SCET 2015: XIIth Workshop on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

25 Mar 2015, 08:00 → 27 Mar 2015, 17:00 US/Mountain

Zuni Ballroom (Inn and Spa at Loretto)

This is the 12th in a series of workshops on the application of Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) to problems in particle and nuclear physics. SCET has been applied to heavy flavor physics, collider physics, heavy ion physics, and even quantum gravity. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in SCET and related field theory methods (e.g. perturbative QCD) to discuss the latest developments in the field. In order to ensure an informal atmosphere with plenty of time for discussion, attendance is limited to about 70 participants.
SCET 2015 is hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory. The official website is here.
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Next workshop:
DESY, Hamburg, Germany March 21 - 24, 2016
Previous workshops:
Munich, Germany, March 26-28, 2014
Durham, NC, March 14-16, 2013
Madrid, Spain, March 27-29, 2012
Carnegie Mellon, PA, March 06-08, 2011
Ringberg Castle, Germany, April 06-09, 2010
MIT, MA, March 24-26, 2009
Mainz, Germany, April 2-5, 2008
Berkeley, CA, March 29-31, 2007
Tucson, AZ,March 2-4, 2006
Seattle, WA, May 16-20, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-14, 2003

Wednesday, 25 March

08:00 → 08:50 Breakfast and Registration

08:50 → 10:40 Session 1

Convener: Zhongbo Kang (LANL)

08:50 Welcome

Speaker: Christopher Lee (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Welcome.pdf

09:00 Soft theorems from EFT

Speaker: Andrew Larkoski (MIT)

Slides SCET2015_Larkoski.pdf

09:35 Removing overlapping phase-space singularities

Speaker: Kai Yan (Harvard)

Slides SCET2015_KYan.pdf

10:10 Renormalization of subleading dijet operators in SCET

Speaker: Ray Goerke (University of Toronto)

Slides ray_goerke_scet2015.pdf

10:40 → 11:05 Coffee Break

11:05 → 12:35 Session 2

Convener: Prof. Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

11:05 Soft radiation distributions in massless QCD

Speaker: Robert Schabinger (Johannes Gutenberg University)

Slides SCET2015talk.pdf

11:35 Soft-gluon current at two loops

Speaker: Hua Xing Zhu (SLAC)

Slides SCET2015_HXZhu.pdf

12:05 The three loop cusp anomalous dimension in QCD

Speaker: Johannes Henn (IAS)

Slides talk_henn_scet_2015.pdf

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:50 Session 3

Convener: Adam Leibovich

14:00 An effective field theory for forward scattering and factorization violation

Speaker: Ira Rothstein (Carnegie Mellon)

Slides Rothstein.pdf

14:40 The role of Glauber exchange in SCET and the BFKL equation

Speaker: Sean Fleming (University of Arizona)

Slides Fleming.pdf

15:20 Regge behavior in EFT

Speaker: Basem Mahmoud El-Menoufi (University of Massachussets)

Slides Wrokshop.pdf

15:50 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Session 4

Convener: Iain Stewart

16:15 Glauber gluons and multiple parton interactions

Speaker: Jonathan Gaunt (DESY)

Slides SCET2015talk2.pdf

16:50 NNLL-NNLO transverse momentum Higgs distribution arising from gluon fusion

Speaker: Varun Vaidya (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides higgs_scet2015.pdf

17:20 Resummation of quark mass effects in gg->H

Speaker: Maximilian Stahlhofen (DESY)

Slides SCET2015.pdf

Thursday, 26 March

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:40 Session 5

Convener: Ivan Vitev

09:00 Jet functions and jet algorithms

Speaker: Junegone Chay (Korea University)

Slides Chay.pdf

09:35 Fractional jet multiplicity in collider physics

Speaker: Daniele Bertolini (UC Berkeley)

Slides SCET.pdf

10:05 Factorization and resummation of phenomenological jet substructure observables

Speaker: Ian Moult (MIT)

Slides IanMoult_SCET2015.pdf

10:40 → 11:05 Coffee Break

11:05 → 12:50 Session 6

Convener: Zoltan Ligeti (LBL)

11:05 Resummation of non-global logs

Speaker: Duff Neill (MIT)

Slides NGL_Duff.pdf

11:45 Resummation of double-differential cross sections

Speaker: Lisa Zeune (University of Amsterdam)

Slides SCET15_zeune.pdf

12:20 Factorization and resummation for generic jet hierarchies

Speaker: Piotr Pietrulewicz (DESY)

Slides SCET2015.pdf

12:50 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 15:45 Session 7

Convener: Sonny Mantry

14:15 Toward soft gluon resummation for the associated production of a Higgs boson and a top-quark pair

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

Slides Ferroglia_SCET15.pdf

14:45 Renormalization group improved predictions for t tbar + 0 jet production at hadron colliders

Speaker: DingYu Shao (University of Bern)

Slides DYS_scet2015.key.zip DYS_scet2015.pdf

15:15 Explanation of the WW excess at LHC by jet-veto resummation

Speaker: Prerit Jaiswal (Syracuse University)

Slides Jaiswal.pdf

15:45 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 17:45 Session 8

Convener: Guido Bell (University of Oxford)

16:10 Tau^jet resummation in Higgs production at NLL' + NLO

Speaker: Shireen Gangal (DESY)

Slides SCET15_Shireen.pdf

16:40 Automated NNLL+NLO resummation for jet-veto cross sections

Speaker: Lorena Rothen (University of Bern)

Slides SCET2015A.pdf

17:10 Inclusive and Exclusive Accuracy in Resummed Cross Sections

Speaker: Jon Walsh (UC Berkeley)

Slides SCETprofiles.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Workshop Dinner

Friday, 27 March

08:00 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:40 Session 9

Convener: Michael Luke

09:00 Parton showers and threshold logs

Speaker: Dave Soper (University of Oregon)

Slides ShowersandSCET.pdf

09:40 Jet energy loss and modifications in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Yang-Ting Chien (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides SCET2015.pdf

10:10 Primary massive quark production in thrust distribution: theory vs MC.

Speaker: Bahman Dehnadi (University of Vienna)

Slides Dehnadi-SCET-2015.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:35 Session 10

Convener: Christian Bauer

11:00 Power suppressed SCET helicity operators

Speaker: Dan Kolodrubetz (MIT)

Slides KolodrubetzSCET2015.pdf

11:35 Automated calculations of dijet soft functions

Speaker: Jim Talbert (Oxford)

Slides SCET2015.pdf

12:05 LHC jet shapes

Speaker: Andrew Hornig (LANL)

Slides SCET2015.pdf

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Session 11

Convener: Prof. Gil Paz (Wayne State University)

14:00 Exclusive radiative decays of W and Z in QCD factorization

Speaker: Matthias König (Johannes Gutenberg University)

Paper The paper this talk is based on.

Slides Slides for the talk

14:35 WIMP annihilation rate from EFT

Speaker: Matthew Baumgart (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides winoSCET.pdf

15:10 Heavy dark matter annihilation from EFT

Speaker: Grigory Ovanesyan (University of Massachussets)

Slides Ovanesyan.pdf

15:45 → 17:00 Coffee Break and Adjournment