Name: QCD@LHC 2019
Start: 2019-07-15T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-07-19T19:00:00-04:00
Location: No location set

QCD@LHC 2019

from Monday, 15 July 2019 (00:00) to Friday, 19 July 2019 (19:00)

Monday, 15 July 2019

07:30 Registration
Registration
07:30 - 09:00

08:00 Breakfast/Coffee
Breakfast/Coffee
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 2nd Floor Atrium
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: 2220 A - Chair : Sal Rappoccio
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Ciaran Williams (SUNY Buffalo)

09:30 Higher-order calculations and precision phenomenology - Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zurich)

10:05 Deep Learning (and Deep Thinking) for QCD - Jesse Thaler (MIT)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:15
Room: Atrium
11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Room: 2220 A - Chair : Jesse Thaler
Contributions

11:20 Overview of new Higgs results - Liron Barak

11:55 Recent developments in PDFs - Zahari Kassabov (University of Cambridge)
12:30 Lunch (on site)
Lunch (on site)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Atrium, Jacobs Medical School
14:00 Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
14:00 - 16:10
Room: 2213 B Chair : Deepak Kar
Contributions

14:00 Measurement of jet substructure observables using the ATLAS detector - Iain Bertram (Lancaster University)

14:25 Leading and sub-leading jet functions and applications - Darren Scott (University of Amsterdam/Nikhef)

14:50 Jet gap jet cross sections at the LHC - Christophe Royon

15:15 $N$-subjettiness for boosted jets - Davide Napoletano (IPht, CEA Saclay)

15:40 Fitting the strong coupling constant for soft-drop thrust - Vincent Theeuwes (University of Goettingen)
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
14:00 - 16:10
Room: 2220 A Chair : Stefano Carrazza
Contributions

14:00 A new generation of parton distribution functions with deep learning models - Juan Cruz-Martinez (University of Milano)

14:25 CTEQ-TEA parton distributions with the LHC data - Pavel Nadolsky (SMU)

14:50 Updates on PDFs in the MMHT framework - Thomas Cridge (Univeristy College London)

15:15 NNLO QCD fits to extract PDFs from HERA inclusive and jet data - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)

15:40 Measurements of single diffraction using forward proton tagging at ATLAS - Antonio Sbrizzi (INFN Bologna)
pQCD/MC Parallel
pQCD/MC Parallel
14:00 - 16:10
Room: 2213 A Chair : Marek Schoenherr
Contributions

14:00 Modeling of top quark and vector boson production as backgrounds to Higgs boson decays to b-quarks - Simona Gargiulo (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

14:25 High Energy resummation for Higgs plus dijets - Marian Heil (IPPP Durham)

14:50 NNLO precision phenomenology with MCFM - Tobias Neumann

15:15 Robust uncertainty estimation in MC tuning - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow)

15:40 Vector boson pair production at the LHC: NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion channel - Jeong Yeon Yook (University of Zurich)
16:10 Afternoon Coffee Break
Afternoon Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30
16:30 Higgs/EW/BSM
Higgs/EW/BSM
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2213 B Chair : Falko Dulat
Contributions

16:30 QCD Issues in Searches for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS Detector - Veronika Magerl (University of Freiburg)

16:55 A Monte Carlo analysis of the SMEFT in the top quark sector - Emma Slade (University of Oxford)

17:20 New tools to look for multi-jet resonances - Abhijith Gandrakota

17:45 Localized 4𝜎 and 5𝜎 Dijet Mass Excesses in ALEPH LEP2 Four-Jet Events - Jennifer Kile (none)
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2220 A Chair : Paolo Gunnellini
Contributions

16:30 PDF-independent Electroweak and Photon-induced Theoretical Predictions - Christopher Schwan (Universita degli Studi di Milano)

16:55 Interpolation and evolution of parton distribution functions with ChiliPDF - Riccardo Nagar (DESY)

17:20 Application of the APPLfast grid interface to NNLOJET and determination of alpha_s(M_Z) at NNLO from DIS jet cross sections - Klaus Rabbertz (ETP, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany)

17:45 Experimental constraints on collinear PDFs at 7, 8, 13 TeV (W, Z, jet production) by CMS - Svenja Pflitsch (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

18:10 Determination of proton parton distribution functions and extraction of alpha_S using ATLAS data - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)
pQCD/MC Parallel
pQCD/MC Parallel
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2213 A Chair : Andy Buckley
Contributions

16:30 Isolated photon and photon+jet production at NNLO QCD accuracy - Marius Höfer (Universität Zürich)

16:55 Power corrections for qT and TauN subtractions from photon isolation - Markus Ebert (MIT)

17:20 Measurement of photon production at ATLAS - Marcello Fanti (Universita` degli Studi di Milano)

17:45 Isolated photons and jets measurements with the ALICE detector in the LHC - Miguel Arratia (UC Berkeley)

18:10 Studying minijets and multiple parton interactions with rapidity correlations - Andrzej Siodmok (IFJ PAN)
Tuesday, 16 July 2019

08:00 Breakfast + Coffee
Breakfast + Coffee
08:00 - 09:00
Room: 2nd Floor Atrium
09:00 Plenary Session I
Plenary Session I
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 2220 A Chair : Massimiliano Grazzini
Contributions

09:00 Jet and photon+jet physics - Hugues Lattaud (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

09:35 IR singularities of scattering amplitudes at 3 and 4-loop order - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

10:10 Constraints on PDFs from LHC measurements - Svenja Pflitsch (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))
10:45 Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Plenary Session II
Plenary Session II
11:15 - 12:30
Room: 2220 A Chair : Matthias Neubert
Contributions

11:20 Computing for the LHC - Holger Schulz

11:55 Review of Resummation - Ian Moult (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Heavy Quarks/Top
Heavy Quarks/Top
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 2213 B Chair : Wolfgang Altmannshofer
Contributions

14:00 Associated production of a top quark pair with a heavy boson at NLO+NNLL accuracy - Vincent Theeuwes (University of Goettingen)

14:25 QCD Calculation for hadronic B decays - Cai-Dian Lu (IHEP, Beijing)

14:50 Highlights of top-quark production measurements at ATLAS - Pekka Sinervo (University of Toronto)

15:15 Highlights of top-quark properties measurements at ATLAS - Robert Vallance (University of Birmingham)

15:40 Heavy-flavor production at hadron colliders - Keping Xie (Southern Methodist University)
Higgs
Higgs
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 2213 A Chair : Alessandro Vicini
Contributions

14:00 Precise predictions for Higgs rapidity distribution at N3LO - Andrea Pelloni (ETHZ)

14:25 N3LO predictions for the decay of the Higgs boson to bottom quarks - Roberto Mondini (University at Buffalo)

14:50 Measurement of associated production of a heavy boson (Z/W/Higgs) with two top quarks - Jannik Geisen (II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

15:15 Charm-quark Yukawa Coupling in $h\rightarrow c\bar{c}\gamma$ at LHC - Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

15:40 Higgs interference effect at the one-loop level in the 1-Higgs-Singlet extension of the Standard Model - WEIMIN SONG (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Grooming/Substructure
Grooming/Substructure
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 2220 A Chair : Christine MClean
Contributions

14:00 Jet grooming with reinforcement learning - Stefano Carrazza (University of Milan)

14:25 Quarkonium Production in Jets at the LHC - Lin Dai (Duke University)

14:50 Measurement of jet fragmentation using the ATLAS detector - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow)

15:15 ResBos2: Status Update - Joshua Isaacson

15:40 Measurements of jet mass and substructure at CMS - Ashley Parker (SUNY Buffalo)
16:05 Coffee
Coffee
16:05 - 16:30
16:30 Heavy Quarks/Top
Heavy Quarks/Top
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2213 B Chair : Pekka Sinervo
Contributions

16:30 Measurement of the Jet Mass Distribution in Boosted Top Quark Decays in CMS - Paolo Gunnellini (Hamburg University)

16:55 On the ambiguities of the BLM/PMC procedure for hadron collider processes - Herschel Chawdhry (University of Cambridge)

17:20 ATLAS results on Spectroscopy and Production in Heavy Flavour, including Onia - WEIMIN SONG (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2220 A Chair : Pavel Nadolsky
Contributions

16:30 Measurement of the QCD coupling constant by CMS - Juska Pekkanen (SUNY Buffalo)

16:55 Probing parton distribution functions at future colliders - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)

17:20 Updating and Optimizing Error PDFs with ePump - Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University)

17:45 PDF constraints from heavy-flavor production by CMS - Duong Nguyen

18:10 Exploring experimental constraints on PDFs with PDFSense - Timothy Hobbs (CTEQ at SMU)
pQCD/MC Parallel
pQCD/MC Parallel
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2213 A Chair : Alex Huss
Contributions

16:30 Higgs Pair Production at High-Energy - Stephen Jones (CERN)

16:55 Measurement of differential cross sections in Higgs boson decays to bosons using the ATLAS detecto - Maddie McKay (Southern Methodist University)

17:20 NLO EW/QCD corrections for WZ scattering at the LHC - Christopher Schwan (Universita degli Studi di Milano)

17:45 Generalized Threshold Factorization with Full Collinear Dynamics - Johannes Michel (DESY Hamburg)

18:10 Inclusive jet cross section ratio with respect to jet radius in CMS - Paolo Gunnellini (Hamburg University)
Wednesday, 17 July 2019

08:00 Coffee/Breakfast
Coffee/Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary Session
Plenary Session
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 2220 A Chair : Ciaran Williams
Contributions

09:00 Implications of the Flavor Anomalies - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz)

09:35 QCD and BSM in Exotica, Beyond 2 Generations, and SUSY searches in CMS - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Johns Hopkins University)

10:10 QCD and Searches for Exotic Physics - Holly Pacey (University of Cambridge)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Plenary Session
Plenary Session
11:15 - 13:00
Room: 2220 A : Chair Claire Gwenlan
Contributions

11:15 Progress in multi-loop calculations - Lorenzo Tancredi (CERN TH)

11:50 Impact of QCD and PDF uncertainties on Standard Model measurements. - Alessandro Tricoli (BNL) Timothy Hobbs (CTEQ at SMU)
13:00 Lunch (on your own)
Lunch (on your own)
13:00 - 14:30

14:30 Bus to Niagara Falls
Bus to Niagara Falls
14:30 - 15:00

15:00 Niagara Falls Visit
Niagara Falls Visit
15:00 - 17:30

17:30 Bus to Dinner
Bus to Dinner
17:30 - 18:00

18:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:00 - 22:00
Thursday, 18 July 2019

08:00 Breakfast/Coffee
Breakfast/Coffee
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary Session
Plenary Session
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 2220 A Chair : Simon Badger
Contributions

09:00 Experimental measurements of strong coupling at the LHC - Pavel Starovoitov (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)

09:35 Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC - Roberval Walsh (DESY)

10:10 Recent results from ALICE - Kai Schweda (GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
10:45 Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Plenary Session
Plenary Session
11:15 - 12:30
Room: 2220 A Chair : Simone Marzani
Contributions

11:15 QCD in W/Z boson + jets events - Nataliia Zakharchuk (Carleton University (CA))

11:50 Searches using substructure in LHC - Frederik Ruehr (University of Freiburg)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 2213 A Chair : Vincent Theeuwes
Contributions

14:00 Theory predictions for jet pull - Simone Marzani (Università di Genova & INFN Genova)

14:25 Resummation of Jet-Splitting Scales in Multijet Production - Daniel Reichelt (Göttingen University)

14:50 NLL' Resummation of Jet Mass - Marcel Balsiger (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland)

15:15 Entropy of Jets - Duff Neill (LANL)
pQCD/MC
pQCD/MC
14:00 - 16:05
Room: 2220 A Chair : Stefan Prestel
Contributions

14:00 Five particle scattering at two loops in QCD - Simon Badger (IPPP Durham)

14:25 Numerical multi-loop calculations with pySecDec - Johannes Schlenk (IPPP)

14:50 Master Integrals for $q\bar{q} \rightarrow t\bar{t}$ scattering at NNLO - Ulrich Schubert (Universtiy at Buffalo)

15:15 Extracting analytical amplitudes from numerical evaluations - Giuseppe De Laurentis (IPPP, Durham University)

15:40 Colour Reconnection from Soft Gluon Evolution - Andrzej Siodmok (IFJ PAN)
16:05 Coffee
Coffee
16:05 - 16:30
16:30 Higgs/EW/BSM
Higgs/EW/BSM
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2200 A Chair : Ulrich Schubert
Contributions

16:30 PPS results and prospects from CMS/TOTEM - Christophe Royon (CEA Saclay) Christophe Royon Christophe Royon (IRFU-SPP, CEA Saclay)

16:55 HL-LHC physics with ATLAS detector - Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham)

17:20 VH(bb) and search for boosted ggH->bb in CMS - Ka hei martin Kwok

17:45 Loop Tree Duality for multi-loop numerical integration - Valentin Hirschi (ETHZ)

18:10 Analytic results for two-loop five-parton amplitudes from numerical unitarity. - Samuel Abreu (UCLouvain)
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
16:30 - 18:35
Room: 2213 A Chair : Timothy Hobbs
Contributions

16:30 Electroweak boson measurements with ALICE - Diego Stocco (Subatech)

16:55 Double parton scattering measurements by CMS - Maxim Pieters (University of Antwerp)

17:20 Exclusive di-photon and gamma+Z production at the LHC - Christophe Royon

17:45 Recent developments with the APPLgrid project - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)
Friday, 19 July 2019

08:00 Coffee/Breakfast
Coffee/Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary Session
Plenary Session
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 2220 A : Chair Avto Kharchilava
Contributions

09:00 Monte Carlo Overview - Stefan Prestel (Fermilab)

09:35 Double parton scattering - Markus Diehl (DESY)

10:10 Jet Measurements at the LHC - Christine McLean
10:45 Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Plenary Session
Plenary Session
11:15 - 13:15
Room: 2220 A : Chair Ia Iashvili
Contributions

11:15 New results from Belle II - Vladimir Savinov (University of Pittsburgh)

11:50 Higgs Precision - Falko Dulat (ETH Zurich)

12:25 Closing Remarks - Tao Han (Univ. of Pittsburgh)