SEPTA Meeting at Sussex (6 December 2017)

Wednesday 6 Dec 2017, 11:30 → 23:00 Europe/London

Arts A A103 (University of Sussex)

Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)

11:30 Welcome

1 Consortium meeting (Faculty only)

13:00 Lunch

2 A study of diffractive scattering with the ATLAS/ALFA experiment

Speaker: Alexander Pedersen Lind

3 WW production with a jet veto made simple(r)

Speaker: Luke Arpino (University of Sussex)

WW-made-simple.pdf

4 Investigating Higgs decays at one-loop in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

We investigate flavour-conserving and flavour-violating Higgs decays at tree-level and at one-loop in the dimension-six SMEFT. We conduct a full NLO calculation for h->bb and h->tau tau in the case of two non-zero Wilson coefficients. Using on-shell renormalisation for the physical parameters and the MS-bar scheme for the chosen Wilson coefficients, divergent bare amplitudes are made finite for real Wilson coefficients in the R-xi gauge. Simple constraints are then made on the Wilson coefficients and their off-diagonal elements at tree-level. We discuss the validity of the method and its application to Higgs sector measurements at current and future collider experiments.

Speaker: Patrick Bolton (University College London)

15:35 Coffe break

5 QCD corrections in neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Marcela González (UTFSM)

SEPTA.pdf

6 Theoretical Particle Physics: the challenges ahead

Speaker: Veronica Sanz Gonzalez

SEPTA.pdf

19:00 Christmas dinner