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===== Preliminary list of topics for 2021 ====== | ===== Preliminary list of topics for 2021 ====== | ||
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+ | ==== Session 1 ==== | ||
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* Probing the latest MC generators (PB algorithm, PANScales, Deductor...) with jet substructure | * Probing the latest MC generators (PB algorithm, PANScales, Deductor...) with jet substructure | ||
* Finite N_C, beyond LL, ... | * Finite N_C, beyond LL, ... | ||
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+ | **__Techniques and calculations for SM phenomenology:__** | ||
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+ | ` * Calculations: | ||
+ | * expected precision for fundamental Standard Model processes at 14 and 100 TeV; what calculations are needed to match this precision? | ||
+ | * 2->3 at NNLO; status/challenges/prospects | ||
+ | * theory uncertainties; more rigorous estimates? correlations? | ||
+ | * theoretically sound definition of FONLL at the differential level, beyond incl. cross sections? | ||
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+ | * PDFs: | ||
+ | * followup on PDF4LHC15 benchmarking exercise; better understanding of tolerances, tensions | ||
+ | * EW corrections/EW PDFs; how to provide consistent calculations | ||
+ | * small x resummation; what is HERA trying to tell us? | ||
+ | * EIC; what will EIC tell us? how do we prepare for that? | ||
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+ | * Higgs: | ||
+ | * understanding the SM for high Higgs pT; role of top mass corrections/scheme (MSbar vs on-shell); improving channel sensitivities | ||
+ | * polarisation measurements (for diboson/VBS as well) | ||
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+ | * Top: | ||
+ | * MSbar vs on-shell | ||
+ | * ttW; tension; can new calculations resolve it? | ||
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+ | * Jets: | ||
+ | * flavor tagging of jets; matching what theorists can predict (IR safety) and what experimentalists can measure | ||
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+ | **__Monte Carlo:__** | ||
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+ | * Non-perturbative uncertainties | ||
+ | * common hadronisation interface and variations | ||
+ | * theoretical understanding | ||
+ | * differences in tuned comparisons | ||
+ | * pheno impact for certain classes of processes (e.g. VBF/VBS) | ||
+ | * Shower accuracy studies | ||
+ | * comparing different schemes on higher orders, evaluate phenomenological impact | ||
+ | * Subleading colour and interplay with colour reconnection | ||
+ | * New sampling methods and algorithms versus machine learning techniques | ||
+ | * Accuracy of merging resummed calculation versus ME+PS paradigms | ||
+ | * Photon physics, modelling of fragmentation | ||
+ | * Heavy flavour matching | ||
+ | * review of existing measurements | ||
+ | * Connecting precision calculation, fragmentation and decays | ||
+ | * partons at 100 TeV | ||
+ | * Common LHC event bazaar | ||
+ | * Status and needs for electroweak corrections and radiation in shower algorithms | ||
+ | * Machine learning and adaptive Monte Carlo methods | ||
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+ | ==== Session 2 ==== | ||