Name: Working Group on Electroweak precision measurements at the LHC
Start: 2011-04-04T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-04-05T18:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Working Group on Electroweak precision measurements at the LHC

from Monday 4 April 2011 (09:00) to Tuesday 5 April 2011 (18:30)

Monday 4 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Introduction

09:10 W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: ATLAS - Alberto Belloni (Physics Department - Jefferson Physical Laboratory - Harvard Uni)

09:40 W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: CMS - Jeremiah Mans (University of Minnesota/CMS)

10:10 W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: LHCb - Tara Shears (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)

11:00 Simulation of FSR radiation in W and Z decays - Zbigniew Was (High Energy Department - Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Phys)

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)

11:50 Discussion
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 Review of the Tevatron experience - Jan Stark (LPSC Grenoble)

14:30 Discussion of commonalities/differences at the LHC

15:00 Simulation of inclusive DY pt distributions: comparisons among various calculations (POWHEG, Resbos, DYNNLO, DYQT) - giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)

15:20 Impact of DY modeling and tunings on MW measurement - Alessandro Vicini (Dip. di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica-Universita degli Studi di Pavi)

15:40 Remarks on the PDF systematics in the measurement of MW - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universites de Paris VI et VII)

16:30 MW and PDF sensitivity of Drell-Yan observables - giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)

16:50 MW discussion
Tuesday 5 April 2011
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Assessment of the impact of LHC W lepton asymmetry data on PDF fits - Maria Ubiali (RWTH Aachen University)

09:30 W/Z cross sections: PDF systematics at NNLO - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

10:00 PDF dependence of W/Z cross sections and lepton charge asymmetry at the LHC - Graeme Watt

10:20 Discussion

11:10 LHCb: tools to incorporate LHCb data in fits - Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

11:30 ATLAS tools for PDF fitting of W/Z distributions - Alexandre Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

11:50 Discussion: Use of LHC jet data in PDF fits
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 17:35
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 First study of AFB and measurement of sin2thetaW at CMS - Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn)

14:20 LHCb: prospects for a precisce measurement of AFB - Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

14:50 Mixed EW/QCD corrections in MCs - Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown)

15:10 Theoretical issues in extracting sin2thetaW from AFB at the LHC: EW corrections, EW-QCD interference, PDFs, ..... - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Wolfgang Hollik

15:45 ATLAS: W/Z+jets, including heavy quarks: status and issues - Gavin Hesketh (University College London-University of London)

16:05 CMS: W/Z+jets, including heavy quarks: status and issues - Matthias U. Mozer (Unknown)

16:25 EW corrections to V+jet production at the LHC - Tobias Kasprzik (KIT, Karlsruhe)

16:45 Discussion

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