Workshop of Vector Boson Fusion Physics at CMS

from Wednesday, 17 June 2009 (08:00) to Friday, 19 June 2009 (18:00)
Fermilab LPC Center

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Jun 2009
18 Jun 2009
19 Jun 2009
AM
08:30
VBF Higgs Physics Review (I) (until 12:15)
08:30 Introduction and welcome address (talk via EVO) - Dan Green  
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09:00 Theoretical review of VBF Higgs (talk via EVO) - Dieter Zeppenfield  
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09:45 Probing EWSB through VBF: benchmark studies at the LHC - Diogo Buarque Franzosi  
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10:15 Cross section and branching ratio for SM Higgs - Bruce Mellado  
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10:45 --- Coffee Break & Group Photo ---
11:00 CMS Detector Performance Review - Shuichi Kunori  
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11:30 Prospect of CMS Higgs Boson Search - Chiara Mariotti  
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08:30
VBF Higgs Channel Review (until 12:00)
08:30 Status of qqH,H->WW->lnulnu - Si Xie  
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08:50 Experience of qqH,H->WW->lnulnu (talk via EVO) - Efe Yazgan  
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09:10 Status of qqH,H->WW->lnulnu (talk via EVO) - Bo Zhu  
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09:30 Status of qqH->WW->lnujj - Haifeng Pi  
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09:50 VBF H->ZZ->llbb - Tommaso Dorigo  
10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:25 Status of qqH,H->TauTau - Anthony Moeller  
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10:45 Status of qqH,H->ZZ->llnunu - Jian Wang  
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11:05 Status of qqH,H->ZZ->lljj - Youn Roh  
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08:30
VBF Techniques and Analysis Notes Discussion (until 12:00)
08:30 Herwig and Pythia Study for VBF (talk via EVO) - Christoph Hackstein  
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08:50 Event Generation and MC Production  
09:05 Jet Tagging (Central jet veto, Forward jet tagging)  
09:20 Multivariant Techniques  
09:35 Data Driven Method  
09:50 Hadronic W / Z Reconstruction  
10:05 Lepton identification and selection  
10:20 Jet and missing Et  
10:30 Discussion of qqH Channels  
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12:15 --- Lunch Break ---
13:15
VBF Higgs Physics Review (II) (until 17:00)
13:15 Higgs Boson Search at Tevetron - Krisztian Peters  
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14:00 Prospect of CMS VBF Higgs Search - Pietro Govoni  
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14:45 Prospect of Atlas VBF Higgs Search - Bruce Mellado  
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:45 Discussion of VBF Physics at LHC (or Fermilab Colloquium )  
17:00 --- Visit Remote Operating Center at CMS Center ---
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00
Physics Object Review (until 15:30)
13:00 HF performance by CRAFT/CROZET/TestBaem Analysis - Taylan Yetkin  
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13:20 HF performance and its impact to the qqH analysis (talk via EVO) - Alexi Mestvirishvlli  
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13:40 CMS Higgs Search Signature in 2010 - Alexey Drozdetskiy  
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14:00 Tag Jet Study for qqH, H->ZZ->4mu - Andre Sznajder  
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14:20 --- Coffee Break ---
14:30 Jet and Missing Et for VBF Analysis - Haifeng Pi  
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14:50 Electron ID and selection review - Pietro Govoni  
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15:10 Muon ID and selection review - ALEXEY DROZDETSKIY  
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15:30
Analysis Experience and Q & A (until 17:00)
15:30 One lepton + X search experience for qqH - Haifeng Pi  
15:45 MC Statistics and event generator Experience for qqH - Andre Sznajder  
16:00 Q&A of VBF Channels  
12:00
Summary of Workshop (until 13:00)
12:00 Summary of VBF Workshop - Andrey Korytov  
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