(Re)interpreting LHC new physics search results: tools and methods

from Monday, October 16, 2017 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, October 18, 2017 (6:45 PM)
Fermilab (One West (WH1W))

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 18, 2017
AM
9:00 AM Welcome to LPC - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))  
9:05 AM Introduction to the workshop - Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR))  
9:20 AM Higgs precision measurements and additional Higgs Searches - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)  
9:45 AM Signals of nonstandard particles - Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)  
10:10 AM Reinterpreting the LHC diboson searches - Dr Jack Collins (University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University)  
10:35 AM Review of phenomenological MSSM studies - Ahmed Ismail  
11:00 AM --- Coffee & tea break ---
11:30 AM Digging Deeper for New Physics in the LHC Data - Dr Angelo Monteux (UC Irvine)  
11:55 AM New Physics in Standard Model Tails - Joshua Ruderman  
9:00 AM Recent LHCb results and their implications - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)  
9:30 AM Direct fits of Wilson coefficients using B0->K*0mu+mu- decays - Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
10:00 AM SM4BSM in CMS - Matthew Herndon (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
10:30 AM SM4BSM in ATLAS - Sergei Chekanov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))  
11:00 AM --- Coffee & tea break ---
11:30 AM CheckMATE Tutorial - Dr Jong Soo Kim (National Institute for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Mandelstam Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)  
9:00 AM Reinterpretation on LLP searches (exp) - Gavin Hesketh (University College London (UK))  
9:30 AM Reinterpretation of LLP searches (theo.) - Jared Evans  
10:00 AM LLP discussion  
10:30 AM --- Coffee & tea break ---
11:00 AM Tools and bounds on Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions - Ms Dipsikha Debnath (University of Florida)  
11:20 AM Coverage of the pMSSM by simplified model results - Sabine Kraml (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
11:40 AM Reinterpret exotic Higgs decay H/A to ZA/ZH in the Two Higgs Doublet Model - Wei Su  
PM
12:20 PM Double Gauge Boson Production and the SM EFT - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)  
12:45 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM BSM searches in ATLAS and material provided for reinterpretation - Matthias Danninger (University of British Columbia (CA))  
2:30 PM BSM searches in CMS and material provided for (re)interpretation - Sadia Khalil (The University of Kansas (US))  
3:00 PM Machinery for providing and using correlation info - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB))  
3:20 PM Discussion - Andrew James Whitbeck (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
3:50 PM --- Coffee & tea break ---
4:20 PM Rivet and Contur tutorial - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB)) Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))  
5:20 PM An Introduction to GAMBIT and ColliderBit - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)  
12:15 PM Hands-On SModelS: a tool to make systematic use of simplified models results - Dr Wolfgang Waltenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM CMS Open Data in Research - Achim Geiser (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
3:15 PM The Future is Open: Jet Substructure with CMS Public Data - Jesse Thaler (MIT)  
3:40 PM Open Data discussion  
4:00 PM --- Coffee & tea break ---
4:30 PM The Les Houches Analysis Description Accord: What it is and Why it Matters - Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR)) Harry Prosper (Florida State University (US)) Gokhan Unel (University of California Irvine (US))  
5:00 PM Towards a unified interface for Reinterpretation tools - Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))  
5:30 PM Tutorial on recasting and reinterpreting searches with MadAnalysis5 - Dr Dipan Sengupta (Michigan State University)  
12:00 PM Simplified Limits on Resonances at the LHC - Kirtimaan Mohan (Michigan State University)  
12:20 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:30 PM Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches - Matthew Low  
2:00 PM Setting limits on Effective Field Theories: the case of Dark Matter - Mr Federico Pobbe (Università di Padova)  
2:30 PM Signatures for SUSY with light higgsino: from here to HL- and HE-LHC - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee & tea break ---
3:30 PM SCYNet - Testing supersymmetric models at the LHC with neural networks - Matthias Hamer (University of Bonn (DE))   (Ramsey Auditorium)
4:00 PM Machine learning for interpretation - Kyle Stuart Cranmer (New York University (US))   (Ramsey Auditorium)
4:30 PM What is the machine learning? - Tim Cohen (University of Oregon)   (Ramsey Auditorium)
5:00 PM Recasting analyses that use machine learning -- Case study: CMS-SUS-16-050 - Nadja Strobbe (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Ramsey Auditorium)
5:15 PM General discussion, future plans - Zhen Liu (Fermilab) Sabine Kraml (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR))   (Ramsey Auditorium)