====== Updating the wish-list for precision theory predictions ====== //If you are interested in contributing please subscribe to the [[https://e-groups.cern.ch/e-groups/EgroupsSearch.do?searchValue=houches-2015-topics-sm-whishlist-review|mailing list]]. You will be asked to log in with your CERN account. If you don't have a CERN account, please fill [[https://account.cern.ch/account/Externals/RegisterAccount.aspx|this form]] to create a lightweight account.// ===== Summary of the discussion from 5th June ===== Aims: - Update the 2013 list to include the current state-of-the-art - Attempt to quantify the necessary precision for the LHC13 processes considering specific observables - Identify key measurements and summarize the potential experimental precision == H(+jets) == * Higgs pT - resummation of NNLO (N3LL?) * jet veto - resummation of NNLO * how important is full mt/mb dependence at NNLO - importance for boosted Higgs analyses, high pT * what can we learn from [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04637|Hamilton et al. 1501.04637]]? * full mb dependence could be more important for top/bottom interference * QED+QCD at NNLO - important high pT, boosted analyses (what is the state-of-the-art here? can we estimate the size of the missing corrections) == top == * top mass measurements: threshold resummed NNLO? == W == * W mass measurements (expected experimental accuracy?) * W pT - resummation at N3LL for W mass measurements? == VV' == * resummation for pT and jet vetos in W+ W- == General requests === * specify the details of top decays - NWA etc. * should more processes be requested at NNLO+PS?