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

Europe/London
University College London

University College London

Workshop web site
Participants
  • Alex Christopher Martyniuk
  • Alexander Schmidt
  • Alexandra Carvalho Antunes De Oliveira
  • Alexandra Oliveira
  • Alexx Perloff
  • Andrea Rizzi
  • Andreas Hinzmann
  • Andreas Korn
  • Andrew Hornig
  • Andrew Larkoski
  • Andrew Pilkington
  • Andy Buckley
  • Are Raklev
  • Ariel Schwartzman
  • Badder Marzocchi
  • Ben Cooper
  • Benjamin Nachman
  • Bonnie Kar Bo Chow
  • Chris Brust
  • Chris Pollard
  • Christoph Falk Anders
  • Cunfeng Feng
  • Daniela Bortoletto
  • Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima
  • David Sosa
  • David Lopez Mateos
  • David Miller
  • Deepak Kar
  • Dinko Ferencek
  • Dominik Duda
  • Eder Izaguirre
  • Emanuele Usai
  • Emily Thompson
  • Eva Halkiadakis
  • Federico Colecchia
  • Flavia De Almeida Dias
  • Gavin Hesketh
  • Gavin Salam
  • Gregor Kasieczka
  • Ines Ochoa
  • Ivan Marchesini
  • Jacob Wacker
  • James Monk
  • Jeffrey Tseng
  • Jeremy Love
  • Jesse Thaler
  • Jia Jian Teoh
  • JoAnne Hewett
  • Jonathan Butterworth
  • Joseph Stanford Ennis
  • Josh McFayden
  • Juan Rojo
  • Julien Caudron
  • Keith Hamilton
  • Kevin Connor Nash
  • Kiran Joshi
  • Kristian Gregersen
  • Lei LI
  • Lily Asquith
  • Lucia Masetti
  • Maddalena Giulini
  • Marcel Vos
  • Marek Schoenherr
  • Mark Lancaster
  • Martin Jankowiak
  • Mathis Kolb
  • Matteo Cacciari
  • Maximilian J Swiatlowski
  • Michael Kagan
  • Michael Spannowsky
  • Michele Selvaggi
  • Minho Son
  • Mosleh Almarashi
  • Mrinal Dasgupta
  • Myeonghun Park
  • Nhan Viet Tran
  • Nicola Orlando
  • Nicolas Bousson
  • Nicolas Gilberto Gutierrez Ortiz
  • Nikos Konstantinidis
  • Nurfikri Bin Norjoharuddeen
  • Ofir Gabizon
  • Pascal Nef
  • Patrick Motylinski
  • Pekka Sinervo
  • Petar Petrov
  • Petar Petrov
  • Peter Berta
  • Peter Loch
  • Philip Coleman Harris
  • Prashant Saraswat
  • Qi Zeng
  • Raffaele Angelo Gerosa
  • Rebecca Falla
  • Rebecca Thalatta Chislett
  • Ricardo Eusebi
  • Robert Mc Carthy
  • Robert Thorne
  • Salvatore Rappoccio
  • Samuel Crawley
  • Seth Zenz
  • Shih-Chieh Hsu
  • Simone Marzani
  • Stephen Ellis
  • Tancredi Carli
  • Thomas Edward Melia
  • Tilman Plehn
  • Tobias Lapsien
  • Torben Schell
  • Trisha Farooque
  • Valentinos Christodoulou
  • Viola Sordini
  • Yang-Ting Chien
  • Yanyan Gao
    • 08:30 10:00
      Registration and coffee Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

      University College London

    • 10:00 12:35
      Welcome, introduction and overview
      Convener: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))
      • 10:00
        Welcome 10m
        Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Status of Boost 2013 write up 25m
        Speaker: Ben Cooper (University of London (GB))
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Particle Physics after LHC Run I 45m
        Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Jet Substructure after LHC Run I - measurements 25m
        Speaker: Emily Nicole Thompson (Columbia University (US))
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Jet substructure after LHC Run I - theory 25m
        Speaker: Gregory Soyez (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
        Slides
    • 12:35 14:00
      Lunch 1h 25m Popadom Express

      Popadom Express

      40-42 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0DG
    • 14:00 15:30
      Theory of Jet Substructure
      Convener: Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York (US))
      • 14:00
        Mutual Information and Quark/Gluon Discrimination 25m
        Speaker: Jesse Thaler
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Predicting Multi-Differential Jet Observable Cross Sections 25m
        Speaker: Andrew Larkoski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Data-driven template methods 25m
        Speaker: Jacob Wacker
        Slides
    • 15:30 15:50
      Tea 20m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

    • 15:50 17:45
      New approaches and developments
      Convener: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
      • 15:50
        Wavelet Decomposition 25m
        Speaker: James William Monk (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
        Slides
      • 16:20
        Soft Drop 25m
        Speaker: Simone Marzani (University of Durham (GB))
        Slides
      • 16:50
        Fuzzy Jets 25m
        Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 17:20
        Qjets in SCET - From Qthrust to Q-(sub)jettiness 25m
        Speaker: Andrew Hornig (University of Washington)
        Slides
    • 18:00 20:30
      Reception South Cloisters

      South Cloisters

      University College London

    • 09:00 10:35
      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))
      • 09:00
        Jet Energy Corrections in CMS 30m
        Speaker: Alexx Perloff (Texas A & M University (US))
        Slides
      • 09:35
        ATLAS performance review 30m
        Speaker: David Lopez Mateos (Harvard University (US))
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Dealing with boost for isolated leptons 20m
        Speaker: Chris Brust (Johns Hopkins University)
        Slides
    • 10:35 11:00
      Coffee 25m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

    • 11:00 12:30
      Detector Performance
      Convener: Jesse Thaler
      • 11:00
        B-tagging in the environment of boosted objects (ATLAS) 25m
        Speaker: Dominik Duda (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))
        Slides
      • 11:30
        CMS B-tagging and quark-gluon tagging 25m
        Speaker: Dinko Ferencek (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))
        Slides
      • 12:00
        ATLAS Discrimination of jets, jet pull quark/gluon tagging 25m
        Speaker: Maximilian J Swiatlowski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m South Cloisters

      South Cloisters

      University College London

    • 14:00 15:30
      Measurements of Boosted Objects
      Convener: Stephen Ellis (Department of Physics-University of Washington)
      • 14:00
        CMS Boosted top quarks in physics analyses 25m
        Speaker: Kevin Connor Nash (Johns Hopkins University (US))
        Slides
      • 14:30
        ATLAS Measurements of boosted objects 25m
        Speaker: Christoph Falk Anders (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        CMS Boosted W/Z bosons in physics analyses 25m
        Speaker: Raffaele Angelo Gerosa (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Tea 30m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

      University College London

    • 16:00 16:30
      Measurements of jet substructure
      Convener: Tancredi Carli (CERN)
      • 16:00
        Review of measurements 25m
        Speaker: Andreas Hinzmann (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
        Slides
    • 16:30 18:00
      Searches using boosted objects
      Convener: Tancredi Carli (CERN)
      • 16:30
        Standard Model Higgs boson pair production in the (bb)(bb) 25m
        Speaker: Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (University of Glasgow (GB))
        Slides
      • 17:00
        di-Higgs H->bb studies 25m
        Speaker: Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK))
        Slides
      • 17:30
        Heavy resonances in the di-Higgs channel 25m
        Speaker: Alexandra Carvalho Antunes De Oliveira (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
        Transparents
    • 18:30 20:30
      Sightseeing walks
    • 09:00 10:30
      Searches using boosted objects
      Convener: Jacob Wacker
      • 09:00
        ATLAS Searches with boosted bosons 25m
        Speaker: Bonnie Kar Bo Chow (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
        Slides
      • 09:30
        CMS Boosted Higgs bosons in physics analyses 25m
        Speaker: Badder Marzocchi (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
        Slides
      • 10:00
        ATLAS Searches with boosted tops 25m
        Speaker: Trisha Farooque (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee 30m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

      University College London

    • 11:00 11:30
      Searches using boosted objects
      Convener: Dr Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))
      • 11:00
        Jet Substructure Templates: Data-driven QCD Backgrounds for Fat Jet Searches 25m
        Speaker: Martin Jankowiak
    • 11:30 12:30
      Tools for confronting data & theory
      Convener: Dr Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))
      • 11:30
        Matrix element and parton shower matching - overview 25m
        Speaker: Keith Murray Hamilton (University of London (GB))
        Slides
      • 12:00
        ME(NLO)PS merging and jet substructure 25m
        Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham (GB))
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m Popadom Express

      Popadom Express

      40-42 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0DG
    • 14:00 15:30
      Tools for confronting data & theory
      Convener: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)
      • 14:00
        Parton Densities 25m
        Speaker: Mr Patrick Motylinski (NIKHEF)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Fastjet tutorial and status 1h
        Speakers: Gavin Salam (CERN), Gavin Salam (C)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Tea 30m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

      University College London

    • 16:00 17:30
      Tools for confronting data & theory
      • 16:00
        Rivet etc 1h 30m
        Speaker: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))
        Slides
    • 18:30 20:05
      Public event Cruciform Lecture Theatre One

      Cruciform Lecture Theatre One

      University College London

      • 18:30
        Introduction to CERN and the Large Hadron Collider 10m
        Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))
        Slides
      • 18:40
        Discovering the Higgs! 15m
        Speaker: Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK))
        Slides
      • 18:55
        A virtual visit to the ATLAS control room and the magnet halls at CERN 20m
        Speaker: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
      • 19:15
        Sonification of LHC data 10m
        Speaker: Lily Asquith (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 19:25
        Particle physics and beyond 10m
        Speaker: Jacob Wacker
      • 19:35
        Panel Q&A 30m
    • 09:00 10:30
      Detector performance for boosted objects
      Convener: Ariel Gustavo Schwartzman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      • 09:00
        ATLAS Boosted Objects tagging performance 25m
        Speaker: Danilo Enoque Ferreira De Lima (University of Glasgow (GB))
        Slides
      • 09:30
        V & top tagging in CMS 25m
        Speaker: Tobias Lapsien (Hamburg University (DE))
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Jet reclustering 25m
        Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee 30m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

      University College London

    • 11:00 12:55
      Detector performance for boosted objects
      Convener: Salvatore Rappoccio (State University of New York (US))
      • 11:00
        Understanding jet grooming though event shapes 25m
        Speaker: Marat Freytsis (Harvard University)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        HEP Top Tagger status 25m
        Speaker: Torben Schell
        Slides
      • 12:00
        A new observable for identifying dijet resonances 20m
        Speakers: Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC), Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC)
        Slides
      • 12:25
        SoftKiller and NpC Pile-up Removal 25m
        Speakers: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris), Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Jussieu)
        Slides
    • 12:55 13:10
      Workshop Photo
      Photo: Credit/copyright James Monk
      Photo: Credit/copyright James Monk
    • 13:10 14:00
      Lunch 50m South Cloisters

      South Cloisters

      University College London

    • 14:00 15:30
      Detector Performance and the Future
      Convener: Andrea Rizzi (Sezione di Pisa (IT))
      • 14:00
        Constituent Subtraction 25m
        Speaker: Peter Berta (Charles University (CZ))
        Slides
      • 14:30
        PUPPI 25m
        Speakers: Philip Coleman Harris (CERN), Philip Harris (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Pinning down the hhVV coupling from Higgs boson pair production in vector-boson fusion 25m
        Speakers: Juan Rojo (INFN), Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB)), Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN), Juan Rojo Chacon
        Slides
    • 15:30 15:50
      Tea 20m Roberts Foyer G02

      Roberts Foyer G02

      University College London

    • 15:50 18:10
      Future Prospects
      Convener: Gavin Salam (CERN)
      • 15:50
        CMS Pileup mitigation developments for Run II 25m
        Speaker: Viola Sordini (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
        Slides
      • 16:20
        ATLAS Future Prospects with boost and jet substructure 25m
        Speaker: Ariel Gustavo Schwartzman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 16:50
        Boosted physics at future lepton colliders 25m
        Speaker: Dr Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))
        Slides
      • 17:20
        Boosted Physics at Future Hadron Colliders 25m
        Speaker: Michele Selvaggi (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
        Slides
    • 19:00 22:00
      Conference Dinner Lord's Cricket Ground

      Lord's Cricket Ground

      University College London

      Directions
      notes
      slides
    • 09:30 12:05
      Closing Session

      Conference summaries and goodbye

      Convener: Peter Loch (University of Arizona (US))
      • 09:30
        Workshop summary - Experiment 40m
        Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Workshop summary - theory 40m
        Speaker: Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester University)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Discussion, planning for any write up/proceedings 1h
    • 12:05 13:35
      Lunch 1h 30m South Cloisters

      South Cloisters

      University College London