MadGraph Spring 2011

3 May 2011, 09:00 → 6 May 2011, 18:00 US/Central

WH 3NW (Fermilab)

Workshop for MadGraph and FeynRules developers. Presentations and discussions of present status and future developments of development projects within the FeynRules and MadGraph set of tools.
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Comfort Inn and Candlewood Suites are affordable and convenient choices. Please note that off-site housing requires access to car to get to Fermilab.
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Tuesday 3 May

1 Welcome

Speaker: Johan Alwall (Fermilab)

2 The vision of MadGraph + FeynRules

Speaker: Johan Alwall (Fermilab)

Slides MadGraphSpring2011-Vision.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

3 MadGraph 5 Tutorial

Speaker: olivier mattelaer (ucl)

Slides 11_05_04_FNAL_MG5_TUTO.pdf

12:00 Lunch

Working groups + short presentation

The working groups and short presentations will include the following topics (which can extend over multiple days):
1. Making multi-parton calculations efficient (color and subprocesses) (chair : Fabio Maltoni)
2. Particle decays in MG5  (chair: Phil Grajek/Johan Alwall)
3. Loop induced processes (chair: Qiang Li)
4. NLO : common projects/check/validations (chair: Kentarou Mawatari)
5. BSM  for colliders/flavor and dark matter: what do we need more? (chair: Olivier Mattelaer)

Conveners: Fabio Maltoni (Universite' catholique de Louvain (CP3)), Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel), Dr Qiang Li (PSI), olivier mattelaer (ucl)

slides dorival_madgraph_meeting11.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Common discussions and presentations

Wednesday 4 May

4 Status of MadGOLEM

Speaker: David Lopez Val (University of Heidelberg)

Slides madgraph11.pdf

10:00 Photograph + Coffee

5 MadLoop and MadFKS

Speaker: Valentin Hirschi (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Slides MadLoop_MadMeeting_FermiLab.pdf

6 Automatic MC@NLO

Speaker: Paolo Torrielli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Slides aMC@NLO_MGSpring2011.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Working groups + short presentation

The working groups and short presentations will include the following topics (which can extend over multiple days):
1. Making multi-parton calculations efficient (color and subprocesses) (chair : Fabio Maltoni)
2. Particle decays in MG5  (chair: Phil Grajek/Johan Alwall)
3. Loop induced processes (chair: Qiang Li)
4. NLO : common projects/check/validations (chair: Kentarou Mawatari)
5. BSM  for colliders/flavor and dark matter: what do we need more? (chair: Olivier Mattelaer)

Conveners: Fabio Maltoni (Universite' catholique de Louvain (CP3)), Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel), Dr Philip Grajek (VUB), Dr Qiang Li (PSI), olivier mattelaer (ucl)

slides dorival_madgraph_meeting11.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Common discussions and presentations

19:00 Workshop Dinner

Thursday 5 May

7 MadDM

Speaker: Mathew McCaskey

Slides MadDM.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

8 UFO/ALOHA

Speaker: olivier mattelaer (ucl)

Slides 11_05_05_UFO_ALOHA_FNAL.pdf

9 FeynRules status and plans

Speakers: Benjamin Fuks (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC)-Inst. Nat. Phys), Claude Duhr (IPPP Durham)

document MG_2011_Fermilab.pdf

Slides fuks.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Working groups + short presentation

The working groups and short presentations will include the following topics (which can extend over multiple days):
1. Making multi-parton calculations efficient (color and subprocesses) (chair : Fabio Maltoni)
2. Particle decays in MG5  (chair: Phil Grajek/Johan Alwall)
3. Loop induced processes (chair: Qiang Li)
4. NLO : common projects/check/validations (chair: Kentarou Mawatari)
5. BSM  for colliders/flavor and dark matter: what do we need more? (chair: Olivier Mattelaer)

Conveners: Fabio Maltoni (Universite' catholique de Louvain (CP3)), Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel), Dr Philip Grajek (VUB), Dr Qiang Li (PSI), olivier mattelaer (ucl)

slides dorival_madgraph_meeting11.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Common discussions and presentations

Friday 6 May

10 Recursion relations in MadGraph

Speaker: Yoshitaro Takaesu (Sokendai/KEK)

Slides Recursive_relations_in_MadGraph2.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

11 Gravitino phenomenology with MG/ME

Speaker: Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel)

Slides mg2011_mawatari.pdf

12 Event generation on GPU

Speaker: Junichi Kanzaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

Slides GPU_(1).pdf

12:30 Lunch

Working groups + short presentation

The working groups and short presentations will include the following topics (which can extend over multiple days):
1. Making multi-parton calculations efficient (color and subprocesses) (chair : Fabio Maltoni)
2. Particle decays in MG5  (chair: Phil Grajek/Johan Alwall)
3. Loop induced processes (chair: Qiang Li)
4. NLO : common projects/check/validations (chair: Kentarou Mawatari)
5. BSM  for colliders/flavor and dark matter: what do we need more? (chair: Olivier Mattelaer)

Conveners: Fabio Maltoni (Universite' catholique de Louvain (CP3)), Kentarou Mawatari (Vrije Univ. Brussel), Dr Philip Grajek (VUB), Dr Qiang Li (PSI), olivier mattelaer (ucl)

slides dorival_madgraph_meeting11.pdf

13 Concluding remarks

15:30 Coffee break

14 Theory-Experiment Joint Seminar (Wine and Cheese)

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite' catholique de Louvain (CP3))