Confronting Theory with Experiment: Puzzles, Challenges and Opportunities in the LHC Era

17 Nov 2011, 08:00 → 18 Nov 2011, 18:00 US/Central

Curia II (Fermilab)

Thursday EVO session:

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Friday EVO session:

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Thursday 17 November

09:00 → 10:30 Generator Tuning and Matching Issues

Convener: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

09:00 Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching

20'+10' for questions

Speaker: Liza Mijovic

Slides Mijovic_MCTuningMatching_1711.pdf

09:20 Professor Results and Prospects

20'+10' for questions

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth

Slides hoeth.pdf

09:40 Wjj at the Tevatron

Speaker: Adam Martin (Fermilab)

Slides amartin_wjj_cteq.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break (on your own)

11:00 → 12:30 PDFs and precision data

Pavel Nadolsky & Fred Olness, conveners

11:00 Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter

15'+5'

Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)

Slides fnal_nov17_2011.pdf

11:20 PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball

10'+5'

Speaker: Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)

Slides Fermilab1111.pdf

11:35 PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin

10'+5'

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

Slides pumplin.pdf

11:50 Photons and the PDFs

10'

Speaker: David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN)

Slides lpc_fermilab_nov11_dde_photons_pdfs.pdf

12:00 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs

10'+5'

Speaker: Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides TeV2011.pdf

12:15 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs

10'+5'

Speaker: Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)

Slides fnal.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 11:30-1:30)

14:00 → 15:30 Theory and experience with NLO Monte Carlos

14:00 Theory and Practice of Powheg

15'+15' for questions

Speakers: Carlo Oleari, Paolo Nason

Slides Nason-11-2011.pdf

14:30 Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods

15'+15' questions

Speaker: Frank Krauss (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham)

Slides CTEQ11.odp CTEQ11.pdf

15:00 Confronting QCD with ATLAS inclusive jet and dijet measurements

15'+15' for questions

Speaker: Eric Feng (University of Chicago)

Slides EricFeng_20111117_InclusiveJetsDijetsATLAS.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break (on your own)

16:00 → 18:00 NLO and NNLO calculations for the LHC

16:00 NLO scale dependence and error estimation

15'+15' for questions

Speaker: Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

Slides Soper.pdf

16:30 NLO and NNLO wishlists/use

15'+15' for questions

Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides huston_nlo_wishlist.pdf

17:00 Future of NLO/NNLO calculations

15'+15' questions

Speaker: John Campbell (Fermilab)

Slides CTEQ-LPC-JMC.pdf

17:30 Additional discussion from the day's sessions

30' of discussion

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

There will be an informal dinner organized at the Rock Bottom restaurant. Please sign up on the Doodle Poll by Thursday morning so we can plan ahead. http://www.doodle.com/fvqbiepztcufdg2v Information about and directions to Rock Bottom can be found here: http://www.rockbottom.com/warrenville

Dinner Reservation http://www.doodle.com/fvqbiepztcufdg2v

Friday 18 November

09:00 → 10:30 Photons

Conveners: Joseph Owens (Florida State University), Suzanne GASCON-SHOTKIN (IPN Lyon/Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

09:00 Experimental Introduction

Speakers: Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN)), Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

Slides CTEQworkshop2011.pdf CTEQworkshop2011.ppt

09:15 Theoretical Introduction

Speakers: Daniel De Florian (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica Departamento de Fisica), Daniel De Florian, Daniel de Florian (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Joseph Owens (Florida State University)

Slides Daniel2gammadeflorian.pdf lpc.pdf

09:30 Photons and Isolation

09:50 Inclusive photons: Data/Theory agreement at low-pT at the Tevatron and at the LHC

10:10 Diphotons: NNLO predictions and the near-collinear regime

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break (on your own)

11:00 → 12:30 Jet Substructure

Conveners: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville), Nikos Varelas (University of Illinois at Chicago)

11:00 Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations

15'+10' for discussion

Speaker: C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)

Slides jetsub_cteq11_cpy.pdf

11:25 Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques

15'+10' for discussion

Speaker: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)

Slides LPC-CTEQ_11-11.pdf

11:50 Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS

10'+10' for discussion

Speaker: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))

Slides Miller_ATLAS_FermilabLPC_18Nov2011.pdf

12:10 Jet Substructure Measurements and Challenges at CMS

10'+10' for discussion

Speaker: Salvatore Rappoccio (Johns Hopkins University (US))

Slides lpc_cteq_substructure_cms_rappoccio.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30)

14:00 → 15:30 Quarkonia and Higgs

Conveners: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin), Dr Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:00 Open theoretical issues in Higgs production

15'+10' questions

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University/Argonne National Lab)

Slides CTEQ2011.pdf

14:25 Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS

10'+10' questions

Speaker: Biagio Di Micco (CERN)

Slides higgs_meeting_bruce.pdf

14:45 Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production

15'+10' questions

Speaker: Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)

Slides fnal11.pdf

15:10 Heavy quarkonium production and polarization at hadron colliders

10'+10' questions

Speakers: Carlos Lourenco (CERN), Pietro Faccioli (LIP - Lisbon)

Slides Quarkonium_CTEQ2011_v3.pdf Quarkonium_CTEQ2011_v3.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Director's Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 New results from ATLAS -Sarah Demers (Yale)