Standard Model at LHC 2016
University of Pittsburgh
The SM@LHC 2016 conference will be held May 3-6, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh.
The meeting aims to bring together experimentalists and theorists to discuss the phenomenology, observational results and theoretical tools for Standard Model physics at the LHC. The agenda is divided into four working groups:
- Electroweak physics
- Higgs physics
- QCD (hard, soft & PDFs)
- Top & flavour physics
Conference location: Forbes ballroom, Hilton Garden Inn, 3454 Forbes Ave.
Program organizers: Juan Alcaraz Maestre, Jeppe Andersen, Mario Campanelli, Tancredi Carli, Vitaliano Ciulli, Stefan Dittmaier, Frank Krauss, Eric Laenen, Katharina Müller, Aleandro Nisati
Local organizers: Cindy Cercone, Ayres Freitas, Tao Han, Brock Tweedie
SM@LHC 2016 is followed by the Pheno 2016 Symposium, May 9-11, 2016, in Pittsburgh.
Previous SM@LHC Workshops:
SM@LHC 2015 (Florence, Italy)
SM@LHC 2014 (Madrid, Spain)
SM@LHC 2013 (Freiburg, Germany)
SM@LHC 2012 (Kopenhagen, Denmark)
SM@LHC 2011 (Durham, UK)
SM@LHC 2009 (London, UK)
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Higgs physics: Session 1 Hilton Garden Inn
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260Conveners: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas), Marco Pieri (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))-
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Coupling decays combination Run ISpeaker: Cyril Pascal Becot (New York University (US))
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First Run II results on the SM Higgs bosonSpeaker: Hannes Mildner (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
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Differential and fiducial measurements Run ISpeaker: Kate Whalen (University of Oregon (US))
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Templates for cross-sections and pseudo-observablesSpeaker: David Marzocca (University of Zurich)
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Electroweak: Session 1 Hilton Garden Inn
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260Conveners: Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Fulvio Piccinini (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT)), Louis Helary (Boston University (US))-
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Inclusive W,Z: Precision measurementsSpeaker: Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
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QCD: Session 1 Hilton Garden Inn
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260Conveners: Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Dr Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)-
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Jet properties, jet substructure and q/g discriminationSpeaker: Craig Anthony Sawyer (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
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Multijet measurementsSpeaker: Achim Geiser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Top & flavor physics: Session 1 Hilton Garden Inn
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260Conveners: J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University), Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)-
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Overview of recent experimental results in flavor physicsSpeaker: Marcin Chrzaszcz (Universitaet Zuerich (CH), Institute of Nuclear Physics (PL))
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Standard-model predictions of rare b hadron decaysSpeaker: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)
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New lattice calculations for quantities in flavor physicsSpeaker: John Laiho (Syracuse U.)
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Electroweak: Session 2 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Fulvio Piccinini (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT)), Louis Helary (Boston University (US))-
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Overview of multiboson measurements at the LHCSpeaker: Felix Buhrer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
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QCD corrections for dibosonsSpeaker: Mauro Chiesa (Università di Pavia e INFN Sezione di Pavia (IT))
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Top & flavor physics: Session 2, joint with Electroweak Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: J Michael Williams (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University), Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)-
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Introduction to EFT and application to top-quark physicsSpeaker: Cen Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Top & flavor physics: Session 2 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University), Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)-
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Precise measurements of top-quark observablesSpeaker: James Alfred Mueller (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Interpretation of top-quark observablesSpeaker: Steve Wimpenny (University of California Riverside (US))
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Higgs physics: Session 2 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas), Marco Pieri (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))- 19
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X-section and BR calculations on SM Higgs physicsSpeaker: Elisabetta Furlan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Spin and CP resultsSpeaker: Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
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Run I and first Run II results for Higgs BSM searchesSpeaker: Hass Abouzeid (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
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QCD: Session 2 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Dr Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)- 23
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Minimum bias measurements at 13 TeVSpeaker: Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))
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QCD: Session 3 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Dr Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)-
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Matching higher-orders and partons showersSpeaker: Jan-Christopher Winter (Michigan State University)
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NNLO Phenomenology for the LHCSpeaker: Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Electroweak: Session 3 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Fulvio Piccinini (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT)), Louis Helary (Boston University (US))-
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V+jets, V+hf (experiment)Speaker: Avto Kharchilava (State University of New York (US))
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NLO+PS for V+jetsSpeaker: Sandro Uccirati (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
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Rare processes (V+2j, Zgamma+2j, WW+2j)Speaker: Aungshuman Zaman (State University of New York (US))
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Top & flavor physics: Session 3 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University), Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)-
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Overview of t-tbar-Higgs production beyond NLO QCDSpeaker: Alessandro Broggio (TU Munich)
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t-tbar-Higgs measurements during LHC Run ISpeaker: Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
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Monte-Carlo predictions for t-tbar+boson and t-tbar+jets productionSpeaker: Stefano Frixione (INFN)
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Higgs physics: Session 3 Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas), Marco Pieri (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))-
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Most relevant HBSM models for Run II from theory sideSpeaker: Tim Stefaniak (SCIPP, UCSC)
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750 GeV excess (experiment)Speaker: Simone Pigazzini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
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HH perspective for futureSpeaker: Sara Lynn Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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Higgs prospects for Run II and HL-LHCSpeaker: Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
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Transportation from hotel Hilton Garden Inn
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Dinner cruise Gateway clipper
Gateway clipper
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Top & flavor physics: Summary and discussion Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University), Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)-
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Top & flavor: OutlookSpeakers: J Michael Williams (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES), Susanne Westhoff (Heidelberg University), Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)
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Discussion
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QCD: Summary and discussion Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Dr Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)-
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QCD: OutlookSpeakers: Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Dr Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)
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Coffee break Hilton Garden Inn
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Higgs physics: Summary and discussion Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas), Marco Pieri (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))-
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Higgs: OutlookSpeakers: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas), Marco Pieri (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
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Electroweak: Summary and discussion Hilton Garden Inn
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Conveners: Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Fulvio Piccinini (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT)), Louis Helary (Boston University (US))-
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Electroweak: OutlookSpeakers: Anne-Marie Magnan (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Fulvio Piccinini (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT)), Louis Helary (Boston University (US))
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Closing remarks Hilton Garden Inn
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