LHC EW WG General Meeting

Name: LHC EW WG General Meeting
Start: 2020-10-08T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-10-09T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Zoom

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

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Description

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.

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Thursday 8 October
- Thu 8 Oct
- Fri 9 Oct
- 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 5m
    
    Speaker: Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)
    
    EWKPrecisionIntro.pdf
  - 14:05
    
    PDF Benchmarks (30+10) 35m
    
    Speaker: Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))
    
    PDFbench.pdf
  - 14:40
    
    W boson mass combination status/plans + PDF issues (20+10) 30m
    
    Speaker: Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB))
    
    Combo071020.pdf
  - 15:10
    
    Treatment of EW effects in PDF fits and in experimental data (20+10) 30m
    
    Speaker: Mr Christopher Schwan (Università degli Studi di Milano)
    
    talk-schwan.pdf
- 15:40 → 16:00
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 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) 35m
    
    Speaker: Mauro Chiesa (CNRS LAPTh, Annecy)
    
    chiesa_09102020.pdf
  - 16:35
    
    News on Resummation (20'+10') 20m
    
    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) 30m
    
    Speaker: Ken Mimasu (Particle Physics-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science &)
    
    Mimasu_LHCEWWG.pdf
Friday 9 October
- Thu 8 Oct
- Fri 9 Oct
- 13:30 → 14:00
  Topical Session: Follow Up on MC Generators
  - 13:30
    
    Mixed QCD-EW corrections to Drell-Yan processes (25+10) 30m
    
    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) 40m
    
    Speaker: Oldrich Kepka (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))
    
    1009_yyX_ew_lhc_wg.pdf
  - 14:40
    
    Polarized VBS Measurement 40m
    
    Speaker: Miao Hu (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
    
    SSWW_polarization_LHC_EW_v1.pdf
  - 15:20
    
    W helicity/interplay with data preservation/hepdata discussion 40m
    
    Speaker: Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (UCL (GB))
    
    LCorpe_LHCEWWG_Oct20_HEPDataForPrecisionMeasurements.pdf
- 16:00 → 16:15
  
  Coffe Break 15m
- 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) 15m
    
    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) 15m
    
    Speaker: Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
    
    LHCEWWGVJets.pdf
  - 16:45
    
    Status of the Yellow Report of the Multiboson Group (10+5) 15m
    
    Speakers: Jonas Lindert, Jonas Lindert
    
    Status_MB_091020.pdf
  - 17:00
    
    Report on the Needs and Goals of the LHC EFT Group 25m
    
    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 30m