BOOST2014 - 6th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction and Searches in HEP

18 Aug 2014, 07:00 → 22 Aug 2014, 17:00 Europe/London

University College London

Workshop web site Workshop web site

Monday 18 August

Registration and coffee

Welcome, introduction and overview

Convener: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

1 Welcome

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

Slides campus-map-2012.pdf

2 Status of Boost 2013 write up

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

Slides boost13report.pdf

3 Particle Physics after LHC Run I

Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)

Slides Boost14.pdf

4 Jet Substructure after LHC Run I - measurements

Speaker: Emily Nicole Thompson (Columbia University (US))

Slides 8.18_boost_talk.pdf

5 Jet substructure after LHC Run I - theory

Speaker: Gregory Soyez (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides gsoyez-boost14.pdf

12:35 Lunch

Theory of Jet Substructure

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

6 Mutual Information and Quark/Gluon Discrimination

Speaker: Jesse Thaler

Slides jthaler_Boost2014_qvg.pdf

7 Predicting Multi-Differential Jet Observable Cross Sections

Speaker: Andrew Larkoski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides BOOST14_Larkoski.pdf

8 Data-driven template methods

Speaker: Jacob Wacker

Slides JetMassBoost2014.pdf

15:30 Tea

New approaches and developments

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

9 Wavelet Decomposition

Speaker: James William Monk (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

Slides JMonk_Boost2014.pdf

10 Soft Drop

Speaker: Simone Marzani (University of Durham (GB))

Slides marzani_boost2014.pdf

11 Fuzzy Jets

Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Nachman_BOOST2014_FuzzyJets.pdf

12 Qjets in SCET - From Qthrust to Q-(sub)jettiness

Speaker: Andrew Hornig (University of Washington)

Slides BOOST2014.pdf

Reception

Tuesday 19 August

Detector Performance: Comparing approaches to Jet energy & mass uncertainties, taggers, & electron, muon, tau and photon isolation in boosted environments.

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

13 Jet Energy Corrections in CMS

Speaker: Alexx Perloff (Texas A & M University (US))

Slides 2014_08_19-Alexx-BOOST14-Final.pdf

14 ATLAS performance review

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

Slides jetSubBOOST.pdf

15 Dealing with boost for isolated leptons

Speaker: Chris Brust (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides Discovering New Physics with Non-Isolated Leptons

10:35 Coffee

Detector Performance

Convener: Jesse Thaler

16 B-tagging in the environment of boosted objects (ATLAS)

Speaker: Dominik Duda (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

Slides BOOST14_talk.pdf

17 CMS B-tagging and quark-gluon tagging

Speaker: Dinko Ferencek (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))

Slides CMS_BTagging_QGTagging_20140819.pdf

18 ATLAS Discrimination of jets, jet pull quark/gluon tagging

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

Slides swiatlow_qg_pull.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Measurements of Boosted Objects

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

19 CMS Boosted top quarks in physics analyses

Speaker: Kevin Connor Nash (Johns Hopkins University (US))

Slides BoostedTopQuarksBOOST2014draftFINAL.pdf

20 ATLAS Measurements of boosted objects

Speaker: Christoph Falk Anders (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)

Slides anders_boost14.pdf

21 CMS Boosted W/Z bosons in physics analyses

Speaker: Raffaele Angelo Gerosa (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Slides Raffaele_Talk_BOOST_new.pdf

15:30 Tea

Measurements of jet substructure

Convener: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

22 Review of measurements

Speaker: Andreas Hinzmann (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides 140819_-_substructure_measurements.pptx.pdf

Searches using boosted objects

Convener: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

23 Standard Model Higgs boson pair production in the (bb)(bb)

Speaker: Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides talk.pdf

24 di-Higgs H->bb studies

Speaker: Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK))

Slides 4b-Boost-2014.pdf

25 Heavy resonances in the di-Higgs channel

Speaker: Alexandra Carvalho Antunes De Oliveira (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))

Transparents Alexandra.pdf

Sightseeing walks

Wednesday 20 August

Searches using boosted objects

Convener: Jacob Wacker

26 ATLAS Searches with boosted bosons

Speaker: Bonnie Kar Bo Chow (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))

Slides bchow_BOOST14.pdf

27 CMS Boosted Higgs bosons in physics analyses

Speaker: Badder Marzocchi (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Slides Badder_Marzocchi_BOOST2014_v5.pdf

28 ATLAS Searches with boosted tops

Speaker: Trisha Farooque (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))

Slides ATLAS_Searches_Boosted_Tops_BOOST2014.pdf

10:30 Coffee

Searches using boosted objects

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

29 Jet Substructure Templates: Data-driven QCD Backgrounds for Fat Jet Searches

Speaker: Martin Jankowiak

Tools for confronting data & theory

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

30 Matrix element and parton shower matching - overview

Speaker: Keith Murray Hamilton (University of London (GB))

Slides Boost-2014.pdf

31 ME(NLO)PS merging and jet substructure

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham (GB))

Slides MarekSchoenherr_Boost2014.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Tools for confronting data & theory

Convener: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

32 Parton Densities

Speaker: Mr Patrick Motylinski (NIKHEF)

Slides talk_at_BOOST2014.pdf

33 Fastjet tutorial and status

Speakers: Gavin Salam (CERN), Gavin Salam (C)

Slides Boost2014-FastJet-sans.pdf

15:30 Tea

Tools for confronting data & theory

34 Rivet etc

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

Slides buckley-boostrivet.pdf

Public event

35 Introduction to CERN and the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

Slides boost-pub.pdf boost-pub.pptx

36 Discovering the Higgs!

Speaker: Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK))

Slides HiggsUCL-mario.pdf HiggsUCL-mario.ppt

37 A virtual visit to the ATLAS control room and the magnet halls at CERN

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

38 Sonification of LHC data

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

Slides Asquith_TedX_Zurich_Final_editforBoost14.pptx

39 Particle physics and beyond

Speaker: Jacob Wacker

40 Panel Q&A

Thursday 21 August

Detector performance for boosted objects

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

41 ATLAS Boosted Objects tagging performance

Speaker: Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides talk.pdf

42 V & top tagging in CMS

Speaker: Tobias Lapsien (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides boost2014_10.pdf

43 Jet reclustering

Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Slides Nachman_BOOST2014_Reclustering.pdf

10:30 Coffee

Detector performance for boosted objects

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

44 Understanding jet grooming though event shapes

Speaker: Marat Freytsis (Harvard University)

Slides FreytsisBoost0814.pdf

45 HEP Top Tagger status

Speaker: Torben Schell

Slides htt_boost2014.pdf

46 A new observable for identifying dijet resonances

Speakers: Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC), Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC)

Slides IzaguirreBOOST2014Talk.pdf

47 SoftKiller and NpC Pile-up Removal

Speakers: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris), Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Jussieu)

Slides boost14-cacciari.pdf

Workshop Photo

Photo: Credit/copyright James Monk 21-Aug-14-DSC_5428.jpg

Photo: Credit/copyright James Monk 21-Aug-14-DSC_5430.jpg

13:10 Lunch

Detector Performance and the Future

Convener: Andrea Rizzi (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

48 Constituent Subtraction

Speaker: Peter Berta (Charles University (CZ))

Slides ConstituentSubtraction_PeterBerta_21.8.2014.pdf

49 PUPPI

Speakers: Philip Coleman Harris (CERN), Philip Harris (Unknown)

Slides Boost_Puppi.pdf

50 Pinning down the hhVV coupling from Higgs boson pair production in vector-boson fusion

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides rojo-HHvbf-boost2014.pdf

15:30 Tea

Future Prospects

Convener: Gavin Salam (CERN)

51 CMS Pileup mitigation developments for Run II

Speaker: Viola Sordini (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Slides Boost14PU_Sordini_final.pdf

52 ATLAS Future Prospects with boost and jet substructure

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

Slides BOOST14_Ariel.pdf

53 Boosted physics at future lepton colliders

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

Slides jetsLC.pdf

54 Boosted Physics at Future Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Michele Selvaggi (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Slides selvaggi_boost2014.pdf

Conference Dinner

Directions map-lords.pdf

notes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

slides http://www.lords.org/history/mcc-history/the-ashes/

Friday 22 August

Closing Session

Conference summaries and goodbye

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

55 Workshop summary - Experiment

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

Slides boost14_exp.pdf

56 Workshop summary - theory

Speaker: Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester University)

Slides boost.pdf boost.pptx

57 Discussion, planning for any write up/proceedings

12:05 Lunch