HDAYS 2014 in Santander came to a close

HDAYS 2014 in Santander came to a close today. It's been a blast, as always. Great people and wonderful location. Excellent overview of the riches of Higgs physics at the LHC. Run II promises to be a very exciting period for Higgs physics that will set the stage for future endeavours. HDAYS 2015 is set for September 14th-18th. Below is the group photo

Announcement of Kruger 2014

WORKSHOP ON DISCOVERY PHYSICS AT THE LHC

KRUGER-2014

December 1 - 6, 2014

Protea Hotel Kruger Gate

Portia Shabangu Road, Skukuza, Mpumulanga, South Africa
Dear Colleagues

We are pleased to announce the Third  Biennial

   "Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC" (KRUGER 2014)
The Workshop will be held at the 4-star Protea Hotel Kruger Gate,
just 100 meters from the  entrance to the Kruger National Park.

Please find details in the conference web page
http://www.kruger2014.tlabs.ac.za
The conference aims to promote scientific exchange of new results
and development of
novel ideas and models related to the physics of the LHC.
The following topics will be covered:
 Particle Physics,
  Heavy Ion Physics,
 Physics  after the discovery of the  Brout-Englert-Higgs boson.
Accommodation, registration, abstract submission and other practical
details can be found
on the web page. Attendance will be limited to about 100 participants
because of the number of available  rooms in the hotel.

Students are encouraged to also take part in a related workshop/school on
  ``Hot and Dense Nuclear & Astrophysical Matter - HDM2014''
which will be organized by Professor Azwinndini
Muronga (amuronga@uj.ac.za)  at the University of Mafeking
November 24 - 28, 2014.

Other related events of interest to students are:
  ``Chris Engelbrecht School in Particle Physics'',
January 12 - 21, 2015,
and the
  ``High Performance Signal and Data Processing'',
January 26 - 30, 2015.
Limited funding for South African students is available.
We look forward to seeing you all in South Africa

The organizers of KRUGER-2014:

O. Boeriu (Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)  Z. Buthelezi  (iThemba LABS)

J. Cleymans (UCT, Cape Town) (Chair)  A. S. Cornell
(NITHeP/Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

S. H. Connell (UJ, Johannesburg)  T. Dietel     (UCT, Cape Town)

S. Frtsch    (iThemba LABS)  N. Haasbroek  (iThemba LABS) (Secretary)

A. Hamilton (UCT, Cape Town)  W. A. Horowitz (UCT, Cape Town)

S. Karataglidis (UJ, Johannesburg)  B. Mellado  (Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

E. Sideras-Haddad  (Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)  T. Vickey
(Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

H. Weigert   (UCT, Cape Town)  S. Yacoob    (UKZN, Durban)

The email address of the conference is kruger2014@tlabs.ac.za

Improving Higgs plus Jets analyses through Fox-Wolfram Moments

The preprint with the title "Improving Higgs plus Jets analyses through Fox-Wolfram Moments" has appeared in the archive today. Among other things one can see a discussion on how the jet veto can be replaced by a moment pertaining to extra jet radiation.

The abstract can be found below:

"It is well known that understanding the structure of jet radiation can significantly improve Higgs analyses. Using Fox-Wolfram moments we systematically study the geometric patterns of additional jets in weak boson fusion Higgs production with a decay to photons. First, we find a significant improvement with respect to the standard analysis based on an analysis of the tagging jet correlations. In addition, we show that replacing a jet veto by a Fox-Wolfram moment analysis of the extra jet radiation almost doubles the signal-to-background ratio. Finally, we show that this improvement can also be achieved based on a modified definition of the Fox-Wolfram moments which avoids introducing a new physical scale below the factorization scale. This modification can reduce the impact of theory uncertainties on the Higgs rate and couplings measurements."

The link to the preprint is:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5891

As Tilman likes to say

Aloha