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

Europe/Zurich
TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
Description

This meeting will update the status of EW LHC analyses and theoretical interpretations. This will include a session of the PDF4LHC forum, reporting on updates in teh PDF fits and on the use of LHC data for PDF determinations.

EW Working group conveners:

  • ATLAS: M. Boonekamp and J. Guimaraes da Costa
  • CMS: J. Berryhill and M. Gouzevitch
  • LHCb: R. McNulty and T.Shears
  • LPCC: M. Mangano


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For information relative to

  • housing
  • access to CERN for those not holding a CERN card
  • laptop registration

please check http://lpcc.web.cern.ch/LPCC/index.php?page=visit

    
Participants
  • Albert De Roeck
  • Antonio Tropiano
  • Bugra Bilin
  • Efe Yazgan
  • Giancarlo Ferrera
  • Jake Anderson
  • monika Mittal
  • Sabino Meola
  • vieri candelise
    • 09:00 15:30
      PDF4LHC
      • 09:00
        New HERA PDF data and results 30m
        Speaker: Dr Eram Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        The role of the input scale in parton distribution analyses 30m
        Speaker: Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Update of the ABM PDFs 30m
        Speaker: Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Progress from other PDFs (Durham Summary) 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Coffee Break 20m
      • 11:20
        ATLAS PDF contributions 30m
        Speaker: Dr Mark Sutton (University of Sussex (GB))
        Slides
      • 11:50
        CMS PDF contributions 30m
        Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Hamburg University)
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Lunch Break 1h 40m
      • 14:00
        Summary of the EWK Durham meeting 30m
        Speaker: Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Discussion of the benchmark paper 30m
        Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Discussion 20m
    • 15:30 18:30
      Jet and photon production
      • 15:30
        ATLAS Photon measurements summary 30m
        Speaker: Giovanni Marchiori (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Coffee break 30m
      • 16:30
        CMS photons and jets measurements overview 30m
        Speaker: Maxime Gouzevitch (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
        Slides
      • 17:00
        ATLAS Jets measurements summary 30m
        Speaker: Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Iowa State University (US))
        Slides
    • 09:00 16:20
      W/Z production
      • 09:00
        Introduction by W/Z subgroup conveners 20m
        Speaker: Katharina Mueller (Uni Zuerich)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        tau polarization in W decays, ATLAS 20m
        Speaker: Jane Theresa Cummings (Yale University (US))
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Z-> tau tau, LHCb 20m
        Speaker: Tara Shears (University of Liverpool (GB))
        Slides
      • 10:00
        W/Z results from CMS at 7, 8 TeV 20m
        Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Predictions for Drell-Yan phi* and Q_T observables at the LHC 30m
        Speaker: Andrea Banfi (University Freiburg)
        Slides
      • 10:50
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:20
        Theoretical systematics for Low mass DY 30m
        Speaker: Giancarlo Ferrera (University of Milan)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Tuned comparisons of DY codes: input schemes 30m
        Speaker: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Tuned comparisons of DY codes: status report of the subgroup 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)
        Slides
      • 12:40
        Impact of EW parameter choice in LO generators 10m
        Speaker: Maarten Boonekamp (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))
        Slides
      • 12:50
        Lunch break 1h 10m
      • 14:00
        EW corrections for ATLAS Drell-Yan measurements 20m
        Speaker: Uta Klein (University of Liverpool (GB))
        Slides
      • 14:20
        EW corrections for CMS Z and Drell-Yan measurements 20m
        Speaker: Dr Dimitri Bourilkov (University of Florida (US))
        Slides
      • 14:40
        QCD+EW corrections in FEWZ 30m
        Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)
        Slides
      • 15:10
        QCD+EW corrections in POWHEG 30m
        Speaker: Luca Barze (Universita e INFN (IT))
        Slides
      • 15:40
        Coffee break 20m
    • 16:00 20:20
      V+jets and V+heavy quarks
      • 16:00
        W/Z+jets overview and recommendations (including HF issues) 30m
        Speaker: Gerhard Immanuel Brandt (University of Oxford (GB))
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Z+jets, LHCb 20m
        Speaker: Katharina Mueller (Uni Zuerich)
        Slides
      • 16:50
        Azimuthal correlations and jet shapes in Z+jets, CMS 20m
        Speaker: Andrea Carlo Marini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
        Slides
      • 17:10
        Matrix elements + shower for W+jets, merging at NLO in Sherpa 30m
        Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)
        Slides
    • 09:00 13:10
      Gauge boson pair production and TGCs
      • 09:00
        ATLAS WW+ZZ cross sections 30m
        Speaker: Andy Nelson (University of California Irvine (US))
        Slides
      • 09:30
        CMS: WW, WZ, ZZ and W/Z+gamma cross sections 30m
        Speaker: Ian Ackerman Ross (University of Wisconsin (US))
        Slides
      • 10:00
        ATLAS WZ and summary of diboson cross sections (includes Wg/Zg) 30m
        Speaker: Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))
        Slides
      • 10:30
        WZ production at large transverse momenta beyond NLO 10m
        Speaker: Sebastian Sapeta (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Coffee break 20m
      • 11:00
        Theory status of VV cross sections and energy ratios 30m
        Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        CMS: VW semileptonic 20m
        Speaker: Dr Jake Anderson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 11:50
        ATLAS TGC overview 30m
        Speaker: Minghui Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))
        Slides
      • 12:20
        CMS: TGC measurements 20m
        Speaker: Matthew Herndon (University of Wisconsin (US))
        Slides