RA2/b Workshop 2016

Name: RA2/b Workshop 2016
Start: 2016-04-04T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-05-04T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University

4 Apr 2016, 09:00 → 4 May 2016, 21:00 US/Central

M108 (Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University)

M108

Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University

University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845

Keith Ulmer (Texas A & M University (US)), Rishi Gautam Patel (Texas A & M University (US))

Description

RA2/b Workshop Spring 2016. Local organizing committee: Keith Ulmer (ulmer@tamu.edu), Rishi Patel (rpatel@cern.ch)

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ulmer@tamu.edu

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Registration

RA2/b Workshop 2016

Participants

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Monday 4 April
- 09:00 → 09:30
  
  Welcome 30m M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  
  Speaker: Keith Ulmer (Texas A & M University (US))
  
  RA2b_Workshop_Intro_4_5_16.pdf
- 09:30 → 10:45
  Session 1: Improvements 1 M108
  
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  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 09:30
    
    2015 review: signal sensitivity and background uncertainty 45m
    
    Speaker: John William Bradmiller-Feld (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))
    
    jbf_tamu_pt1.pdf
  - 10:15
    
    Lost-lepton developments 30m
    
    Speaker: Simon Thomas Kurz (Hamburg University (DE))
    
    LostLepton_Improvements.pdf
- 10:45 → 11:15
  
  Coffee Break M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 11:15 → 12:30
  Session 2: Improvements 2 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 11:15
    
    Zinv improvements 45m
    
    Speakers: Troy Daniel Mulholland (University of Colorado at Boulder (US)), Troy Daniel Mulholland (University of Colorado at Boulder (US))
    
    ZimprovementsRA2bWorkshop.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Use of leptons that are inside jets 30m
    
    Speaker: Owen Long (University of California Riverside (US))
    
    leptons-in-jets-april4-2016.pdf
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch M108
  
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  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 14:00 → 15:30
  Session 3: New ideas 1 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 14:00
    
    Theory inspirational talk 1h
    
    Speaker: Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)
    
    LHCsignal.pdf
  - 15:00
    
    RA2/b + Disappearing track 30m
    
    Speaker: Nadja Strobbe (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    DisappearingTrack.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 16:00 → 17:30
  Session 4: New ideas 2 M108
  
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  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 16:00
    
    Higgs tagging 45m
    
    Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    RA2B-tagging-v2.pdf
  - 16:45
    
    HH->4b EWKino search 45m
    
    Speaker: Keith Ulmer (Texas A & M University (US))
    
    RA2b_Workshop_HH4b_4_5_16.pdf
Tuesday 5 April
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Session 5: Improvements 3 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 09:00
    
    Tau vetoes 45m
    
    Speaker: Ahmad Borzou (Baylor University (US))
    
    ATauIdReport.pdf
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Session 6: Improvements working time M108
  
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  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch M108
  
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  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 14:00 → 15:50
  Session 7: New ideas 3 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 14:00
    
    Improving compressed signal sensitivity 45m
    
    Speaker: Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    T1bbbb compressed workshop.pdf
    
    T1tttt compressed workshop.pdf
  - 14:45
    
    Ideas on Higgs->bb tagging 45m
    
    Speakers: Ana Krasimirova Ovcharova (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US)), Manuel Franco Sevilla (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))
    
    16-04-05_ana_manuelf_Higgs_bb_XCone.pdf
  - 15:30
    
    nB extrapolation ideas 20m
    
    Speaker: William Ford (University of Colorado at Boulder (US))
    
    bTagFit.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 16:00 → 17:30
  
  Session 8: New ideas working time M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 19:00 → 21:00
  
  Dinner 2h Rudy's Barbecue
  
  Rudy's Barbecue
  
  504 Harvey Road, College Station, TX http://www.rudysbbq.com/page/location/name/bbq-college%20station
Wednesday 6 April
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Session 9: Improvements 4 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 09:00
    
    R+S (part 1) 45m
    
    Speakers: Jory Sonneveld (RWTH Aachen / Hamburg University), Marek Adam Niedziela (Hamburg University (DE))
    
    RS_Niedziela_Sonneveld.pdf
  - 09:45
    
    R+S (part 2) 45m
    
    Speaker: Samuel Louis Bein (Florida State University (US))
    
    Ra2:bWorkshopQCD.pdf
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break M108
  
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  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Session 10: New ideas 4 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 11:00
    
    Comparison of SUSY observables 45m
    
    Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    RA2BWorkshop.pdf
  - 11:45
    
    RA2/b + photon 45m
    
    Speaker: Andrew James Whitbeck (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    
    RA2bworkshop2016_photons.pdf
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 14:00 → 15:30
  Session 11: Improvements 5 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 14:00
    
    MET/MHT extrapolation with DeltaThetaT 45m
    
    Speaker: John William Bradmiller-Feld (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))
    
    jbf_tamu_pt2.pdf
  - 14:45
    
    Use of quark/gluon discriminator 45m
    
    Speaker: Owen Long (University of California Riverside (US))
    
    qgdisc-april6-2016.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
- 16:00 → 16:40
  Session 12: New ideas 5 M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845
  - 16:00
    
    Targeting missed pMSSM points 40m
    
    Speaker: Samuel Louis Bein (Florida State University (US))
    
    Ra2:bWorkshop_pMSSM.pdf
- 16:40 → 17:00
  
  Closing / Summary 20m M108
  
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  Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M University
  
  University Ave and Ireland Street College Station, TX 77845

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