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

8 Oct 2012, 09:00 → 10 Oct 2012, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

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

    

Monday 8 October

PDF4LHC

1 New HERA PDF data and results

Speaker: Dr Eram Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides PDF4LHC-2012-CERN.pdf

2 The role of the input scale in parton distribution analyses

Speaker: Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)

Slides PDF4LHC.pdf

3 Update of the ABM PDFs

Speaker: Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

Slides CERN.pdf

4 Progress from other PDFs (Durham Summary)

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

Slides PDF4LHCOct12.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

5 ATLAS PDF contributions

Speaker: Dr Mark Sutton (University of Sussex (GB))

Slides ATL-COM-PHYS-2012-1476.pdf

6 CMS PDF contributions

Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Hamburg University)

Slides placakyte_pdflhc_08102012.pdf

12:20 Lunch Break

7 Summary of the EWK Durham meeting

Speaker: Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

Slides ippp_ewk_summary.pdf

8 Discussion of the benchmark paper

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-PDFbench-PDF4LHC.pdf

9 Discussion

Jet and photon production

10 ATLAS Photon measurements summary

Speaker: Giovanni Marchiori (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))

Slides Measurements_of_isolated_prompt_photons_at_ATLAS.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

11 CMS photons and jets measurements overview

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

Slides QCD_at_CMS_for_LHCC.pdf

12 ATLAS Jets measurements summary

Speaker: Arantxa Ruiz Martinez (Iowa State University (US))

Slides ISU_08Oct12.pdf

Tuesday 9 October

W/Z production

13 Introduction by W/Z subgroup conveners

Speaker: Katharina Mueller (Uni Zuerich)

Slides km_lhc.pdf

14 tau polarization in W decays, ATLAS

Speaker: Jane Theresa Cummings (Yale University (US))

Slides ewwg_taupolarization.pdf

15 Z-> tau tau, LHCb

Speaker: Tara Shears (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides ewk_tara.pdf ewk_tara.ppt

16 W/Z results from CMS at 7, 8 TeV

Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))

Slides LHC-EWWG_yazgan_oct_2012.pdf

17 Predictions for Drell-Yan phi* and Q_T observables at the LHC

Speaker: Andrea Banfi (University Freiburg)

Slides banfi_phistar.pdf

10:50 Coffee break

18 Theoretical systematics for Low mass DY

Speaker: Giancarlo Ferrera (University of Milan)

Slides ferrera-ewwg12.pdf

19 Tuned comparisons of DY codes: input schemes

Speaker: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

Slides input-schemes.pdf

20 Tuned comparisons of DY codes: status report of the subgroup

Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

Slides DYstudy_status.pdf

21 Impact of EW parameter choice in LO generators

Speaker: Maarten Boonekamp (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

Slides EWWG_081012.pdf

12:50 Lunch break

22 EW corrections for ATLAS Drell-Yan measurements

Speaker: Uta Klein (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides LPCC_EW_09.10.12.pdf

23 EW corrections for CMS Z and Drell-Yan measurements

Speaker: Dr Dimitri Bourilkov (University of Florida (US))

Slides db121009.pdf db121009.pptx

24 QCD+EW corrections in FEWZ

Speaker: Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

Slides petriello.pdf

25 QCD+EW corrections in POWHEG

Speaker: Luca Barze (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides luca_barze.pdf

15:40 Coffee break

V+jets and V+heavy quarks

26 W/Z+jets overview and recommendations (including HF issues)

Speaker: Gerhard Immanuel Brandt (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides gbrandt.Vjets_status.EWWG.2012-10-09.pdf

27 Z+jets, LHCb

Speaker: Katharina Mueller (Uni Zuerich)

Slides km_zjet.pdf

28 Azimuthal correlations and jet shapes in Z+jets, CMS

Speaker: Andrea Carlo Marini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides Marini_EW_WG_2012_10_8.pdf

29 Matrix elements + shower for W+jets, merging at NLO in Sherpa

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

Slides MarekSchoenherr.pdf

Wednesday 10 October

Gauge boson pair production and TGCs

30 ATLAS WW+ZZ cross sections

Speaker: Andy Nelson (University of California Irvine (US))

Slides wwzz_nelson_lhcewkwg.pdf

31 CMS: WW, WZ, ZZ and W/Z+gamma cross sections

Speaker: Ian Ackerman Ross (University of Wisconsin (US))

Slides iross_lhcEWWG_cmsDiboson.pdf

32 ATLAS WZ and summary of diboson cross sections (includes Wg/Zg)

Speaker: Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides LCPP_diboson_meeting_121008.pdf

33 WZ production at large transverse momenta beyond NLO

Speaker: Sebastian Sapeta (Unknown)

Slides sapeta-cern12.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

34 Theory status of VV cross sections and energy ratios

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-WWrat-EWWG.pdf

35 CMS: VW semileptonic

Speaker: Dr Jake Anderson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides CERN_EWK_WG_CMS_WVproduction_anderson.pdf CERN_EWK_WG_CMS_WVproduction_anderson.pptx

36 ATLAS TGC overview

Speaker: Minghui Liu (Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN))

Slides ATLAS_TGC_overview.pdf

37 CMS: TGC measurements

Speaker: Matthew Herndon (University of Wisconsin (US))

Slides LHCEWKWG_1210_herndon.pdf