Northwest Terascale Research Projects: Using jet substructure to find new physics at the LHC

Schedule

The small size and informal nature of this workskhop allows us to revise the schedule as we go. Thus the information listed below is subject to change.

We will meet in the Institute of Theoretical Science conference room on Monday, then in the Center for High Energy Physics conference room on Tuesday through Friday. Starting on Tuesday afternoon, the Institute of Theoretical Science conference room will be available at most times for discussions among subgroups of us.

• Monday 31 January

  • 9:00 Getting started activities at ITS office; coffee at ITS conference room.
  • 9:30 discussion of multivariate methods
  • 14:00 Gustaaf Brooijmans
    • Matrix elements, parton showers, and jet merging
  • 15:00 discussion (Michael Spannowsky)
    • Challenges for using jet substructure to find new physics

• Tuesday 1 February

  • 9:00 James Dolen
    • Results from CMS
  • 14:00 Giacinto Piacquadio
    • ATLAS sensitivity for boosted H -> b + bbar
  • 15:30 David Krohn
    • Tagging initial state radiation

• Wednesday 2 February

  • 9:00 David Miller
    • Results form Atlas
  • 10:30 Peter Loch
    • Shower smearing tool
  • 11:00 discussion (we need some volunteers)
    • Mulitvariate methods to combine observables: what is available, how well do these work?
  • 14:00 Dave Soper
    • Shower deconstruction
  • 15:00 Michael Spannowsky
    • Shower deconstruction results

• Thursday 3 February

  • 9:00 Chris Vermilion
    • How much can we trust MC descriptions of complicated topologies?

• Friday 4 February

  • 9:00 Tuhin Roy
    • How discussions here might help in finding the Higgs through top-partners
  • 11:00 reports from investigations at the workshop

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Last updated 30 January 2011