Minimum Bias and Underlying Event Working Group

7 Feb 2011, 13:30 → 8 Feb 2011, 18:05 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

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Monday 7 February

1 LHCb: update on MB results

Speaker: Sebastian Schleich (TU Dortmund)

Slides schleich_MBUE_20110107.pdf

2 ALICE: update on MB results

Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)

Slides JFGO3.pdf JFGO3.ppt

3 ATLAS: update on MB results

Speaker: Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB)

Slides Kwee_7Feb2011.pdf

4 CMS: update on MB results

Speaker: Andrey Pozdnyakov (Northwestern University)

Slides 20110207_mbuewg_dndeta.pdf

5 ALICE, ATLAS, CMS: discussion of the MB common plots

Speakers: Andrey Pozdnyakov (Northwestern University), Chiara Zampolli (CERN), Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB)

Slides commonplots.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

6 ATLAS: a first measurement of the total inelastic cross section with the MBTSs

Speaker: Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

Slides tompkins_lpcc_02052011.pdf

7 CMS: strange and identified particle production

Speaker: Prof. Kevin Stenson (CU)

Slides MBUEWG_CMS_identified.pdf

8 ALICE: strange and identified particle production

Speaker: Lee Stuart Barnby (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham-Unknown)

Slides ALICE-Strange-ID.pdf ALICE-Strange-ID.pptx

9 PYTHIA tune Z1 description of strange particle and proton production in MB and UE

Speaker: Rick Field (Univ. of Florida)

Slides LPCC_MB_RickField_2-7-11.pdf LPCC_MB_RickField_2-7-11.ppt

Tuesday 8 February

10 ATLAS: update on UE results

Speaker: Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL))

Slides zhang_02082011.pdf

11 ALICE: update on UE results

Speaker: Sara Vallero (Physikalisches Institut-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg-U)

Slides MB&UEFeb2011Vallero.pdf

12 UE Overview: What we have learned and what's next

Speaker: Rick Field (Univ. of Florida)

Slides LPCC_UE_RickField_2-7-11.pdf LPCC_UE_RickField_2-7-11.ppt

13 CMS: recent diffraction results

Speakers: Michele Arneodo (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Novara and INFN-Torino), Michele Arneodo (Univ. + INFN)

Slides DiffrReport_8JFeb11_UEMB.pdf DiffrReport_8JFeb11_UEMB.ppt

10:20 Coffee break

14 PYTHIA8: progress in soft and UE modeling

Speaker: Peter Skands (CERN)

Slides 11-02-skands-uemb.pdf

15 SHERPA: progress in soft and UE modeling

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth (Durham University)

Slides hoeth.pdf

16 HERWIG++: progress in soft and UE modeling

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

Slides siodmok_ATLAS_MB_UE_WG_08_01_11.pdf

17 mcplots status report

MCPLOTS, http://mcplots.cern.ch/, is intended as a simple browsable repository of MC (Monte Carlo) plots, for tuning and reference purposes.

Speaker: Anton Karneyeu (Institute of Nuclear Problems)

Slides mcplots-2011-02-08.pdf mcplots-2011-02-08.ppt

18 ATLAS: MC tuning strategy

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh)

Slides buckley-atlastuning.pdf

19 Discussion on tuning and MC validation/progress

Executive session of conveners

Minutes Febr7-8_2011-minutes.pdf