Northwest Terascale Research Projects: W + b quark physics at the LHC

Schedule

Our talks will be available on EVO, http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/, under the "Universe" heading, for each day of the workshop from 9:00 to 17:00 Pacific time. The meeting URL is http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=eleBevvnv8aDa2aeIl . The phone bridge is ID: 38937.

Times listed below are U.S. Pacific times. Talks are at the Center for High Energy Physics conference room.

• Monday 14 September

  • 9:00 Getting started activities at ITS office; coffee at ITS conference room.
  • 10:00 Jason Nielsen
    • What we need for the LHC, the Atlas point of view.
  • 11:00 Steve Mrenna
    • What we need for the LHC, the CMS point of view.
  • 14:00 Evelyn Thomson
    • What CDF has learned.

• Tuesday 15 September

  • 9:00 Fernando Febres Codero
    • Introduction to the NLO calculations.
  • 11:00 Steve Mrenna
    • Introduction to LO + parton shower calculations.

• Wednesday 16 September

  • 9:00 Gordon Watts (from Geneva)
    • Tagging b quarks.
  • 11:00 Joey Huston
    • Issues with parton distribution functions.
  • 14:00 Laura Reina
    • W/Z + 2 b quarks at NLO

• Thursday 17 September

  • 10:00 Doreen Wackeroth
    • Beyond the state of the art with NLO calculations for W/Z + b quarks.
  • 13:30 Chris Vermilion
    • Pruning jets to see the signal.
  • 15:00 Joey Huston
    • Why jet definitions matter in comparing to LO and NLO theory.

• Friday 18 September

  • 9:30 Michael Spannowsky
    • How to sort out the physics in new particle searches in which W+b is an important background.
  • 11:00 Dave Soper
    • What is the Simplified ACOT scheme?

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