Workshop on Higgs and Top Physics with Lepton + Jets ======================================== Agenda, July 26th (Updated July 25) =================================== Start Time: 9:00 am -Introduction (Brian Winer) (30 min) * Issues for top * Issues for higgs -Heavy Flavor Backgrounds (Session Chair: Jason Nielsen) (90 min) Overview - Jason Nielsen Fit to ANN btag output - Catalin Ciobanu Wbb fraction and cross section - Mitch Soderberg Z+bb background in the ZH channel - Andrew Mehta Coffee Break: 10:30am (HF Background may continue after coffee break) -Monte Carlo Tools (Session Chair: Evelyn Thomson) (60 min) Overview - Evelyn Thomson MadEvent Validation - Jan Lueck New AlpGen - Kevin Lannon NLO MC - Joey Huston MC@NLO and Q^2 - Un-Ki Yang Lunch Break: 12:30-1:30pm (Lunch Provided) (MC may continue after lunch) -QCD Background (Session Chair: Richard Hughes) (90 min) Contributions: Overview -- Richard Hughes QCD & Single Top -- Jeannine Wagner QCD & ZH -- Ben Kilminster QCD & WH -- Jason Nielsen QCD & W+>=3 jets -- Kevin Lannon QCD & W+jets studies -- Slides from Ben Cooper/Andrea Messina (presented by Joey? or Robin?) TBC Coffee Break: 3:30pm -Increasing Acceptance (Session Chair: Taka Maruyama) (60 min) Overview - Taka Maruyama ANN and b-tagging - Svenja Richter Increasing acceptance/decreasing background - Steve Levy Forward tracking and b-tagging - Rainer Wallny Plug electrons? (how much gain?) - C. Mills (TBC) Triggering - Kirsten/Veronica -Systematics (Session Chair: Weiming Yao) (60 min) Q^2 Studies with Z+jets - Robin Erbacher (TBC) Q^2 Revisited - Un-Ki Yang ISR/FSR Plans, Studies for ttbar+jets - Tony Affolder (TBC) ISR/FSR - Un-Ki Yang b-tagging scale factor: where we are - Weiming Yao (TBC) lepton ID scale factor - Mike's slides (from Weiming) (TBC) Tentative Agenda, July 27th =========================== Start Time: 9:00am -Overviews of Relevant Analyses: (Session Chair: Robin Erbacher) (120 min) Overview - Robin Erbacher * Current WH -> lvbb Analysis Weiming Yao * ZH -> vvbb Analysis Tom Junk * ZH -> llbb Analysis Jonathon Efron * Single Top Search: Catalin Ciobanu * ttbar Jason Nielsen Coffee Break 10:30am (Overviews may continue after coffee break) -Jet Corrections/Dijet Mass Resolution (Session Chair: Florencia Canelli) (60 min) Jet Energy Scale and Resolution - Florencia MET corrections and resolution - (slides from Ming) Improving Jet Resolution with the H1 algorithm - Andy Mehta Pythia tune for Everybody, light and heavy jets - Rick St. Denis Lunch 12:30-1:30pm (Lunch Provided) -Advanced Analysis Techniques (Session Chair: Brian Winer) (60 min) Overview - Brian Winer Likelihoods, Neural Network, Iterative Disc. in Single Top - Sarah Budd Matrix Elements in Single Top - Florencia Canelli/Bernd Stelzer Neural Networks and Decision Trees - Brandon Parks Neural Networks in WH - Weiming Yao -Determining our Sensitivity (Session Chair: Tom Junk) (60 min) Higgs Sensitivity - Tom Junk Single Top Sensitivity - Tom Junk Coffee Break 3:30pm -Closeout (Rob Roser) (60 min) * Where do we go from here?