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2019:topics [2018/11/12 15:06]
simone.marzani
2019:topics [2018/12/04 23:51]
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-**To come**+**session 1**
  
   * **Loops,​Multilegs,​Jets **   * **Loops,​Multilegs,​Jets **
-  ​* **Jets: Where is quark/gluon discrimination useful? How does it perform?: **+ 
 +  *  **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     * PDFs
     * VBF      * VBF 
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   * **Higgs**   * **Higgs**
-    *SM Issues+    * 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
     *New Physics and Higgs     *New Physics and Higgs
         * Higgs pairs: lambda_HHH from single & double; ​         * Higgs pairs: lambda_HHH from single & double; ​
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         * Rare decays: benchmark for H->​aa->​gamgamgamgam         * Rare decays: benchmark for H->​aa->​gamgamgamgam
  
 +  * **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**
  
   * **New Physics**   * **New Physics**
 +    * VLQs beyond V/Hq decays
 +    * Unconventional signatures
 +
 +  * **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**   * **Tools&​MC**
-    *SM Implementations +    * Global fits / recasting / scanning spaces  
-    *BSM Approaches+    * 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  
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