HERA and the LHC: working group week

29 Oct 2007, 14:00 → 2 Nov 2007, 12:00 Europe/Zurich

DESY

Albert De Roeck (CERN), Hannes Jung (DESY)

Tuesday 30 October

09:30 → 12:30 Heavy Quarks

09:30 new charm results from HERA

Speaker: Paolo Bellan (Padova)

Slides HERA-LHCws.pdf

09:55 new beauty results from HERA

Speaker: Ana Yagues (Humboldt University Berlin)

Slides HERA-LHC-workshop.pdf

10:20 discussion on implications for LHC

10:30 coffee break

10:50 Scattering of Massive Exotic Hadrons

Speaker: Olga Piskounova (LPI, Moscow)

Slides HERA-LHC.PDF

11:15 Rediscovery and Early Measurements with Top Quarks at LHC

Speaker: Roger Wolf (Univ. Hamburg)

Slides top_hamburg.pdf

11:40 study of QCD scale choices at HERA, RHIC, Tevatron, and optimized predictions for LHC

Speaker: Achim Geiser (DESY)

Slides QCDscales07.pdf

12:05 MC@NLO for Heavy Quarks at HERA

Speaker: Tobias Toll (DESY)

Slides HERALHC071030.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Discussion round: PDFs for MCs

14:00 Summary of discussion at Les Houghes on using PDFs in MCs

Speaker: J. Huston

14:20 New approaches on PDFs for MCs

Speaker: R. Thorne

Slides ThorneMC.pdf.pdf

14:40 PDF4MC - special fits ?

Speaker: H. Jung

Slides pdf4mc.pdf

15:00 → 15:15 coffee/tea

15:00 → 16:30 Heavy Quarks

15:00 Upsilon polarization at Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: S. Baranov (Moskow)

Slides baranov.pdf

15:20 coffee break

15:30 discussion on next meeting and proceedings

15:05 → 17:00 Monte Carlo & Tools

15:05 A graphical interface for fitting PDFs

Speaker: Przemyslaw Stoklosa

15:25 Alternative approach to fitting the unintegrated gluon density

Speaker: Albert Hans Knutsson (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

Slides heralhc.pdf

15:45 Prompt photon production at LHC

Speaker: Dr Sergei Chekanov (ANL)

Slides hera_lhc2007.pdf

16:05 MC validation for top-pair production in CMS

Speaker: Roberto Chierici (CNRS/IPNL)

Slides TopGeneratorComparison2.pdf TopGeneratorComparison2.ppt

16:25 To do list for the proceedings (discussion)

17:00 → 18:00 DESY seminar

17:00 PDFs for LHC

Speaker: R. Thorne

Slides ThorneHERA.pdf.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Common Dinner - Blaue Blume

more information blaue-blume-guide.pdf

Wednesday 31 October

09:30 → 14:40 Cosmic Rays, HERA and the LHC

more information https://www.desy.de/~diaconu/heralhc/cr.html

09:30 From HERA/LHC to cosmic energies

Speaker: H. Meyer (Wuppertal)

Slides Presentation3.pdf

10:00 Hadronic interaction models and interpretation of CR data

Speaker: S. Ostapchenko

Slides ostap.pdf

10:20 coffee/tea

10:35 Forward hadron production in air showers

Speaker: H. Drescher

Slides drescher_forw.pdf

10:55 High energy neutrino xsection and saturation

Speaker: K. Kutak

Slides kutak.pdf

11:15 High energy neutrino xsection

Speaker: M. Cooper-Sarkar

Slides neutrino.pdf

11:35 Forward quark scattering in pp collisions at LHC

Speaker: H. Drescher, M. Strikman

Slides drescher_lhc.pdf

11:55 lunch

14:00 Simulation models for low hadronic masses at HERA

Speaker: V. Lendermann

Slides talk_heralhc07.pdf

14:20 Remnant treatment and hadron production in air showers

Speaker: Tanguy Pierog (Karlsruhe)

Slides HERA-LHC_Pierog_pub.pdf

14:00 → 17:00 Jets + Monte Carlos & Tools

14:00 A shower algorithm based on the dipole formalism

Speaker: Dr Stefan Weinzierl

Slides weinzierl-heralhc.pdf

14:20 Z/W and 2 jets production at LHC

Speaker: M. Deak

Slides MDeak.pdf

14:40 Prompt photon hadroproduction on off-shell gluon-gluon fusion

Speaker: N. Zotov

Slides phot_talk.pdf

15:00 coffe/tea

15:20 Studying the Underlying Event and mini-jet production at the LHC

Speaker: Paolo Bartalini (NTU)

Slides 07OCT31_HERALHC_reduced.pdf 07OCT31_HERALHC_reduced.ppt

15:40 Validation of double high PT interactions in Pythia 8

Speaker: Florian Bechtel (Hamburg University)

Slides bechtel_heralhc_31Oct07.pdf

16:00 Simulation of quarkonia production in CMS

Speaker: Aafke Kraan (INFN Pisa)

Slides heralhc_3.pdf

16:20 Multi-jets in photoproduction and mini-jets in DIS

Speaker: Tim Namsoo

Slides HERA_LHC_talk_Oct07.pdf

16:40 Discussion on multiparton interactions and minijets

18:00 → 19:00 Conveners meeting

slides conveners-meeting.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Common Dinner

more information olymisches-feuer-guide.pdf

Thursday 1 November

09:00 → 12:00 Jets + Monte Carlo & Tools

09:00 Overview on GENSER

Speaker: Witold Pokorski

Slides genserdesy.pdf genserdesy.ppt

09:20 Rivet and tutorial

Speaker: A. Buckley

Slides buckley-rivet.pdf

14:00 → 17:00 Rivet - developpers meeting

14:00 → 18:00 Jets + Monte Carlo & Tools

15:00 → 15:15 coffee/tea