In Search of New Physics Using SMEFT

2 Oct 2019, 08:00 → 4 Oct 2019, 12:00 US/Central

Building 362/Conference Room F-108 (Argonne National Laboratory)

Radja Boughezal (ANL)

While the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been so far very successful in describing measured data at hadron colliders such as the LHC, numerous questions remain unanswered. Searching for subtle deviations from SM predictions with the high-luminosity LHC may be the key in guiding us beyond the SM paradigm.  One way of parametrizing high-scale new physics effects to search for such deviations is through the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT).  This workshop will bring together world-leading experts to discuss the latest results and developments in this field. It will focus on how different beyond-the-SM theories can be parametrized in SMEFT, the role of higher-order corrections in SMEFT as LHC data becomes more precise, and what measurements will be possible at the LHC in the future.

The workshop will be held on October 2-4, 2019 in the HEP division of Argonne National Laboratory, Bldg 362, room F-108. For any additional details or questions please contact Radja Boughezal.

Local Organizing Committee

Radja Boughezal (Chair, ANL)
Walter Hopkins (ANL)
Jeremy Love (ANL)
Ian Low (ANL/NU)
Frank Petriello (ANL/NU)
Carlos Wagner (ANL/Chicago)

 

 

Wednesday, 2 October

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome: Rik Yoshida - HEP Division Director and Radja Boughezal

Convener: Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)

slides Intro-slide-SMEFT.pdf

09:00 → 12:30 Morning Session

Convener: Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:00 Searching for new physics at the LHC using SMEFT

Speaker: Matt Herndon (Univerersity Of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides Herndon_smeftANL_1910.pdf

09:45 The Impact of Theoretical Errors in the SMEFT

Speaker: Will Shepherd (Sam Houston State University)

Slides Shepherd_Argonne1019.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Effective Theories that Violate Lepton Number

Speaker: Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)

Slides Andre_ANL_SMEFT_LNV.pdf

11:45 Constraining the SMEFT with low-energy experiments

Speaker: Emanuele Mereghetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Merghetti_ANL_SMEFT.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch Break - Building 213/Cafeteria

14:30 → 17:15 Afternoon Session

Convener: Prof. Carlos Wagner (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 Double Gauge Boson Production at the LHC in SMEFT

Speaker: Ian Lewis (University of Kansas)

Slides IL_Argonne2019.pdf

15:15 Towards a combined Monte Carlo analysis of the top and Higgs

Speaker: Jacob Ethier (Vrije Universiteit / Nikhef)

Slides Ethier_SMEFT_ANL19.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Renormalization of the bosonic SMEFT operators

Speaker: Claudius Krause

Slides SMEFT.Argonne.C.Krause.pdf

Thursday, 3 October

09:00 → 12:30 Morning Session

Convener: Prof. Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

09:00 Dimension-8 operators and WH productions

Speaker: Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame)

Slides ANL_SMEFT_AMartin.pdf

09:45 The role of the conformal group in the SMEFT

Speaker: Tom Melia (Kavli IPMU)

Slides role_of_cft.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Four-Fermi Operators, Chirality and gamma_5 in SMEFT

Speaker: Daniel Wiegand (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)

Slides SMEFT_DanielWiegand.pdf

11:45 SMEFT at NLO for the Drell-Yan Process

Speaker: Ahmed Ismail (Oklahoma State University)

Slides smeft.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch Break - Building 213/Cafeteria

14:30 → 17:15 Afternoon Session

Convener: Ian Low (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 Higgs Portals for Thermal Dark Matter: EFT/Simplified Model Perspectives and the NMSSM

Speaker: Nausheen Shah (Wayne State University)

Slides SHAH_ANL_SMEFTWorkshop_Oct_3_2019.pptx

15:15 The Be-8 Atomki anomaly and EFTs for Nuclear Transitions

Speaker: Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

Slides Tait-Argonne-ATOMKI.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Open Mic - Miscellaneous Discussions

Friday, 4 October

09:00 → 12:00 Morning Session

Convener: Prof. Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

09:00 Some practical applications of the SMEFT

Speaker: Michael Trott (NBI)

Slides AMEFTargonne2019.pdf

09:45 Constraining EFTs with Machine Learning

Speaker: Felix Kling (SLAC)

Slides MadMiner_ANL.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Probing Flavor Non-Universal Theories through Higgs Physics at the LHC and Future Colliders

Speaker: Zhen Liu (University of Maryland)

Slides 1_SMEFT_FVHiggs_ZhenLiu_2019.pdf

11:45 Closing Remarks