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- | Topics for Consideration | + | ====== Topics for Consideration ====== |
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- | To come | + | **session 1** |
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+ | * **Loops,Multilegs,Jets ** | ||
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+ | * **PDFs:** | ||
+ | *dealing with scale uncertainties in PDF fits | ||
+ | *benchmark studies for current generation of PDFs, e.g. top distributions | ||
+ | *dealing with tensions in LHC data, i.e. ATLAS jets vs CMS jets, top distributions | ||
+ | *does each group have the same reaction to the tensions? | ||
+ | *how to get the greatest knowledge from distributions with tensions? | ||
+ | *dealing with NNLO grids (NNLOJET) | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Parton Showers:** | ||
+ | *LH17 showed that PS predictions agree well with each other when input parameters are synchronized; reasonable physics choices then lead to differences; can we establish the limit of what these reasonable physics choices are? | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **ME+PS:** | ||
+ | *better understanding of limits of precision for ME/ME+PS calculations | ||
+ | *uncertainties in matching PS with ME | ||
+ | *better understanding of 'reasonable' scale uncertainties at NNLO | ||
+ | *precision predictions in the high pT frontier | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Progress with higher order calculations:** | ||
+ | *any benchmarking, for example DY at NNLO? | ||
+ | *improvements for evaluation of 2->2 at NNLO | ||
+ | *loopedia | ||
+ | *outlook for 2->3 NNLO | ||
+ | *3-loop, e.g. Higgs rapidity | ||
+ | *compact expressions at the amplitude level | ||
+ | *ntuples for NNLO | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Jets: Where is quark/gluon discrimination useful? How does it perform? Examples: ** | ||
+ | * PDFs | ||
+ | * VBF | ||
+ | * X->gg | ||
+ | * Susy cascades | ||
+ | * ISR tagging | ||
+ | * W tagging | ||
+ | * top tagging | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Higgs** | ||
+ | * SM Issues | ||
+ | * Parton shower and underlying event related systematics in Higgs measurements for signal and background (together with Loops,Multilegs,Jets) | ||
+ | * Prospect of quark/gluon jet tagging for VBF (synergy with Jets session) | ||
+ | * Predictions+uncertainty models for backgrounds to ttH production: tt+HF, ggH+HF, tt+V | ||
+ | * Background function choice for H->gamgam and H->mumu: how to evaluate the functional choice systematics | ||
+ | * STXS: | ||
+ | * Brainstorming on "STXS for Higgs decays" or something similar for decay propery measurements | ||
+ | * Updates on STXS for production | ||
+ | * Probing Higgs Width and Top Quark Yukawa Coupling from ttH and tttt | ||
+ | * Higgs pair production and self-coupling observables, top quark mass-scheme uncertainties | ||
+ | * EFT description of Higgs production | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **MC and Tools** | ||
+ | * ttbar: mismodeling of top pt and an angular distributions | ||
+ | * W-mass and precise EW measurements: where are the bottlenecks? | ||
+ | * ...more to come... | ||
+ | |||
+ | **session 2** | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Higgs: new physics** | ||
+ | * Higgs pairs: lambda_HHH from single & double; | ||
+ | * VBF Higgs pairs: C2v, Cv relation | ||
+ | * Rare decays: benchmark for H->aa->gamgamgamgam | ||
+ | * Rare and exotic Higgs decays: further channels not searched for? motivation in specific BSM scenarios? | ||
+ | * CP violation and Higgs: (HL-)LHC sensitivity, complementarity with other probes (e.g. EDMs) | ||
+ | * Lighter than 125 GeV scalars: how well are they covered by LHC and LEP? | ||
+ | * Interpretation of SM coupling/STXS constraints in BSM benchmarks | ||
+ | * MSSM: how to close the gap in the high mA (>= 500 GeV), intermediate tan(beta) range? | ||
+ | * Precision measurements to sharpen interpretation of Higgs results (W mass, TGCs, W/Z coupling to quarks, CKM ...) | ||
+ | * New physics at the high-energy tail of Higgs distributions | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Precision physics at the LHC** | ||
+ | * Precision measurements of Z and W couplings to quarks | ||
+ | * Lepton flavor violation in W decays | ||
+ | * Measurement of CKM elements | ||
+ | * High-energy tail of Drell-Yan production | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **New Physics** | ||
+ | * VLQs beyond V/Hq decays | ||
+ | * Unconventional signatures | ||
+ | * Complex DM and colliders | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Flavour anomalies** | ||
+ | * High pT searches connected with the flavour anomalies | ||
+ | * Optimized leptoquark and Z' searches | ||
+ | * Tail of the di-leptons distributions | ||
+ | * ... | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **BSM and Machine Learning** | ||
+ | * Determination of model parameters | ||
+ | * 2d/3d/4d Image analysis for HEP e.g. jets | ||
+ | * New Searches with ML (search algorithms, generic searches, automatisation, density estimation, deep networks / auto-encoders etc.) | ||
+ | * Learning Phenomenally predictions (limits, likelihoods, cross sections) | ||
+ | * Generative models for HEP | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | * **Tools&MC** | ||
+ | * Global fits / recasting / scanning spaces | ||
+ | * Analysis preservation | ||
+ | * LLP and resonance searches | ||
+ | * Simplified likelihoods and EFT explorations | ||
+ | * Beyond EFT: unitarity, exploring the continuum between EFT→full models | ||
+ | * BSM modelling with MC | ||
+ | * Future colliders |