HXSWG open meeting on off-shell and signal-background interference issues

Friday 24 Oct 2014, 15:00 → 17:10 Europe/Zurich

32/S-C22 (CERN)

Fabrizio Caola (CERN), Jian Wang (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)), Nikolas Kauer (Royal Holloway, University of London), Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh (GB))

1 Introduction

Speakers: Fabrizio Caola (CERN), Jian Wang (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)), Nikolas Kauer (Royal Holloway, University of London), Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides offshell_1st_meeting_th.pdf off-shell_ATLAS_CMS_Oct24.pdf

2 Off-shell Higgs interference effects and width measurements in the ZZ decay channel

Speaker: Raoul Rontsch (Fermilab)

Slides Higgswidth.pdf

3 EFT analysis of the off-shell Higgs data

Speaker: Aleksandr Azatov (CERN)

Slides presentation.pdf

4 MC tools: MadGraph5_aMC@NLO status report

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Slides Offshell2.pdf

5 MC tools: Sherpa status report

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

Slides LHCXSWG_Width.pdf

6 Interference effects in diphoton production for VBF

Speaker: Nerina Fidanza (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Slides Fidanza.pdf

7 Rare Higgs decays as probes for Higgs couplings to first- and second generation quarks

Speaker: Stoyan Emilov Stoynev (Northwestern University (US))

odp Hqqbar_24.10.14.odp

pdf Hqqbar_24.10.14.pdf