LoopFest XVI

May 31, 2017, 8:00 AM → Jun 2, 2017, 9:30 PM US/Central

Radja Boughezal (ANL)

The HEP Theory and ATLAS group workshop 
 

 

 

 

Group Photo LoopFest_Group_Photo.jpg

Wednesday, May 31

8:00 AM → 8:15 AM Refreshments

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Welcome

Speakers: Marcel Demarteau (Argonne National Laboratory), Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)

8:30 AM → 9:50 AM Session 1

8:30 AM Overview of SM Higgs ATLAS and CMS results

Speaker: Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef)

Slides Ferrari_SMHiggs_loopfest_new.pdf

9:10 AM Latest LHC results on Standard Model measurements

Speaker: Emanuela Barberis (Northeastern University)

Slides LoopFest-Barberis_Final.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:10 AM Coffee Break

10:10 AM → 12:15 PM Session 2

10:10 AM Towards differential Higgs production at N3LO

Speaker: Falko Dulat (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides LoopFest_2017.pdf

10:35 AM Precision calculations in Vector-Boson Fusion Higgs production

Speaker: Frederic Dreyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides talk_loopfest17.pdf

11:00 AM Associated Production of a Top Pair and a Higgs boson to NNLL accuracy at the LHC

Speaker: Andrea Ferroglia (New York City College of Technology CUNY)

Slides Ferroglia_LoopFest_17.pdf

11:25 AM Higgs production at NLO in the Standard Model Effective Theory

Speaker: Nicolas Deutschmann (Université catholique de Louvain)

Slides Deutschmann.pdf

11:50 AM EW Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets at the LHC

Speaker: Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)

Slides LoopFestXVI_TMF.pdf

12:15 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 4:00 PM Session 3

1:30 PM Parton Distribution Functions, αs and Heavy-Quark Masses for LHC Run II

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (Universität Hamburg)

Slides loopfest.pdf

1:55 PM Parton distributions for LHC applications

Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides h526_Nadolsky.pdf

2:20 PM NNLL resummation with the ARES method

Speaker: Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)

Slides banfi_lf17.pdf

2:45 PM Resummation of transverse observables in hadronic collisions

Speaker: Pier Monni (CERN)

Slides LoopFest.pdf

3:10 PM Combined threshold and transverse momentum resummation for pt distributions at NNLL

Speaker: Claudio Museli (INFN - University of Milan)

Slides CombResum.pdf

3:35 PM Vector boson production in joint resummation

Speaker: Vincent Theeuwes (University at Buffalo - SUNY)

Slides VTheeuwes-Loopfest-Joint.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 6:00 PM Session 4

4:20 PM Proposed general structure for parton showers

Speaker: Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

Slides ShowerLoopFest.pdf

4:45 PM Triple collinear splittings in parton showers

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides anl_17-05.pdf

5:10 PM Parton shower developments in Pythia

Speaker: Stefan Prestel (Fermilab)

Slides talk20170531.pdf

5:35 PM NLO merging with MiNLO and NNLOPS: VV and VH

Speaker: Emanuele Re (CERN/LAPTh)

Slides 2017_05_31.pdf

Thursday, June 1

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Refreshments

8:30 AM → 10:10 AM Session 1

8:30 AM Recent developments in amplitude calculations

Speaker: Anastasia Volovich (Brown Univesity)

Slides 2017-06-loopfest-v2.pptx

8:55 AM Numerical Unitarity Method for Two-Loop Amplitudes in QCD

Speaker: Harald Ita (University of Freiburg)

Slides Loopfest2017.pdf

9:20 AM A new method to generate and reduce one-loop amplitudes in OpenLoops

Speaker: Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich)

Slides buccioni_loopfest2017.pdf

9:45 AM Azurite: a package to determine master integrals via computational algebraic geometry

Speaker: Yang Zhang (ETH Zurich)

Slides Loopfest_2017_zhang.pdf

10:10 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM → 12:10 PM Session 2

10:30 AM NNLO calculations with MATRIX

Speaker: Massimiliano Grazzini (University of Zurich)

Slides Grazzini_Loopfest17.pdf

10:55 AM Power corrections in the N-jettiness subtraction scheme

Speaker: Xiaohui Liu (Beijing Normal University)

Slides talk-loopfest.pdf

11:20 AM Phenomenology with Z bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Rhorry Gauld (ETH Zurich)

Slides Loopfest_GAULD.pdf Loopfest_GAULD_v2.pdf

11:45 AM Subleading Power Corrections for N-Jettiness Subtractions

Speaker: Ian Moult (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides IanMoult_LoopFest2017.pdf

12:10 PM → 1:30 PM Group Photo + Lunch

1:30 PM → 4:00 PM Session 3

1:30 PM A new regularization scheme from the loop-tree duality

Speaker: German Rodrigo (IFIC Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC CSIC-UV))

Slides 2017_06_rodrigo_duality_LoopFest.pdf

1:55 PM First Two-Loop Amplitudes with the Numerical Unitarity Method

Speaker: Ben Page (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Slides 4Gluon.pdf

2:20 PM On QCD-QED perturbative computations

Speaker: Stefano Frixione (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides Frixione_qcdew.pdf

2:45 PM Double Gauge Boson Production in the Standard Model EFT

Speaker: Ian Lewis (University of Kansas)

Slides IL_LOOPFEST_2017.pdf

3:10 PM NLO corrections to massive vector color octet pair production

Speaker: Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides DanielLoopFestSlides.pdf

3:35 PM Three-loop quark form factor at high energy: the leading mass corrections

Speaker: Tao Liu (University of Alberta)

Slides loopfest_liu.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM → 6:00 PM Session 4

4:20 PM Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals with pySecDec

Speaker: Sophia Borowka (CERN)

Slides loopfest_jun2017.pdf

4:45 PM Numerical approach to multi-scale multi-loop integrals

Speaker: Zhao Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Slides ZhaoLi_IHEP_LOOPFEST.pdf

5:10 PM Automation of EW corrections with NLOX.

Speaker: Christian Reuschle (Florida State University)

Slides Talk_Reuschle_201705_Argonne_LoopFest_main_ver02.pdf

5:35 PM Recent progress in MCFM

Speaker: Tobias Neumann (University at Buffalo)

Slides http://talks.tobias-neumann.eu/LoopFest2017/talk.html LoopFest2017.zip

Friday, June 2

8:15 AM → 8:30 AM Refreshments

8:30 AM → 10:10 AM Session 1

8:30 AM Medium-induced radiative corrections and their application to LHC heavy ion phenomenology

Speaker: Ivan Vitev (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Vitev_LoopFest_2017.pdf

8:55 AM Inclusive jets and their substructure

Speaker: Felix Ringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides loopfest17_Ringer.pdf

9:20 AM The spin-dependent quark beam function at NNLO

Speaker: Uli Schubert (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Loopfest17_Schubert.pdf

9:45 AM The proton radius puzzle

Speaker: Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

Slides Proton_Radius_Loopfest_2017.pdf

10:10 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM → 12:10 PM Session 2

10:30 AM Analytic resummation of TMD observables

Speaker: Varun Vaidya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides loopfest2017_varun.pdf

10:55 AM Collinear factorization violation and effective field theory

Speaker: Kai Yan (Harvard University)

Slides split_yan.pdf

11:20 AM Baikov-Lee representations of cut Feynman integrals

Speaker: Robert Schabinger (Trinity College, Dublin)

Slides LoopFest2017talk.pdf

11:45 AM High Energy Behaviour of Form Factors

Speaker: Taushif Ahmed (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides Loopfest17_Taushif.pdf

12:10 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 3:10 PM Session 3

1:30 PM An update on NNLO top-pair production and new ideas for the treatment of heavy flavors in the proton

Speaker: Alex Mitov (University of Cambridge)

Slides AlexanderMitov-Loopfest-2017.pdf AlexanderMitov-Loopfest-2017.pptx

1:55 PM Integration by parts and differential equations from unitarity

Speaker: Mao Zeng (University of California, Los Angeles)

Slides Mao_Zeng_LoopFest2017.pdf

2:20 PM Asymptotic expansion of Feynman integrals in higher dimensions

Speaker: Go Mishima (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides mishima.pdf

2:45 PM Four-loop QCD renormalization group functions with different fermion representations of the gauge group

Speaker: Max Zoller (University of Zurich)

Slides LoopFest_Argonne_2017_Zoller.pdf

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:10 PM Session 4

3:30 PM Mass Dependence of Higgs Production at Large Transverse Momentum

Speaker: Hong Zhang (The Ohio State University)

Slides Loopfest_Hong_Zhang.pdf

3:55 PM Precise MSSM Higgs mass prediction combining diagrammatic and EFT calculations

Speaker: Henning Bahl (Max-Planck Institut fuer Physik)

Slides henning_loopfestXVI.pdf

4:20 PM Outlook

Speaker: Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles)

Slides loopfest_17.pdf loopfest_17.pptx

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Bus to dinner location

6:00 PM → 8:30 PM Conference Dinner