Updating the wish-list for precision theory predictions

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Aims:

1. Update the 2013 list to include the current state-of-the-art
2. Attempt to quantify the necessary precision for the LHC13 processes considering specific observables
3. Identify key measurements and summarize the potential experimental precision

• 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 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 mass measurements: threshold resummed NNLO?

• W mass measurements (expected experimental accuracy?)
• W pT - resummation at N3LL for W mass measurements?

• resummation for pT and jet vetos in W+ W-

• specify the details of top decays - NWA etc.
• should more processes be requested at NNLO+PS?