Working Group on Electroweak precision measurements at the LHC

from Monday 4 April 2011 (09:00) to Tuesday 5 April 2011 (18:30)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Apr 2011
5 Apr 2011
AM
09:00
W/Z Cross sections and asymmetries (until 13:00) (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00 Introduction   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
09:10 W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: ATLAS - Alberto Belloni (Physics Department - Jefferson Physical Laboratory - Harvard Uni)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Discussion
Slides
09:40 W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: CMS - Prof. Jeremiah Mans (University of Minnesota/CMS)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
10:10 W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: LHCb - Dr Tara Shears (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Simulation of FSR radiation in W and Z decays - Zbigniew Was (High Energy Department - Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Phys)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
11:20 EM/EW corrections in DY Monte Carlos: status, systematics and examples of Tevatron applications - Alessandro Vicini (Dip. di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica-Universita degli Studi di Pavi)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
11:50 Discussion   (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00
PDF issues: systematics for Xsection predictions, and W/Z data as inputs for PDF fits (until 13:00) (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00 Assessment of the impact of LHC W lepton asymmetry data on PDF fits - Dr Maria Ubiali (RWTH Aachen University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
09:30 W/Z cross sections: PDF systematics at NNLO - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 PDF dependence of W/Z cross sections and lepton charge asymmetry at the LHC - Graeme Watt   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
10:20 Discussion   (TH Theory Conference Room)
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 LHCb: tools to incorporate LHCb data in fits - Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
11:30 ATLAS tools for PDF fitting of W/Z distributions - Alexandre Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:50 Discussion: Use of LHC jet data in PDF fits   (TH Theory Conference Room)
PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
W mass (until 18:00) (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:00 Review of the Tevatron experience - Jan Stark (LPSC Grenoble)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
14:30 Discussion of commonalities/differences at the LHC   (TH Theory Conference Room)
15:00 Simulation of inclusive DY pt distributions: comparisons among various calculations (POWHEG, Resbos, DYNNLO, DYQT) - giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
15:20 Impact of DY modeling and tunings on MW measurement - Alessandro Vicini (Dip. di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica-Universita degli Studi di Pavi)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
15:40 Remarks on the PDF systematics in the measurement of MW - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universites de Paris VI et VII)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 MW and PDF sensitivity of Drell-Yan observables - giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
16:50 MW discussion   (TH Theory Conference Room)
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
A_FB, sin2thetaW, W+jets, and more (until 17:35) (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:00 First study of AFB and measurement of sin2thetaW at CMS - Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
14:20 LHCb: prospects for a precisce measurement of AFB - Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:50 Mixed EW/QCD corrections in MCs - Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:10 Theoretical issues in extracting sin2thetaW from AFB at the LHC: EW corrections, EW-QCD interference, PDFs, ..... - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Wolfgang Hollik   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:45 ATLAS: W/Z+jets, including heavy quarks: status and issues - Gavin Hesketh (University College London-University of London)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
Slides
16:05 CMS: W/Z+jets, including heavy quarks: status and issues - Matthias U. Mozer (Unknown)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:25 EW corrections to V+jet production at the LHC - Tobias Kasprzik (KIT, Karlsruhe)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:45 Discussion   (TH Theory Conference Room)