Multi-Boson Interactions Workshop

28 Oct 2014, 08:15 → 30 Oct 2014, 18:00 US/Eastern

Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Hong Ma (BNL), Marc-André Pleier (BNL), Sally Dawson (BNL)

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This workshop aims to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss the theoretical and experimental status and perspectives of all processes sensitive to anomalous triple and quartic gauge couplings.

Workshop Photo MBI_Workshop_Photo.jpg

Tuesday, 28 October

08:15 → 08:45 Coffee/Registration

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome

Speakers: Dr Hong Ma (BNL), Dr Howard Gordon (BNL), Dr Marc-André Pleier (BNL), Dr Sally Dawson (BNL)

Slides 2013_overview_BNL_slides__Multi-Boson_Interactions_Workshop_.pptx

09:00 → 10:30 Theory I

Chair: Howard Gordon (BNL)

09:00 Effective Field Theories for Multi-Boson Interactions

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides BNL_Multiboson.pdf

09:30 Discussion

09:45 Operator Basis for Effective Field Theories

Speaker: Marco Sekulla (University of Siegen)

Slides sekulla-2014-10-28.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 12:15 Experiment I

Chair: Al Goshaw (Duke University)

10:45 Triboson Results CMS

Speaker: James Faulkner (Texas Tech University)

Slides aQGC_Workshop_BNL2014_JF.pdf

11:15 Discussion

11:30 Triboson Results ATLAS

Speaker: Mr Duong Nguyen (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides triboson_nguyen_v1.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch (no host)

14:00 → 15:30 Theory II

Chair: Matthew Herndon (University of Wisconsin Madison)

14:00 Simplified Models, Resonances, Unitarization

Speaker: Wolfgang Kilian (University of Siegen)

Slides talk.pdf

14:30 Discussion

14:45 Overview of Precision Predictions for VV Production

Speaker: Ian Lewis (BNL)

Slides IL_MultiBoson_2014.pdf

15:15 Discussion

15:30 → 15:45 Coffee

15:45 → 18:00 Experiment II

Chair: Prerit Jaiswal (Syracuse University)

15:45 Recent Diboson Results ATLAS

Speaker: Yusheng Wu (University of Michigan)

Slides DibosonTalk-Oct28-V3.pdf

16:15 Discussion

16:30 Recent Diboson Results CMS

Speaker: Nicolas Chanon (ETH Zürich)

Slides NC_Dibosons_MBI2014.pdf

17:00 Discussion

17:15 Diboson Results from the Tevatron

Speaker: William Parker (U Wisconsin)

Slides wcparker_BNL_102814.pdf

17:45 Discussion

18:00 → 20:00 Reception (Large Seminar Room Lounge)

Wednesday, 29 October

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee

09:00 → 10:30 Experiment III

Chair: Rafael Lopes de Sa (Fermilab)

09:00 VBF-V Results ATLAS

Speaker: Andrew Denis Pilkington (University College London)

Slides Pilkington-VBFZ-MBI2014.pdf

09:30 Discussion

09:45 VBF-V Results CMS

Speaker: Yiwen Wen (Peking University)

Slides BNL.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 12:15 Theory III

Chair: Elzbieta Richter-Was (Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University)

10:45 Precision Predictions for VV Scattering

Speaker: Alexander Karlberg (Oxford)

Slides VVscattering2014BNL.pdf

11:15 Discussion

11:30 Predictions from New Physics Models for VV Production

Speaker: Patrick Meade (Stony Brook University)

Slides BNL1014meade.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:15 → 12:20 Photo Shoot

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch (no host)

14:00 → 15:30 Experiment IV

Chair: Lindsey Gray (Fermilab)

14:00 VBS-VV Results CMS

Speaker: Rafael Lopes de Sa (FNAL)

Slides presentation.pdf

14:30 Discussion

14:45 VBS-VV Results ATLAS

Speaker: Lulu Liu (University of Michigan)

Slides 10_14_2014_VBS_VV_BNL_MultiBosonWorkshop.pdf

15:15 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Theory IV

Chair: Zhijun Liang (University of California, Santa Cruz)

16:00 NNLO Results for VV Production

Speaker: Stefan Kallweit (UZH)

Slides Kallweit.pdf

16:30 Discussion

16:45 Resummation for VV Production

Speaker: Prerit Jaiswal (Florida State University)

Slides WWjetVeto.pdf

17:15 Discussion

18:30 → 21:00 Workshop Dinner

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Thursday, 30 October

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee

09:00 → 10:30 Theory V

Chair: Michael Kobel (TU Dresden)

09:00 Multi-boson Production and Electroweak Effects at Future Colliders

Speaker: Brock Tweedie (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides Tweedie_Multiboson100TeV.pdf

09:30 Discussion

09:45 Multi-Boson Production and Higgs Width Measurements

Speaker: Keith Ellis (FNAL)

Slides Ellis_BNL.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 12:15 Experiment V

Chair: Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan)

10:45 HL-LHC Sensitivity Studies

Speaker: Dr Jessica Metcalfe (BNL)

Slides Metcalfe_VBS_HL-LHC_BNL_Wkshp_Oct30_2014.pdf

11:15 Discussion

11:30 ILC Sensitivity Studies

Speaker: Rick Van Kooten (Indiana U)

Slides talk_vankooten_MultiBoson_LC_2.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch (no host)

14:00 → 15:10 Theory/Experiment

Chair: Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)

14:00 Measurement of diboson production in the lν jj final state at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Brian Lindquist (SBU)

Slides Lindquist_MultiBoson_lnujj_30Oct2014.pdf

14:15 Discussion

14:20 Concluding Vision

Speaker: Dr Sally Dawson (BNL)

Slides dawson_2014.pdf

14:50 Discussion