MC4LHC - 2006

19 Jul 2006, 09:00 → 28 Jul 2006, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Monte Carlo tools for the LHC

Wednesday, 19 July

09:00 → 12:30 MC tools, use in the experiments

09:00 Welcome and introduction

09:15 ATLAS: MC experience and needs

Speaker: borut kersevan (University of Ljubljana)

09:55 CMS: MC experience and needs

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

10:35 coffee break

11:00 LHCb: MC experience and needs

Speaker: Patrick Robbe (LAL, Orsay)

11:30 ALICE: MC experience and needs

Speaker: Marco Monteno (CERN)

12:00 HepPDT and HepMC

Speaker: Lynn Garren (FERMILAB)

12:30 → 13:30 lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Proposed work projects

13:30 CEDAR and associated tools

Speaker: Jon Butterworth (University College London)

14:00 Supporting Monte Carlo generators at the LHC

Working group meet on Tuesday 18th AM. The general support of Monte Carlo services for the LHC is currently delegated to LCG. The workshop offers an opportunity to re-evaluate some of the issues dealing with the development and maintenance of the Monte Carlo software relevant for both the experimental and the theoretical communities.

Speaker: Paolo Bartalini (University of Florida)

14:20 Minimum Bias and Underlying Event

Working group meet on Friday 21st AM.

14:30 Jet algorithms

Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

15:00 → 15:30 coffee break

15:30 → 19:00 MC tools, status reports

15:30 HERWIG++

Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe University)

16:00 PYTHIA8

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand (LUND/CERN)

16:30 SHERPA

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Dresden University)

16:50 MC@NLO

Speaker: Stefano Frixione (INFN, Genova)

17:05 MADGRAPH

Speaker: Johan Alwall (Universite' Louvain)

17:20 ALPGEN

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

17:35 HELAC/PHEGAS

Speaker: Costas Papadopoulos (Demokritos, Greece)

17:50 TopReX

Speaker: Sergey Slabospitsky (IHEP, Protvino)

18:05 PHANTOM

Speaker: Ezio Maina (University and INFN, Torino)

18:20 CompHEP

Speaker: Dr Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)

18:35 AcerMC

Speaker: Borut Kersevan (University of Ljubljana)

Thursday, 20 July

09:25 → 12:55 LCG Monte Carlo Services (LCG Generator)

09:25 LCG MCDB

Status report on LCG MCDB project

Speaker: Dr Lev Dudko (Moscow State University)

09:55 LCG HepML

Speaker: Alexander Sherstnev (University of Cambridge)

10:25 CEDAR HepML

Discussion on the proposed merged schemas, common areas, etc etc.

11:15 LHA-I in Pythia

13:30 → 16:00 EW/QCD background simulations

A meeting dedicated to discuss different approaches to
describe the common processes at the LHC (W+jets, multijets
etc..).

13:30 Higgs production via VBF: Comparison between generators

Speaker: Bruce Mellado Garcia (University of Wisconsin)

13:40 Multi-jet final states: ALPGEN experience in CMS

13:50 Heavy Particles and Hard Jets

Speaker: Dr Peter Skands (FNAL)

14:10 Merging Matrix Elements and Parton Showers with Sherpa

Speaker: Steffen Schumann (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden Univ. of Technology)

14:50 Ariadne and CKKW

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University)

17:00 → 19:00 CLHEP status

Because a number of interested people are here, we propose
to have a session devoted to CLHEP. I'd like to clarify the
status of CLHEP, find out who is using what parts, and
discuss related topics.

Friday, 21 July

09:25 → 12:55 CEDAR and associated tools

09:30 Priority data sets for JetWeb

09:50 Priority data sets for JetWeb

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics)

10:40 Priority MC models to be validated

If the experiments can provide a list of the top priority MC models you would like to see in JetWeb, that would be very helpful.

11:10 Rivet and RivetGun

These projects are supposed to be C++ replacements for HZTool/HZSteer in providing generator-independent particle-level analysis routines.

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

11:30 CEDAR and GENSER discussion?

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

12:00 Continuation of HepMC/CLHEP discussions (if necessary)

Saturday, 22 July

09:30 → 12:30 ThePEG/Herwig++ collaboration meeting

Closed session of ThePEG and Herwig++ authors

14:30 → 18:00 Jet clustering

We will use this workshop to (1) discuss issues regarding
the use of jet algorithms at the parton, hadron and detector
level, (2) review the experience at the Tevatron, and (3)
try to arrive at some accords that will apply at the LHC.

This meeting will use the Sky virtual room.

Sunday, 23 July

09:25 → 12:00 Underlying event and minimum bias events

Discussion on the underlying event and minimum bias
events

Wednesday, 26 July

15:00 → 17:00 Jet clustering, II

This meeting will be in the Sky virtual room.

Thursday, 27 July

09:25 → 12:55 LCG Generator

Second session on LCG Generator software

Friday, 28 July

09:25 → 12:55 Final reports, working plans, etc