LHC EW WG General Meeting

8 Oct 2020, 10:00 → 9 Oct 2020, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

Zoom

The primary goal of the meeting is to review the recent progress in the various subgroups with a special focus on the yellow reports.  The meeting will take place on Zoom.

Zoom link

Thursday 8 October

14:00 → 16:00 Topical Session: PDFs and Combinations Across Experiments

Conveners: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)), Bogdan Malaescu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Josh Bendavid (CERN), Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)

14:00 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)

EWKPrecisionIntro.pdf

14:05 PDF Benchmarks (30+10)

Speaker: Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

PDFbench.pdf

14:40 W boson mass combination status/plans + PDF issues (20+10)

Speaker: Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB))

Combo071020.pdf

15:10 Treatment of EW effects in PDF fits and in experimental data (20+10)

Speaker: Mr Christopher Schwan (Università degli Studi di Milano)

talk-schwan.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:15 Topical Session: News on MC Generators

Convener: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

16:00 Progress in MC generators (25+10)

Speaker: Mauro Chiesa (CNRS LAPTh, Annecy)

chiesa_09102020.pdf

16:35 News on Resummation (20'+10')

Speakers: Thomas Cridge, Thomas Cridge (University College London)

Resummation_Status_report.pdf

16:55 Standard Model Effective Theory at One-Loop in QCD (20+10)

Speaker: Ken Mimasu (Particle Physics-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science &)

Mimasu_LHCEWWG.pdf

Friday 9 October

13:30 → 14:00 Topical Session: Follow Up on MC Generators

13:30 Mixed QCD-EW corrections to Drell-Yan processes (25+10)

Speakers: Federico Buccioni (University of Oxford), Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich)

buccioni_EW_WG.pdf

14:00 → 16:00 Topical Session: Highlight measurements at the LHC

Convener: Paolo Azzurri (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)

14:00 Measurements of photon induced processes at the LHC (30+10)

Speaker: Oldrich Kepka (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

1009_yyX_ew_lhc_wg.pdf

14:40 Polarized VBS Measurement

Speaker: Miao Hu (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

SSWW_polarization_LHC_EW_v1.pdf

15:20 W helicity/interplay with data preservation/hepdata discussion

Speaker: Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (UCL (GB))

LCorpe_LHCEWWG_Oct20_HEPDataForPrecisionMeasurements.pdf

16:00 → 16:15 Coffe Break

16:15 → 18:25 Overview and Discussions

Convener: Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)

16:15 Status of the Yellow Report of the Electroweak Working Group (10+5)

Speaker: Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

lhc_ew_precision_summary.pdf

16:30 Status of the Yellow Report of the V+Jets Subgroup (10+5)

Speaker: Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

LHCEWWGVJets.pdf

16:45 Status of the Yellow Report of the Multiboson Group (10+5)

Speakers: Jonas Lindert, Jonas Lindert

Status_MB_091020.pdf

17:00 Report on the Needs and Goals of the LHC EFT Group

Speakers: Celine Catherine A Degrande (CERN), Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB)), Pietro Govoni (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

WGEFT_Lohwasser.pdf

17:25 Discussion