The 19th MCnet school will be held CERN.
The school provides a five day course of training in the physics and techniques used in modern Monte Carlo event generators via a series of lectures, practical sessions, and discussions with event-generator authors. The school is aimed at advanced doctoral students and early-career postdocs.
Our core sessions comprise a series of introductory lectures on the physics of event generators, further lectures on a wider range of associated topics, a series of hands-on tutorials using all of the MCnet event generators for LHC physics, and evening discussion sessions with Monte Carlo authors.
This year’s theme will look ahead to the precision era of collider physics, with a focus on “FCC-ee Readiness.” Alongside the established lectures on aspects of the electroweak Standard Model, the programme will include new sessions on the experimental precision targets expected at future lepton colliders and the current status of theoretical and computational tools needed to meet them. Together, these lectures will highlight both the remarkable progress achieved and the challenges that lie ahead in preparing the Monte Carlo ecosystem for the next generation of high-precision measurements.
The full list of lectures is:
- Introduction to Event Generators - Simon Plätzer, Graz
- Parton Showers, Matching and Merging - Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Torino
- Aspects of the EW Standard Model - Stefan Dittmaier, Freiburg
- Precision Requirements and Opportunities at FCC-ee - Sarah Williams, Cambridge
- Readiness of the MC Tools for the Sub-Per-Mille Frontier - Jürgen Reuter, DESY
- Model-Independent Measurements - Andy Pilkington, Manchester
- Event Generators for Heavy Ion Collisions - Leif Lönnblad, Lund
- Modern Computing Paradigms - Enrico Bothmann, CERN
- Industry - N.N.
- Invisible Dimensions of Diversity - Louise Carvalho, CERN Diversity & Inclusion Programme
Tutorials:
- Computing on GPUs - TBC
- Herwig - TBC
- Pythia - TBC
- Sherpa - TBC
- Write your own Parton Shower - TBC
- MadGraph+Rivet+Contur - TBC
Organised by:
Sponsors:
This year's school has received funds by the LHC Physics Center at CERN (LPCC) and the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation through the CERN Next Generation Triggers project under grant agreement number SIF-2023-004.
The registration fee will be 100 CHF to be paid after successful application.
