PDF4LHC 2024 meeting

from Monday 2 December 2024 (09:00) to Tuesday 3 December 2024 (16:00)
CERN (4/S-030)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024
AM
09:00
Reports from experiments (until 09:50)
09:00 Introduction  
09:05 News from ATLAS - Eimear Isobel Conroy (University of Oxford (GB))  
09:25 News from LHCb, including EW perspective - Nathan Grieser (University of Cincinnati (US))  
09:50
News from experiments focus on electroweak (until 11:40)
09:50 CMS precision EW - Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
10:10 ATLAS precision EW - Maarten Boonekamp (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:30 Discussion  
11:10 --- Coffee ---
11:40
Reports from PDF fitters (until 14:20)
11:40 ABMP update - Maria Vittoria Garzelli (Hamburg University (DE))  
12:00 NNPDF update - Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:15 MSHT update - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))  
12:35 CT update - Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University/Michigan State University)  
12:55 --- Lunch ---
13:55 NNPDF alphas - Roy Stegeman  
09:00
New ideas (until 13:10)
09:00 Bayesian studies of the MC replica method - James Moore James Moore  
09:20 Bayesian combination and determination of PDFs - Mark Costantini  
09:40 MSHT: closure tests and comparison to the neural net approach - Dr Lucian Alexander Harland-Lang (University College London)  
10:00 Closure tests with inconsistent data - Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
10:20 Discussion  
10:45 Uncertainties on uncertainties - Matthew Reader  
11:05 --- Coffee ---
11:25 Classification and combination of PDFs using polynomial approximators - Aurore Courtoy (Instituto de Física, UNAM) Aurore Courtoy (IFPA)  
11:45 The Gaussian Mixture Model - Kirtimaan Ajaykant Mohan  
12:05 Gaussian processes - Tommaso Giani (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:25 Neural nets - Luigi Del Debbio (Unknown) Luigi Del Debbio (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
12:45 Discussion  
PM
14:20
New ideas: beyond NNLO (until 16:35)
14:20 QED modifications to the cross section predictions at NNLO and aN3LO - Dr TIMOTHY J HOBBS (Argonne National Laboratory)  
14:40 3-loop heavy flavour contributions - Prof. Johannes Bluemlein  
15:00 aN3LO MSHT/NNPDF combination - Giacomo Magni (Nikhef, VU Amsterdam)  
15:20 --- Coffee ---
15:40 CT on current status of N3LO - Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University/Michigan State University)  
16:00 Discussion  
16:35
New ideas (until 17:40)
16:35 NNLO residual PDFS for massive VFN schemes at the LHC - Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw State University)  
16:55 Recent developments in the machine learning modelling of PDFs - Dr TIMOTHY J HOBBS (Argonne National Laboratory)  
17:15 MCMC for uncertainties - Aleksander Kusina  
14:00
possible extension (until 15:40)