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 Registration and welcome

1 Introduction

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

Slides Paris_DEC2010_Krasny.pdf workshop_info.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

2 Status and perspectives of LHCb

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)

Slides paris.pdf paris.ppt

3 Status and perspectives of ATLAS

Speaker: Bruno Mansoulie (DAPNIA)

Slides BMansoulie-Paris.pdf

4 W/Z physics in D0

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

Slides Stark_D0WZ.pdf

12:30 Lunch

5 The LHC precision challenges - the standard model perspective

Speaker: Dr Pietro Slavich (LPTHE)

Slides Precision_Slavich.pdf

6 Electroweak precision measurements – the LEP legacy

Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

Slides hoecker_leplegacy_lhcprecisionchallenge10.pdf hoecker_leplegacy_lhcprecisionchallenge10.pptx

7 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 Coffee break

8 New methods and tools for jet studies

Speaker: Gavin Salam

Slides FRIF-jets.pdf

9 Advanced computing methods and the LHC

Speaker: Fawzi Boudjema (CNRS)

Slides Fawzi_Paris_Frif_Dec2010-full.pdf

Thursday, 16 December

10 Understanding of the LHC partonic beams

Speaker: maria ubiali (University of Edinburgh)

Slides pbeams_ubiali_final.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

11 W/Z physics in CDF

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

Slides paris10.pdf

12 Status and perspectives of CMS

Speaker: Gigi Rolandi (CERN)

Slides Rolandi_Paris_Workshop.pdf Rolandi_Paris_Workshop.pptx

13 Measurements of the electroweak standard model parameters - pp versus ppbar collider

Speaker: Friedrich Dydak (CERN)

Slides Dydak_ParisTalk.pdf

12:30 Lunch

14 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 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

16 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 Coffee break

17 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

18 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 Conference Diner

Friday, 17 December

Experimental Session

19 Precision electroweak measurements - LHCb perspectives

Speaker: Dr Tara Shears (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)

Slides lhcb_electroweak.pdf lhcb_electroweak.ppt

10:00 Coffee Break

20 Precision electroweak measurements - CMS perspectives

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

Slides Stilianos.Kesisoglou_v1.pdf

21 Precision electroweak measurements - ATLAS perspectives

Speaker: Maarten Boonekamp (DAPNIA)

Slides Precision2010_boonekamp.pdf

12:30 Lunch

22 Heavy and light nuclear collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Dr John Jowett (CERN)

Slides FRIF2010Jowett.pdf FRIF2010Jowett.pptx

23 Precision physics with the LHeC

Speaker: Max Klein (University of Liverpool)

Slides MaxKlein_lhecAparis.pdf

24 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 Coffee Break

Experimental Session

25 Experimental control of the LHC partonic beams

26 A fixed target experiment with the extracted LHC beam

Speaker: Jean-Philippe Lansberg (Ecole Polytechnique)

Slides lansberg

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

Saturday, 18 December

28 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 Coffee Break

29 The LHC precision challenges – the BSM perspective

Speaker: Vyacheslav Rychkov (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Slides Rychkov-BSM.pdf

30 Conclusion and Outlook

Speaker: Guido Altarelli (CERN)

Slides Altarelli.pdf