The 42nd General Meeting of ILC Physics Subgroup

Asia/Tokyo
Keisuke Fujii (IPNS, KEK)
Description

Date/Time: 10:30~17:30 JST, June 13, 2015

Place: Room 425, Building No.3, KEK

Official Language: English

Video Conference ID: 437 (KEK MCU2)

Fuze connection: http://fuze.me/29340610

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A Summary of The 42nd General Meeting of the ILC Physics Subgroup
June 13, 2015 (Sat) at Room 425, Building 3, KEK
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0) Attendants:
Present at KEK:
A.Ishikawa (Tohoku)
K.Fujii    (KEK)
J.Tian     (KEK)
J.Yan      (KEK)
T.Ogawa   (Sokendai)
M.Kurata   (Tokyo) 
D.Jeans    (Tokyo)
K.Hidaka   (Tokyo Gakugei)
J.Strube    (PNNL)

Remote connection:
T.Tanabe        (Tokyo)
S.Kawada    (Hiroshima)
K.Ikematsu     (Saga)
Y.Sudo         (Kyushu)
T.Tomita       (Kyushu)
T.Suehara      (Kyushu)

0) Opening comments (K.Fujii)

1) Leptonic recoil mass analysis (Jacqulline Yan)
Status:
Improvements since the last meeting:
    Z->ee in addition to Z->mm
    all Ecm
    both xsec and mh measurements
    improved selection to minimize bias
    better fitting technique (use of Kernel function for signal)
Dominant BG:
    ZZ (llX), gamma Z (gamma ll), WW (llvv)
New cuts:
    vector pt sum (dl+gamma)
    cos(theta_missing) (applied only when an energetic gamma is there)
Cross section measurements:
  Ecm=250GeV
    (-0.8,+0.3)    2.7%     38MeV
    (+0.8,-0.3)    2.9%     38MeV
  Ecm=350GeV
    (-0.8,+0.3)    3.2%     97MeV
    (+0.8,-0.3)    3.6%    105MeV
  Ecm=500GeV
    (-0.8,+0.3)    5.0%    450MeV (BG fit with wider window)
    (+0.8,-0.3)    5.3%    540MeV (BG fit with wider window)
  The results above are with fixed BG.
  If we float BG, xsec error is 10% worse.no effect on mh.
    BG fluctuation is about 1%.
  Checked selection bias -> confirmed model-independence
  C: acceptance hole must be covered LumiHCAL 
Next Step:
- increase MC statisitics
- ZZ fusion analysis (Zee)
- semi-model independent analysis
  visible and invisible Higgs separately.


2) Plan by Next weekend & some trials (Masakazu Kurata)
Status:
- ilcsoft v01-17-07
    Particle ID modules
- new jet clustering
Particle ID:
  implementing requests from Jenny: getType(), getPDG(), getLikelihood(), …
      vector of posterior probabilities for different hypothsis.
Jet clustering
  DICLUS: dipole jet clustering
    3->2 process, all the other algorithms are 2->1.
   -> tried this starting from 20 jets by Durham.
   -> so far no significant improvements seen for the qqbbbb sample
  Separation of quark and gluon jets
      jet broadening 
    -> For 20 jets by Durham, 
Next Step:
- Polish up PID module for v01-17-07
- For top WS, study/improve LCFIPlus.
- For software WS, clean up and make the code public.


3) Anomalous HVV couplings (Tomohisa Ogawa)
Status:
Anomalous HVV couplings:
    SM-like, FF, FFtilde
Zh production:
  Observables:
    - production angle of Z 
    - delta phi (angle btw production and decay planes of Z)
    - sigma_Zh
Update on analysis based on the recoil mass technique
  mmh and eeh 
  Event selection
    try to avoid any cuts on Z angles
      -> acceptance function much improved.
        efficiency ~ 0.8 for mu
            ~ 0.7 for e
    -> contour plots obtained for a, b, and bt.
Next Step:
- Improve selection: better lepton finder.
- Require h->bb and see how it affects the precision.


4) H->tau tau (Daniel Jeans)
Status:
It is the first report on a new project.
Physics target: Higgs CP study,..
tau decay BR:
    ~11%: pi+ v    -> this talk
    ~25%: pi+ pi0 v
    ~35%: l+ v v
Kinematical reconstruction of taus from thier pi+/- v decays
  250GeV Whizard 2.2.2 with private Tauola interface.
  1st approach:
      MarlinKinFit
    -> found that the initial neutrino momentum is very important
       for convergence of the fit.
  2nd approach:
    Try to calculate unknowns.
    -> find neutrino momentum in the plane spanned by the PCA vector
       and pi+ momentum.
    -> 4 solutions per event.
    -> choose the best by making the overall pt as small as possible,
       by comparing |pz| and Emis, and by looking at m_tautau.
Next Step:
- apply kin. fit for identified solution.
- apply to tau->rho v decay.
- Higgs CP measurement.


5) Off-shell Higgs contribution, new jet culustering (Junping Tian)
Status:
Off-shell H decay used to constrain Gamma_h at LHC.
This talk: 
    ZH*->ZWW at ILC
    -> off-shell/on-shell ~ 3%
       Similar investigation about vvWW and vvtt
      -> seems to be the off-shell H contribution can be ignored
         in the recoil mass measurements.
New jet-clustering
  Potential impact on HHH coupling: 
    40% if we have perfect color-singlet clustering.
  We know that Durham is correct till 20 mini-jets.
      idea is to assign at this level the probability using parton shower PDF.        
Next Step:
- check the 20 min-jets are really partons.
- construct likelihood for parton showering 



6) Top Yukawa coupling study at 500 GeV (Yuji Sudo)
Status:
500GeV (500fb-1), (-0.8,+0.3)
Updates
    K-factor (0.843) applied to the signal.
    Updated 6f xsec values using DBD official values.
    Improve 6f event shape.
    Try BDT.
Results
    (-0.8,+0.3)    2.17 (8j)  -> 1.93
            2.00 (l6j) -> 1.72
            1.02 (2l2j -> 0.88
    TMVA: 1st try suggests that we might get ~20% improvement.
        C: It seems to be overtrained.
    There still seems to be some inconsistency in cross section estimates
    between physsim (tbW) and Whizard (6f).
Next step:
- Resolve the problem with the cross section estimates.
- Increase BG statistics.
- Then TMVA.


7) ZH: Recoil mass using Z->qq (Tatsuhiko Tomita)
Status:
Update: added new categorization according to #jets.
    jet-clustering using fixed y-cut (difference from Mark’s analysis)
ZH->qqH @250GeV (250fb-1)
  Decay mode dependence:
    after categorization
    deviation from the mean efficiency < 3.5% (sigma. stat)
    except for h->invisible, gg (~5%)
  Results:
    (-0.8,+3) : delta sigma / sigma = 2.7%
    (+0.8,-3) : delta sigma / sigma = 2.4%
    -> 5% BR change produces only ~0.5% effect on xsec.
ZH->qqH @350GeV (333fb-1)
  Decay mode dependence:
    after categorization
    deviation from the mean efficiency: >8% for h->gg
    maybe y-cut is too small. 
  Results:
    (-0.8,+3) : delta sigma / sigma = 3.1%
    (+0.8,-3) : delta sigma / sigma = 3.1%
    nees more effort.
Next Step:
- 500GeV by new student.
- 350GeV also. -> There is much room for improvements.
-> tuning of y-cut value.
C: H20 requires a reasonable gHZZ measurement at 500GeV.


8) Discussions: all
 See slides by Junping.
1) Higgs analysis
 Recoil mass at 500GeV, now very important for H20
    New student for hadronic recoil at 500GeV
      Jaqueline for leptonic recoil at 500GeV
 h->tau+tau-
    Daniel (CPV)
 Comprehensive hVV anomalous coupling study with various modes
    Ogawa
 h->WW*
    Ono, Junping, Ogawa
 h->gamma gamma, mu mu
    Tino
 tth
    Yuji
 self-coupling
    Claude, Junping, Kurata
 ttbar threshold
    Ozawa (Tohoku, new student)

2) BSM
 gamma DM DM
    Tomohiko
 EWkino with 15 GeV mass difference
 Fast simulation parameter scan (M1, M2, mu)
 2-fermion processes
 Flavor violating decays of h
    h-> mu tau, b s
 H+H-, HA
    Abhinav left the group.
 smu-stau

3) Systematic uncertainties
 W mass: Tsuchimoto
 Beam spectrum effect: 
    Jacqulline for recoil mass
    Ozawa for ttbar threshold
 Flavor tagging
 …

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The slides shown at the meeting is available from
https://agenda.linearcollider.org/event/6793/
see them for details.
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*) Meeting Schedule:
Next general meeting (2015/09/05 10:30) : Conf.ID: 603


Working group web page:
http://www-jlc.kek.jp/jlc/en/subg/physics

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 10:30 10:40
      Opening Remarks 10m
      Speaker: Keisuke Fujii (IPNS, KEK)
      Slides
    • 10:40 11:00
      recoil mass study using Z-->ll at 250, 350 and 500 GeV ILC 20m
      Speaker: Dr Jacqueline Yan (KEK)
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:20
      Higgs self-coupling using HH-->bbWW* 20m
      Speaker: Mr Masakazu Kurata (The university of Tokyo)
      Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 13:50
      study of anomalous HVV coupling measurement at ILC 20m
      Speaker: Tomohisa Ogawa (Shinshu University)
      Slides
    • 13:50 14:10
      kinematic reconstruction of H-->tau tau 20m
      Speaker: Daniel Jeans (University of Tokyo)
      Slides
    • 14:10 14:30
      Higgs off-shell decay at ILC and new jet clustering studies 20m
      Speaker: Dr Junping Tian (KEK)
      Slides
    • 14:30 14:50
      Top-Yukawa coupling study at 500 GeV 20m
      Speaker: Yuji SUDO (Kyushu University)
      Slides
    • 14:50 15:10
      Hadronic Recoil Mass Study with ILD at 250 GeV and 350 GeV 20m
      Speaker: Mr Tatsuhiko Tomita (Kyushu University)
      Slides
    • 15:10 15:20
      Coffee 10m
    • 15:20 16:20
      Discussion: next plans, missing studies, preparation of benchmark analyses for ILD optimisation, etc.