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

from Monday, 2 May 2005 (08:00) to Friday, 20 May 2005 (18:00)
Les Houches

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 May 2005
4 May 2005
5 May 2005
6 May 2005
7 May 2005
9 May 2005
10 May 2005
11 May 2005
12 May 2005
13 May 2005
14 May 2005
17 May 2005
18 May 2005
19 May 2005
20 May 2005
AM
08:30
Top quark studies (until 15:30)
08:30 Introduction and aim - J. D'Hondt  
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08:45 t-tbar cross section calculations - F. Maltoni  
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09:00 Measurements from t-tbar events at the Tevatron - J. Huston  
09:15 Measurements from t-tbar events at the LHC - J. D'Hondt  
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10:15 Overview of single top theory and MC model - L. Dudko  
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10:30 Single top physics at the LHC - A. Giammanco  
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10:45 Jet algorightms and jet reconstruction: lessons from the Tevatron - S. Ellis  
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11:00 Search for anomalous coupling in top decay at hadron colliders - S. Tsuno  
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09:00
MC@NLO: discussion and tutorial (until 12:00)
09:00 MC@NLO vs PYTHIA for H->ZZ->4l - A. Drozdetskiy  
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09:15 Jet veto in gg->H with MC@NLO and other MC's - G. Davatz, A. Nikitenko  
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09:30 Test of WW with spin correlations in MC@NLO - V. Drollinger  
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09:45 H->WW->ll study with MC@NLO - B. Quayle  
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10:00 MC@NLO: tutorial - S. Frixione  
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09:00
Higher-order (NLO & NNLO) QCD corrections (until 12:15)
09:00 Introduction - V. Del Duca (INFN Torino)  
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09:15 A complete formalism for one-loop multi-leg amplitudes - G. Heinrich (Uni. Zuerich)  
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09:45 Improved Nagy-Soper method for numerical evaluation of one-loop integrals - Z. Kunszt (ETH Zuerich)  
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10:15 Automatic calculation of NLO-QCD cross sections with GRACE - Y. Kurihara (KEK)  
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10:45 NLO QCD corrections to (pseudo-)scalar Higgs production in association with heavy-quark pairs - S.Dittmaier (MPI Muenich)  
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11:15 Steps towards a subtraction formalism at NNLO - M. Grazzini (INFN Firenze)  
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11:45 Progress on NNLO subtraction - V. Del Duca  
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10:00
Reweighting the results of standard MC's (until 12:00)
10:00 Minutes of the session - M. Dittmar  
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10:15 A note on reweighting - S. Frixione  
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10:30 On reweighting - V. Drollinger  
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10:45 Reweighting gg->H->WW - G. Davatz  
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09:00
Mid-report of the SMH working group (until 12:00)
09:00 Theory part - S.Dittmaier  
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08:00
Status Report of SMH and BSM Working Groups (until 00:00)
09:00 Standard Model and Higgs Working Group (Theory) - Willenbrock, S.  
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09:30 Standard Model and Higgs Working Group (Experiment) - Nikitenko, S.  
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10:00 Beyond the Standard Model Working Group (Theory) - Allanach, B.  
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10:30 Beyond the Standard Model Working Group (Experiment) - Ferrag, S.  
11:30 LHC x ILC - Weiglein, G.  
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09:00
Higgs plus Bottom (until 08:30)
09:00 Higgs Boson Production: Application of Bottom PDF's - Spira, M.  
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10:00 PDF's, Heavy Quarks, and Factorization - Collins, J.  
11:00 Discussion of Heavy Quarks in DIS - Smith, J.  
12:00 Comparison between Pythia "NLO" for Higgs + Bottom - Kalinowski, A.  
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12:30 Zbb as a Benchmark for Higgs (Hbb) - Lehti, S.  
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13:00 Charged Higgs - Perries, S.  
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13:30 W+H- Production at the LHC - Hesselbach, S.  
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14:00 Bottom PDF's - Olness, F.  
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15:00 bbH at NNLO - Harlander, R.  
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15:30 Higgs + Bottom - Willenbrock, S.  
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16:00 Update on Comparison of Pythia "NLO" - Kalinowski, A.  
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09:00
gg->H->WW->2l (until 12:00)
09:00 gg->WW background to gg->H->WW - Nikolas Kauer  
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09:15 Generation of WbWb background - Anne-Sylvie Giolo  
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09:30 Effect of spin correlation in WbWb - Anne-Sylvie Giolo  
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09:45 Top background to gg->H->WW (I) - Fabio Maltoni  
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10:00 Top background to gg->H->WW (II) - Fabio Maltoni  
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10:15 tt bkg evaluation from the data - Marco Zanetti  
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10:30 isolation and jet veto for gg->WW bkg. - Giovanna Davatz  
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10:45 jet veto in gg->H with different MC's - Giovanna Davatz  
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11:00
Higgs plus top (until 12:30)
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11:00 Hard jet rates in PYTHIA 6.3 vs 6.2 as observed in ttbar + jets - Peter Skands (FNAL)  
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09:30
SM Benchmarks and PDF Uncertainties (until 16:00)
09:30 Sudakov Resummation Effects for Parton Distributions - Lorenzo Magnea (Torino)  
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10:00 Weak Corrections to Hadronic Variables - Stefano Moretti (Southampton and RAL)  
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14:00 Dedicated and Generic Searches at the LHC - Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny  
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14:30 Generic Analysis and Optimal Observables - Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)  
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15:00 Precision SM Shapes - Peter Skands (FNAL)  
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15:30 Search for Very Massive Resonances in the Di-E Channel - Caroline Collard (Ecole Polytechnique - Laboratoire LLR)  
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09:30
Discussion on Monte Carlos (until 12:00)
09:30 Supporting Monte Carlo Generators in the LHC era - P. Bartalini  
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09:45 LCG MCDB - L. Dudko  
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10:00 Shower MC's: where to - P. Nason  
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10:15 The Les Houches accord: should/could we update it? - T. Sjostrand  
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10:00
SM Benchmarks and PDF Uncertainties (until 11:30)
10:00 Electroweak Measurements at Dzero - Stefan Soldner-Rembold (Manchester)  
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08:45
Summary Session (until 11:05)
08:45 SM Benchmarks and PDF uncertainties - Stefano Moretti (Southampton & RAL)  
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08:55 MC sub-group report - Peter Richardson  
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09:10 H->WW(*)->2l sub-group report - A. Nikitenko  
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09:25 VBF Higgs sub-group report - G. Unal  
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09:40 tth sub-group report - S. Gascon-Shotkin  
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09:55 Higgs with b quarks sub-group report - S. Willenbrock  
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10:10 SLHC project - Daniel Denegri  
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14:00
Status Report of the Higgs and Standard Model Working Group (until 15:00)
14:00 Theory part - S. Frixione  
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14:30 Experiment - V. Drollinger  
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14:00
Electroweak corrections for LHC and LC (multi-parton, EW gauge-boson and Higgs production, etc.) (until 16:00)
14:00 Introduction: "Precision calculations for LHC (& ILC?): electroweak corrections and related issues" - S.Dittmaier  
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14:30 One-loop corrections to many-particle production - G.Heinrich  
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15:00 Progress toward pp->tt+jet in NLO QCD - P.Uwer  
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16:00
SM benchmarks and PDF uncertainties (until 18:00)
16:00 Discovering the SM at the LHC - J. Huston  
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16:30 The transverse momentum of the Higgs boson at the LHC - M. Grazzini  
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17:00 Bottom fragmentation in Higgs and top decay - G. Corcella  
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14:00
Underlying events (until 16:30)
14:00 Total cross-section calculation - R.Godbole  
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14:15 Tuning Models for Minimum Bias and the Underlying Event - A.Moraes  
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14:30 effect of UE on isolation in H->ZZ->4mu - A. Drozdetski  
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14:45 Physics News in PYTHIA6.3 - P.Skands  
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15:00 Bottom fragmentation in Higgs and top decay - G.Corcella  
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14:30
Small x (until 17:00)
14:30 Small-x evolution - R. Ball  
15:00 Small-x studies at the LHC with ATLAS - A. Cooper-Sarkar  
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15:30 BFKL at colliders - V. Del Duca  
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14:00
Electroweak correction for LHC and LC (multi-parton, EW gauge-boson and Higgs production, etc.) (until 15:00)
14:00 Weak corrections to hadronic Z production at large transverse momentum - A.Kulesza  
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14:30 The gg->WW background - M.Duehrssen  
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14:00
EW and QCD corrections to many-particle processes (until 04:30)
14:00 Electroweak corrections to four-fermion production - S.Dittmaier  
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16:00
Higgs via vector Boson Fusion (until 17:00)
16:00 Introduction - G.Unal  
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16:15 Z+2j background and jet veto - A.Nikitenko  
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16:00
Higgs via vector Boson Fusion (until 17:00)
16:00 Boson Boson scattering at LHC with PHASE - E.Maina  
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15:00
Higgs plus top (until 17:00)
15:00 Higgs Boson Production: ttbar + A at NLO - Michael Spira (PSI)  
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15:20 Associated Higgs boson production via gg/qq->ttbar + H(h_0), t-->l + X, H(h_0)->gamma gamma - Suzanne Gascon-Shotkin (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I)  
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15:00
Higgs plus top (until 17:00)
15:00 Single top plus Higgs - Fabio Maltoni (CERN)  
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15:20 Simulating ttbar + X - Steffen Schumann (with Carlo Oleari and John Campbell) (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology)  
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