Challenges for Precision Physics at the LHC

15 Dec 2010, 08:00 → 18 Dec 2010, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

LPNHE, Paris

W. Krasny (LPNHE Paris)

Wednesday 15 December

09:15 → 09:30 Registration and welcome

09:30 → 10:00 Introduction

Speaker: Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universites de Paris VI et VII)

Slides Paris_DEC2010_Krasny.pdf workshop_info.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:10 Status and perspectives of LHCb

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)

Slides paris.pdf paris.ppt

11:10 → 11:50 Status and perspectives of ATLAS

Speaker: Bruno Mansoulie (DAPNIA)

Slides BMansoulie-Paris.pdf

11:50 → 12:30 W/Z physics in D0

Speaker: Jan Stark (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC)-Univ)

Slides Stark_D0WZ.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 The LHC precision challenges - the standard model perspective

Speaker: Dr Pietro Slavich (LPTHE)

Slides Precision_Slavich.pdf

15:00 → 15:40 Electroweak precision measurements – the LEP legacy

Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

Slides hoecker_leplegacy_lhcprecisionchallenge10.pdf hoecker_leplegacy_lhcprecisionchallenge10.pptx

15:40 → 16:20 Precision tests of the flavour sector of the standard model

Speaker: Jacques Chauveau (Universites de Paris VI et VII)

Slides JacquesChauveau.pdf JacquesChauveau.pptx

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 17:30 New methods and tools for jet studies

Speaker: Gavin Salam

Slides FRIF-jets.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Advanced computing methods and the LHC

Speaker: Fawzi Boudjema (CNRS)

Slides Fawzi_Paris_Frif_Dec2010-full.pdf

Thursday 16 December

09:00 → 10:00 Understanding of the LHC partonic beams

Speaker: maria ubiali (University of Edinburgh)

Slides pbeams_ubiali_final.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:10 W/Z physics in CDF

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

Slides paris10.pdf

11:10 → 11:50 Status and perspectives of CMS

Speaker: Gigi Rolandi (CERN)

Slides Rolandi_Paris_Workshop.pdf Rolandi_Paris_Workshop.pptx

11:50 → 12:30 Measurements of the electroweak standard model parameters - pp versus ppbar collider

Speaker: Friedrich Dydak (CERN)

Slides Dydak_ParisTalk.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 The Monte-Carlo tools for the Drell-Yan production of W and Z bosons at hadronic colliders - present

Speaker: Prof. Bryan Webber (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

Slides WebberFRIF.pdf

15:00 → 15:40 Flavour structure of protons and its implication for the W and Z production at the LHC (strangeness, charm , beauty and all that)

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Milan University)

Slides paris.pdf

15:40 → 16:20 Valence/sea structure of protons and its implication for the production and decay of W and Z bosons at the LHC

Speaker: Alexandre Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

Slides wk.pdf

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 17:30 Transverse momentum distributions of W and Z bosons at the Tevatron and at the LHC

Speaker: Giancarlo Ferrera (University of Florence)

Slides ferrera-frif.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 The Monte-Carlo tools for the Drell-Yan production of W and Z bosons for the precision measurements era - an outlook

Speaker: Staszek Jadach (Krakow)

Slides Paris2010.pdf

20:00 → 22:30 Conference Diner

Friday 17 December

09:00 → 12:30 Experimental Session

09:00 Precision electroweak measurements - LHCb perspectives

Speaker: Dr Tara Shears (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)

Slides lhcb_electroweak.pdf lhcb_electroweak.ppt

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Precision electroweak measurements - CMS perspectives

Speaker: Stilianos Kesisoglou (Institute of Nuclear Physics-Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos)

Slides Stilianos.Kesisoglou_v1.pdf

11:30 Precision electroweak measurements - ATLAS perspectives

Speaker: Maarten Boonekamp (DAPNIA)

Slides Precision2010_boonekamp.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Heavy and light nuclear collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Dr John Jowett (CERN)

Slides FRIF2010Jowett.pdf FRIF2010Jowett.pptx

15:00 → 15:40 Precision physics with the LHeC

Speaker: Max Klein (University of Liverpool)

Slides MaxKlein_lhecAparis.pdf

15:40 → 16:20 Precision control of the LHC partonic beams using the combined LHC and Tevatron data. The role of future DIS initiatives (NuSONG, CERN-SPS, HERA, eRHIC)

Speaker: Prof. Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)

Slides FredOlness_paris_v10.pdf

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 18:30 Experimental Session

16:50 Experimental control of the LHC partonic beams

17:30 A fixed target experiment with the extracted LHC beam

Speaker: Jean-Philippe Lansberg (Ecole Polytechnique)

Slides lansberg

17:50 The role of standard candles (Z-boson, Upsilon, J/Psi, proton and photon) in precision measurements - presentation and discussion

Saturday 18 December

09:00 → 10:00 The pp collisions at the LHC – present status and future plans

Speaker: Steve Myers (CERN)

Slides 101218_Myers_Paris__LHC_Status_Report.pdf 101218_Myers_Paris__LHC_Status_Report.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:30 The LHC precision challenges – the BSM perspective

Speaker: Vyacheslav Rychkov (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Slides Rychkov-BSM.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Conclusion and Outlook

Speaker: Guido Altarelli (CERN)

Slides Altarelli.pdf