Rochester, Minnesota

Highlights from Rochester, Minnesota

Analogies between Antibodies and Simpler Chemical Substances

Because of his contributions in the study of antibodies, Linus Pauling was chosen as the first Harrison Howe lecturer. His talk, given below, was delivered before the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society, Feb. 4, in Rochester, Ν. Υ

Vector Boson Production at Hadron Colliders: Results from HERWIG and Resummed Calculations

We discuss vector boson production at hadron colliders and the treatment of the initial-state radiation according to Monte Carlo parton shower simulations and resummed calculations. In particular, we investigate the effect of matrix-element corrections to the HERWIG event generator on W/Z transverse momentum distributions.Comment: 13 pages, Talk given at the 22nd annual MRST (Montreal-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto) Meeting on High Energy Physics (MRST 2000), Rochester, NY, U.S.A., 8-9 May 200

Radiation zeros in weak boson production processes at hadron colliders

The Standard Model amplitudes for processes where one or more gauge bosons are emitted exhibit zeros in the angular distributions. The theoretical and experimental aspects of these radiation amplitude zeros are reviewed and some recent results are discussed. In particular, the zeros of the $WZ\gamma$ and $WZZ$ production amplitudes are analyzed. It is briefly explained how radiation zeros can be used to test the SM.Comment: Talk given at 22nd Annual MRST (Montreal-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto) Meeting: Conference on Theoretical High-Energy Physics, Rochester, New York, 8-9 May 200