IOP/IPPP Half Day Meeting on Vector Boson Fusion

Thursday Jun 5, 2014, 8:00 AM → 8:20 PM Europe/London

S0.08 Social Sciences (University of Warwick)

Sinead Farrington (University of Warwick (GB))

11:00 AM → 11:25 AM Coffee

11:25 AM → 11:30 AM Welcome

Speaker: Sinead Farrington (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides sinead_iop_warwick2014.pdf sinead_iop_warwick2014.pptx

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Theory overview

Speaker: Christoph Englert

Slides 2014_Warwick.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:25 PM Evidence for VBF in Higgs production at the LHC

Speaker: Michel Janus (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides VBFMeeting_Warwick_janus-2014-06-05_v3.pdf

12:25 PM → 12:45 PM Evidence for VBF in W/Z production at the LHC

Speaker: James Henderson (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides VbfSmW_JimHenderson.pdf

12:45 PM → 1:05 PM Evidence for VBF in Z Production at the LHC

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (University College London (UK))

Slides cg_vbf-meeting-warwick.pdf

1:05 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM QCD calculations

Speaker: Nigel Glover

Slides glover-Warwick.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Higher orders for Higgs bosons in Sherpa

Speaker: Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))

Slides Warwick_WBF14.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Effective Field Theory and aMC@NLO

Speaker: Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel)

Slides 1406warwick_mawatari.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Tea

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Testing CP invariance in vector boson fusion using optimal observables

Speaker: Markus Schumacher (Physikalisches Institut-Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg-Unk)

Slides warwick-markus.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Outlook/discussion

Speaker: All

6:30 PM → 8:00 PM Dinner