PDF4LHC meeting

Wednesday May 23, 2012, 9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Albert De Roeck (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

EVO connection will be available: the link will appear on the agenda page 30' before the start of the meeting

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM Physics potential of LHC cross section ratios between 7, 8 and 14 TeV

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo-xsecrat-PDF4LHC-230512.pdf

9:20 AM → 9:50 AM Report from the ATLAS PDF Forum

Speaker: Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides pdf4lhc_strange_may23.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:20 AM Report from the CMS PDF Forum

Speaker: Maxime Gouzevitch (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Slides 20120523_PDF4LHC.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM Update on PDF results from LHCb

Speaker: Dr Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))

Slides pdf_may_2012.pdf

10:50 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee break

11:10 AM → 11:40 AM ABM11 PDFs confronting LHC data

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (Unknown)

Slides pdf4lhc11.pdf

11:40 AM → 12:10 PM NNPDF2.3 and inclusion of the LHC data

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo-nnpdf-PDF4LHC-230512.key rojo-nnpdf-PDF4LHC-230512.pdf

12:10 PM → 12:40 PM Update from HERAPDF

Speaker: Shiraz Habib (DESY)

Slides shiraz.pdf

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Update from MSTW

Speaker: Prof. Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

Slides PDF4LHCMay12.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM CT10 NNLO update

Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides c523.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Top quark pair differential distributions with aMCatNLO: constraints on the gluon and PDFs for NLO event generators

Speaker: Valerio Bertone (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

Slides bertone_PDF4LHC_23_05_2012.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM PDF Uncertainties

Speaker: Alberto Guffanti (Niels Bohr Institute)

Slides PDF4LHC_May-2012.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Correlated Systematic Error Effects in PDF Fits

Speaker: jun gao (USTC)

Slides pdf4lhc_jun523-1.pdf

4:20 PM → 4:50 PM Presentation of the benchmarks studies/discussion on future guidelines?

Speaker: Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides huston_PDF4LHC_may23.pdf