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 Coffee

1 Welcome

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

Slides sinead_iop_warwick2014.pdf sinead_iop_warwick2014.pptx

2 Theory overview

Speaker: Christoph Englert

Slides 2014_Warwick.pdf

3 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

4 Evidence for VBF in W/Z production at the LHC

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

Slides VbfSmW_JimHenderson.pdf

5 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 Lunch

6 QCD calculations

Speaker: Nigel Glover

Slides glover-Warwick.pdf

7 Higher orders for Higgs bosons in Sherpa

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

Slides Warwick_WBF14.pdf

8 Effective Field Theory and aMC@NLO

Speaker: Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel)

Slides 1406warwick_mawatari.pdf

3:30 PM Tea

9 Testing CP invariance in vector boson fusion using optimal observables

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

Slides warwick-markus.pdf

10 Outlook/discussion

Speaker: All

6:30 PM Dinner