Workshop on the Future of Higgs Physics

May 3-5, 2001
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois

Parallel sessions

Parallel session 1a: Higgs as a window to new physics (chair: S. Willenbrock)
Thursday, May 3, 1:30 - 3:30
Curia II

S. Willenbrock (UIUC)
N. Evans (Southampton)
D. Chang (UIC)
U. Ellwanger (Orsay)
M. Krawczyk (Warsaw)
The scale of fermion mass generation
Composite Higgs in the precision era [PDF] [PS]
Large two-loop contribution of a generic pseudoscalar to muon g-2
The Higgs sector of the NMSSM
Two-Higgs-doublet model (II) - new results
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 1b: Higgs at the LHC (chair: J. Womersley)
Thursday, May 3, 1:30 - 3:30
1 West

F. Maltoni (UIUC)
G. Azuelos (Montreal)
M. Hohlfeld (Mainz)
A. Nikitenko (CERN)
M. Dittmar (ETH Zurich)
Single top plus Higgs production at the LHC [PDF] [PS]
Higgs production through vector boson fusion at the LHC [PDF]
Extraction of Higgs parameters at the LHC [PDF] [PS]
Tau trigger and H --> tau tau studies in CMS [PS]
LHC luminosity requirements to observe H0 and measure its couplings [PDF] [PS]
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 2a: Higgs at hadron colliders (chair: S. Willenbrock)
Friday, May 4, 11:00 - 12:45
1 West

L. Reina (FSU)
S. Dittmaier (DESY)
C. Oleari (UW-Madison)
R. Harlander (Brookhaven)
A. Belyaev (FSU)
NLO QCD corrections to ttH production [PDF] [PS]
NLO QCD corrections to ttH production [PDF] [PS]
Higgs plus two jets via gluon fusion [PDF] [PS]
Higgs production at the LHC at NNLO [PDF] [PS]
Prospects for charged Higgs boson searches at hadron colliders [PS]
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 2b: Higgs at e+e- colliders (chair: S. Tkaczyk)
Friday, May 4, 11:00 - 12:30
Curia II

T. Trefzger (LMU)
S. Heinemeyer (Brookhaven)
H. Logan (Fermilab)
D. Rainwater (Fermilab)
Flavor-independent Higgs searches at LEP [PS]
Precise predictions for MSSM Higgs production at e+e- colliders [PDF] [PS]
Distinguishing an MSSM Higgs from a SM Higgs at a linear collider [PDF] [PS]
After Higgs discovery: the nature of the beast
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 3a: Diffractive Higgs production (chair: J. Conway)
Friday, May 4, 1:30 - 2:30
Curia II

M. Albrow (Fermilab)
M. Boonekamp (Saclay)
C. Royon (Saclay, BNL, Arlington)
Plans to detect a Higgs (quasi-) exclusively in CDF [PDF]
Event generators for (quasi-) exclusive Higgs production
Ideas to detect a Higgs (quasi-) exclusively in D0
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 3b: Higgs at e+e- colliders (chair: S. Tkaczyk)
Friday, May 4, 1:30 - 2:30
1 West

W. Wester (Fermilab)
P. Derwent (Fermilab)
A. Sopczak (Lancaster)
Linear collider and a very heavy Higgs [PDF]
SM Higgs in the 160-250 GeV mass range [PPT]
e+e- --> bb --> bbA: a direct measurement of tan(beta) [PDF] [PS]
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 4a: Higgs as a window to new physics (chair: S. Willenbrock)
Saturday, May 5, 10:50 - 12:30
Curia II

C. Wagner (Argonne)
T. Plehn (UW-Madison)
T. Tait (Argonne)
H. C. Cheng (Chicago)
H. He (Austin)
Higgs physics and the origin of baryon asymmetry in the MSSM [PS]
Determining the origin of Higgs couplings at the LHC [PDF] [PS]
Extra-dimensional EWSB and fermion masses [PDF] [PS]
Composite Higgs from extra dimensions
Soft SUSY breaking, stop-scharm mixing, and Higgs signatures [PDF] [PS]
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min
20 min

Parallel session 4b: Tevatron search strategies (chair: J. Conway)
Saturday, May 5, 10:50 - 12:30
1 West

J. Incandela (Santa Barbara)
A. Schwartzman (Buenos Aires)
A. Connolly (Berkeley)
S. Grinstein (Buenos Aires)
T. Han (UW-Madison)
Tevatron search for Higgs in the ttH channel [PDF]
b-jet identification in WH events [PS]
A search for MSSM Higgs using di-tau + jet events
H->bb mass resolution and jet reconstruction issues [PDF] [PS]
H --> tau mu at hadron colliders
20 min
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Program finalized May 2, 2001.

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