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, April 4, 2011 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, April 5, 2011 (6:30 PM)

Monday, April 4, 2011
9:00 AM W/Z Cross sections and asymmetries
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction

9:10 AM W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: ATLAS - Alberto Belloni (Physics Department - Jefferson Physical Laboratory - Harvard Uni)

9:40 AM W/Z and DY production, pt spectra, asymmetries: CMS - Jeremiah Mans (University of Minnesota/CMS)

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

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

11:20 AM 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 AM Discussion
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM W mass
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Review of the Tevatron experience - Jan Stark (LPSC Grenoble)

2:30 PM Discussion of commonalities/differences at the LHC

3:00 PM Simulation of inclusive DY pt distributions: comparisons among various calculations (POWHEG, Resbos, DYNNLO, DYQT) - giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)

3:20 PM Impact of DY modeling and tunings on MW measurement - Alessandro Vicini (Dip. di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica-Universita degli Studi di Pavi)

3:40 PM Remarks on the PDF systematics in the measurement of MW - Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universites de Paris VI et VII)

4:30 PM MW and PDF sensitivity of Drell-Yan observables - giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)

4:50 PM MW discussion
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
9:00 AM PDF issues: systematics for Xsection predictions, and W/Z data as inputs for PDF fits
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Assessment of the impact of LHC W lepton asymmetry data on PDF fits - Maria Ubiali (RWTH Aachen University)

9:30 AM W/Z cross sections: PDF systematics at NNLO - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

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

10:20 AM Discussion

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

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

11:50 AM Discussion: Use of LHC jet data in PDF fits
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM A_FB, sin2thetaW, W+jets, and more
2:00 PM - 5:35 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM First study of AFB and measurement of sin2thetaW at CMS - Andrei Gritsan (Rowland Dept. of Phys. and Astron.-Johns Hopkins University-Unkn)

2:20 PM LHCb: prospects for a precisce measurement of AFB - Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

2:50 PM Mixed EW/QCD corrections in MCs - Fulvio Piccinini (Unknown)

3:10 PM Theoretical issues in extracting sin2thetaW from AFB at the LHC: EW corrections, EW-QCD interference, PDFs, ..... - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Wolfgang Hollik

3:45 PM ATLAS: W/Z+jets, including heavy quarks: status and issues - Gavin Hesketh (University College London-University of London)

4:05 PM CMS: W/Z+jets, including heavy quarks: status and issues - Matthias U. Mozer (Unknown)

4:25 PM EW corrections to V+jet production at the LHC - Tobias Kasprzik (KIT, Karlsruhe)

4:45 PM Discussion