LoopFest VII

14 May 2008, 01:30 → 16 May 2008, 18:40 Europe/Zurich

120 Clemens Hall (University at Buffalo)

Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo), Marcus Weber (SUNY Buffalo), Richard Gonsalves (SUNY Buffalo), Sally Dawson (BNL), Ulrich Baur (SUNY Buffalo)

Radiative Corrections for the LHC and ILC For more information please visit www.physics.buffalo.edu/loopfest7.

Wednesday 14 May

08:20 → 10:00 Session I

08:20 Welcome by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

Speaker: Bruce McCombe (University at Buffalo)

08:30 Precision electroweak measurements

Speaker: Bob Clare (University of California)

Slides Clare.pdf.pdf

09:00 Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on New Physics

Speaker: Witold Skiba (Yale University)

Slides Skiba.pdf

09:30 Discovering New Physics with Early LHC Data

Speaker: Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

Slides LoopFest_GL.pdf.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:30 Session II

10:30 Three-loop corrections to the lightest Higgs Boson mass in the MSSM

Speaker: Matthias Steinhauser (Karlsruhe University)

Slides steinhauser.pdf.pdf

11:00 SUSY-QCD corrections to Higgs processes

Speaker: Chris Jackson (BNL)

Slides cb-jackson-loopfest2008.pdf

11:30 Recent progress in NNLO calculations

Speaker: Massimiliano Grazzini (CERN)

Slides Grazzini.pdf

12:00 NNLO corrections to event shapes and jet rates in e+e-

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (Universitaet Zuerich)

Slides gehrmann.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Session III

14:00 Top Mass from Jets at the ILC: Two loop results and More

Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)

Slides Stewart.pdf

14:30 NNLO corrections to the b -> s gamma decay

Speaker: Radja Boughezal (University Wuerzburg)

Slides Boughezal.pdf

15:00 NNLO corrections to heavy fermion decays

O(alpha_s^2) corrections to semileptonic b-quark decay rate are calculated to several orders in m_c/m_b. Applied to the muon decay, they lead to a -0.43 ppm decrease in the lifetime. We also present recent results of our group on NNLO corrections to t-quark decay into polarized W-bosons.

Speaker: Alexey Pak (University of Alberta)

Slides apak.pdf

15:15 Second Order Corrections To Heavy Quark Decays At Intermediate Recoil

Speaker: Matt Dowling (University of Alberta)

Slides MatDow.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Session IV

16:00 Heavy flavour corrections to DIS at 2- and 3-loop order

Speaker: Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

Slides blumlein1.pdf.pdf blumlein.pdf.pdf

16:30 W production at large transverse momentum

Speaker: Johann Kuehn (University Karlsruhe)

Slides kuehn.pdf

17:00 Towards top-quark pair production predictions at NNLO in QCD

Speaker: Michal Czakon (University Wuerzburg)

Slides czakon.pdf

17:30 N^3LO ttbar threshold cross section

Speaker: Yuichiro Kiyo (Universitaet Karlsruhe)

Slides Kiyo.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Wine and Cheese Reception

Thursday 15 May

08:30 → 10:00 Session V

08:30 An overview of on-shell methods and their applications

Speaker: Zvi Bern (UCLA)

Slides bern.pdf bern.ppt

09:00 Automated Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes

Speaker: Darren Forde (SLAC)

Slides forde.pdf forde.pptx

09:30 Constructing loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes

Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides LoopFest2008.pdf LoopFest2008.ppt

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:30 Session VI

10:30 Second order QCD effects in b->c l nu_l

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (University of Hawaii)

Slides melnikov.pdf

11:00 Two-loop amplitudes for gauge boson pair production in QCD

Speaker: Grigorios Chachamis (University Wuerzburg)

Slides loopfest08.pdf

11:30 QCD corrections to WWZ production

Speaker: Vera Hankele (Karlsruhe University)

Slides loopfest7_hankele.pdf

12:00 NLO QCD corrections to WW+jet production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Peter Uwer (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (FZK))

Slides LoopFestVII-PU.pdf LoopFestVII-PU.ppt

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:30 Session VII

13:30 On the Numerical Evaluation of Gluonic One-Loop Amplitudes

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (Unknown)

Slides Zanderighi.pdf

14:00 QCD Corrections to Weak Vector Boson Production Associated to Heavy Quark Jets at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Fernando Febres Cordero (UCLA)

Slides FebresCorderoLF08.pdf

14:30 NLO QCD corrections to ttZ production

Speaker: Thomas McElmurry (University of Wisconsin)

Slides McElmurry.pdf

15:00 (Some) new stuff for top production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Alexander Mitov (SUNY Stony Brook)

Slides alexander-mitov.pdf alexander-mitov.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Session VIII

16:00 Electroweak and QCD corrections to Higgs-boson production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC

Speaker: Stefan Dittmaier (MPI fuer Physik)

Slides dittmaier_pphjj_loopfest7.pdf

16:30 Higgs plus three jets via vector boson fusion at NLO QCD

Speaker: Terrance Figy (University of Durham)

Slides loopfest08_figy.pdf

17:00 Mixed QCD-electroweak contributions to Higgs-plus-dijet production at the LHC

Speaker: Barbara Jaeger (KEK)

Slides jaeger.pdf

17:30 Complete electroweak corrections to e+e- -> 3 jets at the ILC

Speaker: Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown)

Slides piccinini.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

The bus leaves at 6:15 pm from the Center for the Arts, which is adjacent to Clemens Hall.

Friday 16 May

08:30 → 10:00 Session IX

08:30 Recent developments in MadGraph/MadEvent

Speaker: Johan Alwall (SLAC)

Slides Alwall-LoopFestVII.pdf

09:00 SHERPA: New developments

Speaker: Jan Winter (Fermilab)

Slides winter.pdf

09:30 Towards NLO predictions for 4 b-jets at the LHC

Speaker: Thomas Reiter (University of Edinburgh)

Slides reiter-thomas-080516buf.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:15 Session X

10:30 Integral coefficients for one-loop amplitudes

Speaker: Ruth Britto

Slides Britto.pdf

11:00 One-loop Integral Coefficients from Generalized Unitarity

Speaker: William Kilgore (BNL)

Slides LoopFest-VII-Kilgore.pdf

11:30 Scalar one-loop integrals for QCD

Speaker: Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

Slides ellis.pdf

12:00 The six-photon amplitudes

Speaker: Christophe Bernicot (LAPTH)

Slides bernicot.pdf

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 15:30 Session XI

13:45 Automating dipole subtraction for QCD NLO calculations

Speaker: Tanju Gleisberg (SLAC)

Slides gleisberg.pdf

14:15 Current and future developments in WHIZARD

Speaker: Tobias Kleinschmidt (Universitaet Siegen)

Slides kleinschmidt.pdf

14:45 Loop precision and the advent of the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Laura Reina (Florida State University)

Slides reina.pdf

15:30 → 15:40 Adjourn

15:40 → 18:40 Excursion to the Niagara Falls

The bus leaves at 4 pm from the Center for the Arts, which is adjacent to Clemens Hall.