Multi-Boson Interactions 2015 (MBI 2015)

2 Sept 2015, 08:00 → 4 Sept 2015, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Main auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Anja Vest (University of Dresden), Christophe Grojean (Barcelona & DESY), Isabell-A. Melzer-Pellmann (DESY), Jürgen Reuter (DESY), Kristin Lohwasser (DESY), Michael Kobel (University of Dresden), Peter Schleper (University of Hamburg), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

Vidyo Connection

Group photo Internationales_Workshop_MBI_2015_Original_0030.jpg

Wednesday 2 September

09:00 → 10:45 LHC Run I Overview

09:00 Opening

Speaker: Joachim Mnich (DESY)

Slides MBI2015_intro.pdf

09:15 ATLAS Run 1 Mini Review: (7/8 TeV) multi-V measurements

Speaker: Mr Veit Scharf (Kirchhoff Institut für Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

Slides mbi2015_scharf.pdf

10:00 CMS LHC Run I Multiboson interactions review

Speaker: Senka Duric (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Slides aC_CMS_MBI2015_DESY_v2.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:45 Joint Theory / Experiment session

11:15 Unitarization, operator bases and resonances

Speaker: Mr Marco Sekulla (Universität Siegen)

Slides mbi2015_sekulla.pdf

12:00 Hot topics in Multi-boson interactions from CMS

Speaker: Matthias Mozer (KIT)

Slides mmozer_mbi2015.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Prospects for Run II and beyond

14:00 Multiboson interactions: CMS Run 2 startup and futher prospects

Speaker: Pietro Govoni (Milan Bicocca)

Slides 2015-09-02-MBI2015-govoni.pdf

14:45 Start of Run 2 (detector performance) and prospects in Run 2 and beyond (HL-LHC) for multi-V measurements

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (TU Dresden)

Slides cg_mbi2015.pdf

15:30 Discussion

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Theory I

16:30 Overview over Vector boson fusion and scattering

Speaker: Prof. Dieter Zeppenfeld (KIT)

Slides Zeppenfeld-MBI2015.pdf

17:15 Composite Higgs Models

Speaker: Andrea Thamm (EPFL)

Slides CH.pdf

18:00 Discussion

Thursday 3 September

09:30 → 10:45 Analysis I

09:30 Longitudinal Vector Boson Scattering extraction with Deep Learning Techniques

Speaker: Jack Searcy (University of Michigan)

Slides MBI_Deep_Learning.pdf

10:00 Study of Polarization Fractions in the Scattering of Massive Gauge Bosons with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Ms Ulrike Schnoor (IKTP TU Dresden)

Slides USchnoor_MBI2015.pdf

10:30 Discussion

10:45 → 11:30 Coffee Break: Workshop Picture

11:30 → 12:30 Theory II

11:30 QCD corrections to pp -> VV at NNLO

Speaker: Mr Dirk Rathlev (THEORY)

Slides rathlev.pdf

12:00 Electroweak corrections to dibosons

Speaker: Mr Benedikt Biedermann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Slides MultiBosonInteractions2015.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Tools I

14:00 POWHEGBox and electroweak physics

Speaker: fulvio piccininin (INFN Pavia)

Slides piccinini.pdf

14:30 Electroweak processes in Madgraph5_aMC@NLO

Speaker: Dr Davide Pagani (UC Louvain)

Slides MBI.pdf

15:00 Status of VBFNLO

Speaker: Michael michaelrauch (ITP, Univ. Karlsruhe)

Slides Rauch_VBFNLO.pdf

15:30 Discussion

15:45 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Tools II & Analysis II

16:30 WHIZARD and electroweak physics

Speaker: Mr Christian Weiss (DESY Theory group)

Slides Whizard_for_MBI_2015.pdf

17:00 Electroweak processes in Sherpa

Speaker: Prof. Steffen Schumann (Uni Goettingen)

Slides mbi_hh_ss.pdf

17:30 Study of Polarization Fractions in the Scattering of Massive WZ -> WZ gauge bosons

Speaker: Mr Carsten Bittrich (Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Dresden)

Slides 2015-09-03-Polarization-WZjj-Carsten-Bittrich.pdf

19:00 → 23:59 Dinner

Friday 4 September

09:00 → 11:00 Boosted techniques and diboson excess

09:00 Boosted V reconstruction in ATLAS

Speaker: Chris Malena Delitzsch (University of Geneva)

Slides MBI_BoostedBosons_Delitzsch_v0.pdf

09:45 Theory explanations for the ATLAS diboson excess

Speaker: Ben Gripaios (University of Cambridge)

Slides dibosons_talk.pdf

10:30 WW around the threshold region

Speaker: Mr Jamie Tattersall (Heidelberg University)

Slides WW_excess.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:45 Summary

11:30 Summary talk

Speaker: Christophe grojean (CERN)

Slides Grojean_MBI_2015_09_04.pdf

12:15 Discussion and Closing