Name: QCD@LHC 2016
Start: 2016-08-22T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-08-26T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Zurich

Monday 22 August 2016

09:00

09:00 - 09:45
Room: RAI-G-041
09:45
09:45 - 13:10
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:50 Welcome address by the dean of the faculty of science - Michael Schaepman (Universität Zürich)

10:00 Recent Highlights from the LHC - Javier Cuevas Maestro (Universidad de Oviedo)

10:45 QCD results from the LHC - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

12:00 QCD results: fixed order - Fabrizio Caola (CERN)

12:35 EW corrections - Sandro Uccirati (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
13:10

13:10 - 14:30
Room: RAI-G-041
14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-F-041
Contributions

14:30 Precision measurements of inclusive and differential Drell-Yan cross sections with the ATLAS detector - Stefano Camarda (CERN)

15:00 Inclusive and differential cross sections of single vector boson production in CMS - Xinmei Niu (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

15:30 Gauge boson physics in the forward region at LHCb - Alex Grecu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))

15:50 Mixed QCD/EW corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region - Christian Schwinn (RWTH Aachen University)

16:40 Challenges in W mass measurements with ATLAS and CMS - Jakub Cuth (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz (DE))

17:10 Precision measurements at Tevatron (canceled)

17:40 Precision computation for EW measurements - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
14:30 - 18:10
Room: SOE-E-2
Contributions

14:30 Top quark mass determination from the energy peaks of b-jets and B-hadrons at NLO QCD - Roberto Franceschini (CERN)

14:55 Single top quark production cross section and properties with ATLAS - Soren Stamm (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))

15:20 Single top quark production with CMS - Matthias Komm (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

15:45 The Matrix Element Method at next-to-leading order QCD for single top-quark production at the LHC - Till Martini (HU Berlin)

16:30 Top quark pair production in association with a jet with NLO QCD off-shell effects - Heribertus Bayu Hartanto (RWTH Aachen University)

16:50 Top quark pair production cross section measurements with CMS - Georgios Krintiras (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

17:15 Top quark pair production and properties with ATLAS - Ki Lie (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

17:40 NLO EW corrections to off-shell top quark pair production - Mathieu Pellen (University Wuerzburg)
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-J-031
Contributions

14:30 Theory precision for the gluon fusion cross section - Marco Bonvini (University of Oxford)

15:00 Bosonic SM Higgs decays at ATLAS + CMS - Yanping Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Yanping Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Yanping Huang (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

15:30 Fermionic SM Higgs decays at ATLAS + CMS - Nadezda Chernyavskaya (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

16:30 Experimental results on gg->ttH from ATLAS and CMS - Joshuha Thomas-Wilsker (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

17:00 Theory precision for ttH signal and backgrounds - Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) Stefano Pozzorini

17:30 Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production for mH+~mt - Rikkert Frederix (TUM)
14:30 - 18:00
Room: SOE-E-1
Contributions

14:30 Results on minimum bias interactions and underlying event from ATLAS - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)

15:00 Measurement of underlying events and DPS at CMS - Ankita Mehta (Panjab University (IN))

15:30 Top quark event modelling and generators in CMS - Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))

16:30 Impact of LHCb results on the tuning of Monte Carlo generators - Alex Grecu (IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))

17:00 Introduction to informal discussion - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))

17:10 Informal discussion
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:30 MMHT PDF update - impact of new data - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

15:00 Updates from NNPDF: fitted charm and NNPDF3.1 - Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))

15:30 Progress in (N)NLO fast calculations for PDF fits - Mark Sutton (University of Sussex (GB))

16:30 Resummation in PDF fits - Marco Bonvini (University of Oxford)

17:00 PDF constraints using Vector Bosons at CMS - Ringaile Placakyte

17:30 ATLAS: PDF sensitive measurements using ratios - Kristin Lohwasser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
18:30 Apero at ETH Main building
Apero at ETH Main building
18:30 - 20:30
Tuesday 23 August 2016
09:00 Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 12:55
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 Multiboson results from the LHC - Alexander Savin (UW)

09:45 QCD: resummation - Pier Francesco Monni (University of Oxford (GB))

11:00 SCET - Thomas Becher (University of Bern)

11:35 Recent LHC results with impact on parton density functions - Katharina Mueller (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

12:20 Review on PDFs - Voica Ana Maria Radescu (University of Oxford (GB))
12:55 Lunch
Lunch
12:55 - 14:30
Room: RAI-G-041
14:30 Hard QCD+EW
Hard QCD+EW
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-F-041
Contributions

14:30 Measurements of the production of prompt photons, jets and vector bosons + jets in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - Jonathan Bossio (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

15:00 Associated production of vector bosons and jets in CMS - Fengwangdong Zhang (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

15:30 W/Z + jets and top in LHCb - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

15:50 Z+jet @ NNLO - Alexander Huss (ETH Zurich)

16:40 Hard QCD and EW results from HERA - Daniel Britzger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Daniel Britzger (DESY)

17:10 Inclusive jet and multijet measurements in CMS - Mikko Voutilainen (University of Helsinki (FI))

17:40 QCD JETS @ NNLO - James Currie (University of Durham)
Heavy quarks
Heavy quarks
14:30 - 18:25
Room: SOE-E-2
Contributions

14:30 LHCb results on associated production of heavy hadrons - Ivan BELYAEV (ITEP/MOSCOW)

14:55 Measurements of heavy flavour production directly or in association with W and Z bosons with ATLAS - Gabriele Chiodini (INFN Lecce) Gabriele Chiodini (Universita del Salento (IT))

15:20 Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy-quark production at hadron colliders - Hayk Sargsyan (University of Zurich)

15:45 Recent NNLO results on heavy flavor corrections to DIS - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

16:40 LHCb results on baryonic B decays - Christian Voss (Universitaet Rostock (DE))

17:05 LHCb results on heavy quark spectroscopy - Daniel Charles Craik (University of Edinburgh (GB))

17:30 LHCb results on exotic spectroscopy - Giovanni Cavallero (Universita e INFN Genova (IT))
Higgs
Higgs
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-J-031
Contributions

14:30 Resummation in Higgs physics - Lorena Rothen (University of Bern)

15:00 Simplified cross sections - Paolo Francavilla (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR))

15:30 Experimental results on differential Higgs boson cross sections from ATLAS and CMS - Lorenzo Viliani (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

16:30 Experimental results on di-photon, ZZ and WW resonances from ATLAS and CMS - Mengqing Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

17:00 Theory predictions for off-shell ZZ and WW production including Higgs boson effects - Lorenzo Tancredi (KIT Karlsruhe)

17:30 Exploiting jet binning to identify the initial state of high-mass resonances - Markus Ebert (DESY)
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
14:30 - 18:00
Room: SOE-E-1
Contributions

14:30 Measurements of the elastic, inelastic and total pp cross section with the ATLAS detector - Karlheinz Hiller (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Campus Zeuthen (DE))

15:00 Herwig 7: overview and recent developments - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)

15:30 Sherpa: overview and recent developments - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

16:30 Vincia recent developments (+ Pythia8 overview) - Nadine Fischer (Monash University)

17:00 Resonance-aware NLOPS (MC@NLO) - Paolo Torrielli (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

17:25 Resonance-aware NLOPS in POWHEG for top-pair and single-top physics - Jonas Lindert
PDFs
PDFs
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:30 Overview of the photon PDF - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

15:00 ATLAS: high mass Drell-Yan and the photon PDF - Eram Syed Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)

15:30 The impact of the photon PDF on ttbar distributions - Davide Pagani

16:30 Developments in the xFitter framework - Voica Ana Maria Radescu (University of Oxford (GB))

17:00 PDFs and Heavy Quark production in the forward region - Rhorry Gauld (IPPP Durham University)

17:30 Charm, bottom and top production in the forward region - Rafael Silva Coutinho (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
Wednesday 24 August 2016
09:00 Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 13:30
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 Top quark results from the LHC - Nuno Filipe Castro (LIP, University of Minho and University of Porto (PT))

09:45 Top theory - Rikkert Frederix (TUM)

10:20 Soft QCD and MC generator tuning - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))

11:35 Event generators - Stefan Prestel

12:10 Recent highlights on heavy quarks - Patrick Koppenburg (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

12:55 Bottom theory - Roman Zwicky (edinburgh university)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: RAI-G-041

14:30

14:30 - 17:30

18:30 Conference banquet
Conference banquet
18:30 - 21:30
Thursday 25 August 2016
09:00 Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 11:35
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 QCD in Higgs physics - Bernhard Mistlberger (CERN)

09:35 Heavy ion results - Thomas Peitzmann (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

11:00 High-density QCD - Elena Bratkovskaya (FIAS)
11:35
11:35 - 13:00
Room: RAI-F-041
Contributions

11:40 Determination of alpha_s in a fit to inclusive jet data from multiple experiments - Daniel Savoiu (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

12:00 Three-jet event shapes at high precision: old and new - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))

12:20 Multi-leg scattering amplitudes for LHC phenomenology: modern tools and methods - Tiziano Peraro

12:40 The pentabox master integrals with the simplified differential equations approach - Konstantinos Papadopoulos (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))
11:35 - 13:00
Room: SOE-E-2
Contributions

11:35 Open charm production in pPb and PbPb collisions with CMS - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

11:55 LHCb results and perspectives on heavy-ion physics - Burkhard Schmidt (CERN)

12:15 Charmonium and bottomonium suppression in PbPb collisions with CMS - Emilien Chapon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:35 Open heavy-flavour production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE - Cristiane Jahnke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: RAI-G-041
14:30 Hard QCD+EW
Hard QCD+EW
14:30 - 18:10
Room: RAI-F-041
Contributions

14:30 Multiboson production and vector boson scattering measurements in CMS - Ivan Shvetsov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

15:00 Recent di-boson measurements from ATLAS - Lucia Di Ciaccio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Lucia Di Ciaccio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

15:30 Fully differential NNLO(+NNLL) computations with MATRIX - Marius Wiesemann (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

15:50 NLO EW corrections to pp -> W+W- -> 4l at the LHC - Lukas Salfelder (University of Tuebingen)

16:40 Recent results on VBF, VBS, exclusive WW and tri-boson production from ATLAS - Ruiqi Zhang (CPPM/USTC)

17:00 LHCb results on central exclusive production - Tomasz Szumlak (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

17:20 Vector Boson Scattering: QCD and EW corrections - Christopher Schwan (Universität Freiburg)

17:40 NNLL soft and Coulomb threshold resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC - Chris Wever (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Heavy quarks
Heavy quarks
14:30 - 18:25
Room: SOE-E-2
Contributions

14:30 Quarkonium and heavy flavour production at ATLAS - Roger Jones (Lancaster University (GB))

14:55 Quarkonium cross sections in pp collisions with CMS - Ilse Kratschmer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

15:20 Quarkonium polarization in pp collisions with CMS - Joao Seixas (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

15:45 A data-driven interpretation of heavy quarkonium measurements at the LHC - Pietro Faccioli (LIP and IST, Lisbon)

16:40 Heavy quarkonium physics case for AFTER - Huasheng Shao (CERN)

17:05 Quarkonium production as a probe of double parton scattering at ATLAS - David Edwin Bertsche (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

17:30 LHCb results on b-hadron production and properties - Matthew David Needham (University of Edinburgh (GB))
Higgs
Higgs
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-J-031
Contributions

14:30 Theory status of bottom-quark associated Higgs production - Andrew Papanastasiou (University of Durham) Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (University of Durham (GB)) Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)

15:00 Heavy neutral and charged Higgs boson searches in the MSSM and the 2HDM at ATLAS and CMS - Gerrit Van Onsem (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

15:30 Effective Higgs Lagrangian at NLO QCD - Rhorry Gauld (IPPP Durham University)

16:30 Experimental results on rare decays of the 125GeV Higgs boson from ATLAS and CMS - ATLAS Cong Geng (Univ. of Michigan (US) / Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))

17:00 Theory Predictions for Higgs Boson Pair Production - Stephen Jones (MPI, Munich)

17:30 Differential Higgs Boson Pair Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD - Jonas Lindert Jonas Lindert
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
14:30 - 18:00
Room: SOE-E-1
Contributions

14:30 MiNLO - Keith Hamilton (University College London (GB))

14:55 Geneva - Christian Bauer

15:20 Threshold logarithms in a parton shower - Zoltan Nagy

15:45 Recent developments in High Energy Jets (HEJ) - Jennifer Smillie (University of Edinburgh)

16:40 NLOPS with KrKNLO - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)

17:05 EW and mixed EW+QCD uncertainties in the W boson mass measurement - Homero Martinez Bruzual (Universita e INFN (IT))

17:30 The LPM effect in sequential gluon bremsstrahlung - Shahin Iqbal (University of Virginia)
PDFs
PDFs
14:30 - 18:00
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

14:30 Updates from ABM - Sergey Alekhin (DESY-Zeuthen)

15:00 Recent developments in the CT global analysis - Daniel Stump (Michigan State University)

15:30 Jets and PDFs with CMS data - Mikko Voutilainen (University of Helsinki (FI))

16:30 PDF fits with ttbar different distributions at NNLO - Emanuele Roberto Nocera (University of Oxford)
Friday 26 August 2016
09:00 Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 13:35
Room: RAI-G-041
Contributions

09:00 Lattice determination of alpha_s - Rainer Sommer

09:40 QCD in Higgs and BSM - Gabriel Facini (University of Chicago (US))

10:25 Future facilities - David d'Enterria (CERN)

11:40 Experimental summary - Klaus Rabbertz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

12:20 Theoretical summary - Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)