The working group on Higgs production in gluon fusion and heavy quark annihilation should provide a platform for the communication among theorists and experimentalists.
Part of the sessions of this kick-off meeting will be reserved for short presentations (10 min)
of the participants but a large part of the time will be used for
discussions. Possible topics for the discussion sessions are:
- how can one combine the availabe information on the Higgs cross sections in order to arrive at the most reliable theory prediction?
- what are the uncertainties on cross sections?
- which MC generator(s) should be used to arrive at these?
- what measurements in early data are important to improve the signal predictions?
- how can one incorporate these in exclusion limits?
- what are the available tools and how do they compare to each other?
- which tools/calculations are needed for further improvements?
- how to tailor theory predictions and uncertainty estimates in order to match modern analysis methods? (sub-jets, jet-veto, recoil-jets,...)
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