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VBSCan Thessaloniki 2018 Workshop Summary

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This document reports the first year of activity of the VBSCan COST Action network, as summarised by the talks and discussions happened during the VBSCan Thessaloniki 2018 workshop. The VBSCan COST action is aiming at a consistent and coordinated study of vector-boson scattering from the phenomenological and experimental point of view, for the best exploitation of the data that will be delivered by existing and future particle colliders.

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Riccardo Bellan, Jakob Beyer, Carsten Bittrich, Giacomo Boldrini, Ilaria Brivio, Lucrezia Stella Bruni, Diogo Buarque Franzosi, Claude Charlot, Vitaliano Ciulli, Roberto Covarelli, Duje Giljanovic, Giulia Gonella, Pietro Govoni, Philippe Gras, Michele Grossi, Tim Herrmann, Jan Kalinowski, Alexander Karlberg, Kimmo Kallonen, Eirini Kasimi, Aysel Kayis Topaksu, Borut Kersevan, Henning Kirschenmann, Michael Kobel, Konstantinos Kordas, Antonios Leisos, Damir Lelas, Piergiulio Lenzi, Ang Li, Kristin Lohwasser, Narei Lorenzo-Martinez, Joany Manjarres, Dario Mapelli, Alexandros Marantis, Matteo Marchegiani, Anna Mascellani, Ioannis Maznas, Hannes Mildner, Matthias Ulrich Mozer, Max Neukum, Jakob Novak, Giacomo Ortona, Kadri Ozdemir, Mathieu Pellen, Giovanni Pelliccioli, Chariclia Petridou, Simon Plätzer, Christian Quaggio, Michael Rauch, Daniela Rebuzzi, Jürgen Reuter, Despoina Sampsonidou, Steven Schramm, Andrzej Siodmok, Magdalena Slawinska, Michał Szleper, Alessandro Tarabini, Connor Innes Thorburn, Stefanie Todt, Spyridon E. Tzamarias, Apostolos Tsirigotis, Davide Valsecchi, Lilly Wuest, Marco Zaro. 2019-06-26. VBSCan Thessaloniki 2018 Workshop Summary. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11332

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