Effective Field Theories for Collider Physics, Flavor Phenomena and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

12 Sept 2016, 09:00 → 15 Sept 2016, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Burg Crass

Matthias Neubert (JGU Mainz)

This workshop is sponsored by the ERC Advanced Grant "Exploring the Origins of Flavour and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking.”

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Monday 12 September

16:00 → 16:30 Registration and coffee

16:30 → 16:45 Welcome

Convener: Matthias Neubert (JGU Mainz)

16:45 → 18:15 Session 1

16:45 Hunting Composite Higgs model UV embeddings in di-boson, ttbar, and other exotic searches at the LHC

Speaker: Thomas Flacke (Korea U. and IBS CTPU)

Slides ThomasFlacke.pdf

17:30 A UV complete partially composite Higgs

Speaker: Alexander Kagan (Cincinnati U.)

Slides AlexKagan.pdf

Tuesday 13 September

09:00 → 10:30 Session 2

09:00 A natural quantum critical Higgs

Speaker: Seung J. Lee (Korea U.)

Slides SeungLee.pdf

09:45 Putting the dip in diphoton: resonance hunting with interference

Speaker: Sophie Renner (JGU Mainz)

Slides SophieRenner.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 3

11:00 Bridging the UV and the IR at the loop level

Speaker: Adrian Carmona (CERN)

Slides AdrianCarmona.pdf

11:45 Strongly coannihilating Dark Matter at the LHC

Speaker: Maikel de Vries (JGU Mainz)

Slides MaikeldeVries.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 4

14:00 Perturbative Unitarity in the Dark Sector

Speaker: William Shepherd (JGU Mainz)

Slides WillShepherd.pdf

14:45 Closing the window on neutralino dark matter with a 100 TeV hadron collider

Speaker: Jose Zurita (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)

Slides JoseZurita.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:15 Session 5

16:00 Minimal leptoquark explanation of flavor anomalies and (g-2)

Speaker: Martin Bauer (U. of Heidelberg)

Slides MartinBauer.pdf

16:45 Flavor observables: correlations and anomalies

Speaker: Fulvia de Fazio (INFN Bari)

Slides FulviaDeFazio.pdf

17:30 Power corrections to semileptonic penguin decays

Speaker: Tobias Hurth (JGU Mainz)

Slides TobiasHurth.pdf

Wednesday 14 September

09:00 → 10:30 Session 6

09:00 Precise predictions for gauge-boson pair production processes at the LHC

Speaker: Barbara Jäger (U. of Tübingen)

Slides BarbaraJaeger.pdf

09:45 Transverse momentum distributions and jet cross sections at NNLO precision

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (U. of Zurich)

Slides ThomasGehrmann.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 7

11:00 Resummation for jet processes

Speaker: Thomas Becher (U. of Bern)

Slides ThomasBecher.pdf

11:45 Automating calculations in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

Speaker: Guido Bell (U. of Siegen)

Slides GuidoBell.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Session 8

14:00 NNLO differential calculation from soft-collinear effective theory: WHH production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Jian Wang (JGU Mainz)

Slides JianWang.pdf

14:45 → 17:30 Excursion

Travel to Kloster Eberbach, wine tasting and guided tour

17:30 → 19:30 Free time

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Kloster Eberbach

Thursday 15 September

09:00 → 10:30 Session 9

09:00 Recent progress in the SMEFT

Speaker: Michael Trott (NBIA, Copenhagen)

Slides MichaelTrott.pdf

09:45 Bounds on amplitudes and EFTs

Speaker: Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, CEA-Saclay and U. of Paris-Saclay)

Slides BrandoBellazzini.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 10

11:00 Phenomenology of light quark Yukawa couplings

Speaker: Felix Yu (JGU Mainz)

Slides FelixYu.pdf

11:45 Exclusive hadronic decays of electroweak bosons in QCD factorization

Speakers: Matthias König (JGU Mainz), Stefan Alte (JGU Mainz)

Slides MatthiasKoenig_StefanAlte.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Session 11

14:00 Analyzing the CP nature of a new scalar particle via S -> Z+h decay

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (JGU Mainz)

Slides MatthiasNeubert.pdf