CTEQ Workshop: "Physics at the LHC: Early Challenges"

14 May 2007, 09:00 → 15 May 2007, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, USA

Information about the Workshop http://www.uic.edu/~varelas/cteq_lhc_workshop

Monday 14 May

1 Welcome/Goals

2 The LHC Environment (30+15 min)

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Slides LHC_cteq.pdf LHC_cteq.ppt

3 Benchmark QCD Measurements and Tools at CMS (25+20 min)

Speaker: Guenther Dissertori (ETH Zurich)

Slides Talk_CTEQ_May07_wiBuilds.pdf

10:45 Coffee Break

4 Benchmark QCD Measurements and Tools at ATLAS (25+20 min)

Speaker: Craig Buttar (Glasgow)

Slides Benchmark_QCD_Measurements_and_Tools_at_ATLAS.pdf Benchmark_QCD_Measurements_and_Tools_at_ATLAS.ppt

5 W/Z Production as Luminosity Monitor (20+20 min)

Speaker: Mr Pavel Nadolsky (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides 070514_wlum.pdf

12:40 Lunch

6 W/Z/Photon + Light/Heavy-Flavor Jets (35+25 min)

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano-CTEQ07.pdf

7 W/Z/Drell Yan Physics in the first year of CMS (25+20 min)

Speaker: Mr Roberto Tenchini (Universita di Pisa)

Slides kalamazoo.pdf kalamazoo.ppt

15:45 Coffee Break

8 W/Z/Photon + Light/Heavy-Flavor Jets at ATLAS (25+20 min)

Speaker: Jimmy Proudfoot (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides CTEQ-JP-May07.pdf CTEQ-JP-May07.ppt

9 Next Generation of Parton Shower Models and Validation (20+20 min)

Speaker: Walter Giele (Fermilab)

Slides WGiele.ppt.pdf WGiele.ppt.ppt

Tuesday 15 May

10 ttbar/Single-Top Production (25+20 min)

Speaker: Dr Zack Sullivan (Argonne)

Slides ZSCTEQ5_07pr.pdf

11 ttbar/Single-Top Production at the Tevatron (25+20 min)

Speaker: Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State Univ. and D0)

Slides CTEQLHC2007.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

12 ttbar/Single-Top Production at CMS (20+20 min)

Speaker: Jorgen D'Hondt (Inter-University Institute for High Energies (ULB-VUB))

Slides CTEQ-may-2007.pdf CTEQ-may-2007.ppt

13 ttbar/Single-Top Production at ATLAS (20+20 min)

Speaker: Simona Rolli (Tufts)

Slides http://ncdf70.fnal.gov:8001/atlas/cteqRolli.pdf

12:20 Lunch

14 The Tevatron Reach to New Physics (25+20 min)

Speaker: Rick Van Kooten (Indiana)

Slides CTEQ_talk_rickv2.pdf

15 New Physics Searches with 1 fb-1 at CMS (25+20 min)

Speaker: Prof. Joe Incandela (UCSB)

Slides Incandela_CTEQ_070515.pdf

15:00 Coffee Break

16 New Physics Searches with 1 fb-1 at ATLAS (25+20 min)

Speaker: Frank Paige (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides atlas_bsm.pdf

17 Theory Tools for New Physics Searches (25+20 min)

Speaker: Tim Stelzer (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides stelzerCTEQ07.pdf stelzerCTEQ07.ppt

18 Advanced Analysis Tools (20+10 min)

Speaker: Ray Culbertson (Fermilab)

Slides vista_sleuth_cteq.pdf.pdf