Minimum Bias and Underlying Event Working Group

from Monday, 7 February 2011 (13:30) to Tuesday, 8 February 2011 (18:05)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Feb 2011
8 Feb 2011
AM
09:00 ATLAS: update on UE results - Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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09:20 ALICE: update on UE results - Sara Vallero (Physikalisches Institut-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg-U)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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09:40 UE Overview: What we have learned and what's next - Rick Field (Univ. of Florida)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 CMS: recent diffraction results - Michele Arneodo (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Novara and INFN-Torino) Michele Arneodo (Univ. + INFN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 PYTHIA8: progress in soft and UE modeling - Peter Skands (CERN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:00 SHERPA: progress in soft and UE modeling - Hendrik Hoeth (Durham University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:20 HERWIG++: progress in soft and UE modeling - Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:40 mcplots status report - Anton Karneyeu (Institute of Nuclear Problems)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:50 ATLAS: MC tuning strategy - Dr Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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PM
14:00 LHCb: update on MB results - Sebastian Schleich (TU Dortmund)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:30 ALICE: update on MB results - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:50 ATLAS: update on MB results - Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:10 CMS: update on MB results - Andrey Pozdnyakov (Northwestern University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:30 ALICE, ATLAS, CMS: discussion of the MB common plots - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB) Andrey Pozdnyakov (Northwestern University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 ATLAS: a first measurement of the total inelastic cross section with the MBTSs - Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (UC Berkeley/LBNL)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:40 CMS: strange and identified particle production - Prof. Kevin Stenson (CU)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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17:00 ALICE: strange and identified particle production - Lee Stuart Barnby (School of Physics and Astronomy-University of Birmingham-Unknown)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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17:20 PYTHIA tune Z1 description of strange particle and proton production in MB and UE - Rick Field (Univ. of Florida)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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12:10 Discussion on tuning and MC validation/progress   (TH Theory Conference Room)
12:50
Executive session of conveners (until 13:30) (TH Theory Conference Room)
Minutes