Meeting 20120904
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Present: Caroline, Juergen, Simon, Marcos, Kerstin, Alexei, Frank, Shireen, Sergei

Round-the-table discussion: 
Juergen: 
	▪	Was at SUSY2012 conference - nothing new on Higgs or SUSY
	▪	Writing ILC report - considering impact of Higgs. 
	▪	[Discussion of new updated Babar paper on B-->D*tau which is measured 3.4sigma too high, leaving room for charged Higgs. Bottom line: Probably incompatible with Type-II 2HDM - theory community not overly excited. More data to come from Belle. Frank expects talk in CKM workshop in October and can then report.]

Kerstin:
	▪	no big news - still working on efficiencies (Marcos) and calibration (Sergei, with some new ideas on MVA techniques, regression etc.)
	▪	finished 4gamma conf note with sensitivity to CP-odd scalars of low mass (200-400 MeV) - limits only. 

Alexei
	▪	No news on SM - now analysing full 2012 period c (studying basic properties like MET etc.)
	▪	MSSM HIggs: analysed fully hadronic state H-->bb in association with b quarks (tagging 3 b, the 4th b is too soft); paper in preparation, improves tanbeta limits from Tevatron. 
	▪	Comment Juergen: have to do NLO calculations for <4b final state (was involved in calculation of 4 tagged b). 
	▪	SM news (Caroline): Starting with ee final states
	▪	many PhD students in the group. 

Frank
	▪	working on VBF versus gluon fusion separation at NLO (not resumed, using MCFN)
	▪	problem: 25% contamination from gluon fusion in VBF selection, and large uncertainty (50%?)

Simon
	▪	Summerstudent with Frank working on jet veto for Higgs production, focus on uncertainty.
	▪	full H+3jets calculation basically done. 

Question / discussions: 
	▪	Are there generators for the WW-->Z+2jets BG in VBF on the market? (some discussion, answer unclear)
	▪	H-->tautau in ATLAS???? Kerstin: publication once ATLAS can significantly contribute to the existing statements. 
	▪	20/21 September in Wuppertal: mtautau / LHCD-Higgs meeting

AOB
	▪	Next meeting: 9 October