Name: Open Day of ATLAS Higgs to bb / Flavor Tagging Workshop
Start: 2017-09-05T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-09-05T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Stony Brook University

- 08:00 → 09:00
  
  Registration (in Simon's Center, close to Main Auditorium)
  
  Conveners: Gloria Clivilles-Ramos, Tracy Hillenbrand
- 09:00 → 10:10
  First morning session: Heavy Flavor
  
  Conveners: George Sterman (SUNY), Richard Hawkings (CERN)
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome by Stony Brook Physics Department Chair 5m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Axel Drees
  - 09:10
    
    Welcome by the Simon's Center Director 5m
    
    Speaker: Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)
  - 09:15
    
    Welcome by the YITP Director 5m
    
    Speaker: George Sterman (SUNY)
  - 09:20
    
    Practical information about the workshop 10m
    
    Speakers: Dmitry Tsybyshev (Stony brook Universty (US)), Giacinto Piacquadio (State University of New York (US)), John David Hobbs (Stony brook Universty (US))
    
    PracticalInformationAboutWorkshop.pdf
  - 09:30
    
    Introduction to b-tagging algorithms (including X to bb tagging and MC dependence) 30m
    
    Speaker: Andrew Stephen Chisholm (CERN)
    
    ASC_FTagHbbWS_BTagging.pdf
- 10:10 → 10:30
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 10:30 → 12:15
  Higgs searches to bb: results and outlook
  
  Conveners: Patrick Meade (Stony Brook University), Timothy Paul Scanlon (University of London (GB))
  - 10:30
    
    H to bb results 30m
    
    Discussion of latest ATLAS Higgs to bb results
    
    Speaker: Nicolas Morange (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
    
    HbbATLAS.pdf
  - 11:00
    
    Q&A session 15m
  - 11:15
    
    Next steps in H to bb beyond inclusive signal strength 20m
    
    Next steps in H to bb beyond inclusive signal strength: which differential measurements should we produce, where should we look for new physics, how should we parametrize potential new physics contributions
    
    Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
    
    Mangano-SUNY.pdf
- 12:15 → 13:30
  
  Lunch break 1h 15m
- 13:30 → 15:20
  Next steps in H to bb and MC modeling
  
  Conveners: Sara Lynn Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US))
  - 13:30
    
    Open theory issues in H to bb analyses: what generators we use, how we estimate the uncertainties, where are our present limitations 15m
    
    Speaker: Valerio Dao (Stony Brook University)
    
    HbbIntro.pdf
  - 13:50
    
    Towards an NLO shower and more realistic parton shower uncertainties 20m
    
    Including a discussion of gluon splitting uncertainties and heavy flavor overlap removal.
    
    Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)
    
    hoeche_17-09.pdf
  - 14:15
    
    Where should we look for BSM in H to bb and H to cc 30m
    
    Speaker: Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)
    
    ATLAS_Wagner_09.05.17.pdf
- 15:10 → 15:30
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 15:30 → 17:00
  Theory modeling of H to bb backgrounds and HF processes
  
  Conveners: Paolo Francavilla (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR)), Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)
  - 15:30
    
    Experience with modelling of processes with heavy flavor in ATLAS analyses (including calibrations) - What are the key issues 10m
    
    Speaker: Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham (GB))
    
    OpenDayHeavyFlavIntro.pdf
  - 15:50
    
    Brief overview and theory progress on Z+bb and W+bb(j) @ NLO, including matching to parton showers 20m
    
    Speaker: Laura Reina (Florida State University (US))
    
    atlas-sb17.pdf
  - 16:25
    
    WbWb production with POWHEG BOX RES 20m
    
    Speaker: Tomas Jezo (University of Zurich)
    
    TJezo_wbwb.pdf
- 17:30 → 19:30
  
  Public Event (organized by SCGP - Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, Sasha Abanov) 2h
  
  Aimed at the general public (with participation from Long Island schools)
  
  Speakers: Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US))

Open Day of ATLAS Higgs to bb / Flavor Tagging Workshop

SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium

Stony Brook University