7th Annual Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale"

2 Dec 2013, 08:00 → 4 Dec 2013, 18:20 Europe/Berlin

Aula (KIT - Campus Nord)

Thomas Müller (KIT)

Welcome to the 7th Annual Helmholtz Alliance Workshop on "Physics at the Terascale" to be held at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) - Campus Nord!

The workshop aims at bringing together the whole Alliance community, reviewing the status and progress of the resarch topics and discussing future directions and projects.

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Monday, 2 December

10:00 → 13:00 Registration

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome

Convener: Mr Thomas Müller (EKP)

slides 01-ThomasMueller-INFO.pptx

13:15 → 14:35 3 Years at the Terascale

13:15 LHC and precision physics

Speaker: Nigel Glover (IPPP Durham)

Slides 02-NigelGlover.pdf

13:55 The quest for the Higgs boson at the LHC

Speaker: Jim Virdee (Imperial College)

Slides 03-JimVirdee.pdf

14:35 → 15:55 3 Years at the Terascale

14:35 BSM Physics

Speaker: Marcela Carena (FNAL)

Slides 04-MarcelaCarena.pdf

15:15 LHC detectors - from design to performance

Speaker: Christoph Rembser (CERN)

Slides 05-ChristophRembser.pdf 05-ChristophRembser.ppt

15:55 → 16:40 Coffee break

16:40 → 18:30 BSM

Conveners: Andreas Weiler (DESY-T), Christian Sander (University of Hamburg), Dr Frank Ellinghaus (University of Mainz), Mr Herbert Dreiner (Universitaet Bonn), Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

16:40 ATLAS dark matter searches with missing ET and mono-X ( X= Jet, W, Z, Gamma) in the final state

Speaker: Ruth Poettgen (Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz / CERN)

Slides Terascale2013_Poettgen.pdf

16:55 Bayesian Forecasts from Dark Matter Direct Detection and LHC

Speaker: Georgi Arcadi (University of Göttingen)

Slides 02-GeorgiArcadi_forecasts.pdf

17:10 Search for dark matter, heavy bosons and other new physics in the l+MET final state

Speaker: Klaas Padeken

Slides PadekenWprimeDMTerrascale.pdf

17:25 The Limit(ation)s of Simplified Models

Speaker: Jory Sonneveld (University of Aachen)

Slides sonneveld_karlsruhe_20131202.pdf

17:40 Model Independent Search in di-Mass-Space using Events with MET

Speaker: Ms Sarah Beranek (I. Physikalisches Institut (B)-RWTH Aachen)

Slides 20131202_terascale_sarahberanek.pdf

17:55 Calculation of LHC constraints using Simplified Models

Speaker: Lisa Zeune (desy)

Slides Talk_LZeune.pdf

18:10 Search for large extra dimensions in the di-lepton channel with CMS

Speaker: Tobias Pook

Slides ADD-Terascale.pdf

16:40 → 18:30 Higgs

16:40 Welcome

Speakers: Prof. Günter Quast (KIT Karlsruhe), Juergen Kroseberg (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn), Prof. Robert Harlander (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

16:45 Testing Models of new physics with HiggsSIgnals

Speaker: Tim Stefaniak (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn)

Slides HiggsSignals_Alliance2013_TimStefaniak.pdf

17:00 Status of SUSY Higgs boson searches with ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Marcus Morgenstern (TU Dresden)

Slides BSMHiggs.pdf

17:15 Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons with CMS

Speaker: Mr Felix Frensch (KIT - Karlsruher Institute of Technology)

Slides terrascale_20131203.pdf

17:30 Search for (MS)SM Higgs->mumu with CMS

Speaker: Hendrik Weber (RWTH Aachen)

Slides talk.pdf

17:45 Higgs Strahlung at the LHC in the 2HDM

Speaker: Tom Zirke (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides VH_2HDM_Karlsruhe.pdf

18:00 Singlet extension of the SM Higgs sector

Speaker: Dr Tania Robens (IKTP, TU Dresden)

Slides singlet.pdf

16:40 → 18:39 Standard Model

16:40 Higher order QCD improvements in Herwig++

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (DESY Theory Group)

Slides 01-SimonPlaetzer_Herwig.pdf

16:57 NLO Merging in Herwig++

Speaker: Johannes Bellm (KIT)

Slides 02_JohannesBellm_NLOMerging.pdf

17:14 Merging matrix elements in Pythia8

Speaker: Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)

Slides 03-StefanPrestel_MatrixElements.pdf

17:31 Predictions for H->WW background in exclusive jet bins with Sherpa+OpenLoops

Speaker: Philipp Maierhöfer (University of Zürich)

Slides 04-PhillipMaierhoefer_HtoWW.pdf

17:48 Measurement of Angular Correlations and Soft Jets

Speaker: Nadine Fischer (KIT)

Slides 05-NadineFischer_AngularCorrelations.pdf.pdf

18:05 Jet energy calibration in CMS

Speaker: Joram Berger (KIT)

Slides 06-JoramBerger_JetEnegyCalibration.pdf

18:22 Jet Substructure, W- and Top-Tagging in CMS

Speaker: Mr Emanuele Usai (University of Hamburg)

Slides 07-EmanueleUsai_JetSubstructure.pdf

16:40 → 18:45 Top

16:40 Search for ttbar resonances in lepton+jets final states (CMS)

Speaker: Mr Thomas Peiffer (Universität Hamburg)

Slides TerascaleKarlsruhe_Peiffer.pdf

17:05 B-tagging in boosted ttbar decays (ATLAS)

Speaker: Dominik Duda

Slides talk_allianceWorkshop.pdf

17:30 Differential ttbar cross sections in the dilepton channel at 8 TeV (CMS)

Speaker: Ivan Asin (DESY)

Slides Asin-Terascale.pdf

17:55 Top-pair production at NNLL

Speaker: Jan Piclum

Slides Jan_talk.pdf

18:45 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday, 3 December

09:00 → 12:35 BSM

Conveners: Andreas Weiler (DESY-T), Christian Sander (University of Hamburg), Dr Frank Ellinghaus (University of Mainz), Mr Herbert Dreiner (Universitaet Bonn), Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

09:00 Squark Pair Production at NLO

Speaker: Eva Popenda (PSI)

Slides Popenda_Helmholtz2013.pdf

09:15 direct Stop searches in 1lepton final states

Speaker: Dr Sophio Pataraia (BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL)

Slides SUSY_terascale_pataraia.pdf

09:30 Sfermion VEVs in the CMSSM

Speakers: Dr Ben O'Leary (RWTH-Aachen University), Dr Ben O'Leary (Aachen)

Slides 03-BenOLeary_sfermions.pdf

09:45 Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum at 8 TeV

Speaker: Manfredi Ronzani (University of Freiburg)

Slides 0Lepton-SUSY-Terascale_021213_Ronzani.pdf

10:00 The MSSM in the decoupling limit: the 2HDM of type III

Speaker: Mr Andreas Crivellin (TTP Karlsruhe)

Slides 05-AndreasCrivellin_doublets.ppt

10:15 Enhanced corrections to neutrino mixing for quasi-degenerate neutrinos

Speaker: Wolfgang Hollik (KIT)

Slides 06-WolfgangHollik_neutrino-mixing.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 ILC/LHC study on the projection to 3000 fb-1 with a pMSSM stau coannihilation model, and possible ILC observations

Speaker: Mr Artur Lobanov (DESY)

Slides ILCwLHC.pdf

11:15 Strongly coupled models versus the LHC

Speaker: Mr Maikel de Vries (DESY)

Slides talk.pdf

11:30 Same-sign dilepton analysis with 14.3 fb-1 @ 8 TeV

Speaker: Dennis Sperlich (Humboldt University Berlin)

Slides helmholtz13_sperlich.pdf

11:45 Electroweak and Conformal Symmetry Breaking by a Strongly Coupled Hidden Sector

Speaker: Kher Sham (MPI Heidelberg)

Slides lim_karlsruhe.pdf

12:00 Search for third-generation leptoquarks and heavy T' quarks decaying to top and Higgs with substructure methods at CMS

Speakers: Mareike Meyer (Universitaet Hamburg), Rebekka Hoeing (UHH)

Slides TeraScale_MareikeMeyer.pdf

12:20 Global Fits for Physics Beyond the SM

Speaker: Dr Martin Wiebusch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides 12-MartinWiebusch_fits.pdf

09:00 → 12:30 Higgs

09:00 Precise Predictions for electroweak H+jets production

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (DESY Theory Group)

Slides platzer.pdf

09:15 VBF H->WW with ATLAS

Speaker: Carsten Burgard (Uni Freiburg)

Slides 02-Carsten_Burghard.pdf

09:30 Search for SM H->tautau with ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Nils Ruthmann (Universität Freiburg)

Slides Terrascale_Ruthmann_TauTauAtlas.pdf

09:45 How to pin down the CP quantum numbers of a Higgs boson in its tau decays at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Stefan Berge (Universität Mainz)

Slides Htautau_LHC_S.Berge_03.12.2013.pdf

10:00 Top quark mass effects in NLO Higgs boson pair production at the LHC

Speaker: Jonathan Grigo (KIT)

Slides 10-Jonathan_Grigo.pdf

10:15 Break

10:45 Search for ttH->bb with CMS

Speaker: Mr Tobias Verlage (RWTH Aachen)

Slides 2013_12_03_tverlage.pdf

11:00 Search for ttH->bb with ATLAS

Speaker: Olaf Nackenhorst (DESY Summer Student)

Slides 07-Olaf_Nackenhorst.pdf

11:15 Search for Higgs + single top production with CMS

Speaker: Simon Fink (KIT)

Slides 08-Simon_Fink.pdf

11:30 ATLAS SM H->mumu prospects for HL-LHC

Speaker: Mr Sebasitan Stern (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides 09-Sebastian_Stern.pdf

11:45 Search for SM H->tautau with CMS

Speaker: Mr Armin Burgmeier (DESY)

Slides burgmeier_2013-12-03_Terascale.pdf

12:00 Anomalous quartic gauge couplings and unitarisation in presence of a SM Higgs for VBS

Speaker: Mr Marco Sekulla (Universität Siegen)

Slides Sekulla.pdf

12:15 LHC Higgs Cross Section Group Report

Speaker: Margarete Mühlleitner (KIT)

Slides muehlleitner.pdf

09:00 → 12:32 Standard Model

09:00 The ABM parton distributions tuned to LHC data

Speaker: Dr Sergey Alekhin (Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia))

Slides 01-SergeyAlekhin_ABD-PDF.pdf

09:17 fastNLO v2

Speaker: Klaus Rabbertz (KIT)

Slides 02-KlausRabbertz_fastNLO.pdf

09:34 QCD analysis of the CMS inclusive jet measurement

Speaker: Georg Sieber (KIT)

Slides 03-GeorgSieber_inclusiveJets.pdf

09:51 Impact of W-boson production measurements at CMS on determination of parton distributions

Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Desy)

Slides 04-RingailePlacakyte_WBoson.pdf

10:08 Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of $Z/\gamma^{*}$ in ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV

Speaker: Dr Andrea Di Simone (Uni Freiburg)

Slides 05-AndreaDiSimone_FB-asymetry.pdf

10:25 Coffee Break

10:50 Mixed QCD×EW corrections to Drell–Yan processes in the resonance region

Speaker: Mr Alexander Huss (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Slides 06-AlexanderHuss_DrellYanCorrections.pdf

11:07 WW production at high transverse momenta beyond NLO

Speaker: Michael Rauch (ITP, Univ. Karlsruhe)

Slides 07-MichaelRauch_WWProduction.pdf

11:24 Z plus jets at the LHC at NLO

Speaker: Stefan Weinzierl (Universität Mainz)

Slides 08-StefanWeinzierl_ZplusJets.pdf

11:41 QCD and Electroweak Corrections to W+Gamma Production at the LHC

Speaker: Markus Hecht

Slides 09-MarcusHecht_W+Gamma.pdf

11:58 Status of Vgamma production in NNLO QCD

Speaker: Mr Dirk Rathlev (THEORY)

Slides 10-DirkRathlev_Vgamma.pdf

09:00 → 12:30 Top

09:00 Top mass measurement in the l+jets and fully hadronic channels at CMS

Speaker: Mr Markus Seidel (Universität Hamburg)

Slides topmass_terascale_mseidel.pdf

09:25 Single top-quark production in next-to-leading order with HATHOR

Speaker: Till Martini

Slides 2top_martini.pdf

09:50 Uncertainties in t-channel measurements (ATLAS)

Speaker: Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides talk.pdf

10:15 Single top quark polarization (CMS)

Speaker: Steffen Roecker (KIT)

Slides sroecker_terascale2013.pdf

10:40 Break

11:10 Anomalous Top Charged-current Contact Interactions in Single Top Production at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Fabian Bach (Universität Würzburg)

Slides fbach.pdf

11:35 Top Charge Asymmetry: Discovering Light Axigluons in ttbar+jet production at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Stefan Berge (Universität Mainz)

Slides pp2ttjet_lightaxi_S.Berge_03.12.2013.pdf

12:00 Towards the measurement of associated production of vector bosons and tt in the dilepton channel within the ATLAS experiment at sqrt(s)=8 TeV

Speaker: Tamara Vazquez-Schroeder

Slides 7top_tamara.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Terascale Media Training

12:33 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 18:00 Analysis Project

14:00 Welcome and introduction

Speakers: Mr Herbert Dreiner (Universitaet Bonn), Dr Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

Slides 01-Welcome.pdf

14:05 Report from the Mtautau working group

Speaker: Juergen Kroseberg (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn)

Slides HA-1213-kroseberg.pdf

14:30 Parton shower developments

Speaker: Dr Zoltan Nagy (DESY)

Slides 03-Zoltan_Nagy.pdf

14:55 MCs, matching and all that

Speaker: Dr Simon Plätzer (DESY Theory Group)

Slides platzer.pdf

15:20 The HERAFitter project

Speakers: Voica Radescu (DESY), Dr Voica Radescu (DESY)

Slides herafitter-terascale.pdf

15:50 Coffee break

16:20 The PROSA project

Speaker: Dr Katerina Lipka (DESY)

Slides Prosa_Terascale.pdf

16:45 Open-source approx. NNLO ttbar differential calculations

Speaker: Dr Marco Guzzi (DESY)

Slides 07-Marco_Guzzi.pdf

17:10 Low-x phenomenology

Speaker: Henri Kowalski (DESY)

Slides 08-Henri_Kowalski.pdf

14:00 → 18:00 Computing parallel session: Computing Project and GridKa technical Advisory Board

Conveners: Mr Matthias Kasemann (DESY/CMS), Dr Thomas Kress (RWTH Aachen, IIIb)

14:00 Evolution of experiments computing: ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Johannes Elmsheuser (LMU Muenchen)

Slides ka_031213.pdf

14:15 Evolution of experiments computing: CMS

Speaker: Christoph Wissing (DESY)

Slides CMSComputing_Wissing.pdf

14:30 Experiments computing: Belle-2

Speaker: Thomas Kuhr (KIT Süd)

Slides Allianz13.pdf

14:45 GridKa T1 report, status and outlook

Speaker: Andreas Petzold (KIT)

Slides gridka-status-future-terascale-20131203.pdf

15:15 Evolution of experiments computing: ALICE

Speaker: Peter Malzacher (GSI)

Slides Evolution_of_ALICE_Computing.pdf Evolution_of_ALICE_Computing.pptx

15:30 Coffee Break

15:55 Networks for HEP data analysis: the global picture

Speaker: Dr Yves Kemp (DESY)

Slides alliance2013-network-kemp.pdf

16:15 Storage developments in D and internationally

Speaker: Dr Paul Millar (DESY)

Slides storage.odp storage.pdf

16:45 Monitoring for analysis jobs and computing infrastructure

Speaker: Jordi Nadal

Slides MonitoringTalk_Karlsruhe.pdf

17:15 New ways using computing resources: workflow developments

Speaker: Dr Johannes Elmsheuser (LMU Muenchen)

Slides ka_031213_2.pdf

14:00 → 18:00 Detector Project: LHC Phase II Upgrade Plans in Germany

Convener: Lutz Feld (RWTH Aachen)

14:00 Introduction

Speaker: Lutz Feld (RWTH Aachen)

Slides Feld_LHC_Phase_II_Upgrades_Intro.pptx

14:20 ATLAS Pixel System

Speaker: Dr Fabian Hügging (Universität Bonn)

Slides ATLAS_pixel_upgrades_HHA_12_2013_fh.pdf

14:40 CMS Pixel System

Speakers: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg), Dr Erika Garutti (DESY)

Slides EG-CMSPixel-AllianceKarlsruhe.pdf

15:00 ATLAS Tracking System

Speaker: Dr Ulrich Parzefall (Uni Freiburg)

Slides ATLAS_StripTracker_Parzefall_v5.pptx

15:20 CMS Tracking System

Speaker: Dr Alexander Dierlamm (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

Slides CMS_Tracker_Upgrade_aldi.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 ATLAS Calorimetry

Speaker: Ms Olga Novgorodova (TU Dresden, IKTP)

Slides Novgorodova_TU_Dresden_ATLAS_Calorimetry_PhaseII.pdf

16:30 ATLAS Muon System

Speaker: Oliver Kortner (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides kortner.pdf

16:50 CMS Muon System

Speaker: kerstin Hoepfner (RWTH Aachen)

Slides MuonUpgrade_Terascale2013-KH.pdf

17:10 LHCb

Speaker: Dr Blake Leverington (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg)

Slides karlsruhealliance_2013_blake.pdf

14:00 → 18:00 LC Forum

14:00 Distinction of tricky scenarios in MSSM/NMSSM in the light of LHC results

Speaker: Stefano Porto (University of Hamburg)

Slides Stefano_Porto_7thTerascale_NMSSM.pdf

14:20 Higgs CP properties using tau-decay modes at the ILC

Speaker: Stefan Berge (University of Mainz)

Slides Htautau_LC_S.Berge_Karlsruhe_03.12.2013.pdf

14:50 Measuring the Higgs width through interferometry at the ILC

Speaker: Stefan Liebler (University of Hamburg)

Slides LCForum_Liebler.pdf

15:10 How to build the ILC in the Mountains of Northern Japan?

Speaker: Karsten Buesser (DESY)

Slides 131203_ILC.pdf

15:40 Testing strong field QED at the LC

Speaker: Stefano Porto (Hamburg University)

Slides Stefano_Porto_7thTerascale_E144.pdf

16:00 announcements

Speakers: Mr Stefan Liebler (Universität Hamburg), Stefano Porto (Hamburg University)

Slides announcements.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Institute Assembly

Agenda https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=9362

18:00 → 19:00 NAF User Meeting

Conveners: Dr Hartmut Stadie (Universität Hamburg), Dr Yves Kemp (DESY)

slides alliance2013-NAF-usermeeting-kemp.pdf

18:30 → 21:30 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday, 4 December

09:00 → 09:45 Dark matter between elementary particle physics, astroparticle physics and direct searches

Speaker: Uwe Oberlack (U Mainz)

Slides DM_searches_KIT.pdf

09:45 → 10:45 Project reports

09:45 Enabling Technologies for Silicon Microstrip Tracking Detectors at the HL‐LHC

Speaker: Susanne Kuehn (University of Freiburg)

Slides PETTLStatus-AllianzNov13-SK.pdf

10:15 Inclusive and Semi-Inclusive Constraints on the Parton Distributions at the LHC and the Study of Hard Processes

Speaker: Dr Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

Slides blumlein.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffe break

11:15 → 11:45 Project reports

11:15 Next generation computing for HEP data analysis in Germany

Speaker: Mr Matthias Kasemann (DESY/CMS)

Slides 131204-Computing.pdf

11:45 → 13:15 The future of the LHC and the ILC

11:45 LHC upgrades and report from the ECFA LHC upgrade meeting

Speaker: Didier Contardo

Slides 05-DidierContardo_LHC-upgrade.pdf 05-DidierContardo_LHC-upgrade.pptx

12:30 The ILC after the TDR - plans and objectives

Speaker: Sachio Komamiya

Slides 06-SachioKomamiya_ILC-Japan.pdf

13:15 → 13:30 Workshop farewell