IOP/IPPP Half Day Meeting on Vector Boson Fusion

Thursday 5 Jun 2014, 08:00 → 20:20 Europe/London

S0.08 Social Sciences (University of Warwick)

Sinead Farrington (University of Warwick (GB))

11:00 → 11:25 Coffee

11:25 → 11:30 Welcome

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

Slides sinead_iop_warwick2014.pdf sinead_iop_warwick2014.pptx

11:30 → 12:00 Theory overview

Speaker: Christoph Englert

Slides 2014_Warwick.pdf

12:00 → 12:25 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 → 12:45 Evidence for VBF in W/Z production at the LHC

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

Slides VbfSmW_JimHenderson.pdf

12:45 → 13:05 Evidence for VBF in Z Production at the LHC

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

Slides cg_vbf-meeting-warwick.pdf

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 QCD calculations

Speaker: Nigel Glover

Slides glover-Warwick.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Higher orders for Higgs bosons in Sherpa

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

Slides Warwick_WBF14.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Effective Field Theory and aMC@NLO

Speaker: Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel)

Slides 1406warwick_mawatari.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Tea

16:00 → 16:30 Testing CP invariance in vector boson fusion using optimal observables

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

Slides warwick-markus.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Outlook/discussion

Speaker: All

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner