Les Houches
2023 Session
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- Use of wiki pages and slack. Wifi access/set-up.
- Important info about bus, lodging, facilities.
- Bulletins.
Wikis of Previous sessions
Les Houches Themes
(Lyrics and Music)
(Lyrics and Music)
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As is the tradition in LH, the programme will be built up on a daily basis. Until the meeting takes place (or just about), we can only list the programme of the first and last days of each session.
Room Reservation for WG meetings/discussions with boards and projectors
(there are other informal small meeting places/corners..)
10h00-11h00 | LLP recasting discussion | Tools | Library |
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11h00-12h00 | Dilepton recast follow-up with Tanya | Tools | QCD |
11h00-12h30 | Freeze-in from scattering @ the LHC | BSM | Library |
14h00-15h00 | VLQ simplified model & LQ, pheno of an UV completion | BSM | QCD |
14h00-15h30 | ML: Generative models 3 | Tools | Auditorium |
15h00-16h00 | Higgs without Higgs: ZZ, ttHZ, exotic Higgs decays | Higgs | Library |
16h30-18h00 | ML: Anomaly detection 2 | Tools | Auditorium |
17h00-18h30 | High-T dilepton: discussion on simulations | QCD | Library |
10h00-11h00 | LLPs from DM with 'softish' decays | BSM | Auditorium |
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10h00-11h00 | 0-lepton search recast follow-up | Tools | Library |
11h00-12h00 | Dilepton recast and interference dip | Tools | QCD |
14h30-15h30 | Universal recasting code design | Tools | Auditorium |
15h30-16h00 | Recast tool comparison catch-up | Tools | Auditorium |
14h30-16h00 | RDM: last meeting | BSM | QCD |
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14h30-16h00 | ML : last meeting - wrap up | Tools and BSM | Auditorium |
19h00 | Drink | Bar | |
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19h30- | Repas Savoyard | Restaurant |
09h00-11h45 | Session 2 Reports of the WGs | Auditorium | |
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11h45-12h00 | A word from the organisers | the Organisers | Auditorium |
12h00-13h10 | Lunch and Coffee | LH Restaurant |
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13h00- | Walk to the bus | |
13h30- | Workshop bus departs for CERN and Geneva Airport | Prarion |
19h30 | Dinner | LH Restaurant |
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21h00 | Conveners and Organisers Meet | Auditorium |
09h00-09h15 | General Introduction and Welcome | Organisers | Auditorium |
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Working Group Summaries | Auditorium | ||
09h15-9h40 | SM experimental PDF | Joey Huston | Auditorium |
09h40-10h05 | SM theory PDF | Alexander Huss | Auditorium |
10h05-10h30 | Jets PDF | Simone Marzani | Auditorium |
10h30-11h00 | Break | Hall deWitt | |
11h00-11h20 | Higgs theory PDF | Stephen Jones | Auditorium |
11h20-11h45 | Higgs experimental PDF | Michael Duehrssen | Auditorium |
11h45-12h30 | Tools and MC PDF | Emanuele Re | Auditorium |
12h30-14h30 | Lunch, Coffee, Sport, … | LH Restaurant |
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14h30-16h00 | General Discussion & Task Assignment, Round Table | All | Auditorium |
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16h00-16h30 | Coffee/Tea Break | Lounge in Main Building | |
16h00-17h00 | Jet brainstorming | whoever is interested | Auditorium |
17h00-18h00 | Higgs brainstorming | whoever is interested | Library |
19h00-19h30 | Welcome Drink, … | LH Restaurant |
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19h30- | Dinner, … | LH Restaurant |
9h00-10h00 | NLM brainstorming | NLM | Auditorium |
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10h30-12h00 | MC/tools: project meetings | MC/tools | Auditorium |
14h00-15h00 | Tuning discussion | Jets | QCD room |
14h00-18h00 | Higgs: STXS in production and ideas for STXS in decays (https://indico.cern.ch/event/827970/) | Higgs | Auditorium |
16h00-17h00 | Jets: Gluon PDF Discussion | Jets | QCD room |
18h00-19h00 | VBF/VBS q/g Discussion | Jets | QCD room |
09h00-10h30 | VBS/VBF | MC/tools | Auditorium |
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10h00-12h00 | Higgs: EFT interpretation of Higgs measurements | Higgs | Library |
10h00-11h00 | MC variations | MC/Tools | Auditorium |
10h00-12h00 | Theory Nuisances for W/Z pT, and resummation for precision W/Z fiducial xsecs | NLM + MC/tools | QCD Room |
14h00-15h00 | All-order calculations and their application to jet physics | Felix Ringer | Auditorium |
15h00-16h00 | Discussion on R-dependence of jet cross-sections | Felix Ringer & Gregory Soyez | Auditorium |
16h30-18h00 | Subtraction schemes | NLM | Auditorium |
16h00-16h45 | LHEF updates | MC/Tools | Library |
17h00-18h00 | ttbb first, then top pT | MC/Tools | Library |
9h00-11h00 | Scale uncertainties in PDFs Stefano Forte | NLM | Auditorium |
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11h00-12h30 | Theory Uncertainties: Beyond Scale Variations PDF | NLM | Auditorium |
14h00-16h00 | Photon isolation | NLM | QCD Room |
14h00-15h00 | Gluon PDF update | Jets | Library |
14h00- ~15h00 | MC variations (continuation) | MC and tools | Auditorium |
15h30-16h30 | ttW differential EW | MC and tools | QCD room |
16h00- 17h00 | NNLO ntuples | MC and tools | library |
16h00-17h00 | Tuning update | Jets | Auditorium |
16h30-18h00 | PDF benchmarking | NLM | QCD Room |
16h30-17h30 | Weighted event generation, negative weights discussion follow-up | MC and Tools | Library |
18h00-19h00 | VBF/VBS q/g update | Jets | Auditorium |
09h00-11h00 | Boosted Higgs discussion | NLM+Higgs+Jets | Auditorium |
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10h00-11h00 | Analytic expressions from numerical programs | NLM | QCD Room |
11h00-11h30 | Short kick-off meeting on Top Mass Scheme Uncertainties HJ/HH/ZH/H* | Higgs | Library |
11h00-12h00 | (Generalized) threshold factorization for rapidity spectrum Slides Johannes Michel | NLM | Auditorium |
14h00-15h00 | Weighted event generation, negative weights discussion follow-up II | MC and Tools | Library |
Weather permitting, this is a day off.
10h00-10h30 | gg→HZ study | MC/tools | QCD room → Library |
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10h30-12h00 | EFT follow up | Higgs | QCD room → Library |
14h00-18h00 | Higgs: Combined LHCXSWG di-Higgs Subgroup Meeting on SM Uncertainties & EFTs (https://indico.cern.ch/event/825291/) | Higgs | Auditorium |
14h00-15h00 | VBF/VBS (status and “tasks assignment”) | MC/Tools | QCD room |
15h00-16h00 | MC variations, case study (define precise aim and “tasks assignment”) | MC/Tools | QCD room |
16h15-16h30 | MC variations, “pedagogical compendium” | MC/Tools | Library |
16h00-17h00 | Gluon PDF | Jets | QCD room |
17h00-17h30 | initial state PS PDF treatment | MC/Tools | QCD room |
17h00-18h00 | q/g tagging for VBF/VBS | Jets | Library |
18h00-19h00 | tuning with JSS | Jets | QCD room |
18h00-18h30 | ttbb (status, define precise aim, “tasks assignment”) | MC/tools | library |
9h15 - 10h00 | ttW (ew corrections) | MC/tools (EW experts welcome) | QCD room |
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10h00-12h00 | STXS follow up | Higgs | QCD room |
11h00-12h00 | tt~ spin correlation + NNLO tt~ | MC/Tools, NLM | library |
14h00-17h00 | resummation benchmarking meeting Indico | NLM | qcd room |
15h30-17h00 | LH wishlist update | NML | Auditorium |
17h00-18h00 | NLO + PS for higher order QCD uncertainties | Jets/NLM | QCD room |
19h00- | Aperitif + Workshop dinner | LH Restaurant |
08h45-11h40 | Session 1 Reports of the WGs | Auditorium | |
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08h45-09h10 | SM Loops/Multilegs Experimental | Josh Bendavid | Auditorium |
09h10-09h35 | SM Loops/Multilegs Theory | Daniel Maitre | Auditorium |
09h35-10h00 | Jets | Ben Nachman | Auditorium |
10h00-10h25 | Break | Hall deWitt | |
10h25-10h50 | Higgs Theory | Daniel de Florian | Auditorium |
10h50-11h15 | Higgs experimental | Mauro Donega | Auditorium |
11h15-11h40 | Tools and MC TH_part Ex_part | Vitaliano Ciulli, Stefan Prestel | Auditorium |
11h45-12h00 | A few words from the organisers slides | Fawzi | Auditorium |
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12h00-13h30 | Lunch and Coffee | LH Restaurant |
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13h30- | Conference bus departs for CERN and Geneva Airport | Car Park |
19h30 | Dinner | LH Restauraunt |
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21h30 | Conveners and Organisers Meet | Auditorium |
09h00-09h15 | General Intro and Welcome | Fawzi | Auditorium |
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Working Group Summaries | Auditorium | ||
09h15-12h15 | WG Presentations | Auditorium | |
09h15-10h00 | BSM Theory and BSM Experimental PDF | BSM WG conveners | Auditorium |
10h00-10h45 | Higgs BSM | The conveners | Auditorium |
10h45-11h15 | Break | ||
11h15-12h00 | Tools&MC PDF | The conveners | Auditorium |
14h30-16h30 | Brainstorming. Defining Projects | All | Auditorium |
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16h30-17h00 | Tea Break | All | CdW Hall |
17h00-18h50 | Interpretation/Recasting | MC&Tools+BSM WG | Auditorium |
17h00-18h40 | H+Extra Scalars, di-Higgs,Exotic decays, Light (p)scalars | Higgs WG | Library |
19h00-19h30 | Welcome Drink, … | LH Restaurant |
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19h30- | Dinner, … | LH Restaurant |
9h30-10h45 | LQ, LFU, High PT | BSM WG | Auditorium |
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11h00-12h30 | Machine Learning kickoff | ML for BSM and tools | Auditorium or Library |
14h30-16h00 | DM +LLP's | BSM | Auditorium |
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16h00-?? | Higgs EFT | Higgs WG | Auditorium |
17h00-?? | Low-mass (pseudo-)scalars | BSM | QCD |
17h00-?? | Learning Machine Learning for non Machines without Machines | ML for BSM and tools | Library |
18h00-18h30 | Recast comparison quick planning | Tools | Auditorium |
09h30-11h00 | STXS BSM | Higgs | Auditorium |
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09h30-11h00 | Contur intro/developer kickoff and search/meas complementarity | Tools+MC | Library |
09h30-11h00 | WIMPy dark matter (DM+leptoquarks) | BSM | QCD |
11h00-12h30 | ML: Regression x-sec, BR, likelihoods, sampling | ML | library |
11h00-12h30 | High-pT dilepton tails. SMEFT analysis and LFU ratios | BSM | QCD |
14h30-16h00 | Analysis description language | Tools+MC | QCD |
14h30-16h00 | Low-mass (p)scalars | BSM | library |
16h00-17h30 | Higgs without the Higgs | Higgs | QCD |
16h00-17h30 | ML: Generative models, event generation | ML | library |
16h00-17h30 | Dark matter + long-lived particles | BSM | Auditorium |
17h30-19h00 | Exotic Higgs Decays | Higgs/BSM | library |
18h30-19h30 | Unified collider recast code design | Tools+MC | QCD |
Sunday was a day off. A hike to Aiguillete des Houches was organised. Some pics can be found here (Sabine's pics,…Upload yours on our LH owncloud)
9h30-10h30 | LQ, pheno of an UV completition | BSM | QCD |
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11h00-12h30 | ML: Anomaly detection, etc. | Tools | Auditorium |
11h00-12h30 | High-pT dilepton tails. SMEFT analysis and LFU ratios | BSM | QCD |
14h15-15h00 | ML: Generative models 2 | Tools | Library |
14h30-15h00 | Interference: should new particle searches take QM seriously? | BSM/Higgs | Auditorium |
14h30-15h00 | High-pT dilepton tails - FeynRules model | BSM | QCD |
15h00-16h00 | How ATLAS decides what to trigger on (including LLPs) | BSM/Higgs | Auditorium |
15h00-16h00 | Recast comparison: follow-up and use of experiment open software | Tools | Library |
16h00-17h30 | High-pT dilepton tails - R(mll) LFU ratio | BSM | Coffee |
16h00-17h30 | Dark Matter + LLPs: Tagging SM hadrons in LLP searches/displaced gammas | BSM | QCD |
16h00-17h00 | Low-mass scalars: h→Zϕ | Higgs | Amphi |
17h30-18h30 | INFORMAL DISCUSSION IF YOU HAVE DONE A TUTORIAL: Discussion and demo about ML tutorial. Exercise and example can be downloaded here | ML for BSM and tools | Library |
09h30-11h00 | RDM project | BSM | QCD |
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10h00-11h00 | Analysis orthogonality | Tools | Library |
11h00-12h00 | Dilepton search Rivet recast | Tools | Auditorium |
11h00-12h30 | ML: Models from networks | Tools | QCD |
11h00-12h30 | Higgs without the Higgs (2) | Higgs | library |
14h30-16h30 | BSM: Light Scalars | BSM | QCD |
14h30-15h30 | Higgs STXS-EFT | Higgs | library |
16h00-17h30 | ML: Regression x-sec, BR, likelihoods, sampling 2 | ML | Auditorium |
17h30-18h30 | 4-top | Higgs | QCD |