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, July 15, 2019 (12:00 AM) to Friday, July 19, 2019 (7:00 PM)

Monday, July 15, 2019

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

8:00 AM Breakfast/Coffee
Breakfast/Coffee
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 2nd Floor Atrium
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 2220 A - Chair : Sal Rappoccio
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Ciaran Williams (SUNY Buffalo)

9:30 AM Higher-order calculations and precision phenomenology - Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zurich)

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

11:20 AM Overview of new Higgs results - Liron Barak

11:55 AM Recent developments in PDFs - Zahari Kassabov (University of Cambridge)
12:30 PM Lunch (on site)
Lunch (on site)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Atrium, Jacobs Medical School
2:00 PM Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 2213 B Chair : Deepak Kar
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurement of jet substructure observables using the ATLAS detector - Iain Bertram (Lancaster University)

2:25 PM Leading and sub-leading jet functions and applications - Darren Scott (University of Amsterdam/Nikhef)

2:50 PM Jet gap jet cross sections at the LHC - Christophe Royon

3:15 PM $N$-subjettiness for boosted jets - Davide Napoletano (IPht, CEA Saclay)

3:40 PM Fitting the strong coupling constant for soft-drop thrust - Vincent Theeuwes (University of Goettingen)
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Stefano Carrazza
Contributions

2:00 PM A new generation of parton distribution functions with deep learning models - Juan Cruz-Martinez (University of Milano)

2:25 PM CTEQ-TEA parton distributions with the LHC data - Pavel Nadolsky (SMU)

2:50 PM Updates on PDFs in the MMHT framework - Thomas Cridge (Univeristy College London)

3:15 PM NNLO QCD fits to extract PDFs from HERA inclusive and jet data - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)

3:40 PM Measurements of single diffraction using forward proton tagging at ATLAS - Antonio Sbrizzi (INFN Bologna)
pQCD/MC Parallel
pQCD/MC Parallel
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 2213 A Chair : Marek Schoenherr
Contributions

2:00 PM Modeling of top quark and vector boson production as backgrounds to Higgs boson decays to b-quarks - Simona Gargiulo (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

2:25 PM High Energy resummation for Higgs plus dijets - Marian Heil (IPPP Durham)

2:50 PM NNLO precision phenomenology with MCFM - Tobias Neumann

3:15 PM Robust uncertainty estimation in MC tuning - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow)

3:40 PM Vector boson pair production at the LHC: NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion channel - Jeong Yeon Yook (University of Zurich)
4:10 PM Afternoon Coffee Break
Afternoon Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Higgs/EW/BSM
Higgs/EW/BSM
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2213 B Chair : Falko Dulat
Contributions

4:30 PM QCD Issues in Searches for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS Detector - Veronika Magerl (University of Freiburg)

4:55 PM A Monte Carlo analysis of the SMEFT in the top quark sector - Emma Slade (University of Oxford)

5:20 PM New tools to look for multi-jet resonances - Abhijith Gandrakota

5:45 PM 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
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Paolo Gunnellini
Contributions

4:30 PM PDF-independent Electroweak and Photon-induced Theoretical Predictions - Christopher Schwan (Universita degli Studi di Milano)

4:55 PM Interpolation and evolution of parton distribution functions with ChiliPDF - Riccardo Nagar (DESY)

5:20 PM 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)

5:45 PM Experimental constraints on collinear PDFs at 7, 8, 13 TeV (W, Z, jet production) by CMS - Svenja Pflitsch (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

6:10 PM Determination of proton parton distribution functions and extraction of alpha_S using ATLAS data - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)
pQCD/MC Parallel
pQCD/MC Parallel
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2213 A Chair : Andy Buckley
Contributions

4:30 PM Isolated photon and photon+jet production at NNLO QCD accuracy - Marius Höfer (Universität Zürich)

4:55 PM Power corrections for qT and TauN subtractions from photon isolation - Markus Ebert (MIT)

5:20 PM Measurement of photon production at ATLAS - Marcello Fanti (Universita` degli Studi di Milano)

5:45 PM Isolated photons and jets measurements with the ALICE detector in the LHC - Miguel Arratia (UC Berkeley)

6:10 PM Studying minijets and multiple parton interactions with rapidity correlations - Andrzej Siodmok (IFJ PAN)
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

8:00 AM Breakfast + Coffee
Breakfast + Coffee
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 2nd Floor Atrium
9:00 AM Plenary Session I
Plenary Session I
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Massimiliano Grazzini
Contributions

9:00 AM Jet and photon+jet physics - Hugues Lattaud (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

9:35 AM IR singularities of scattering amplitudes at 3 and 4-loop order - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

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

11:20 AM Computing for the LHC - Holger Schulz

11:55 AM Review of Resummation - Ian Moult (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Heavy Quarks/Top
Heavy Quarks/Top
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: 2213 B Chair : Wolfgang Altmannshofer
Contributions

2:00 PM Associated production of a top quark pair with a heavy boson at NLO+NNLL accuracy - Vincent Theeuwes (University of Goettingen)

2:25 PM QCD Calculation for hadronic B decays - Cai-Dian Lu (IHEP, Beijing)

2:50 PM Highlights of top-quark production measurements at ATLAS - Pekka Sinervo (University of Toronto)

3:15 PM Highlights of top-quark properties measurements at ATLAS - Robert Vallance (University of Birmingham)

3:40 PM Heavy-flavor production at hadron colliders - Keping Xie (Southern Methodist University)
Higgs
Higgs
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: 2213 A Chair : Alessandro Vicini
Contributions

2:00 PM Precise predictions for Higgs rapidity distribution at N3LO - Andrea Pelloni (ETHZ)

2:25 PM N3LO predictions for the decay of the Higgs boson to bottom quarks - Roberto Mondini (University at Buffalo)

2:50 PM Measurement of associated production of a heavy boson (Z/W/Higgs) with two top quarks - Jannik Geisen (II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

3:15 PM Charm-quark Yukawa Coupling in $h\rightarrow c\bar{c}\gamma$ at LHC - Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

3:40 PM 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
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Christine MClean
Contributions

2:00 PM Jet grooming with reinforcement learning - Stefano Carrazza (University of Milan)

2:25 PM Quarkonium Production in Jets at the LHC - Lin Dai (Duke University)

2:50 PM Measurement of jet fragmentation using the ATLAS detector - Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow)

3:15 PM ResBos2: Status Update - Joshua Isaacson

3:40 PM Measurements of jet mass and substructure at CMS - Ashley Parker (SUNY Buffalo)
4:05 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:05 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Heavy Quarks/Top
Heavy Quarks/Top
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2213 B Chair : Pekka Sinervo
Contributions

4:30 PM Measurement of the Jet Mass Distribution in Boosted Top Quark Decays in CMS - Paolo Gunnellini (Hamburg University)

4:55 PM On the ambiguities of the BLM/PMC procedure for hadron collider processes - Herschel Chawdhry (University of Cambridge)

5:20 PM 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
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Pavel Nadolsky
Contributions

4:30 PM Measurement of the QCD coupling constant by CMS - Juska Pekkanen (SUNY Buffalo)

4:55 PM Probing parton distribution functions at future colliders - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)

5:20 PM Updating and Optimizing Error PDFs with ePump - Carl Schmidt (Michigan State University)

5:45 PM PDF constraints from heavy-flavor production by CMS - Duong Nguyen

6:10 PM Exploring experimental constraints on PDFs with PDFSense - Timothy Hobbs (CTEQ at SMU)
pQCD/MC Parallel
pQCD/MC Parallel
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2213 A Chair : Alex Huss
Contributions

4:30 PM Higgs Pair Production at High-Energy - Stephen Jones (CERN)

4:55 PM Measurement of differential cross sections in Higgs boson decays to bosons using the ATLAS detecto - Maddie McKay (Southern Methodist University)

5:20 PM NLO EW/QCD corrections for WZ scattering at the LHC - Christopher Schwan (Universita degli Studi di Milano)

5:45 PM Generalized Threshold Factorization with Full Collinear Dynamics - Johannes Michel (DESY Hamburg)

6:10 PM Inclusive jet cross section ratio with respect to jet radius in CMS - Paolo Gunnellini (Hamburg University)
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

8:00 AM Coffee/Breakfast
Coffee/Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Ciaran Williams
Contributions

9:00 AM Implications of the Flavor Anomalies - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz)

9:35 AM QCD and BSM in Exotica, Beyond 2 Generations, and SUSY searches in CMS - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Johns Hopkins University)

10:10 AM QCD and Searches for Exotic Physics - Holly Pacey (University of Cambridge)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Plenary Session
Plenary Session
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 2220 A : Chair Claire Gwenlan
Contributions

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

11:50 AM Impact of QCD and PDF uncertainties on Standard Model measurements. - Alessandro Tricoli (BNL) Timothy Hobbs (CTEQ at SMU)
1:00 PM Lunch (on your own)
Lunch (on your own)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM Bus to Niagara Falls
Bus to Niagara Falls
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Niagara Falls Visit
Niagara Falls Visit
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM Bus to Dinner
Bus to Dinner
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, July 18, 2019

8:00 AM Breakfast/Coffee
Breakfast/Coffee
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Simon Badger
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental measurements of strong coupling at the LHC - Pavel Starovoitov (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)

9:35 AM Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC - Roberval Walsh (DESY)

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

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

11:50 AM Searches using substructure in LHC - Frederik Ruehr (University of Freiburg)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
Jets/Sub/Res Parallel
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: 2213 A Chair : Vincent Theeuwes
Contributions

2:00 PM Theory predictions for jet pull - Simone Marzani (Università di Genova & INFN Genova)

2:25 PM Resummation of Jet-Splitting Scales in Multijet Production - Daniel Reichelt (Göttingen University)

2:50 PM NLL' Resummation of Jet Mass - Marcel Balsiger (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland)

3:15 PM Entropy of Jets - Duff Neill (LANL)
pQCD/MC
pQCD/MC
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: 2220 A Chair : Stefan Prestel
Contributions

2:00 PM Five particle scattering at two loops in QCD - Simon Badger (IPPP Durham)

2:25 PM Numerical multi-loop calculations with pySecDec - Johannes Schlenk (IPPP)

2:50 PM Master Integrals for $q\bar{q} \rightarrow t\bar{t}$ scattering at NNLO - Ulrich Schubert (Universtiy at Buffalo)

3:15 PM Extracting analytical amplitudes from numerical evaluations - Giuseppe De Laurentis (IPPP, Durham University)

3:40 PM Colour Reconnection from Soft Gluon Evolution - Andrzej Siodmok (IFJ PAN)
4:05 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:05 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Higgs/EW/BSM
Higgs/EW/BSM
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2200 A Chair : Ulrich Schubert
Contributions

4:30 PM PPS results and prospects from CMS/TOTEM - Christophe Royon (CEA Saclay) Christophe Royon Christophe Royon (IRFU-SPP, CEA Saclay)

4:55 PM HL-LHC physics with ATLAS detector - Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham)

5:20 PM VH(bb) and search for boosted ggH->bb in CMS - Ka hei martin Kwok

5:45 PM Loop Tree Duality for multi-loop numerical integration - Valentin Hirschi (ETHZ)

6:10 PM Analytic results for two-loop five-parton amplitudes from numerical unitarity. - Samuel Abreu (UCLouvain)
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
PDFs/Soft/Alpha_S I
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: 2213 A Chair : Timothy Hobbs
Contributions

4:30 PM Electroweak boson measurements with ALICE - Diego Stocco (Subatech)

4:55 PM Double parton scattering measurements by CMS - Maxim Pieters (University of Antwerp)

5:20 PM Exclusive di-photon and gamma+Z production at the LHC - Christophe Royon

5:45 PM Recent developments with the APPLgrid project - Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)
Friday, July 19, 2019

8:00 AM Coffee/Breakfast
Coffee/Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 2220 A : Chair Avto Kharchilava
Contributions

9:00 AM Monte Carlo Overview - Stefan Prestel (Fermilab)

9:35 AM Double parton scattering - Markus Diehl (DESY)

10:10 AM Jet Measurements at the LHC - Christine McLean
10:45 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Plenary Session
Plenary Session
11:15 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: 2220 A : Chair Ia Iashvili
Contributions

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

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

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