Les Houches 2005 (SM: EW, QCD and Higgs)

Name: Les Houches 2005 (SM: EW, QCD and Higgs)
Start: 2005-05-02T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2005-05-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Les Houches

2 May 2005, 08:00 → 20 May 2005, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Les Houches

Fawzi Boudjema

Tuesday 3 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 14:00 → 15:00
  Status Report of the Higgs and Standard Model Working Group
  - 14:00
    
    Theory part 30m
    
    Speaker: S. Frixione
    
    more information
  - 14:30
    
    Experiment 30m
    
    Speaker: V. Drollinger
    
    more information
Wednesday 4 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 14:00 → 16:00
  Electroweak corrections for LHC and LC (multi-parton, EW gauge-boson and Higgs production, etc.)
  - 14:00
    
    Introduction: "Precision calculations for LHC (& ILC?): electroweak corrections and related issues" 30m
    
    * Issues for the workshop
    * Predictions for SM Higgs-boson production at the LHC
    * Electroweak corrections and PDFs
    * Electroweak corrections to processes at Tevatron and the LHC
    
    Speaker: S.Dittmaier
    
    transparencies
  - 14:30
    
    One-loop corrections to many-particle production 30m
    
    Speaker: G.Heinrich
    
    transparencies
  - 15:00
    
    Progress toward pp->tt+jet in NLO QCD 30m
    
    Speaker: P.Uwer
    
    transparencies
- 16:00 → 18:00
  SM benchmarks and PDF uncertainties
  - 16:00
    
    Discovering the SM at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: J. Huston
    
    more information
  - 16:30
    
    The transverse momentum of the Higgs boson at the LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: M. Grazzini
    
    more information
  - 17:00
    
    Bottom fragmentation in Higgs and top decay 30m
    
    Speaker: G. Corcella
    
    more information
Thursday 5 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 08:30 → 15:30
  Top quark studies
  - 08:30
    
    Introduction and aim 15m
    
    Speaker: J. D'Hondt
    
    more information
  - 08:45
    
    t-tbar cross section calculations 15m
    
    Speaker: F. Maltoni
    
    more information
  - 09:00
    
    Measurements from t-tbar events at the Tevatron 15m
    
    Speaker: J. Huston
  - 09:15
    
    Measurements from t-tbar events at the LHC 15m
    
    Speaker: J. D'Hondt
    
    more information
  - 10:15
    
    Overview of single top theory and MC model 15m
    
    Speaker: L. Dudko
    
    more information
  - 10:30
    
    Single top physics at the LHC 15m
    
    Speaker: A. Giammanco
    
    more information
  - 10:45
    
    Jet algorightms and jet reconstruction: lessons from the Tevatron 15m
    
    Speaker: S. Ellis
    
    more information
  - 11:00
    
    Search for anomalous coupling in top decay at hadron colliders 15m
    
    Speaker: S. Tsuno
    
    more information
- 14:00 → 16:30
  Underlying events
  - 14:00
    
    Total cross-section calculation 15m
    
    Speaker: R.Godbole
    
    transparencies
  - 14:15
    
    Tuning Models for Minimum Bias and the Underlying Event 15m
    
    Speaker: A.Moraes
    
    transparencies
  - 14:30
    
    effect of UE on isolation in H->ZZ->4mu 15m
    
    Speaker: A. Drozdetski
    
    transparencies
  - 14:45
    
    Physics News in PYTHIA6.3 15m
    
    Speaker: P.Skands
    
    transparencies
  - 15:00
    
    Bottom fragmentation in Higgs and top decay 15m
    
    Speaker: G.Corcella
    
    transparencies
Friday 6 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 09:00 → 12:00
  MC@NLO: discussion and tutorial
  - 09:00
    
    MC@NLO vs PYTHIA for H->ZZ->4l 15m
    
    Speaker: A. Drozdetskiy
    
    more information
  - 09:15
    
    Jet veto in gg->H with MC@NLO and other MC's 15m
    
    Speaker: G. Davatz, A. Nikitenko
    
    more information
  - 09:30
    
    Test of WW with spin correlations in MC@NLO 15m
    
    Speaker: V. Drollinger
    
    more information
  - 09:45
    
    H->WW->ll study with MC@NLO 15m
    
    Speaker: B. Quayle
    
    more information
  - 10:00
    
    MC@NLO: tutorial 1h 40m
    
    Speaker: S. Frixione
    
    more information
- 14:30 → 17:00
  Small x
  - 14:30
    
    Small-x evolution 30m
    
    Speaker: R. Ball
  - 15:00
    
    Small-x studies at the LHC with ATLAS 30m
    
    Speaker: A. Cooper-Sarkar
    
    more information
  - 15:30
    
    BFKL at colliders 30m
    
    Speaker: V. Del Duca
    
    more information
Saturday 7 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 09:00 → 12:15
  Higher-order (NLO & NNLO) QCD corrections
  - 09:00
    
    Introduction 15m
    
    * Precision QCD * NLO: demand and offer * NNLO: state of the art
    
    Speaker: V. Del Duca (INFN Torino)
    
    transparencies
  - 09:15
    
    A complete formalism for one-loop multi-leg amplitudes 30m
    
    Speaker: G. Heinrich (Uni. Zuerich)
    
    transparencies
  - 09:45
    
    Improved Nagy-Soper method for numerical evaluation of one-loop integrals 30m
    
    Speaker: Z. Kunszt (ETH Zuerich)
    
    transparencies
  - 10:15
    
    Automatic calculation of NLO-QCD cross sections with GRACE 30m
    
    Speaker: Y. Kurihara (KEK)
    
    transparencies
  - 10:45
    
    NLO QCD corrections to (pseudo-)scalar Higgs production in association with heavy-quark pairs 30m
    
    Speaker: S.Dittmaier (MPI Muenich)
    
    transparencies
  - 11:15
    
    Steps towards a subtraction formalism at NNLO 30m
    
    Speaker: M. Grazzini (INFN Firenze)
    
    transparencies
  - 11:45
    
    Progress on NNLO subtraction 30m
    
    Speaker: V. Del Duca
    
    transparencies
- 14:00 → 15:00
  Electroweak correction for LHC and LC (multi-parton, EW gauge-boson and Higgs production, etc.)
  - 14:00
    
    Weak corrections to hadronic Z production at large transverse momentum 30m
    
    Speaker: A.Kulesza
    
    more information
  - 14:30
    
    The gg->WW background 30m
    
    Speaker: M.Duehrssen
    
    more information
Monday 9 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 14:00 → 04:30
  EW and QCD corrections to many-particle processes
  - 14:00
    
    Electroweak corrections to four-fermion production 14h 30m
    
    Speaker: S.Dittmaier
    
    transparencies
Tuesday 10 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 10:00 → 12:00
  Reweighting the results of standard MC's
  - 10:00
    
    Minutes of the session 15m
    
    Speaker: M. Dittmar
    
    more information
  - 10:15
    
    A note on reweighting 15m
    
    Speaker: S. Frixione
    
    more information
  - 10:30
    
    On reweighting 15m
    
    Speaker: V. Drollinger
    
    more information
  - 10:45
    
    Reweighting gg->H->WW 15m
    
    Speaker: G. Davatz
    
    more information
Wednesday 11 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Mid-report of the SMH working group
  - 09:00
    
    Theory part 15m
    
    Speaker: S.Dittmaier
    
    transparencies
Thursday 12 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 08:00 → 00:00
  Status Report of SMH and BSM Working Groups
  - 09:00
    
    Standard Model and Higgs Working Group (Theory) 9h 30m
    
    Speaker: Willenbrock, S.
    
    more information
  - 09:30
    
    Standard Model and Higgs Working Group (Experiment) 10h
    
    Speaker: Nikitenko, S.
    
    more information
  - 10:00
    
    Beyond the Standard Model Working Group (Theory) 10h 30m
    
    Speaker: Allanach, B.
    
    transparencies
  - 10:30
    
    Beyond the Standard Model Working Group (Experiment) 11h
    
    Speaker: Ferrag, S.
  - 11:30
    
    LHC x ILC 12h 30m
    
    Speaker: Weiglein, G.
    
    more information
- 09:00 → 08:30
  Higgs plus Bottom
  - 09:00
    
    Higgs Boson Production: Application of Bottom PDF's 1h
    
    Speaker: Spira, M.
    
    more information
  - 10:00
    
    PDF's, Heavy Quarks, and Factorization 11h
    
    Speaker: Collins, J.
  - 11:00
    
    Discussion of Heavy Quarks in DIS 12h
    
    Speaker: Smith, J.
  - 12:00
    
    Comparison between Pythia "NLO" for Higgs + Bottom 12h 30m
    
    Speaker: Kalinowski, A.
    
    more information
  - 12:30
    
    Zbb as a Benchmark for Higgs (Hbb) 13h
    
    Speaker: Lehti, S.
    
    more information
  - 13:00
    
    Charged Higgs 13h 30m
    
    Speaker: Perries, S.
    
    more information
  - 13:30
    
    W+H- Production at the LHC 14h
    
    Speaker: Hesselbach, S.
    
    more information
  - 14:00
    
    Bottom PDF's 15h
    
    Speaker: Olness, F.
    
    more information
  - 15:00
    
    bbH at NNLO 15h 30m
    
    Speaker: Harlander, R.
    
    more information
  - 15:30
    
    Higgs + Bottom 16h
    
    Speaker: Willenbrock, S.
    
    more information
  - 16:00
    
    Update on Comparison of Pythia "NLO" 16h 30m
    
    Speaker: Kalinowski, A.
    
    more information
Friday 13 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 09:00 → 12:00
  gg->H->WW->2l
  - 09:00
    
    gg->WW background to gg->H->WW 15m
    
    Speaker: Nikolas Kauer
    
    more information
  - 09:15
    
    Generation of WbWb background 15m
    
    Speaker: Anne-Sylvie Giolo
    
    more information
  - 09:30
    
    Effect of spin correlation in WbWb 15m
    
    Speaker: Anne-Sylvie Giolo
    
    more information
  - 09:45
    
    Top background to gg->H->WW (I) 15m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Maltoni
    
    more information
  - 10:00
    
    Top background to gg->H->WW (II) 15m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Maltoni
    
    more information
  - 10:15
    
    tt bkg evaluation from the data 15m
    
    Speaker: Marco Zanetti
    
    more information
  - 10:30
    
    isolation and jet veto for gg->WW bkg. 15m
    
    Speaker: Giovanna Davatz
    
    more information
  - 10:45
    
    jet veto in gg->H with different MC's 15m
    
    Speaker: Giovanna Davatz
    
    more information
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Higgs plus top
  
  more information
  - 11:00
    
    Hard jet rates in PYTHIA 6.3 vs 6.2 as observed in ttbar + jets 20m
    
    Speaker: Peter Skands (FNAL)
    
    more information
- 16:00 → 17:00
  Higgs via vector Boson Fusion
  - 16:00
    
    Introduction 15m
    
    Speaker: G.Unal
    
    transparencies
  - 16:15
    
    Z+2j background and jet veto 25m
    
    Speaker: A.Nikitenko
    
    transparencies
Saturday 14 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 09:30 → 16:00
  SM Benchmarks and PDF Uncertainties
  - 09:30
    
    Sudakov Resummation Effects for Parton Distributions 30m
    
    Speaker: Lorenzo Magnea (Torino)
    
    transparencies
  - 10:00
    
    Weak Corrections to Hadronic Variables 30m
    
    Speaker: Stefano Moretti (Southampton and RAL)
    
    transparencies
  - 14:00
    
    Dedicated and Generic Searches at the LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny
    
    more information
    
    transparencies
  - 14:30
    
    Generic Analysis and Optimal Observables 30m
    
    Speaker: Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)
    
    transparencies
  - 15:00
    
    Precision SM Shapes 30m
    
    Speaker: Peter Skands (FNAL)
    
    transparencies
  - 15:30
    
    Search for Very Massive Resonances in the Di-E Channel 30m
    
    Speaker: Caroline Collard (Ecole Polytechnique - Laboratoire LLR)
    
    more information
- 16:00 → 17:00
  Higgs via vector Boson Fusion
  - 16:00
    
    Boson Boson scattering at LHC with PHASE 1h
    
    Speaker: E.Maina
    
    transparencies
Tuesday 17 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 09:30 → 12:00
  Discussion on Monte Carlos
  - 09:30
    
    Supporting Monte Carlo Generators in the LHC era 15m
    
    Speaker: P. Bartalini
    
    more information
  - 09:45
    
    LCG MCDB 15m
    
    Speaker: L. Dudko
    
    more information
  - 10:00
    
    Shower MC's: where to 15m
    
    Speaker: P. Nason
    
    more information
  - 10:15
    
    The Les Houches accord: should/could we update it? 15m
    
    Speaker: T. Sjostrand
    
    more information
Wednesday 18 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 15:00 → 17:00
  Higgs plus top
  - 15:00
    
    Higgs Boson Production: ttbar + A at NLO 20m
    
    Speaker: Michael Spira (PSI)
    
    more information
  - 15:20
    
    Associated Higgs boson production via gg/qq->ttbar + H(h_0), t-->l + X, H(h_0)->gamma gamma 20m
    
    Speaker: Suzanne Gascon-Shotkin (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I)
    
    more information
Thursday 19 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 10:00 → 11:30
  SM Benchmarks and PDF Uncertainties
  - 10:00
    
    Electroweak Measurements at Dzero 30m
    
    Speaker: Stefan Soldner-Rembold (Manchester)
    
    transparencies
- 15:00 → 17:00
  Higgs plus top
  - 15:00
    
    Single top plus Higgs 20m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (CERN)
    
    more information
  - 15:20
    
    Simulating ttbar + X 20m
    
    Speaker: Steffen Schumann (with Carlo Oleari and John Campbell) (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology)
    
    more information
Friday 20 May
- Tue 3 May
- Wed 4 May
- Thu 5 May
- Fri 6 May
- Sat 7 May
- Mon 9 May
- Tue 10 May
- Wed 11 May
- Thu 12 May
- Fri 13 May
- Sat 14 May
- Tue 17 May
- Wed 18 May
- Thu 19 May
- Fri 20 May
- 08:45 → 11:05
  Summary Session
  - 08:45
    
    SM Benchmarks and PDF uncertainties 10m
    
    Speaker: Stefano Moretti (Southampton & RAL)
    
    more information
  - 08:55
    
    MC sub-group report 15m
    
    Speaker: Peter Richardson
    
    more information
  - 09:10
    
    H->WW(*)->2l sub-group report 15m
    
    Speaker: A. Nikitenko
    
    more information
  - 09:25
    
    VBF Higgs sub-group report 15m
    
    Speaker: G. Unal
    
    more information
  - 09:40
    
    tth sub-group report 15m
    
    Speaker: S. Gascon-Shotkin
    
    more information
  - 09:55
    
    Higgs with b quarks sub-group report 15m
    
    Speaker: S. Willenbrock
    
    more information
  - 10:10
    
    SLHC project 55m
    
    Speaker: Daniel Denegri
    
    more information