MC generators and future challenges, a joint ATLAS/CMS/LPCC workshop

from Monday, 19 November 2012 (09:00) to Wednesday, 21 November 2012 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Nov 2012
20 Nov 2012
21 Nov 2012
AM
09:00
aMC@NLO Tutorial - Stefano Frixione (CERN) Rikkert Frederix (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 12:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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10:30 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
09:00
Sherpa + NLO Tutorial - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB)) Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham) Frank Siegert (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) (until 12:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
10:30 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
09:00 Underlying event tuning and results - Experimental talk - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:25 Discussions on tuning/matching   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:50 Future developments in electroweak radiations in shower. - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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10:15 Experimental results on internal conversions in association with W/Z - Dr Dmytro Kovalskyi (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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10:40 Current treatment of internal conversions in association with W/Z - Scott David Thomas (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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11:05 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
11:25 Experimental approach to the effects from SM VV processes on Higgs studies - Sara Bolognesi (Johns Hopkins University (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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11:45 Interference effects from SM processes (WW/ZZ) to the Higgs productions/decays - Dr Nikolas Kauer (University of London (GB))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Introduction and goals for the workshop   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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14:10 Experimental (ATLAS + CMS) overview and results using current MC generators - Piergiulio Lenzi (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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14:45 NLO overview and current status of Openloops - Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:05 NLO overview and current status of GoSam - Gionata Luisoni (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:25 NLO overview and current status of Blackhat - Daniel Maitre   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:45 Discussion   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:00 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
16:15 Status and Future plans for Powheg - Dr Carlo Oleari (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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16:45 Status and Future plans for Madgraph - Johan Alwall (Fermilab) olivier mattelaer (ucl)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:05 Status and Future plans for aMC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:25 Status and Future plans for Sherpa+NLO - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:45 Discussion on ME + multileg matched generators   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Experimental issues with the current MC generators - Thorsten Kuhl (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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14:30 Shower developments and future plans for Pythia including HF treatment - Leif Ingvar Lonnblad (Lund University (SE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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14:55 Status and future plans for Alpgen - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:25 Shower developments and future plans for Herwig++ - Mr Simon Plaetzer (ITP, Universitaet Karlsruhe)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:55 Discussion   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:20 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
16:45 Experimental results on W/Z in association with heavy flavours and systematics - Simon De Visscher (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:10 Shower systematics in matching generators - Liza Mijovic (CEA-Saclay)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:35 Discussion   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
12:05 Discussion   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Experimental results on rare SM processes - ATLAS Speaker Paul Bell (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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14:25 Rare SM processes (ttbargamma, ttbarW/Z, WWgamma, WWW, WWZ, WZZ, ZZZ) in LO and NLO - Pierre Artoisenet (Nikhef)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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14:50 Discussion   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
15:10 Summary on generators involving SUSY and Exotica processes. - Dr Neil Christensen (University of Pittsburgh)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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15:40 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
16:00 Outlook/Action items (including discussions) - Sanjay Padhi (Univ. of California San Diego (US))   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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