Opportunities for precision LHC physics with dibosons

Wednesday 7 Mar 2018, 12:30 → 17:00 Europe/London

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

A mini-workshop aimed at exploring possibilities for precision LHC physics with charged diboson final states

Rationale and goals:

• Use the EW sector to better understand the SM Higgs boson
• Use the above as a template for searches for new degrees of freedom similar to the SM Higgs boson
• Explore the possibilities for precision calculations in this context
• Explore the impact of top-quark mediated backgrounds to WW final states
• Design new techniques and come up with new experimental signatures for searches for physics beyond the SM in diboson final states that utilize precision theory and precision measurements.

Background reading:

• Motivational theory paper (Campbell and Ellis arXiv:1502.02990)
• Recent summary of theory activities arXiv:1801.04203
• A recent CMS search combination arXiv:1705.09171
• Ongoing activity within the EW group of the HE/HL LHC

Format:

• Two talks with plenty of time for discussions.
• Speakers:
  • Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen (Princeton University)
  • Mathieu Pellen (University Würzburg)

Venue:

• JJ Thompson Seminar Room, Floor 2 of the Maxwell building.

Attendance:

• Attendance is by invitation only. If interested, please contact the organizers by email.

Organizers:

• Alexander Mitov (Cambridge University)

Support:

• The mini-Workshop is supported by the European Research Council through the Consolidator Grant NNLOforLHC2.

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Diboson production: experimental perspective

Speaker: Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen (Princeton University (US))

MultiBosonTalk.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Discussion

14:30 → 15:30 Diboson production: theory perspective

Speaker: Mathieu Pellen (University Wuerzburg)

PELLEN_Cambridge_VBS_2018.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Discussion