QCD@LHC 2012

19 Aug 2012, 18:00 → 24 Aug 2012, 14:00 US/Michigan

Michigan State University

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

Monday 20 August

Opening Session

1 Breaking News from the LHC

Speaker: Dr Albert de Roeck (CERN)

Slides deroeck_lansing.V2.pdf deroeck_lansing.V2.pptx

2 PDF Benchmark Review

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-PDFbench-QCDatLHC.pdf

3 W Mass at the Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University)

Slides qcdlhc2012_kotwal.pdf

10:40 Coffee Break

Jet Production

4 Progress in the Inclusive NNLO jet cross section

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich)

Slides qcd12.pdf

5 Jet Production at the Tevatron

Speaker: Prof. Markus Wobisch (Louisiana Tech University)

Slides 120820-QCD@LHC-TeVjets.pdf

6 Jet Production at the LHC

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

Slides qcdatlhc_2012_08_20_lhcjets_voutila.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Jet Substructure

7 Progress and Challenges in Jet Substructure

Speaker: Christopher Vermilion (University of Louisville)

Slides QCD%40LHC_2012_Vermilion_JetSubstructure.pdf

8 Jet Shapes/Substructure Tools in ATLAS

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

Slides Miller_QCDatLHC2012_20Aug2012.pdf

9 Jet Shapes/Substructure Tools in CMS

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

Slides CMS_Substructure_QCDLHC2012.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

W/Z Production and PDFs

10 Tagging Top Quark Events by Shower Deconstruction

Speaker: Prof. Davison Soper (U. Oregon)

Slides Deconstruction.2012.pdf

11 W/Z Production in ATLAS

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

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

12 W/Z Production in CMS

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

Slides berryhill_qcdlhc_20120820.pdf berryhill_qcdlhc_20120820.pptx

13 Measurements with Electroweak Bosons at LHCb

Speaker: Katharina Mueller (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides kmueller.pdf

19:00 Welcome Drink

Tuesday 21 August

W/Z+Jets

14 Blackhat+Sherpa

Speaker: Dr Kemal Ozeren (UCLA)

Slides ozeren.pdf

15 W/Z+Jets at the Tevatron

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

Slides QCD@LHC.pdf

16 W/Z+jets at the LHC

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

Slides Kalanand-QCDLHC-Vjets-21Aug2012.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Photons

17 Diphoton Theory

Speaker: Daniel de Florian (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Slides 2gamma-deflorian.pdf

18 Photons/Diphotons at the Tevatron

Speaker: Konstantinos Vellidis (Fermilab)

Slides tev_photons_2012.pdf

19 Constraining the Gluon Using Photon Data

Speaker: David d'Enterria (CERN)

Slides dde_qcd_at_lhc_msu_aug12.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Photons

20 Photons/Diphotons at ATLAS

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

Slides PhotonATLASCarminati-2.pdf

21 Photons/Diphotons at CMS

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

Slides CMS_Photons_QCDAtLHC.pdf CMS_Photons_QCDAtLHC.pptx

22 Powheg

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Unknown)

Slides QCDatLHC-2012-08-21_nason.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Monte Carlos

23 aMC@NLO

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

Slides zaro-QCD@LHC.pdf

24 Sherpa

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

Slides Marek_Schoenherr_QCDatLHC2012.pdf

25 CKKW-L

Speaker: Stefan Prestel (Lund University (SE))

Slides talk210812.pdf

18:30 Wine Tasting

Burgdorf Winery Haslett Michigan

Wednesday 22 August

PDFs

26 Review of alpha_s

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

Slides alphas-LHCQCD12.pdf

27 Nuclear PDFs

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

Slides olness.pdf

28 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 Coffee Break

Heavy Flavor

29 QCD Review from LHCb

Speaker: Victor Coco (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides LHCb_QCD2012_Coco.pdf

30 Heavy Flavor from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Andreas Salzburger (CERN)

Slides ASalzburger-QCD-at-LHC.pdf

31 Top at NNLO

Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

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

12:30 Lunch

Top

32 tT Asymmetry Theory

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

Slides Ellis_Top.pdf

33 Top at the Tevatron

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

Slides afb_msu_aug_12.pdf

34 Top at the LHC

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

Slides talk.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Presentation from PDF groups

35 ABM

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

Slides qcdatlhc12_abm.pdf

36 CTEQ

Speaker: Prof. Dan Stump (Michigan State University)

Slides stump.pdf

37 HERAPDF

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

Slides qcd@lhc_2012.pdf qcd@lhc_2012.pptx

38 JR

Speaker: Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)

Slides QCD@LHC.pdf

39 NNPDF

Speaker: Dr Alberto Guffanti (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides QCD%40LHC2012-1.pdf

18:30 Workshop Dinner

Thursday 23 August

Tools for PDFs

40 fastNLO

Speaker: Dr Daniel Britzger

Slides 120823_Britzger_FastNLO_QCDatLHC.pdf

41 Applgrid

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

Slides talkMSU2012.pdf

42 MEKS

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides meks.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Resummation

43 Jet Vetoes

Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)

Slides Stewart_JetVeto_p.pdf

44 Resummation of Jet Vetoes

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (ITP, UZH Zuerich)

Slides pfmonni.pdf

45 Electroweak Corrections

Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

Slides EW_DWackeroth.pdf

12:30 Lunch

EWK/PDFs

46 Recent Results on 3-loop Wilson Coefficients

Speaker: Prof. Johannes Bluemlein

Slides QCDLHC.pdf

47 Experimental Systematic Errors

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

Slides talkQCD2012.pdf

48 PDF Treatment of Systematic Errors

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides cema-3.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Monte Carlo tuning

49 Studies of PDF Parameterization Uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Voica Radescu

Slides UncertStudies.qcdlhc.pdf

50 Double Parton Scattering

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

Slides bandurin_MSU_Aug23_2012.pdf

51 Monte Carlo tunings and PDFs

Speaker: Dr Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)

Slides QCDatLHC.pdf

52 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

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 24 August

Summary Session

53 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

54 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

55 Status of QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Davison Soper (U. Oregon)

Slides soper.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

HERAfitter tutorial/discussion

56 HERAfitter tutorial/discussion

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

Slides tutorial_michigan.pdf

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