Working Group on Electroweak precision measurements at the LHC, and PDF4LHC

from Monday, 8 October 2012 (09:00) to Wednesday, 10 October 2012 (18:00)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Oct 2012
9 Oct 2012
10 Oct 2012
AM
09:00
PDF4LHC (until 15:30) (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00 New HERA PDF data and results - Dr Eram Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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09:30 The role of the input scale in parton distribution analyses - Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 Update of the ABM PDFs - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:30 Progress from other PDFs (Durham Summary) - Prof. Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 ATLAS PDF contributions - Dr Mark Sutton (University of Sussex (GB))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:50 CMS PDF contributions - Ringaile Placakyte (Hamburg University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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12:20 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 Summary of the EWK Durham meeting - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:30 Discussion of the benchmark paper - Juan Rojo (INFN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:00 Discussion   (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00
W/Z production (until 16:20) (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00 Introduction by W/Z subgroup conveners - Katharina Mueller (Uni Zuerich)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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09:20 tau polarization in W decays, ATLAS - Jane Theresa Cummings (Yale University (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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09:40 Z-> tau tau, LHCb - Tara Shears (University of Liverpool (GB))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 W/Z results from CMS at 7, 8 TeV - Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:20 Predictions for Drell-Yan phi* and Q_T observables at the LHC - Andrea Banfi (University Freiburg)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20 Theoretical systematics for Low mass DY - Giancarlo Ferrera (University of Milan)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:50 Tuned comparisons of DY codes: input schemes - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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12:20 Tuned comparisons of DY codes: status report of the subgroup - Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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12:40 Impact of EW parameter choice in LO generators - Maarten Boonekamp (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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12:50 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 EW corrections for ATLAS Drell-Yan measurements - Uta Klein (University of Liverpool (GB))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:20 EW corrections for CMS Z and Drell-Yan measurements - Dr Dimitri Bourilkov (University of Florida (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:40 QCD+EW corrections in FEWZ - Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:10 QCD+EW corrections in POWHEG - Luca Barze (Universita e INFN (IT))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:40 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Gauge boson pair production and TGCs (until 13:10) (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:00 ATLAS WW+ZZ cross sections - Andy Nelson (University of California Irvine (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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09:30 CMS: WW, WZ, ZZ and W/Z+gamma cross sections - Ian Ackerman Ross (University of Wisconsin (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 ATLAS WZ and summary of diboson cross sections (includes Wg/Zg) - Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:30 WZ production at large transverse momenta beyond NLO - Sebastian Sapeta (Unknown)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Theory status of VV cross sections and energy ratios - Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:30 CMS: VW semileptonic - Dr Jake Anderson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:50 ATLAS TGC overview - Minghui Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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12:20 CMS: TGC measurements - Matthew Herndon (University of Wisconsin (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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PM
15:30
Jet and photon production (until 18:30) (TH Theory Conference Room)
15:30 ATLAS Photon measurements summary - Giovanni Marchiori (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 CMS photons and jets measurements overview - Maxime Gouzevitch (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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17:00 ATLAS Jets measurements summary - Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Iowa State University (US))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:00
V+jets and V+heavy quarks (until 20:20) (TH Theory Conference Room)
16:00 W/Z+jets overview and recommendations (including HF issues) - Gerhard Immanuel Brandt (University of Oxford (GB))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:30 Z+jets, LHCb - Katharina Mueller (Uni Zuerich)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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16:50 Azimuthal correlations and jet shapes in Z+jets, CMS - Andrea Carlo Marini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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17:10 Matrix elements + shower for W+jets, merging at NLO in Sherpa - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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