LoopFest XV

15 Aug 2016, 08:00 → 17 Aug 2016, 20:00 US/Eastern

120 Clemens Hall (University at Buffalo, North Campus, Amherst, NY)

Ciaran Williams (SUNY Buffalo), Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo), Frank Petriello (Northwestern University), Lance Dixon (SLAC), Sally Dawson (BNL), Simone Marzani (SUNY Buffalo)

LoopFest is a series of workshops that aims to provide a forum to coordinate activities focused on the theoretical challenges from the LHC and future high-energy colliders.

Monday, 15 August

08:00 → 08:15 Light breakfast

08:15 → 08:30 Welcome

A Welcome to Buffalo with coffee and breakfast (no wings just yet)

Convener: Prof. Hong Luo (University at Buffalo)

08:30 → 10:35 Session 1

Session 1

Convener: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

08:30 Poking the Standard Model

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides huston_loopfest_2016.pdf

08:55 Charm in the proton

Speaker: Prof. Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)

Slides RDB_Loopfest_16.pdf

09:20 How bright is the proton?

Speaker: Prof. Giulia Zanderighi (CERN/Oxford Univ.)

Slides Zanderighi-Loopfest2016.pdf

09:45 ​Relating the top quark MSbar and on­shell masses​

Speaker: Peter Marquard (DESY)

Slides talk.pdf

10:10 T​he One­Loop Correction to Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation

Speaker: Mr Nicholas Rodd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides HeavyDMat1loop.pdf

10:35 → 10:55 Coffee Break

Coffee and light refreshments

10:55 → 13:00 Session II

Convener: Prof. Lance Dixon (SLAC)

10:55 Evaluation of the general 3-loop vacuum Feynman integral

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois University)

Slides spmartin.pdf

11:20 Finite fields and progress on four loop form factors

Speaker: Andreas von Manteuffel (University of Mainz)

Slides manteuffel-loopfest16.pdf

11:45 N​ew numerical techniques for two­ and three­loop integrals and applications

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides freitas.pdf

12:10 ​Towards a numerical unitarity approach at two loops in QCD

Speaker: Matthieu Jaquier (Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich)

Slides jaquier.pdf

12:35 Massive operator matrix elements at 3-loop order for deep-inelastic scattering

Speaker: Arnd Behring (DESY)

Slides loopfest-behring.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

Lunch break (provided, on campus)

14:00 → 16:05 Session III

Convener: Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

14:00 (​B)SM Higgs Boson Production via Gluon Fusion​

Speaker: Mr Timo Schmidt (University of Freiburg)

Slides talk.pdf

14:25 Differential Distributions for Precision Higgs Physics

Speaker: Dr Bernhard Mistlberger (CERN)

Slides Mistlberger_Loopfest16.pdf

14:50 The Higgs boson at high pT

Speaker: Tobias Neumann (University at Buffalo)

Slides talk.html

15:15 H​igh­ energy resummation and the Higgs pt spectrum

Speaker: Dr Stefano Forte (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano)

Slides loopfest16.pdf

15:40 Extended electroweak precision fits and their implications

Speaker: Laura Reina (Florida State University)

Slides loopfest16.pdf

16:05 → 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 → 18:05 Session IV

Convener: Laura Reina (Florida State University)

16:25 ​Light quark mass effects in Higgs boson production in gluon fusion

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Penin (University of Alberta)

Slides buffalo16.pdf

16:50 S​oft Gluon Resummation for​ associated ttH Production at the LHC

Speaker: Vincent Theeuwes (SUNY, Buffalo)

Slides Loopfest-VTheeuwes.pdf

17:15 C​P even scalar via gg fusion at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Elisabetta Furlan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides 08_15_Furlan.pdf

17:40 E​lectroweak renormalization of the Higgs singlet extension

Speaker: Tania Robens (IKTP, TU Dresden)

Slides trobens_loopfest.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Reception

Tuesday, 16 August

08:00 → 08:30 Light breakfast

08:30 → 10:35 Session V

Convener: Ciaran Williams (SUNY Buffalo)

08:30 A​utomating one­loop corrections for general models in RECOLA

Speaker: Jean-Nicolas Lang (University of Wuerzburg)

Slides jnl_loopfest_talk.pdf

08:55 N​LO Corrections to VV production through gluon fusion

Speaker: Dr Raoul Roentsch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides roentsch_ggVV_Loopfest2016.pdf

09:20 N​LO QCD effects in the fully off­shell process e+ e­ ­> bb lνlν(H) with WHIZARD

Speaker: Christian Weiss (Desy Hamburg)

Slides whizard_at_nlo.pdf

09:45 C​ollier: a Complex One­Loop LIbrary in Extended Regularizations

Speaker: Lars Hofer (UB Barcelona)

Slides Loopfest_Hofer.pdf

10:10 ​QCD and EW NLO corrections with NLOX

Speaker: Dr Christian Reuschle (Florida State University)

Slides Talk_Reuschle_201608_Buffalo_LoopFest_main_ver06.pdf

10:35 → 10:55 Coffee Break

Coffee and light refreshments

10:55 → 13:00 Session VI

Convener: Dr Christian Bauer (LBNL)

10:55 F​actorization and resummation for jet processes

Speaker: Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Slides neubert.pdf

11:20 T​ransverse ­momentum resummation for Higgs production at N3LL

Speaker: Dr Hua Xing Zhu (MIT)

Slides loopfest_pT.pdf

11:45 J​et veto resummation for WW production at approximate NNNLL+NNLO

Speaker: Mao Zeng (UC Los Angeles)

Slides presentation-loopfest.pdf

12:10 H​igh order and loop results for top quark production

Speaker: Prof. Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

Slides Kidonakis.pdf

12:35 Recent developments in Sherpa

Speaker: Mr Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Slides buffalo_16-08.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

Provided, on campus

14:00 → 16:05 Session VII

Convener: Dr Stefano Forte (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano)

14:00 MCFM at NNLO

Speaker: Dr Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides Giele.pdf

14:25 Z​+jet production at NNLO QCD

Speaker: Mr Alexander Huss (University of Freiburg)

Slides huss_loopfest_16.pdf

14:50 N​NLO phenomenology using jettiness subtraction

Speaker: Dr Xiaohui Liu (Argonne National Lab and Northwestern University)

Slides loopfest-liu1.pdf

15:15 F​ully differential NNLO(+NNLL) computations with MATRIX

Speaker: Dr Marius Wiesemann (University of Zürich)

Slides Wiesemann_LoopFest.pdf

15:40 F​ully­ differential QCD predictions at NNLO using STRIPPER

Speaker: Mr David Heymes (University of Cambridge)

Slides LoopFest2016.pdf

16:05 → 16:25 Coffee Break IV

16:25 → 18:05 Session VIII

Convener: Prof. Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

16:25 Electroweak Sudakov for virtual and real corrections

Speaker: Dr Christian Bauer (LBNL)

Slides bauer.pdf

16:50 A Study of Weak Corrections to Drell-Yan, Top-quark pair and Di-jet Production at High Energies at the LHC with MCFM

Speaker: Jia Zhou

Slides LoopFest_talk.pdf

17:15 T​wo­ Loop Master Integrals for the mixed EW­-QCD virtual corrections to Drell­Yan scattering

Speaker: Dr Stefano Di Vita (DESY)

Slides divita-2016_08_16-loopfest_xv.pdf

17:40 E​lectroweak corrections to V+jets production

Speaker: Mr Marek Schoenherr (University of Zurich)

Slides LoopFest16-MarekSchoenherr.pdf

19:00 → 22:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 17 August

08:00 → 08:30 Light breakfast

08:30 → 10:35 Session IX

Convener: Dr Simone Marzani (University at Buffalo)

08:30 Q​FT Scattering Amplitudes from Riemann Surfaces

Speaker: Prof. Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute)

Slides LoopFest_Cachazo_2016_v2.pdf

08:55 D​ifferential equations and dispersion relations for Feynman amplitudes

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Tancredi (KIT Karlsruhe)

Slides tancredi_LoopFest2016_new.pdf

09:20 d-​­Dimensional Generalised Unitarity and Colour ­Kinematics duality

Speaker: William Javier Torres Bobadilla (University of Padua)

Slides TorresBobadilla.pdf

09:45 Adaptive Integrand Decomposition of multi-loop scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Mr Amedeo Primo (Università di Padova- INFN Sezione di Padova)

Slides Primo_LoopFestXV.pdf

10:10 Iterated integrals in Multi-Regge kinematics

Speaker: Mr Falko Dulat (ETH Zurich)

Slides dulat.pdf

10:35 → 10:55 Coffee

10:55 → 12:35 Session X

Convener: Prof. Giulia Zanderighi (University of Oxford)

10:55 H​adronic contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment using lattice QCD

Speaker: Thomas Blum (University of Connecticut)

Slides talk.pdf

11:20 F​our ­ loop Electronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker: Dr Tao Liu (Department of Physics University of Alberta)

Slides ltao.pdf

11:45 R​adiative correction to the bound electron g factor

Speaker: Andrzej Czarnecki (University of Alberta)

Slides CzarneckiBuffalo.pdf

12:10 D​ecay of a bound muon

Speaker: Dr Robert Szafron (U. of Alberta)

Slides 2016Loopfest.pdf

12:35 → 13:15 Lunch III

13:15 → 15:00 Session XI

Convener: Prof. Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)

13:15 Finite integrals and progress on the four-loop form factors in massless QCD

Speaker: Robert Schabinger (Johannes Gutenberg University)

Slides LoopFest2016talk.pdf

13:40 Higgs Physics and the Singlet Extended Standard Model

Speaker: Ian Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides IL_Loopfest_2016.pdf

14:05 N​LO corrections to Higgs boson pair production in gluon fusion with full top­ quark mass dependence

Speaker: Dr Matthias Kerner (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides LoopFest_Kerner.pdf

14:30 Closing talk

Speaker: Prof. Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

Slides petriello_LoopFest2016.pdf

15:00 → 19:00 Excursion to Niagara Falls