QCD@LHC 2012

Aug 19, 2012, 6:00 PM → Aug 24, 2012, 2:00 PM US/Michigan

Michigan State University

This is the third annual QCD@LHC workshop, following those in Trento (2010) and St. Andrews (2011).

Monday, August 20

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Opening Session

9:00 AM Breaking News from the LHC

Speaker: Dr Albert de Roeck (CERN)

Slides deroeck_lansing.V2.pdf deroeck_lansing.V2.pptx

9:40 AM PDF Benchmark Review

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-PDFbench-QCDatLHC.pdf

10:10 AM W Mass at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

Slides qcdlhc2012_kotwal.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Jet Production

11:00 AM Progress in the Inclusive NNLO jet cross section

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich)

Slides qcd12.pdf

11:30 AM Jet Production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Markus Wobisch (Louisiana Tech University)

Slides 120820-QCD@LHC-TeVjets.pdf

12:00 PM Jet Production at the LHC

Speaker: Mikko Antero Voutilainen (University of Helsinki (FI))

Slides qcdatlhc_2012_08_20_lhcjets_voutila.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Jet Substructure

2:00 PM Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure

Speaker: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)

Slides QCD%40LHC_2012_Vermilion_JetSubstructure.pdf

2:30 PM Jet Shapes/Substructure Tools in ATLAS

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

Slides Miller_QCDatLHC2012_20Aug2012.pdf

3:00 PM Jet Shapes/Substructure Tools in CMS

Speaker: David Lopes-Pegna (Princeton University (US))

Slides CMS_Substructure_QCDLHC2012.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM W/Z Production and PDFs

4:00 PM Tagging Top Quark Events by Shower Deconstruction

Speaker: Prof. Davison Soper (U. Oregon)

Slides Deconstruction.2012.pdf

4:30 PM W/Z Production in ATLAS

Speaker: Joao Barreiro Guimaraes Da Costa (Harvard University (US))

Slides WZ-Physics-ATLAS-QCD@LHC.pdf

5:00 PM W/Z Production in CMS

Speaker: Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides berryhill_qcdlhc_20120820.pdf berryhill_qcdlhc_20120820.pptx

5:30 PM Measurements with Electroweak Bosons at LHCb

Speaker: Katharina Mueller (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides kmueller.pdf

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Welcome Drink

Tuesday, August 21

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM W/Z+Jets

9:00 AM Blackhat+Sherpa

Speaker: Dr Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

Slides ozeren.pdf

9:30 AM W/Z+Jets at the Tevatron

Speaker: Sabine Wedam Lammers (Indiana University (US))

Slides QCD@LHC.pdf

10:00 AM W/Z+jets at the LHC

Speaker: Kalanand Mishra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides Kalanand-QCDLHC-Vjets-21Aug2012.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Photons

11:00 AM Diphoton Theory

Speaker: Daniel de Florian (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Slides 2gamma-deflorian.pdf

11:30 AM Photons/Diphotons at the Tevatron

Speaker: Konstantinos Vellidis (Fermilab)

Slides tev_photons_2012.pdf

12:00 PM Constraining the Gluon Using Photon Data

Speaker: David d'Enterria (CERN)

Slides dde_qcd_at_lhc_msu_aug12.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Photons

2:00 PM Photons/Diphotons at ATLAS

Speaker: Leonardo Carminati (INFN Sezione di Milano (INFN))

Slides PhotonATLASCarminati-2.pdf

2:30 PM Photons/Diphotons at CMS

Speaker: Vasundhara Chetluru (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides CMS_Photons_QCDAtLHC.pdf CMS_Photons_QCDAtLHC.pptx

3:00 PM Powheg

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Unknown)

Slides QCDatLHC-2012-08-21_nason.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Monte Carlos

4:00 PM aMC@NLO

Speaker: Marco Zaro (Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology)

Slides zaro-QCD@LHC.pdf

4:30 PM Sherpa

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

Slides Marek_Schoenherr_QCDatLHC2012.pdf

5:00 PM CKKW-L

Speaker: Stefan Prestel (Lund University (SE))

Slides talk210812.pdf

6:30 PM → 8:00 PM Wine Tasting

Burgdorf Winery Haslett Michigan

Wednesday, August 22

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM PDFs

9:00 AM Review of alpha_s

Speaker: Siegfried Bethke (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

Slides alphas-LHCQCD12.pdf

9:30 AM Nuclear PDFs

Speaker: Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University (US))

Slides olness.pdf

10:00 AM CJ PDFs and Impact of Nuclear Corrections on d/u

Speaker: Alberto Accardi (Jefferson Lab)

Abstract Abstract.txt

Slides Accardi-QCD_at_LHC.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Heavy Flavor

11:00 AM QCD Review from LHCb

Speaker: Victor Coco (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides LHCb_QCD2012_Coco.pdf

11:30 AM Heavy Flavor from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Andreas Salzburger (CERN)

Slides ASalzburger-QCD-at-LHC.pdf

12:00 PM Top at NNLO

Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

Slides AlexanderMitov-QCD@LHC-workshop-2012.pdf AlexanderMitov-QCD@LHC-workshop-2012.pptx

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Top

2:00 PM tT Asymmetry Theory

Speaker: Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides Ellis_Top.pdf

2:30 PM Top at the Tevatron

Speaker: DAMIDEI Amidei (University of Michigan (US))

Slides afb_msu_aug_12.pdf

3:00 PM Top at the LHC

Speaker: Frank-Peter Schilling (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides talk.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Presentation from PDF groups

4:00 PM ABM

Speakers: Sergey Alekhin, Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

Slides qcdatlhc12_abm.pdf

4:20 PM CTEQ

Speaker: Prof. Dan Stump (Michigan State University)

Slides stump.pdf

4:40 PM HERAPDF

Speaker: Prof. Mandy Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford University)

Slides qcd@lhc_2012.pdf qcd@lhc_2012.pptx

5:00 PM JR

Speaker: Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)

Slides QCD@LHC.pdf

5:20 PM NNPDF

Speaker: Dr Alberto Guffanti (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides QCD%40LHC2012-1.pdf

6:30 PM → 9:00 PM Workshop Dinner

Thursday, August 23

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Tools for PDFs

9:00 AM fastNLO

Speaker: Dr Daniel Britzger

Slides 120823_Britzger_FastNLO_QCDatLHC.pdf

9:30 AM Applgrid

Speaker: Pavel Starovoitov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides talkMSU2012.pdf

10:00 AM MEKS

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides meks.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Resummation

11:00 AM Jet Vetoes

Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)

Slides Stewart_JetVeto_p.pdf

11:30 AM Resummation of Jet Vetoes

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (ITP, UZH Zuerich)

Slides pfmonni.pdf

12:00 PM Electroweak Corrections

Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

Slides EW_DWackeroth.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM EWK/PDFs

2:00 PM Recent Results on 3-loop Wilson Coefficients

Speaker: Prof. Johannes Bluemlein

Slides QCDLHC.pdf

2:30 PM Experimental Systematic Errors

Speaker: Pavel Starovoitov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides talkQCD2012.pdf

3:00 PM PDF Treatment of Systematic Errors

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides cema-3.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Monte Carlo tuning

4:00 PM Studies of PDF Parameterization Uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Voica Radescu

Slides UncertStudies.qcdlhc.pdf

4:30 PM Double Parton Scattering

Speaker: Dmitry Bandurin (Florida State University (US))

Slides bandurin_MSU_Aug23_2012.pdf

5:00 PM Monte Carlo tunings and PDFs

Speaker: Dr Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)

Slides QCDatLHC.pdf

5:30 PM The Energy Dependence of the Underlying Event in Hadronic Collisions

Speaker: Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))

Slides QCD@LHC2012_RickField_8-23-12.pdf QCD@LHC2012_RickField_8-23-12.ppt

6:15 PM → 7:00 PM Relics of the Big Bang

special planetarium show; note that you too can own this planetarium show for a low low price. See http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/relics/

Friday, August 24

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Summary Session

9:00 AM PDF summary

...given for the PDF conveners Pedro Jiminez-Delgado,Albert de Roeck, Sasha Glazov, Pavel Nadolsky

Speaker: Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)

Slides QCD@LHC.pdf

9:30 AM Hard QCD Summary

...given for the hard QCD conveners John Campbell, Bruce Mellado and Nikos Varelas

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

Slides Hard_QCD_Summary.pdf

10:00 AM Status of QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Davison Soper (U. Oregon)

Slides soper.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM HERAfitter tutorial/discussion

11:00 AM HERAfitter tutorial/discussion

Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides tutorial_michigan.pdf

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