Prejudice meets reality: setting limits at the LHC and global fits of LHC data and other measurements

Europe/Berlin
Bethe Forum (Bonn)

Bethe Forum

Bonn

Philip Bechtle (DESY), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)
Description
Workshop and school on limit setting and global fits in the LHC era
 
The school (20-22 August) will present in great depth the most important ingredients for the global interpretation of LHC and other data, especially in the light of searches for supersymmetry. Topics covered will be limit setting and fitting, profile likelihood technique with tutorial, ROOTSTATS and worksspaces, MVA methods, inclusive and model-independent SUSY searches and their interpretation. Talks on physics topics such as Higgs physics, BS-->mumu or astrophyical input quantities will complement the programme. A highlight lecture on global fits in the past and in the future will build the bridge to the workshop part (23-24 August) to which also the school participants are heartily invited.

The workshop - which will be attended by the experts from the leading global fit projects - will discuss up-to-date questions in the field.

Fee: 60 € (arrival Wednesday evening or before) or 10 € (arrival Thursday morning or after), to be paid in cash upon arrival.
The scientific programme is complemented by a welcome reception on Monday evening and a school and workshop dinner on Wednesdey (at Bierhaus Machold).
Support
Participants
  • Alex Read
  • Andrea Knue
  • Andreas Ditte
  • Annika Vauth
  • Bakul Gaur
  • Ben O'Leary
  • Bjoern Sarrazin
  • Boris Lemmer
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  • Christian Limbach
  • Daniel Schmeier
  • Eckhard von Toerne
  • Fabio Cardillo
  • Felix Socher
  • Florian Staub
  • Friedrich Hönig
  • Geoffrey Herbert
  • Ihar Marfin
  • Jan Therhaag
  • Jory Sonneveld
  • Karl Koller
  • Kees Jan de Vries
  • Klaus Desch
  • Kristin Heine
  • Laura Rehnisch
  • Lorenzo Moneta
  • Mareike Meyer
  • Markus Schumacher
  • Martin Wiebusch
  • Michael Krämer
  • Norbert Wermes
  • Oleg Kuprash
  • Oscar Stål
  • Peter Kovesarki
  • Philip Bechtle
  • Philipp Millet
  • Roman Kogler
  • Simon Fink
  • Simone Zimmermann
  • Stefan Schacht
  • Steffen Schaepe
  • Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius
  • Till Eifert
  • Tim Stefaniak
  • Timea-Elisabeth Reti
  • Torsten Ensslin
  • Urs Langenegger
  • Valentina Sola
  • Wolfgang Ehrenfeld
  • Xavier Portell Bueso
  • Xavier Prudent
    • 1
      Lecture: Introduction to limit setting and fitting
      Speaker: Alex Read
      Slides
    • 16:00
      Coffee break
    • 2
      RooStats and workspaces - lecture and tutorial RooStats and workspaces
      Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
      Link to tutorials
      Slides
    • 3
      Welcome reception
    • 4
      Lecture: Astrophysical observables
      Speaker: Torsten Ensslin (MPA)
    • 5
      Lecture: B_s --> mumu
      Speaker: Urs Langenegger (PSI)
      Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
    • 6
      Lecture: Higgs physics
      Speaker: Prof. Markus Schumacher (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
      Slides
    • 7
      Lecture / tutorial: HiggsBounds
      Speakers: Oscar Stål (DESY), Tim Stefaniak (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn)
    • 13:00
      Lunch break
    • 8
      Tutorial: Limit setting and fitting 1
      Speaker: Mr Jan Therhaag (Physikalisches Institut Universität Bonn)
      Slides
    • 9
      Lecture: Limit setting and profile likelihood etc.
      Speaker: Alex Read
      Slides
    • 16:00
      Coffee break
    • 10
      Tutorial: Limit setting and fitting 2 (profile likelihood technique ...)
      Speaker: Mr Jan Therhaag (Physikalisches Institut Universität Bonn)
    • 11
      Lecture: Overview of SUSY searches and their statistical interpretation
      Speaker: Xavier Portell Bueso (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)
      Slides
    • 12
      Lecture: From A to Z: examining a SUSY analysis in detail
      Speaker: Till Eifert
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 13
      Tutorial: SUSY and Interpretation
      Speakers: Till Eifert, Xavier Portell Bueso (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)
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      Slides
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    • 14
      Lecture: Flavour Riddle
      Speaker: Phil Urquijo
    • 12:45
      Lunch break
    • 15
      Lecture and tutorial: MVA methods and boosted decision trees
      Speaker: Eckhard von Toerne (Bonn)
      Slides
    • 16
      Overflow time for discussion and lengthy tutorials
      Speaker: Petra Haefner
    • 16:00
      Coffee break
    • 17
      Lecture: Global fit results - past and future
      Speaker: Michael Kraemer
      Slides
    • 18
      Dinner at Bierhaus Machold (http://www.bierhaus-machold.com/).
    • Session 1
      • 19
        Welcome and Introduction
        Speaker: Philip Bechtle (DESY)
      • 20
        Squark Flavor Implications from B --> K* l+ l-
        Speaker: Mr Stefan Schacht (Technische Universität Dortmund)
        Slides
      • 21
        Likelihood ratio tests for non-nested models: the case of the fourth fermion generation
        Speaker: Dr Martin Wiebusch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
        Slides
    • 11:30
      Coffee break
    • Session 2 -- Discussion and Farewell
      • 22
        News from Fittino fits
        Speaker: Mr Xavier Prudent (IKTP Dresden)
        Slides
      • 23
        News from Mastercode fits
        Speaker: Kees Jan de Vries
        Slides
      • 24
        Any other discussion