Higgs Cross Sections for the LHC

US/Eastern
Large Seminar Room (Building 500, BNL)

Large Seminar Room

Building 500, BNL

Description
The LHC Higgs boson cross-section group started its activity in January 2010 with the purpose of producing agreements on cross sections, branching ratios and pseudo-observables relevant to Standard Model and MSSM Higgs boson(s). The group works across the LHC communities of theorists and experimentalists to profit from the best expertise on the relevant topics. The workshop at BNL is the 4th of the series.
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    • Session I Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 1
        Welcome
        Speaker: Howard Gordon (BNL)
      • 2
        Introduction: Theoretical Issues
        Speaker: Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (University of Freiburg)
        Slides
      • 3
        LHC Results
        • a) Higgs Search Results at LHC
          Speaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (BNL)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
      • 4
        Tevatron Results
        • a) Higgs Search Results at Tevatron
          Speaker: Michael Mulhearn (University of Virginia)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
    • 10:50
      Coffee Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session II Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 5
        H → ZZ*
        • a) Report from H→ZZ* subgroup
          Speaker: Nicola De Filippis (Bari University)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
      • 6
        H → WW*
        • a) Tevatron (CDF+D0) High-mass Results
          Speaker: Davide Gerbaudo (Princeton University)
          Slides
        • b) Report from H→WW* subgroup
          Speaker: Tiesheng Dai (Michigan University)
          Slides
        • c) Discussion
    • 12:30
      Lunch Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session III Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 7
        H → bb
        • a) Tevatron (CDF+D0) Low-mass Results
          Speaker: Craig Group (University of Virginia)
          Slides
        • b) Report from H→bb subgroup
          Speaker: Clara Matteuzzi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
          Slides
        • c) Discussion
      • 8
        H → ττ
        • a) Tevatron (CDF+D0) BSM Higgs results
          Speaker: Peter Svoisky (University of Oklahoma)
          Slides
        • b) Report from h/H/A→ττ subgroup
          Speaker: Alexandre Nikitenko (CERN)
          Slides
        • c) Discussion
    • 15:40
      Coffee Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session IV Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 9
        MSSM Higgs
        • a) MSSM Higgs Production in Gluon Fusion through NLO
          Speaker: Mantler Mantler (University of Wuppertal)
          Slides
        • b) Distributions for Higgs Production in Bottom Quark Annihilation
          Speaker: Marius Wiesemann (University of Wuppertal)
          Slides
        • c) Discussion
      • 10
        Charged Higgs
        • a) Report from H± subgroup
          Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (IFCA)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
      • 11
        SM and MSSM Higgs Branching Ratios
        • a) SM Higgs Branching Ratios
          Speaker: Daniela Rebuzzi (University of Pavia)
          Slides
        • b) MSSM Higgs Branching Ratios
          Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (IFCA, Santander)
          Slides
        • c) Discussion
    • 18:30
      Reception in Physics Lounge Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session V Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 12
        Differential Cross Sections
        • a) Higgs Production via VBF and WH/ZH Channels
          Speaker: Alexander Mück (Aachen University)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
      • 13
        NLO Monte Carlo
        • a) Pilot Project on Theoretical Uncertainty in NLO MC
          Speaker: Frank Krauss (Durham University)
        • b) Discussion
          Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session VI Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 14
        Pseudo-Observables
        • a) Heavy Higgs Searches
          Speaker: Giampiero Passarino (Torino University)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
    • 12:30
      Lunch Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session VII Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 15
        Jet Veto
        • a) Differential Cross Sections in ggF and Jet-Veto
          Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
          Slides
      • 16
        Higgs pT
        • a) Higgs pT Spectrum
          Speaker: Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zürich)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
    • 16:00
      Coffee Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session VIII Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 17
        PDF Issues
        • a) Progress Report on PDF
          Speaker: Stefano Forte (Milan University)
          Slides
        • b) Discussion
          Slides
    • 18:30
      Dinner in Brookhaven Center: Shuttle to Hampton Inn at 8:30 Brookhaven Center, Bldg 30

      Brookhaven Center, Bldg 30

    • Session IX Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      Conveners: Giampiero Passarino (Torino University), Reisaburo Tanaka (LAL)
    • 10:30
      Coffee Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

    • Session X Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Building 500, BNL

      • 19
        Closing Discussions
        Slides