The Workshop is
structured around two Working
Groups with, in many
cases, a strong interplay between these groups.
In addition, Monte
Carlo issues met commonly by the Working Groups may
trigger a dedicated activity within a `task force'.
Contrary to the
previous sessions, it has been decided to organise the Workshop
activities within two working groups (WG), rather than the usual 3.
The SM WG
will cover calculations
and implementations of cross sections both for QCD, EW as well as Higgs
processes. Indeed, we feel that this aspect of Higgs physics is
best dealt
with by experts in loop/multi-leg calculations with close connection to
Monte-Carlo (MC) techniques and simulations. This session should pay a
particular attention to the very first few year of running of the
LHC making sure that the most important SM processes are well under
control. The impact and the exploitation of the Tevatron experience is
also a central topic.
The BSM WG.
One of the task
of the WG will be to address in more detail new approaches related to
symmetry breaking, beyond the usual SUSY/MSSM paradigm, although the
latter should still be pursued. At the
same time, and this is the reason of merging BSM+Higgs, one should try
to review the new Higgs(/Golstone) phenomenology of these
models together with the phenomenology of
the other new particles these models predict. When possible a
connection with dark matter will be made. An important aspect,
especially after the LC technology choice, is a critical review
of the LHC/LC connection.
Theory Conveners:S. Dittmaier
, S.Frixione
and
S. Willenbrock
Atlas Contact: G. Unal and C. Buttar
CMS Contact: A.
Nikitenko
and V.Drollinger
Tevatron Contact: M. Martinez-Perez (CDF) and S. Soldner-Rembold (D0)
Monte-Carlo Contact: P. Richardson
send
an email to all the conveners and contacts of the group
Topics
- SM benchmarks for
LHC start:
- what are the
expected cross sections?
inclusive jet, W/Z, top, W+jets, isolated photons
- what are the
expected uncertainties?
- What process to use
as a luminosity
monitor?
-
PDF uncertainties
- situation
now
- after
HERA II and Tevatron Run II
- after
1 year of LHC
- PDF's
of Heavy
flavours
- reliability
of NLO DGLAP
- differences
between CTEQ and MRST and Les Houches (2001) project for benchmark
comparisons
-
MC
- MC
at NLO
- MC
simulations vs NLO
predictions
- Matrix
Elements and Parton Shower matching
- MC
tuning and underlying events
-
Multi-parton and NNLO:
- tree-level
- conventionnal
NLO
- new
developments (strings and twistors..)
- NNLO
vs soft-collinear
approximations
- Needed
NNLO for which observables
-
Precision Higgs cross
sections
- Review
and updates
- soft
gluon resummations
- Higgs
in association with heavy quarks
- Diffractive
Higgs
- Tevatron
background measurements for heavy Higgs
-
Electroweak corrections
for LHC and LC (related to multi-parton)
Theory Conveners: B.
Allanach , C. Grojean
and
J. Lykken
Atlas Contacts: T. Lari and S.
Ferrag
CMS Contact: L.Pape
and F. Moortgat
Tevatron Contacts: S.
Rolli (CDF)
and S. Muanza (D0)
Linear Collider Experimental
Contact:
K. Desch
Monte-Carlo Contact: P.Skands
List of those present in Les Houches during the
first session (2-11 May) and/or the
second session (11-20 May)
Topics
- Alternative Models
for Higgs and
Electoweak Symmetry Breaking:
- SUSY models with a
heavy Higgs
- Higgs as a
Goldstone Boson
- Higgs as gauge
fields
- Higgsless models
- Invisible Higgs and
CP violation in the
Higgs sector
-
Signature of SUSY
breaking scenarii
- What
can be seen and at which scale,
- Discriminating
between models
- Precision
measurements and new techniques for parameter extraction
- Spin
measurements
- Physics
with gravitinos?
-
SUSY les Houches Accord
and SPS-like Studies
- Interfacing
with NLO cross sections
- tg
beta and effective couplings
- New
ingredients (CP, Rp?)
-
Extra-dimension
- Model
independent constraints on new gauge bosons
-
Collider Physics and
Cosmology
- Requirements
on LHC and LC data to match precision data on dark matter
- Non
standard cosmolgy and the colliders
- Baryogenesis
and the TeV colliders
-
MC and New Tools for the
New Physics
- SM
backgrounds to SUSY searches