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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    ID: 432 2717

Friday EVO session:

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Thursday 17 November

Generator Tuning and Matching Issues

Convener: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

1 Monte Carlo tuning in the presence of Matching

20'+10' for questions

Speaker: Liza Mijovic

Slides Mijovic_MCTuningMatching_1711.pdf

2 Professor Results and Prospects

20'+10' for questions

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth

Slides hoeth.pdf

3 Wjj at the Tevatron

Speaker: Adam Martin (Fermilab)

Slides amartin_wjj_cteq.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break (on your own)

PDFs and precision data

Pavel Nadolsky & Fred Olness, conveners

4 Confronting HERAPDF fits with the latest data + HERA fitter

15'+5'

Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)

Slides fnal_nov17_2011.pdf

5 PDF reweighting in global fits: Richard Ball

10'+5'

Speaker: Richard Ball (University of Edinburgh)

Slides Fermilab1111.pdf

6 PDF reweighting in global fits: John Collins, Jon Pumplin

10'+5'

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

Slides pumplin.pdf

7 Photons and the PDFs

10'

Speaker: David D'Enterria (CMS/CERN)

Slides lpc_fermilab_nov11_dde_photons_pdfs.pdf

8 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: MSTW PDFs

10'+5'

Speaker: Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides TeV2011.pdf

9 Impact of correlated systematic experimental errors: ABM PDFs

10'+5'

Speaker: Sergey Alekhin (IHEP)

Slides fnal.pdf

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

Theory and experience with NLO Monte Carlos

10 Theory and Practice of Powheg

15'+15' for questions

Speakers: Carlo Oleari, Paolo Nason

Slides Nason-11-2011.pdf

11 Appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods

15'+15' questions

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

Slides CTEQ11.odp CTEQ11.pdf

12 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 Coffee Break (on your own)

NLO and NNLO calculations for the LHC

13 NLO scale dependence and error estimation

15'+15' for questions

Speaker: Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

Slides Soper.pdf

14 NLO and NNLO wishlists/use

15'+15' for questions

Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides huston_nlo_wishlist.pdf

15 Future of NLO/NNLO calculations

15'+15' questions

Speaker: John Campbell (Fermilab)

Slides CTEQ-LPC-JMC.pdf

16 Additional discussion from the day's sessions

30' of discussion

17 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

Photons

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

18 Experimental Introduction

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

Slides CTEQworkshop2011.pdf CTEQworkshop2011.ppt

19 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

20 Photons and Isolation

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

22 Diphotons: NNLO predictions and the near-collinear regime

10:30 Coffee Break (on your own)

Jet Substructure

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

23 Confronting Jet Shape Measurements with Resummed Calculations

15'+10' for discussion

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

Slides jetsub_cteq11_cpy.pdf

24 Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure Techniques

15'+10' for discussion

Speaker: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)

Slides LPC-CTEQ_11-11.pdf

25 Jets, Subjets, and Pile-up at ATLAS

10'+10' for discussion

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

Slides Miller_ATLAS_FermilabLPC_18Nov2011.pdf

26 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 Lunch Wilson Hall Cafeteria (hours 12:30-1:30)

Quarkonia and Higgs

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

27 Open theoretical issues in Higgs production

15'+10' questions

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

Slides CTEQ2011.pdf

28 Open issues with theory systematics in Higgs searches by Atlas/CMS

10'+10' questions

Speaker: Biagio Di Micco (CERN)

Slides higgs_meeting_bruce.pdf

29 Puzzles in heavy-quarkonium production

15'+10' questions

Speaker: Geoffrey Bodwin (Argonne National Lab)

Slides fnal11.pdf

30 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 Director's Coffee Break

New results from ATLAS -Sarah Demers (Yale)