DESY Theory Seminar

Theory precision for current and future runs of the LHC with OpenLoops

by Jonas Lindert (IPPP Durham)

Europe/Berlin
seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

seminar room 2, building 2A

DESY Hamburg

Description
The continuous improvement of statistics and experimental systematics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) permits to challenge the Standard Model of particle physics at steadily increasing levels of energy and precision. In this context, the uncertainty of theoretical predictions starts playing a critical role in many areas of the physics program of the LHC, providing strong motivation for developing techniques that make it possible to push theoretical calculations towards more complex processes and higher perturbative orders including QCD and EW corrections. In this talk I will review recent progress in the tree and one-loop amplitude provider OpenLoops followed by a presentation of applications to Higgs-physics and to V+jets backgrounds in monojet Dark Matter searches.
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