LoopFest XIII

17 Jun 2014, 17:00 → 20 Jun 2014, 18:40 US/Eastern

Namm Hall (NY City College of Technology)

Andrea Ferroglia (NY City College of Technology), Doreen Wackeroth (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Frank Petriello (Northwestern University), Giovanni Ossola (NY City College of Technology), Lance Dixon (SLAC), Sally Dawson (BNL)

On June 18-20, 2014 the New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York will host  LoopFest XIII.

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

For more information, please visit the LoopFest XIII webpage at www.citytech.cuny.edu/loopfest13.

Tuesday, 17 June

17:00 Welcome Reception

Wednesday, 18 June

Session I

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

1 Folder Pick-up

2 Welcome

R. K. Hotzler, President of New York City College of Technology R. Ya. Kezerashvili, Chairman of the Physics Department and of the Center for Theoretical Physics

3 Vector Boson Production at CMS

Speaker: Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)

pdf Schmitt_LOOPFEST.pdf

pptx Schmitt_LOOPFEST.pptx

4 Decoupling theoretical uncertainties from Higgs couplings and similar measurements

Speaker: Kyle Cranmer

Slides Cranmer-Factorizing-Theory-Uncertainties-LoopFest.pdf

5 Flavor physics in the LHC era

Speaker: Prof. Alexey Petrov (Wayne State University / MCTP)

Slides LoopFest2014.pdf

6 A META analysis of parton distribution functions

Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky

Slides 140618.metapdf_final.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

Session II

Convener: Giovanni Ossola (New York City College of Technology -- CUNY)

7 Automated one-loop calculations with GoSam-2.0

Speaker: Gudrun Heinrich

Slides GudrunH_LoopFest.pdf

8 High multiplicity processes at NLO with BlackHat+Sherpa

Speaker: Daniel Maitre

Slides Maitre.pdf

9 Loop computations automation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

Speaker: Valentin Hirschi

Slides Hirschi.pdf

10 Applications of OpenLoops to Top and Higgs Physics

Speaker: Stefano Pozzorini

Slides pozzorini.pdf

11 High multiplicity QCD amplitudes with NJet

Speaker: Valery Yundin

Slides Yudin.pdf

12:20 Lunch Break

Session III

Convener: Stefano Pozzorini (University of Zurich)

12 REcursive Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes

Speaker: Uccirati Sandro

Slides uccirati.pdf

13 One-loop Integrand Reduction with Ninja

Speaker: Peraro Tiziano

Slides Peraro_Tiziano.pdf

14 The New Les Houches High Precision Wishlist

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides huston_loopfest_2014.pptx

15 NLO electroweak corrections to pp->WW->4 leptons in double-pole approximation at the LHC

Speaker: Marina Billoni (University of Tuebingen)

Slides billoni.pdf

16 Recent developments in Sherpa

Speaker: Mr Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Slides new-york_14-06.pdf

17 Higgs and Drell Yan at NNLOPS with MiNLO

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi

Slides Zanderighi.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

Session IV

Convener: Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

18 Multijet merging at NLO

Speaker: Frank Krauss

Slides Krauss.pdf

19 Geneva

Speaker: Dr Simone Alioli (LBNL & UC Berkeley)

Slides LoopFest_Alioli.pdf

20 Higher-order corrections to Z branching ratios

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides freitas_loopfest14.pdf

21 Electroweak Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets (A.K.A. VBF + 1 Jet) at NLO QCD

Speaker: Dr Terrance Figy (The University of Manchester)

Slides LoopfestXIII_TMF.pdf

22 Mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process in the resonance region

Speaker: Mr Alexander Huss (University of Freiburg)

Slides loopfest.pdf

23 Using NLO calculations to constrain top-Z couplings at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Raoul Rontsch (Fermilab)

Slides Loopfest2014.pdf

Thursday, 19 June

Session V

Convener: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

24 Higgs plus Jet at NNLO

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Caola

Slides caola.pdf

25 Precision calculation of Higgs plus one jet at NNLO

Speaker: Jaquier Matthieu

Slides Jaquier.pdf

26 Dijet production at NNLO

Speaker: Currie James

Slides dijettalk.pdf

27 Sector improved residue subtraction and applications

Speaker: Heymes David

Slides LoopFest2014.pdf

28 Differential distributions at NNLO

Speaker: Lazopoulos Achilleas

Slides lazopoulos.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

Session VI

Convener: Sally Dawson (BNL)

29 Resummation for W/Z/H production at large and small p_T

Speaker: Thomas Becher (Fermilab)

Slides becher_loopfest_2014.pdf

30 Factorization and resummation for boosted top production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Ben Pecjak

Slides LoopFest.pdf

31 Factorization simplified

Speaker: Prof. Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

Slides Loopfest-Factorization-Schwartz.pdf

32 Nonglobal logarithms: the fixed order story

Speaker: Mr Hua Xing Zhu (Peking University, China)

Slides LoopFest14_HuaXingZhu.pdf

33 Comparing Direct and Effective Methods of Resummation

Speaker: Christopher Lee

Slides CLee_LoopFest_19_Jun_2014.pdf

12:20 Lunch

Session VII

Convener: Thomas Becher (Fermilab)

34 RG-improved fully differential predictions for top-pair production at hadron colliders

Speaker: Alessandro Broggio

Slides broggio.pdf

35 Jet broadening in effective field theory

Speaker: Guido Bell

Slides Loopfest2014.pdf

36 Resummed jet bin predictions

Speaker: Xiaohui Liu

Slides Liu.pdf

37 Multi-Differential Jet Cross-Sections

Speaker: Duff Neill

Slides Duff_Neill_Loopfest.pdf

38 Exact Amplitude-Based Resummation Confronts Experiment: Present and Future

Speaker: Bennie Ward

Slides Ext-Amp-Bsd-Resum-Cnft-Expt-Pres-Fur-2014.pdf

39 News from jet substructure: soft drop

Speaker: Simone Marzani

Slides marzani_loofest2014.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

Session VIII

Convener: William Kilgore (Brookhaven National Lab)

40 Soft-gluon resummation for four parton hard-scattering processes

Speaker: Alessandro Torre

Slides torre.pdf

41 On next-to-eikonal corrections to threshold resummation for electroweak annihilation cross sections

Speaker: Leonardo Vernazza

Slides Vernazza.pdf

42 Higgs production in bottom annihilation: Transverse momentum spectrum at NNLO+NNLL

Speaker: Marius Wiesemann

Slides Wiesemann.pdf

43 Multi-loop unitarity via computational algebraic geometry

Speaker: Zhang Yang

Slides loopfest_XIII_Yang_Zhang.pdf

44 Progress on Multiloop Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Slides mastrolia_LoopFest14.pdf

45 Two loop corrections to tt and VV production

Speaker: Andreas von Manteuffel

Slides loopfest-manteuffel.pdf

19:30 Conference Dinner

Friday, 20 June

Session IX

Convener: Pierpaolo Mastrolia (MPI Munich)

46 Colour, flavour, and multi-jet physics at the LHC

Speaker: Tom Melia

Slides melia_loopfest.pdf

47 Testing the Standard Model with the electron g-2

Speaker: Massimo Passera

Slides passera.pdf

48 Towards differential top pair hadro-production

Speaker: Gabriel Abelof

Slides Abelof.pdf

49 Status of VV' production in NNLO QCD

Speaker: Dirk Rathlev

Slides Rathlev.pdf

50 Top quark mass effects in Higgs boson pair production at the LHC

Speaker: Jonathan Grigo

Slides jonathan-grigo-double-higgs.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

Session X

Convener: Giulia Zanderighi (University of Oxford)

51 Progress on the theory wishlist for multiloop integrals

Speaker: Johannes Henn

Slides jmhenn_loopfest.pdf

52 Magnus and Dyson Series for Master Integrals

Speaker: Stefano Di Vita

Slides di_vita.pdf

53 A novel approach to integration by parts reduction

Speaker: Robert Schabinger

Slides LoopFest2014talk.pdf

54 BCFW recursion for amplitudes with off-shell gluons

Speaker: Andreas van Hameren

Slides vanHameren.pdf

55 Recent progress in HELAC for NLO and NNLO calculations

Speaker: Costas Papadopoulos

Slides papadopoulos.pdf

12:20 Lunch Break

Session XI

Convener: Massimo Passera (INFN Padova)

56 The NRQCD matching coefficient at NNNLO and the decay Upsilon -> ll

Speaker: Peter Marquard

Slides talk.pdf

57 NNNLO corrections to top quark pair production at threshold at the ILC

Speaker: Matthias Steinhauser

Slides steinhauser.pdf

58 Higgs Production at N3LO

Speaker: Falko Dulat

Slides dulat.pdf

59 Recent Developments in the Calculation of Massive Quark Corrections to Deep Inelastic Scattering at Three Loops

Speaker: Alexander Hasselhuhn

Slides Hasselhuhn_LoopFest.pdf

60 Progress towards NNNLO calculations of Higgs production

Speaker: William Kilgore

Slides Kilgore-LFXIII.pdf

61 A new paralell code for differential Higgs boson cross sections

Speaker: Franz Herzog

Slides LoopFest2014_FHerzog.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

Session XII

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

62 Some four-loop corrections to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Speaker: Alexander Kurz

Slides kurz.pdf

63 Understanding J/psi production 40 years after its discovery

Speaker: JianWei Qiu

Slides Qiu-loopfest.pdf

64 Higgs at the ILC

Speaker: Dr Sven Heinemeyer (IFCA (CSIC, Santander))

Slides sven.pdf

65 Summary

Speaker: David Kosower

Slides LoopFest_XIII_Summary_Talk_(New_York,_Jun_20,_2014).pptx