ZPW2016: Higgs physics at the LHC

6 Jan 2016, 09:00 → 8 Jan 2016, 14:00 Europe/Zurich

As the Large Hadron Collider  completes its first 13TeV run, particle physics researchers are challenged by  precision requirements in measurements of Higgs observables, that are necessary to make any new physics within reach visible. We have recently witnessed an expansion of the frontier in higher order computations and parton-shower matching techniques. New windows in BSM physics, amid a collective effort to efficiently parametrise the Higgs boson couplings, are opening up, raising the stakes in our quest to scrutinize the mechanism of Electroweak symmetry breaking.

The Zurich Phenomenology workshop will bring together leading researchers from experimental and theoretical elementary particle physics to discuss recent results on Higgs related observables and their impact on the search for new physics at the LHC.

The workshop is organized jointly by the particle theory groups of UZH and ETH and will be held on January 6-8, 2015.

Wednesday, 6 January

10:10 → 10:40 Higgs couplings

Speaker: Giovanni Petrucciani (CERN)

gp-lhccomb1-zpw2016.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Higgs boson differential cross sections

Speaker: Pasquale Musella (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Musella_HiggsDifferentialXsecs.pdf

11:10 → 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 → 12:15 Precision predictions for Higgs production at the LHC

Speaker: Claude Duhr (CERN)

03-duhr.pdf

12:20 → 12:50 Higgs boson differential distributions at NNLO, matched to PS.

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)

04-zanderighi.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:00 Higgs Boson production in association with jets in gluon-gluon fusion

Speaker: Gionata Luisoni (CERN)

luisoni_Hjets.pdf

15:05 → 15:35 Off-shell effects in Higgs physics

Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

06-melnikov.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Jet-vetoed Higgs cross section in gluon fusion at N3LO+NNLL with small-R resummation

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (University of Oxford (GB))

ZPW2016.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 → 17:15 Higgs production in the ttH channel

Speaker: Gregor Kasieczka (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

gk-zpw-2016.pdf

17:20 → 17:50 Higgs production in association with top quarks: recent results

Speaker: Marco Zaro (LPTHE Jussieu, Paris)

zaro-tth-zpw2016.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 Conference Dinner

Conference Dinner at the Zunfhaus "Zur Haue"
(Limmatquai 53, 8001 Zürich)

Thursday, 7 January

10:10 → 10:40 Resolving the gluon fusion loop for the Higgs production

Speaker: Aleksandr Azatov (CERN)

zpw_azatov.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Effective Theories from the Top-Down

Speaker: Jose Santiago (Granada University)

ZPW2016_JSantiago.pdf

11:10 → 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 → 12:15 PDFs for LHC run II

Speaker: Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

ZPW2016.pdf

12:20 → 12:50 Precise parton distributions for the LHC

Speaker: S. Moch (UHH)

04-moch.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:00 Recent progress in determining of the strong coupling constant

Speaker: Siegfried Bethke (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

alphas-ZPW2016.pdf

15:05 → 15:35 Lattice Higgs Physics: the b-quark mass

Speaker: Michele Della Morte

dellaMorte_ZPW.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Double Higgs production

Speaker: Javier Mazzitelli (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

ZPW16_mazzitelli.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 → 17:15 VH+VBF signatures

Speaker: Dr Adrian Buzatu (University of Glasgow (GB))

BuzatuAdrian_ZPW_VH+VBH.pdf

17:20 → 17:50 Recent developments in VBF Higgs production

Speaker: Barbara Jäger (University of Würzburg)

09-jager.pdf

Friday, 8 January

10:10 → 10:40 Rare Higgs boson decays

Speaker: K.K. Gan (The Ohio State University (US))

ZPW2016_Gan.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Pseudo-observables in Higgs phenomenology

Speaker: David Marzocca (University of Zurich)

Marzocca_HPO.pdf

11:10 → 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 → 12:15 Higgs couplings from the perspective of BSM physics

Speaker: Alex Pomarol (Universidad de Barcelona)

03-pomarol.pdf

12:20 → 12:50 On the recent diphoton excess at 750GeV

Speaker: Pasquale Musella (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Musella_HighMassDiphotons.pdf