LHC Physics Seminar

Upcoming Seminars


Ideas for topics
       Higgs width constraint based around an introduction
       Discussion based around 1307.1843
       Discussion based around 1503.00101
       Pentaquarks at the LHC
      
Past Seminars
21 Jul 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
       Renormalization and Symmetry,
       Based on Chapter 4 of "Aspects of Symmetry", by Sidney Coleman
       summarised by Khiem Phan 

02 Jun 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson.
      summarised by Giulio Falcioni

21 Apr 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      CPT Symmetry
      summarised by Michal Ochman 
  
07 Apr 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Regge Theory.
      summarised by Giulio Falcioni 

24 Mar 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Practical Session on Event Generators.
      Previous session materials.
      summarised by Arnd Behring 

17 Mar 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Practical Session on Event Generators.
      summarised by Arnd Behring 

10 Mar 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Practical Session on Event Generators.
      summarised by Arnd Behring 

27 Jan 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Introduction to Event Generators 3.
      summarised by Thorsten Kuhl 

20 Jan 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Introduction to Event Generators 2.
      summarised by Mark Round 

15 Jan 2015 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 1
      Introduction to Event Generators 1.
      summarised by Khiem Phan 

11 Dec 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 5
      Various Topics from ECFA 2014.
      summarised by Alex Kurz 

4 Dec 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 3
      Various Topics from ECFA 2014.
      summarised by Arnd Behring 

16 July 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      New measurement of the WW cross-section by ATLAS.
      summarised by Kristin Lohwasser  

11 June 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Measurements of the proton radius based around a review.
      summarised by Michal Ochman 

14 May 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      The anomalous magnetic moment of the electron.
      Reading material, 0902.3360.
      summarised by Alexander Kurz  

2 April 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Lattice Determinations of the Strong Coupling.
      summarised by Alberto Ramos  

19 March 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Lattice Determinations of the Strong Coupling.
      summarised by Alberto Ramos 

5 March 2014 10:30 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Bayesian Statistics Interpretation of Quantum Physics
      based around 1311.5253
      summarised by Mark Round 

26 February 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Bayesian Statistics
      summarised by Clemens Raab 

12 February 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Bayesian Statistics
      summarised by Clemens Raab 

 29 January 2014 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      QCD Evolution Equations
      Based around slides
      summarised by Sergey Alekhin 

 23 January 2014 16:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 3
      QCD Evolution Equations
      Based around slides
      summarised by Sergey Alekhin  

 27 November 2013 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Rare B_s Decays
      Based around 1307.5024, 1307.5025 and PRD.2.1285-1292
      summarised by Mark Round   

 30-OCT-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminar Room 4
      Hopf algebras of rooted trees
      Based on The Massless Two-loop Two-point Function and Zeta Functions in Counterterms of Feynman Diagrams
      Isabella Bierenbaum, PhD Thesis
      summarised by Arnd Behring   

 25-SEP-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Room 3L06 (Theory coffee room)
      Hopf algebra structures in particle physics
      Stefan Weinzierl
      arXiv:hep-th/0310124.
      Other relevant papers:
      The Massless Two-loop Two-point Function and Zeta Functions in Counterterms of Feynman Diagrams
      Isabella Bierenbaum, PhD Thesis
      For the interested readers:
      New mathematical structures in renormalizable quantum field theories
      Dirk Kreimer
      arXiv:hep-th/0211136
      Algebraic algorithms in perturbative calculations
      Stefan Weinzierl 
      arXiv:hep-th/0305260
      summarized by Clemens Raab and Fabian Wißbrock   

 14-AUG-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      A four-dimensional approach to quantum field theories
      Roberto Pittau
      arXiv:1208.5457
      and a short summary of the above can be found in
      arXiv:1304.6346
      summarized by Torsten Pfoh  

 31-JUL-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      continue discussion on
      Precision measurements of the top quark mass from the Tevatron in the pre-LHC era
      Angela Barbaro Galtieri, Fabrizio Margaroli, Igor Volobouev
      arXiv:1109.2163
      Determination of the top-quark pole mass and strong coupling constant from 
      the ttbar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
      CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.)
      arXiv:1307.1907
      summarized by Arnd Behring   

 24-JUL-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      Precision measurements of the top quark mass from the Tevatron in the pre-LHC era
      Angela Barbaro Galtieri, Fabrizio Margaroli, Igor Volobouev
      arXiv:1109.2163
      Determination of the top-quark pole mass and strong coupling constant from 
      the ttbar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
      CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.)
      arXiv:1307.1907
      summarized by Arnd Behring   

 17-JUL-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      --- POSTPONED ---
      Precision measurements of the top quark mass from the Tevatron in the pre-LHC era
      Angela Barbaro Galtieri, Fabrizio Margaroli, Igor Volobouev
      arXiv:1109.2163
      Determination of the top-quark pole mass and strong coupling constant from 
      the ttbar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
      CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.)
      arXiv:1307.1907
      summarized by Arnd Behring   

 10-JUL-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      continue discussion on
      Planck scale Boundary Conditions and the Higgs Mass
      Martin Holthausen, Kher Sham Lim, Manfred Lindner
      arXiv:1112.2415 [hep-ph]
      summarized by A. A. Almasy

 03-JUL-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      The Anatomy of electro-weak symmetry breaking. I: The Higgs boson in the standard model
      Abdelhak Djouadi
      arXiv:hep-ph/0503172 (Section 1.4)
      Planck scale Boundary Conditions and the Higgs Mass
      Martin Holthausen, Kher Sham Lim, Manfred Lindner
      arXiv:1112.2415 [hep-ph]
      summarized by A. A. Almasy

 12-JUN-13 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
      Startup meeting

 20-JUN-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
       continue discussion on
       Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at 
       sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
       arXiv:1203.4211 [hep-ex]
       additional references
       arXiv:hep-ph/9807420
       arXiv:1109.6830 [hep-ph] 

 13-JUN-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
       Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at 
       sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
       arXiv:1203.4211 [hep-ex]
       summarized by Kumar Meduri

 06-JUN-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
       Measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in pp collisions at
       sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector using final states with two high-pt leptons.
       arXiv:1202.4892 [hep-ex]
       summarized by Kumar Meduri

 30-MAY-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
       Percent level precision physics at the Tevatron: first genuine NNLO QCD corrections 
       to q qbar -> t tbar + X.
       arXiv:1204.5201 [hep-ph]
       summarized by Kumar Meduri

 23-MAY-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
       continue discussion on 
       Measurement of the Underlying Event Activity at the LHC with sqrt(s)= 7 TeV and 
       Comparison with sqrt(s) = 0.9 TeV
       CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.)
       arXiv:1107.0330 [hep-ex]
       We will focus on the theoretical issues
       PYTHIA manual (chapter 11) 

 25-APR-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
       Measurement of the Underlying Event Activity at the LHC with sqrt(s)= 7 TeV and 
       Comparison with sqrt(s) = 0.9 TeV
       CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.)
       arXiv:1107.0330 [hep-ex]
       summarized by Alexander Hasselhuhn

 07-MAR-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        continue discussion on 
        Parton distribution functions and benchmark cross sections at NNLO
        S. Alekhin, J. Blumlein and S. Moch
        arXiv:1202.2281 [hep-ph]

 22-FEB-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        Parton distribution functions and benchmark cross sections at NNLO
        S. Alekhin, J. Blumlein and S. Moch
        arXiv:1202.2281 [hep-ph]
        summarized by our special guest Sergey Alekhin

 15-FEB-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        continue discussion on 
        Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches
        arXiv:1202.1414 [hep-ex]
        arXiv:1202.1408 [hep-ex]
        arXiv:1202.1487 [hep-ex]
        arXiv:1202.1488 [hep-ex]

 08-FEB-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches
        ATLAS-CONF-2011-163
        CMS-PAS-HIG-11-032

 25-JAN-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        A measurement of the ratio of the W and Z cross sections with exactly one 
        associated jet in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ATLAS 
        ATLAS Collaboration
        arXiv:1108.4908[hep-ex]
        summarized by Torsten Kuhl


 11-JAN-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        continue discussion on
        Meaningful characterisation of perturbative theoretical uncertainties
        Matteo Cacciari, Nicolas Houdeau
        arXiv:1105.5152[hep-ph]

 04-JAN-12 11:00 LHC Physics Seminar, DESY Zeuthen, Seminarraum 4
        Meaningful characterisation of perturbative theoretical uncertainties
        Matteo Cacciari, Nicolas Houdeau
        arXiv:1105.5152[hep-ph]
        summarized by Torsten Pfoh


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