Jets, Jets, Higgs and Jets

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• Jennifer Smillie (Edinburgh University)
• Wednesday 06 May 2015, 13:30-14:30
• Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prof Ian Kenyon.

LHC Run I already started to push the limits of our theoretical descriptions, especially in multi-jet processes. We must therefore learn from these results to develop new tools for Run II. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges posed by the large higher-order perturbative corrections which arise from the increased centre-of-mass energy. I will describe the High Energy Jets framework which provides an alternative description encoding the dominant pieces of the hard-scattering matrix elements at all orders in the strong coupling. I will illustrate the effectiveness of this method with comparisons to LHC Run I data, and discuss what it teaches us about QCD at the LHC . In the last part of the talk, I will discuss the implications of these results in the light of Higgs+dijets studies with an emphasis on vector boson fusion (VBF) channels. I will end by showing some results from ongoing work to improve our Higgs+dijets predictions.

This talk is part of the Particle Physics Seminars series.

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• Bham Talks
• Particle Physics Seminars
• Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13])
• What's on in Physics?

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