Participants: Jesse Thaler, Gregory Soyez, Andrzej Siodmok, Deepak Kar, Reina Camacho, Frédéric Dreyer, Suman Chatterjee, Disha Bhatia, Grigorios Chachamis, Tousik Samui, Ian Moult, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Mario Campanelli
NEW: kick-off meeting: Wednedsay 10am, QCD room
Detector Effects
Understand ATLAS/CMS differences in grooming/discrimination
Compare recent tools
Study performance and robustness
W boson polarization
Get event samples
Strong Coupling Extraction
Leaders: Ben Nachman, Ian Moult
Participants: Jesse Thaler, Gregory Soyez, Andrzej Siodmok, Frédéric Dreyer, Daniel Maitre, Suman Chatterjee, Disha Bhatia, Grigorios Chachamis, Maroa Vittoria Garzelli, Andrew Larkoski, Simone Marzani, Tousik Samui, Philippe Gras, Peter Richardson, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Johannes Bellm
NEW: Kickoff meeting, Wednesday, QCD Room, 2:30pm
Use groomed jets (e.g. soft drop with varying β) at (N)NLL accuracy
Pursue tricks to separate quark/gluon composition
Estimate experimental uncertainties (10 percent?)
Relevant for running coupling at high scales
Comparison to 3-jet/2-jet ratios for sensitivity
Quark/Gluon Followup Study
Leader: TBD
Participants: Ben Nachman, Andrzej Siodmok, Deepak Kar, (Frédéric Dreyer), Adil Jueid, Grigorios Chachamis, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Joey Huston, Kenneth Long, Peter Richardson, Simon Plätzer, Reina Camacho, Mario Campanelli …
Use quark/gluon tagging for PDF determination
Use LEP data (b bbar g) for gluon jet constraints (e.g. Skands with ALEPH)
Use in vector boson scattering, vector boson fusion
Use in Higgs plus jet
Also quark vs. gluon vs. pileup
Additional Topics for Lunch/Dinner/Bar
Heavy ion jet shapes (pp, pA, AA)
Participants: Jesse Thaler, Gregory Soyez, Ben Nachman, Frédéric Dreyer, Grigorios Chachamis, Leif Lönnblad, , Andrzej Siodmok …
Jet substructure to understand parton shower subtleties
Participants: Jesse Thaler, Gregory Soyez, Ben Nachman, Deepak Kar, Reina Camacho, Josh McFayden, Frédéric Dreyer, Suman Chatterjee, Peter Loch, Jueid Adil, Leif Lönnblad, Ian Moult, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Philippe Gras, Andrzej Siodmok, Simon Plätzer, (Emanuele Re)
Identify experimental results
Non-global obseravbles, color correlations
Heavy flavor married with jet substructure
Participants: Jesse Thaler, Gregory Soyez, Ben Nachman, Reina Camacho, Josh McFayden, Frédéric Dreyer, Hua-Sheng Shao, Leif Lönnblad, Maria Vittoria Garzelli, Philippe Gras
Use bottom/charm tags with subjet momentum fractions
Complications of fragmentation functions
Charmonium fragmentation in jets
Track-based observables
Participants: Jesse Thaler, Gregory Soyez, Ben Nachman, Frédéric Dreyer, Ian Moult, Philippe Gras, Andrzej Siodmok, Simon Plätzer
Relevant for improved angular resolution at ATLAS/CMS/future collider
Use generalized fragmentation functions (e.g. jet charge)
Truth Fat Jet Definition
Participants: Deepak Kar, Andy Buckley, Chris Pollard …
Jet algorithms and R dependence at (N)NLO
Participants: Gregory Soyez, Frédéric Dreyer,Suman Chatterjee, Joey Huston, Philippe Gras, Simon Plätzer …