Jason summarized some ideas that we have discussed recently for WH improvements. Since he is going to graduate soon, he would be happy to help anyone up to speed for the next around analysis. In general, try to reproduce the summary results as soon as possible before doing any serious analysis. It's very important to use the same selections and cuts. So, we can move forward from where we are right now. If you have any problems, you know where to seek the help. Short Term (possible for winters) -------------------------------- * Improving isolated track selections for hadronic tau or electrons * Commissioning Roma tagger and understanding the impact for the higgs search. * Improving the jet energy corrections and understanding its impact for the higgs search * Improved multivariate techniques - Possibilities include new NN variables (orthogonal vars) new NN training (boosting, neurobayes) multivariate resolution improvements (jet res, met res) * Continue to improve ME+BDT techniques. * Lower the offline cut on high-pt lepton triggers from 20 to 18, apply turn on curve - llbb does this already, we can just ask. * Including the W non-track trigger and phi-gap loose muon triggers. * MET45 trigger - Adrian has already made some progress demonstrating that we can get more acceptance using this trigger. What do the backgrounds look like? Can we handle the fakes here too? Do we know the cuts necessary to get the trigger efficiency to be a function of just MET? Medium and Long term (summer conferences) ------------------------------------------ * 3 jet bin - We tried to use the same techniques as the two-jet bin and they didn't work out. Is there a new approach (cuts, multivariate?) that can improve the situation? Why is the 3 jet bin harder? Is it just that the s/sqrt(b) is really poor? While this isn't necessarily new ground, it might be time to revisit it quickly and see if we can learn something new, like what s/sqrt(b) we need to see an improvement. * Loose electrons - Can we expand isolated tracks to get some loose electrons? Can we develop a loose electron id? Is there a loose electron id that will work for the MET+2jets trigger? How about the W no track trigger? This is something that we haven't studied much, but some MC studies could help illuminate the way forward. * "1.5 Jet Bin" - Is there a way we can add acceptance by looking at events with one tight jet (ET > 20) and one loose jet (12 < ET < 20)? Like loose ele's, we haven't studied this much, so some MC studies could help us decide how to go forward. An important question - do we understand b-tagging of loose jets? My first answer is yes, we do, because we measure or tag efficiency is a sample with lower Et than top. Another important question - does this interfere with our k-factor measurement?