8th MCnet meeting and "QCD in the LHC era" Bryanfest

22 Sept 2010, 14:00 → 24 Sept 2010, 14:00 Europe/London

Emmanuel College (Cambridge)

Mike Seymour, Peter Skands

8th Meeting of the MCnet European Network incorporating a more general meeting to mark the occasion of Bryan Webber's retirement.

Separate information is available about the "Bryanfest" part of the meeting.

Wednesday 22 September

14:00 → 17:30 Bryanfest

19:15 → 20:00 Drinks

20:00 → 23:00 Dinner

Thursday 23 September

09:30 → 11:00 Monte Carlo Review Editorial Board Meeting

closed meeting for authors of the Monte Carlo Review

11:00 → 13:00 Discussion on "soft, wide angle, gluons in parton showers"

11:20 Jet rates and parton showers

Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cambridge)

Slides MCNet10.pdf

11:40 Jet Vetoing and Herwig++

Speaker: Mr Alex Schofield (Manchester)

Slides JetVetoingHerwig.pdf

12:00 Evolution with subleading color contributions

Speaker: Dr Zoltan Nagy (DESY)

Slides znagy.pdf

12:20 Discussion of Pino's talk

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:20 Student/postdoc status reports/discussion

14:00 Recent developments and results with POWHEG-BOX

Speaker: Dr Emmanuele Re (Durham)

Slides talk.pdf

14:20 Progress on the POWHEG implementation of Chargino/Neutralino pair production in HERWIG++

Speaker: Mr Ilan Fridman Rojas (Durham)

Slides Beamer.pdf

14:40 Automisation of ME+PS Merging with NLO Accuracy in Sherpa

Speaker: Mr Marek Schönherr (Dresden)

Slides Marek_Schoenherr_Cambridge.pdf

15:00 V-Gamma Production at LHC: NLO in Powheg Method

Speaker: Mr Dart-yin Soh (CERN)

Slides VGamma-NLO.pdf

15:20 Coffee break

15:40 EW NLO in Sherpa

Speaker: Jennifer Archibald

Slides J.Archibald.pdf

16:00 Probabilistic description of coherent bremsstrahlung

Speaker: Korinna Christine Zapp

Slides mcnet_1009.pdf

16:20 TBA

Speaker: Ms Irais Bautista (Santiago)

Friday 24 September

09:30 → 12:50 Student/postdoc status reports/discussion

Conveners: Jennifer Archibald, Korinna Zapp (University of Heidelberg)

09:30 Double Parton Scattering with Herwig++

Speaker: Miroslav Myska

Slides DPS_myska.pdf

09:50 Colour Reconnection in Cluster Hadronisation

Speaker: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe)

Slides christian_roehr.pdf

10:10 Herwig++ and the new ATLAS MB/UE results

Speaker: Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Slides MCnet_23_09_10_siodmok.pdf

10:30 Are Nc=3!=infinity effects important in parton showers?

Speaker: Dr Malin Sjoedahl (Karlsruhe)

Slides MalinCambridge1009.pdf

10:50 Coffee break

11:10 TBA

Speaker: Ms Ahuja Sudha (Karlsruhe)

Slides Sudha_MCNetmeeting.pdf Sudha_MCNetmeeting.ppt

11:15 Tau Decays in Pythia 8

Speaker: Mr Philip Ilten (Lund)

Slides ilten.pdf

11:35 Searching for scalar Leptoquarks at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Andreas Papaefstathiou (Cambridge)

Slides mcnet240910.pdf

11:55 First comparisons of MC’s with CMS data

Speakers: Filip Moortgat (ETH Zurich), Mike Seymour (University of Manchester)

Slides moortgat.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch