Northwest Terascale Research Projects

Interpreting emerging Higgs data

University of Oregon

4 - 6 April 2012

The Northwest Terascale projects is a series of small informal workshops being jointly hosted by the particle theory and experimental groups at the Universities of Washington and Oregon. These are intended to be working meetings for interested experts, with a minimal number of formal talks, and most of the time spent on discussion and collaborative work towards improving the prospects for physics discoveries at the LHC.

This workshop will take place over the three full days Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 4 - 6 April, with Tuesday and Saturday as travel days. Participants are invited to also spend Monday and Tuesday with us for informal discussions and collaboration.

This meeting is being organized by Graham Kribs, Spencer Chang and Dave Soper of UO. It is a followup to the Northwest Terascale workshop Higgs @ Tevatron and LHC held last April at the University of Washington. Its aim is to understand emerging data about the Higgs boson (see Description of topics below.)

• Description of topics.
• Participants.
• Practical information.
• Schedule.
• Available talks as .pdf files.

Previous workshops in this series have been

• New physics from heavy quarks in hadron colliders (UW, 6-12 February 2012).
• Higgs @ Tevatron and LHC (UW, 26 - 30 April 2011).
• Emerging opportunities for the International Linear Collider (UO, 16 - 19 March 2011)
• Modeling the underlying event and minimum bias events (UO, 1 - 11 March 2011)
• Using jet substructure to find new physics at the LHC (UO, 31 January - 4 February 2011)
• The terascale at LHC 0.5 and Tevatron (UW, 7-11 June 2010)
• Jets and jet substructure at the LHC (UW, 11-15 January 2010)
• W + b quark physics at the LHC (UO, 14 - 16 September 2009)
• Unusual dark matter: theory, experiment, and the LHC (UO, 6 - 10 July 2009)
• Signatures of long-lived exotic particles at the LHC (UW, 4 - 8 May)
• Parton showers and event structure (UO, 23 - 27 February 2009)
• Determining the properties of the Higgs at the LHC (UW, 12 - 16 January, 2009)

Last updated 9 January 2012