2013.pdf

12:15 Lunch

16 Discussion and roadmap