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

from Monday, November 19, 2012 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, November 21, 2012 (6:00 PM)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 19, 2012
Nov 20, 2012
Nov 21, 2012
AM
9:00 AM
aMC@NLO Tutorial - Stefano Frixione (CERN) Rikkert Frederix (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) (until 12:30 PM)
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10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
9:00 AM
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 PM)
10:30 AM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
9:00 AM Underlying event tuning and results - Experimental talk - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))  
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9:25 AM Discussions on tuning/matching  
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9:50 AM Future developments in electroweak radiations in shower. - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)  
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10:15 AM Experimental results on internal conversions in association with W/Z - Dr Dmytro Kovalskyi (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))  
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10:40 AM Current treatment of internal conversions in association with W/Z - Scott David Thomas (Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))  
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11:05 AM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
11:25 AM Experimental approach to the effects from SM VV processes on Higgs studies - Sara Bolognesi (Johns Hopkins University (US))  
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11:45 AM Interference effects from SM processes (WW/ZZ) to the Higgs productions/decays - Dr Nikolas Kauer (University of London (GB))  
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Introduction and goals for the workshop  
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2:10 PM Experimental (ATLAS + CMS) overview and results using current MC generators - Piergiulio Lenzi (CERN)  
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2:45 PM NLO overview and current status of Openloops - Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
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3:05 PM NLO overview and current status of GoSam - Gionata Luisoni (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
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3:25 PM NLO overview and current status of Blackhat - Daniel Maitre  
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3:45 PM Discussion  
4:00 PM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
4:15 PM Status and Future plans for Powheg - Dr Carlo Oleari (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
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4:45 PM Status and Future plans for Madgraph - Johan Alwall (Fermilab) olivier mattelaer (ucl)  
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5:05 PM Status and Future plans for aMC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (CERN)  
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5:25 PM Status and Future plans for Sherpa+NLO - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))  
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5:45 PM Discussion on ME + multileg matched generators  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Experimental issues with the current MC generators - Thorsten Kuhl (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
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2:30 PM Shower developments and future plans for Pythia including HF treatment - Leif Ingvar Lonnblad (Lund University (SE))  
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2:55 PM Status and future plans for Alpgen - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
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3:25 PM Shower developments and future plans for Herwig++ - Mr Simon Plaetzer (ITP, Universitaet Karlsruhe)  
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3:55 PM Discussion  
4:20 PM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
4:45 PM Experimental results on W/Z in association with heavy flavours and systematics - Simon De Visscher (CERN)  
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5:10 PM Shower systematics in matching generators - Liza Mijovic (CEA-Saclay)  
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5:35 PM Discussion  
12:05 PM Discussion  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM Experimental results on rare SM processes - ATLAS Speaker Paul Bell (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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2:25 PM 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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2:50 PM Discussion   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
3:10 PM Summary on generators involving SUSY and Exotica processes. - Dr Neil Christensen (University of Pittsburgh)   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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3:40 PM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
4:00 PM Outlook/Action items (including discussions) - Sanjay Padhi (Univ. of California San Diego (US))   (40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr)
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