Giving New Physics a Boost - 2009

9 Jul 2009, 08:00 → 10 Jul 2009, 20:00 US/Pacific

Kavli (SLAC)

Many signatures of new physics that could be discovered at the Tevatron or LHC involve highly boosted objects, which can confuse standard event reconstruction techniques due to the overlapping nature of their decay products in the detector. SLAC is hosting a two-day workshop to bring together the leading theorists and experimentalists in order to better understand the physics behind these novel signatures and how to detect them. The list of topics includes "lepton jets", boosted top jets ("t-tagging"), boosted Higgs ("fat-bottom") jets, di-tau jets, displayed-vertex jets, and light-gluino jets. We look forward to presentations and lively discussions.

Meeting Website http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/Boost2009/

Subgroup tasks boost09tasks.txt

Thursday, 9 July

08:00 → 08:30 Coffee / cookies and setup

08:30 → 09:00 BOOST 09 - Day 1: Opening Remarks

08:30 Welcome

Speaker: Michael Peskin

08:40 Overview and Plan

Speaker: Andy Haas and Jay Wacker

Slides Boosted09Opening.pdf

09:00 → 11:00 BOOST 09 - Day 1: Morning Overview Talks

09:00 Reconstruction of High Mass t t Resonances in Lepton + Jets Channels at ATLAS

Speaker: Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia)

Paper http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1177410

Slides brooijmans.pdf

10:00 Lepton Jets

Speaker: Itay Yavin

Slides Yavin-Boost09.ppt

11:00 → 13:00 BOOST 09 - Day 1: Working Sessions

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 17:20 BOOST 09 - Day 1: Afternoon Subject Talks

14:30 Searching for New Physics at the LHC with Single Jets: Pruning

Speaker: Steve Ellis

Slides

• Boost2009SDEa.pdf
• Boost2009SDE.pdf
• Boost2009SDE.pptx

14:55 Searching for Boosted Tops with the CMS detector at the LHC

Speaker: Nicholas Hadley

Slides

• Boosted_cms_njhv2.pdf
• Boosted_cms_njhv3.pdf
• Boosted_cms_njhv3.ppt

15:15 Dark Showering

Speaker: Josh Ruderman

Slides RudermanBoost.pdf

15:35 Lepton jets studies at D0

Speaker: Andrew Haas (SLAC)

Slides BOOST09_D0_lepjet_7-9-09.pdf

15:55 Coffee break

16:00 The Inside and Outside of a Top Jet at the LHC

Speaker: Gilad Perez

Slides SLAC_topboost_GPerez_new.pdf

16:20 Jet Substructure in Top Jets

Speaker: Matthew Schwartz

Slides topsSLAC-schwartz.pdf

16:40 Lifetime signature for the identification of boosted top at ATLAS

Speaker: Tadaaki Sobe (University of Tokyo)

Slides BOOST09_isobe.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner ($30)

Hunan Garden
3345 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Tel: (650) 565-8868

Friday, 10 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee / cookies and setup

09:00 → 11:00 Day 2: Morning Overview Talks

09:00 Why subject structure works in searches at the LHC and what is it good for

Speaker: Jon Butterworth

Slides boost.pdf

10:00 Lepton Jets: Experimental overview and searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Roger Moore (University of Alberta)

Slides 2009-07-08-LeptonJets-SLAC.odp 2009-07-08-LeptonJets-SLAC.pdf

11:00 → 13:00 Day 2: Working Sessions

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Final Working Group Sessions

15:30 → 17:20 Day 2: Afternoon Subject Talks

15:30 A Composite Top Quark

Speaker: Tim Tait

Slides tait-boosted.pdf

15:50 All-hadronic boosted tops at CMS

Speaker: James Dolen (UC Davis)

Slides BOOST09_Dolen9final.pdf

16:10 Coffee break

16:15 Top Jets @ the LHC (boosted, but semi-collimated)

Speaker: Seung Lee

Slides top_jets.pdf

16:35 Measuring Chirality in Boosted Hadronic Tops

Speaker: David Krohn (Princeton University)

Slides bootedtops.pdf

16:55 Semileptonic Boosted Tops

Speaker: Brock Tweedie

Slides semilep.pdf semilep.ppt

17:20 → 18:20 Summary Session

17:20 Lepton-jet subgroup tasks results

Speaker: Prof. Jacob Wacker (SLAC)

Slides LeptonicBoostSummary.pdf

17:40 Boosted jets subgroup tasks results

Speaker: Dr Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

Slides boosted-hadwg.pdf

18:00 Closing remarks